@Tom:
It's quite refreshing to see even the One Piece characters adopt our healthy scepticism when it comes to Oda killing off important characters.
Lmao yea. But: Would you say this change of pattern from the characters foreshadows something different too? Oda is hammering death for 3 chapters, Zoro shrugs it off saying it's impossible… mood is light between straw hats... Could that hint towards a more serious possibility of Sanji being in danger? ofc not dead, but, you know.
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@SirCaesar:
If that's the case, the big question is: why would he ever do that?
Because he'd be friends with Sanji and would have knowledge of his decision/mission as Mr. Prince because Sanji needed his help.
Like, I know it's a longshot. But we've got two scenarios:
Dead Corpse/heavy coma:
- Revival arc. Sanji is defeated and shamed. Any Sanji-time we get is the Zou flashback.
Corpse not there (dismissing Wanda comments) / Not Sanji's corpse:
- He could still be captured but that would not make sense because of Wanda being sad/wincing with Sanji's name. Again Sanji is shamed, but we have somewhat of a Sanji arc besides the flasback. (fit this option could fit on the group above)
- Sanji pulled a Mr. Prince and he's actually out of the island.
I always like to look at this from a story-telling POV, so to me it would make sense to empower Sanji and give him arc time and not make him dead, so I'm thinking of the end goal and not the means by which the story gets to it. To me, it's as far-fetched to think Sanji is dead and there will be a revival arc as it is to think he's out of the island being legit. I know it's hinting hard to his death/defeat, but until it's not proven I'm going with what would be best for the story to me. But I admit this corpse talk is way too hard to circumvent, unfortunately.
Why would the Ninja help him fake his death? What's his mission? I don't know. I didn't know Zou was raided hardcore by Jack when we saw him going after Doflamingo, but turns out it was and the only clue we had was "Jack has Kaidou's flag so he could go after momo". Anyone predicting it at that time would be speculating. "Sanji and Ninja are friends because he knows the 2 samurais" is as valid.
Ofc I'm not even confident that's what happened, I'm just hopeful and expanding on the possibilities of a storyline I'd really like. 2 weeks from now Sanji could be dead as fuck and I wouldn't be that surprised, just kinda disappointed.
@dropper:
Well this is the most interesting island and inhabitants I've ever seen in One Piece, I'm excited to see what direction this arc will go! :D
Sanji theories?
Sanji faked his death :ninja: