695 likesOne Piece Chapter 1193: Zoro's Haki Grind Has Japan Calling Him the Real Protagonist
One Piece Chapter 1193 has Zoro sparring with Somers, an immortal member of the Gods' Knights guarding Elbaf, purely to drill his Conqueror's Haki — because Somers can't actually die, Zoro gets to land the same attack over and over until it finally counts. Luffy, meanwhile, spends the chapter still stuck in his cartoonish "Nika" form, laughing his way through his own fight instead of driving it. Across 243 comments on a Japanese reaction video, the top comment (695 likes) skips the fight scene entirely and just names a winner in a different contest: right now, it says, Zoro feels like the real protagonist. Most of the thread agrees, though a smaller group pushes back — arguing that an opponent tough enough to survive but weak enough to lose on command is also just a suspiciously convenient plot device for a power-up arc. By the end, nobody's arguing Luffy should disappear. They're just not talking about him nearly as much as they're talking about Zoro.
