He's also approved of a romance spinoff centered around characters called Luffy and Nami, and he's likened Franky sleeping on Robin's lap to a father sleeping on a mother's lap in an SBS before. Apparently Netflix were potentially going to go for Zoro x Nami even though there was no romance in the East Blue saga, so it makes sense for Oda to tell them to not include any romance in case he wants to do something different later in the manga (like in the epilogue).