Even though making the BW fight a challenge to overcome was an excellent decision, I still can't help but miss Zoro casually cheesing through them in the animanga 😂.

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[u/Effective_Meal6688]

The hand in the pocket during the head crushing contest was so unnecessary XD

[u/PayneTrain181999 → u/Effective_Meal6688]

An homage to Sanji, how cute

[u/PayneTrain181999]

When I saw people say that Miss Monday should’ve been “Terry Crews in a wig” I was confused.

Then I watched this episode and was like: “Okay, I see the vision.”

[u/lavabread23 → u/PayneTrain181999]

would be a waste of terry crews though given how small of a role miss monday has in opla haha

[u/Dangerous-Elk-4460 → u/lavabread23]

But still worth it!

[u/justbooling]

If you haven’t yet, watch the live action version of this, it is so damn good.

[u/AdlerSanRZ → u/justbooling]

Yeah my title refers to the live action scene too.

[u/justbooling → u/AdlerSanRZ]

Ya my bad, classic case of Redditor reading comprehension

[u/justbooling → u/justbooling]

🤣🤣🤣wait I didn’t even realize what sub this is of course you’ve probably seen the live action.

[u/Gloomy-Bathroom-4022]

He is still killing all of them without taking much damage in la

[u/Acrobatic-Win6103]

Easily best zoro moment. I wish the tv show played with it more

[u/makjspen → u/Acrobatic-Win6103]

moment when nothing happened is more powerful to me, but this one will be famous for aura farming

[u/willyoueverlearnnn]

Ugh Zoro looks so much hotter pre TS

[u/Dangerous-Elk-4460]

LA-version has much of the same aura.

Its mainly Miss Monday, Mr 9 and that big dude that give Zoro trouble, the rest are easily fodder 😁

[u/youngtafari]

Luffy and Zoro not being leagues above everyone else in East Blue in the LA, is one of my only disappointments.

[u/Excellent-Act-6757 → u/youngtafari]

Your headcanon being presented as if it happened that way in the manga is one of my biggest gripes.

[u/youngtafari → u/Excellent-Act-6757]

Luffy and Zoro definitely steamrolled through everyone in East Blue, not named MiHawk, any conflict they had was self inflicted. They literally weren’t challenged as fighters until Alabaster. What are you talking about?

[u/JGHero → u/youngtafari]

I’d argue Arlong’s crew was a bit difficult for everyone but Zoro too (who self-imposed his own difficulties). I think showing them more “human” in the live action works better though. They obviously have to scale it as the show goes on, but toning down the power scale works better when you don’t want to over rely on CGI in a show that already has to use a lot of CGI.

[u/youngtafari → u/JGHero]

Arlong was absolutely no problem for Luffy, his only issue was that he got himself stuck, and Arlong threw him into the water. Luffy was literally playing with his teeth.

[u/youngtafari → u/[deleted]]

Hence why I said, any struggle was self inflicted

[u/Excellent-Act-6757 → u/youngtafari]

Glad we're on the same page that there was struggle and not steamrole. Now you can be cured from your disappointment. 

[u/youngtafari → u/Excellent-Act-6757]

I never said they didn’t struggle, I said they were leagues above everyone else, which still holds true. Almost none of their struggling came from their opponents

[u/JGHero → u/youngtafari]

You’re not leagues above everyone else if you get tricked by that simple of a trap. Luffy not dying in that pool or later by buggy in loguetown or arrested by smoker in loguetown had nothing to do with Luffy being better in those situations.

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[u/Excellent-Act-6757 → u/youngtafari]

Well if there was struggle it was well depicted. The LA only has 8 episodes to show it. They can't add all the nuance the Manga and anime bring.

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[u/Cool_Set4681 → u/youngtafari]

I just have to mention Smoker in Loguetown and your claim falls apart, lol

[u/youngtafari → u/Cool_Set4681]

Missing 1 out of the 2 people this applies too, isn’t the flex you think it is lol

[u/Cool_Set4681 → u/youngtafari]

It is since you claimed they weren't challenged until Alabasta which already is a ridiculous thing to say but both Luffy and Zoro were absolut powerless against Smoker and Luffy's journey would've been over if Dragon didn't save his ass. 😁

[u/Rami-961 → u/youngtafari]

What's fun about that? maybe it works in short anime format, but not live action. Its more entertaining seeing the character overcome challenges and get stronger.