This is nice, but overall I could not understand why people say there fights feel short when this guys been at it long especially sanji he fought the longest, people have even forgot they was fighting off screen also, but one thing I'm glad about is the anime is Gonna expand on these fights nicely:cheers:
Feels short because everything before the VS chapter is buildup. Once Zoro embraced his CoC/Sanji smashed the RS and used Hell Memories, that’s the moment when people were thinking, “okay, now the fights are
really going to get intense.”
Instead they ended the next time we cut to them.
If we contrast it to, say, Luffy vs Katakuri, the big “now the fight really gets good“ moment there is when Luffy and Kataku use CoC and Katakuri says he doesn’t look down on Luffy anymore, at the end of 893.
But then Oda gives it that bit more time afterwards, than he gave the Zoro/Sanji fights, he gives it most of 894 and all of 895, so it doesn’t seem quite so rushed.
Another difference being in the Luffy vs Katakuri fight, at that moment in 893, we had found out everything we needed to know about Katakuri as a fighter. There was another post fight reveal with Brulee to wrap up his character, but as of that moment, he was pretty much completed as fighter. There was no huge new reveals, just nee attacks that followed logically on to what he had shown before.
Whereas in the Zoro/Sanji chapter, Oda only left himself one chapter to
-show Zoro/Sanji get the upper hand and win, including powerup
-reveal that King had his magma dragons, how his forms work/ that Queen had the previously unseen Germa 66 attacks
-also give King a flashback and exposition about his past. The slight equivalent to this is the reveal that it was Queen who beat up the geisha.
So this was all crammed into one chapter, while it was given a lot more time to breathe in Luffy vs Katakuri