General & Others Zoro and Sanji were originally ment to swap opponents

[Albino 👑]

In real early concept of enies lobby kaku was originally planned to be a fight for sanji. Meaning jabra was more likely than not supposed to be zoro's fight

Sanji vs kaku making sense because like alot of sanji's opponents kaku is one of the more silly members of the group. Both in personality and design.
Along with original just not being a swordsman and mainly specializing in his kicks which he still kinda does tbh

Zoro vs jabra making sense because he was supposed to be one the more serious sides of things like alot of zoro's opponent's. His design being more typically seen as badass in comparison to kaku.
On top of that he also shares parallels to lucci aka luffy's fight like alot of zoro opponents also do. Jabra being a carnivorous zoan and leading his own group of cp9. If he fought zoro he would have definitely been made a swordsman

 

[duckman]

OK. I will tell you right now as a professional writer, early/original concepts are just that. There's nothing to read in.

 

[Lor D. Coast]

Whoever is made the swordsman is the one that Zoro fights, and what's he-man doing there?

 

[Infitima]

Whoever is made the swordsman is the one that Zoro fights, and what's he-man doing there?

So what happens if a whole crew uses swords?

 

[LANJI CUCKSMOKE]

cool

 

[Zaretball]

indifferent

 

[Lor D. Coast]

So what happens if a whole crew uses swords?

? Zoro fights the strongest swordsman.

 

[matt245]

Tbh I actually like the fact that someone like Kaku ended up being Zoro's opponent. Allows it for better gimmicks and more entertaining interactions. Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike Jabura but Kaku just grew up on me much more

 

[Infitima]

? Zoro fights the strongest swordsman.

What if they're all mostly equal? Like a crew of swordsman that all trained together with the only difference being their techniques.

 

[Lor D. Coast]

What if they're all mostly equal? Like a crew of swordsman that all trained together with the only difference being their techniques.

That's a good arc for 2 Piece. Zoro fights the 2nd strongest and sometimes the strongest, that's all.

 

[Infitima]

That's a good arc for 2 Piece. Zoro fights the 2nd strongest and sometimes the strongest, that's all.

I mean we already kind of have the first scenario though. You say he'd fight the strongest swordsman. But that'd be Shanks for RHP, and Oda would never let that happen since Shanks would go to Luffy.

 

[Lor D. Coast]

I mean we already kind of have the first scenario though. You say he'd fight the strongest swordsman. But that'd be Shanks for RHP, and Oda would never let that happen since Shanks would go to Luffy.

Luffy is never going to fight Shanks. They can clash, split the sky and do all that cool stuff and then Luffy gives the Strawhat back.

 

[Julius]

A Kaku vs Sanji fight would've been just as good as Sanji vs Jabra, because a Giraffe using swords to fight is retarded, that wouldn't happen with Sanji

 

[Albino 👑]

If oda went along with his original plan how do you think it would have effected kaku and jabra?

1. Their fighting styles
2. Their personalities/character

Also thinking about it he kinda did the same thing in arlong park

This time sanji fighting the serious one and zoro the goofy one

 

[Warchief Sanji D Goat]

Bro, why does Fukuro in the old sketch looks so badass lol?

Then we got shit like this:

 

[ZenZu]

Jyabura > Kaku

 

[Warchief Sanji D Goat]

Jabra with sword is obviously Zoro's opponent. Being close in strength with Kaku who is a swordsman and having martial art style + swordsmanship would makes him above Kaku.

Kaku without the square nose looks handsome though.

 

[Albino 👑]

One Piece Green: Secret Pieces revealed an early concept of the CP9 and their fight match-ups with the Straw Hat Pirates. Originally, the match-ups were supposed to be:

• Lucci vs. Luffy
• Kalifa vs. Robin
• Fukurou vs. Nami
• Kaku vs. Sanji
• Shakiin (Jabra) vs. Zoro
• Apollo (Kumadori) vs. Chopper
• Blueno vs. Usopp

Low key kinda sad oda didn't go with original plan

1. Robin getting a fight would have been hella dope
2. Nami fighting a man would have been cool
3. Sanji vs kaku always seemed pretty hype pre enies lobby
4. Usopp getting a fight would be fun too

 

[Monkey D. Luffy]

• Lucci vs. Luffy
• Kalifa vs. Robin
• Fukurou vs. Nami
• Kaku vs. Sanji
• Shakiin (Jabra) vs. Zoro
• Apollo (Kumadori) vs. Chopper
• Blueno vs. Usopp

RIP "Nami only fights girls" argument in her BB matchup.

 

[Roronoa-sama]

Oda know than Sanjino never could defeat Kaku