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melonteee · 8 months

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i made a thread about the sanji flashback on twt so that might’ve been the one u saw. like. it’s one of the most bizarre things i’ve seen on tv and i genuinely cannot believe oda approved of this. one of oda’s demands was to keep the backstories of the straw hats unchanged because

”… they're so pivotal to who they are as people, what their dreams and motivations are, and how luffy digs into that as he meets them and helps them rediscover those dreams”

now, looking at how sanji’s story was handled and how his backstory was shoved into a context that didn’t respect his backstory at all, and how his conflict was reduced to ”i want to cook more extravagant dishes but zeff won’t let me” it’s obvious that they only met this demand in the most literal sense. what i get from that quote from oda is that he wanted the straw hats arcs, not just their backstories, to be treated with care. so i have to wonder, did oda set this demand before contracts were written? meaning he literally didn’t have any creative control beyond the just the actual backstories. idk how these things work but i don’t have any other explanation for this mess :(

I mean the answer to that is the producers have all the pull, they have no obligation to actually listen to Oda lol. Yeah Oda said he approved the script and approved some scenes but it's very possible they just changed it AFTERWARDS so they got his public okay to make it look good.

I've been saying it since day one but netflix notoriously do not listen to their creators, and Oda either had a different idea of what this was gonna be and didn't get the memo, or they just gave him empty promises so they could slap his name everywhere and make everyone feel at ease. I honestly can't imagine Oda enjoying what they did to the Baratie and Syrup Village at all, especially since all these characters are very close to his heart.

Sidelining Sanji to focus on the Zoro/Mihawk fight is genuinely such a disrespect to his story lmao, Sanji's complications, emotions and self made obligation towards the baratie being turned into "Zeff won't let me cook my creative dishes" is insane?? From what I know we didn't even get the line of Luffy telling Sanji that sacrificing your life is no way to show gratitude to your saviour, we didn't get Sanji's realisation of how inspiring Zoro and Luffy are as people, we didn't get Sanji facing himself and his own dreams due to Luffy, nor did we get Luffy not taking no for an answer from Sanji ?? We didn't even get to see the effects of Sanji's kindness through Gin, we didn't see the build up of Gin threatening to take Sanji's life just to break down and realise he can't do it due to how POWERFUL of a thing Sanji's kindness is.

Instead, he became a side character in his OWN ARC? Instead they just slapped manga titles onto the episodes to make us think this will indeed follow Sanji's original story, and boy were we surprised! The entire motivation and struggle of his character, his flaws and depth, have been upended, because they deemed Zoro and Mihawk more important in this version. How discouraging is that? All I can say is lol. lmao.

#opla spoilers #ask #ofc as a sanji fan i will be upset about it cause it was just insane to hear

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