Talk:Why cant Zoro cut an opponents swords?/@comment-3507136-20170805011531

Saw this thread and wanted to give my input.

I believe it's one of three different things:

Firstly. It might just be common courtesy, as after daz bones it was quite commonly believed zoro could cut through metal. But then again, it required focus of his mastery over the sword. Which to me meant that it would be one of those 'only when entirely necessary' moments. As he does cut through a pacifista on thriller bark, and again on sabaody. With this in mind I'm led to the second part. C ommon courtesy for one would be believable as zoro is an honorable swordsmen by far and loves to fight other swordsmen to the point of potential obsession. So perhaps he is being courteous and savouring the fight while he can.

Second, it would be boring if any potential fight he could have was ended in one swing of his blade. Go around breaking everyone's swords he'd lose any recognition as a swordsmen and would probably be seen as more of a troll swordsmen. It would just plain dull out his character. HOWEVER. It could be something that's being saved for his final fight against the world's greatest swordsmen?? Imagine the first and only sword he breaks is none other than the black blade of mihawks after a long fight? That would certainly be climactic!

Thirdly, perhaps it's now because the swordsmen he ends up facing have strong named blades? Or it could be simply because the katana themselves were designed for cutting, but realistically had a very fine edge that could not cut mail or armour plates? But then again, I'm pretty sure he broke that octopus dudes blades on fishman island.

That's just my opinion though. Take from it what you will :)