It's confirmed, Ifrit Jambe was made for the anime. It was glorious, love how the atmosphere changed after Ifrit Jambe. That should looks hot as a mfer.
Love that the next episode is a recap, it means Toei is taking the endings to these fights very seriously, Zoro vs King is gonna be great.
Power scaling really does completely rot your brain doesn't it?
I think its a big improvement to give Queen more dialogue with Sanji to cement the final character conflict between them before Sanji overcomes Queen one last time, breaking free from the prison of fear he had towards becoming like Germa, and embracing who he truly is.
Thats compelling stuff, more so than "he didn't have lightning" or "he didn't send Queen far enough".
I like that Queen was portrayed as a tough foe that was difficult for Sanji to overcome, not just physically, but also psychologically.
He has a point though, they could have portrayed Queen breathing heavy, bleeding profusely with the dialogue, Queen seemingly shrugged off those IJ hits the same way he did DJ and then started chatting shit. In reality he should have been worried for his life there after feeling those attacks (akin to Jyabura after taking on DJ).
In the manga it was very different, each attack looked like it was tormenting him. They definitely could have done better there.