I dedicate this page to our dear love-cook Sanji! He is my comfort character, and I often doodle and create journal spreads on him. I wanted to do the same for Mr. Prince on my website. You can play with Nyanji and friends if you go to "buddies" on my sidebar.


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When I begun the One Piece manga, I did not expect myself to finish the story because I rarely read shounen. Instead, I found myself sinking deep into a story about liberation, rebellion, and found family, elements in which I love to see in stories! Usually, the fictional media I consume often play around with tragic tropes, and I thought of such doom as more real to life. I think that may affected my worldview for too many years. One Piece, on the other hand, brings a refreshing sort of hope that I missed out on. Seeing Luffy pursue his dreams against all opposition and taking down oppressive forces no matter how dangerous gives you so much motivation. Even as simple his mindset may be, he also encourages others to follow their dreams, no matter how crazy they seem. I feel that too as a reader!

As for Sanji, I understood his frustration toward Zoro losing to Mihawk in the Baratie Arc and why he yells at him to throw away his ambition. Sanji feels he owes Zeff for saving his life and thus, refuses to leave the Baratie. This means giving up on childish dreams, like finding the All Blue, something he found solace thinking about. This moment from the Baratie Arc made me think about how I almost gave up on studying medicine because of financial anxiety and my need to support my family. Those days I berated myself for being too ambitious, seeing such a mentality as a weakness of sorts. I hated being selfish, and I always felt like I owed the people around me something. Later, therapy made me realize how much my self-worth hinged on my ability to be useful to others rather than myself. I saw parallels with Sanji's character, from his refusal to leave the Baratie to the countless times he sacrifices himself for Straw Hats (ex. that moment in Skypeia where he saves Nami and Ussop or the entire Whole Cake arc).

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Name Vinsmoke Sanji

Alias Black Leg

Created by Eiichiro Oda

Role Cook of The Straw Hat Pirates

Affiliations Straw Hat Pirates, Baratie (sous-chef)

Age 19 (debut) and 21 (after timeskip)

Current Bounty 1,032,000,000

headcanons

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I stand by Sanji's eyes being gray-blue. I remember an ig comment that headcanoned a similar set of eyes as that of Chris Cornell. I cannot unsee... I am a huge fan of CC, so lol I'm totally not biased.

If Sora did not sacrifice herself to reverse the genetic modifications, I imagine him to be unfeeling, aloof, and bored. I cannot see him as erratic or showing great emotions like that of passion of anger as he already is when he fired up in battle. I like the thought of him having black hair as Germa!Sanji.

I believe that he wanted invisibility powers because of the need to retreat from others and cope with his inability to be the Stealth Black expected. His more "behind the scenes" approach to dismantling an enemy stems from making up for that insecurity.

I feel like Sanji can talk hours on length about fish and other ingredients. You saw how he lit up talking about the All Blue! Conversations never go slient if you bring up food with him.

In his free time, I see Sanji as an avid reader. The scene where he reads about the All Blue as a kid reminded me of how I used books as a form of escapism from everyday life. I do see him as a romance reader and tries to hide the fact he loves those books. I'm sure he takes ideas so many of those tropes, given how cheesy he can be.

@Repth