not 100% happy with the design but I wanted to get it out of my system, I went for darker and more muted colors for Zoro while still utilizing the usual elemnts of his outfit like the sash and the haramaki. also the color palette for the full outfit turned out very tasty, like it makes me think of chocolate and sweets. not sure about the use of haramaki though, I feel like it makes the proportions a bit awkward when everything else is dark, but it does make the shirt fold nicely so I may keep it in the end
now that I'm further into WCI I think I should add a suit version as well for the wedding bit hmmm
My idea for this is after coming to Big Mom's territory and fighting her commanders they get to the Germa carriage just like in canon. Zoro watches Sanji fight Luffy, restraining himself from interfering. He respects Luffy's decision to not fight Sanji back, but the moment Luffy gets knocked down it's Zoro's turn to try and bring the cook around and he's not gonna hold back
Touya coming back home after he died to see Enji abusing Shouto is like the black mirror version of the "it's a wonderful life" scenario where instead of realizing the purpose and impact of your existence by seeing a world without yourself in it, Touya actually saw how much his life and death didn't matter and how nothing changed by him not being there
And if i say shigaraki is an inherently weaker character than touya and toga cause he got his agency completely removed from the story and was turned into a victim of circumstance whose actions were never truly his own, meanwhile touya and toga despite being victims too are also allowed to make their own choices and mistakes and therefore their impact as individual characters is felt way more and their stories end up being more compelling than shigaraki "every one of my farts was orchestrated by afo" tomura's, what then?
When the topic of mangaka burnout was discussed i saw a few people say gege was tired of jjk and that that was the reason the story was going the way it was and i was amazed that people couldn't seem to distinguish between an author who chooses to take the story in a direction they personally dislike (gege) and an author who is genuinely burnt out and their story suffers because of it (horikoshi).