This article contains spoilers from One Piece’s Egghead arc.
Summary
- Toei Animation’s changes to the One Piece anime are angering Sanji fans due to inaccurate portrayal.
- Sanji’s image is altered by Toei through unnecessary additions and changes from the manga.
- Fans criticize Toei for distorting events, adding filler, and mishandling Sanji’s character in the anime.
Although the One Piece anime returned, Sanji fans are not very happy this week, as well as anyone who cares for a faithful adaptation of the One Piece manga.
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Toei Animation, the Studio responsible for animating the One Piece anime, is in some hot water after some very bold choices they made which impact Sanji’s character in the most recent two episodes of One Piece which dropped last weekend.
Sanji’s Mishandling in The Anime
Toei Adds Scenes That Never Happened in the Manga That Ruin Sanji’s Image
Sanji has always been a fan-favorite character in One Piece and he always makes it somewhere in the top five, if not the top 3, and for a good reason. Sanji is undoubtedly one of the best-written characters in One Piece, and fans also love him for his incredible fighting skills that make him one of the strongest Straw Hat Pirate.
Fans rarely have any complaints about Sanji when it comes to his manga version. However, recently, One Piece fans have been angry over some controversial choices made by Toei Animation in the anime.
Indeed, the One Piece anime has just returned with two episodes, episodes 1123 and 1124, and the controversy with Sanji is only getting worse.
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For one, Sanji was removed from one of the most iconic double spreads adaptations in the anime from the Egghead Island arc, where most of the characters were present in the manga. Why Sanji was removed is odd. Some fans might argue that it’s because he was in the background, but many other characters were even more so, such as Franky, but were kept in the anime version.
The most controversial thing, however, is Toei giving Sanji heart eyes as a reaction to Jewelry Bonney. What makes this bad for Sanji’s image is the fact that Bonney is actually a 12-year-old. Some fans might argue that it doesn’t matter, because at this point in the story, he didn’t know that, and while that is a fair argument, Oda still made sure that Sanji acted appropriately around Bonney. This never happened even once in the manga, so Toei adding it is definitely a bizarre choice.
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Another very controversial change was the events that unfolded when Sanji fought S-Shark. The anime made it seem like Sanji was getting beat up pretty badly, even ending on his knees. This did not happen in the manga, and Sanji was not fazed by S-Shark’s punch. If anything, Sanji was the one who had S-Shark on the ropes in the manga. In the anime, Toei even chose to add Nami saving Sanji with her bubble gun, which never occurred in the manga, giving credit to Nami in this fight. In reality, Nami was rescued by Sanji.
This is not the first time that Toei does this, as they are known for adding a lot of unnecessary, and if anything, a straight-up bad filler that changes or distorts events from the manga, particularly when it comes to Sanji.
Where To Watch One Piece?
Available On Crunchyroll
After a 6 month wait, fans were definitely excited for the return of the One Piece anime, which left off in the Egghead Island arc, the first arc of the Final Saga. With 1124 episodes out now, fans can find the series on Crunchyroll. All new releases will be available there weekly, every Sunday or Monday depending on the location.
- Release Date
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October 20, 1999
- Network
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Fuji TV
- Directors
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Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou
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Mayumi Tanaka
Monkey D. Luffy (voice)
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Kazuya Nakai
Roronoa Zoro (voice)
