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Kuina (くいな)
Kuina (くいな) was the childhood friend of Roronoa Zoro. Throughout her life, Kuina pushed herself harder then usual in kendo in order to be accepted in the male-dominated discipline. Even her father thought that she could never be the best because she was a girl. While training in the same dojo, Kuina was the only person Zoro was never able to beat in a sword fight. After overhearing what her father said about girls not being good at kendo one night, she rushed to find Zoro and challenged him to a duel, with real swords. Though she defeated Zoro again (she was the best in the dojo, he was second-best), she still felt like everyone was looking down on her just because she was a girl. So she and Zoro make a promise that they would continue to build their skills until they were the best swordsmen in the world, after which they would fight each other again for the title of strongest. Original owner of Zoro's white sword, Watto.
Animeography
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One Piece
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One Piece Film: Strong World Episode 0
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One Piece: Episode of East Blue - Luffy to 4-nin no Nakama no Daibouken
Mangaography
Voice Actors
Monica Rial
English
Tatiane Keplmair
Portuguese (BR)
Machiko Toyoshima
Japanese
Seon Hye Kim
Korean
Chio Su Ping
English
Elise Huwart
French
Giulia de Brito
Portuguese (BR)
Xóchitl Ugarte
Spanish
Ximena de Anda
Spanish
Elisabeth Fargeot
French
Priscilla Everett
English