@KageKageKing:
Holy shit kevo. This version of One Piece you propose is utter garbage. Do you really think cooking food from scraps can solve a entire starved country? Or the alliance would have been gathered not by the common goal of overthrowing a corrupt government but rather should ve been made by giving some fucking good food? Famine was never the main issue, only a consequence.
Also yeah, let's have Sanji being the counter to Queen's virus and not the resident doctor even though he stated in Drum that his skill as a cook can't replace a doctor's.
No you are missing my entire point.
I am not saying that Sanji would solve the entire problem. Of course he can't.
But the Sanji who fed Gin and Don Krieg would have 100% taken it on his shoulders to feed as many people in Wano as possible.
Sanji doesn't need to feed them for life. He could have just fed them for a day.
Instead of having Luffy and Zoro raid Holdem and take food from them. We should have had Luffy and Sanji do that(it would also have reinforced the reconnection they had in WCI)
You know what would have been cool?
Instead of having Sanji cook Soba for generic Wano citizens.
He could have cooked for Tama(it was her birthday). He could have made her the best fucking rice she ever had in her life.
Instead of the forced Ace connection with Tama.
It could have been Tama gets enamored with Sanji because he cooked something divine for her(instead of making a cake for Big Mom and having that plot point entirely forgotten).
It would have been the perfect time to recontexualize Sanji's relationship with women because he can't simp for a child.
You know how Zoro provided weapons to the alliance by meeting the fox and fighting him in the strong sword guy battle on the bridge? That was zoro using his talents to help out in the war effort.
Why couldn't it be the same with Sanji?
We are supposed to believe that prisoners who spent decades doing hard labour are somehow capable of fighting against devil fruit users? as fukcing dumb as they are?
Why not have Sanji cook a big meal for the alliance in order to boost their stats? Wasn;t the entire point of his 2 year training? or was skywalk and hell memories the only benefit he got from those 2 years?
why did oda tell us that Sanji had learned to cook food to boost stats if he wasn't going to use it?
When will he use it? Isn't this the perfect arc to use it?
Why introduce the starvation plot point, if the resident starvation expert never ever comments about it?
Like fuck dude.
Sanji has literally never made a single comment about this.
Heck, Luffy is more mad about it than Sanji. WTF???
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@Cockycent:
I thought the point was to stay covert as they got allies, weapons and information. Sanji should go around the country feeding people?
The one area he did feed people, it went wrong and those innocent people were terrorized and lost homes.
Sanji should go around and replicate this, so he can be "useful" as if the prior arc wasn't catered and centered around him with great writing and most fans responded with "but where was his fight".
Whenever the Straw Hats did too much, the whole mission almost went up in flames.
I'm all for fair criticism, but providing alternatives that ignore certain aspects of the story is not the way. You have to fit the covert aspect of the mission into Sanji feeding the country as an alternative. There is more, but that is a start.
Lol, was feeding people in the flower capital(the fucking capital city of wano) more covert than feeding people out in the boonies?
Hell no.
We didn't see a single bad guy in Yasuie's village.
Plus, lol, really.
Do you really believe the Sanji we met in East Blue would care about covert operations if he saw starving children and people?
Really??
I don't believe it.
But even saying you are right.
Why haven't we seen Sanji at least make a comment?
Sanji met Tama before the raid in Onigashima. We could have had at least 2 panels of Luffy asking him to make her tasty meal. Her birthday came and went and the only thing she got was fucking apple. LOL.