While If we being real Rayleigh > Gaban
Oda 100% loves his Sanji parallels lol
While he makes the zoro ones “cool and badass” you can tell how much more fun he has with writing Sanji compared to Zoro
Like Bentham vs daz bones or Queen vs king
Hell the only reason kaku is as interesting as he is is because he was originally supposed to be a Sanji fight lol
Jabra was supposed to be another daz/king situation before oda changed his mind and made both interesting
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
Oda 100% loves his Sanji parallels lol
While he makes the zoro ones “cool and badass” you can tell how much more fun he has with writing Sanji compared to Zoro
Like Bentham vs daz bones or Queen vs king
Hell the only reason kaku is as interesting as he is is because he was originally supposed to be a Sanji fight lol
Jabra was supposed to be another daz/king situation before oda changed his mind and made both interesting
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
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
- Robin getting a fight would have been hella dope
- Nami fighting a man would have been cool
- Sanji vs kaku always seemed pretty hype pre enies lobby
- Usopp getting a fight would be fun too