ZOROBIN: ALABASTA ARC - 6° PART
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COVER'S SUBJECTS

Chapter 201, titled "Nico Robin", has a cover in which Luffy and his companions behave in a bizarre way. They are all in wacky attack poses and Nami is acting strangely, sipping a drink with a straw, lying in front of them. She is lying down and her body is leaning towards Zoro; in addition, she turns a blind eye (a typical action of Robin, not Nami) and has a purple top (Robin's color).

Zoro also has glasses: but he never wears them, he doesn't usually do it. Robin, on the other hand, did wears them, after the time-skip: and those are just the kind of glasses she uses. Also, Zoro doesn't have swords here - a rather rare thing. Instead of them, he wear that pair of glasses!

Luffy also has an inscription on his shirt: "One thing I can tell you is ..."

and then there is, above Zoro and Usop, the yellow writing that continues and ends the previous sentence: "YOU! GOTTA BE FREE". In fact, if we refer to Robin (who in this chapter behaves like a beast in a cage, threatening the Marines and Tashigi), will be Zoro and Usop to free Robin at Enies Lobby. Could be it an anticipation of the Enies Lobby event that will happen three hundred chapters later? Also, the seagulls (the bird is Robin's symbol) predominate in the background, but the larger and the more prominent one, right in the middle of the sentence, is next to Zoro.

In addition, Chopper, who is related to Robin almost like a "son", carries a black bandana on his arm: the same as Zoro's!

In the double cover below (volumes 21 and 22), describing the alignment of forces between the Straw Hat crew and the Baroque Works, Crocodile, the boss, is - quite rightly - facing Luffy, since they are the main opponents. But, immediately after them, there is Zoro, who is facing Robin, while, logically, he should be ahead of Das Bornes (Mister 1), his opponent. Not to mention that, throughout all the Alabasta arc, (apart from the moment in Whiskey Peek, in which they don't even fight) Zoro and Robin don't even meet: this pairing, then, is strange ... but significant. Not to mention the symbolic meanings of the numbers: the volumes mentioned are 21 and 22, and the number 2 (Zoro's number) is present three times (the number of his swords). Furthermore, the sum of the digits (2 + 1 + 2 + 2) gives 7, which is Robin's number.

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Edited by joe 7 - 21/2/2022, 16:45