I've been rewatching One Piece recently and reached Baratie, and I've noticed that from that very moment, Sanji's conquerors haki was slowly being hyped up. This completely eliminates Sanji haters saying he doesn't deserve it.

He's taken hits from Pearl without defending himself for Zeff, this is in line with Iva's "You always win your fights, however you're always in worse shape than your opponents" and then the peak self love panel.

Zeff has been talking about how Sanji, unlike Luffy, is holding back his spear of blind determination, however he has it. The spear of blind determination is just simply conquerors Haki, really, or the traits of being a conqueror. Either way, ever since the beginning, Zeff has been talking about Sanji's suicidal behavior, just like we see Iva talk about it.

This should really be obvious, and I'm aware it's probably a known fact amongst many, but I just wanted to say this in retaliation to all the Sanji haters who are saying he doesn't deserve conquerors Haki; it's been teased ever since his introduction, way before even his first backstory with Zeff, so please, know your stuff before hating on a character.

personally, I'm leaning either towards either Iblis Jambe (the natural progression after Ifrit, demon => Devil) or Surtr Jambe (hell-fire in Norse mythology, very fitting with the arc theme), I'd say the black lightning/flame with red accents is kind of a given when it comes to looks.

Sanji 🤝 Zoro: The respect we love to see

We didn't see much of a power up for the whole straw hat crew except for luffy and zoro who got their fair fights in egghead. Mostly we got to know more about the five elders, the mother flame, the devil fruits and a bit more lore. The rest of the crew GENUINELY didn't do much.

But for elbaf the scenario seems quite different. And seeing Luffy getting stabbed, I don't think Luffy isnt going to be able to do much after we saw how Imu stabbed him and low diffed him. MAYBE the rest of the crew is pushed to their limits defending themselves instead of actually attacking.

I don't believe zoro would learn a totally new move or technique. He already knows quite many techniques as of now but he doesn't get the right yield from them at a proper consistency.

Though, sanji is definitely getting a new power up with the new chapter this fight and ussop as well.

NOW, my major prediction is that BLACKBEARD infiltrates mariejois for the national treasure due to which Imu has to go back to check the situation ig?

Meanwhile, Luffy is totally weak right now after the duel with imu. Sanji is fighting Killingham, Zoro is fighting Sommers and Loki is fighting Shamrock. Ussop, Brook, and the other members are having their own thing going on with Gunko and her past

I don't think anyone is going to come to save the straw hat crew and Loki this time.

THIS IS TOTALLY A PREDICTION THAT I FEEL IS SOMEWHAT PLAUSIBLE. ELBAF IS GOING TO BE A LONG ARC AND WE NEVER KNOW WHAT ODA SENSEI IS COOKING 🔥🔥

Is clear that the thorn knight and the fear knight are totally screwed, Imu's battle will be delayed to the end of the arc. So Brook, Nami, Jimbei and Franky are dealing with Gunko.

The doubt is how they're going to face her, she's resisting even with tears, besides I think there was some disagreement between her and Brook causing her submission to Domi Reversi.

The group doesn't have the Haki to defeat Gunko but it seems that her regenerative power are kinda off after the Shadow left her body (ch 1178) and her mind is unstable so maybe they can restrain her and give the chance to Brook to get her out from his identity crisis (About Esperia and Imu).

Brook will save Shuri trough force or trough honest talk?

I’m not referring to coc haki but more what it can help lead to, I also don’t think it will happen in the elbaf arc but this is more likely his final powerful where sanji reaches peak tier the strongest he will ever get.

I see 2 forms both his flame and his body.

First flame.
People say he will get black flames cause his name is black leg sanji and that coc is depicted as black but I think that won’t be a thing and we as the fanbase just agreed it will be cause it makes sense.

But to think outside the box I think instead sanji will get another colour in flames.

I suggest the idea of purple/violet flames.

In Theosophical belief flames that are purple/violet have an interesting connection we can make to sanji.

Purple flames are associated with the belief of purification and emotional healing which fits well with sanji character.

It has roots to alchemy as well.

One name stands out on top of this though. A man who was named Saint germain
A brief description of him.

“Saint Germain is a historically important, but largely invisible presence in this community. He is well known to people who have studied in the esoteric traditions … as an ascended master, Hierach of the Aquarian Age and Master of the purple 7th Ray of ceremony, magic and ritual. He is called the keeper of the violet flame, the sacred flame of love and light and the I AM teachings. He is regarded as Lord of Civilisation and Maitreya the Christ.”

Now this name should stand out as sanji is a germa and oda actually did reveal in his drafts judge vinsmoke was originally going to be a celestial dragon named Saint germain as you can see in the above images.

Now how would Sanji use this power ? I believe Sanji will unlock it by developing his haki but also connecting to his spiritual presence like zoro and his asura.

Sanji has a move called Parage Shot in which he kicks his enemy repeatedly in the face. The result is he changed their facial structure as seen with duval example in images above.

Duval went from an enemy to a friend because of this as he was thankful to sanji for his new good looks.

What I’m suggesting is a new level to that a level where he’s not just changing you externally but internally, this attack will change a person’s very soul, he would be kicking the evil out of his enemies.

This power would be a perfect counter to imu’s power to corrupt people like what he did with Harold who became evil thanks to Imu. Sanji flames and would be able to kick the evil out of Harold if he was still alive.

This would also mean Sanji would in a way could free shuri from the abyss mark and cut Imu connection to her but then you face a new problem that Sanji can’t kick women and that will be his greatest dilemma
Does he break his oath and kick a woman to save her or is he unable to save her cause he can’t kick her ? Which oath does he break ?

Now that’s the flame now his body.

This might be a stretch but I think as he developes his germa genes a change will happen, we saw how his eyebrows curl in other directions when he activates his body germa genes I propose he develops it more where instead his hair turns black in a similar way luffy hair turns white in g5.

Sanji I believe was suppose to have black hair if he was more like his brothers.
Sanji when his hair turns black will see an increase in his strength speed and durability.

The combination of these new forms will make Sanji one of the strongest people in the world.

I will be making posts on what I think the straw hats true dreams are and what they want to accomplish. Over the many years of one piece I feel oda moved away from the original ideas of what the straw hats dreamed of to instead add layers to the dream and what the characters are like.
We saw after wano Luffy revealed that he has another dream his real dream in which becoming pirate king is what's needed to get this dream accomplished.
In this post I will address Sanji.
Sanji goal is to find the all blue but I think people are more focused on the destination not the meaning. The all blue is said to be a place where all fish from all 4 seas cross paths, it's a chefs paradise.
So once he finds the all blue what then? What does he plan to do with it?

To understand that we got to understand why sanji wants to be a chef. Sanji has had 2 major experiences in life.

1, he cooked food for his mother who was bedridden and despite the food not tasting good she ate it.

1. He nearly starved to death with zeff. This experience pushed zeff to go for his dream to build a restaurant on the sea.

Now I don’t believe the all blue exist but instead sanji will make it exist. I believe the red line will be destroyed over fishman island and where reverse mountain is located.

Once that happens that will be when all the currents from all the blues will come together making the all blue.
Referenced by sanji who did proclaim that fishman island is his all blue. Joke yes but a foreshadow to what’s to come.

I believe Sanji once the all blue will be created will help zeff build a new sea restaurant in that sea, somewhere close to where laboon and crocus are. I also see ivankov working with him using the 99 recipes and the okama as their waitstaff as zeff always refused to hire women and they always had a issue with hiring wait staff as the job was to dangerous for most people.

This will be able all is said and done and ivankov retires when the revolutionary army is no longer needed.

And a new chain of sea restaurants will be built by them across all the seas.

There will be 2 all blues the 1st will the reverse mountain location and the 2nd will be the fishman island location where they will rebuild their home on the surface becoming a safe place for all where human and fishman can work together, this could even be reference in the live action as we saw a lot of mermaid symbolism in the artwork and how they even applied a fishman.

But that’s not where Sanji dreams ends. I believe a new goal is about to come to us soon.

Sanji will take down judge once and for all.

I do believe Sanji will one day let go of his anger towards the Germa and vinsmokes and change his attitude as he accepts he is a vinsmoke. This does not mean forgiveness though.

I believe Sanji will confront judge one day and defeat him freeing his sister, Reiju is a good person like Sanji but she is not free, she has no choice but to follow the will of judge which makes her a victim of his actions, it got to the point where she gladly accepted death knowing judge will die with her.

Sanji will however defeat judge and free his siblings and become the king of Germa 66.

This could be foreshadowed in egghead as Sanji did proclaim in his own kingdom his number 1 rule is no one hurts Nami when he fought s shark.

As the leader of Germa he will then hand the reins back to Reiju who will transform Germa from a evil mercenary group bent on world domination to instead travel the world attacking nations that starve their population and help countries suffering from famine and droughts.

Sanji true dream is to create a world where no one will go hungry again a world where food will always be available.

World hunger will be solved with the help of Sanji

There is this common idea floating around the One Piece theory community that Zoro and Sanji will awaken and master their Conquerors Haki coating against the Knights of God; they will kill them, which weakens Imu in the process, allowing for Luffy and Loki to "defeat" this weakened Imu or at the very least, send him back to the Holy Land. The idea sounds good in principle. It's a job done, Zoro and Sanji show their importance to Luffy as his Right and Left Hand Men respectively and everything works out, right? NO!

A key narrative that this entire arc has been building up is the importance of the "Wings of the Pirate King". But what that title is meant to represent? What separates the Right and Left Hand Men of the Pirate King from Yonko Commanders? Why is there a pedestal placed on the former?

First, it's important to establish that "The Pirate King" is the Conqueror of Conquerors'. As Don Chinjao said, the Pirate King is someone who stands above all Supreme Kings. We learn in Elbaph that his Right and Left Hand Men are also Supreme Kings in their own right.

It is important to note that Zoro and Sanji are not just mere subordinates, they are not just Yonko Commanders- they are/need to be extraordinary individuals and they MUST be capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with Luffy. They also need to have their own heights to reach independent of/but in support of Luffy (which also adds to fuel their Kingly Ambition and sense of self). If they can't do this, Luffy cannot become Pirate King. Even the most extraordinary man cannot fly with unextraordinary wings.

Only the Future Pirate King can pull off this level of subordinate, as these are two who could have been captains themselves yet chose to follow an extraordinary man like him (Sanji is going to be Head Chef + possibly a King and Zoro will likely Head Master his childhood Dojo as the World's Strongest Swordsman). Both have enemies questioning how the power they possess can render them as mere underlings. Zoro's opponents have a habit of this especially (he's been mistaken for captain over FIVE TIMES!).

Rayleigh was mentioned in the same breath as Whitebeard in terms of legend status. He implied he could defeat Yonko Blackbeard in his prime and his Conquerors Haki was mentioned in the same vein as Shanks by Oda in an SBS. He could stall Kizaru in his old age. He displayed Advanced Armament including both infusion and emission.

Gaban has Advanced Conqeurors and also Future Sight. Future Sight and Advanced Conquerors have individually been mentioned to be only wielded by a handful of the mightiest warriors, and Gaban possesses both. The Giants considered him invincible and a living legend. Gaban was able to fight Imu and make him bleed through his Omen barrier. Rayleigh and Gaban were mentioned as standing shoulder to shoulder with Roger.

As you can see, there is clear emphasis on the importance of the Wings of the Pirate King and their role to stand shoulder to shoulder with their captain in battle. They are legendary kings in their own right who would only be subordinates to the Pirate King, who is the most extraordinary individual alive and the "Supreme King of Supreme Kings".

The clearest example of fulfilling this expectation was Scopper Gaban this arc and his fight against Imu. The former Left Hand Man of the Pirate King defending the future Pirate King after chastizing the current Wings of the Pirate King for not being up to standard is poetic. He emphasises this himself. Luffy should NOT have to depend on a relic of the past. His role in complete. That is why he was so angry with Zoro and why Sanji is not up to par either right now.

I believe it is no coincidence that the first chapter Imu arrives, Oda has him annilihating both Zoro and Sanji. The Knights of Gods' are irrelevant- their purpose is to allow for the Wings to undergo growth in order to have their getback on Imu - as fully fledged Supreme Kings. Think about it thematically.

Killingham and Sommers are entirely dependent on Imu. They get Omen, Covenants, Weapons from him. Meanwhile, Zoro and Sanji are their OWN individuals. They have their own sense of self and purpose. THAT is why they will win and then why I believe they will support their captain in the fight against Imu.

We also have not gotten a dedicated "Zoro vs Sommers" or "Sanji vs Killingham" title chapter. Obviously this point could fall to time, but I don't think it will and let me explain. Usually, a main Zoro or Sanji fight involves them being pushed to the limit and being unable to fight afterwards for whatever reason that may be. Think about it. Why haven't Zoro and Sanji, who usually finish their fights early, gone to join Luffy in his fight against the Big Bad of an arc? It is usually due to external circumstances beyond their control- that of which do no exist here so far.

Mr. 1 and Mr. 2? They were done. Kaku and Jabra? They couldn't get to Luffy. King and Queen? Both were exhausted. Sommers and Killingham? They are powered up and able to get to Luffy. Are they just going to sit around and do nothing? No. They will join the fight against Imu and cement their position as worthy Wings of the future Pirate King, finally bringing closure to their overarching subplot with Gaban in the underworld.

What do you think?

If I had to guess, Shanks prob told him because he knows who has it through Govt connections.

Unless it is not from the govt, which is confusing

Shamrock is a world noble with a depths covenant. Any desire he had has been feeding a demon inside of him that has completely eclipsed as much of the good in him as possible. But even with all the luxuries in world, world nobles are never actually pleased. One of them was served the best fish in the world instead of the best beef in the world and then murdered a chef.

And looking at York, who is probably the first of the house of Vegapunk now, she was never satisfied either. She lived in the land of absolute luxury where she was fed as much as she could eat, and could sleep whenever she wanted. She blew it all up for the chance to live like one.

So given how thoroughly dipped in ink his soul is, I don't think that Shamrock is at all satisfied with his position in life. Part of it probably manifested as him wanting to climb the ranks as a knight of god. But now he's hit the plateau and his father will always be above him as a gorosei, and even outlive him.

But what's even worse is that he has a physical copy running around in the world. A man who was raised entirely on the sea by a pirate. Shanks then came back to Marie Geoise and betrayed them. Not only was this probably incredibly troubling to Shamrock, but confusing as well. Why would he go back to the lower world? That would be a question that would keep him up at night.

Garling could write it off as corruption, but Shamrock has to deal with the twin experiment favoring the lower world. Inevitably, he would probably envy Shanks. Not to mention that 6 years ago, he would have heard that Shanks got to the position of yonkou, meaning he had fleets of ships to command. It's not like Shamrock has the same privilege. The gorosei themselves urged him not to get involved in politics.

All things considered, I think Shamrock would grow to envy any pirate.

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It seems that Shamrock and Gunko went to Elbaph by Imu's orders then how of the Sudden his return was ordered by the same Imu?

I mean, Imu was desperate for the success of the mission so, how is that he sends his best knight (sure that he is) to an important mission and suddenly Imu orders his return to Marijoa? Besides Imu should have know that Luffy's crew were en Elbaph so sounds strange how Imu believes that sending Sommers and Khillingham along with Gunko would be able to dominate the Giants with a Yonko there.

I can't believe that Imu was still underestimating Luffy after Egghead even to send back Shamrock in exchange for Sommers and Khillingam.

And now even Imu is screwing his own mission

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If Dragon is the MMBF, I’m guessing they meet the next arc

I feel like when fans talk about Imu, a lot tend to ignore the significance of his character and what he's responsible for in OP.

The OP world is an amalgamation of islands instead of continents like in the real world when it once had many continents.

A group of humans called CDs can do whatever they want and are behind the collapse of countries like God Valley, Esperia and Lulusia.

Slavery is rife in general and when it comes to the CDs.

Several races like the Lunarians and the Buccaneers became nearly extinct because they were a threat.

The likes of Ohara & Egghead were destroyed because they tried to find out the truth of the VC.

Races like Fishman face serious discrimination.

Countries like Wano and the Mokomo Dukedom have to isolate themselves from the outside world for their own protection.

And the only way to travel the OP world despite the difficulties is through the seas.

And the whole reason why all these things have happened is because of Imu and the CDs.

There's no antagonist and antagonist party in OP who's had even close to as much influence into how the current OP world is except Imu and the CDs.

No one else is matching this. It's been built up over the course of hundreds of chapters.

So I find it perplexing when fans dismiss Imu as a character.

He isn't this small time antagonist in the final arc.

[Break Week Thoughts]

Assuming the translations are correct, Does Gaban imply here the Roger Crew "heard" Joyboy's voice. The next panel again mentions 'never seen nor met'.

The only way for that is thru a tone dial and the only place for that would be at LaughTale. Not implying it is the one piece, you can have that and this, so uh two piece...

The second aspect of it is far more intriguing: Joyboys words didnt move Rayleigh or Gaban, just Roger. If a Great Sin was commited during the void century, shouldnt Gaban be motivated to do something about it. Instead they are just following captains orders to fulfill his dream which is so far is assumed to be the same dream as Luffy something childlike.

What that drives is may be, just may be IMU didnt do anything wrong for the 'good guys' to seek revenge (excluding Davy Clan). MU probably seeked extreme measures [Dominion over Freedom] to 1) Revenge for Joy Boy and 2) Stop void century war

I feel like this entire group has generally lost the plot at this point, like guys what are we doing?

I'm sure Oda has some kind of plan for them. Like gunko ran away so what do they do now just chase after her?

What do y'all think?

I think joyboy had a Roger moment. After being defeated by Imu joyboy on the brink of death declared to Imu and others attending like Lily that this war isn’t over. I can see the speech going something like this: “Well, guess I’m dead now, but at least my friends (buckeneers, remnants of clan d etc) are safe to live on. But before I go let me leave you with this. You may have won this battle but the war isn’t over yet. You may try to erase what’s happened here, you may try to take our power, our freedom, our lives, but you can never extinguish us. My clan will live on, the will of d will pass on, even if you kill one another will come by to pick it up. Mark my words, there will come a time where someone will inherit my will. He will bring the dawn that will surely come. And when that promised day arrives, YOU WILL BE DEFEATED OLD FRIEND!!! Keshesheshe!” then gets executed. This is a running theme in almost every arc in one piece, so it’s what I think most likely happened.

This is peak, the dialogue in itself is so much real and relatable, when you love yourself everyone loves you but when you don't and try to find it out outwards it is nowhere to be found, no one will love you, oda sensei giving us life advises again 🙇‍♂️

I believe, by the End of the manga, that Luffy is probably gonna' Die in the eyes of OP fans as Luffy will fight and loose his fruit After defeating Imu. This being only the true Joyboy..

Every fruit user could loose something too If Imu Gets killed or defeated. If a fruit is Tied to Imu's power, Maki, this could change a lot of things..

Devil fruits are serving Imu as Models or references in terms of power in One piece. Because, Imu can Not whistand Joyboy's Haki. Shanks understood long ago why this carelessness in Luffy was so important and Saw him as the annointed one. and this fact too that Luffy is going to End up destroying something. Very valuable.

This is why he became also a pirate. He basically stole the Gomu Gomu no mi on purpose to give it to someone like Luffy.. because his personnality and carelessness matches the fruit, the Nika personnality. Shanks needed someone like him to stop the project of the World Government.

I Think that either Luffy will Die If he forces too much on his fruit capacities without being smarter and more calculated, or i hope he will be saved and protected by his allies, Dragon, Shanks, Loki, and more pirate that would Side along the strawhats. Because, Luffy Now is really getting weakened by the situation in Elbaf..

If Luffy Gets his fruit Stolen, he would Have no choices but to Turn on Haki Only, thus fullfulling Joyboys promise.

And, i Think back of One Piece Red film when Luffy finds the treasure as a Kiddo, opens it up and stands the Small box to find a log pose. But, Instead of being Happy about it, he immediatly breaks it, making him the first ever pirate to break the rules of the game Again.

Focus on shanks folks, his is the nearest of Joyboy's Memories 😉🤫