Quick answer
No. Chapter 1193 does not show Zoro's left eye open.
We read the chapter in the official Japanese release. Zoro's face appears in clear close-up more than once — once as a God's Knight taunts him, and once while he is caged inside Sommers' thorns. In both, the drawing is the same one Oda has used since the timeskip: the right eye open with a visible pupil, the left eye a closed lid with the vertical scar running across it.
There is also no dialogue, narration or sound effect about the eye anywhere in the chapter. The eye is not a subject of chapter 1193 at all. On the specific question of an opening, the honest label is NOT CONFIRMED for this chapter — and here the panels point actively against it rather than merely failing to settle it. That is a statement about chapter 1193, not a prediction that the eye will never open. (It is still drawn closed in chapter 1194.)
PRIMARY — MANGA VERIFIED. Read directly from chapter 1193「練習中」in Weekly Shonen Jump 2026 issue 42/43 on Shonen Jump+. English wording below is our paraphrase of the Japanese, not a quotation from the official English translation.
Why fans think Zoro opened his left eye
The claim is not coming from the chapter. It is coming from the way chapter-week content is titled.
Search and video listings for this week include framings like "Zoro's left eye is opening," "Zoro finally opened his eyes," and questions about the Ashura demon and a removed seal. At least one aggregator page goes further and states that Zoro unsealed the eye during the Sommers fight, packaged alongside a claim that Imu awakened a third form in the same chapter.
Two things are worth separating here. Some of that material is openly speculative — one spoiler roundup carries the eye only in its headline and closing question, and its actual body describes the chapter without a single eye panel. Other material presents the unsealing as an event. The second kind does not match the chapter we read.
The underlying appetite is old and reasonable. Zoro's left eye has been closed since the timeskip with no explanation given, and a chapter in which he is straining to reach a new level of Haki is exactly where readers expect the payoff. That expectation is why the headline works. It is not evidence.
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What chapter 1193 actually shows
The chapter's Zoro content is about Haki, not about his eye.
Zoro is fighting Sommers, a God's Knight who does not stay down when cut. He recalls Loki's instruction: the steel heart has to be pierced by a blade coated in Conqueror's Haki, and merely piercing or crushing it will not be enough. Sommers encloses him in thorn blades and calls the position checkmate. Zoro breaks out and lands a strike that opens a wound beside the heart.
Sommers survives. He cries out, keeps talking, and reacts to Zoro with fear. Zoro's own closing remark matches the chapter title,「練習中」— roughly practicing. We covered that sequence in full in our chapter 1193 report on the steel-heart attempt.
In other words, the chapter does give Zoro a power-up storyline this week. It is a Haki-application storyline, and it is unresolved.
Is there a visible pupil or eyeball?
This is the part worth being concrete about, because "his eye looks open in that panel" is usually a resolution problem rather than a drawing.
We examined the face panels at the page's native resolution rather than at viewer scale. On the open right eye, the components are all present and separable: an upper lid line, a lower lid line, the white of the eye, and a filled pupil inside an iris. That is what an open Oda eye looks like up close.
On the left side, none of those components are there. There is a single lid line, the vertical scar crossing it, and shading around the socket. There is no enclosed white area, no iris ring, and no pupil. The marks people read as an opening — the scar itself, the brow furrow, and the hatching Oda uses around a tense expression — all sit above the lid line, not inside it.
The second panel, with Zoro surrounded by thorns, is drawn the same way. Two independent panels, in different lighting and different framing, agreeing with each other is the useful part. A single ambiguous panel could be an art quirk; two matching ones are the chapter's position.