History Main / NoSenseOfDirection

*** Post-time skip, when the crew was reuniting on Sabaody Archipelago, Zoro was ''first'' one there and is incredibly smug about it (though it was thanks to Perona's help). Though played straight back into position when he decides to go fishing and gets on a pirate ship as well. [[spoiler: He blames destiny and cuts the ship in half.]]
*** He has, on the other hand, no trouble finding someone when ''he wants to get away from them'', like in a post-Enies Lobby {{filler}} episode when he's wearing an embarrassing shirt he doesn't want to be seen in, and ends up running into ''everyone in the crew'' when trying to avoid them.

*** Manga now decided to say hold my beer: he manages to get lost and separated from his group of Luffy, Law, and Kiku ''while they're all riding on the back of the same lion-dog'', without any battle involved. In short, he managed to get lost '''while just sitting down'''.
*** Subverted in one instance. Yes, Zoro ''did'' get lost, but on this occasion it was not the fault of his poor sense of direction. The miniature islands of the Shabaody Archipelago have numbers on giant trees to act as a guide. Zoro recognized this and assumed he wouldn't get lost so long as he remembered to look for tree number 1. The number was actually ''4''1, but his view of it was obscured. And then DoubleSubverted when he failed to find Grove 1, either.
*** During one of the anime filler episodes that added onto the Long Ring Long Land Arc, the crew is doing Red Light Green Light with Foxy's crew as part of the Davy Back games. Despite the fact that it is daytime, the pathways they are taking are surrounded by water, and there is no way to get lost whatsoever, Zoro ''still'' goes the wrong direction and ends up at the only dead-end on the paths. He can literally see the finish line and all he has to do is walk in that direction, and he still had no idea how to get there with a straight shot.
*** It's lampshaded in the SBS for volume 85, when one reader asked who would win in a fifty-meter race (Brook, because he's the lightest). Zoro is ranked fifth, and it's said he'd get higher, but he got lost. It also says he'd do better in a shorter one where he wouldn't run off the track due to his poor sense of direction.
*** Eventually, his fellow Straw Hat members got so fed up with his tendencies of getting lost that when he offered to help searching for [[spoiler:Vegapunk's real body]] in Chapter 1074, they immediately turns him down on the basis that they would have to look for ''him'' too.

** Chopper, who is also on the page picture, does not have a bad sense of direction per se (his is probably quite average). He is just very fearful, and as the forest the four characters were traversing was full of dangerous enemies, he got so scared that he just ran off without noticing where he was going.

** He seems to always either take the wrong direction (when given the choice between three roads, one of which he's told is right and one of which he's told is wrong, he takes the third road), or take directions too literally (when told to go "straight down the road" to the Seikan Tunnel from Hokkaido, he did just that -- despite the fact the road curved and his route caused him to leap off of the road). His absurd levels of stamina, which lets him run at top speed for literally hours or even days without stopping, as well as being able to [[TheJuggernaut plough right through everything in his path]], makes this worse as he can cover distances far sooner than direction-givers might expect and, particularly after learning the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Breaking Point]], there's literally nothing that can force him to change directions.
** In the Shishi Hokodan story arc, Ranma is reading a letter from Ryōga which he claims to have sent from Hokkaido. It's accompanied by a photo of him standing in front of a sign reading "Welcome to Hong Kong" with Chinese locals visible in the background. The signs were mistranslated, and written in Hiragana, it read "Nagasaki Kunchi", which is, according to Website/{{Wikipedia}}, "the most famous festival in Nagasaki, Japan".

** He once made a map describing how he found the item of the week. The map shows France, Africa, China, the dojo, and a red car.

* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' has the Prince of the Underworld. An alien warlord who could [[TunnelKing excavate tunnels with incredible speed]] and greatly enjoyed doing so, he also was infamous for getting lost in his own tunnels and digging them in the wrong directions. As an earlier Creator/RumikoTakahashi series, he's often considered to the prototype for Ryōga.

* In ''WebVideo/RanmaOneHalfTheAbridgedChronicles'', Ryōga is gone from having No Sense of Direction, to having No Sense of Direction and a [[DirectionlessDriver stubborn refusal to ask for them]]. When he finally decides to ask, he thinks that "north" is "up."

* The outdoor humorist Creator/PatrickMcManus often writes about his ability to get lost. He even invented the "Modified Stationary Panic", (jumping in place and screaming) which keeps you from running blindly into 1) a tree/rock/lamppost or 2) the next county/state/country when you ''realize'' you're hopelessly lost.

A little like the FlyingDutchman, except that this character wanders not because of a curse but because he can't find where he's trying to go. Often becomes one of those AchievementsInIgnorance when the character ''somehow'' arrives at the right place despite their utter inability to get there.

** In ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoFever'', Raffina wonders aloud how she got back to her school while looking for Ms. Accord's flying cane in other places, implying she might have a less-than-accurate sense of direction.

* ''Manhwa/ShinAngyoOnshi'': Something of a RunningGag with the main hero, Munsu. He often gets lost in deserts, mountains, etc... Even when he has a map. Justified in one example though, as the map that Hwang gave him that leads to Mt. Chilgap was ''utterly useless'' (featuring a cutesy picture of Hwang, a mountain, and a straight arrow going from one to the other).

* ''Fanfic/HeroAcademiaDxD'': True to her canon self, [[VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma Celica A. Mercury]] has a terrible sense of direction. This gets to the point that, during the Sports Festival, she gets second place during the Obstacle Race and the teachers watching nearly have a collective aneurysm trying to understand how it happened.

* ''Fanfic/ThisBites''' Zoro's sense of direction is just as bad. In the G-8 arc, he's outside the base as part of the Straw Hat's plan. Soundbite takes his attention off him for ten seconds - and he returns it to find him inside the kitchen's fridge.

* ''WesternAnimation/PoohsGrandAdventure:'' Played for laughs and straight; After Pooh's trusted with the map deciphered by Owl, he attempts to give directions but because he is illiterate he has the group running in a panicked circle. Rabbit gets fed up with Pooh's lack of direction and assumes the role of TheLeader when he takes the map himself. Fortunately, Rabbit can read the map much better than the others.