That's what I've been saying. Like in the 150 chapters of Egghead + Elbaf, Sanji didn't display this self loathing even once. Like not even when he failed to protect Bonney 3 times, or when he failed to save Vegapunk, or recently when he got one shot by Imu.
At no point did he think like "wow, I...
It's hypocritical. The crew constantly views eachother as more important than themselves. But it's only a negative when Sanji does it, and even then only half the time. Oda sure didn't portray most of his sacrifices as a negative in pre-skip.
Yet when Sanji actually does treat himself as...
Did the crew think themselves replaceable when they took Kuma's ursus shock after they refused to hand Luffy over?
Did Nami view herself as replaceable when she was going to throw her life away rather than tell Ulti Luffy won't be PK? Is her moment in Wano now a bad thing?
I don't recall Sanji thinking Usopp is more important than himself when he saved him.
Is Sanji now going to stop valuing Nami over himself and let her get hurt going forward?
Luffy sacrifices himself for randos every arc. and he would die if not for plot armor. Strawhats constantly do for eachother.
Bellmere sacrifice herself, Whitebeard did, Ace did, etc.
But only gets portrayed as a negative when Sanji does it? Nami would've died from the Drum avalanche, or El...
Nice guy Sanji letting Zaza kidnap the kids and beat their mothers cause he doesn't want to kick a woman.
Ironically, isn't that self-love rather than self-sacrifice as he's prioritizing his chivalry over other peoples lives?
So WCI retconned Sanji with self-hate, that panel retconned the retcon of self-hate by dodging, and now this chapter retconned the retconned retcon by not dodging.
Oda could've at least showed an example of self-hate in Egghead/Elbaf. He had 150 chapters to do so.
Like when Sanji failed vs Saturn, or Kizaru, or Nasjuro, not a single moment of self-hate or reflection. Same with vs Imu like 15 chapters ago.
It's just recycling what was already resolved in...
This self-hate retcon was made in WCI. Pre-skip he sacrificed himself for his crew, like how Luffy did vs Kuzan, Zoro vs Kuma, the whole crew vs Kuma (taking the nuke rather than give Luffy). It was never portrayed as some bad thing.
I guess if Enel is going to 200mil volt Nami and Usopp next...
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