Sanji was drooling over all of Black Maria's crew-mates and some of them are what plenty would refer to as "less attractive." He saved Chiffon without worrying about her appearance. In fact, I honestly don't think he cares all that much. Aside from Kokoro, he's either been drooling over or nice to all women. And even with Kokoro, that was him being let down over the appearance of a mermaid and everyone else was pretty mean too. It was simply a joke.
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I think Sanji's pretty cool and while I don't think all parts of Whole Cake Island were necessary, him being characterized by his kindness wasn't a big issue to me. He's always been the protector of the crew and most of his fights post-timeskip have been him saving someone e.g. Sanji vs Vergo (saving Tashigi), Sanji vs Doflamingo (saving his crewmates), Sanji vs Oven (saving Chiffon), Sanji vs Daifuku to an extent (saving Carrot), even Sanji vs King. He was always the considerate guy, in his own way, he just doesn't always outwardly express it.
I also don't mind how often Sanji cried during his arc. He's always been pretty expressive in certain occasions, especially when the people important to him are involved (he cried when leaving the Baratie) and pretty much every time he cried this arc, it was due to something important. Plenty of people clown him for crying after hearing what Pudding said but it's a lot more than just "a girl I like hates me." This dude was blackmailed by his family, sacrificed himself for his crew, made it look like he was abandoning them, drove them away (tried to), met girl who appeared to like him back for a change, only for it to be all for nothing as she explains that at the wedding, they'll try to kill him and his family that dragged him into this. It was all meaningless or atleast that's how it seemed to Sanji so I get him crying.
Him betraying Luffy kinda made sense (though it was still dumb) but the series bending over backwards to make his decision seem completely irrational after everything was said and done kinda annoyed me. They basically had Zeff at gunpoint and put explosive cuffs on Sanji and there was pretty much no way this stuff could be reversed but then the cuffs are suddenly fake all along and Big Mom just forgets about Zeff (or her guys back in the East Blue stopped caring). It's like the series tried so hard to make it seem strange that Sanji thought it would be best if he solved this alone and after a while it was but the Zeff and cuffs plotline were solved pretty conveniently.
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I think Sanji's pretty cool and while I don't think all parts of Whole Cake Island were necessary, him being characterized by his kindness wasn't a big issue to me. He's always been the protector of the crew and most of his fights post-timeskip have been him saving someone e.g. Sanji vs Vergo (saving Tashigi), Sanji vs Doflamingo (saving his crewmates), Sanji vs Oven (saving Chiffon), Sanji vs Daifuku to an extent (saving Carrot), even Sanji vs King. He was always the considerate guy, in his own way, he just doesn't always outwardly express it.
I also don't mind how often Sanji cried during his arc. He's always been pretty expressive in certain occasions, especially when the people important to him are involved (he cried when leaving the Baratie) and pretty much every time he cried this arc, it was due to something important. Plenty of people clown him for crying after hearing what Pudding said but it's a lot more than just "a girl I like hates me." This dude was blackmailed by his family, sacrificed himself for his crew, made it look like he was abandoning them, drove them away (tried to), met girl who appeared to like him back for a change, only for it to be all for nothing as she explains that at the wedding, they'll try to kill him and his family that dragged him into this. It was all meaningless or atleast that's how it seemed to Sanji so I get him crying.
Him betraying Luffy kinda made sense (though it was still dumb) but the series bending over backwards to make his decision seem completely irrational after everything was said and done kinda annoyed me. They basically had Zeff at gunpoint and put explosive cuffs on Sanji and there was pretty much no way this stuff could be reversed but then the cuffs are suddenly fake all along and Big Mom just forgets about Zeff (or her guys back in the East Blue stopped caring). It's like the series tried so hard to make it seem strange that Sanji thought it would be best if he solved this alone and after a while it was but the Zeff and cuffs plotline were solved pretty conveniently.