[Discussion] I figured out why Zoro's left eye is closed, 80% sure.

[AllseeingSharingan]

A scar over the eye and it's shut kinda like someone I knew before they got a sharing an put in. He doesn't have his eye anymore

 

[Bogard]

I see the scar more as another parallel compared to Rayleigh personally. Mihawk is the only character who gave 2 permanent scars to Zoro. It was also a symbolism to show how they aren't friends at all despite the training, waiting for their final duel

 

[Kamui Sama]

I don't want a powerup but I want some backstory on it

 

[chopstickchakra]

Getting the gist of it? The gist is Zoro has his left eye closed and Sanji has the tendency to every few years or so sweep his hair to the other side of his face making his eye difficult to see, which happens to be his right side now. And you see in that some kind of an almost certain fact that Oda intentionally did that to symbolize the 'contrasting' relationship between the two. What is there difficult to understand about it? And then I refer completely back to my first post on how that is a joke and that it's just you that wants to see it that way, but that in reality there is barely anything that backs it up as the reasoning you used can be used to say the same thing about a lot of other characters as it's an extremely shallow and subjective interpretation.

Fujitora has lost both eyes and he is a swordsman, this MUST be a symbolic visual statement of the relationship between Fujitora and Zoro, that Fujitora is his father or something. When the timeskip just happened, people were also going on about how Zoro's scar matched that of Rayleigh's, which they said was supposed to symbolize the relationship between Luffy and Zoro as how Rayleigh was to Roger. And you can go on and on about this.

As a visual contrast this is indeed a joke. Now if it happens so that Sanji would have a scar over his right eye, now then try again. But saying that Zoro has one closed eye and Sanji having his hair covering the opposite one as an intentional visual representation of a non-existing contrasting relationship, yes I find that a joke when you then at the same time are going to act that Zoro becoming potentially stronger if he would open that eye is too far-fetched, while that what you say does not have much more or even less going for it, but act like it's clear as day.

Zoro and Sanji don't have a particular contrasting relationship, if anything they seem to butt heads with the parts of their personalities that are similar, and there is no reason whatsoever to symbolize on their faces this supposed contrast and even less with such a bad one. Contrast and opposite are pretty much the same thing here as you can't have a contrast if two things aren't very different. If you are going to see a difference there, you pretty much admitted that you only see what you want to see as all the Strawhats would be contrasting with one another following your own logic, but you only decide to look at Zoro and Sanji. Same thing with your comment about the scar. Saying that, you reduced this all to that Zoro has one eye closed, Sanji has something covering his other eye and that is then Oda intentionally trying to visually represent their relationship. Seriously the more you read all of this, the more obvious it becomes how feeble this entire reasoning is.

The comments of those wings and coins are also very misplaced and don't make much sense as again you can interpret them in so many ways, it's useless to mention it. For instance I can interpret that as that Zoro and Sanji are supposed to be nearly completely identical, have to flawlessly work together and that one can not exist without the other. But in the series they continuously argue with each other. That you are going on about how one is using his hands and the other his legs, is almost childish. Zoro uses swords, which are most easiest used with your hands. He however also uses one with his mouth. I'll eagerly anticipate the day I see Sanji choking a man to death with his ass. Not to mention Sanji has used a bladed weapon before, he simply does not use his arms directly as he needs them to cook. He however uses them passively in some moves, just like how zoro needs his legs to move his body. Even among martial arts that solely focus on using your arms, the movement of your legs is crucial and vice versa. Not to mention are Zoro and Sanji the only characters who use their arms and legs to fight?

You see what you want to see. Again if I follow your logic and reasoning I can do this: Zoro and Luffy both have a scar on the left side of their faces and a scar on their chests. This clearly shows that Zoro is Luffy's closed companion, that Zoro is higher than Sanji on all aspects. I just ended, using your logic, all the debates about Sanji vs Zoro. Zoro is simply the strongest, the vice-captain, the Nr 2 of the Strawhats. He is higher than Sanji. It's clearly visually represented by Oda on their bodies. Case closed. Now if you don't agree with this, you can't agree with your own reasoning as this is what you did.

It's easy to disagree with something but where's your opinion? All that verbose peacocking means nothing if you aren't able or willing to impart your knowledge. Why do you think Oda decided to have Zoro's eye closed Post skip?

 

[Dannie]

There are 3 possibilities for Zoro's eye.
1) It makes Zoro look badass with just one eye shown

2) There is some hidden energy hidden in Zoro's eye that he can't completely control

3) He cut it himself to prove something to Mihawk:

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I'm inclined to believe that it is number 3.

 

[Bogard]

There are 3 possibilities for Zoro's eye.
1) It makes Zoro look badass with just one eye shown

2) There is some hidden energy hidden in Zoro's eye that he can't completely control

3) He cut it himself to prove something to Mihawk:

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I'm inclined to believe that it is number 3.

The final one is epic XD +rep

 

[Caliburn]

It's easy to disagree with something but where's your opinion? All that verbose peacocking means nothing if you aren't able or willing to impart your knowledge. Why do you think Oda decided to have Zoro's eye closed Post skip?

I already posted my opinion about that several times. There is simply no reason to assume there was a particular reason for it other than for Zoro's new character design. Franky also gained two large scars over his entire chest. Are we supposed to find some kind of symbolism behind that too? It's not like Oda has an important/emotional/symbolic reason for every little thing he draws. He has drawn countless of characters with scars, weird eyes and closed eyelids for no apparent reasons.

I admit that I'm very well in favor of the possibility that Zoro is intentionally closing that eye and that he becomes stronger. No Sharingan crap or whatever, that's just ludicrous, but that Zoro gets a power boost from something like that would fit him very well. Eyes are very important, if you lose one, your vision becomes smaller and you lose depth perception. So for a swordsman that's no small matter, that's a handicap. So that Zoro would intentionally be closing one eye as some kind of training or to hold himself back, isn't that unrealistic. And opening that eye would automatically mean he becomes stronger as he has his full vision back. As Zoro is a ridiculously powerful swordsman, just doing that would mean quite the power boost. This is a concept that is frequently used in series.

Also Zoro is the guy who can manifest somehow two extra heads, 4 extra arms and 6 extra swords. Something which up to this day still hasn't been properly explained. He is the guy who can cut logia users without haki by simply installing utter fear in them and he is the guy who puts his bandana on when he gets serious. Kaku even made the mocking comment of asking that that somehow would make him stronger. Yeah a power boosting eye fits pretty well in that and probably even makes more sense than some of them.

In the previous chapter Oda also strongly focused on Zoro opening his other eye.

To top things of Zoro was trained by a guy, who potentially caused the scar, named Hawkeye, whose eyes have been a running thing of his character throughout the series.

Does this now mean that there is a secret power in that eye? Of course not, don't be silly. Oda can easily write the entire series without ever doing anything with that eye because he simply doesn't have to. This is just what I like to see, but unlike you I'm not going to go around and say that it's 80% certain. It's that what bugged me in this entire thread. You brush of the special eye theory, but then come with one of yourself that is not remotely any better, maybe even worse, but then act like conformation of it is just a formality.

This is simply what I would like to see and these are the reasons that might make it possible, but realistically the chances are slim it would happen as Oda doesn't need to do anything with the eye. I just wanted it to have a practical use as Zoro already had so many scars and then gets another one during the timeskip. I likewise was in favor of the theory that Zoro's sword Shuusui would be absorbing the Mera Mera no Mi. I mean the technology for it exists, the DF was in close proximity and then Shuusui gets stolen from Zoro and didn't Zoro said hundreds of chapters ago that he always wanted a fire katana? How symbolic could it get? Zoro, Luffy's first and closest nakama, gets into the possession of the DF of his late brother and this after Oda hinting at it years and years ago. How much more perfect could it be? Did I seriously believe that it would happen? No. Did it happen? Not even remotely. Zoro got his sword back and Sabo ate the fruit. That something sounds nice, doesn't mean it's going to happen.

You on the other hand then see what you want see, believe what you want to believe, but completely disregard the fact that it's completely full of holes.

It might be possible we know someday how exactly Zoro got the scar and as a result know what it means. But as said for the same money Oda writes the entire series without ever bringing it up as he doesn't need to because it's just something he added for Zoro's post timeskip design.

 

[Galen Marek]

During the timeskip, Zoro trained with Mihawk. The one who scared his chest if memory doesn't fail. Its much more plausible that Mihawk injured Zoro during their training than any other scenario. I see little meaning behind his eye except its one more scar.

 

[Kiiszame]

What if he just slashed his eye? No that cant be it. Too simple. He must be hiding some kind of unstoppable power.

 

[WhistleBlower]

Its as simple as in true history , real life pirates would wear a eyepatch over an eye so that they can train it to see in the dark. This isnt bizarre, as Oda has used many real life pirate references such as naming characters and various locations themes.

So, in summary zoro is copying the real life pirates trick. I predict he did indeed get slashed but that didn't cause him to loose his eyesight in that eye. You want proof or backup for my argument?

Take Silvers Rayleigh for instance, he has had a deep scar across his eye since the battle of edd and he wear glasses! So I'm suggesting, zoros eye is fine! He just has a secret power he is hiding.

 

[Tomato God]

Its as simple as in true history , real life pirates would wear a eyepatch over an eye so that they can train it to see in the dark. This isnt bizarre, as Oda has used many real life pirate references such as naming characters and various locations themes.

So, in summary zoro is copying the real life pirates trick. I predict he did indeed get slashed but that didn't cause him to loose his eyesight in that eye. You want proof or backup for my argument?

Take Silvers Rayleigh for instance, he has had a deep scar across his eye since the battle of edd and he wear glasses! So I'm suggesting, zoros eye is fine! He just has a secret power he is hiding.

The real life power to see in the dark or what? That his right eye works just as good as his left in broad daylight.

 

[ROHAN]

3) He cut it himself to prove something to Mihawk:

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I'm inclined to believe that it is number 3.

This makes the most sense. The trajectory of the Knife shows that it would have fallen on Zoro's left eye and cut it blinding it.

"On This day, Pirate Hunter Zoro lost something precious".

Which is best summed up by this :-

I admit that I'm very well in favor of the possibility that Zoro is intentionally closing that eye and that he becomes stronger. No Sharingan crap or whatever, that's just ludicrous, but that Zoro gets a power boost from something like that would fit him very well. Eyes are very important, if you lose one, your vision becomes smaller and you lose depth perception. So for a swordsman that's no small matter, that's a handicap. So that Zoro would intentionally be closing one eye as some kind of training or to hold himself back, isn't that unrealistic. And opening that eye would automatically mean he becomes stronger as he has his full vision back. As Zoro is a ridiculously powerful swordsman, just doing that would mean quite the power boost. This is a concept that is frequently used in series.