Discussion Your favourite Akazaya

[Zehahaha]

I have removed Kanjuro for obvious reasons.

My favourite one is Kinemon. His loyalty towards Oden and the Kozuki really left a strong impression on me (and I tend to like loyal characters in general). I really like his bond with Momo as well, and he is clearly well positioned to be his right hand man. I hope for Kinemon that his wife is still alive.

 

[Nie Li]

Kin'emon is certainly great.

Despite Denjiro's disappearance for half of Onigashima battle... he's my favorite. I liked his backstory and how he played the role of a villain for 20 years to protect Zoro's future wife.

Also, his physical design is second only to his shogun.

 

[Rein Avara]

Neko may be my favourite...he's so goofy and loveable.

 

[HereNThere]

Since Izou isn't on the list, I'll go with Kawamatsu. After those two would be Kiku.

 

[Uriel]

Kiku, Kinemon, and Denjiro tie on first for me. Going with Kiku because She lost her arm out of a war is more believable than Kinemon getting out there without scars.

 

[everythingnice]

Kawamatsu! Kappa-pa!

Also, Denjiro and Kin'emon are close seconds.

 

[Sachsenhesse]

Kappa-pa!

 

[weixiaobao]

Neko or Kawa.

Hmm, Kanjuro is up there among the first tier if he was included.

 

[Zmsp]

Well, Kin was given a lot of good moments, from the raid planning comical stuff to his constant displays of devotion, but for me, Neko is probably the best ratio of screen time/cool stuff.

All in all, the scabbards as a group are probably my favorite side characters in the whole manga, but they've been given a lot of screen time and there's recency bias in the mix, so that might be why.

Hmm, Kanjuro is up there among the first tier if he was included.

I thought about him as well, but after thinking about it for a bit, he wasn't that great of a villain in my opinion.

His backstory on the actor crew stuff and his motives didn't feel credible at all, and I think some of the negative feelings we have towards him (that would make him a good villain) are mostly related to annoyance (too many comebacks). I liked the bad drawings/great drawings thing, but that was mostly it.

 

[TitaniumOxide]

Neko may be my favourite...he's so goofy and loveable.

This part. Also badass. Oh yeah he also meows. I might enjoy dogs more but this cat is wacky and fun.

Why isn't Izo on this list? I wouldn't have given him my vote but shouldn't he be here?

 

[Tengou]

It's a toss-up between Denjiro and Kawamatsu for me, but Denjiro probably takes it. So blue-balled pretending to be a loyalist it turned his very hair blue... And his reveal right after Kanjuro's just... instantly catapulted him up there for me.

 

[HereNThere]

Abusing my mod powers (which I forget I have from time to time), I've commandeered this poll and added Izo.

 

[grey matter]

Toll up between Kyoshiro (he played that character so well that I have to remember that his actual name is Denjiro lol) and Izo for me

 

[kkck]

I suppose kinemon but I am mostly ambivalent about them. I feel like they just didn't get any justice through the arc basically. Each scabbard deserved a dedicated fight in the arc and a yonko crew should have easily provided for that. But instead we got the bit of them against kaido, then dog and cat vs jack and perospero... With both fights being pretty damn lackluster (and way too off screen). The bits with kanjuro were absurdly overplayed and the resolution with his story arc was also lackluster. Denjiro's sort of origin story being "I cringed so violently my face changed" remains dumb, forgettable and annoying. His storyarc was culminated with him off handedly finishing off orochi... But even that was uninteresting due to how much the manga stressed orochi's lack of importance. A bit of a tangent but the wano arc ultimately didn't deliver in terms of samurai or ninja. All we got was a post apocalyptic wasteland where samurai were weak shits and a thing of the past. It makes every previous instance of wano being hailed as the land of samurai bad and a lie. Imagine that we get to wano and fucking hyoguro makes short work of kaido's samurai army....

 

[HereNThere]

I gotta say, after Dressrosa, I am glad every Scabbard didn't get individual fights. My least favorite part about Dressrosa was secondary characters taking screen time from the crew.

Hell, I'm still a bit upset that Neko took out Pero instead of Carrot and Inu took out Jack instead of Jinbe.

 

[kkck]

To be fair, carrot taking out perospero would have been absurd. Perospero was one of big mom's stronger fighters (probably top 5 in her crew) and had a 700 mil bounty. Imagine someone that would at least hold his ground against doflamingo being defeated by carrot. I suppose every ayakasa getting a fight might have been a tad much but not even kinemon got one and he was with the strawhats since punk hazard. Of course this ultimately plays out into how unremarkable kaido's crew was. The topo robi were taken out with marginal effort, the numbers were mostly one shot and most headliners barely did anything. Inu's win over jack was mostly off screen and even then we barely got a look at hybrid jack. We even had izo and azhura dying but not even in a proper fight, they died in an explosion...

 

[TitaniumOxide]

No offense to the rest of the scabbards but Izo should have had more screentime. In the One Piece overworld, he must have done a ton of shit. He was a WB pirate commander. I feel like he should have had as much screentime as Marco over the course of the series. Maybe once One Piece is over, Oda or someone else can provide some justice and give us some Gaidens for these lesser characters. Like Rayleigh and Sengoku deserves a Gaiden too but that is for another topic.

 

[Zehahaha]

Abusing my mod powers (which I forget I have from time to time), I've commandeered this poll and added Izo.

That's unfair ! (but thanks for doing that actually)

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I am surprised how Neko seems popular. I do like him as a character, but thought Kinemon and Denjiro would be more popular.

 

[grey matter]

Yep, I am also surprised at how popular the Cat is. Funnily enough, the Dog has no votes lmao.

I too though it was going to be a tossup between Kin'emon and Kyoshiro.