Zoro x Sanji Manga Doujinshi Omnibus Reprint Collection
Wandering in the World by Kioks’s Gido Amakure from 2006 (286 pages)
You can see the 9 story titles from the back cover.
I like the first story, especially that last page. [Spoilers] Zoro likes things straightforward, but Sanji pokes him around all the time. After a fallout, Zoro remembers what his teacher has told him: Sometimes people circle around because they want to confirm you’re still by their side, and that you’ll be there to wait for them to stop. (And we see Zoro comes back to embrace Sanji. 😭)
Stories 2-4 involved Kuina and how she helped Zoro by passing the torch to Sanji.
The 5th story is Sanji raising Zoro as a pet. So cute!
The 6th story is a longer one where Sanji is a fox spirit that plays with Zoro and Kuina as kids, then later becomes Zoro’s high school teacher (because fox’s time is different from human’s), some angst and denial later (because Zoro has been miserable due to Kuina’s death and Sanji’s disappearance) they seem to have spent some time together, but then Sanji outlives Zoro by hundreds of years…(?)
7. Sanji as a postman delivering postcards that Kuina no longer can reply…
8. the two as childhood friends, but Zoro never understood the language of love.
9. Zoro as Santa who gives Sanji a present every year until the very end… 😭
Not my favorite art style, but good stories and memorable lines triumph over everything in my mind. Here is a video preview. 286 pages are a lot!
