Loved this chapter. Sanji looked really strong IMO. Despite how strong Judge's attacks looked, he never gave me the impression that he was in any danger of being seriously injured. Very casual attitude as if it was a simple spar.
Btw, I'm still expecting an explanation about how he's doing his Diable Jambe without spinning (I don't trust the anime regarding that). Is this Haki related ?
I didn't expect the quadruplet(quintuplet ?) reveal. I think that his mother might have died given birth to them.
Anyway, it's really interesting to see how low Sanji started from and how strong he has become. Despite coming from a strong family, he was weak and not predestined to become the powerhouse he is now. But his admiration for Zeff and Luffy gave him the motivation to become that strong.
Now, I'm waiting for the most important flashback. The one where we will learn why he decided to become a cook, how he learned about All Blue, and how he managed to run away.
Last thing regarding the cuff threat. I'm actually predicting that Sanji will "sacrifice" his hands the same way Zoro "sacrificed" his life. By that, I mean that he will indeed lose his hands but fortunately, the same way Zoro didn't actually lose his life, Sanji will get his hands back.
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so what is the purpose of sanji wearing that iron mask?
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Oda, the man who hails from Japan. Not that I don't think there's some truth to what you're saying, but I think saying Oda has a "hatesink" is kinda pushing it. The Straw Hats have all had rough childhoods, and their experiences have all made them grow as people - learning the weight of sacrifices, the value of friends and loved ones, setting upon their dreams….
When I say "hatesink" I mean characters who are designed purely so that the reader can hate them. And as mentioned a large number of them is created with the intention to show how meaningless biological relationships are in the authors opinion. This includes Morgan and his son, Arlong and his sister, Sabo and his parents, Sanji and his family, Wapols father and Wapol, Robin and her uncle/aunt, Choppers herd etc.
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I always thought Hell Memoires was the new Diable Jambe.
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Usopp and Nami despite their technology belong to the weaker part of the crew who could never compete with one of the melee fighters.
This is a shonen manga heavily influenced by Dragonball. Not a sci-fi manga influenced by Ghost in the Shell. What exactly do you expect? Also Usopp is only barely shown to be some sort of tech person, even Nami isn't all that depicted that way. Franky is the tech person.
Don Krieg relied on machinery and it was basically treated like cheating.
Not really. Kreig was depicted as someone who relied heavily on tricks, not technology in particular. The theme with him and his crew was that they had lots of cool stuff and claims, but lacked the most important thing of all, the level of determination and grit that Luffy had. This covered Kreig and his gadgets sure, but also his trickery of using civilian looking ships and phony white flags to make ambushes, armor and shields in general, and of course the very original size of the Kreig crew in the first place. There's that scene where Luffy accuses them of not being the strongest crew in East Blue but just the largest remember? The point isn't that any of these are bad, but that they don't replace the core thing to being a pirate. Strength of will. Same with Foxy and his gadgets. Other than that, pretty much every weapon in the One Piece world considered "modern" from our view sucks. Guns suck. Canons suck. Bombs suck. Warships are chopped to pieces regularly. Cyborgs? Up for a thrashing. Face it, once someone pulls anything more advanced than a sword he identifies himself as a weakling (and yes I know Doffy pulled one on Law and it was as useless as expected).
Same with Foxy and his gadgets.
Foxy and his crew cheated in a massive variety of ways up to and including dressing up as a nurse like Bugs Bunny. You have to be looking for an attack on technology there to be able to pick it out of the pile of things Foxy is being a trickster with.
Other than that, pretty much every weapon in the One Piece world considered "modern" from our view sucks. Guns suck. Canons suck. Bombs suck.
The characters are ever increasingly superhuman levels of strong. Of course those things don't effect much. This is like complaining that these weapons aren't effective in Superman or the Hulk or something. Its silly and has nothing to with claiming any of these things suck…and uh modern? Cannons are modern weapons??
Warships are chopped to pieces regularly. Cyborgs? Up for a thrashing.
Your criteria for "ODA HATES SOMETHING" seems to be whether his superhuman characters destroy it often enough. In which case Oda really hates buildings, rocks, crates, foot-soldiers…
Face it, once someone pulls anything more advanced than a sword he identifies himself as a weakling
Aside from the super powerful laser beams that Kuma and the Pacifistas use of course. No seriously…what??This is a borderline delusional thing your noticing here.
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so what is the purpose of sanji wearing that iron mask?
I thought it'd be a way to mock his chivalric spirit, but somebody noticed that it could be a reference to the Man in the Iron Mask. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Iron_Mask
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When I say "hatesink" I mean characters who are designed purely so that the reader can hate them. And as mentioned a large number of them is created with the intention to show how meaningless biological relationships are in the authors opinion. This includes Morgan and his son, Arlong and his sister, Sabo and his parents, Sanji and his family, Wapols father and Wapol, Robin and her uncle/aunt, Choppers herd etc.
Usopp and his mom. Usopp and his dad. Vivi and her dad. Vivi/Cobra and her/his mom. Conis and Pagaya. Tonjit and his grandkids/tribe. Moda and her parents. Robin and Olvia. Luffy and Garp. Ace and his mom. Boa and her sisters. The entire Fishman royal family. The entire Dressrosa royal family especially including Kyros and Rebecca. Law and his family. Rosinante and his parents. Momonosuke and his father….None of this saying "biological is bad". This is such a bizarre random interpretation I can't wrap my head around how you arrived at it. If anything the unifying theme is "family is where the heart is". Which includes biological as much as it does non-biological. Covering strong friendships as much as it does family structures. Morgan and Helmeppo are the classic cliche of a corrupt tyrant and spoiled son. Sharly is an interesting detail because her existence adds an element of humanity to Arlong (monster though he remains) that was part of a lot of the themes of that arc, the complexity of hate. Sabo's parents are a condemnation of shallow power hungry aristocracy, not biological family. In fact the corruption of family is part of what is lamented there (near literally by Dragon). Wapol being a rotten egg after a noble father is a real life cliche let alone fictional of monarchies changing leader to leader. Robin's uncle and aunt are kind of a bad point given how her literal mother is depicted (also wicked stepmothers and uncles and aunts are a classic cliche as well).
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Where can I buy that watch??Says it's released on August 15?? I am in Japan at that time !
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When Jyabura was hit by Sanji's DJ attack, he clearly said it was too hot and tekkai was completely useless but Sanji's father managed to grab the leg while it was "in DJ mode": interesting …
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Why is showing nice relationships outside of the usual ones showing "little regard" for usual ones. You're talking like its some either/or choice that it isn't. Oda's shown strong blood family and strong adopted family in equal amounts.How does showing mothers or fathers as dead express a negative opinion of blood relationships lol. Otherwise though are you sure? Luffy we don't know yet anything about his parental relationships aside from not knowing his father. Zoro we know NOTHING about. Nami is a war orphan, so her parents are likely dead. Usopp actually had a good relationship with his mom and EVEN his absentee father even if that's kind of eyebrow raising. Robin's dad was dead and her mom she was shown bonding with before she died. Brooke we know nothing about. So really only Sanji and Chopper (lol) fit what you're saying of negative portrayal of blood relations in the main cast.That's a VERY traditional family system.Fishman island was not presented as a utopia. And this is completely aside from what you're saying. Those Fishman don't share traits, but they do share blood. Those ARE biological relationships. How alike they look to each-other is irrelevant.Adopted parents are not foster parents. Those are two different things. Only Dadan and her bandits really fit the mold of foster parents. And in what sense are they overly positive? Oda shows the rough edges of how confusing and sensitive the lack of blood ties is in Nami's family. Zeff and Sanji have a very very rough relationship that they don't even get honest about until the VERY end of Sanji's time on Baratie, and he still really hasn't directly admitted that he thinks of Zeff as his father. And the Doflamingo family was not shown very positively, though the characterization of Doffy and company in that arc was insanely messy so sometimes it was, then sometimes it wasn't.We saw this only happened once ever, and it was done in an emergency situation where the noble family thought they no longer had a son to pass their dynasty down with.What even is your point anyway with all this?
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The point is that if someone in One Piece grows up without his or hers own parents (s)he usually doesn't care the slightest. Or they don't mention it. Or they do know who and where they are but they don't care about what they are doing. Just as if the question was no big deal anyways.
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The point with fishmen is that at the point we arrive at fishman island it had already been somewhat established that parents barely have an influence on their children's character via their biology and by making fishmen unable to pass on even physical traits to their children (with sometimes grotesque results as with Shirahoshi and her mother) and presenting this in a good light Oda is basically saying "biological relationships are useless and societies that have traits which help us overlooking them are good".
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Foster families and adopted parents are presented as rough but bearable in One Piece but there is hardly if any character who has truly suffered as a consequence of being adopted whily several characters have suffered from knowing their real parents.
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Sabos dad seemed to handle the adoption pretty casually not as an exceptional measure which makes me believe that it is common.
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You know I have a feeling until he met Zeff, he never really knew what it was like for a father to truly love his child for who they are and not because they are useful to him. It makes his past with Zeff being stuck on that rock even more important, because for the first time in his life someone was willing to save him and give up something of theirs in order for him to survive.
This. This is a good post.
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@Monkey:
Aside from the super powerful laser beams that Kuma and the Pacifistas use of course. No seriously…what??This is a borderline delusional thing your noticing here.
Who are treated as a stripped-down version of the beams Kizaru uses. Which they basically are. And the Pacifistas already seem obsolete compared to the Haki wielding pirate crews of the New World.
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I thought it'd be a way to mock his chivalric spirit, but somebody noticed that it could be a reference to the Man in the Iron Mask. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_in_the_Iron_Mask
well it makes a reference to that, but what is the purpose of putting the iron mask on Sanji? No point in hiding his identity. Is it meant to be like a torture device that hurts/makes it hard to breathe?
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Calling people who use technological weapons weak is silly; that would be like calling Devil Fruit users and, hell, all weapon users weak. I'm sure very few people would call Luffy weak, but take away his Devil Fruit power and he probably wouldn't be where he is today. And Franky, who only uses technology, is never called weak (well, relative to the position he's supposed to be in). Developing yourself into a technological warrior is no different than strengthening your mastery of a regular weapon or a Devil Fruit. If everyone was just like Vergo then this series would be hella boring hella fast. It's about diversity and innovation, just like in the real world. In the real world the country with the best technology is recognized as a superpower, not a cheap ass, because they worked to gain what they had and use it well.
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Is it meant to be like a torture device that hurts/makes it hard to breathe?
Yes maybe. It could be really heavy, for example.
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@HTC:
When Jyabura was hit by Sanji's DJ attack, he clearly said it was too hot and tekkai was completely useless but Sanji's father managed to grab the leg while it was "in DJ mode": interesting …
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And as mentioned a large number of them is created with the intention to show how meaningless biological relationships are in the authors opinion..
Perhaps more in the sense that they're not automatically better than an adoptive family. Given the fact that this is a series about pirate crews, the worthwhile bonds are more inclined to form between initial strangers sailing/being forced together. I still don't think Oda thinks they're "meaningless".
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Who are treated as a stripped-down version of the beams Kizaru uses. Which they basically are. And the Pacifistas already seem obsolete compared to the Haki wielding pirate crews of the New World.
Those were the prototypes. They have been upgraded in the past 2 years. We don't know what the new models are capable of.
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That Poêle à Frire panel really makes me think that Sanji learned a new technique (Haki related probably) to control the heat of his leg how he wishes to, which explains why he's not spinning anymore (the anime probably did a mistake regarding that).
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In the real world the country with the best technology is recognized as a superpower, not a cheap ass, because they worked to gain what they had and use it well.
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I found it really ironic that the good for nothing kid possesses the techniques of those who were the prominent kids without the need of technology…
Is clear as water that none of them were putting 100%, but Judge's comment about Big Mama kinda implants the seeds that Big Mama might end up destroying Germa 66 after having a scuffle with Luffy.
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@The:
On the panel when Judge launched Sanji, the "!!!" from Sanji shows that the impact hurt like a ton of bricks. The next page shows Reiju patching up Sanji, like he lost. I'd like to hope the guy didn't die after getting stabbed and got his wounds treated.
Not at all, you can clearly see Sanji taking a back after the impact as if thinking "this is going nowhere".
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That Poêle à Frire panel really makes me think that Sanji learned a new technique (Haki related probably) to control the heat of his leg how he wishes to, which explains why he's not spinning anymore (the anime probably did a mistake regarding that). I'm now confident that we will get an explanation in this arc. His ultimate technique (so far in the story) would probably be rising the temperature of his Diable Jambe extremely high.
I thought it was a new technique but he apparently used Diable Jambe-Poele a frire spectre back in fishman island.http://www.tenmanga.com/chapter/OnePieceDigitalColoredComicsVol64Ch635/755695-12.html
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- The point is that if someone in One Piece grows up without his or hers own parents (s)he usually doesn't care the slightest.
Like real people they adapt to the circumstances around them and make the most of it to survive and thrive. Also naturally they're not going to worry when they have a good functional parental figure anyway, because well…then what's the problem. A parent isn't automatically good by being biological, the point of being a parent is to be a good one. If you have someone filling that role...well yeah what is there to worry about. That's kind of how human beings work (and reindeer too)? I'm not sure what issue you have here at all. On the flip side Oda usually shows that the lack of the biological parents is something brought about by unfortunate circumstances. Either through death, absenteeism, or them being horrible people in Sabo and Sanji's case. And that happily enough the children find a good new home (also sometimes they find a crappy new home at first). Nothing about any of this condemns biological parents.
Or they do know who and where they are but they don't care about what they are doing. Just as if the question was no big deal anyways.
The only example this sounds anything like is Luffy, and that's because Luffy. Nothing about Sanji hiding his origins suggests he was acting casual about it. Quite the opposite considering its a past he clearly wanted to forget and leave behind forever.
- The point with fishmen is that at the point we arrive at fishman island it had already been somewhat established that parents barely have an influence on their children's character
Nothing about character was ever mentioned. Just physical traits.
via their biology and by making fishmen unable to pass on even physical traits to their children
Who cares? This is still a completely irrelevant example to your complaints. Are you obsessing about biological relation or no? Because these ARE biological relations. This has nothing to do with your argument.
and presenting this in a good light Oda is basically saying "biological relationships are useless and societies that have traits which help us overlooking them are good".
So Oda depicting biological relationships is saying biological relationships are useless. ….what?What is your obsession with biological relationships anyway? Its bordering on creepy at this point. Your accusing Oda of having some super slanted view on things, but its you who seems to be the one suggesting that people finding family outside of blood relations is somehow inherently an attack.
- Foster families and adopted parents are presented as rough but bearable in One Piece, but there is hardly if any character who has truly suffered as a consequence of being adopted whily several characters have suffered from knowing their real parents.
Except y'know, like that butler who took care of a certain girl when her parents died and became a sort of father figure, and then turned out to be a psychopathic former pirate who was planning to murder her. Or that character who lost her family and spent like 15 years running from group to group trying to find a place to belong and failing miserably every time for one reason or another. Or that crazy ex-noble kid who killed his nice biological father and then fell into the corrupting and enabling influence of a bunch of criminals that elevated him into a nasty crime lord.
- Sabos dad seemed to handle the adoption pretty casually not as an exceptional measure which makes me believe that it is common.
In that he was treating it like a business venture. In that Oda was depicting this as a soulless negative thing. And hey, look at that. Sabo's family depicts shitty adoption and shitty biological parentage both at once. Because Oda isn't actually demonizing either one there, and is demonizing soulless politically motivated aristocracy where blood children and adopted children alike are tools for social advancement. So actually Sabo's family is a perfect example of how Oda isn't writing against any form of parentage.
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It'd be interesting if BM tastes Sanji's cooking and finds unforgivable to have bullied an exquisite chef.
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I thought it was a new technique but he apparently used Diable Jambe-Poele a frire spectre back in fishman island.http://www.tenmanga.com/chapter/OnePieceDigitalColoredComicsVol64Ch635/755695-12.html
I know he already used it before. But this time the way the panel was drawn, we can see that he's somehow building more heat or something in his diable jambe while before we could have thought that the technique was just a multi-hit sequence with some sparks. In other words, the sparks are not just an after-effect of the hits but something he somehow produces beforehand. I'm really interested to know how he produce that shining thing around his leg (the flames around his leg seems to turn into that thing).
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Who are treated as a stripped-down version of the beams Kizaru uses.
You are the only person on earth who sees "The genius Vegapunk managed to replicate a magical power and mass produce some level of its effects into elite clone cyborgs!" and reads it as "Haha lame technology sucks and is not as good as magic cursed fruit!".You're seriously off in your own little world on these things.
And the Pacifistas already seem obsolete compared to the Haki wielding pirate crews of the New World.
The Pacifistas were never supposed to be able to take down mega bounty people like Luffy, Zoro and Sanji. At Marineford they weren't used against Whitebeard's top guys, they were used to massacre his basic troops and the allied lesser captains. Which they were enormously effective at doing. They were unleashed on Saobody not to target the Strawhats so much as target the big gathering of pirates the fake Strawhats had caused. And then you're also forgetting that the ones there were by that point considered outdated models. The point of that scene is to demonstrate how much stronger the Strawhats had gotten over the skip. A single Pacifista completely exhausted the entire crew before the skip, afterwards two Pacifistas were quickly destroyed by Luffy, Sanji and Zoro. Growth is shown. That's the point. Not…some completely imagined insult toward technology.--- Update From New Post Merge ---And more to the point, how do you explain Water7, a nearly entirely manmade fantasia from top to bottom presented as a amazing triumph of technology and engineering, that sustains a powerful worldwide admired technology based economy of shipbuilding. Portrayed super positively, and with the Franky flashback where the salvation of the city and the good deeds of Franky's mentor are based around completing a huge technological experiment.@Ukimix:
Consumerism =/= Technological innovation.
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That Poêle à Frire panel really makes me think that Sanji learned a new technique (Haki related probably) to control the heat of his leg how he wishes to, which explains why he's not spinning anymore (the anime probably did a mistake regarding that). I'm now confident that we will get an explanation in this arc. His ultimate technique (so far in the story) would probably be rising the temperature of his Diable Jambe extremely high.
Plasma kick and shit? Oda traits new techniques when the time to show them is happening. One Piece techniques aren't great, less when meddling with temperature… just this chapter, a lightning was used and nothing happened but passing out. Judge bores me, this chapter only felt good to predict that Sanji's hands whenever used in combat are going to be the great deal.
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Come on, we're talking 'bout Sanji here. He doesn't need neither of these. Especially when his dream is to discover All Blue. Not being able to swim would just suck for him. And he would refuse anything coming from Germa.
Agreed Kaptayn. Why would anyone think Sanji needs a devil fruit and not zoro?
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It hasn't been a day and we are this close in reaching the previous chapter thread.
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I know he already used it before. But this time the way the panel was drawn, we can see that he's somehow building more heat or something in his diable jambe while before we could have thought that the technique was just a multi-hit sequence with some sparks. In other words, the sparks are not just an after-effect of the hits but something he somehow produces beforehand. I'm really interested to know how he produce that shining thing around his leg.
My best guess on this is that he raises the temperature of the heat he generates from Diable Jambe and concentrates it into his foot, making it shine. You know, now that I think about it, Sanji's Poele a Frire reminds me of how Kizaru's foot shines before he fires his beams. What if Oda is confirming that Sanji will be able to shoot fire blasts from his feet? That would be crazy awesome!
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@Monkey:
Consumerism =/= Technological innovation.
It doesn't say that.
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You know when Luffy fights that dick, I hope he mentions that he's fighting because he made his cook cry as a child. It would be a homage to how he responded to Arlong's betrayal of his promise with Nami. Luffy cares for his family, and hates seeing someone mistreat them even if they are their biological family. Heck, one could say if they are their biological parent then that is even more reason to kick their buts, because they pervert the idea of what a family is.
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I love that young Sanji wanted to cook for poor kids
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I have to say the emotional abuse hurt as much as the physical abuse heaped on Sanji. I know people know the damage physical abuse can have on a person, but emotional abuse can take it's toll as well. It's bad enough to be slapped around by your family, but to considered worthless by them can do damage in ways that physical beatings can't. It's a good thing he found refuge in Zeff, because I think after dealing with such an uncaring father figure for so much in his life that an actual caring parent figure healed a lot of his words. Also the detail about the shackles being the same as the chains that slaves wear, is a good commentary on his relationship with his family. They basically see him as a slave to boss around, and treat as expendable which is horrid.
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When I say "hatesink" I mean characters who are designed purely so that the reader can hate them. And as mentioned a large number of them is created with the intention to show how meaningless biological relationships are in the authors opinion. This includes Morgan and his son, Arlong and his sister, Sabo and his parents, Sanji and his family, Wapols father and Wapol, Robin and her uncle/aunt, Choppers herd etc.
I can easily think of 10 biological relationships in One Piece that are treated positively from out of my head.
No, 15:
Rika - Ririka
Usopp - Yasopp and Banchina
Vivi - Cobra
Pagaya - Conis
Moda - Her Parents
Robin - Olvia
Kokoro - Chimney
Ace - Rouge
Law - Lamy and his parents
Dressrosa Royal Family
Oden - Momonosuke
Shirahoshi and Siblings - Neptune and Otohime
The Boa Sisters
Gancho - Mansherry
Rosinante - HomingAnd then there's the Chinjao Family, Masira and Shouji, etc. Could have aimed for 20, actually.
Your argument is shit. Sorry. There are cool families and shitty families out there, like in any reasonable universe.
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wow, a whole chapter of vinsmoke/germa really makes me miss bigmom/totland
I know what you mean, but I'd like to see what is going on with the Wano party as well. @dropper:
The naming conventions mean nothing when you realize Sanji's original name was supposed to be 'Naruto', were they all going to be based on fish? Maybe?
I like your theory, but bump it up, they were all going to be named for ramen toppings.
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I can easily think of 10 biological relationships in One Piece that are treated positively from out of my head. No, 15: Rika - Ririka Usopp - Yasopp and Banchina Vivi - Cobra Pagaya - Conis Moda - Her Parents Robin - Olvia Kokoro - Chimney Ace - Rouge Law - Lamy and his parents Dressrosa Royal Family Oden - Momonosuke Shirahoshi and Siblings - Neptune and Otohime The Boa Sisters Gancho - Mansherry Rosinante - Homing And then there's the Chinjao Family, Masira and Shouji, etc. Could have aimed for 20, actually. Your argument is shit. Sorry. There are cool families and shitty families out there, like in any reasonable universe.
Oda even has a biological relationship reaching across centuries with Cricket and Noland, with the former wrangling with the horrible reputation his ancestor gives him but finally coming to terms with the fact that his ancestor was slandered and was in fact an awesome guy. And he ends up fulfilling his dying wish by hearing the bell. CENTURIES.
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And I thought Tywin Lannister was pretty shitty father. Judge Vinsmoke gives him a run for his money.
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In a small One Piece topic at another forum I frequent a lady there threw out the idea of Sanji giving a shout out to Zoro. How many manly/womanly tears would go shed if Sanji said something like "the only brother I have is an idiot green haired swordsman!" ?
Though it would have to be more specific as to not leave out the rest of the crew, like the only brother he likes to pick fights with.
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lol at this technology argument, seriously.You think swords are outdated in One Piece just cause there's cyborgs and advanced tech?Mihawk just has to look at me funny and i'm pretty sure I'd shit myself. Set up very early on by Oda to show that no matter what crazy ass things we'd see, there were still people out there who were strong as fuck just using basic weapons and maybe without even a DF.Hell, Shanks definitely didn't have one when Luffy was a kid, and while he may have eaten one in the interim, i'm pretty sure he's DF-less. One of the yonkou, with only one arm.Get your head out of your ass.
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@Kurloz:
Context is important. He, meaning Sanji, still has the Vinsmoke blood running through him, so he better obey and do his duty to further the Vinsmoke agenda but at the same time, Judge disrespects him , both due to his weakness and ideals, and does not see him as a true member of the family, which is why he is basically selling him off. -
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Do you not know what this means?"=/="
And do you know what "It doesn't say that." means?
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just wanted to point this out,since i see many people not understanding this:the point of the cuffs is not to threaten sanji's life,it's to threaten the safety of his hands,which sanji considers important because he's a cook.at the very least,his hands would be damaged a bit,which sanji has explicitly stated he doesn't want.it is directly stated by judgeso really don't understand the argument about the fatality of explosions.i mean,no one even expects sanji to die because of the cuffs