hello anon i really appreciate you sending me an ask!! I don’t know if you meant my opinion on Sanji and Pudding or Sanji AND Pudding. But either way here is my thought on all of them:
Thoughts Regarding Sanji
*cough* all of you probably know that he is my *cough* favourite *cough* character in One Piece. There are sooo many stuffs I like and wanted to talk about about him.
First of all, what made me really interested in Sanji is because how he is written. He is portrayed as a ladiesman, but in same time he is just a huge ass dork who is so soft inside. Yet having anger issue, and many problematic traits like his sexism and all. It makes Sanji really a complex character and a 3 Dimentional one at that.
I have so many things to say about him and I am just trying so hard to cut it short in this talk because… God. I know it’s going to be so hard for me to do that. And in same time my mind went blank on what to really type here lmao
I liked him so much especially during the pre-TS. He show so much love to people and he is trying so hard to protect everyone he loves, even if he likes to deny that he only cares for the ladies. There are a lot of foreshadowing regarding his past, but I have to really say to be honest I didn’t enjoy writing of WCI as much as I thought I would have. However, I did get the satisfication of how Sanji is portrayed during the arc.
The writing was sloppy and all, but he react just like how a human would have in that situation.
I actually dislike how Oda piled too much things on him. It’s kind of weird how he has an “extra backstory” while the other Mugiwara doesn’t. But the writing on Sanji as a character is not disappointing me at all. He sounds human. It’s the writing of the story that disappoint me than the character itself.
I kind of wish his pervertness doesn’t go off as a simple “joke” that everyone in OP let it slide off. It’s fine Sanji is a pervert and problematic bc that’s just how human works in real life. However I really want him to not be treated “fine” for that in OP itself. That’s why I quite enjoyed when everyone called out my sanji in ask-sanji for being a pervert or homophobic. I want him to embarrass himself.
I see Sanji as a relatable character and I just hope future arcs doesn’t disappoint me as much as WCI does. At least the core of his nature stays on the line.
Thoughts on Pudding
Let me tell you just HOW WEAK I am around cute girls with cute actions and when she appeared for the first time… fuck. I am hella weak. Take me pls //shot
It kinda fade as soon as Oda pulled plot twist within plot twists. Pudding is just a mess of a writing. I know he probably planned her to be something else. But, God. This writing is just too sloppy. I get the idea and I liked the idea of it. And “Evil” Pudding looks cool, but it’s just… too off for me. Starting from cute into evil into the dokidoki? It’s just too much. It felt enfoced. And I have to say my interest into Pudding actually dropped really fast because the messy writing.
I don’t know how to really put it in words. One part of me actually is fucking Gay^TM for her because GOD she is cute and she is amazing, and the other part of me is just too disappointed with her rushed writing along with the rest of WCI arc. Like Vinsmokes… god. I have the same mixed feeling about Vinsmokes.
I kind of feel Oda is kind of focusing more on Sanji’s character writing in this arc so he pretty much went too sloppy on everything else. I actually liked how Sanji “ignored” her after the whole ordeal. The only Pudding writing I could actually enjoy is probably the last part when she wiped Sanji’s memories on the last request(presumably a kiss) and she ran away, thus cried aftermath. It felt more human than the rest of the arc writing for Pudding.
A part of me actually liked the idea if Pudding’s first persona was the real one than we go back and forth on stuffs. Maybe the “evil” part could be pulled out a little bit better if it has more build up. I like how Pudding still point the gun and shot on Sanji after she calmed down from crying, even if the whole incident still kind of stupid :/
But my biggest disappointment actually on how she barely use her power in the end of the arc. There was actually more chances than that. But oh well, in the end I couldn’t really hate her as much because I am weak for her cuteness even if her swooning-then-switching-to-tsun!evil-jokes are really forced. I guess that’s that? At least the characters in the manga itself already got tired from her switching personalities joke that everyone including Sanji ignored it in the end.
Thoughts on Sanji and Pudding
Relationship wise, I have to say… they are very cute! And I wouldn’t lie that I do ship them. Even if I don’t ship them as strong, I do ship them. (Note that I use the word “ship” to describe any kind of interaction i like to imagine that could work between two characters)
Sanji is always been swooning on ladies, and I have my own extra headcanon why he often turn himself into a Love-Cook mode. Just as you can see when he was in stress, he told himself to be the love-cook he is to drown himself out of the bad thoughts. It’s actually a quite effective method to focus on one thing you like and ignore the others, even if that technique is actually still bad on your mentality. Sanji does tend to “run” from his problems into the “joy” he can find in something else he likes: the beauty of ladies.
It’s just cute to see finally a girl actually swoon backs at him, and then what? He actually “ignored” her.
Sanji is the person who likes to appreciate a woman’s beauty- but he mostly does it for himself to be “happy”. He likes seeing the response to that, but mostly he is doing it for himself- focusing on what is good and ignoring what is bad, so he could be less stressed- when he could care less about the person he is facing all in same time, yet caring about them because the person is another human being. -at least that’s my headcanon for him.
Pudding, on the other hand- experienced issue that no one actually ever opened up that they liked her and fell hard into Sanji for that. While I dislike the buildup, the result is actually really cute?
The writing for their interaction aftermath is kinda forced, especially that whole interaction double with urgency to bake a cake and the whole stuffs. But at least I love the closure to that.
Being pirates, they would separate ways and go on their own path. It’s not a happy end, but it’s not a bad end. Maybe they would meet again, and maybe they would not. But their interaction is a whole unique one I couldn’t help myself from shipping them.
Or you could also send me your OC (One Piece or not) too if you’d like (not for prompts, but I’d love to try and attempt to quick draw some different and new characters for a change)
