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zoro using “would’ve”...okokok

#one piece #roronoa zoro #arc: thriller bark #ch: 485 #can't formulate my thoughts well right now but him already talking about himself like he's dead? okokok

i'm very curious about what you learnt in thriller bark 👀👀👀 i just reread it so it's fresh for me too hahah

Hello! It should be fairly obvious from my emotional rant that I was talking about the - Zoro begs Kuma to take his life instead of Luffy's - scene.

It's an amazing moment in One Piece, I'd say to many people it's their favourite moment, and it hits tremendously hard no matter in what language you read it.

But oh boy, Zoro's words in japanese are something else. The whole scene is amazing, from start to finish, but when I said that I was referring to this -

- which is the final thing Zoro says to Kuma after knocking Sanji out cold.

Viz translates this speech bubble as "I've shown that I'm a man of my word. Now it's your turn." Fan translations do it some better justice translating it as "This is my last request."

His words come from the japanese phrase 後生一生の頼み (goshou isshou no tanomi) which is, of course, a very serious way of making an extremely important or once in a lifetime request.

後生 (goshou) means afterlife. 頼み (tanomi) means request. 一生 (isshou) means whole life.

So, as Zoro throws his swords away, he basically tells Kuma that offering his head in place of Luffy's is "the request of his lifetime".

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