Recent content by Desolate Smaug

Zoro is Luffy's ultimate hencheman. I think that's really his only role in the crew. The leadership and guidance role is pretty well distributed especially with the addition of Jinbei. The recent months though have pretty much been constant preaching of how critical both wings are to Luffy...

Yes, he is the culmination of all those arcs before him. Peak writing by Oda.

Nah this is coping. The straw hats are niy written equally. That said Sanji is easily an 8 or 9 in one piece.

Shamrock is guaranteed to have it, Beckham was teased to have it in of the special anime episodes and those don't miss (remember the zoro scenes in wano) Fuji may not have CoC but his fruit is honestly as good as CoC. they kind of pressure he exerts is almost similar to supped up CoC

Moves from extreme diff to actual equals.

Plus He is unapologetic about who he is. Meaning his sense of self is immovable. Would be weird if he doesn't get it.

Oda is milking this to the limit. The dialogue in the last page with Sanji asking the holy knight to bow down is pretty kingly but other than there isn't any hint of CoC haki. Would have been nice if some lighting was shown as hint. It'll be two long weeks.

Sanji is Oda's safe space. Whenever he feels like flexing his writing ability he goes to Sanji.

Hard to imagine them being in an open rebellion/war against the WG since until recently they were part or WG and actually could attend Revelry. It will be interesting to see if Oda will explore that family line further back. Wouldn't be surprised if in the past they had a legendary figure like...

Man the amount of thought Oda puts into Sanji character is insane. "there's no worth in a love that longs for death" fuckin bars.

Kaido is just a scumbag tbh. He is like an unstoppable version of Arlong. He'll try to hide behind ideals and morals but he just doesn't have any depth. BM is kinda played up as meme but she's actually a more naunced character.

Jinbei is too wishy washy to ever have coc to be honest. He always works best when he is serving someone. He is like the ultimate henchman. He was sworn to the king of Fishman island, then Fisher tiger, then when he became a captain he started serving the Marines/WG and WB, then went on to serve...

That's coz sommers is an L magnet. He gets clapped in all his fights.

And this discussion turned out to be stupid since Wano came along. We actually discovered hardening is for plumbers, real pros flow their haki. Sanji was always using quality haki, it's only his fighting style makes it hard for Oda to draw him hardening his boots and feats. As a comparison we...

Did he ever uncover the syndicate that did him dirty?