The powerup is included in the story you clown . If oda prepares sanji to be a germa and has the Germa use rs why would he not prepare for sanji to get the rs. Pls use your head. Neither zoro nor sanji are showing anything different from preskip with the exception of haki . Which they learned off the 2 year skip .
jesus fucking christ you cant stop with ad hominems right?
i dont think oda elaborately planned anything out for sanji post wci. he had to be given a powerup to not be left behind when the likes of jinbe are joining the crew ~ so the suit. he's just gonna get weird powerups here and there until EoS imo.
zoro got so much parallels in wano with luffy and oden ~ with enma (all the lore and cultural significance behind enma and ame no habakiri) and got a much better written powerup. it felt like a natural progression unlike the suit.
i honestly wanted sanji to learn rokushiki or other forms of martial art or atleast something new in addition to just his usual fighting skills over the timeskip.
sanji didnt even want the raid suit heck even sanji fans didnt want the raid suit back then. look at how luffy developed in observation haki which is supposed to be sanji's forte. zoro got a natural progression with enma instead of shisui after over a year of forshadowing, parallels and buildup for a plot point of cutting kaido.
sanji? yeah heres the raid suit and get a stats boost. i dont even think you were reading one piece weekly during wci. people wanted extended fights for sanji where he gains new observation abilities, some new martial art skills etc. dont you think any of that is better than the stats boost with the raid suit? i love the invisibility aspect of the raid suit but for all practical purposes, how do you explain its advantages when the top tiers use future sight and observation haki?
yall love to say that oda keeps trashing sanji since post timeskip but attack me when i say the same fucking thing.