My Anime Opinions (Mostly One Piece)
People Really Underestimate Zoro's Loyalty and His Caring Side
Man, I had enough with the “If just Zoro was in WCI” nonsense. People really underestimate Zoro’s loyalty to Luffy and his caring side. Let me give some examples:
Loyalty:
1-Let’s start with the beginning. Zoro knows that he would be dead if it weren’t for Luffy because the marines weren’t prideful like Zoro was and they would kill Zoro anyway even after he survived from starving for three weeks. Zoro is a prideful person who sticks to his promises till death like Kuina's. Zoro promised Luffy to be his swordsman.
2-Zoro declared his loyalty to Luffy at Baratie.
4-While Jaya arc Zoro got beaten up by very weak people with Luffy, just because Luffy ordered him. Again people remember Zoro is a prideful person he wouldn’t allow anyone to humiliate him like this if it weren’t for Luffy.
5-Water 7. Zoro didn’t interrupt the duel between Usopp and Luffy. He understands how duels work and also wouldn’t want him to interrupt.
6--Zoro also showed here, he respected Luffy so much and expect from everyone in the crew too. If Usopp didn’t apologize and Luffy got him back anyway Zoro would go because everything till here would be meaningless in his eyes. But Luffy isn’t that kind of person so Zoro remained loyal at the top.
7--Thriller Bark. Do I have to say anything? He was ready to die for Luffy. It was meaningless if he couldn’t protect his captain. He never told Luffy what he did for him. Respect that man.
There is probably much more but these are the most outstanding and coming into my mind right now.
Caring:
Gosh, there is so much in here coming into my mind. It would be trouble the get all of them together.
1-People would argue with me with this one but Zoro’s argument with Kuina about how it didn’t matter to be a girl or boy wasn’t just about how Zoro would be humiliated that he won against her just because he is a boy but also he cared so much about her and could see she was struggling. Also, the whole Tashigi thing just because he cares so much about Kuina(Also his trauma about her, possible PTSD)
2-He cared for the little girl and eat her food.
3-We already know both Nami(gosh I want to talk about Nami too) and Luffy are caring people. So it wasn’t a surprise when they wanted to fight for Usopp but Zoro also wanted it. It wasn’t just about pride, it was his caring side.
4-Zoro got scared about Yosaku when he saw him sick.
5-Sometimes Zoro surprise me with his understanding of people. Zoro trusted Nami wouldn’t throw her humanity away and would let him die even in front of Arlong. He cared Nami listened to her about why she hated pirates back in there. Usopp didn’t understand it there.
6-But Zoro wanted to fight with her when he thought she killed Usopp.
7-Zoro is scared for Sanji when he dived in.
8-Zoro let his crewmates sleep when he fights with Baroque works and said: “Let them sleep more they got tired a lot while getting here.” (wasn’t an exact quote)
9-When he learned first about Merry’s condition he said: “Is it true? Are you really this damaged? (again not an exact quote)
10-Zoro tells Sanji not the fight on the train because there were some really dangerous guys.
11-Whole Enies Lobby showed how all of them were caring.
12-Thriller Bark. I talked about Luffy here but what about Sanji. When he first saw him you could see his eyes were painted with pure fear and finally when Sanji talked about death and replace him with another cook Zoro just couldn’t take it anymore and knocked him out with the reverse of his sword.
13-In Zou, there is one scene Luffy asks Zoro “were you worried about Sanji?” Zoro avoid answering that but it was obvious.
There are more and more but I think it is enough. So let’s get into other thing. If Zoro was in WCI he wouldn’t do anything to stop Sanji from his fight with Luffy. He wouldn’t stay quiet thoughç he would be angry but he wouldn’t do anything.
