Originally posted by Roronoa Zolo@Apr 10 2005, 07:21 PM
Sure Sanji is cool, but if he was in Zoro's situations, half the time he would lose. When Zoro fought MR. 1 he found out how to cut steel, but if Sanji had to fight him would he be able to kick the crap out of blads? I think not.
Also Sanji's past isn't as good as Zoro's, he was on a boat and he fell off, Zeph saved him because he had the same dream as him which is to find a place with alot of fish and so they lived on an island and they almost died but got saved by a ship and now Sanji is a great chef.
Zoro's past is a bit better. He went to a towns dojo and challenged their best student to a deul and lost, so he had to stay there and train and he trained for months and months but he still couldn't beat Cuina so one day he challenged her with real swords and she still won so they made a promise to eachother to become the best swordsman in the world, but she fell down some stairs and was disabled so Zoro trained so he could fulfill their promise, and he uses her sword, and to this day he still keeps the promise they made when they were kids.
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As I said earlier, It's pretty much useless to compare them through fighting ability. Even in the official book it states Zoro is stronger than Sanji. If we were to list the top greatest characters in anime, would you list them all by best fighters?
Rating pasts is all about where the bias lies (though I were to say who has the best past, it'd be Chopper.)
Zoro wanted to be strong so he challenged a dojo. He was beaten by Kuina, so he trained Rock-Lee style everyday to defeat her. In an act of desperation, he challenged her to a real sword fight. He loses again, and they make the promise. Kuina dies, so Zoro is left with the only option of becoming the world's strongest fighter. He takes Kuina's sword and hunts Mihawk.
Through being laughed at and disregarded countless times from holding on to an outlandish dream, Sanji was forced to suffer the most ironic twist of a chef deprived of food. Isolated on a deserted island with only him and the one man who was the cause of the destruction of his former life, both were forced to cooperate together under a limited amount of rations. Zeff, after being reminded of his former vibrant youth rekindled his emotional flame in Sanji. He decided to save the young boy who would carry on his dream, leaving any ounce of possibility of survival to young Sanji. After cracking from the feeling of overwhelming suffering, Zeff finally cracks and is forced to eat his own leg, destroying the one thing that helped him attain his notorious title of Red-Legged Zeff, rendering him handicapped as a fighter, bringing him to the level of an ordinary man. Sanji, after feeling an emotion of debt to be held responsible for the deterioration of Zeff's own ambitions, is emotionally forced to help Zeff attain his dream putting his own dream of All Blue aside to aid the man who bought his life. A restaraunt afloat on the sea, that would aid any man so that they would never have to experience the horror that he and Sanji suffered on that day. Sanji was mentally traumatized by the experience he held to that day, and vowed to never waste an ounce of food, feeding any man who came to satisfy their hunger leaving no discrimination among the poor and the rich.
See the bias?
You like Zoro's past better as indicated in your post, and through reading mine, it's obviously clear that Sanji past seems better to me.
To argue with your "Put him in his shoes then this would happen" logic then if you put Zoro in any of Sanji's positions, he'd pretty much fail too. I can't imagine Zoro pulling off such a flawless plan such as the mysterious Mr. Prince, or even take the time to consider saving Robin.
They all depend on each other.