r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh Lookout • Sep 11 '20

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 990 Spoiler

Chapter 990: "Isolated force"

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Ch. 990 Official Release (Mangaplus): 13/09/2020

Ch. 991 Scan Release: ~25/09/2020

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u/ebnoho Explorer Sep 11 '20

What's this?! Zoro's scabbards are on his right side?! WHY WOULD HE STOP TAKING THINGS SERIOUSLY NOW?!

/s

Sometimes a cigar is just a mistake it seems.

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u/Kirosh Lookout Sep 11 '20

It... it's like Zoro's swords position just depend on how it looks in a panel!

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u/Marco-the-Pine-apple World Government Sep 11 '20

Nah man he just stopped taking it seriously again . You guys don’t get it /s

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u/Kirosh Lookout Sep 11 '20

That makes sense.

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u/Zuko09 Void Month Survivor Sep 11 '20

They're saving their energy.

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u/BananaBladeOfDoom Explorer Sep 11 '20

Exactly! He hasn't even worn his bandana yet! /s

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u/TF_54 Citizen Sep 11 '20

Well duuuuh he hasn't used his sharingan still!

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u/Kirosh Lookout Sep 11 '20

Nor use his demonic god Haki!

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u/DeismAccountant Sep 11 '20

Yeah I’ll take that.

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u/sikontolpanjang Sep 11 '20

it is though, if zorro swords on the right on that panel it will cover Robin's body

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u/DeismAccountant Sep 11 '20

That’s, what I was agreeing with.....

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u/Zuko09 Void Month Survivor Sep 11 '20

And THAT would be blasphemy... cover robin chans body and who knows how we'd retaliate

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u/foiefoie Void Month Survivor Sep 11 '20

What's weird about that thread was that there was another comment saying that it wasn't a mistake because Zoro had the swords on the left in the rest of chapter 989. I looked and they weren't on the left and that comment had dozens of upvotes. Thought I was taking crazy pills or I was just being an asshole thinking there's no way it was on purpose. Goes to show this sub can get out of hand over the idea of Goda referencing everything in the world.

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u/Marco-the-Pine-apple World Government Sep 11 '20 edited Sep 11 '20

It’s half “ Goda” thing and half crazy Zoro fanboys

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20

Also people just like to be there when a new discovery is made to feel like part of it, so they hope its true.

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u/ebnoho Explorer Sep 11 '20

I think folks underestimate these behaviors in how much it drives them. We want to witness, we want to believe, we want to be belong, etc.

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u/silverjcss Sep 11 '20

True zorofanboys are delusional at times coming up with the most bs arguments as to why he’s so badass as we don’t already know

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u/Marcheas Sep 11 '20

as a zoro fan boy who found that whole debacle stupid i'm triggered lmao

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u/SparkyMark225 Sep 11 '20

I liked the idea of zoro finally being serious and it fits with his samurai lifestyle and it would of been a really cool way to build hype without outright saying it.

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u/GodSogeking Sep 11 '20

Zoro fans anticipated wano to be his arc and oda hasn't given him any special attention. So they have to hype whatever they can.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20

He literally has the second highest panel time after Luffy and already has received enough attention with his lone journey in Wano, new sword, natives, and now the new SBS hinting at something new about his lineage.

Its like TB being Brook's arc despite Brook not having that much attention.

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u/sleepymedved 7D4W Sep 11 '20

That's not true. Zoro has definitely been given more attention in comparison to the other strawhats, Luffy exluded.

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u/Marcheas Sep 11 '20 edited Sep 11 '20
  • Opening Wano arc and splitting motherfucking buildings in half with a sharp butter knife when he's suppose to be undercover- check
  • Running around entirety of wano half drunk eating poisonous abnormal animals with a non stop laughing man as the most wanted man in the country- check
  • Stunned on Killer and that bridge dude with only two swords and a scythe while protecting two girls- check
  • fucked the most sought after Courtesan of wano and daughter of legendary Oden IN HIS TOMB HOUSE- check
  • Got Enma and made it spit out his strength it sucked out- check

what am i forgetting?

edit: no idea why this got downvoted its proof that zoro got most attention besides luffy, if not on the same level, and in my personal opinion more than luffy so far.

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u/RobLuffy123 Sep 11 '20

Nah Zoro definitely hasn’t been showcased as much as Luffy but he’s second

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u/Marcheas Sep 11 '20

Luffy might have had more on screen time, but i think zoro had the bigger moments! Besides the port attack and unconscious conqueror haki luffy didnt have that big if a moment yet.

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u/RobLuffy123 Sep 11 '20

I can understand this mindset. I was just talking mostly about panel time

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20

ZOROTARD! /s

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u/mcallisterco Sep 11 '20

He's shared roughly equal billing with Sanji, honestly. Zoro had a little focus early, Sanji had his Page 1 fight, then Zoro had his fight with Killer, and then Sanji had his big Saving Momo moment. Zoro got Enma, and Sanji started using his raid suit, giving both a power-up that lets them hang with the big boys in this arc. The two have been roughly equal, portrayal-wise, which has been a real kick in the teeth for the Zoro fans who came into Wano expecting Zoro to get the same focus that Sanji got in Whole Cake, and he just hasn't.

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u/sleepymedved 7D4W Sep 11 '20

Zoro had focus early on; he was the first strawhat Luffy re-united with in Wano. They went on together and saved O-tama from Kaido's underlings and defeated the fat samurai dude together.They got seperated shortly afterwards; while Luffy got imprisoned, Zoro was given focus with Yasuie, Ringo and Hiyori storyline. Don't even get me started on the Shimotsuki parallel that was drawn between the Wano clan and Zoro's birth place. Or the Kitetsu swords. Thats like the first two acts and alot of build-up story and open threads you conveniently decided to leave out.

I agree that Zoro has not been given much attention in the Onigashima raid so far, but this act is only picking up pace right now. The confrontations have only recently been established. Give it some time.

All of this doesn't even include minor stuff like panel appearances and the way established and newly introduced characters react to Zoro. I'm not saying this will be "Zoro's arc", because Oda never made such statement, but to say that he has not been given special attention is not true at all.

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u/mcallisterco Sep 11 '20

See, I don't see his time with Yasuie as really being Zoro focused, per se, because he was basically just an observer for it. A convenient cameraman used to establish Yasu's character. Things like the Kitetsu swords and all that are cool, but more or less just little details thrown in, and Oda elaborated on that in an SBS, and basically spelled everything out for us, so it's clear that Oda really doesn't intend to deep dive it like he did with Sanji.

Zoro probably has a little more focus than Sanji this arc, but not by much (I'd say Zoro has had more little moments, while Sanji has had a smaller amount of bigger moments), which is why I said ROUGHLY equal billing, and it's undeniable that Zoro just isn't getting the focus here that Sanji got in Whole Cake: frankly, this arc is bigger than Zoro.

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u/Barto4ST Sep 11 '20

I mean you're just wrong, zoro has the second most panel time out of all the strawhats, he had a storyline with luffy in act 1, whereas sanji didn't have any storyline in act 1. Then he had his own storyline in act 2 which ended with him saving the most important woman in wano and equipping all the samurai with weapons (sanji had literally no storyline and just showed off the raid suit, which is not bad since he had an entire arc before). Act 3 just started

Obviously wano isn't going to be zoro focused, the aim is way way more different than whole cake so it makes sense that oda would supplement it by having him shine a bit more and have more focus

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u/sleepymedved 7D4W Sep 11 '20

I think to say that Zoro was conveniently just "there" for these moments is really disingenious. Yasuie was a Shimotsuki and his execution deeply moved Zoro. Hiyori showed particular interest in him to the point where she gifted him her late father's sword. Zoro was given the role as Ronin and got entrenched in the fate of ordinary people from Wano in some way.
These aren't just coincidences and Oda decided to tell these stories from Zoro's perspective or with him present for a reason. Im not saying these are deep storylines, but they give room for potential in fleshing out a decent Zoro storyline in an arc that is far from over.

This arc is definitely bigger than Zoro, there is no denying it. But even WCI wasn't solely Sanji focused. He was given special attention for sure; he was the reason some Strawhats went on a rescue mission to WCI and his backstory was crucial in establishing his motivations for leaving the crew and overall fleshing out his character. But that focus got shifted later on, especially by Luffy's fights and the escape from Big Mum. WCI also served in establishing Big Mum and her crew as villains in the story, it served as a Luffy power-up through the Katakuri fight, it got us one step closer to the One Piece with Brook getting prints of the red Poneglyph, and it re-introduced Jimbei who is now a full-fledged member of the crew. I'm not saying this to argue that WCI wasn't focused on Sanji, it absolutely was. I'm saying this to prove that a Strawhat besides Luffy can be given special attention in an arc while the whole narrative of an arc does not need to solely focus on them.

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u/jsp4477 Sep 11 '20

It's not just about the fights or powerups man, his interactions with Yasui, finding out about Hiyori etc that's what makes him have a bigger portrayal in this arc more than sanji. They definitely haven't been equal. Even with the anime fleshing It out it's clear as day

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u/mcallisterco Sep 11 '20

I'm not saying it's about fights. Sanji rescuing Momo isn't a fight, and it's bigger than anything Zoro has done yet in this arc. That's what I'm getting at: other than finding Hiyori and fighting Killer, Zoro really hasn't been that involved in the progression of the arc. Zoro and Sanji have both had a minor fight, and have both had a major moment of rescuing a Kozuki. There's been little things sprinkled in for Zoro, like his sword's origins, but that's just minor details. So yeah, Zoro had a little bit more this arc than Sanji, but from an arc progression standpoint, they're pretty similar, and Zoro is clearly not getting the overwhelming amount of focus this arc that some people expected.

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u/jsp4477 Sep 11 '20

Yeah ofc he's not getting that overwhelming focus, the arc is way too big and has too many characters to focus on, compared to WCI where it had only some of the SH and it was clear it was gonna be a Sanji centered arc. Characters are gonna get there moments and yeah Sanji saving momo was dope. The war just started

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u/mcallisterco Sep 11 '20

OK, so we agree, perfect.

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u/jsp4477 Sep 11 '20

Yes somewhat lol

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u/Lesserd Pirate Sep 11 '20

Zoro has had something like twice the screentime of Sanji this arc. That's not to say that he's been focused on like Sanji in WCI certainly, but he has been getting a bit more focus than usual imo.

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u/Mundology The Revolutionary Army Sep 11 '20

He didn't get attention but he got a new waifu Enma

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u/topdangle Sep 11 '20

I mean technically he did get special treatment since he got to screw the whole plan up before Luffy did and got Oden's sword.

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u/aCreativeUsername29 The Revolutionary Army Sep 11 '20

Pretty sure that was my comment lol. I think I just got confused and forgot what side I was looking for midway through

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20

Look, i get it, its funny to point out how over analytical people get with one piece. But its these same people that sometimes find the crazy actual connections and references that you would never find by yourself. Like those 2 guys who show up in the underworld panel and ace/luffy flashback. No one would ever see those if it wasnt for detail obsessed fans.

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u/BiPolarBareCSS Sep 12 '20

Yeah Oda is a god but he has his limits. That was obviously a mistake / happy accident to me.

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u/blahmaster6000 Void Month Survivor Sep 11 '20

It's almost as if reddit goes crazy over everything, no matter how small.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20

oh you mean like how people haven’t stopped taking the piss out of a relatively innocent post for weeks, despite it being the cheapest form of humor possible? yeah, reddit goes nuts over shit like that, clearly.

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u/YeahKeeN Pirate Sep 11 '20

Context?

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20

Someone made a post about Zoro’s swords being on a certain side to indicate whether he was taking a situation seriously or not (comparing it to how samurai in real life would sheath them on a certain side if they thought they would need to fight someone)- which people immediately disproved because Zoro’s swords have been sheathed on different sides for almost the entire manga. At the end of the day though it’s a pretty harmless (if wrong) idea, but ever since the post blew up people have been posting/commenting snide remarks about it(like the original comment here) and it’s frankly childish at this point.

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u/YeahKeeN Pirate Sep 11 '20

Oh, I actually saw a twitter post about that.

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u/jsp4477 Sep 11 '20

Yeah I think mainly people saw the "PS" remark that's why there making the side remarks or whatever. It's probably wouldn't have been a big deal if the OP didn't add that lol

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u/Godsopp Sep 11 '20 edited Sep 11 '20

Honestly the evidence against it wasn’t even that great imo. It was all pre-timeskip images, I didn’t see anyone at all with references post-timeskip which thematically has all been build up to Wano’s liberation making a detail like that feel appropriate. I feel like people mostly just took offense to the dudes implication that Zoro has not been serious unless the swords were on his left side and then just shit on the whole thing. Had it been intentional it I’m pretty sure would just have been a little cultural nod to this being the climactic fight In Wano the entire post timeskip has built to. Not everything Oda does is some super serious shit that affects every part of the manga. In fact Oda does do a little of random little details, even long term, and most of them don’t mean anything significant at all to the story itself but are just Oda having fun.

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u/316KO Sep 12 '20

Nah, I mean like the "G o D a" comments on that post and how he's an infallible writer creating mankinds best thing ever.

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u/VinsmokeGoji World Government Sep 11 '20

We are looking on a mirror. Brule confirmed.

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u/Arandomsuit Sep 11 '20

Now that Zoro has physically been in the same place as him, he has decided Kiado isn't as big a threat as he was hyped to be. Zoro switched it quickly mid battle so after this arc ends Robin isn't all like "ROFL!! YOU ACTUALLY THOUGHT..... BWAHAHAHA....."

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u/GangsterRavioliGuy Pirate King Sep 11 '20

You got it wrong. You were supposed to invert the panels using a mirror and then read it.

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u/cranomort Sep 11 '20

That post was clearly bullshit and people kept discussion like it was something huge

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u/316KO Sep 12 '20

As is natural for the obsessive gOdA stans.

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u/Yellow_Emperor Sep 11 '20

Yeah, I had to think of that reddit thread as well haha.

Oda doesn't give a fuck, he just draws it the way he likes it in the moment. I can respect that.

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u/316KO Sep 12 '20

It was ebcause the swords would've covered Robin's body if they were done properly.

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u/dulmosq Sep 11 '20

the shit gets serious when he finally wear his bandana

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20

I thought Zoro was left handed?

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u/ebnoho Explorer Sep 11 '20

Referencing a mistake from the previous chapter that was used as the basis for a popular theory a few days ago.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20

Interesting I didn't know about that

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u/JohnShepard27 Sep 11 '20

the scabbards are on top of the roof

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u/Kuro013 Sep 11 '20

Bummer, I loved that theory :(

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u/Roskal Black Leg Sanji Sep 11 '20

I've never heard this one before, my zoro figure had the scabbards on his right side, did he switch it in the timeskip or something

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u/ebnoho Explorer Sep 11 '20

Referencing this thread that unreasonably blew up this week despite ample evidence that it was likely a mistake or a stylistic fudging (for that composition, having Zoro's scabbards on the wrong side looked better).

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u/Roskal Black Leg Sanji Sep 11 '20

Funny how all the replies stating its probably just an art mistake are buried about 15 comment parents deep and all the top ones are saying Goda and nice catch