#sanji is not batting 1000

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Taz Skylar’s Sanji is literally “what if Sanji was likeable”

[roomshxmbles]

please tell us about the wedding afterparty

pffffff omg ok so

after the wedding dance goes surprisingly without any hitches (save from luffy treading on law’s feet a couple of times) sanji opens the free-for-all bar and there is basically a riot to grab all the alcohol, zoro actually has to fight off some guests to protect his stash of beer and sake. 

franky presses a button intended to let a disco ball drop from the ceiling but the entire ceiling accidentally caves in as blaringly loud cheesy 70s music plays. franky still looks really pleased with himself. law sighs and manages to room-shambles the pieces back in place

bonney and luffy are fucking devouring the buffet and law just looks over at his now-husband shovelling chicken wings into his mouth in a white wedding dress like what the fuck. 

nami is a little drunk and she’s been giving vivi ‘the look’ all evening. vivi is just smiling, unaware, next to jinbe who’s trying to keep everyone in check like an uncle. whenever anybody knocks over a drink or a table he potters over and picks it up for them. 

zoro and kidd have started an impromptu drinking competition and sanji is screaming his head off because “I MADE ALL THESE FANCY FUCKING COCKTAILS AND ALL YOU WANT IS BEER AND SAKE” 

shanks is absolutely plastered as well and he keeps yelling “CHUG” at mihawk, at completely random intervals, even when there isn’t a drink in front of him, mihawk is sitting very stiffly on the edge of his stool looking with dead eyes at zoro. his pupil. the one who could surpass him. currently hopping the bar and spinning sanji around in a drunken whirlwind much to the cook’s utter disdain. perona basically appears out of nowhere to scold zoro and then she spots mihawk and how soulless his eyes look and she wonders if she’s accidentally used her powers on him

meanwhile all the strawhats decide making law drunk would be the funniest thing in the world. nami bets zoro 1000 beli he can’t do it and zoro is a very proud and also very drunk man so he accepts. eventually it leads to zoro having to force shots down law’s throat by extreme force because the guy is surprisingly tolerant to alcohol. law keeps shambling himself away from his seat and replacing his body with other random guests so zoro ends up sitting next to complete strangers all evening. whenever he walks over to law with a drink law just shambles away. all night long. eventually zoro bribes chopper to guilt-trip law into taking a drink that zoro has poured about 5 different types of liquour into. chopper squeaks “law-kun, i can’t possibly drink this, can you help me out?” the surgeon of death is surprisingly weak to chopper looking up and batting his eyelashes at him and it actually works and soon law waltzes over to luffy who has dove head-first into the champagne fountain and fucking winks at him before saying “know what’s on the menu?”

“ahahah….*hic* torao you SILLY THING this is a buffet - “

“me ‘n’ u, babes”

then they proceed to waltz over to the bar and slam down 5 shots, luffy yelling incoherently to the music which is already way too loud

 nami, zoro and usopp are absolutely pissing themselves at the sight. robin is sitting with a wise smirk, using her power to help keep law and luffy from falling off their seats. 

in other news, basil hawkins sits at the far end of the bar quietly reading his cards and he looks up at sanji very gravely and says “…strawhat is going to be made a man of tonight” 

sanji looks up at law who is currently standing on top of the bar belting “my heart will go on” at the top of his voice as luffy claps along and doesn’t really fear for his captain’s innocence given that law will probably pass out before he reaches the bedroom. he takes a very long drag on his cigarette as zoro commands more drinks to be slid down the table. 

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Re: worrying about manga/anime Sanji, here's my thoughts on Sanji as a longtime Sanji-liker:

Sanji has some of the highest highs and lowest lows in all of One Piece. His status as a romantic, a dreamer, and a gentlemen are all great, and he also has further hidden depths that haven't been touched on yet where you are, and some moments he gets in certain story arcs are big highlights of those arcs. The simplicity of his design and fighting style also make it so that Oda gets to draw him looking really really cool.

The perv stuff unfortunately absolutely overshadows that at times. Sanji hits his absolute nadir near the middle of the story and it takes a good long while for him to climb out of it. Instances of actual reprehensible behavior are rare enough that I can count them on one hand, which considering theres >1000 chapters isn't the worst batting average compared to some Jump manga, but their rarity can make it even more annoying when they actually happen. By my recollection Sanji's worst moments include one case of breast groping (while body-swapped), two cases of peeping, and one extremely annoying, too-long transphobia joke (Oda's own track record of writing explicitly queer characters is spotty and IMO trends toward the positive, but god damn that sequence sucks).

tl;dr Sanji's a big mixed bag but comparatively tame compared to a lot of perv characters and has enough good points that i can call myself a Sanji fan with only minimal embarassment. Hopefully you'll be able to do the same. Glad to see you checking out One Piece and I hope you enjoy it!

That's such a relief honestly.

I was so utterly charmed by Taz Skylar's Sanji and Sanji being a dreamer and a caretaker really endeared me to him. I also LOVE his fighting style so once I finished I knew he was my fave straw hat. Buuuut then I learned about his whole *thing* with women and got disheartened cus it really is one of the worst tropes in anime.

However, as an anime fan I have come to terms with the fact that there will always be a certain level of Anime Bullshit in any anime I like, so if Sanji is tame compared to other Jump characters he shares the trope with I will take it.

I read all of Naruto and clawed my way through Jiraiya. If Sanji is not nearly as bad as him I can deal with it.