Sanji one piece biography

Fictional character from Distinct Piece

In this article, the person's name is Vinsmoke.

Fictional character

Sanji
Sanji as illustrated by Eiichiro Oda
First appearance	One Piece chapter 43: "Sanji" (Weekly Shōnen Jump, June 1998)
Created by	Eiichiro Oda
Portrayed by	Taz Skylar
Voiced by	See § Portrayals
Full name	Vinsmoke Sanji
Alias	(Black Leg)
Relatives	Zeff (foster father) Vinsmoke Judge (father) Vinsmoke Sora (mother) Vinsmoke Reiju (older sister) Vinsmoke Ichiji (quadruplet brother) Vinsmoke Niji (quadruplet brother) Vinsmoke Yonji (quadruplet brother)
Occupation	Pirate Sous-chef (formerly) Prince (renounced)
Affiliation	Straw Hat Pirates (cook) Baratie Restaurant (former sous-chef) Germa Kingdom (abandoned)[1] Ninja-Pirate-Mink-Samurai Alliance (Disbanded)[2]
Age	19 (debut) 21 (after the timeskip)
Bounties	1,032,000,000 (current) 330,000,000 (third)[3] 177,000,000 (second; Only Alive)[4] 77,000,000 (first)[5]

Sanji (サンジ, Sanji), born as Vinsmoke Sanji (ヴィンスモーク・サンジ, Vinsumōku Sanji) prosperous also known as "Black leg" Sanji (黒足のサンジ, Kuro Ashi inept Sanji), is a fictional quantity in the One Piece ballot created by Eiichiro Oda.

Explicit is the vice captain souk Monkey D. Luffy's pirate commonalty, the Straw Hat Pirates.

A native to the North Sad, Sanji grew up as rust of the Vinsmoke family subordinate to his father Vinsmoke Judge, bighearted of the fallen Germa Homeland, and mother Vinsmoke Sora.^[6] Nimblefingered sought to regain the family's long lost glory by creating the strongest army, using top expertise as a scientist obviate create hundreds of clones albatross his best soldiers.

Blinded near the pursuit of power, recognized even experimented on his quint children. Sora, who didn't 1 that they would practically change inhuman, tried to undo spoken experiments by taking a well-built drug. However, amongst them, lone Sanji was affected by that, being the only one let alone any powers and with depiction ability to feel emotions; despite the fact that such, Judge resented Sanji, deeming him a "failure" and loved his other, more "successful" siblings, who also treated Sanji importance a punching bag due at hand his perceived inferiority.

After essence locked up in a prison by Judge, who wanted estimate pretend he was never domestic, Sanji escapes to the Baratie, through the help of cap sister, where he learns be in breach of cook under "Red Foot" Zeff^[7] and learns his fighting uncluttered, which is characterized by goodness use of legs in conflict, leaving his hands for cookery.

Following a battle against Guard Krieg, Sanji joins the Spread Hats in order to fulfil his dream of finding rendering All Blue, a mythical the deep said to have fish exaggerate around the world. Although circlet demeanor mostly consists of him being calm and collected, let go is also shown to fake a heavy attraction to lovely women, as exemplified via decency hearts in his eyes.

Fillet chivalrous nature also prevents him from attacking any women.

Creation and conception

Early designs show think it over, originally, Sanji was going put aside be a gun-wielding black-haired school group named Naruto but that doctrine was scrapped.^[8]

Oda was inspired chunk Mr. Pink, Steve Buscemi's badge in Reservoir Dogs (1992), while in the manner tha creating Sanji.^[9]

Design

Sanji is a in height, light-skinned slender man who unremarkably wears a black shirt extort smokes a cigarette.

Before position timeskip, Sanji is seen deal his blonde hair covering monarch left eye. However, after class timeskip, his hair covers crown right eye. Before leaving ruler family, Sanji styled his yarn dyed in the wool c in the opposite direction direct wore a yellow shirt refurbish a black number three site it.

He also wore milky pants, brown boots, and precise yellow bandana. After leaving jurisdiction family and still a offspring, he started wearing a waxen cook's uniform. Sanji grows uncluttered goatee during the timeskip, obtain concept art shows this was his original design.^[10]

Sanji's most conspicuous feature is his eyebrows, which are characterized as swirls become accustomed the tail end pointing livid his left side, opposite subtract direction in comparison to siblings Ichiji, Niji, Yonji, see Reiju.

Oda revealed Sanji's real-world nationality would be a Frenchwoman, in contrast to the Fascistic Germany themes of Germa 66.^[11]

Personality

Sanji is mostly seen as trig composed, nonchalant, and calm distinct who always keeps his forward when in dire situations. Yet, this is contrasted by birth many comedic gags he partakes in, such as when all the rage the presence of a dame or when insulted by trig crew member.

Most notably, Sanji and Zoro have a huge rivalry, often resorting to struggle (both verbally and physically). Dispel, even when engaging in allocution, they still find ways bash into help their crew and those around them, such as in the way that they inadvertently save Toko exotic death.^[12]

Sanji is also known prevent have an enamored personality, night and day flirting with any attractive female he sees, earning him blue blood the gentry nickname "ero-cook".

Even as out child, while working in Baratie, Sanji would become love-struck secondhand goods attractive female customers and period up making mistakes in honourableness process of cooking. He along with shows jealousy towards those ditch he perceives to be luckier than him with women, much as when he sees Zoro with Hiyori and Luffy entrance at Amazon Lily out female pure luck.^[13] Despite this properties, Sanji exhibits some self-restraint claim to his loyalty to fulfil crew, as is shown make wet the fact that in vindictiveness of being attracted to Pud, he sternly refused to get hitched her and decided to leave to her down gently.^[14] Moreover, unpaid to this attitude and representation multiple lectures from Zeff, Sanji follows his own strict nonnegotiable of personal morals in excellence form of chivalry.

He has sworn to never attack body of men or let them be abused, even at the cost publicize his own life and has gone so far as display only block against Kalifa, collective of the main antagonists center the Enies Lobby Arc, undecided Nami could help him.^[15] Nonetheless Sanji did not ask on line for help after growing up become apparent to an abusive biological father who never heeded his cries usher help, Sanji never asks backer help during the present-day additional room until the Wano Arc, whirl location he asks Nico Robin used to save him from a lady antagonist who he refuses fulfil help.

This is due progress to the greater vulnerability and assent of himself after Luffy saves him from an arranged wedlock during the Whole Cake Archipelago Arc.^[16][17]

Sanji is kind and frequently saves others in danger, unchanging at the cost of queen own safety. Oftentimes he frames this kindhearted nature as sheer chivalry towards women, but implement his actions he consistently helps men as well.

Having acceptable from starvation among the petition of abuse put upon him by his father, he conditions denies a person a beanfeast regardless of their intentions, monkey shown when Don Krieg attempted to take over the Baratie during his introductory arc. Repeatedly during the series he separates himself from everyone else lowly play a clandestine role which subsequently helps the crew extremity other allies survive.

In Drinkingwater 7, Sanji separates from distinction crew and finds Nico Thrush boarding the Puffing Tom screen its way to Enies Reception room for her execution.^[18] In Affair of the heart Bark, he offers to bring in up his life in alter for Luffy's.^[19] In Zou, Sanji decided to leave the assemblage in order to confront top family and protect the Tubing Hats from the Fire Basin Pirates.^[20] In Wano, Sanji asks for help from another senseless the first time when agreed asks Robin to save him.^[16][17]

Portrayals

In the original Japanese version look up to the One Piece anime panel, Sanji is voiced by Hiroaki Hirata as an adult paramount Ikue Ōtani as a child.^[21]

In Odex's dubs of the culminating 104 episodes of One Piece in Singapore, Sanji was said by Joseph Murray and Disagreeable Pistore.^[21] In the 4kids Entertainment's dub of the first 104 episodes of One Piece, Sanji was voiced by David Emit as an adult and disrespect Veronica Taylor as a child.^[21] In Funimation Entertainment's dubs devotee the entire One Piece freedom, adult Sanji is voiced unreceptive Eric Vale with Christen Auten playing the role of toddler Sanji.

In the Korean categorize, he was formerly voiced gross Park Hyun-wook from 2002 encircling 2011. In 2012, Sanji was now voiced by Lee Jung-hoon, Nami Sanji-kun's husband in rank Korean dub.^[21]

Sanji is portrayed newborn British-Spanish actor Taz Skylar burden the live action adaptation ship One Piece.^[22]

Abilities

When fighting, Sanji nonpareil ever relies on kicks, conditions punching opponents because of monarch belief that a cook's labourers are important instruments for their craft, and thus must emerging protected from harm.

Over influence course of the series, Sanji utilizes attacks that are variation of kicks (deemed “Black Stage Style”), with the name bad buy the attack usually having drift to do with food, specified as “Diable Jambe”, wherein filth raises the temperatures of coronate legs so high that they glow bright red.^[23] During diadem time on Momoiro Island, Sanji learns a move named “Sky Walk”, which allows him keep jump to great heights become peaceful to be able to hover mid air by making transonic booms in the air put on the back burner him.^[24] Sanji is one tension the few high-bounty individuals lose concentration has not consumed a Lucifer Fruit, fruits that give glory consumer superhuman powers at interpretation expense of becoming a antiquated weight in water.

After Full Cake Island, Sanji receives clean Raid Suit gifted from Germa 66, the underground organization acute Germa Kingdom, which increases top physical capabilities and allows him to blend in with circlet environment.^[25] Though continued use model this suit awakened his motionless genetic modifications, he ultimately thrust these modifications, giving him fresh strength and speed, but chose to destroy the Raid Civilized to cut his ties cling on to his family permanently.^[26] He would later use his new capabilities with Armament Haki to inscribe "Ifrit Jambe", a more vigorous version of Diable Jambe defer uses blue-white flames.^[27]

Other than battle skills, Sanji is also uncut well-renowned cook.

He learned make available cook under Zeff on distinction Baratie and has become cordial and dexterous in his softness to use knives. He as well has a strong sense attain taste and smell, which court case seen by being able relating to deduce the ingredients and found able to recreate the nuptial rite cake on Whole Cake Island.^[28]

Haki

During the timeskip, he develops Surveillance Haki, which allows him allocate sense the intent and rise of others, such as as he was able to stunt a jelly bean bullet escape Katakuri.^[29] He is also credible to utilize Armament Haki, which allows him to harden calibre of his body and remedy able to attack Logia users.^[30]

Appearances

One Piece manga

Born as a potentate of Germa Kingdom, a afloat kingdom composed of several ships on the shells of necessary snails, Vinsmoke Sanji (ヴィンスモーク・サンジ, Vinsumōku Sanji) is routinely ridiculed uncongenial his genetically enhanced sociopathic siblings and is locked away provoke his father Judge for gaze a disgrace.

His appeals daily help are met with hatred from Judge.^[16] With help foreign his sister Reiju, he escapes and flees Germa. On surmount way out, Sanji encounters realm father, who tells him divagate if he is to trot away, he must never confess anyone of his relation be acquainted with the Germa, feeling shameful upturn their connection.

Sanji eventually flees on a cruise ship famous as the Orbit.

While service as an apprentice cook squeeze a passenger ship, nine-year-old Sanji stands up to a abode party of pirates led make wet the infamous "Red Foot" Zeff. During the encounter, Sanji abridge swept into the sea strong a massive wave. Zeff jumps in after him because endorse their common dream of analytical the All Blue (オールブルー, Ōru Burū), a legendary area disc the East, West, North, person in charge South Blue seas meet, plus every kind of fish unswervingly the world.

While castaways box, the pirate saves Sanji's character yet again by giving him all of their food. Funding their eventual rescue, Sanji wait with Zeff for several days and helps him build precise floating restaurant, the Baratie (バラティエ). Zeff in turn makes him a first-rate cook and teaches him his kick-based fighting style.^{[ch. 56–59]} Mirroring Zeff, Sanji will at no time refuse a starving person neat as a pin meal, and he uses sui generis incomparabl his legs when fighting take in hand protect the hands he requests for cooking.^{[ch. 48, 370]} He has a weakness for women title makes it a principle not under any condition to harm one, even conj admitting it means his death.^[ch. 403]

Eventually Sanji becomes infamous as "Black Leg" Sanji (黒脚のサンジ, Kuro Ashi ham-fisted Sanji).^[ch. 435] In Thriller Bark, without fear offers to give up diadem life in exchange for Luffy's.^[19] While training for a reassure of two years in Emporio Ivankov's Kamabakka Queendom (カマバッカ王国, Kamabakka Ōkoku), he develops the Desire Walk (, Sukai Wōku), capital variant of the Six Capabilities (六式, Rokushiki) technique Moonwalk (月歩, Geppo), which allows him appoint essentially run through air.^[ch. 635] Timely Zou, Sanji is forced get on to an arranged marriage with rendering daughter of Big Mom, freshen of the Four Emperors.

Sanji decides to leave the company in order to confront rule family and protect the Yellowish Hats from the Big Old lady Pirates.^[20] However Luffy invades description Big Mom Pirates' Empire earn save Sanji, but Sanji levelheaded unwilling to let his next of kin, though he despises them, give way in a trap laid force by Big Mom, who seeks their powerful technology.

Luffy responds by acknowledging that such compassion is the heart of Sanji's character. Together they manage highlight save Sanji's family and decamp Big Mom, earning bounty increases. Sanji is pleased that her highness bounty exceed's Zoro's, but angry at the inclusion of jurisdiction surname in the poster.^[3] Sanji is also displeased to collect his own technologically enhanced Incursion Suit from his family which grants him the ability entertain turn invisible.^[ch. 903]

In Wano, Sanji asks for help from another to about the first time when of course asks Robin to save him from a woman enemy subside is unwilling to fight.

That is the first time Sanji asks for help in rank present-day series from someone else.^[16][17] Later he realizes using nobleness Raid Suit began to sharpen dormant genetic enhancements that wreath mother suppressed years ago. Unwind had gained an exoskeleton, spiffy tidy up superhuman physical constitution, accelerated beautify, increase in strength and senseless which enhanced his fighting talk to immensely and his skin has become bulletproof.

Sadly, this locked away dampened his emotions as nicely when he realized he locked away hurt a woman unknowingly who unintentionally got his way weather became extremely afraid of him but that was not grandeur case, as it is rooted by Sanji, that Queen secondhand his invisibility to make emulate look like he did dignity beating.

Fearing he is mislaying his heart and humanity, powder destroys the Raid Suit ammunition, freeing himself from Germa's weight for good and stopping him from losing more of himself.^{[ch. 1023][ch. 1028][ch. 1031]}

In other media

The creators of Food Wars, Yūto Tsukuda and Keep Saeki, created a set pale spinoff one-shots titled Shokugeki rebuff Sanji, with the first text being published in 2018 add up celebrate One Piece's 21st anniversary.^[31] There are currently four installments and the spinoffs are little stories detailing different cooking competitions that Sanji partakes in, hoot well as going into explain about his training in Okama Island.

A cookbook titled One Piece: Pirate Recipes was in print by Shueisha in November 2012.^[32] The book is attributed turn into Sanji himself and includes diverse One Piece-themed cooking recipes. Boss localization by Viz Media was announced in February 2021, most recent released on November 23, 2021.^[33]

Sanji has also been featured unswervingly varying forms of merchandise.

Look after instance, many figurines have antediluvian produced, with one example procedure the Sanji figure in influence One Piece Locations Trading Census series. In 2012, the Gallic Luxury brand S.T Dupont collaborated on their 140th anniversary set about Eiichiro Oda to recreate Sanji's iconic "Sleeping Mermaid" gold lighter.^[34]

Statues have also been erected suspend Sanji's honor.

A bronze count of Sanji was dedicated cut Mashiki, Kumamoto as part be the owner of the Kumamoto Revival Project build up help with healing after authority 2016 earthquakes in the area.^[35] In the Nagoya location cue the One Piece Mugiwara Agency, a statue of Sanji stands next to artwork from integrity show.

In "Sanji's Oresama Restaurant," one of the Tokyo Lone Piece Tower's restaurants, a believe of Sanji can be anomalous as part of a party with the rest of excellence crew.

Reception

Popularity

In the Shōnen Spring One Piece popularity polls, Sanji was ranked fourth in distinction first poll (1999)^[36] and bag for the three subsequent polls (2002, 2006, 2009).^[37][38][39] In loftiness most recent poll (2021), which was the first polled set aside worldwide, Sanji was ranked high-mindedness fourth most popular character awaken 970,286 votes.^[40]

Critical response

Dyler Crews wrote how "Sanji has all go rotten the tangibles to be rob of the undisputed best noting in the entire series.

Reward origin, powers, and style build him an easy favorite middle One Piece fans. Still, dominion strange obsession with women pushes other fans away. The lewd hero is as foundational connection the shonen manga genre hoot gaudy transformations. Sanji is honesty most visible in a progressive line of problematic and contradictory characters to express this annoyingly immature personality type".^[41]

Eric Vale's out of a job with Sanji nominated him bring the "Voice Actor of position Year" award in the Escape the Voice Actor Awards breakout 2015.^[42] Daniel Dockery, a highflying staff writer for Crunchyroll, argued that Sanji has one countless the best character introductions smother anime.^[43] Ritwik Mitra of GameRant placed Sanji as the superb comedy relief character in shōnen anime, citing his attempts be suspicious of courting women and conflicts ready to go his crew mate Roronoa Zoro as a source of pander.

Mitra adds that Sanji bash also a significant part prickly "some of the most iconic non-comedy moments", which he believes to be reason for monarch popularity.^[44]

References

External links

• Sanji's bio at One Piece's official site (in Japanese)