#zoro wano kuni

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ONE PIECE: STAMPEDE - RORONOA ZORO

[apiratefellinlovewithastar]

and yet Sanji never once dropped him, and Zoro never once had any doubt in his abilities to take care of all the small fries.

[kuroashims]

f r e e d o m i s o u r s !

[sashi-ya]

can someone please tell me to stop thinking of the twitching boob close up Toei did to Zoro?

[vampyrebug-art]

[livelaughloveluffy]

together, we'd follow you to the ends of the earth 💗

[beaulesbian]

Luffy & Zoro in Wano || One Piece ep. 897

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

I'm curious how Zoros fight with King comes across in Japanese, especially his declaration of being king of hell

so what i find really exciting and interesting about this development is something i do think is somewhat obscured in translation, which is now it sets up zoro as a parallel and successor to rayleigh.

rayleigh's epithet in japanese is 冥王/meiou, which is generally translated into english as 'dark king,' since that's the literal translation of the kanji. however, 冥王/meiou/'dark king' is also the term used in japanese to refer to hades/pluto, the greek and roman god of the underworld. the king of hell, in other words.

as we know, zoro's newest sword, the one that was formerly oden's and which he struggles with throughout this fight, is named 閻魔/enma. this is also the name of a king of hell- enma is another name for yama, the buddhist wrathful deity of the underworld.

after answering king's challenge and saying that yes, he does have the will to become a king himself in order to fulfill his promises, zoro starts using the word 閻王/enou in his attack names, a word which the manga emphasizes to show its importance. this is another title of yama, and also mirrors rayleigh's epithet basically exactly, being a two-kanji name of a deity seen as the king of hell, where the second kanji is 王/ou ('king').

rayleigh is associated with hades, zoro is associated with yama. both are kings of hell- zoro is just somewhat more buddhist about it, which is fitting, given his wano heritage and his trend of invoking buddhist theology in his attack names. i would not at all be surprised if, if zoro ever does get a new epithet to replace his old kaizokugari/'pirate hunter' one, it's 閻王/enou.

[hierophant-meme]

Look at malewife Sanji prepping lunches for his husband Zoro & all his little samurai friends 🥰 and he’s making his hubby’s favorite food too, he’s so in love 🥺💕✨💖

[jake-is-screaming-in-tune]

screencaps under the cut

[sanjiaftersex]

hmmm

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luffy finally meets zoro after one full arc ( ◕▿◕ )

[andaniellight]

⚠ flash warning / eye strain ❗❗❗

Always wanted to do the Le Monde edit trend because it was one of the motivations for me to get to Wano, and it's honestly a wonderful surprise to know that this arc has so many varieties of fun animation styles (891, 892, 950, 982, 983, 1015, 1026, 1054, 1062, 1066, 1071, 1074, 1080)

[leafteaposts]

Well well, if it isn't the Wano arc. Good to see you again. Or as it is also known, Zoro's big tiddy era.

Have a small sketch dump as I can't post without squeezing in a Sanji or two apparently. Also, I am really pleased with Wanda and Carrot somehow?

[jotarosexhusband]

ANIME TBOY SWAG TOURNAMENT FINALS

WHO WILL REIGN SUPREME? THIS ONE'S FOR THE CROWN!!!!!!!!!!!

Yamato (One Piece) VS Kamille Bidan (Zeta Gundam)

[everypageofnicorobin]

Nico Robin in the art Oda made to celebrate the One Piece World Top 100 global popularity poll, including all 100 most popular characters.

Now typically, I don't include art of Robin that's outside of the manga, i.e. color spreads that were not part of a chapter or a volume cover. But 1) This could arguably be considered the color spread for Chapter 1024, and 2) it was included in the volume, albeit the back of it. So, I'm making this one exception. I also included the broken up version because this spread is so massive and Tumblr compresses these things.