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midgardianqueenreturns · 2 months ago

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#will never not be mad that OPLA sidelined Sanji in his own introductory arc

There’s something really distinctly American about OPLA Sanji arguing with Zeff over what food he wants to make because ignoring the fact that he never did this in the manga… Since when was his character about rebelling and growing out of Zeff’s shadow? Wasn’t he holding himself back because he thought he owed his life to Zeff? Why would he disrupt the Baratie’s operations with his supposedly very innovative dish, resulting in it getting thrown away and WASTED?? Why did they frame Zeff as an old and unskilled chef that had to be surpassed by his “better” protege??? Animanga Sanji was a little shit but he was also the sous chef for a reason, he’s not some wannabe new talent who wants to perform?? Did they do all this just so they can skip over all the Gin/Don Krieg stuff? Just to clog up the runtime with Nami “bonding” with Zoro and reading him a bedtime story?

#FOR REAL #I get it adaptations are going to have changes and a shot-for-shot remake would be boring and impossible #I understand their rationale for cutting down Don Krieg since he was an uninteresting villain and his fight woulda cost the budget #though I wish they went about it in a way that didn’t sideline Sanji #That said there was NO GOOD REASON Sanji couldn’t have watched the Zoro vs Mihawk fight it’s pivotal to his character development #Just have him follow them outside it wouldn’t have been hard #it’s not a change that can be forgiven by the medium or time restraints or budget or improving it only made things worse inexcusably #People saying OPLA Baratie is better than the animanga is my villain origin story Idc how much you dislike Krieg Sanji got screwed over #Oh and OPLA Sanji isn’t “Improved Sanji without the perv gag”#he’s a cute and well-acted but watered down version who as OP says misses the mark on what his animanga counterpart was about #It’s annoying how you can’t criticize how watered down Sanji got in OPLA without responses of “you’re just mad he’s no longer a perv!”#no one’s complaining about that please actually read or listen to what our criticisms actually are instead of strawmanning us #“But Oda approved this!” Oda also said fans could have their criticisms and he was interested in our feedback stop using that as a shield #OPLA is good compared to other live action anime/manga adaptations but it still has its flaws worthy of criticism

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