Sanji

Black-Leg Sanji · Assistant Chef at the Baratie · alive · future Straw Hat cook

Profile

Assistant chef at the Baratie Ocean-going Restaurant. Tall, blond, side-sweep covers one eye, cigarette, black double-breasted chef’s suit. Wounded on first appearance. Combat-capable fighter-cook — defeats Marine lieutenant Fullbody with one punch in his first chapter. Apprenticed to Chef Zeff, the Baratie’s proprietor. Sanji’s character thesis is fully visible in his first chapter (chivalry, deadpan wit, doctrinal articulation, combat ability) — the rare Straw Hat whose identity-axiom is deployed complete from page one.

Name etymology: see frontmatter — Sanji literally means “third son” (san-ji), the seeded Vinsmoke-birth-order reveal that doesn’t pay off until Whole Cake Island (Ch.825+).

Arc-by-arc updates

Elbaf (Ch. 1189) — shown

Elbaf (Ch. 1187) — shown

• At the Western Village / Sea Cloud Port amid the ZaZa flood: cannot bring himself to kick the woman-shaped God of Rain ZaZa (“the monster is a woman. I can’t kick her…”), won’t join the giants’ rescue brawl, and moves instead against “the root of the problem” (pp. 12–14).
• The old giant chief tells Sanji that Luffy’s officers must be kings too, and that Sanji alone has the potential for Supreme King (Conqueror’s) Haki — “for some reason… you possess a streak of masochistic instability… you must be a king too” (pp. 15–17).

Elbaf — the child-abduction commotion (Ch. 1183) — shown (likely-ID, verify)

• Ch. 1183 — Reacts to the child-abduction commotion: “What’s happening over there?!!” (p. 7). (ID likely, not name-boxed — verify.)

Elbaf — battered but back up: “I’m going to keep Elbaph safe!!!” (Ch. 1182) — shown

• Badly wounded (someone/something other than Killingham took him down — “I didn’t even need to take you out myself!! Though it’s incredible you’re even alive right now,” p. 6; the cause is off-page, 1178–1181 window — do not infer). Bonney: “You’re too hurt to…” — Sanji: “There’s no other choice for me, Bonney…” (p. 6).
• Charges after the departing Killingham: “I can’t let all of our battles be for nothing!! This is the land that Usopp and Luffy have been dreaming about!! It’s the land of giant, beautiful women!! I’m going to keep Elbaph safe!!!” (p. 7).
• Likely the curl-browed blond snapping “SAME TO YOU!!!” at a visor-goggled ally’s “HEY!! GET THE JOB DONE RIGHT!!” in the closing rain panels (p. 15) — attribution likely-not-certain, verify.

Elbaf (Ch. 1180) — at the Great One’s crater; nearly caught in the blast — shown

Elbaf — demon mop-up quip (Ch. 1179) — shown

• @1179 a beaten demon vows “I’m going to personally remember your name, Sanji…for revenge!!… NOW SAY MINE!!” — Sanji: “I forget…” (p. 9). (last_appearance 1177→1179. )

Elbaf (Ch. 1177) — shown

Elbaf (Ch. 1176)

• Joins the assault to make the Lindworm disgorge Zeus, using Ifrit Jambe and “Concasser Crush” (pp.11-13); admires Nami’s preparedness (“that’s our Nami! she’s always prepared!,” p.5).
• See Elbaf’s Fear-Manifestation Attack.

Elbaf (Ch. 1175) — shown

Elbaf (Ch. 1173) — “just save the children” — shown

Final Saga — Elbaf — with the rescue force (Ch. 1172) — shown

• Present in the giant force; questions how three human-sized foes can carry giant children (p.3); shown in the p.10 map group.

Final Saga — Elbaf — the Groggy-saurus hunt & cook-up (Ch. 1145) — shown

Final Saga — Elbaf (Ch. 1141) — shown

• At the feast; notices Gerd is missing (“Where did Gerd get off to?”, p. 5).
• (last_appearance 1132→1141 — SHOWN.)

Elbaf — the Livedolls chamber (Ch. 1129)

• Vows to “crush him to bits with my foot” for changing Nami’s clothes (“You mustn’t do that, Sanji.”) (p. 13). Among the crew fleeing across the diorama.

Elbaf (Ch. 1128)

• Shrunken in the terrarium; carries/escorts Nami and deduces the reveal — the edge-”mirrors” faking infinity and the synthetic-resin “block” construction (“we’re nothing but pets in an enormous cage,” pp. 11-12).

Elbaf (Ch. 1127)

• Rescues Nami (“For the crime of making my beloved cry… DEATH!!!”) with Ifrit Jambe: Épaule (p. 12). Afterward eyes the knocked-out Stingmores’ hive as a food source (“Honey’s very nutritious!”); notes the rest of the crew’s whereabouts are unknown.

Egghead — departure for Elbaf (Ch. 1123) — shown

• Unsettled by something Vegapunk said (“just doesn’t sit right with me”, p.5), he frames the Void-Fortnight flashback and pleads with Vegapunk not to die — “I can’t just let you die!! …Pretty please?!” (p.17).
• See Vegapunk Final Message and Sinking World.

Egghead — escape (Ch. 1119) — shown

• Helps inflate the “Dawn Balloon” — strikes Luffy with “Ifrit Jambe, Hell…” on the captain’s order (p. 5).
• See Gomu Gomu no Mi.

Egghead — carries Vegapunk to the ship (Ch. 1111) — shown

• Hauls the wounded Vegapunk toward the escape ship, exhausted (“Huff!! Huff!!”, p. 18); grouped “Sanji & Vegapunk” on the escape-map (p. 9).

Egghead — works the Den Den Mushi; frets over Zoro (Ch. 1110) — shown

• Working the Den Den Mushi to rally the crew off the island; frets over Zoro (“Stupid moss-head, putting the entire crew in danger!!”) but relays “I see him! He’s still fighting!!”

Final Saga — Egghead (Ch. 1108) — shown

• Hauls the mortally wounded Vegapunk clear of the Gorosei fight on Luffy’s order — “Dammit!! Sorry about this, Vegapunk!!!” — dashing for the back of the island (pp. 12–13).

Egghead — among the escaping crew (Ch. 1107) — shown

• Among the crew during the escape; a crewmate (likely Sanji) exclaims “Love is stronger than light!!” as Luffy outpaces Saturn’s laser (p.13). [reader inference on speaker — verify]

Egghead — vows to save Bonney; dashes to her falling capsule (Ch. 1105) — shown

• On the Den Den Mushi with Nami; grins and vows “Don’t worry, Bonney! I’ll bring him back!!” (pp. 5-6).
• Dashes to rescue Bonney as her cut-down capsule falls toward a Kuma-form Pacifista — “Hang on, Bonney, I’ll save you!!!” — cursing Kizaru (pp. 12-13).

Egghead — reacts to the Kuma/Saturn chaos (Ch. 1104) — shown

• Reacts to the chaos — “how come his body is regenerating?!” (Saturn) and “Franky!!” as the fight escalates (pp. 11, 13).

Egghead — shields Bonney from Saturn (Ch. 1095) — shown

• Moves to shield Bonney as Saturn grabs her — “SANJI!!” (p. 4).

Egghead — rescues Bonney from Bluegrass (Ch. 1094) — shown

• Locates Bonney via his “lady-radar” (“when has my lady-radar ever been wrong?!”, p. 5) and breaks off the Vegatank to reach her.
• Rescues Bonney from Vice Admiral Bluegrass with a new technique “Otter Hammer” (p. 9), urging her not to space out over Kuma (“Kuma’s your old man”).

Egghead — peeling off to rescue Bonney (Ch. 1093) — shown

• Breaks off over the comms to rescue Bonney: “I’ll head toward the rear exit!! If Bonney needs to be rescued, I’m there!! This is Sanji speaking!!” — rendezvous at Building A, 2nd floor (p. 4).

Egghead — defending Edison (Ch. 1078)

• Covers Edison and kicks a flame-backed Seraphim (“What would you know about the power of love?”); notes the back-flames won’t disappear (p. 7).

Egghead (Ch. 1077)

• Defends Nami against the Seraphim (“he who makes Nami scream gets the death penalty”); hits the shark-type “Jimbei Jr.” (S-Shark) with Raw Heat Strike (p. 11) and the snake-Seraphim (S-Snake) with Perfume Femur (p. 15), but is briefly petrified by her Love-Love Mellow (p. 15).

Egghead — in the lab fray (Ch. 1076)

• Present in the CP0 lab brawl (p. 9). (Minor on-page beat.)

Egghead / Final Saga (Ch. 1074)

• Present at Punk Records during the search for Vegapunk (pp. 7, 11).

Egghead / Final Saga (Ch. 1071)

• Among the Straw Hats reuniting/regrouping on Egghead as CP0 and the escape plan converge (pp. 13-14).

Egghead (Ch. 1069)

• Watches Luffy’s Gear-5 duel with the awakened Lucci and reacts to Vegapunk’s devil-fruit cosmology — “…such a fascinating world?!!” See Nature of Devil Fruits.

Egghead (Ch. 1064)

• With “Team Sunny” on the Egghead lab tour aboard the VEGAFORCE-01; in the lab, frets that his future research suit “just looks like an aloha shirt” (pp. 13, 17).

Wano Country — Departure (Ch. 1057)

• Among the departing crew at the farewell; comments on Momonosuke still being “just a little boy” (p. 8).

Wano Country — aftermath (Ch. 1050)

• Stands with Yamato and Franky against the holdout Beasts Pirates after Kaido’s defeat (pp. 11-12).

Wano Country — Onigashima Live Floor, vs Queen (conclusion) (Ch. 1035)

• Defeats Queen — caption “Winner: Sanji. Battle of the Pleasure Hall, Leftbrain Tower” (p. 2–3).
• Saves the quarter’s dancers and a pet mouse (Chuji); says “…all… right…” but his body is visibly wrong — the women recoil (“…but are you…?”). On-page set-up for the Germa-modification body-change concern; cross-link Sanji’s Body Begins Changing After Donning The Germa Raid Suit. (GUARD the full exoskeleton/heart-cost conclusion — anything past 1037 stays out.)

Wano Country — Onigashima raid, vs Queen (Ch. 1034)

• Fights Queen in the Skull Dome streets. Confirms in monologue (p. 13) that his body has developed an exoskeleton, his legs now tougher and able to channel “even hotter flames” — exoskeleton, muscle, and speed all increasing his strength. The “failed modification, born human” verdict (Ch. 840) inverts: the modification was dormant, not absent. See Sanji Failed Modification Born Human.
• Turns invisible without the raid suit — pure high-speed movement (Queen: “he doesn’t have his suit on!!”, p. 11), realizing his invisible-man dream from his own body. See Raid Suit, Sanji Secret Dream To Become The Invisible Man.
• Debuts Ifrit Jambe (p. 13) — an escalation of his Diable Jambe flame-kick; finishes with a long French butcher-cut kick volley (Boeuf Burst, Paleron Pound, Basses Côte Blast, Tendron Tenderizer, Flanchet Flayer, Jumeau à Bifteck Blitz, Jarret Jarrer, Poire Poker, Queue Crippler, Collier Coup) that launches Queen across the dome (pp. 13–15). See Sanji Ifrit Jambe Named Flame-Kick Debut, Sanji French Culinary Attack Naming Convention.
• Rejects Queen calling him “Stealth Black” / a Vinsmoke: “Stop treating me like their family!!” (p. 7); states “I’ve already accepted my fate” (p. 10). See Sanji’s Body Begins Changing After Donning The Germa Raid Suit (the acceptance facet folds onto the canonical Sanji-body-change note).

Wano Country — Onigashima, Live Floor vs Queen (Ch. 1033)

• Faces Queen on the Live Floor; learns from her that King is a Lunarian, a near-extinct race once “known as gods” who can survive any natural environment (p. 4).

Wano Country — Onigashima vs Queen (Ch. 1031)

• Terrified the dormant Germa science in his body is awakening — his body “itched” and transformed, and a beaten geisha was found where he’d been “running along deep in thought,” so he can’t be sure he didn’t strike her unconsciously (pp. 13–14), violating his absolute no-hitting-women code. See Sanji’s Body Begins Changing After Donning The Germa Raid Suit.
• Monologue to Luffy: would the crew want “a cruel, cold, emotionless warrior of science” or “the regular flesh-and-blood me, who turns into a helpless wreck whenever I face… a woman?” (p. 15).
• Destroys his raid suit rather than become a Germa soldier — “I’m not going to be a Germa soldier!!! Farewell, Germa!!” (p. 16). See Raid Suit.
• Reveals he secretly planted a Transponder Snail on Zoro; asks Zoro to kill him if his finisher leaves him “not in my right mind.” Re-engages Queen (pp. 17–19). See Sanji Asks Zoro To Kill Him If The Germa Science Takes His Mind.

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid, Performance Floor (Ch. 1029)

• Breaks Queen’s sword with his bare neck with no Haki (p. 2); the Beasts mooks’ gunfire and harpoons bounce off him (p. 4) — his suppressed Vinsmoke exoskeleton is activating. See Sanji Punishment-Absorption Not-Normal-For-Human.
• Recoils in horror as Queen recites Judge’s modification catalog — great physical strength, abnormal regeneration, an exoskeleton, and an unfeeling “heart of ice”: “What’s happening to my body?! …to lose my humanity?!” (p. 3). Fears becoming “like those heartless monsters.” See Sanji Failed Modification Born Human, Sanji’s Body Begins Changing After Donning The Germa Raid Suit.
• Queen presses him to “put on the battle suit” and “show me the power of Germa’s science” (p. 4).

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid, Performance Floor (Ch. 1028)

• Fights Queen’s Brachiosaurus form on the Performance Floor; refuses to wear the Germa raid suit (“they’re not my family at all!! And I’m not wearing it!!”, p. 10) and lands Diable Jambe — Grill Shot / Bien cuit (pp. 11–12).
• Body-change beat: survives Queen’s bone-crushing Brachio-coilus without breaking — “I dunno… it hurts… but I can still move fine!”; bystanders gawk “All of your bones are broken, Sangoro!! Did you turn into a zombie?!” (p. 16). Notes his body is “acting off” (p. 10).
• Dreads awakening dormant Germa modifications like his siblings: “Oh no… I hope I didn’t awaken latent powers like theirs”; “I don’t wanna be a monster like them!!” (p. 17). Develops Sanji Failed Modification Born Human, Sanji Punishment-Absorption Not-Normal-For-Human.

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid, Live Floor (Ch. 1023)

• As “Sangoro,” fights Queen on the Live Floor; out-burns Queen with Diable Jambe (named blows incl. “Bridal Grabber”).
• Reveals his body has felt off since the second time he wore the Germa raid suit; Queen probes him as a Lunarian/cyborg “son of Judge,” and Sanji insists he is “all human.” Planted body-change beat — see Sanji’s Body Begins Changing After Donning The Germa Raid Suit, Sanji Failed Modification Born Human.

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid, Performance Floor (Ch. 1022)

• As “Sangoro,” defends the wounded Zoro from Beasts Pirates and from Charlotte Perospero, who derides him as “Germa’s biggest failure” and invokes the cancelled Pudding marriage (pp. 10-13).
• Teams with the revived Zoro for a combined strike (Diable Jambe / Mouton / Mallet) on King and Queen (pp. 16-17).

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid (Ch. 1020) — referenced

• Off-page, Black Maria mocks Sanji for “selling out” Robin and being “the laughing-stock of all of Oni-shima.” Robin defends him as a kind man who simply relied on her — “truly worthy of being the wings of the King of Pirates” (pp.13-15). See Nico Robin, Black Maria.

Wano Country — Onigashima raid (Ch. 1017)

• Fights Queen; lands a “Collier Strike” (p. 10). Queen repeatedly calls him “Judge’s son”; Sanji snaps “Don’t ever say that name to me!!” — recoiling from his Vinsmoke heritage (pp. 10-11). See Queen’s Interest In Sanji’s Vinsmoke Bloodline.
• Reacts to Queen’s cyborg / MADS reveal: “Was that supposed to be a secret?!” (p. 11).

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid (Ch. 1015)

• On the Live Floor, deflects Queen’s Candy Shower arrow barrage with a Diable Jambe “Rotisserie” spin-kick, shielding the despairing samurai (“He’s deflecting the arrows for us!!”) (pp. 5–6).
• Recognized by Queen as “Judge’s son” — a Beasts mad scientist clocks his Vinsmoke/Germa bloodline (p. 8). See Queen’s Interest In Sanji’s Vinsmoke Bloodline.
• Praises a tearful Chopper for holding the line (“How many miracles have you seen? …Don’t cry, idiot.”).
• Entrusts the gravely wounded, unconscious Zoro to allies (“He’s got the strength of ten when he’s healthy. Take care of him!!”) and squares off against Queen alone.
• New named technique: Rotisserie (a Diable Jambe variant — a deflection spin-kick), pp. 5–6.

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid (Ch. 1012)

• Catches the wrapped, sleeping Zoro after Law’s switch and is told to keep him alive (“I’m not a doctor, man!!”).
• Briefly relieved to find Kin’emon (“Sangoro!!”) and learns Kin’emon is already heading to protect Momonosuke.

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid (Ch. 1006)

• Agonizes over which way to run — toward the sealed storeroom (opposite Kin’emon’s group) or to help on the Live Floor: “Which side needs me more right now?!”; hears the broadcast and asks who “Young Master Yamato” is (pp. 4–5).

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid (Ch. 1005)

• Webbed in Black Maria’s third-floor trap; the subordinates expect him to die silent and defiant, but he screams “ROBIIIIN!! HELP ME!!” island-wide over the den-den-mushi broadcast (p. 5) — secretly playing along so Nico Robin can locate and ambush Black Maria.
• His “no kicking women” chivalry leaves him unable to fight Black Maria seriously (“I wouldn’t want to hurt a lady’s fist…”; his Armament Haki “going soft,” pp. 9–13). After the rescue he bolts for Kin’emon’s group, dreading the island heard him beg (imagined Zoro: “your last will?”). See Sanji Chivalry Toward Women.

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid (Ch. 1004)

• Captured in Black Maria’s spider-web after his code against hitting women left him unable to win; refuses to call for Robin, warning “Underestimate Nico Robin… at your own peril…” (pp. 14–15). See Sanji Chivalry Toward Women.
• Helpless to stop Black Maria when King orders her to go finish off the wounded Scabbards (“No, stop!! Don’t go!!”) (p. 16).

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid (Ch. 997)

• On the Skull Dome’s third floor, lured by a staged woman-in-distress and snared by the Black Maria Tobi Roppo’s spider-web “Naughty Trap”; his bounty is cited at ฿330,000,000. Flirts back (“I love you!!!”) then refuses and insults her (“Boy?!”) — she turns vicious (pp. 2–5).

Wano Country — Onigashima raid (Ch. 993)

• Battles the Headliner Briscola alongside Jinbei (“Party Table,” “Kick Course”), boasting he’ll clear the mooks “in three” seconds (pp. 7–8); the crew reminds him to conserve strength for Kaido.

Wano Country — Onigashima raid, Live Floor (Ch. 991)

• Peels off to fight Scratchmen Apoo on the Live Floor (“Sanji, cover your ears!!”); lands a slash through Apoo’s sound attack. Entrusts Nami’s safety to Usopp (“Usopp, I’m counting on you to keep Nami safe for me!!”) (pp. 7–8).

Wano Country — Onigashima raid, Live Floor (Ch. 990)

• Present with the crew fighting onto the Performance Floor (pp. 13–16).

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid (Ch. 988)

• Fights invisibly in the Germa Raid Suit (“Stealth Black”) to save Momonosuke from a flying Gifter; the Gifter pierces a hole clean through his unseen body (“the invisibility’s just a visual thing… a big gaping hole in the stomach could kill someone!!!”), worrying the crew (pp. 9–10).

Wano Country (Ch. 983)

• In the Pleasure Hall with Nami’s group; refuses to give up “finding ladies” even as the others want to escape and find Lord Momonosuke (p. 4).

Wano Country — Onigashima (Ch. 981)

• Nearly sucked into Black Maria’s Pleasure Hall by “woman trouble” as the infiltration team crosses the wisteria bridge (“It’s like he’s being sucked right into the entrance!!!”, pp. 12-13); resolves to “find a way to escape on my own.” His exit from the hall (seeing no women) lets the team cross the bridge (p. 14).

Wano Country — counting the missing allies (Ch. 975)

• Aboard the Sunny, runs through the absent forces — “the 200 yakuza from all over the nation?… I don’t see them” (p. 4).

Wano Country (Ch. 954)

• Present at the Kozuki strategy meeting; reacts to the muster of allies — “…of all of Wano!!” (p. 11).

Wano Country (Ch. 945)

• As “Soba Mask”/Sangoro he duels Page One in Rasetsu Town. Bristles when his cover-name is mocked; Page One’s faction names him a Vinsmoke (pp. 5–6) — his identity has leaked to the enemy (via Hawkins / Bao Huang surveillance). See Sanji Stealth Black Reveal Restages The Caped Vinsmoke Raid-Suit Label-Splash.

Wano Country — Rasetsu Town (Ch. 944)

• Fights at the execution grounds as “Sangoro the rebel,” covering the rescue of Toko and the recovery of Yasuie’s body; trades jabs with Zoro (pp. 2, 7–8).

Wano Country — Rasetsu Town (Ch. 943)

• As “Sangoro,” the soba cook “who defied the Kyoshiro Family,” bursts in with Zoro to deflect Orochi’s bullets and save Toko at the execution-ground cliffhanger (p. 17).

Wano Country — Flower Capital bathhouse raid (Ch. 936)

• His Wano cover identity is revealed as “Soba Mask”; the Tobi Roppo are dispatched to eliminate him (pp. 10, 13). Established as from the North Blue (alongside X Drake) (p. 14).
• Crashes the bathhouse raid ogling, briefly collapses from blood loss, then deploys the Germa 66 raid suit Stealth Black (“the real thing”) to extract Nami, Robin, Shinobu and the others through the air (pp. 13-15). See Germa 66, Raid Suit.

Wano Country (Ch. 931)

• In the Flower Capital, dons the Germa No. 3 raid suit “Stealth Black” on-page for the first time to fight Page One and shield the townspeople; insists he’s “only testing it out” and has not “sunk to the level of being Germa” (pp. 2-4).
• Names his masked persona “Soba Mask” — unanimously rejected by his crewmates as the worst possible name (p. 5).
• The suit makes him invisible (projects the background over his body); his childhood dream of becoming an invisible man comes true through the Germa science he hates rather than the Clear-Clear Fruit he coveted — “the dream I thought was dead… has come true with the power I hated!! Germa’s science!!” (pp. 7-8) — pays off Sanji Secret Dream To Become The Invisible Man.
• Survives Page One’s explosive assault (the suit is durable) and slips away invisibly; resolves to have Franosuke (Franky) and Usohachi (Usopp) redesign the suit (pp. 9-10).

Wano Country (Ch. 930)

• As “Sangoro,” the target of a Beasts-Pirates manhunt after beating the Kyoshiro Family; Page One smashes soba shops across the Flower Capital to flush him out (pp. 12-15).
• Refuses to let innocents suffer — reveals himself (“I’M RIGHT HERE!!!”), sends Law’s group ahead, and braces to fight Page One while hiding his identity: “…as long as they don’t find out who I am” (pp. 15-17). See Sanji Secret Dream To Become The Invisible Man.

Wano Country (Ch. 929)

• Still undercover in/around the Flower Capital as the soba cook “Soba Cook”; now the target of the Tobi Roppo (X Drake, Page One), who have “come to kill that Soba Cook” (pp. 17–18). With Trafalgar Law and Basil Hawkins nearby; Law tells “Black-Leg” to hide.

Wano Country (Ch. 927)

• Works undercover in the Flower Capital as the soba cook “Sangoro,” running the wildly popular “Sangoro’s Special Soba” stand (p. 2).
• Refuses the Kyoshiro Family’s protection-money shakedown (“No need. I’m plenty tough”); when the thugs deliberately knock his soba over, his trademark fury at wasted food boils over and he shuts the stand to fight them (pp. 4-8).
• Gives free soba to the kamuro Toko whose bowl was spilled, and is charmed by her laughter (pp. 9-11).

Wano Country (Ch. 926)

• Runs a wildly popular soba cart in the Flower Capital under the alias “Sangoro,” drawing huge crowds with his “special soba.” Local yakuza note he is muscling in on someone’s turf (p. 9). (No Germa raid-suit / “Stealth Black” / Soba Mask on-page yet — record only the soba-cart cover.)

Wano Country (Ch. 922)

• Exasperated by Luffy’s recklessness — “Apart for mere hours, and what does he go off and do?… Geez, Luffy.” (p. 5).

Wano Country (Ch. 921)

• At the war council; assigned to draw a crowd (and find allies) with his cooking. Comic beats over Kiku and the kunoichi disguises; goes into shock at Shinobu’s reveal (pp. 4–8).

Wano Country (Ch. 919)

• Has returned to the crew at Wano (“Sir Sanji has returned to the crew!!”, p. 15); reunites with Luffy at the Oden Castle ruins.

Wano Country (Ch. 910)

• Swoons over the Reverie newspaper photos of Vivi; cuts the photos out (with Chopper), enraging Brook (pp.3, 5).
• Rattles off Wano koi recipes (chilled, koikoku miso stew, tempura, sweet soy) (p.9).
• Helps crew the ship through the waterfall ascent (pp.11–14).

Reverie / Levely (Ch. 904) — referenced, not shown

• Ch. 904 p. 2 — Revolutionaries/Newkama gossip about “the Vinsmoke prince” Sanji and Germa’s expulsion from the World Government; “not a word of it to me, what a cad!!” (an Ivankov-style lament over Sanji’s silence).

Reverie / Levely (Ch. 903)

• New bounty 330,000,000, but the wanted poster is printed “Vinsmoke Sanji,” devastating him; his number rose only “because of Germa’s infamy” (pp. 4–5). See Germa 66.
• Refuses to lean on the Germa raid suit Niji slipped him: “If I’m gonna get stronger, I won’t do it by relying on THIS THING and the power of science!! …Science is the power of mankind itself!!” — keeps but disowns it (pp. 2–4).
• Forbids the crew from speaking the names “Germa 66” or “Vinsmoke” in his presence (p. 4).

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 902)

• Aboard the fleeing Thousand Sunny, grief-stricken over Pedro: “All because he came to help get me back…” Nami and Carrot console him; he affirms “I know what kind of man he was” (pp. 4–6).
• Pudding flashback recaps his sincere “…beautiful eye…” and “…if somebody had to play the role of my fiancé, I’m glad it was you, Pudding.” (pp. 9–11).
• Recovers enough to cook for the crew (“You hungry?! I’ll feed you!! …We can talk after that!!”); wonders “what happened while I was away…?” as the chapter cuts to the Baratie (pp. 19–20).

Whole Cake Island — the cook who pacified a Yonko (Ch. 900)

• Flashback to the bake: the WCI 31 chefs marvel “He’s a true cook, through and through!!”; Sanji insists he can finish a crucial step “in two hours” and grins because he’s “imagining Big Mom’s face when she tastes how delicious this is” (p. 5).
• Payoff: his cake ends Big Mom’s craving and saves all of Totto Land — a chef’s cooking literally pacifies an Emperor (pp. 6-8). See Only A Wedding Cake Will End Big Mom’s Craving Rampage (confirmed @0900).

Whole Cake Island — shot and bleeding aboard the Sunny (Ch. 899)

• Reaches the Sunny shot and bleeding; Chopper triages him (“You’ve been shot!”, p. 8).
• His cooking is praised across Totto Land as surpassing even head chef Streusen’s; Chiffon brings the cake to Fluffy Island because she believes in his recipe (p. 6).
• Overhears Judge brand him “the failure of Germa” — a denunciation the crew reads as a list of his best qualities (pp. 10–12).

Whole Cake Island — the Cacao Island escape; carries Luffy to the Sunny (Ch. 898)

• On Cacao Island, told by his brothers to “take that wounded fellow and get off the island” (p. 2), Sanji carries the unconscious Luffy on his back and breaks for the harbor while Niji and Ichiji cut down the Big Mom Pirates pursuers.
• Escapes in his own suit (NOT a raid suit — none appears on-page): flies over the rooftops via his own Sky-Walk (p. 13) to break out of town past Oven’s gunners, while the Vinsmokes lay down covering fire (Reiju’s Pink Hornet, p. 16). Coordinates the escape with Jinbei by transponder snail — “Pass by the harbor at full speed!!” (p. 5).
• Leaps off the island onto the waiting Thousand Sunny, greeted by the cheering crew — “I can see it ahead, Luffy!” (p. 17).

Whole Cake Island — Sky-Walks in to rescue Luffy on Cacao Island (Ch. 897)

• Speaks first over the transponder snail confirming “That’s Straw Hat Luffy!! Luffy’s out!!” (p. 9), then Sky-Walks (“moon walk”) across the Cacao Island sky to catch the falling Luffy (p. 12) and run him to safety under fire from Oven’s forces.
• At the harbor the arriving Germa fleet and a Vinsmoke brother greet him — “What a coincidence, Sanji…” (p. 17) — setting up the family reunion.

Whole Cake Island — farewell to Pudding; “one last thing” (Ch. 896)

• Shares a genuine farewell with Pudding across the distance: tells her he’s glad it was her who had to play his fiancée, even though the wedding was a Big Mom Pirates trap and they are “enemies” (pp. 4-5).
• Cuts off her tearful apology (“SHUDDUP!!”), reassures her he wasn’t mocking her, then asks for “one last thing… before you go!!” — the title drop; the request’s content is left unrevealed (p. 5). See Sanji Calls Pudding’s Third Eye Beautiful Seeds Her Heart-Turn.
• Established (via Bege’s crew) as having baked the cake now being hauled toward Cacao Island for the escape (p. 11).

Whole Cake Island — transporting the cake with Pudding; “I’m gonna save my captain!!!” (Ch. 894)

• Pushes the giant cake toward the island’s edge with Charlotte Pudding (p. 13); thanks her — “None of this would be possible without you” — and vows “And I’m gonna save my captain!!!”

Whole Cake Island — back aboard the Sunny; the escape plan (Ch. 892)

• Having brokered the cake-truce with Perospero, leaps from Bege’s cake-ship back to the Thousand Sunny — “Yo. I’m back!!” (pp. 7-8).
• Lays out the escape plan to the reunited crew: rendezvous with Luffy at Cacao Island at one o’clock (~3 hours out); the Charlotte fleet has “confirmed” the crew as a true threat and barricades the island (pp. 12-13).

Whole Cake Island — the cook’s cake, not a weapon (Ch. 889)

• Flatly refuses Bege’s plan to lace the wedding cake with poison and explosives — “there is absolutely no way I will allow you to do that!!!” — staking his pride as a cook on defeating Big Mom with flavor (pp. 8-9).
• Feeds Bege a taste of his cream and the don collapses “dying of flavor”; tells Bege he is free to assassinate her but not until “I’m satisfied my customer” — “when someone’s hungry, I feed them” (pp. 9-10). Then heads for the Sunny: “Be safe, Nami” (p. 10). See Only A Wedding Cake Will End Big Mom’s Craving Rampage.

Whole Cake Island — the one-leg cake-lift aboard the escaping fortress (Ch. 887)

• Aboard Bege’s escaping fortress; lifts the colossal wedding-cake cart with a single leg (“He’s lifting it with one leg… A cook?!”, pp. 7-8) — refuses the “Germa” label (“I’m not with Germa.”).
• Frets that Oven’s boiling sea will melt the cream and ruin the chocolate, jeopardizing the substitute cake meant to placate Big Mom (p. 12). See Only A Wedding Cake Will End Big Mom’s Craving Rampage.
• Pudding swoons over him (“Sanji, dear ♡”, p. 7).

Whole Cake Island — disguised rescue of Chiffon on Cacao (Ch. 886)

• In disguise to protect Pudding’s cover, KOs Oven in a single hidden blow and carries Chiffon to the harbor without revealing himself — Chiffon only knows “Black-Leg saved me” (pp. 4, 8-11).

Whole Cake Island — the cake finished; Simsim Whip (Ch. 885)

• At Cacao Island’s sweets factory (Chocolat Town), bakes the substitute wedding cake with Pudding and Chiffon; protects Pudding’s cooking ability — “I can’t afford to lose your cooking ability right now” (p. 16).
• Finishes the cake with his secret cream, Simsim Whip — “the true essence of sweetness” — and prepares to sail it toward the Sunny; resolves to “knock out Big Mom” because “my friends are in trouble” (pp. 16-17). See Only A Wedding Cake Will End Big Mom’s Craving Rampage.

Whole Cake Island — the replacement cake (Ch. 884)

• At the Chocolat Town factory baking the replacement wedding cake with Pudding and Chiffon to halt Big Mom’s craving rampage; deduces the Straw Hats are heading to the Cacao Island rendezvous and that Luffy “can’t beat Brother Katakuri” yet (pp. 12-16).
• Resolves to “make the greatest wedding cake ever to stop Mama in her tracks”; learns Luffy is fighting the billion-berry, never-defeated Katakuri alone (p. 15).

Whole Cake Island — set as the Cacao-Island rendezvous (Ch. 881)

• Reported to be on Cacao Island making a replacement wedding cake; set as the crew’s rendezvous (p. 12). Not shown.

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 880) — the secret head chef; rebuilds the recipe by scent

• Smuggled into the Sweets Factory by Pudding, he leads the cover-up bake (p. 5).
• Identifies the cake’s ingredients by scent alone and reconstructs Streusen’s week-long secret recipe so perfectly the chefs are stunned (“YOU did this, SIR?!!” — “I did. Let me know if there are any mistakes,” p. 6–7) — a showcase of his elite palate.
• Directs the brutal timetable (within 2h40m for the core steps; the cake on the Sunny in ~3 hours), demanding “aggressive cooking,” all to help his crew escape and stop Big Mom razing the country (p. 8–9). See Only A Wedding Cake Will End Big Mom’s Craving Rampage.

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 879)

• Rides a flying carpet with Pudding to Cacao Island / Chocolat Town to bake a replacement wedding cake (to calm Big Mom). Gently teases a flustered Pudding (“Great! Let’s get baking. Dear.”, p. 10). See Only A Wedding Cake Will End Big Mom’s Craving Rampage.

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 876)

• Accepts Pudding/Chiffon’s plan: as a first-class cook he will bake the one substitute cake that can satisfy and subdue Big Mom’s craving (pp. 9-10).
• Sets off on the carpet-homie Rabian with Pudding & Chiffon toward Chocolat Town on Cacao Island for ingredients.
• Closing line / resolve: “Let’s whip up a cake so good… it’ll knock Big Mom’s lights out!!!” (p. 18). See Only A Wedding Cake Will End Big Mom’s Craving Rampage.

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 875)

• Runs with the escaping group through the Seducing Woods, coordinating the retreat (“Run as far away from them as you can!! Everyone!!”, p. 12).

Whole Cake Island — the chateau-wall break-out (Ch. 871)

• Part of the escaping alliance during the chateau-wall break-out under Caesar’s cover (pp. 2-4, 14-15).

Whole Cake Island — the parting with Judge (Ch. 870)

• Asked by Judge why he saved the Vinsmokes, answers it’s so the father who raised him (Zeff) won’t be ashamed to see him stay shackled to childhood hatred (pp. 8-9).
• Renounces his lineage: “Vinsmoke Sanji died at sea. I ran away from Germa 13 years ago” (p. 9).
• Forces Judge to admit paternity is his “secret shame,” then parts with him by quoting Judge’s own disowning words back — “You are not… don’t ever show your face around me again!!!” (p. 10). See Judge Disowns Sanji As His Secret Shame.
• Rejects Luffy’s help (“I do not need help…”, p. 12); leaps out with Luffy to strike Big Mom — Diable Jambe: Crosse (pp. 16-17).

Whole Cake Island — pulling Nami out (Ch. 869)

• Speed-blitzes through the smoke to rescue Nami from an enemy’s grip during the breakout (pp. 6-7).

Whole Cake Island — saves Reiju (Ch. 865)

• Runs through the tea-party chaos shielding his siblings; shouts “RUN FOR IT, REIJU!!!” and protects Reiju from a homie-gun (p. 6).
• Reiju thanks him; her “my heart has been redeemed at last” beat is a direct response to Sanji’s compassion — a redemption note for the Vinsmoke bloodline.

Whole Cake Island — the act drops; Pudding fires on him (Ch. 864)

• Pudding reveals her true murderous nature to his face and shoots at him (p. 6); his stunned “Even your—self… Pudding?” is the chapter’s emotional hinge between them. Seeds her heart-turn — see Sanji Calls Pudding’s Third Eye Beautiful Seeds Her Heart-Turn.

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 863) — at the altar; steadies Pudding

• At the altar; encourages Luffy (“You can do it, Luffy!!”) and steadies Pudding as the plan begins (p. 6).

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 862) — the altar; “a beautiful eye”

• Stands at the altar with Pudding through the vows (pp. 3, 8-9). Lifts her veil, sees her hidden third eye, and — to the crowd’s shock — calls it a “beautiful eye” (pp. 10-11), the line that breaks Pudding’s composure and stops her from shooting. See Sanji Calls Pudding’s Third Eye Beautiful Seeds Her Heart-Turn.
• When Big Mom orders the priest to shoot him, Sanji dodges the bullet (pp. 13-14) — exactly as Charlotte Katakuri foresaw.
• The gunshot is the cake-ambush signal; moments later Luffy’s group bursts from the cake to take him back (pp. 14-17).

Whole Cake Island — spies on Pudding’s rehearsal; announced at the altar (Ch. 861)

• Spies on Pudding rehearsing her sweet-bride act in the ninth-floor waiting room; gets fooled, nosebleeds, and flies into the wall (pp. 12-13). See Pudding’s Presented Sweetness.
• Announced at the altar as “the third son of Vinsmoke, Vinsmoke Sanji,” to wed Pudding in a “Mariage de Raison” allying Germa 66 and Big Mom (pp. 16-17).
• Cuttingly admires the MC’s salesmanship — “Man, this guy’s sellin’ it! What an actor!!” (p. 17).

Whole Cake Island — the groom at the tea party (Ch. 860)

• Appears as the groom at the tea party, smoking quietly in a corner as Big Mom opens the festivities (p. 17). Reiju frets that he hasn’t run away (pp. 6-7).

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 859) — the groom in on the plot

• Questions whether Big Mom can even be killed with guns/cannons (p. 2); knows Pudding is set to shoot him at the kiss-cue and plans to dodge, making the shot the signal (p. 11).
• Leaves to take his place as the groom (“Groom’s got to be in his bedroom”) two and a half hours before the tea party (p. 13).

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 858) — arrives at Bege’s base; backs the alliance

• Arrives at Bege’s base with Luffy; greeted as the “Germa hero” by Vito (p. 7).
• Pragmatically backs the assassination alliance — Bege “can’t kill” Sanji, who is needed at the altar (pp. 7, 15).

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 857) — the rain reunion via the mirror shard; agrees to the Bege meeting

• On the rainy Sweet City outskirts with Luffy and Jinbei; ashamed he forced the crew through the ordeal and afraid to face Nami (pp. 2-3).
• Reunites with the crew via the Mirro-World shard; Nami says she’ll “never forgive” him then instantly forgives, and Luffy vows to crash the wedding and save Sanji’s family before bringing him home (pp. 6-8).
• Reluctant to expose the crew to an Emperor’s wrath over his own family; agrees to the meeting with Bege (pp. 6, 16).

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 856) — the rain confrontation; the three reasons; the breakdown

• In the rain at the edge of Sweet City, Sanji insults, kicks, and beats a starving Luffy who refuses to leave — then drops a crushed box lunch (“Eat. If you can eat this…”) and, when Luffy calls it delicious, answers “Liar.” (pp. 9–11).
• Lays out his three reasons he can’t return: (1) he can’t face the captain he tracked down only to insult; (2) Zeff and the Baratie are held hostage to force his compliance; (3) he can’t abandon even the Vinsmokes — “scum I owe nothing but hatred” — to be slaughtered at the tea party (pp. 12–14).
• Refuses to fight back against Luffy’s demand to “tell me how you really feel,” then breaks down: he wants to go back to the Sunny, even while still wanting to save the family he despises (pp. 15–17). Luffy commits the crew to crashing the wedding: “You’ve got us!!!”
• See Zeff And The Baratie Held Hostage To Force Sanjis Compliance, Sanji-Zeff Shared Starvation Bond, Sanji Might Never Return To The Crews Side After The Two-Days-Ago Catastrophe.

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 855) — searching for Luffy in the rain; finds him collapsed

• Runs through the rain outside Sweet City searching for Luffy, who promised to wait for him; reads that Luffy and “the Cat Burglar” (Nami) have reportedly been apprehended (pp. 3, 13).
• Finds Luffy collapsed, beaten and starving amid a battlefield of downed soldiers at their meeting spot — stomach growling (the GLURRGLE cliffhanger) (p. 17). See Luffy Will Starve Until Sanji Returns.

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 854) — cooks for the crew in secret; the title-drop

• Slips out of his guarded 6th-floor room (a maid is found asleep in his bed) to secretly cook everyone’s favorite dishes in the Whole Cake Chateau kitchen (pp. 10, 14).
• Caught by a Charlotte cook — “What are you doing, Sanji?!” (the chapter’s title drop) — he beats him and flees with the food (“…doesn’t belong to you!!!!”) (pp. 14-17).
• Wracked with doubt, remembering Luffy’s vow to “just sit here and starve” until Sanji returns — “Yeah… what am I doing?!” (pp. 15, 17). See Luffy Will Starve Until Sanji Returns.
• Is the wedding-trap’s primary target: Pudding will shoot him at the kiss to trigger the Vinsmoke massacre (pp. 8-9). See Big Mom Plans To Assassinate The Entire Vinsmoke Family At The Wedding, Sanji’s Wanted Poster Reads Only Alive.

Whole Cake Island — referenced as the wedding “sacrifice”; not shown (Ch. 853) — referenced

• Referenced, not shown (the chapter is titled “Not Here” — Luffy cannot find him). Per his sister Reiju (relayed to Luffy): Sanji knows Pudding has been lying, was worried about hostages befalling Baratie/the East Blue and his crew, and tried to get them off the island (pp. 13–15).
• Named as Big Mom’s “sacrifice” at the wedding, where the entire Vinsmoke family is to be put to death (p. 16). Luffy still trusts only Sanji’s cooking (“I won’t eat anyone’s food… but yours anymore!!!”). See Big Mom Plans To Assassinate The Entire Vinsmoke Family At The Wedding.

Whole Cake Island — Reiju reveals the trap; Sora’s sacrifice (Ch. 852)

• Learns from Reiju in the Chateau medical room that the wedding is a trap — Big Mom means to slaughter the Vinsmokes, Pudding is complicit, and the marriage was never going to protect Luffy & co. (p. 8).
• His backstory revealed: genetically engineered like his brothers, but his mother Sora poisoned herself to halt the modification, leaving Sanji with human emotions — “Germa’s failure,” derided by Judge but cherished by Sora, who died proud of him (pp. 10-13).
• His memories had been tampered with to hide the truth (p. 3). See Sanji’s Replaced Memories.
• Reiju reveals his exploding wristlets are already swapped for harmless ones and urges him to flee with the Straw Hats; the hostage leverage on him (the Baratie / Zeff) comes from the Vinsmokes, not Big Mom (p. 10, 16-17). See Reiju Swaps Sanji’s Exploding Bracelets.

Whole Cake Island — the ray of light is a lie (Ch. 850)

• Cooks far too much food for Pudding in his Chateau guest room, then sets off to “bask in my only ray of light remaining” — bringing her a gift (p. 4).
• At her veranda window he sees her with his sister Reiju and overhears Pudding’s true self and the assassination plot: the entire Vinsmoke Family and Sanji are to be killed at the wedding so Big Mom can seize Germa 66’s clone army and Judge’s science (pp. 12-17). He crushes the gift in the rain, devastated (p. 17). See Charlotte Pudding’s Hidden Third Eye.

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 849) — cooks for Pudding

• Takes over a chateau kitchen to personally cook for Pudding, worried she skipped her last meal (“Pudding didn’t show up for that last meal… I’m a bit concerned,” p. 11) — extending his feed-the-hungry / chivalry doctrine even toward a fiancée plotting his death.

Whole Cake Island — resolves to go through with the marriage (Ch. 848)

• Alone in his guest room, resolves to go through with the marriage: “I made a deal with Big Mom! She’s gonna let the gang go! And if I just get married, I can save the Baratie too!!” — reasoning that at least nobody will die (p. 6).
• Psyches himself into his cheerful persona for Pudding’s sake: “Be the usual Sanji!… I’m the cook of love!!” (p. 6).

Whole Cake Island — accepts Big Mom’s bargain to spare the crew (Ch. 846)

• Accepts Big Mom’s bargain to protect his crew: agrees to the wedding and to “play by the rules” so she lets his current Straw Hat companions leave the island alive; promises “I’ll make Pudding happy!!” (pp. 10–11). See Germa 66.

Whole Cake Island — the wedding’s eve; Sanji accepts the marriage (Ch. 845)

• At Whole Cake Chateau on the wedding’s eve, Sanji is paraded through Big Mom’s homie-banquet alongside his father Judge; he tells Pudding “we had a little problem, but it’s all sorted now” (pp. 9-10).
• Reveals his reasoning to Pudding: resisting the marriage means Zeff (“the man who might as well be my real father”), his crew, and Pudding’s people all get wiped out, so he has “decided not to resist anymore” — “My adventure ends here” (pp. 14-15).
• Pudding notices the bruises his family left on him; Sanji admits his blood relations see him as a failure they’ll never forgive (p. 13). See Sanjis Bruises Betray Vinsmoke Family Abuse.
• Accepts Pudding’s proposal: agrees to marry her “tomorrow” (p. 17). See Bege Delivers Big Moms Wedding Invitation Sanji Pudding.

Whole Cake Island — Luffy vs. Sanji; the one-sided beating (Ch. 844)

• In a formal black suit, flanked by a Germa 66 escort and Pudding, coldly orders Luffy to “get lost,” claiming he is aligning with the rich, powerful Big Mom Pirates over Luffy’s “tiny, poor crew.” Demands Luffy put up his fists, then beats him one-sidedly (Joue Shot, Diable Jambe, Concasse).
• Weeps the entire time — the cruelty is self-inflicted (“you’re the one feeling the pain!!!”, p. 15). Takes Nami’s slap, says goodbye, and departs with the Germa carriage — but is visibly broken by Luffy’s refusal to give up on him (pp. 16–17). See Sanji Rejects Luffy In Tears Vinsmoke Prince Facade.

Whole Cake Island — Vinsmoke prince reveal; rejects the crew (Ch. 843)

• Arrives in a Germa 66 carriage; reunites with Luffy, who leaps aboard (“WE CAME TO GET YOU, SANJI!!!!”).
• Self-declares on-page: “My name is Vinsmoke Sanji… a Prince of Germa Kingdom!!!” (p. 18) — confirming his Vinsmoke royalty in his own words.
• Kicks Luffy away, calls the crew “miserable, inferior pirates,” and refuses to return (“I’m not going back!!!”) — but weeps as he does it (pp. 17-19). Resolves to “drive him off.” See Sanji Rejects Luffy In Tears Vinsmoke Prince Facade.

Whole Cake Island — Reiju treats him; the Zeff chivalry flashback (Ch. 842)

• At Germa, Reiju treats his beaten face and asks where he got his chivalry (p. 8) — cueing a flashback of Zeff teaching young Sanji “a man can’t kick a woman” (pp. 8-9): the on-page origin of Sanji’s defining code. See Zeff Origin Of Sanji’s No-Kicking-Women Code, Sanji Chivalry Toward Women.
• Repeats Zeff’s idiom (“It’s just the style from the age of the dinosaurs”, p. 9), then is escorted into a Germa carriage to leave for the gift exchange at Whole Cake Chateau (p. 10). See Zeff The True Father Owns His Own Mistakes — Vinsmoke Judge Contrast.

Whole Cake Island — the Germa childhood flashback (Ch. 841)

• Six months imprisoned. Young Sanji is held in an iron mask in the Germa dungeon as the family “failure” (p.2 caption: “Six months into Sanji’s imprisonment”).
• Secret cook for his dying mother. He sneaks a self-cooked meal through a storm to the bedridden Queen — his gravely ill mother Vinsmoke Sora — who delights in it (“Mmm, yummy!!”, p.7) and orders the staff to serve only what Sanji made (pp.5-7).
• All Blue is born here. Given “a cookbook and tools,” he reads of the All Blue (p.7) and resolves “to be a cook” (p.10) — the origin of his lifelong dream. See Sanji All Blue Dream.
• The emotional exception. Reiju confirms the brothers were augmented into emotionless soldiers while she and Sanji kept their feelings (p.8). See Germa Soldiers Lack Emotion Reiju And Sanji Exceptions.
• Disowned and freed. Judge gives him the iron-mask key and lets him go on one condition — never reveal Judge is his father (“my secret shame,” p.13) — fakes his death to the brothers, and orders him to run and never return (pp.8, 12-14). See Judge Disowns Sanji As His Secret Shame.
• Present (Seducing Woods, off-screen of the fight). Reiju treats the beaten Sanji and asks why he returned to the family he loathed instead of abandoning his old boss Zeff (p.15).

Whole Cake Island — Germa’s clone army truth; the iron-mask flashback (Ch. 840)

• Reiju walks Sanji through Germa 66’s clone-soldier depot and explains the family science; Sanji is sickened by the truth that “human beings can be built” (p. 2-6). See Bloodline Elements, Germa 66 Clone-Soldier Army Lab Reveal.
• Confronts Ichiji and Niji over the beaten cook Cosette; attacks Niji but is subdued and reminded Germa holds hostages of his in the East Blue — “don’t fight back, or blood will run into the East Blue” (p. 8-9). See Germa Hostages In East Blue Leverage Over Sanji.
• Why he fled Germa is revealed: his genetic modification failed — he was born “nothing but a human,” keeping ordinary emotions where his siblings gained exoskeletons (p. 13-14). Declared a failure; told his dead mother’s kindness was “a shadow” (“Your mother is dead!! Stop chasing her shadow!!”, p. 14-15) and forbidden ever to cook (“Never cook again”). See Sanji Failed Modification Born Human, Sanji Dead Mother Cooking Inheritance.
• As a boy he is caged (cell “3”) and forced into an iron mask, begging his father not to erase him (p. 16-17) — confirming the san-ji “third son” encoding visually (he wears “3”; siblings wear 1/2/4). See The Iron Mask Sanji Childhood Imprisonment, Sanji - name foreshadows Vinsmoke third-son birth-order reveal, Sanji Curly Eyebrow Vinsmoke Marker.

Whole Cake Island — the Vinsmoke family dinner; Germa’s clone army (Ch. 839)

• At the Vinsmoke family dinner inside Germa 66, mocked by his brothers (Ichiji, Niji, Yonji) and refuses to eat (p. 4).
• Defends head chef Cosette when Niji strikes her, and eats the spilled food off the floor while reciting its nutritional worth — drawing his family’s contempt for his “poverty mind-set” (p. 6-8). See Food Must Never Be Wasted, Food Equals Mercy Sanji Axiom, Sanji Chivalry Toward Women.
• Throws his family’s values back at them: “a man who raises his hand against a woman… royalty who treat their servants like inhuman objects” (p. 9).
• Judge reveals Big Mom’s intel found Sanji worked two years at the Baratie under Zeff, and threatens Zeff’s head and Sanji’s friends to force the marriage to Charlotte Pudding (p. 11-12). Sanji recalls Zeff’s farewell — “I owe you my life!” (p. 13-14). See Sanji-Zeff Shared Starvation Bond, Judges Bracelet And Sanjis Secret Weakness Wedding-Trap Leverage.
• After Niji beats Cosette unconscious, Yonji leads Sanji into a forbidden chamber where Sanji discovers Germa’s true army — hundreds of vat-grown clone soldiers (p. 15-17). See Germa 66 Clone-Soldier Army Lab Reveal.

Whole Cake Island — his brothers reach port (Ch. 838)

• Inside Whole Cake Chateau, visibly sweating and dreading as his brothers Vinsmoke Niji and Vinsmoke Ichiji arrive at port from “the long war of Brock Collie” (pp. 16-17). Cracker refers to him as “Vinsmoke Sanji.”

Whole Cake Island — restrained for the wedding; the exploding bracelets (Ch. 834)

• Restrained at Whole Cake Island and fitted with explosive escape-proof bracelets that will blow his hands off at the wrist if he leaves the island; only a key removes them (pp. 2-3). He rages at being denied the use of his (cook’s) hands.
• The retrieval group concludes Sanji probably doesn’t even know they’ve arrived (p. 6).

Whole Cake Island — duels his father; cuffed into the wedding (Ch. 833)

• At Yonji Castle in the Kingdom of Germa, duels his father Vinsmoke Judge (“The Garuda”); fights leg-only and now wields Haki (Judge is stunned). Uses Diable Jambe / Collier Coup / Poele a Frire; refuses to use his hands (“My hands exist to cook”).
• Childhood flashback: bullied and caged by his three brothers (all four born the same day), branded “the failure” for cooking and disowned by Judge (“I do not think of you as my son”). See Vinsmoke Sibling Number-Name Code Reiju Zero Yonji Four.
• Rejects Judge’s plan to ally with Big Mom and conquer the North Blue. Judge clamps exploding Celestial-Dragon slave-cuffs on his wrists — Big Mom holds the key — to force him to the wedding. See Sanji Trapped By Exploding Celestial-Dragon Slave Cuffs Big Mom Holds The Key, Slavery.

Whole Cake Island — Vinsmoke royalty revealed; punched by his father (Ch. 832)

• Shown inside the now-depicted Germa kingdom, estranged: “I cut my family ties with you people!!!” — his (unnamed) sister notes it has been “13 years” (p.16). See Sanji Cut His Family Ties Thirteen Years Ago Vinsmoke Estrangement.
• Revealed to be literal Vinsmoke royalty — his sister calls him “royalty, brother… my prince,” attended by ten handmaidens (pp.16–17). Literalizes his long-running “Mr. Prince” / “Prince Charming” self-coding. See Sanji Mr Prince Alias Royal-Coding Vinsmoke-Prince Pre-Tell (confirmed @0832).
• Refuses the arranged marriage to Pudding (“I’m not getting married!!!”); his father Vinsmoke Judge (“Men speak with their fists. Come outside.”) confronts and punches him (pp.17–19).
• Implied to have injured sibling Vinsmoke Yonji (p.19, “Did you do something to Yonji?”).

Whole Cake Island — not present; the woods conjure fake copies of him (Ch. 831)

• The Seducing Woods on Whole Cake Island produces fake/vanishing copies of Sanji that the landing party chases and strikes (pp. 5–14); the real Sanji is not confirmed present. Nami wonders aloud whether Sanji “feels guilty” and whether he would “let all of this happen” to the crew.

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 828)

• Appears in Charlotte Pudding’s flashback (rose-garden silhouette, pp. 8–9): turned down the arranged marriage — “I want to marry you, but I can’t… I need to get back to my crew.” Confirmed a Vinsmoke whose family fronts Germa 66 — the Brock Collie Island commander calls him his brother (p. 15).

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 826)

• Sanji’s siblings debut in his absence: elder sister Vinsmoke Reiju (“Poison Pink”) and younger brother Vinsmoke Yonji (“Winch Green”), both Germa 66, both curly-eyebrowed. The retrieval crew at first mistakes Yonji for Sanji (p. 3-4).
• The “ONLY ALIVE” / B177,000,000 bounty mystery is explained: his father personally bumped the bounty and added the alive-only clause to take him intact for the marriage (p. 14-15). The 2-years-ago look-alike bounty was Duval, not Sanji. See Sanji’s Wanted Poster Reads Only Alive (confirmed @0826).
• Reiju frames Sanji as the brother the family has long searched for, and recalls he was “furious” about the Duval mix-up (p. 14).

Whole Cake Island (Ch. 825)

• Held captive aboard a Big Mom-flagged ship (under Capone Bege / the Firetank Pirates), restated on-page as the bridegroom to tie the Vinsmoke and Charlotte families together (p. 5). Bristles at being lumped in with Germa 66 — “Don’t include me in that group!! I have nothing to do with them!!” (p. 3).
• Left a cooking note in his fish book so the crew could safely prepare a poisonous fish; the crew follows it (pp. 10–11). His bookshelf is “full of naked people” (running gag, p. 10).
• Senses something “real familiar” about the pigtailed woman who protects him (a Lola look-alike, p. 6).

Whole Cake Island (captive escort) (Ch. 824)

• Held aboard Big Mom’s ship, escorted toward Whole Cake Island by Baron Tamago and the Fire-Tank gunman Vito; pressed to follow Germa 66’s example and enter the Big Mom Pirates’ operation at his father’s wish (pp. 16–17).
• Refuses: “the only use for these hands of mine is to cook food for my companions, nothing else!!” — won’t cook for people who “destroy their own partners,” citing what was done to Pekoms (Bege shooting him); “Bege made his business personal” (pp. 17–18).
• Shown a photo of his bride-to-be, Charlotte Pudding (35th Charlotte daughter), and is instantly smitten (“BO ♥ …Charlotte Pudding!!”), p. 19.

Zou — the Vinsmoke army revealed (Ch. 815)

• In absentia (Sanji left @0813 — recalled/discussed only): Pekoms explains Sanji’s heritage to the crew. Sanji’s family, the Vinsmoke, stands atop Germa 66 — a real killer-army (“the War-Mongers” / “Double-Six”); his father is its boss (p. 2).
• Why he had to go: Big Mom’s tea-party invitation is an absolute summons; the wedding is a blood-binding political marriage of the Vinsmoke and Charlotte families, and once it is official Sanji ceases to be a Straw Hat (p. 5–6).
• Luffy refuses to accept it and resolves to crash the wedding to get Sanji back (p. 7–8).

Zou (Ch. 814) — absent; the Vinsmoke name surfaces

• Absent — abducted by Capone Bege’s group (with Caesar Clown) before the chapter. The crew reads his note: his bride is “the daughter of an Emperor” (Big Mom), so honoring the marriage would put the Straw Hats under the Big Mom Pirates. He rejected the idea outright but wrote the letter deliberately so the crew could not be held responsible for failing to stop him (pp. 5–6).
• His family name Vinsmoke is recognized by Robin and elaborated by Brook (North Blue → East Blue → New World) and Pekoms (a famous underworld “family of killers,” p. 17). See The Vinsmoke Family Is A Notorious Underworld Clan Of Killers.

Zou (Ch. 813)

• Trapped with Nami / Chopper / Brook inside Capone Bege’s body-”castle.” Bege delivers a wedding invitation naming Sanji the third son of the Vinsmoke Family, betrothed to Charlotte Pudding, Big Mom’s 35th daughter (pp. 2-5).
• His family name Vinsmoke is revealed on-page; Sanji calls it “a name that makes my backbone crawl” and says “My past was never meant to come back for me again” (pp. 3, 12).
• Reveal: born in the North Blue (North Blue), raised in the East — a separation that means crossing the Red Line, which the crew never knew (pp. 4-5). See Sanji North Blue Birth Vinsmoke Origin.
• His bounty is now ฿177,000,000, stamped ONLY ALIVE (p. 14); he deduces the wedding-arranger is whoever falsified the “Only Alive” capture order. See Sanji’s Wanted Poster Reads Only Alive.
• Writes a note, blasts Nami/Chopper/Brook out of the castle to spare them, and surrenders alone to face his past — “This is my problem… I will be back” (pp. 11-16).

Zou (Ch. 812)

• Revealed on-page as the third son of the Vinsmoke Family — the first time his lineage/surname is stated, when Bege names “Sanji, third son of the Vinsmoke Family” (p. 17). Pays off the san-ji = “third son” name-encoding (Sanji - name foreshadows Vinsmoke third-son birth-order reveal) and the curly-eyebrow lineage marker (Sanji Curly Eyebrow Vinsmoke Marker).
• Big Mom has arranged his marriage to Charlotte Pudding, her 35th daughter — the main event of Big Mom’s tea party (p. 17). See Bege Delivers Big Moms Wedding Invitation Sanji Pudding.
• Mobbed by female minks for “garchu” greetings (pp. 3-4); goes down with Brook to confront the Big Mom Pirates (pp. 8-9).

Zou (Ch. 811)

• In Wanda’s flashback (~10 days earlier) he leads the vanguard’s gas rescue: threatens Caesar into releasing the counteragent Roko (”…I’ll crush your heart in the palm of my hand…”) and downs the lingering Sheepshead with a Diable-Jambe “Moulton Shot” (pp. 5-6).
• In the present he is gone. Wanda reveals a two-days-ago catastrophe means Sanji “might never return to their side”; he left only a letter promising to come back (pp. 18-19). See Sanji Might Never Return To The Crews Side After The Two-Days-Ago Catastrophe.

Zou (Ch. 810)

• Leads the Sunny scouting party into the ruined Mokomo Dukedom (“I’ll go check out what’s past here. Brook! You stay here and protect Nami!!”), spotting clear signs of an attack (p. 13). (Vanguard-arrival flashback — before he departed with the Big Mom Pirates.)

Zou voyage (Ch. 802, off-screen / mentioned)

• Drawn among the crew on the p. 1–2 title spread (Wano samurai/kimono dress). Referenced in-story as “Black-Leg” when Law notes that “Black-Leg’s team” — Sanji’s half of the crew, on the Thousand Sunny — may have reached Zou before Luffy’s party (p. 15).

Dressrosa (aftermath) (Ch. 801) — referenced

• New bounty 177,000,000 (poster no longer a sketch), and uniquely stamped “ONLY ALIVE” — he is to be taken alive (p. 17). See Sanji’s Wanted Poster Reads Only Alive.

Dressrosa — aboard the Sunny vs Big Mom’s ship (Ch. 730)

• Aboard the Sunny as Big Mom’s ship attacks; argues the crew must not turn back and must keep the “three cards” out of Doflamingo’s hands (“Listen up, Luffy!!”) (pp. 12–18).
• Assigned to the Sunny group bound for Zou, but pushes to strike back at Big Mom’s ship first (pp. 17–18).

Dressrosa — reached on the crew call (Ch. 729)

• Reached on the crew Den Den Mushi call (“Is that Sanji? / It’s me!!”); had instructed the others to call him if they met Luffy (pp. 9–10). With Nami in town.

Dressrosa — back to the Sunny (Ch. 725)

• Flirts with Violet as she gives her farewell; on hearing the Thousand Sunny is under Fighting Fish attack (“Nnnami!!!! I’m coming for you!!!”), he races toward the harbor (pp. 7–8).

Dressrosa — the bridge; web-trapped, saved by Law (Ch. 724)

• Covers Nami/Chopper/Brook/Caesar’s retreat on the Greenbit–Dressrosa bridge, attacking Doflamingo with Diable Jambe (“Premiere Hachis Hash,” “Poele a frire Spectre”); is frozen mid-air in Doflamingo’s “Penta-chromatic string” web and nearly killed before Law teleports him to the Sunny.
• Deduces Doflamingo moves by stringing the clouds and tells the crew to flee where the sky is clear; aboard the Sunny, asks after Kin’emon and the others.

Dressrosa (Ch. 723)

• Scouts the Navy presence with Violet northeast toward Greenbit (three thousand sailors, four battleships) and hands a Den Den Mushi + the toy-house map to the Zoro/Kin’emon group (pp. 2, 6–7).
• Races in to intercept the airborne Doflamingo to protect the Sunny crew — “to stay the hell away!!! …When my crew is crying, that’s your cue” — landing a flaming Diable Jambe kick (pp. 18–19).

Dressrosa (Ch. 722) — mentioned only

• Mentioned only: the dwarf escorting Zoro pines for “my sweet, beloved Violet” and calls Sanji “Black-leg” — i.e. Sanji is off with Violet while Zoro handles the ship crisis (p. 13).

Dressrosa — outside the coliseum (Ch. 717)

• With Kin’emon as the Navy rings the Corrida Colosseum; wants to warn Luffy that pirates and criminals are competing openly and the contestants’ entrance is heavily guarded (p. 7).

Dressrosa (Ch. 713)

• With Violet: receives the map to the House-of-Toys factory and the Western Harbor rendezvous; she calls him a “hopeless man” as he swoons (pp. 12-15). Reports to Team Franky by Den Den Mushi: “I fell in love” (p. 12).
• Recruited by Kin’emon (shown-not-named) and a Tontatta dwarf to attack the men who took Kanjuro prisoner and to come to the House of Toys; he balks (“These are the ones who took Kanjuro prisoner… clean these chumps up yourself?!”) (pp. 15-16).

Dressrosa — Captive of Violet (Ch. 712)

• Captured and beaten by the Donquixote assassin Violet before the Caesar hand-off; refuses to fight back against a woman even while she kicks him (pp. 2-4).
• His mind is so full of perverted thoughts about Violet that her mind-reading recoils — protecting the alliance’s real plans (p. 6). His 77,000,000-berry bounty is cited on-page (p. 8).
• His sincere “I will never doubt a woman’s tears” breaks Violet; she defects, frees him, and warns him the alliance is in a trap (pp. 7-9). Sanji is staggered to learn the Seven Warlords have the World Government “at their beck and call” (p. 12) and resolves to warn the crew.

Dressrosa (Ch. 711)

• At the southeast beach of Green Bit, minutes from handing Caesar Clown over, when Trafalgar Law calls to warn him the whole exchange is a trap and to evacuate immediately (pp. 18–19).

Dressrosa (Ch. 705) — “the hurricane of love!!”

• Scene 5 “Sanji in Love”: snipes an assassin aiming at Kin’emon from 16 yards, then falls instantly in love with the woman he rescues — “the hurricane of love!!” (pp. 14–15).

Dressrosa (Ch. 702) — bumps the infamous sunglassed stranger; takes charge

• Collides with an infamous sunglassed elderly stranger in the crowd (“My apologies. Ah…”) and flags him as “no ordinary guy” — possibly an infamous wanted man (pp. 3–4). Takes charge as the group scatters (“given the current cast, I know I’ve gotta step up”, p. 7); with Franky and Kin’emon interrogates a captured Don Quixote thug about SMILE, the “factory,” and the missing samurai (pp. 8–9). See An Infamous Elderly Stranger Crosses Sanji In The Dressrosa Crowd.

Punk Hazard departure — jealous of Momonosuke (Ch. 699)

• Seethes that Momonosuke is bathing/sleeping with Robin and Nami (“my blood is boiling! I… I cannot sleep!!!”, p. 15).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 691) — herds the children out; scolds Zoro

• Herds the panicking children out of the collapsing lab (“No time for wimping out, brats!!”) and scolds Zoro for carrying the gas-fainted Tashigi over his shoulder (pp. 6–7).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 688)

• Arrives leading the G-5 Marines to reinforce the children’s rescue — “No resorting to violence, boys!!!” (p16) — and routes the Marine medical team to Chopper for the sedation injections (p17). Gag beat: a groin-strike “JUST BARELY over the line” of his no-violence rule (p17).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 687) — no-kick-women code vs. the G-5 marines; presses on toward the children

• With the G-5 Marines heading for the Biscuits Room exit to rescue the captive children — “Let’s rescue those brats!!!” (p. 2). See Punk Hazard’s Captive Children.
• Chivalry code restated under pressure: “I don’t kick women, no matter who they are!!” — and when the marines press “but what if you’re in a battle to the death?!” he answers “Then I choose death!!!” (pp. 2–3). Won’t cut Tashigi or Monet (pp. 3–4). The G-5 men note Nami/Robin/Tashigi “say nice things about us.”

Punk Hazard (Ch. 686) — Heat Egg vs Monet; leads G-5

• Defends Nami from Monet — “How dare you go after the weakest link?!!” (p. 8) — and repels the snow-Logia with heat: “Heat Egg!” / “I knew heat would work!” (p. 9).
• Chivalry stops him from fully fighting her — “Ohhh man, that was scary!!!” (p. 12).
• Leads the G-5 Marines after the children — “Follow my lead, men!!” — and feeds Zoro the intel that “Nami and Robin are up ahead” (p. 16).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 685) — vs. the killer gas

• With Tashigi and the G-5 Marines, pushing through Caesar’s killer gas toward the Biscuits Room, complaining about Monet’s blizzard after he shed his coat (pp. 16–17).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 684) — leads the G-5 retreat from the gas; shields Tashigi

• Leads the G-5 marines and Tashigi in a retreat from the leaking “killer gas” flooding Structure B, insisting on keeping Tashigi safe (“Keep running, Tashigi!! …don’t take a wrong turn!”, pp. 8–10).
• The once-hostile G-5 marines warm to him mid-flight, even as they protest he is an enemy pirate (p. 8).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 682) — delivers the children; the dragon-fell kick

• As “Black-Leg,” escorts the rescued children to the G-5 Marines, who cheer him; he insists he “only take[s] concerns from the ladies” (pp. 4-5). See Punk Hazard’s Captive Children.
• Joins Brownbeard’s bus team against the fire-breathing dragon, contributing a finishing kick combo (“Gavotte Bond en Avant,” p. 17).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 681) — Sanji vs. Vergo; covers the fleeing G-5 marines

• Fights through the connecting hallway (Structures A & B), kicking Vergo with “Flanche Strike” and shielding the panicking G-5 marines from the gas-trap — “what are you people doing?! get out of here!!” (pp. 14–15).
• Confronts Vergo directly: deduces his body is “made of metal or something,” names him “the kind of guy… my captain hates the most,” and clashes despite Vergo calling it “an internal matter” (pp. 16–17).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 680) — flies to defend Tashigi against Vergo

• Senses Tashigi’s distress from the Brownbeard “bus” — “I heard the sound of a lady’s teardrops falling” — and flies off to intervene against Vergo on her behalf (pp. 14–16). G-5 marines are baffled to see a Straw Hat pirate defending a Marine captain.

Punk Hazard (Ch. 679) — the “three musketeers” run for the gate

• Among the fighters (with Zoro and Brook) the G-5 dub the “three musketeers” (p. 12), forcing their way down the corridor as the gas closes in.

Punk Hazard (Ch. 678) — “THE DREAM IS DEAD!”

• Restored to his own body by Law and devastated to lose Nami’s body (“THE DREAM IS DEAD! NO!!” / “You don’t have to turn us back!”, pp. 9-10); discovers his own body was beaten badly because Nami’s mind piloted it against Caesar (p. 10).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 677)

• Still stuck in Nami’s body; can’t keep pace fleeing the gas — “I can’t do it! Nami’s lungs… can’t take any more!” (p. 13) — and is mortified by a comedic accidental chest-grab while running.

Punk Hazard (Ch. 675)

• Body-swap group; “Sanji” saves “Nami,” and Sanji’s battered body is noted “all bloody and bruised… but it’s so tough and resilient! I’m still alive” (p. 6).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 674)

• Moral center of the confrontation: demands Caesar let the children “go home!!” and accuses him of poisoning them (pp. 2-5); suffocated and dropped by Caesar’s oxygen-control / Black Ball (p. 8); recovers and resolves to chase the children “outside” (p. 13).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 672) — in Nami’s body

• Operating in Nami’s body (Law’s personality-swap), Sanji dives the poison lake to find the samurai’s torso via Observation Haki, kicks it free of a shark with a Joue Shot (p. 11), then crosses the now-fully-poisoned lake surface with Blue Walk to deliver it — repeatedly worrying he’s overstressing Nami’s body (pp. 10-13). Kin’emon thereafter “owes him his life.”

Punk Hazard (Ch. 671)

• Still mind-swapped into Nami’s body; dives into the lethally cold, poison-tainted central lake to recover Kin’emon’s missing torso — “I’m a better swimmer than anyone here!! I’ll be back before anything happens to this gorgeous body!!” (p. 3).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 669)

• In Nami’s body. Single-handedly beats Caesar’s gas-gunmen while taking care not to bruise “fragile little Nami’s body” / “Sorry about your lungs, Nami” (pp. 6–7) — confirms Sanji’s mind occupies Nami’s body.
• Deduces the lake is ocean water and that Kin’emon’s torso has sunk into it (p. 10).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 665) — mind in Nami’s body; the moral center; goes with Team Zoro

• Mind in Nami’s body (body-swap ongoing). Despite the absurd predicament he is the moral center this chapter — “I feel terrible for these poor kids! They just wanted to go home… Let’s help them!!” — and vows to destroy the Master (p. 14). Goes with Team Zoro to find the samurai (Brook warns “Sanji will be in fighting mode the whole time,” p. 3). See Punk Hazard’s Captive Children.

Punk Hazard (Ch. 661)

• With the lab-escape group (Franky, the giant children, the samurai) inside the laboratory; relocated/scrambled by the Warlord Trafalgar Law’s “Chambres” as they hunt for a back exit away from the Marines (pp. 13-14).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 659)

• “Team Sanji” fights the gas-masked lab guards in the Biscuits Room; taunts them — “Why don’t you take off those masks… and enjoy the gas with us?!” (pp. 10-11) — while shepherding the kidnapped children clear.

Punk Hazard (Ch. 657)

• Wakes first among the gassed cell group on Punk Hazard; spars verbally with the talking severed head and is the one to identify it as a samurai from the Land of Wano by its topknot (pp. 6, 15–16). Refuses to abandon or kill it: “I do not commit cold-blooded murder! I do nothing to disgrace myself!”

Punk Hazard (Ch. 656)

• Aboard the Thousand Sunny southwest of the island; notices the creeping mist too late, breathes the knockout gas, and is incapacitated and abducted with the on-ship crew by the “PH” creatures.

Fish-Man Island — departure (Ch. 653)

• Tearfully bids the mermaids farewell (“you girls are the ALL BLUE inside my heart!!!”); “you won’t lack for food with me on board!” (pp. 10, 18). Nosebleed/“moss-head” banter with Zoro (p. 4).

Fish-Man Island — finishing the officers (Ch. 647)

• With Franky, lands a finishing combo that knocks the giant Wadatsumi out of the sky (pp. 2-5); an ally praises the crew — “You folks live up to Luffy’s standard.” Minor banter beat.

Fish-Man Island — Hell Memories (Ch. 646)

• Flies on Sky Walk wreathed in flame and finishes the giant puffer fish-man Wadatsumi with Diable Jambe “Hell Memories!!!”, explicitly fueling it with memory of “those two horrible years… those abject terrors” — an oblique reference to his timeskip ordeal (p. 16). Caps it with the cook’s line “When cooking puffer fish… you start by draining the poison.” (p. 17). Fights in tandem with Jinbei. (last_appearance advances 0645→0646.)

Fish-Man Island (Ch. 645)

• Among the Straw Hats mopping up the New Fish-Man army in the plaza — “in that case, shall we finish this fight…?” (p. 18).

Fish-Man Island — vs. Wadatsumi “Mega Monk” (Ch. 642)

• Faces the inflating giant pufferfish Wadatsumi (“Mega Monk”), needling him throughout (“still smaller than the kraken,” “how come you’re talking so fast?”) as Wadatsumi crushes his own allies (pp. 12-14).

Fish-Man Island — Seven-Thousand Brick Roundhouse (Ch. 639)

• Debuts the post-timeskip “Seven-Thousand Brick Roundhouse Kick,” blasting back the mountain-sized Wadatsumi to shield Jinbei and Nami (pp. 13-15). Pairs with Jinbei: “Wadatsumi the Giant Monk vs. Sanji & Jinbei.” Furious over Nami being knocked down by the shockwave.

Fish-Man Island — Air Assault (Ch. 638)

• Uses Armée de l’Air (“Air Assault”) to launch Luffy precisely up into the bubble layer toward Hody Jones — “Gotta be careful not to shoot him into the sea! Not too hard, not too soft…” (pp. 4-5).

Fish-Man Island — launches Luffy after Noah (Ch. 637)

• Offers to dive after the ark himself (“Wait, Sanji! I’ll go!!” — Luffy overrides him, p. 18) then helps launch Luffy toward the falling Noah, calling the timing — “the ship’s in the water!!” (p. 19).
• (last_appearance advances 0635→0637; preserve firsts.)

Fish-Man Island — Sky Walk origin (Ch. 635)

Fish-Man Island — “This is… Haki!” (Ch. 634)

• Recovered from his blood-loss state; quips on Jinbei’s meat parable (“What kind of analogy is that?”), and with Zoro names Luffy’s felling-force as Haki (pp. 4, 14, 17).

Fish-Man Island — assembled crew (Ch. 633)

• Part of the coordinated rescue and the full-crew assembly spread (pp. 18–19).

Fish-Man Island — “we have a reason to fight” (Ch. 629)

• Mistakes Robin’s interruption for danger and kicks at Jinbei to protect her, colliding mid-air (p. 7-8).
• Pries the truth out of the bandaged Hachi — Hody’s crew beat him for siding with the Straw Hats (p. 11) — and argues the crew now has a reason to fight (p. 12).
• “This land is the mermaid paradise of my dreams!” — frames Fish-Man Island via his mermaid obsession (p. 12).

Fish-Man Island — treated at the Sea Forest (Ch. 619)

• Treated and cured at the Forest of the Sea (Chopper: “This will be a good place to treat Sanji”, p. 10); back to his usual nosebleeding self at the sight of Shirahoshi (p. 13).

Fish-Man Island — the petrification symptom (Ch. 618)

• Develops a new symptom: turns to stone on sight of the Mermaid Princess Shirahoshi, in bloody rapture (“Such beauty!!”, p. 4) — Chopper suspects it stems from a blood transfusion from the wounded Hatchan. Earlier resolves “I’d rather live my dream and die!” rather than look away (p. 3).

Fish-Man Island — accused at Coral Hill (Ch. 617)

• Accused with the crew of the mermaid kidnappings; comically incriminates himself (“It’s true that I love mermaids so much I want to carry them off! But I would never do that!”, p. 14).
• Cliffhanger peril: warned not to turn around lest the sight of the giant Mermaid Princess trigger a fatal nosebleed (p. 17) — the running mermaid-blood-loss gag at maximum stakes.

Fish-Man Island (Ch. 615)

• At Coral Hill; clobbers the coerced Ryugu soldiers (sent to reach the castle), then finds the bleeding Hachi on the beach (pp. 4-6).

Fish-Man Island (Ch. 614)

• Still bedridden from blood loss, but insists on going to Ryugu Castle to see the Mermaid Princess — “Don’t you ever give up?! If she’s beautiful… even if it kills me” (p. 10). Chopper physically restrains him.

Fish-Man Island — recovering at Coral Hill (Ch. 610)

• Nearly died of blood loss after the New Fish-Man Pirates fight; recovers in the back room of the Mermaid Café (Coral Hill) via transfusion. Because the fish-men would not give blood to a human, donors had to be found at a tavern (the twin pirates Splash and Splatta) (pp. 2-3). Chopper keeps secret that Sanji is in a mermaid café, fearing another nosebleed-fueled collapse (p. 6). See Fish-Men Refuse Blood To Humans Racial Divide Seed.

Fish-Man Island descent (Ch. 603)

• His two years on the Island of Women left a near-lethal weakness for women — the sight of Nami detonates a bubble-popping nosebleed that flies him off the ship; seawater also weakens him (pp. 10-11). (Body bullet only — last_appearance is forward, do NOT touch.)

Return to Sabaody (Ch. 602)

• Returns from two years on the Kamabakka Queendom badly damaged around women: a nosebleed blowout on seeing Nami/Robin (pp. 7-8), Chopper made to staunch the bleeding (p. 8), and “it felt like somebody just tried to rip out my heart” when the Kuja blow kisses (p. 14). A comic timeskip-handicap seed.

Return to Sabaody (Ch. 601)

• Post-timeskip reunion with Luffy and Zoro at Sabaody Archipelago; bickers with Zoro about the meeting point (p. 3).
• The crowd IDs him as “Black-Leg Sanji” (p. 17); present at the reunion and Rayleigh’s send-off (pp. 17-19).

Return to Sabaody (Ch. 600)

• Coordinating with Zoro toward the rendezvous via the baby Transponder Snail Rayleigh gave him (“He’s with Zolo right now”); off-panel this chapter (pp. 6, 19).

Return to Sabaody (Ch. 599)

• At Grove 42, looking for Zoro (gone “fishing”); learns Zoro fell asleep on a galleon now submerged toward Fish-Man Island. Unbothered (“That idiot… that thing isn’t that easy to kill”) and confident Zoro will be fine (pp. 16-19). Had already passed through with Usopp.

Return to Sabaody (Ch. 598)

• Returns “from hell” — dropped at Sabaody Grove 44 from Momoiro/Kamabakka Queendom (“Give my regards to Iva!!”, p.9) — woman-starved, weeping at the sight of real women, nosebleeding (“Wait for me, Nami! Robin! The manly Sanji has returned from hell!”, p.10). New post-timeskip design.

Post-War — decodes the 3D2Y message (Ch. 597)

• Shown reacting to Luffy’s two-year/Sabaody message: reunite in two years at Sabaody Archipelago.

Post-War — Kamabakka; Attack Cuisine (Ch. 595)

• At Kamabakka, notes “a secret message… that only members of Luffy’s crew can understand” in the newspaper, then discovers Attack Cuisine — food that “channels power into” the body (p. 16).
• Set a trial: steal the 99 secret recipes from the island’s Kama Karate masters while resisting being made a “bride.” Recalling Luffy’s recruitment and the All Blue, he accepts: “I ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE!! I’ll even endure this hell!!” (pp. 17–19).

Post-War (Ch. 594)

• At the Kamabakka Kingdom (on Momoiro Island), reads Luffy’s message — “All right, Luffy” (p. 16).

Scattered — Kamabakka Queendom (Ch. 523)

• Landed on Momoiro / “Peachy Island, the Island of Dreams”, the “famous second island of women” — revealed to be the okama Kamabakka Queendom. Writing “Dear Nami and Robin…” while chased by okama, he declares ”…I’m in hell” — the chapter’s title beat (pp. 18–19).

Sabaody Archipelago — erased by Kuma (Ch. 513)

• Demands Kuma say where he sent Zoro, fights to defend the wounded crew, and is erased at Grove 12 (pp. 5-10).

Sabaody Archipelago — covers the retreat from a Pacifista (Ch. 512)

• “Franky! Take care of Nami!!! Go on without me!!” — turns back to draw the PX-1’s fire off the others, dodging its lasers (“I can’t do this any longer or my foot will get messed up!”), then is knocked aside by the blast (pp. 9-13).

Sabaody Archipelago (Ch. 510) — fighting hurt

• Still not fully healed from Thriller Bark (“He still hasn’t fully healed from what happened back there!”, p. 9) yet fights the war machine with Diable Jamble and Flambage Shot (pp. 16-17). See Pacifista.
• (last_appearance advances 0509→0510.)

Sabaody Archipelago — monster-trio combo vs the Pacifista (Ch. 509)

• “Diable… Mouton” Diable Jambe kick in the monster-trio combo with Luffy and Zoro vs. the Pacifista (pp. 3-5).

Sabaody Archipelago — “different situation this time” vs Kuma (Ch. 508)

• Reasons that the crew can fight this Kuma now, unlike at Thriller Bark: “Last time, it was right after the fight with Oars! It’s a completely different situation this time because we actually have enough energy!” (p. 19). (last_appearance advances to 0508.)

Sabaody Archipelago (Ch. 505)

• Flying-kicks through marines and spots Duval’s Flying Fish Riders coming to help — “I hate to depend on them again, but we’re in a hurry” (pp. 14-15).

Sabaody Archipelago — steadying the crowd (Ch. 504)

• Steadies the panicking auction crowd as Rayleigh works on Camie’s collar — “It’s okay. Be calm.” (p. 9).

Sabaody Archipelago — the auction crowd (Ch. 502)

• In the crowd planning to buy Camie back with the 200-million Thriller Bark treasure (page 5); outbid by Charlos’s 500 million.
• Cites Robin’s warning that fish-men and mermaids are persecuted on this island (page 13). Quietly furious as the World Nobles shoot Hatchan.

Sabaody Archipelago — race to Grove 1 (Ch. 501)

• Rides Duval’s flying fish toward the auction (addressed by the Riders as “young master black foot”); reacts with disgust to the slave price list — “this crap list” (pp. 7, 10).

Sabaody Archipelago — Camie’s kidnapping call (Ch. 499)

• Lounging with the other group (Nami, Usopp, Franky, Nico Robin); takes Chopper’s panicked Den Den Mushi call and learns “Camie’s been kidnapped!!” (pp. 18-19). See Camie, Peterman.

Sabaody Archipelago — ship-guard duty (Ch. 497)

• Manipulated by Nami’s damsel act into guarding the treasure-laden ship (“I’m a slave to love!”), then tries to stop Zoro from getting lost (pp. 2-3).

Sabaody Archipelago — Duval restored & the mangrove lecture (Ch. 496)

• The Parage Shot aftermath: Duval, his facial bones restructured by Sanji into a handsome face, catches the Sunny to thank him; Sanji denies vanity-by-proxy (pp. 4-6).
• Invites the mermaid Camie up for tea (p. 9). Knows what mangroves are and explains the Yarukiman ecology — the resin-bubble mechanic — to the crew (p. 15). See Yarukiman Mangrove.

Sabaody Archipelago — Parage Shot (Ch. 495)

• Target of the Flying Fish Riders because his botched wanted-poster sketch is identical to their boss Duval’s real face; netted and dragged underwater, then saved by the mermaid Camie (suffers a mermaid-induced nosebleed) (pp. 2-6, 14). See Sanji Wanted Poster Lens-Cap Black Photo Running Gag.
• Debuts the named kick Parage Shot (“parage” = a French butchery term for trimming meat), naming Duval’s facial features in French as he rearranges his face (pp. 18-19). See Sanji Parage Shot First Named Kick Technique.

Sabaody Archipelago — Duval’s grudge (Ch. 494)

• Target of Duval’s revenge. When Luffy rips off Duval’s iron mask, the bare face is a perfect match for the crude sketch on Sanji’s wanted poster — so Duval was hunted for years by the Navy and bounty hunters as “Black Foot Sanji,” ruining his life (pp. 11-19). Sanji has never met him (“Ah don’t even know the guy!” cuts both ways) and answers the grievance with a kick (p. 19). See Sanji Wanted Poster Lens-Cap Black Photo Running Gag, Duval.
• Fights the Flying Fish Riders alongside the crew defending the Thousand Sunny (pp. 2-7).

Thriller Bark — Sanji’s counter-offer (Ch. 485)

• Steps in to substitute himself for Zoro — “Instead of this scruffy-headed swordsman, take me!! ‘Black Foot’ Sanji” — arguing he’ll soon be more trouble to the Navy than the rest of the crew combined (pp. 12-13). Zoro knocks him out cold (“THWUMP!!”) to take the bargain alone; Sanji wakes later among the healed crew.

Thriller Bark (Ch. 464) — “Sanji’s Dream”; the invisible man undone

• His secret dream named. Sanji reveals that as a child he read the Encyclopedia of Devil Fruits, and the one fruit that “struck awe in my heart” was the invisibility fruit — “there was a time I wanted to become an invisible man!!!” (to peep on women / sneak into baths). His whole grudge against Absalom, a man he just met, is that Absalom ate his dream by eating the Clear-Clear Fruit (pp. 8-9). See Sanji Secret Dream To Become The Invisible Man.
• IDs Absalom’s power on-page: “the invisible man of the Clear-Clear Fruit” — it turns the user and anything they touch invisible, decoding Absalom’s materialising arm-bazookas (pp. 7-8).
• Renounces the dream and wins. Sets the unconscious Nami down so his blood “won’t stain your white dress,” declares “I don’t care anymore if I can’t be invisible!!”, and finishes Absalom with Extra Hachis Hash, foiling the forced wedding (pp. 13-16). See Invisible Beast-Growling Intruder Aboard The Thousand Sunny.
• New named technique: Extra Hachis Hash (French hachis = minced/hash) — continues his cooking-pun attack-naming convention; see Sanji French Culinary Attack Naming Convention.

Thriller Bark (Ch. 457)

• Referenced via his stolen shadow: the “penguin who seemed like Sanji” (Inuppe) holds Sanji’s shadow and chivalry; the colossal zombie (Oars) even cries “Sanji! Food!!” through Luffy’s shadow’s association (pp. 12-13).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 453)

• Appears briefly on the “zombie general side” with Zoro, reacting as Luffy is knocked through a wall (p. 12).
• His chivalry literally walks around without him: the zombie Inuppe, holding Sanji’s shadow, refuses to let Nami be harmed exactly as Sanji would (pp. 5-8) — see Sanji Chivalry Toward Women.

Post-Enies Lobby — Water Seven (Ch. 436 — “Trunks from Franky House”)

• Sulks over his sketch wanted poster (“I fought like a man! I’m worth more than 50 berries!”; “…to be laughed at by all the ladies of the world”); the cause is revealed at Navy HQ — a Marine left the lens cap on, so “Black-Leg’s” photo developed black (pp. 2-4).
• Explores the ship’s kitchen, thrilled by the huge oven and the lockable fridge he’d dreamed of (p. 9). (SHOWN → last_appearance ADVANCES 0435→0436.)

Water Seven aftermath (Ch. 431)

• Cooks at the temporary pirate quarters and watches over the recovering crew; notes Luffy “didn’t want to miss meals while he was passed out from a fight” and that he kept watch on Nico Robin and Nami (pp. 9–11).

Enies Lobby — the Merry’s funeral (Ch. 430)

• Defends the Merry’s personhood when the Galley-La crew call her “only a ship” — “She’s not just a ship! Merry is a comrade who’s been with us for a long time!! And it was the Merry Go that rescued us just now!” (p. 6). Mourns at the funeral (p. 19).

Enies Lobby (Ch. 429 — “Utter Defeat”) — Secretly closes the Gates of Justice to wreck the Buster Call

• The escape gambit: secretly closed the Gates of Justice (pp. 8-10) — threw the lever on the Bridge of Hesitation’s third support, spinning up the whirlpool that wrecked the Buster Call fleet’s aim (“We weren’t gonna make it out with hard work alone”). Takes the Merry’s helm on Nami’s order. Cross-link Gates of Justice, Bridge of Hesitation, Going Merry.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 428 — “Let’s Go Back”) — Rejoins the group after off-page “business”

• Rejoins the group after being off-page, having had “some business to attend to” (p. 11), in the aftermath of the escape ship’s destruction; on the bridge supports with the crew as they are trapped and then pushed into the sea. Cross-link Straw Hat Pirates, Enies Lobby.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 426 — “A Ship Waiting for Wind”) — Reported missing from the bridge (off-panel)

• The crew realizes Sanji has vanished just as the marine assault hits: “Huh? Hey! Where’s Sanji?! … That idiot cook! … where did he go at a time like this?!” (p. 12). NAMED-not-shown this chapter — a planted absence, unpaid here. Cross-link Straw Hat Pirates, Enies Lobby.

Enies Lobby — the key relay (Ch. 419 — “Legend of a Hero”)

Enies Lobby (Ch. 418 — “Luffy vs. Rob Lucci”) — Holds one of the keys to Robin’s cuffs; the crew rushes for the Tower of Law

• Among the crew now holding all the keys to Robin’s cuffs; “Let’s hurry to Robin!!” (pp. 5–6) as the Tower of Law slips again. Cross-link Nico Robin, Enies Lobby.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 416 — “Zolo vs. Kaku”) — Finishes off Jabra (off-panel); secures Key No. 1

• Finishes off Jabra (off-panel KO; the chapter opens on the finishing line: “…demons create the spices… gods create food… but perhaps this dish was a little too spicy for you”, pp. 1-2). Secures Key No. 1 and runs to help reach Robin (p. 3). Cross-link Jabra, CP9.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 415 — “Heat Up”) — Diable Jambe debuts; defeats Jabra’s Iron Body with heat

• On the Tower of Law battle floor at Enies Lobby, Sanji’s duel with Jabra (in wolf-Zoan hybrid form) escalates. Bleeding and still smarting from Jabra’s “you’re angry about Nico Robin” taunt, Sanji refuses to pity Robin aloud — “If you’ve got time to pity that depressing woman… you’d be better off thinking of a way to save your own life!!” (p. 11).
• Diable Jambe debuts (pp. 13-16): Sanji spins his leg at high speed; the friction superheats it until his foot turns red and ignites. The heat increases his kick speed AND makes the impact “demonic” in destructive force — “You might even say… Diable… Jambe.” Establishes the cook’s permanent signature mode and the anger/heat = body-change logic. (French diable jambe = “devil leg”/cooking-flame; continues the French-culinary attack-naming convention.) See Sanji Diable Jambe Heat-Kick Debut (confirmed @0415).
• Diable Jambe negates Iron Body (Tekkai) (p. 15): Jabra’s body-hardening — which no-sells blunt force — fails entirely against heat: “Iron Body doesn’t work at all!!”, “I’m burning up!! Even my bones are hot!”
• Named heated-leg attacks: Premier Hachis Hash (p. 16) and the finisher Flambé Shot (p. 18) — a flaming kick that detonates Jabra. Earlier non-heated kicks this chapter: Cuisseau Crusher (p. 6), Brochette Blow (p. 6), Party Table kick (p. 5), plus Moon Walk / Tempest Kick air-mobility (pp. 6-9, 13).
• Cross-link Jabra, CP9, Six Powers (Rokushiki), Sanji French Culinary Attack Naming Convention, Hiriluk Powerful-Emotion Triggers Bodily-Change Doctrine.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 414 — “Sanji vs. Jabra”) — De-petrified; begins his duel with the wolf-Zoan master Jabra

• Restored from Kalifa’s soap-bubble petrification when a falling bathtub douses him in hot water (“I think it’s because I got covered in hot water”; “A bathtub fell from the skies and broke the curse”, p. 2). Comic reunion with Nami (“How did you get back to normal?!”; he wishes the tub had hit her instead, pp. 2-3); sees the still-petrified Sniper-King-form Usopp (p. 3).
• Spots through the window that the Gates of Justice are opening and vows to free Robin in Luffy’s place using keys No. 3 and 4 (“I can set Robin free… with keys number 3 and 4”, p. 7; “And you will do what I couldn’t!!” — to the collapsed Luffy, p. 9).
• Blocked by Jabra (CP9 wolf-Zoan); withstands “Iron Body Kung Fu” wolf attacks and answers with a French-butchery-named barrage: Cuisseau Crusher, Quasi Cracker, Quenelle Crippler, Tendron Tenderizer, Flanchet Flayer, Basses Côte Blast, Longe Lasher, Hachis Hash, Troisième/Deuxième Hachis Hash (pp. 13-19) — see Sanji French Culinary Attack Naming Convention.
• Instantly sees through Jabra’s “Robin is my little sister” lie — “Haven’t you heard about the boy who cried wolf?!” (p. 19) — and counter-attacks at the cliffhanger. See Jabra Boy Who Cried Wolf Manipulation Lie. Cross-link Jabra, Nami, Usopp, CP9, Six Powers (Rokushiki), Enies Lobby.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 413 — “The Hunter”) — Arrives in silhouette; saves Usopp from Jabra with a kick; “The Hunter”

• Arrives at the Usopp-vs-Jabra fight in silhouette and intervenes with a kick just as Jabra moves to kill Usopp; announces himself as “The Hunter” (the chapter title) (p. 19), opening the Sanji-vs-Jabra bout. Cross-link Usopp, Jabra, CP9, Enies Lobby.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 411 — “Nami vs. Kalifa”) — off-panel reference only

• Referenced (not shown on-panel) as being at the bottom of the Tower-of-Law stairway when the rampaging monster-form Chopper crashes down toward him (“Sanji’s at the bottom of the stairs!!”, p. 7).

Enies Lobby (Ch. 404 — “Franky vs. Fukuro”) — recovered; teams with Franky vs. Fukuro & Kumadori

• Recovered from his loss to Kalifa (Ch. 403), Sanji trades blows with Kumadori (the “wimpy / amateur / dansy / panties punch” insult gag) and lands a “Tempest Kick” (p. 17). Agrees to team up with Franky (“who cares about that now?!” — they argue over Robin and cola, pp. 13, 16) and helps turn the pantry fight. (SHOWN on-page → last_appearance ADVANCES to 0404.) Cross-link Franky, Kumadori, Fukuro, Tony Tony Chopper, CP9.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 403 — “Mr. Chivalry”) — Out-fights Kalifa but loses to his own chivalry; soaped into a “glass doll”

• In Rob Lucci’s Room, dominates Kalifa of CP9 with speed — Moon Walk (p. 5), Tempest Kick (p. 6), Collier collar-strike (p. 16 region / earlier), “One direct hit” (p. 4) — out-classing her physically.
• Loses because he will not strike a woman. When the kill-shot is available he freezes; states the doctrine outright: “I don’t kick women, is all… that was drummed into me as a kid… I won’t kick a woman…!! Even if it kills me…!” (pp. 14-15). Kalifa wraps him in her soap/bubble power (UNNAMED on-page) — his whole body turns slippery and brittle “like a glass doll” — and he is KO’d and dropped through the floor (pp. 12-13).
• Crash-lands among Nami and Chopper: “I’m sorry… I lost. I couldn’t get the key.” (p. 13). After Nami leaves to fight Kalifa, Sanji takes over the fight against Kumadori (p. 16) — “I’ll handle this guy… You take the woman!!” — closing the chapter mid-strike (”…Cross!!!”, p. 16).
• ⚠️ PAYOFF beat — this is the first time the chivalry-toward-women axiom loses a boss-tier one-on-one. Cross-link Kalifa, Nami, Kumadori, CP9, Sanji Chivalry Toward Women, Sanji Cannot Hit Nami-Face Chivalry-Combat Vulnerability, Six Powers (Rokushiki).

Enies Lobby (Ch. 402 — “Handcuffs No. 2”) — Sanji vs. Kalifa begins (Kalifa’s Room)

• Fights Kalifa in “Kalifa’s Room”; nearly succumbs to her “trap of love” tea before lunging to “search” her for the key (“WITH PLEASURE…!!!”) — only to be countered by her teased, unnamed power (“You lack foresight,” pp. 18-20). Frames the fight around Robin (“I haven’t forgotten how CP9 humiliated poor Robin on the Sea Train,” p. 18). Cross-link Kalifa, Tony Tony Chopper (who plans to find Sanji for key Number Two), CP9.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 400 — “The Key to Freedom”) — Encounters Kalifa, who offers him tea

• Among the alliance that crashes into the tower; after the key scatter he enters a sitting room and is received by Kalifa (“Please stay awhile” / “Would you like some tea?”, p. 19) — Sanji, heart-eyed: “I’d love it! ♥”. The Sanji vs. Kalifa matchup begins.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 390) — Fights up through the courthouse with Chopper: “Twister”, “Boar Soup Boot!!”

• Fights through the courthouse with Chopper; uses “Twister” — a kick that tears up the floor, the wording invoking wind/“Dragon” (p. 9). “Boar Soup Boot!!” (p. 15).

Enies Lobby (Ch. 388 — “Gear Two”) — Punching into the courtroom

• With Chopper in the courthouse, fighting through toward the courtroom; the guards puzzle over “why did that swordsman and his friends go up earlier?” (pp. 16-17). Cross-link Tony Tony Chopper, Enies Lobby.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 386 — “Unprecedented”) — Rallies the allied forces at the courthouse square

• On the main island, rallies the allied forces: “All soldiers to the square by the courthouse!!” and praises the war-bull (“Good job, Gomora!!!”) (p. 7).
• Among the Straw Hats at the courthouse square discussing how to climb/breach the courthouse and reach Robin and Franky (pp. 8-9). Cross-link Enies Lobby, Franky Family, Straw Hat Pirates.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 383 — “Luffy vs. Blueno”) — Aboard the Rocketman in the assault force

• Aboard the Rocketman in the assault force riding into Enies Lobby (p. 1 splash, p. 8). Cross-link Sea Train, Enies Lobby, Straw Hat Pirates.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 381 — “Fired”) — Fights the gateway; apologizes to “Sniper King” for Nami’s lightning

• Fights at the Enies Lobby gateway; apologizes to “Sniper King” (Usopp) for Nami’s non-selective “Thunderbolt Tempo” lightning hitting him (p. 8); notes recalling “the electricity I felt when I first met you, Nami” (p. 9). Cross-link Enies Lobby, Nami, Usopp.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 380 — “Enies Lobby Main Island Express”) — First to disembark with Zoro; confronts the Courthouse Guard Force

• Disembarks the Rocketman first alongside Zoro to confront the Courthouse Guard Force after the gate-crash; quips “Should we have introduced ourselves?” (p. 19). Earlier shouts at the “stupid swordsman” about the plan change during the gate breach (p. 8). Cross-link Zoro, Enies Lobby, Sea Train, Baskerville.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 378 — “Casualties”) — Arrives on the Rocketman with the second strike team

• Arrives on the Rocketman at the Enies Lobby gates with Sogeking (Usopp), Chopper, Zoro, and Yokozuna (p. 19). Cross-link Sea Train, Enies Lobby.

Enies Lobby (Ch. 377 — “The Big Showdown on the Judicial Island!!”) — In the Main Gate assault group

• Part of the Main Gate assault group (with Chopper, Franky, and the Franky Family) battering the gate to reach Enies Lobby’s Island Gate (p. 13). Cross-link Franky, Franky Family, Enies Lobby.

Water Seven (Ch. 374 — “Scramble”) — Concasser vs. Blueno’s Iron Body; downed by a Tempest Kick

• Fights Blueno on the Sea Train roof; lands “Concasser” but it barely dents Blueno’s Iron Body (Tekkai) — “I told you they use some weird techniques!!” (p. 9).
• Knocked down by a Tempest Kick (Rankyaku) “out of nowhere” (p. 14). Cross-link Blueno, Six Powers (Rokushiki), Sea Train, CP9.

Water Seven (Ch. 373 — “Necessary Evil”) — Breaks into the CP9 car; attacks Lucci; rebuffed by Robin (“Nico Robin is ours”)

• Finishes off the “ramen freak” fighter on the train roof (Franky: “Did you finish off the ramen freak?” / Sanji: “Yeah, just now.”, p. 8) and breaks into the CP9 government car.
• Confronts and attacks Lucci over the “Necessary Evil”/Robin monologue: “Shut your mouth!!! Cut it out, you jerk!!!” (p. 15) — refusing the doctrine that Robin’s existence is a crime and that “the best thing they can do for the world is die.”
• Pleads with the captive Robin (“Robin! What are you doing?!”; “I’m going to take these guys down right away!! …let’s go back!”, p. 16) and is coldly rebuffed — she tells him he “won’t understand” and that “Nico Robin… is ours” (pp. 17-19).
• Sets the chase’s getaway plan in motion alongside the Sniper King-disguised Usopp; orders Franky to “cut car three loose” / “we’re running away” (p. 18). Cross-link Rob Lucci, Nico Robin, Franky, Usopp, CP9, Sea Train.

Water Seven (Ch. 372 — “Plastic Surgery”) — Car Four: decisively beats Wanze; surgically rearranges his face

• Concludes the Car Four fight against Wanze (“the ace of CP7,” Ramen Kung Fu). Enraged by Wanze’s slander of Robin (“she’s a serial liar… a terrible woman,” p. 16) and his disrespect for food (“you wasted food… you called yourself a ‘cook’ in front of me,” pp. 16-17).
• New named French-cuisine-grammar attacks: Kick L’Oeil (p. 13), Plastic Surgery Shot (p. 15), Decoupage (p. 18), plus a precision slicing sequence (Le Menton / Les Dents / La Bouche / La Joue / Le Nez, p. 14) that surgically rearranges Wanze’s face and demolishes the car.
• Cook-doctrine articulation: “Kitchen knives aren’t swords. They’re not for cutting people” (p. 13) — he dismantles the ramen armor with kicks, not blades. Cross-link Wanze, CP9, Sea Train, Nico Robin.

Water Seven (Ch. 370 — “You’re Not Alone”) — Car Four vs. Wanze: the cook-and-knife beat; shreds the noodle suit into “1.4 millimeter pasta”

• “Car Four: Sanji vs. Wanze” — continues fighting and defeats Wanze (CP7) in Car Four of the kidnap Sea Train (pp. 7-15). Wanze’s “Ramen Kung Fu” wraps him in an armor-suit of his own noodles and tries to bury Sanji in pasta.
• Cook-ethic beat: at first refuses to cut the “ingredients” with a kitchen knife — “In battle, it is my policy not to use either hands or cooking knives, both of which are sacred to cooks” (p. 14) — then articulates that a first-class cook’s knife technique is precisely what an amateur doesn’t deserve — “an amateur who can’t even cook shouldn’t be allowed to have kitchen knives… the techniques a first-class cook uses to handle a kitchen knife!!!” (p. 15) — and slices the noodle suit into “1.4 millimeter pasta” (“Your 1.4 millimeter pasta is served”, p. 13). Cross-link Wanze, CP9, Sea Train, Chefs Knife Is His Soul Doctrine.

Water Seven (Ch. 369 — “Ramen Kung Fu”) — Defeats CP7’s Wanze in Car 4; sends the others ahead to Robin

• Boards on toward the front of the kidnap Sea Train (Puffing Tom) with the freed Franky and the masked Sniper King long-nose; in Car Four they are stopped by Wanze, the World-Government / CP7 escort-guard who wields “Ramen Kung Fu” (pp. 7-11).
• Volunteers to handle Wanze and sends Franky and the masked man ahead toward Robin’s car while he stays to fight (pp. 9-11, 19-20).
• Out-fights Wanze and his noodle arsenal (“Ramen Beam,” “Noodle Slicer / Fire Skate Blades,” the edible “Ramen’s Formal Suit”): blocks Wanze’s blow once and lands roughly ten kicks in return (“you deflected my blow… you kicked me about ten times,” p. 15), then defeats him — ending with “So… what are you?” (pp. 15, 17, 19-20). Reacts to being mocked as a “cook” and to his curly eyebrows being insulted (pp. 9-10). Cross-link Wanze, CP9, Sea Train, Franky, Usopp.

Water Seven (Ch. 368 — “Sea Train Battle Game”) — Leads “Operation Recapture Robin” aboard the kidnap train

• Aboard the kidnap Sea Train (Puffing Tom), declares “Operation Recapture Robin” and lays out the plan: five cars remain, Robin is in one of them, the crew is in Car 6; avoid needless fights, methodically crush the main forces, don’t get surrounded in a narrow car or “jump the gun” (pp. 2-4).
• Fights through the train’s officials and Captain T-Bone’s boarders alongside the masked Sniper King and the freed Franky; the rear cars are uncoupled, dumping ~50 marines adrift (pp. 11-17).
• Advances toward Robin’s car; blocked at Car 4 by Wanze, the CP7 “Cooking Fighter” (pp. 18-19). Cross-link Usopp, Franky, T-Bone, Wanze, Nico Robin, Sea Train.

Water Seven (Ch. 367 — “Sniper King”) — Sent ahead alone to “tear things up”; vows to hold nothing back

• Ahead of the Rocketman with Nami’s group; receives the full situation via Den Den Mushi (Nami filled him in) (pp. 4, 12). Hears that Robin sacrificed herself to keep the six of them safe and vows to hold nothing back — “I won’t… hold back!” (KRUNCH, pp. 12–13).
• Luffy sends him ahead alone onto the train to “tear things up”; Sanji acknowledges the situation (pp. 12–13). First to recognize the masked Sniper King is Usopp (Sniper King introduces himself to Sanji, p. 19). Cross-link Luffy, Nami, Usopp, Nico Robin.

Water Seven (Ch. 366 — “Sortie!”) — Phones Nami from inside the kidnap train

• Calls Nami via baby Den Den Mushi from inside the Puffing Tom kidnap train: “Nami? Nami, can you hear me?… thanks to the presence of a couple of idiots over here, things have gotten a bit nasty” (p. 19) — phone-linking the two sea trains. His rampage left Cars Six/Seven “wiped out” per T-Bone’s Marine report. Cross-link Nami, T-Bone, Sea Train.

Water Seven (Ch. 365 — “Rocketman!!”) — Clears the kidnap train’s rear cars; finds the bound Franky in the freight car

• Stowed aboard the CP9 kidnap Sea Train, Sanji clears the rear cars (Car 7 / Car 6 freight) of disguised officials with kicks (“Collier… Frit!!”), finds Franky tied up, and grabs a found transponder snail to contact Nami (pp. 4-7). He and Franky trade insults and recognize each other.

Water Seven (Ch. 362 — “Ebb Tide”) — Confronted aboard the kidnap train; defeats the CP6 boxer Jerry with “Brochette Blow”

• Stowed away aboard the Sea Train to Enies Lobby; confronted by the CP9/Navy escort when one recognizes his kick as a fighter’s, not a civilian’s (pp. 2–3). The escort radios to “report this to Lucci right away” (p. 3).
• Fights and defeats Jerry (CP6 boxer “from Karate Island,” “Aurora Flicker Jab”), countering boxing with close-quarters, narrow-space “Yoga”-style kicking and finishing with “Brochette Blow” (pp. 4–8). New named technique: Brochette Blow. Cross-link Jerry, Sea Train, CP9, Enies Lobby.

Water Seven (Ch. 361 — “P.S.”) — ⭐ Boards the kidnap train after Robin; leaves the coded “P.S.” letter; opens his infiltration with “Collier Coup”

• LOAD-BEARING — independently deduces where Robin is headed and BOARDS the same 11 PM Sea Train (Puffing Tom) to follow her to Enies Lobby rather than rejoin the Water Seven group (pp. 16–17).
• Leaves a letter for Nami at Blue Station — opening “mostly a pointless love letter,” with the real intel in the postscript (the chapter title “P.S.”): Robin confirmed on the 11 PM train, Sanji boarding too, carrying a baby Den Den Mushi to contact the crew (pp. 16–18). His letter also describes a crewmate “a gigantic thug with a pompadour” that Nami’s group identifies as Franky (p. 17). Sets up the split-crew comms channel for the rescue arc.
• Begins his infiltration aboard the train, opening with “Collier Coup” (collier = French “neck/collar”; a neck-level kick) to floor the agents guarding the cars while debating “how do I sneak inside without being noticed” (pp. 18–19). Cross-link Nico Robin, Nami, Sea Train, Den Den Mushi, Enies Lobby.

Water Seven (Ch. 360 — “Departing Soon”) — The “Bingo” ambush resolves as recognition/witness; stranded at Blue Station as the train departs

• His Ch. 359 station ambush resolves into a recognition/witness beat: a fantasy of Robin embracing him (“my one and only prince… save me ♥”) snaps to reality as he spots Lucci, names CP9, and watches the captive Franky be hauled aboard the last Enies Lobby Sea Train (pp. 4-6). Murmurs “Usopp…!!” (p. 4) — still expecting the captive to be his target Usopp.
• Stationed at Blue Station for most of the chapter (“Isn’t anyone going to get here in time?”, p. 17), unable to stop the departure alone as the Aqua Laguna clock runs down. Cross-link CP9, Rob Lucci, Franky, Nico Robin, Sea Train.

Water Seven (Ch. 359) — Peels off alone; ambushes a hooded CP9 agent at the Sea Train station

• Injured but mobile; sends Chopper to regroup with Luffy and the others while he goes off alone (“I’ll knock around on my own for a while. Don’t worry — I won’t do anything rash.”, p. 18).
• “Real men… can forgive… the lies women tell.” (p. 18) — frames his read of Robin’s “betrayal” as a lie to be forgiven.
• Reaches the Water Seven “Blue Station” Sea Train platform and ambushes a hooded CP9 agent with a single word: “Bingo…” (“DOOM!!!”, pp. 19-20) — the chapter’s title beat. Cross-link CP9, Sea Train, Nico Robin, Tony Tony Chopper.

Water Seven (Ch. 343) — The crew’s stealth-entry plan; stuck on the fence

• With Nami, Chopper, and Zoro, plans to slip into the mansion by riding the chaos around Luffy (the shipwrights’ “criminal ringleader”) — vaults the fence “right behind Luffy” only to find the courtyard full of guards (“What part of this is ‘thinned out’?!”, pp. 16–18) and gets stuck mid-vault (p. 18). Cross-link Nami, Zoro, CP9.

Water Seven (Ch. 340) — ⭐ Finds Robin, refuses her departure, sends Chopper to Luffy

• With Chopper, hunts the missing Nico Robin (worries she boarded the Sea Train, p. 8; “I wonder where she went,” p. 9) and is the one who finds her when Chopper scents her (p. 9).
• Refuses her departure — “Robin! Come back with us!!” (p. 14) — and gives chase (“Quit joking around!!!”, p. 15) but loses her (p. 16). The @0334 all-night-watch worry pays off into outright refusal to let Robin go — pre-loads his Enies Lobby loyalty to her. Cross-link Robin Darkness That Will Destroy You Departure Speech, Straw Hat Recruitment Pattern.
• Splits off to search alone and sends Chopper to Luffy with the message to relay everything: “Go meet up with Luffy and the others… and tell them everything that just happened… don’t leave out a single thing” (pp. 16, 19). Hunted by the Galley-La Company shipwrights, he is hidden by Chopper under a canal bridge (p. 17).

Water Seven (Ch. 335) — Warned of Aqua Laguna; “find Robin”

• With Zoro and Chopper, mistaken for a tourist and warned of Aqua Laguna; resolves “We’d better hurry… and find Robin.” (pp. 7–8).

Water Seven (Ch. 334) — Kept watch for Robin all night

• Reveals he “stayed by Rocky Cape all night keeping watch… just in case Robin returned” (p. 7) — the first explicit beat of Sanji’s worry over Nico Robin’s disappearance. Pushes the crew to search the town for her rather than chase the Iceberg news (p. 14). Small character tell that pre-loads Sanji’s later loyalty to Robin in the rescue arc. Cross-link Robin Vanishes The Night Iceberg Is Shot Apparent-Betrayal Seed.

Water Seven — the Usopp duel aftermath (Ch. 333) — No-pity doctrine; blocks Chopper

• Physically blocks Chopper from running to heal the bleeding Usopp (FWAP/WAP, p. 16) and lays down the duel’s hardest law: “This wasn’t just any old fight. He lost his challenge. The last thing he needs now is your pity. …He made the challenge knowing what the outcome could be… Excessive kindness just hurts the vanquished even more!” (pp. 16–17). A durable Sanji/Straw Hat doctrine on dignity in defeat. Cross-link Sanji No-Pity Doctrine Excessive Kindness Wounds The Vanquished.
• Grieves silently behind it — covers his face, crying (p. 18). The kick-Luffy-silent intervenor of Ch. 331 here protects Usopp’s pride instead.

Water Seven — the duel (Ch. 332) — Resigned to the fight; reads the gas trick

• Accepts the duel can’t be stopped now (“Well, it’s too late to back out now,” pp. 2–3). On the Merry through the fight; recognizes Usopp’s gas-cloud gambit (“Gas.”) just before the Fire Star detonates (p. 17). Cross-link Usopp, Luffy.

Water Seven (Ch. 331) — Kicks Luffy silent during the argument

• During the crew’s blowup over the Going Merry, physically stops Luffy from saying something he’ll regret about Usopp — a flying kick (“FWAK!! / You idiot!! / Cool down… or you’ll end up saying things you’ll regret!! Luffy, what were you about to say?!”, pp. 14–15). First on-page Sanji-as-cooler-head intervening between captain and a departing crewmate; reads the room better than Luffy in the moment. Cross-link Luffy, Usopp, Usopp Quits The Crew And Challenges Luffy To A Duel For The Going Merry.

Water Seven — Franky House raid (Ch. 330)

• One of the four raiders (Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Chopper); combat-tell “Party Table… Kick Course!!” (p. 12).
• After the raid, names the crew’s open problems — “Nami’s waiting for us. And then there’s Robin too… and then there’s the problem with the ship” — and proposes going back to the ship, prompting Luffy’s farewell decision (p. 19). See Luffy Says Farewell To The Merry Decision Loads The Usopp Rift.

Water Seven (Ch. 329)

• Reacts to the Going Merry verdict — “I love the Merry Go! It just sticks in my craw!” — and frets over what Usopp will say and over Robin (p. 6).
• Goes to fetch Chopper to treat the beaten Usopp, then searches the streets for him with Nami (pp. 2, 14).

Water Seven (Ch. 328)

• Voices unease about the masked CP9 figure from Ch. 325: he’d “assumed the person I saw with Robin was [Chopper] in human form,” and now says “I have a bad feeling about this… I hope it’s nothing” (p. 2). Keeps the CP9 thread simmering under the ship-repair A-plot.

Water Seven (Ch. 327)

• Explains who the Franky Family are — ship-dismantlers (p. 5).

Water Seven (Ch. 326)

• POV character for the chapter’s first act: wanders Water Seven hopelessly lost (“I’m not lost, am I? Like a certain swordsman I know…”, pp. 2–3) — the running Sanji-mocks-Zoro’s-directional-sense gag re-keys with Sanji himself getting lost.
• Spots Nico Robin on a backstreet, then watches her vanish “with no doors or pathways” (pp. 3–5), and sees Usopp launched soaring across the city (pp. 4–5); follows the commotion to the Going Merry.

Water Seven (Ch. 325)

• With the currency-exchange / Galley-La Company Dock 1 group (pp. 10–19).

Water Seven (Ch. 324)

• Stays aboard the Going Merry at sea with Zoro; bored, he leaves the sleeping Zoro to “guard the ship” and goes shopping (p. 15) — leaving the Merry lightly guarded just before a masked intruder boards (pp. 19–20).

Long Ring Long Land — Aokiji fight (Ch. 320)

• Defends Robin verbally against Aokiji’s exposé (“We don’t care about the past!! Cut it out, you jerk!!”, p. 6); his limbs are frozen in the mass-freeze (pp. 11–12); lunges at Aokiji after Robin is frozen but is held back by Luffy’s order (p. 18).

Long Ring Long Land — Groggy Ring victory (Ch. 313)

• Shown victorious alongside Zoro over the fallen “Groggy Monsters” as the Groggy Ring (Round 2) ends in a Straw Hat win (pp. 4, 9). (Match proper runs in chs. 308–312.)
• In the Round-3 festival interlude, Porche thanks him for the Groggy Ring (“the way you kicked around those huge guys!!”, p. 14).

Long Ring Long Land — Groggy Ring climax (Ch. 312)

• Plays the Groggy Ring “ball” (rounded ball-form) on Team Straw Hat with Zoro; despite the role, dominates the Groggy Monsters with French-named kicks: “Hachis Hash” / “Troisième” (p. 8), “Beater” / “Bouquetière” (p. 9), a “Kick Course” that knocks Big Pan upright (p. 13), and “Armée de l’Air… Assault!!” that launches Big Pan airborne for Zoro to slam into the goal (p. 16).
• Evades the lethal “Monster Burger” combo with a backbend dodge under the blades (pp. 7–8) and turns the monsters’ weapons against each other — paying off the Zoro and Sanji Ten-Second Combination cliffhanger: Team Straw Hat scores the winning goal (“GOOOAAALLL!!”, pp. 16–19).

Long Ring Long Land — Groggy Ring “Rough Game” (Ch. 311)

• Continues Round 2 of the Davy Back Fight (the Groggy Ring) as one of the Straw Hats’ two “ball-men” alongside Zoro (pp. 3, 8).
• Feuds with Zoro and won’t cooperate (“How dare you try to help me!” p. 2); the discord lets the Groggy Monsters batter the team.
• Loses his temper at the biased referee and is yellow-carded for “attacking the ref,” one warning from a red-card ejection (pp. 6–7).
• Hit by the Monsters’ “Human Cannonball” / “Sling Tackle” (p. 12). At the cliffhanger, Zoro asks him for “ten seconds” of cooperation (p. 15) — see Zoro and Sanji Ten-Second Combination.

Long Ring Long Land (Ch. 304)

• On the Merry as the crew arrives at Long Ring Long Land (pp. 1–15); confronted by the Foxy Pirates.
• (Ch. 305) Aboard the Going Merry when it drifts off the island (off-panel, cliffhanger p. 14) with Robin and Usopp.
• (Ch. 306) Helps explain the Davy Back Fight rules; agrees with Zoro that fleeing is the greatest shame. Assigned to Round 2, the Groggy Ring, with Zoro and Tony Tony Chopper. Rejected by Porche as an undesirable prize.
• (Ch. 307) Helps defend the Barrel Tiger against the Foxy crew’s legal “outside support” attacks during the Donut Race; deploys a fire-kick (“Fire Star”, p. 10). Vows to “kick you out of the group” if anything happens to “the ladies” (Nami / Nico Robin) (p. 3). Featured in the chapter’s title-splash illustration (p. 1, blond suited figure dozing in a cozy interior).

Skypiea epilogue / Blue Sea (Ch. 303)

• Back on the Blue Sea; muses the sky was “a country of dreams” (p. 10). Present for the treasure-divvy and carpenter discussion.

Skypiea — finale (Ch. 302)

• Among the descending crew; wants booze with the loot (p. 6). Send-off beat. See Straw Hat Pirates.

Skypiea — Nami’s rescue / reunion (Ch. 285)

• On the ground with Usopp, overjoyed Nami survived the fall from the Maxim; helps gather the group to escape (“get on! …get off this island!”, pages 3-4).

Skypiea — Sanji’s sacrifice aboard the Maxim (Ch. 284)

• Having boarded the flying Ark Maxim last chapter, Sanji intervenes to save Nami and Usopp: he kicks both onto the waver and launches them clear of the ark, taking Enel’s lightning strike (“Thor!!”) himself so they can escape (pages 13-15). “He’s made his decision as a man.”
• Defiant non-fight against an opponent he can’t beat: bloodied and barely standing, Sanji lights a cigarette before Enel — “I was just thinking… how I wanted a light…!” — and when Enel asks what he wanted to say, answers only “Drop dead,” then collapses (pages 15-16).

Skypiea — boards the Ark Maxim to rescue Nami (Ch. 283)

• Recovers from the El-Thor downing of Ch. 277, wakes the wounded Usopp (“We have to save Nami!”), and drags him toward the Giant Jack vine to board the lifting Ark Maxim (pages 2-10).
• Chivalry/wrath register: “I don’t care if he is a Kami, he better not lay a finger on Nami… or I’ll become the demon of the Blue Sea!” (page 5).
• Tactical read: notes the enemy can use Mantra, so sneaking is impossible; resolves to split up with Usopp and head straight for the deck (page 7). Reaffirms the Sanji-is-Nami’s-protector doctrine — see Sanji Nami Comes First Through Fifth Chivalry Priority Doctrine.

Skypiea — wounded; revival cliffhanger (Ch. 259)

• On the Going Merry, gravely wounded/unconscious; the group desperately tries to revive him — “Oh no!! I don’t hear a heartbeat!” / “Hang in there, Sanji!!” (p. 18). Gan Fall, Conis and Nami are attending him when Enel boards. Chapter ends before resolving whether he survives — cliffhanger; NOT confirmed deceased (status held at alive). (Inference: aftermath of an earlier Upper Yard / survival-game injury — exact cause is from a prior chapter, not shown here.)

Skypiea — Dial tutorial (Ch. 257)

• Volunteers to smash the shell-loaded barrel at full force (“don’t say that just because it’s not your ship!!”); the Impact Dial absorbs the blow entirely — the crew’s first hands-on encounter with dial tech. See Dials Skypiean Sea-Shell Technology.

Skypiea — Ball Dragon (Ch. 250)

• Survives the Ball Challenge: the “One down” of Ch. 247 was not lethal. Reappears unharmed, seated cross-legged in shadow, smoking (“WOO O OO / FLIK”, p. 15).
• Reframes Satori’s “vassal’s challenge” as his own “love challenge” — “considering that there are a couple of damsels waiting for me to rescue them… I accept” (pp. 15-16); couldn’t care less about the priest’s rules.
• New technique Concasser (pp. 17-18): a spinning aerial axe-kick. Delivered with a cooking metaphor — crushing a mignonette pepper “the right way” so “the sealed-in flavors burst into an exquisite taste” — culinary-attack motif consistent with his fighting style. Defeats Satori.

Skypiea (Ch. 248)

• Among the captured at the Sacrificial Altar (downed at end of Ch. 247); menaced by Shura until the Sky Knight intervenes.

Skypiea — Upper Yard, recovering the Merry (Ch. 247)

• Splits from Luffy to chase down the drifting Going Merry with Usopp (pp. 2-3). “King of the Jungle” rope-line antics across the forest (p. 15).
• Present at the Merry reunion and whistle-assignment (pp. 16-18).
• Apparently struck down by Satori at chapter’s end — Satori counts “One down… two to go” and the crew shouts “Sanji!!!” (p. 17). Provisional; verify in next chapter.

Skypiea — Ordeal of Balls (Ch. 246)

• His kick is read and evaded by Satori’s Mantra; a single “simple” Collier (head kick, right leg) from Satori drops him in one blow — “It destroys the body… starting with the spinal cord!” (pp. 16–17) See Mantra, Mantra Power Of The Faithful Observation-Haki Precursor.

Skypiea (Ch. 244)

• Part of the Angel Island away party. Suspects the whole town’s avoidance is a setup (“Are they all in on it?”). Rides off to Upper Yard with Luffy on the Karasumaru.

Skypiea (Ch. 239)

• First sight of Conis: swoons (“You could melt a man’s heart with that look”) (p. 14).
• Offers to cook the “sky lobster” / Skypiean cuisine for Pagaya (p. 17).

Jaya (Ch. 227)

• Recognizes “Noland the Liar” as a famous North Blue children’s tale he read as a kid, confirming he was “born in the North Blue” / “raised in the East” (p. 7) — a minor backstory data-point. Cross-link The Noland Legend and the City of Gold.
• Blocks Mont Blanc Cricket’s opening attack (pp. 15-17) before Cricket collapses from the bends.

Jaya (Ch. 221)

• Among the three swallowed-then-spat by the turtle (pp. 10-11); narrates that the “monkey” (Masira) was friendly with Luffy at first, then “turned into a gorilla!” and went berserk (p. 11).
• Comedic present-day fight with Luffy (“GET LOST!!”, p. 19).

Alabasta — leaving the kingdom (Ch. 215) — Last Waltz — recognizes Fullbody on the enemy fleet; weeps at Bon Clay’s sacrifice

• Recognizes Fullbody on Hina’s blockade ship (Ch. 215 p. 8): ”…It seems like a hundred years since I saw him last! It’s that nasty, violent cook…” — first on-page Sanji-callback to his Baratie one-punch K.O. of Fullbody (Ch. 43). The Baratie-era enemy is now a Marine under Hina.
• On the Going Merry deck during the blockade escape; weeps at Bon Clay’s sacrifice (p. 19) — the “dubious friendship” tagged at Ch. 0189 pays off in grief as Bon Clay surrenders himself to Hina to cover the crew.
• Cross-link Fullbody (Ch. 0215 recognition), Bon Clay (Ch. 0215 ally-sacrifice), Hina.

Alabasta — wind-down (Ch. 213)

• Tracks Luffy’s metabolism for the kitchen staff: calculated 15 missed meals over 3 days at 5/day (provisioning-grammar tell).
• Featured on the chapter’s title-splash/cover art (p. 1, smoking, seated).

Alabasta — civil-war end (Ch. 211) — carries the unconscious Luffy; crew declines the palace

• Carries the unconscious Luffy on his back through Alubarna (Ch. 211 p. 9): “Hey! I’m not a sack of potatoes!” Part of the crew that declines the palace and politics. Cross-link Luffy (Ch. 0211 poison-stricken passenger), Vivi (Ch. 0211 reunion), Alubarna.

Alabasta — Alubarna square (Ch. 206) — Ignition — mid-air relay link, kicks Chopper-and-Vivi up to Zoro

• Mid-air relay link in the tower-rescue (Ch. 206 pp. 12-13). Sanji catches the Nami-launched Chopper-and-Vivi in mid-air and boosts them higher (jump!! Chopper, go to Sanji!! / get on my leg!! / Sanji! you know what to do, right?! / we don’t have time to think about this!! c’mon, Chopper!!). First on-page Sanji-as-aerial-relay-leg beat in the Alubarna climax. He is the airborne midpoint of the Nami→Chopper→Sanji→Zoro chain.
• Cross-link Nami, Tony Tony Chopper, Zoro, Vivi.

Alabasta — Alubarna clock tower (Ch. 205) — follows Vivi’s “clock tower” note to the bomber

• Reaches the tower citing the note Vivi left by the smoke beacon: “I found your note beside the smoke beacon you left! It said ‘clock tower,’ so I climbed up here!” (Ch. 205 p. 16). Reunites with the search-team (“VIVI!! NAMI!!”). Cross-link Vivi, Nami.
• Plays straight-man to Zoro’s “north vs. up” misreading; assesses the demolition risk (Ch. 205 p. 17). Cross-link Zoro, Alubarna.

Alabasta — Alubarna square (Ch. 199) — crew reconvergence; defers Crocodile to Luffy

• Present at the Alubarna square reunion (Ch. 199 pp. 6-9); reacts to Luffy’s survival (“Sure you did.” p. 7); part of the crew that hands the Crocodile fight to Luffy (“Go get him, Luffy.” p. 9).

Alabasta — Alubarna streets (Ch. 196) — regroups with Usopp/Chopper/Nami; weeps over Toh-Toh; reports Luffy presumed dead; rallies the crew to the palace

• Regroups with Usopp, Chopper and Nami in the Alubarna streets (Ch. 196 pp. 14-16). Comic-relief beat with Usopp (“I only rescue women, fool.”); demands the crew live up to a rescue-pact (“promise me one thing! …come to our rescue!”).
• Weeps over Toh-Toh’s death (Ch. 196 p. 14) — “…was dead!” (of “that old mole” — Toh-Toh of Yuba); Sanji and the crew register the loss. Pays off Toh-Toh’s Ch. 0179 mummification-death at the crew-grief tier.
• Reports Luffy presumed dead (Ch. 196 p. 14) — “She said Luffy… is dead!” — the Crocodile gaslight from Ch. 192 propagates to the crew; the crew refuses to believe it (p. 15: “As if I’d believe that! …I didn’t believe it for an instant!”).
• Rallies the crew to the palace (Ch. 196 pp. 15-16) — “We need to get to the palace as soon as possible!” / “…until we’ve put an end to this war!”
• Cross-link Usopp, Tony Tony Chopper, Nami, Toh-Toh, Luffy, Alubarna.

Alabasta — Alubarna Southeast Gate (Ch. 192) — returns Eyelashes’ goggles; spots rebel reinforcements; heads for the palace

• At the Alubarna Southeast Gate with Usopp, Chopper and Eyelashes (Ch. 192 pp. 2-4). Returns Eyelashes’ goggles (“You got my goggles back! Sanji, you’re the best!!” — then broken: “Agh!! They’re broken! Why you—!!”). Spots a fresh wave of rebel reinforcements and decides to head for the palace: “Let’s go to the palace. Vivi may need our help.”
• Cross-link Eyelashes, Usopp, Tony Tony Chopper, Alubarna.

Alabasta — Alubarna (Polka Blvd) (Ch. 189)

• Defeats Mr. 2 Bon Clay in single combat on Polka Blvd, Alubarna South Block. The Alubarna officer-pair-fight cycle’s first Strawhat victory.
• Deploys seven new French-butchery-named kicks in seven pages: Longe Lasher, Tendron Tenderizer, Flanchet, Deux Quasi Cracker, Queue Crippler, Cuisseau Crusher, Jarret Jarrer. Matches the Ch. 86 maximum-density canonization of the French-cuisine-attack convention.
• Refuses to kill the fallen Bon Clay: extends a hand and says “There’s nothing more to be said. It was a good fight.” — first on-page Sanji-spares-defeated-enemy beat at the Strawhat-vs-Baroque-Works tier.
• Takes Bon Clay’s swan-goggles as a victory trophy (“Later! I’m taking back the goggles.”).
• Closing caption: “WINNER: SANJI. SPOILS OF VICTORY: A DUBIOUS FRIENDSHIP.” Narrator-voice formally tags Sanji↔Bon Clay as a dubious friendship — forward-canon installation seed for the Bon-Clay-as-Strawhat-ally arc-grammar.
• Cross-link Sanji Tendron Cuisseau Jarret Quasi Veau Multi-Cut French-Butchery Attack-Volley Ch 189 (new — confirmed), Sanji Defeats Mr 2 Bon Clay Officer-Pair First Strawhat-Wins-At-Alubarna (new — confirmed), Sanji Spares Bon Clay Good Fight Grudging-Respect Doctrine (new), Sanji Spoils Of Victory A Dubious Friendship Caption-Tag (new), Bon Clay Swan Goggles Trophy Handoff Sanji (new).
• Cross-link Bon Clay (Ch. 0189 single-combat-defeated), Mane Mane no Mi (Ch. 0189 disabled-by-combat-geometry evidence add), Baroque Works (Ch. 0189 first Officer-Agent defeat at Alubarna).

Alabasta — Alubarna duel vs Bon Clay (Ch. 188) — defeats Mr. 2 in single combat; identifies the Mane Mane mechanic-flaw; deploys BASSES CÔTE BLAST; first Strawhat-vs-Officer-Agent single-combat win in Alabasta

• LOAD-BEARING — first on-page Strawhat-defeats-Officer-Agent-in-single-combat beat (Ch. 188 p. 19). Sanji defeats Mr. 2 Bon Clay one-on-one in the Alubarna East-Gate streets with BASSES CÔTE BLAST!! (basses côte = French butchery for beef lower rib). Pre-loads the one Strawhat per Officer-Agent arc-grammar resolution that the Alabasta arc-climax depends on. Cross-link Sanji Defeats Bon Clay In One-on-One Officer-Tier First Strawhat Officer-Win (new — load-bearing), Sanji Basses Cote Blast Named Attack Debut (new), Sanji French Culinary Attack Naming Convention (Ch. 0188 basses côte deploy evidence add).
• LOAD-BEARING — Sanji identifies the Mane Mane no Mi mechanic-flaw and exploits it (Ch. 188 pp. 10-12). Sanji (smoking, leaning, calm): “I’ve found the flaw in your power. You can’t use your Oh Come My Way Karate when you’re in Nami’s form… but there’s a moment when you’re vulnerable — just before you attack, you always turn back into yourself… by touching your face with your left hand! BULL’S-EYE.” First on-page Strawhat-side tactical read of the Mane Mane no Mi’s mechanic-flaw. Sanji watches for the left-hand-touch-revert window and times his strike to it. Pays off the Ch. 0156-0157 Bon-Clay-fruit-mechanic install pattern at the operational tier. Cross-link Sanji Sees Through Mane Mane Mechanic First Strawhat Tactical Read (new — load-bearing).
• LOAD-BEARING — Sanji’s chivalry-toward-women doctrine operationalized as a combat vulnerability (Ch. 188 pp. 4-6). Bon-Clay-as-Nami stomps Sanji’s head; Sanji refuses to attack the Nami-face — “DARN IT!! SHE’S SO CUTE!! …HOT!! I FEEL LIKE TAKING SOME OF MY CLOTHES OFF.” First on-page boss-tier-fight operationalization of Sanji’s chivalry-toward-women doctrine as a combat-disadvantage. Pre-loads forward-canon Sanji-cannot-hit-a-woman combat-rigidity (Kalifa, Black Maria, Viola). Cross-link Sanji Cannot Hit Nami-Face Chivalry-Combat Vulnerability (new — load-bearing), Sanji Chivalry Toward Women (Ch. 0188 combat-vulnerability-at-boss-tier evidence add).
• Sanji deploys COLLIER + BASSES CÔTE BLAST — French butchery attack-name convention (Ch. 188 pp. 16, 19). The Ch. 0073 / Ch. 0086 French-culinary-butchery attack-name convention extends to Alabasta-arc-boss-fight tier.
• Sanji’s deception-tactician register debuts at the boss-fight tier (Ch. 188 pp. 18-19). Sanji feigns immobility-in-defeat, evades Bon Clay’s Winter Wonderland Jeté finisher, then deploys a face-touch mock-Mane-Mane reveal-pose (KLIK!, TA-DA!, “HOW DEUX I LOOK?!”) — uses Bon Clay’s own deux grammar + face-touch-reveal-pose against him to disorient him for the kill-shot. First on-page Sanji-as-counter-tactician at the boss-tier. Pre-loads the forward-canon Mr. Prince persona’s deception-grammar. Cross-link Sanji Prince Charming Self-Naming (Ch. 0188 deception-grammar-foreshadow evidence add), Sanji Recognizes Crocodile By Sight Voice-Knowledge Operational (Ch. 0188 deception-grammar-extension evidence add).
• Cross-link Bon Clay (Ch. 0188 defeat target), Mane Mane no Mi (Ch. 0188 mechanic-flaw-exposed evidence add), Alubarna (Ch. 0188 East-Gate-street-duel evidence add).

Alabasta — Polka Boulevard / South Block (Ch. 187) — Stalemate — officer-pair fight vs. Bon Clay; Mouton Mallet named-debut; …what’s inside that counts!! counter-doctrine; chivalry-trap freeze when Bon Clay becomes Nami’s face

• LOAD-BEARING — first on-page officer-pair fight at Alubarna canonized as MR. 2 BON CLAY VS. SANJI (Ch. 187 p. 6). The Alubarna five-block strategic-map (Alubarna Palace / North / South / East / West / Polka Blvd) X-marks the Sanji-vs-Bon Clay fight at South Block / Polka Boulevard. First named officer-pair matchup of the Alubarna battle-stretch. Sanji is the first Strawhat slotted into the city-block engagement-grid. Cross-link Alubarna City-Block Strategic-Map Five-Block Schema (new — load-bearing).
• Opens with a kick-counter to Bon Clay’s Oh Come My Way Karate (Ch. 187 p. 7). Bon Clay (panting): ‘He countered my Oh Come My Way Karate!! Darn that creep!’ Sanji takes the forward stance: ‘GET OUT OF MY WAY, YOU!! If you want to get past, it’ll be over my dead body.’ (p. 8). The chapter is structured as a kicks-school-vs-kicks-school officer-pair fight — Black Leg style vs. Oh Come My Way Karate.
• Named-attack-trade exchange (Ch. 187 pp. 9-11). Sanji deploys COLLIER!! (p. 9), ÉPAULE!! / CÔTELETTE KABOSH!! / GIGOT CHARLIE-HORSE!! / POITRINE TREADER!! / SELLE DE OUCH!! (p. 10) countered move-for-move by Bon Clay’s UN!! / DEUX!! / AK—!!. Sanji deadpan: ‘I’d better settle this right now, this guy could go on posing forever.’ (p. 9). The chapter title Stalemate is canonized by the balanced exchange.
• LOAD-BEARING — MOUTON MALLET!! named-technique debut (Ch. 187 p. 11). French mouton = lamb/sheep/mutton. First on-page Sanji-named-attack with a livestock-class species name — extends the Ch. 73 Collier / Ch. 86 meat-cuts vocabulary into livestock-class species names. Sustains the Ch. 86 maximum-frequency French-culinary attack-naming convention. Cross-link Sanji Mouton Mallet Named Technique Debut (new), Sanji French Culinary Attack Naming Convention (Ch. 187 livestock-class-species-name extension evidence add).
• Stalemates Bon Clay through the KROOSH!!! collision (Ch. 187 p. 12). Both stand in the dust-cloud aftermath: Sanji (panting): ‘Countered my Mouton Mallet. That swan…’ First on-page Sanji-officer-tier-combat-stalemate beat — pre-loads the forward-canon Sanji-vs-Bon Clay resolution forward-canon.
• Unfazed by Bon Clay’s Clone-Clone Montage power-demonstration (Ch. 187 p. 14). After Bon Clay’s EYES!! NOSE!! MOUTH!! HEAD!! cycle into the CLONE-CLONE MONTAGE!!, Sanji deadpan: ‘That was 90 percent you, dude.’ — comic-grammar punctures the Mane Mane part-mosaic combinatorics extension at the moment of its first on-page deployment.
• LOAD-BEARING — frozen mid-strike when Bon Clay morphs into Nami’s face (Ch. 187 p. 16, SWIP!!). Sanji had launched the kill-strike (‘NOW IT’S MY TURN!! PLAYTIME’S OVER, CLOWN!!’, p. 15) and is suspended mid-fist over Bon Clay-as-Nami: ‘H-how could you?! This is the face of your friend! How could you?! What’s wrong with you!!’. First on-page Sanji-chivalry-as-tactical-liability beat — the Ch. 0046 for-you-it’s-free → Ch. 0076 what-kind-of-swordsman → Ch. 0137 Nami-comes-first-through-fifth chivalry-toward-women axiom is here weaponized by the enemy. Bon Clay-as-Nami: ‘No matter how you change your face, you’re still you. You’re an idiot if you think I’d fall for your goofy illusions.’ — taunts Sanji using the X-mark-fellowship-sign logic (Ch. 0157) inverted as enemy-mockery. Cross-link Sanji Refuses To Hit Nami-Face Bon Clay Chivalry Trap (new — load-bearing), Sanji Chivalry Toward Women (Ch. 187 chivalry-as-tactical-liability evidence add), Sanji Heart-Eyed For Nami (Ch. 187 heart-eyes-as-tactical-liability evidence add), Sanji Nami Comes First Through Fifth Chivalry Priority Doctrine (Ch. 187 chivalry-stress-point evidence add), Straw Hat Crew X-Mark Left-Arm Fellowship Sign (Ch. 187 counter-mechanism-stress-test evidence add).
• LOAD-BEARING — …What’s inside that counts!! Sanji counter-doctrine articulated (Ch. 187 p. 16). Sanji recovers from the first chivalry-freeze: ’…What’s inside that counts!! It’s…’. First on-page Sanji-inside-counts doctrine-articulation. The doctrine is structurally correct — Sanji reads inner-character, not outer-face — but fails operationally when Bon Clay re-engages Nami-face. Pre-loads forward-canon Sanji-as-Mr. Prince (Ch. ~173+) counter-deployment. Cross-link Sanji Whats Inside That Counts Bon Clay Counter-Doctrine (new — load-bearing).
• Re-tricked by Bon Clay’s second Nami-face morph — heart-eyes engage (Ch. 187 p. 17). Bon Clay smug-cycles (‘Won’t work on you. Fine. I see that using your friends’ faces…’); Sanji turns away dismissively (‘You’re so obvious.’); Bon Clay re-morphs Nami-face (KLIK!!); Sanji’s heart-eyes engage (‘SO COOL!! He’s… the inside?!’) — Bon Clay (Nami-face close-up smirk): ‘FOOL.’ — chapter-end pivot: Bon Clay has won the identity-warfare-tier round. The what’s inside counts doctrine is overridden by the heart-eyed register at the second Nami-face cycle.
• Cross-link Bon Clay (officer-pair fight opponent), Nami (face-borrowed by Bon Clay; off-page chivalry-axis), Alubarna (Ch. 187 South Block / Polka Boulevard fight-site), Mane Mane no Mi (chivalry-trap deployment target).

SBS — Sanji’s left eye is one of the Seven Mysteries of One Piece (Ch. 184) — LOAD-BEARING — first on-page Oda Seven-Mysteries meta-canon-naming; Sanji left-eye occupies one of seven slots

• LOAD-BEARING — first on-page Oda Seven Mysteries of One Piece meta-canon-naming* (Ch. 184 p. 20 SBS). Reader: “Mr. Oda!! You have to tell me!! What happened to Sanji’s left eye?!” Oda: “Sanji’s left eye is one of the Seven Mysteries of One Piece. Let’s answer the question at last!! Come on out, Sanji!!” Sanji: “Hey. You called?… Show them my left eye?! … Watch carefully, folks. There.” Oda: “Wow!!! Seriously?!! Holy smokes!! What a finale!!” — meta-evasion answer. Series-level meta-doctrine install — there are SEVEN authorial unaddressed permanent-mystery slots in One Piece, with Sanji-left-eye occupying one. Forward-canon: the Seven Mysteries register becomes a recurring SBS joke.
• Cross-link SBS Sanji Left Eye One Of Seven Mysteries Of One Piece Doctrine (new — load-bearing), Sanji Hair Over Eye Wardrobe (Ch. 184 SBS-meta-doctrine evidence add).

Alabasta — Alubarna (Ch. 183) — X-mark test; arrives at rescue + sends Vivi onward; counter-kicks Bon Clay; recognized as Mr. Prince by enemy intel; I’m a top-flight sea cook / cooks shouldn’t mess with criminals self-coding articulated

• X-mark test on the Going Merry (Ch. 183 p. 2) — Sanji is one of the crew Zoro tests; identified as authentic via the X-mark on his bandaged arm. First on-page Sanji-X-mark-test deployment.
• Arrives at the rescue mid-Bon-Clay-vs-Karoo set-piece (Ch. 183 p. 13). Sanji in long dark coat with cigarette: “Well done, Squadron Leader Karoo. You’re a real man!!” / “The rebel horde can still be stopped, right, Vivi?” / (snap) “You two are dismissed.” / “I’ll deal with…THE SWAN.” — calm-cool register; Sanji-as-savior-with-style beat. First on-page Sanji-as-Vivi-and-Karoo-rescuer.
• Sends Vivi onward with wounded Karoo (Ch. 183 p. 14) — “I’m fine!! Take care of Karoo!!” The Sanji-protects-women-and-the-vulnerable register (Baratie / Conomi / Drum) extends operationally into the Alabasta-finale chase-coordination tier.
• Counter-kicks Bon Clay’s leg with precise force (Ch. 183 p. 15, THWAK!!!). The kick-art-vs-kick-art mirror-battle opens; Sanji shows immediate combat-parity with the Officer-Agent.
• Demands Bon Clay return Usopp’s sniper-goggles (Ch. 183 pp. 14-15) — “First things first. You have our sniper’s goggles.” / “Give ‘em back.” Bon Clay drops them (KLAK…). The Ch. 0182 implied Usopp-loses-goggles-to-Bon-Clay event is here resolved; Sanji acts as Usopp’s-equipment-recovery-agent.
• LOAD-BEARING — recognized by Bon Clay as Mr. Prince (Ch. 183 p. 15). Bon Clay: “You must be the infamous MR. PRINCE I’ve been hearing about!! So you’re one of the Straw Hats!! You won’t have such an easy time with me.” First on-page Officer-Agent-tier recognition of Mr. Prince as a feared Strawhat-affiliated identity — Sanji’s Ch. 0173-0177 Rainbase phone-prank alias has propagated through Baroque Works’ intel-net up to the Officer-Agent awareness tier. The alias is now a structural-asset of Sanji’s combat-doctrine — Bon Clay believes “Mr. Prince” is a separate Strawhat-asset rather than Sanji himself. Cross-link Sanji Mr Prince Alias Officer-Agent-Tier Recognition (new — load-bearing).
• LOAD-BEARING — Sanji’s I’m Sanji. A top-flight sea cook. I’m a criminal too. I’m a pirate and a cook. But cooks shouldn’t mess with criminals!! self-coding (Ch. 183 p. 16). Full self-introduction-to-the-enemy beat. The Baratie I am a cook first doctrine (Ch. 0043-0068, Zeff’s give-the-hungry-food doctrine) extends operationally into Sanji’s combat-self-coding. The chapter installs the cook-as-moral-superordinate axis — even though Sanji is a criminal-pirate, his cook-identity carries the country-defending moral imperative. “Now stop trying to wreck this country.” Cross-link Sanji I Am A Top-Flight Sea Cook Self-Articulation (new — load-bearing), Sanji Im A Criminal Too Pirate-And-Cook Self-Coding (new — load-bearing).
• Cross-link Bon Clay (Ch. 183 Officer-Agent matchup-target), Vivi (Ch. 183 rescued), Karoo (Ch. 183 honored as real man Squadron Leader), Usopp (Ch. 183 sniper-goggles-recovery target), Sanji Mr Prince Alias Officer-Agent-Tier Recognition (new — load-bearing), Sanji I Am A Top-Flight Sea Cook Self-Articulation (new — load-bearing), Sanji Im A Criminal Too Pirate-And-Cook Self-Coding (new — load-bearing), Bon Clay Vs Sanji Officer-Agent-Vs-Strawhat Pairing Begins (new — load-bearing).

Alabasta — Post-Bon-Clay-Chase Regroup (Ch. 182)

• Sanji + Usopp + Eyelashes regroup at the Alubarna outskirts (p. 17) after off-screen Bon-Clay-chase set-piece (presumably Ch. 0181). Sanji in his Mr. Prince-mode coat checks on fallen crewmates.
• Off-screen defeat by Bon Clay confirmed: Sanji’s recap-frame “HE CLOBBERED US IN ABOUT TWO SECONDS. ONE SECOND EACH.” — Sanji and Usopp each lasted one second against Bon Clay in unprepared combat. Sanji’s gut realization: “THIS IS BAD. VIVI’S IN DANGER!!!”
• Sanji is now en-route back to Alubarna to intercept Bon Clay.
• Cross-link Usopp (Ch. 182 regroup-partner + co-defeat-victim), Bon Clay (Ch. 182 off-screen-clobberer), Vivi (Ch. 182 Sanji-realizes-danger-target), Karoo (Ch. 182 duck-distress-courier source).

Alabasta — Supersonic Duck Quiz (Ch. 181) — Vivi-decoy-cape participant; WRONG. reveal-line; Bon Clay recognizes him as Mr. Prince; chapter-opener cover-art-splash subject

• Vivi-decoy-cape participant in the colonnade (pp. 14-17). Sanji rides one of the Supersonic Ducks under a princess-cape to draw Bon Clay’s pursuit. The fifth (or first?) Vivi-decoy in the squadron.
• WRONG. reveal-line (p. 17). Sanji (cigarette lit, opening cape, GRMPF): “WRONG.” — the fifth in the TOO BAD. / TOO BAD. / TOO BAD. / WRONG. sequence (Zoro / Chopper / Nami / Sanji). The WRONG. punctuation distinguishes Sanji’s reveal from the others’ TOO BAD. — the comic-asymmetry codes Sanji as the operationally-aware one (he’s the Mr. Prince who outsmarted Crocodile in Rainbase).
• Bon Clay recognizes him as Mr. Prince (p. 17). Bon Clay (eyes wide, glasses cracking): “AND YOU’RE THAT GUY FROM…!!!” — recognizing Sanji from Robin’s earlier intel-brief. First on-page Sanji-as-Mr.-Prince-known-to-BW Officer-Agents.
• Chapter-opener cover-art subject (p. 1). Sanji (in a 59-numbered black football-style jersey, knee-shorts, sneakers, no cigarette) on a desert-crossroads bench, playing cards with a large dark furry bear-creature in a HITODE (Japanese: starfish) shirt. One-off chapter-opener splash. The 59 jersey-number is likely a Sanji-color-code (S-A-N-J-I → 5-9 phonetic-goroawase: go-ku / Goku-pun — but here likely just a sport-jersey number with no codable meaning).
• Cross-link Bon Clay (recognition-pair), Nico Robin (intel-source for Bon Clay’s recognition), Bon Clay Mr Prince Inferred Sanji Identity Officer-Agent Tracking (new), Cover Story 181 Sanji-And-Bear-Friend Playing-Cards Bench Splash (new).

Alabasta — Rainbase market (Ch. 178) — Disguised in sunglasses-and-bandana; reacts to Vivi’s sandstorm-recognition; in undetected sight-line of Smoker/Tashigi

• Cross-link Vivi (sandstorm-recognition source), Tony Tony Chopper / Nami (disguise-cluster), Smoker / Tashigi (undetected overlap), Rainbase (market panic-zone).

Alabasta — Rainbase escape (Ch. 177) — opens with airborne kick out of the cage; Take care of Vivi!! Make sure she gets to Alubarna!!! mission-charge; reads Luffy-vs-Crocodile as Crocodile’s the one to worry about; joins the Vivi-escort to Alubarna

• Opens chapter with airborne kick out of the cage / Rain Dinners (Ch. 177 p. 2). Sanji (mid-air, kicking through dust, WHOOM!!): “TAKE CARE OF VIVI!! MAKE SURE SHE GETS TO ALUBARNA!!!” First on-page Sanji-departs-the-cage-set-piece beat. The cage-escape mechanism is off-page (forward-canon: the Mr. Prince trick — Sanji’s Den-Den-Mushi impersonation of a Baroque-Works asset).
• Frames Luffy-vs-Crocodile as the captain holds; Crocodile is the worry (Ch. 177 p. 3) — Sanji (panicked grin, to a teary Vivi): “Luffy’s gone up against some pretty tough customers, and he’s the one still standing!! Crocodile’s the one to worry about!!” First on-page Sanji-frames-Crocodile-not-Luffy-as-the-source-of-worry beat. The cook’s tactical-read inverts Vivi’s panic — Luffy survives tough customers; the concern should be aimed at Crocodile.
• Joins the Vivi-escort to Alubarna (Ch. 177 pp. 2-5). Sanji is part of the airlift-by-Pell from Rainbase to Alubarna. “I’M WITH YOU!!!” (p. 5).
• Mr. Prince trick is the implied off-page mechanism — Sanji’s Den-Den-Mushi alias Mr. Prince (already in aliases) is the forward-canon-canonical explanation for the cage-break (Ch. 0170 cage → Ch. 0177 freedom transition). Not on-page in this chapter; flagged here as the load-bearing inference.
• Cross-link Vivi (mission-objective), Luffy (the captain Sanji is not worried about), Zoro (co-escort), Alubarna (destination).

Alabasta — Rain Dinners cage-escape (Ch. 176) — Wax-conscription strategist; cage-break wax-bombardier; perfume-tracker hyper-olfactory asset; Mr. Prince persona rehearsal

• LOAD-BEARING — conscripts the just-revived Mr. 3 as wax-key-forger (Ch. 176 pp. 4-5). The improvisational-alliance instinct activates instantly: Sanji sees the wax-ball, sees the trapped cage-key, and articulates the play — “Maybe we can use his Wax-Wax powers… to make a duplicate key!”. Boots Mr. 3 out with the key (WOOSH!! / “Okay, Mr. 3, be a good boy and hand over the key. If you want the key, go find it!! And try not to get eaten in the process!! If you seem to be their friend… Ha ha!! I don’t know who you are…”). First on-page Strawhat-conscripts-defeated-villain-as-temporary-asset beat — pre-loads the Mr. Prince persona’s improvisational-alliance register (~Ch. 173+ forward-canon Mr. Prince at the Rain Dinners arc-finale uses the same recruit-a-deception-asset doctrine). Cross-link Mr 3 Strawhat-Forced-Ally Captive-Of-Convenience Beat (new).
• Wax-bombs the cage wall open from outside (Ch. 176 pp. 6-7). After conscripting Mr. 3, Sanji uses the wax-key to free the team — KRASH!!! / OOF!!!! — cage wall breached. The Ch. 0170 the cage is impenetrable from inside premise is operationally broken via the Mr. 3 conscription. Sanji is now the cage-architect-defeats-cage-architecture operative.
• Hyper-olfactory perfume-tracker activation (Ch. 176 pp. 10, 15). When Vivi instructs Nami to apply the Nanohana perfume, Sanji enters rapture-register (“Ahh… it’s like falling in love and going to heaven.” + hearts/sparkles); 5 pages later, sniffing the air: “The smell of Nami’s perfume is getting stronger.” — Sanji is the chapter-internal reunion-mechanic locator-asset. Pre-loads the forward-canon Sanji-tracks-Nami-by-perfume sub-plot. Cross-link Nami Nanohana Perfume Pre-Acquisition Cosmetic-Prop Reveal (new).
• Continues I’d have let him drown counterpoint to Zoro’s Smoker-rescue (Ch. 176 pp. 9-10). “He woulda been fine on his own!” / “Huh?! He’s the enemy. Leave him.”; Zoro saves Smoker on Luffy’s order. First on-page Sanji-disagrees-with-captain’s-Marine-mercy beat — the gentleman-cook is not at-all sentimental about a Logia-Marine; pre-loads forward-canon Sanji-vs-Marines instinct-register.
• Cross-link Mr. 3 (conscripted asset), Zoro (Smoker-rescue split-decision partner), Smoker (denied-mercy target), Nami (perfume-tracker asset), Doru Doru no Mi (improvisational use), Rain Dinners Casino (Ch. 0176 cage-escape architect).

Alabasta — Rain Dinners (Mr. Prince operation) (Ch. 175) — Mr. Prince alias named on-page; bridge-collapse rescue-tactic; Bad Manners Kick Course; reaches the cage

• LOAD-BEARING — Mr. Prince alias named on-page (Ch. 175 pp. 5, 7, 15). Self-names to a Baroque Works mob after blowing the Rain Dinners bridge: “M-My name is Mr. Prince.” / “My name is Mr. Prince!!!” / “I’m finally helping out!!” (p. 5). The Mr.-prefix register matches Baroque Works’ Officer Agent naming-grammar — Sanji is passing as a Baroque Works officer-tier infiltrator. Wardrobe: Vivi’s striped headcloth + striped cloak + suit underneath + cigarette. Cage-Strawhats operationally recognize him as “PRINCE!!!!” (p. 15). Crocodile vows “Mr. Prince… I’ll find him… and beat him to death!!” (p. 7) — the alias has registered as an enemy-of-Baroque-Works codename. Pays off Sanji Snail-o-phone Impersonation Of Mr 3 (Ch. 0127 Snail-o-phone impersonation hardens into a full-costume in-person Baroque-Works-deception persona) and Sanji Prince Charming Self-Naming (Ch. 0168 Prince Charming gag becomes the operational on-page alias). Cross-link Mr Prince Persona Self-Naming Sanji Baroque-Works-Deception Alias On-Page Debut (new — load-bearing).
• Bridge-collapse rescue-tactic (Ch. 175 pp. 4-6). Kicks a Bananagator into the Rain Dinners connecting bridge (BLAM!!! THUD), causing the bridge to collapse (DOOM!! BO-OM!! RRMMB…). Cuts Crocodile off from the cage. First on-page Strawhat-engineered infrastructure-sabotage of a Baroque Works asset. Pairs with Chopper-as-decoy: the tactic is Chopper draws pursuit one way, Sanji blows the bridge to seal Crocodile out. Cross-link Mr Prince Decoy-Lure Pull-Crocodile-Off-The-Cage Bait-And-Switch Tactic (new).
• Bad Manners Kick Course named (Ch. 175 pp. 4, 12). WHAK!!! BAD MANNERS KICK COURSE!! — Sanji’s first on-page named-attack of the Rain Dinners sub-arc. Uses a Bananagator-as-projectile (p. 4 — kicks gator at the bridge; p. 12 — kicks gator into the cage-chamber wall as a chamber-opener). The Bad Manners register continues Sanji’s chivalry-grammar (the kicking-men-with-table-manners-violation framing); the Course suffix matches the French-culinary attack-naming convention. Cross-link Sanji Bad Manners Kick Course Bananagator Bridge-Collapse Combat Debut (new).
• Reaches the cage chamber (Ch. 175 p. 15). FWUP… FWOO… DOOM!!! — kicks open the chamber gate: “Been waiting long?!” / “Hi.” — calm-cool entrance register. Cage-Strawhats yell “PRINCE!!!!” — operational-recognition under the alias.
• Mr.-Prince combat-register (Ch. 175 p. 17). “I’ll knock some table manners into you.” / “It’s not polite to attack young ladies!!” / “Come at me all at once, you crap bananas.” — Sanji’s Mr. Prince persona harmonizes with his pre-existing chivalry-and-table-manners-grammar; the crap- prefix grammar (Sanji’s hallmark) is now also turned against the Bananagators (crap bananas).
• Vivi/Sanji running through Rainbase (Ch. 175 p. 3). Vivi (in Sanji’s hand): “…just got shot.” / Sanji: “Me?” — comic ellipsis from the Ch. 0168 confrontation (Sanji “shot” by Bunchi the riding turtle / by Marines). The hand-holding-with-Vivi register canonized.
• Trapped in the cage chamber at chapter-end (Ch. 175 p. 19). Crocodile/Robin seal the cage-platform sliding-door shut from outside (KREEK… DOOM!! DOOM!!) and leave a “See you later, Crap-Gator, Mr. Prince” note. Sanji is now sealed in with the cage-Strawhats; the cage-door real key is out of the casino with Crocodile.
• Cross-link Vivi (rescue-partner), Tony Tony Chopper (decoy-partner), Crocodile (decoy-target / sealed-out + sealed-in opposition), Bananagator (combat-projectile-and-target), Smoker (cage-mate-with-Robin-intel), Nico Robin (calling-card recipient — Crap-Gator, Mr. Prince), Rain Dinners Casino (set-piece), Rainbase (bridge-collapse + decoy-streets).

Alabasta — Rain Dinners (Ch. 174) — Mr. Prince — alias debuts; second-round Snail-o-phone deception; Show me the way, princess cliffhanger

• LOAD-BEARING — first on-page utterance of Mr. Prince alias (Ch. 174 p. 3). Sanji self-introduces over the Snail-o-phone: ”…Mr. Prince.” — Crocodile: “Me? I’m…” / “Who are you?!”. First on-page Sanji-invents-a-Baroque-Works-style-codename for himself. The alias fits the BW Mr. N officer-naming convention — Sanji is slotting himself into Crocodile’s mental org-chart as a phantom rival officer-agent. Cashes the Ch. 0168 Just call me Prince Charming! self-naming (Foreshadowing/Sanji Prince Charming Self-Naming) from comic register into combat-deception register. Pre-loads forward-canon: Sanji literally IS a Vinsmoke prince — the joke is on Crocodile and on the audience simultaneously. See Sanji Mr Prince Alias Operationalized Snail-o-phone Reveal (new), Sanji Mr Prince Alias Royal-Coding Vinsmoke-Prince Pre-Tell (new — long-burn forward-canon).
• Second-round Snail-o-phone deception against Crocodile (Ch. 174 pp. 2-6). Sanji answers Crocodile’s call as Restaurant Le Crap?! (p. 2); Crocodile immediately recognizes the deception-signature: “Stop fooling around, you idiot. Hello, this is Restaurant Le Crap.” / “I’m glad to hear that.” / “Then you remember.”. The Ch. 0126-0127 Restaurant Le Crap gag is now a deception-signature recognized brand-tier by Crocodile (no longer mistaken for a misdial). Crocodile articulates the operational-intelligence problem: “I thought I had all the Straw Hat Pirates in that cage!! Are there more?!” (p. 2). Pays off Sanji Snail-o-phone Impersonation Of Mr 3 at the recursion-tier and Restaurant Le Crap Wrong-Number Snail-Phone Bit at the gag-becomes-signature-tier.
• Information-asymmetry doctrine (Ch. 174 pp. 4-5). Sanji refuses location disclosure: “I can’t tell you that. If I did, you’d come and kill me.” Crocodile: “Well, whether you can kill me or not is debatable, but I’m not fool enough… to give out information for free — unlike you, Mr. Zero.” — first on-page Crocodile-Sanji-as-deception-counterpart-conversation. Sanji plays double-cover: when Crocodile says “Tell me. Where are you?”, Sanji feigns shock — “No… Sanji?!” (p. 5) — bait-using-his-own-real-name to confuse Crocodile’s read on which alias is operational.
• The Strawhats had a coordinated plan (Ch. 174 p. 19). Robin (in the dining hall on Snail-o-phone): “All according to plan.” Sanji: “We have to hurry. The rebellion’s begun. Chopper’s leading Crocodile on a wild goose chase.” The chapter retroactively reframes the Ch. 0170-0173 capture-sequence as at least partially engineered: the Strawhats needed Crocodile to leave Rain Dinners, and used Chopper-in-Heavy-Point as bait to extract him.
• Mr. Prince + princess pairing closes the chapter (Ch. 174 p. 19). Vivi runs to Sanji on the rooftop (SHWING / KLAK KLAK) — “SANJI!!!”. Sanji, full-page close-up, cigarette in mouth, big-toothed smile: “So, show me the way… princess.” (DO OO N!!). The fairy-tale overlay (Mr. Prince + princess) is now operational disguise-deployment — Sanji is in-character as Vivi’s Prince Charming protector AND as the deception-tier Mr. Prince phantom officer simultaneously. The long-burn forward-canon to the Vinsmoke-prince royal-blood reveal (Ch. 825+) operationalizes here: the joke-codename-and-protector-role IS Sanji’s literal birthright.
• Yells from cage (Ch. 174 p. 15) — “I’ll come back with help!!! I won’t abandon you!!! Hang on just a little longer!!!” — Strawhat-mission-anchor-grammar. (Note: cage-mate continuity from Ch. 0170-0173; Sanji is operationally outside the cage by p. 2 of this chapter, so the yell at p. 15 is a returning-to-the-window-with-info beat, not a from-inside-the-cage beat.)
• Cross-link Nico Robin (coordination partner — all according to plan), Tony Tony Chopper (bait-cooperator), Vivi (show me the way, princess — chapter cliffhanger), Crocodile (Snail-o-phone deception target — round 2).

Alabasta — Rebellion (Ch. 172) — in-cage confessional-witness beats; key-drop reaction

• Witness to Crocodile’s full coup-confession from the cage (Ch. 172 pp. 15-17). “You lousy rat!! If it weren’t for this cage, I’d…!” The Strawhats are the in-narrative audience for Crocodile’s antagonist-monologue.
• First reaction to Robin’s wax-key drop (Ch. 172 p. 19). “A KEY!!” / “IS THAT THE KEY TO THIS CAGE?!” / “HAND IT OVER, YOU JERK!!” — pre-loads Sanji’s chapter-173+ key-recovery-and-Mr.-Prince-aliasing escape sequence (the key drops down to where Mr. 3 is in the underground pit; the wax-key escape mechanism is forward-canon).

Alabasta — Rain Dinners (Ch. 170) — Beginning — captive in the Rain Dinners underground cage; first Strawhat to recognize Crocodile by sight; I’m Sanji deadpan-comic register; It’s no use cage-resignation

• LOAD-BEARING — first on-page Strawhat-recognizes-Crocodile-visually beat (Ch. 170 p. 14). When the slicked-back-black-haired silhouette descends the Rain Dinners dining-hall staircase, Sanji yells “CROCO-DILE!!!” — instant silhouette-match recognition. The Ch. 0126-0127 Snail-o-phone Crocodile-voice-knowledge (Sanji impersonated Mr. 3 over the phone with Crocodile / Mr. Zero on the other line) translates into silhouette-match operational-intelligence. Pre-loads forward-canon: Sanji is the Strawhat-who-knows-Crocodile’s-voice-and-operating-grammar — pre-installs his ~Ch. 173+ Mr. Prince persona role as the Strawhats’ Baroque-Works-deception-operative. Sanji is the only Strawhat with first-hand intel on Crocodile’s voice + speaking-cadence + chain-of-command, and the operational asset that makes the Mr. Prince persona possible at the Rain Dinners arc-finale. Cross-link Sanji Recognizes Crocodile By Sight Voice-Knowledge Operational (new — load-bearing), Sanji Snail-o-phone Impersonation Of Mr 3 (Ch. 0170 silhouette-match payoff evidence add).
• Deadpan-comic I’m Sanji register (Ch. 170 p. 12). “Hey, who ate all the meat?” (Luffy) / “I’m Sanji.” — Strawhat-irreverence-under-threat coding (Ch. 0123 what kind of fool cuts off his legs register) sustained at the Crocodile-tier captive-situation. Taking captivity un-seriously is the Strawhat psychological-defense at the boss-Warlord tier.
• Cage-resignation register (Ch. 170 pp. 12, 17). “It’s no use.” — first on-page Sanji-as-cage-realist beat. He has tested the bars and concluded they don’t open from inside. The Sea-Stone-cage architecture is operational; Sanji’s read of no use pre-loads the Mr. Prince persona’s find-a-way-out-from-outside approach.
• Yells “WAIT, VIVI!! OPEN THE CAGE! LET US OUT!!” through the bars (Ch. 170 p. 16) — Strawhat-can’t-help-Vivi-from-inside-the-cage register canonized at the moment Vivi enters the dining hall above. The chivalry-toward-women register (Ch. 0046 Nami-priority doctrine) collides with the Sea-Stone-cage architecture: Sanji can yell at Vivi but not at the doorman.
• Cross-link Luffy (cage-mate), Usopp (cage-mate), Igaram (cage-mate), Crocodile (silhouette-recognized via voice-knowledge), Vivi (mission-objective yelled-at through the bars), Rain Dinners Casino (Ch. 0170 captive-set-piece evidence add).

Alabasta — Rainbase (Ch. 168) — Prince Charming self-naming; intercepts Marines as rear-guard

• Blocks Usopp’s Climate-Baton handover to Nami (p. 4) — “Hey, don’t give Nami that dangerous weapon!!” / “I’ll protect them!! Nami and Vivi don’t have to fight!” — the protect-the-women register hardens.
• Self-names as Prince Charming (p. 4) — “Just call me Prince Charming! Ha ha…” First on-page Sanji self-naming with a princess-coded honorific. See Sanji Prince Charming Self-Naming (new).
• Intercepts the Marines in mid-chase (pp. 13-14) — “Protect Nami!! Usopp!” / “I’ll deal with these guys.” / “You wimps are on your own!” / “Now with that smoked jerk out of the way… Bad luck for you. Heh heh…” The rear-guard cover lands; Sanji’s combat-confidence-register (Baratie cooks tier) continues.
• Reaches Rain Dinners with the cluster (p. 18) — “Inside!! Run!!!”.
• Cross-link Nami (Ch. 168 protect-the-women extension), Vivi (Ch. 168 protect-the-princess extension), Sanji Prince Charming Self-Naming (new), Usopp (Ch. 168 Climate-Baton handover-deflection).

Alabasta — Battlefront (Ch. 167) — Sanji-Chopper supportive-banter; one fun place left in Alabasta gambling-quip

• First on-page Sanji-Chopper supportive-banter beat (p. 4). Sanji (smoking): “You’re doing better today, Chopper.” / Chopper (small, walking, kerchief): “I’m hanging in there.” / Sanji (half-smile): “Heh”. Sanji as senpai-mentor to the new-crewmember.
• Gambling-quip (p. 2). “At least there’s still one fun place left in Alabasta.” — Sanji’s first on-page Rainbase-anticipation beat; pre-loads his Ch. 168+ casino-night register.

Alabasta arc (Ch. 166) — articulates Luffy’s wisdom; restrains the Vivi-Luffy fight then sides with Luffy

• Articulates Luffy’s wisdom — Sometimes he makes a lot of sense for an idiot. That’s Luffy. (Ch. 166 p. 15). First on-page Sanji-as-Luffy-doctrine-articulator beat in the Alabasta arc. The cigarette-smoking-Sanji-philosophizes register canonizes.
• Restrains the Vivi-Luffy fight but sides with Luffy (Ch. 166 p. 16) — “Shut up, Luffy!! Of course Vivi cares about her people!!” — restrains his captain rhetorically, then stands aside when Luffy continues. Sanji’s defend-the-woman-and-trust-the-captain dual-loyalty register articulated.
• Continues the Vivi Princess Save The Kingdom Strawhat-Mandate register from Ch. 0122 — Sanji is the Strawhat who first named Vivi’s princess-mandate; here he is the one who restrains the captain from steamrolling the princess’s plan.

Alabasta (Ch. 162) — Adventure in the Kingdom of Sand — out of sweat heat-threshold named; Dragon… Épaule! French-named kick versus the Sandora dragon; pirate-box-lunch provisioner; Vivi-deference register

• Sanji is ‘out of sweat’ (Ch. 162 p. 3) — ‘I’m out of sweat.’ / ‘Haa… I’m so hot…’ — the chef’s heat-tolerance is finite. First on-page Sanji-heat-threshold beat.
• Dragon… Épaule! (Ch. 162 p. 12) — French épaule (shoulder) kick against the giant Sandora dragon. Continues the French-vocabulary attack-naming pattern. First on-page Sanji-named-kick versus a Sea-King-tier creature.
• Pirate box-lunches (Ch. 162 p. 5) — ‘Hey, Sanji, let’s eat your pirate box lunches.’ / ‘Not until Vivi says we can.’ Vivi-deference register: Sanji defers food-distribution authority to Vivi.
• Vivi-deference register continues — ‘Rest awhile. The heat’s getting to you. Just cool down.’ / ‘We’ll be in Yuba tonight.’ (Ch. 162 p. 9) — calmer-voice register; takes the post-Evil-Herons recriminations into a logistics-focused recovery posture.
• Sanji caption-names the Sandora dragon (Ch. 162 p. 11) — ‘It’s the giant Sandora dragon!!!’ — first on-page Sanji-as-Sandora-fauna-recognizer.
• Cross-link Sandora River Giant Dragon Lizard Sea-King-Tier Desert-Apex Predator Debut (new).

Alabasta (Ch. 161) — The Green City Erumalu — Erumalu walk-through; find the rebel leader register; subdued during Vivi’s exposition

• Articulates the next-objective: find the rebel leader (Ch. 161 p. 6). “Okay, now to find that rebel leader!” — Sanji as the crew’s tactical-objective articulator. First on-page Strawhat reference to the rebel-leader-as-objective.
• Subdued during Vivi’s exposition (Ch. 161 pp. 9-17). Atypical for Sanji — no Vivi-fawn beats; the chapter pulls him into Vivi’s emotional register, not the comic-fawning grammar. Sweat-line listening beats (p. 16) during the Crocodile-frame-up disclosure.

Alabasta (Ch. 160) — volunteers as Vivi’s desert-journey cook; chivalry-grammar hardens at the kingdom-arc opening

• LOAD-BEARING — Volunteers as Vivi’s desert-journey cook (Ch. 160 p. 6). Sanji (heart-eyes, sweat-bead): “Vivi!! You can leave the meals on our desert journey to me!!” First on-page Sanji-cooks-for-Vivi-only register at the kingdom-arc opening. The chivalric-Sanji-register hardens into a princess-specific provisioning-role. Cross-link Sanji Chooses Vivis Meals Crew-Cooking Doctrine (new).
• Sandora-bank arrival (Ch. 160 pp. 3-4). Misreads the landfall as “we’re at the edge of the island”; Vivi corrects to “the bank of the Sandora River.” Cross-link Sandora River (new).

Alabasta voyage / Nanohana (Ch. 157) — X-mark / left-arm fellowship-sign joining-beat; first on-page name-drop of the Mane Mane no Mi (Clone-Clone Fruit); canonizes Usopp’s just do what you can motto; three-piece-suit Alabasta-wardrobe debut

• Joins the X-mark / left-arm fellowship-sign (pp. 10-11). Cross-link Straw Hat Crew X-Mark Left-Arm Fellowship Sign (new).
• First on-page name-drop of the Mane Mane no Mi (Clone-Clone Fruit) (p. 8) — “Are they really that good? These… clone-clone fruit transformations?” — Sanji is the on-page utterance of the fruit’s name. Cross-link Mane Mane no Mi Clone-Clone Fruit Foreshadowed Pre-Debut (new — Sanji is the namer).
• Canonizes Usopp’s motto (p. 9) — “Just do whatever you can. If you can’t win, it’s okay to run!! Just do your best!!” — Sanji frames it as Usopp’s motto. Sanji-as-crew-doctrine-articulator register continues.
• Three-piece-suit Alabasta-wardrobe — Sanji’s signature black-suit-and-tie look is now arc-standard.
• Fools. Forget these little fish. (p. 7) — combat-prioritization tell against the Billions fleet.

Sea-Voyage Transit / pre-Alabasta (Ch. 156) — backseat-fishing; first names the pass-himself-off-as-the-king political-threat

• Backseat-fishing + Nami-flattery beats — Sanji’s fishing-proposal from Ch. 155 has materialized into the chapter-opening fishing-line scene; he commentary-pivots around Nami throughout. Heart-eyed register sustained.
• LOAD-BEARING — first to name the strategic-threat after Vivi reads the Cobra-face beat (p. 18): “He could do a lot of damage. If he were to pass himself off as the king…” — Sanji extends Vivi’s family-reading into the political-threat formulation: false-king deployment is the threat. Nami then converts it into the trust-corrosion register (“if he disguised himself as one of us, we wouldn’t be able to trust each other.”). Sanji is the bridge between Vivi’s emotional-recognition and Nami’s tactical-formulation.

Alabasta voyage (Ch. 155) — kitchen-management vs. Luffy-the-bottomless-pit comedy beat

• Discovers Luffy ate all the ship’s food (pp. 12-13). I loaded this ship with enough food to last us all the way to Alabasta. So how did it disappear in one night? Catches Luffy red-handed with food in his mouth. Comedic kitchen-management beat — the cook’s logistical-discipline meets Luffy’s appetite. Sanji proposes I’ll do some fishing.
• Reacts in shock to Vivi’s Sir Crocodile is a hero line (p. 14, HERO? with cigarette smoke).
• Cross-link: Vivi (chapter exposition partner).

Drum Island (Ch. 153) — wakes up in the sleigh; witnesses the cherry-blossom bloom

• Wakes up mid-sleigh (p. 12). “I… I thought I was gonna die…” The Ch. 137 avalanche-rock-face impact and Ch. 150 Wapol-headbutt concussion is resolved.
• Witnesses the cherry-blossom bloom (p. 16). “Wow…” — the chapter’s grace-note also passes through Sanji.

Drum Island (Ch. 152) — carries recovering Nami, refuses treatment for Vivi/Alabasta-mission urgency, delivers Chopper’s farewell

• Carries the recovering Nami away from Kureha’s care (p. 11). Refuses re-admission to the infirmary: “Quiet! If I go back there, we’ll have to wait two more days before we can set sail for Alabasta.” / “Nami, you’d better go and get treated.” / “Do you want Vivi to get even more despondent!?”. First in-story articulation that the Alabasta-mission clock is now load-bearing in the Drum arc.
• Dragged back to the infirmary by Kureha (p. 11) — THWAK!!! / AAAH!!!! / GET BACK TO THE INFIRMARY!!!!. Treated; emerges treatment-complete by p. 15.
• Delivers Chopper’s farewell — Come back some-day… when you feel like it (p. 18). The Sanji-as-deferred-farewell-voice register lands at Chopper’s bowed-in-snow beat under Hiriluk’s pirate-flag silhouette.

Drum Island (Ch. 150) — pursues Wapol; headbutted into the castle wall

• Pursues Wapol into Drum Castle with Luffy (p. 3), concerned for Nami: “But what if he found a way into the castle? Nami!!!”
• Headbutted into a wall by slim-Wapol (p. 9). Slim-form Wapol charges (SHSOM!! …You can’t escape me!!!) and headbutts Sanji into stonework (THWUMP!!) — “Mwa ha ha ha ha!!! You’re dead!!!” / “Agh!!!”. First on-page Sanji-vs-Wapol direct hit; lands the slim-form’s speed-mode as a real combat-threat before Luffy intervenes.
• Sanji’s was-he-always-that-thin? deadpan (p. 10) — KO’d on his back, feet up, observing slim-Wapol from the floor. The comic-grammar beat that closes the slim-down reveal.

Drum Island (Ch. 149) — wants to fight; deferred by Kureha

• On the snowfield outside Drum Castle with Dr. Kureha, watching the fight unfold (p. 3): “Crap-doctor! Lemme fight, too!!” — first instance of Sanji addressing Kureha as Crap-doctor, installing the gruff Sanji-Kureha dynamic that recurs through the arc. Pairs with Crap-Geezer Crap-Hat Verbal Affection Code — crap- honorific extended from Zeff to a second master-physician mentor-figure.
• Sidelined from combat — the crap-doctor line is a frustration tell, not a fight-beat. Continues the Ch. 148 cross-cut grammar (Sanji at castle hill while Luffy at castle wall).

Drum Island (Ch. 148) — broken-backed but unbroken-willed; ‘I’ll carry you to the castle!!!’

• Critically wounded — broken back — lying in the Big Horn snow (pp. 2-4) after off-page Wapol-vs-Sanji clash (Ch. 146-147). Despite injuries, vows repeatedly to carry the ill Nami to Drum Castle himself: “I’ll carry you to the castle!!! Don’t worry!!!” / “Yes, it will!!! I’ll carry you all the way!!!” (KRUNCH KRUNCH — dragging himself forward).
• Knocked unconscious by Zoro (p. 3, THWAK THWAK) — “Why, you!! Why, you!!” — Zoro: “That idiot… I can’t let such heroism be wasted!!!” Then carried with Nami up the mountain on Zoro’s shoulders (SHW UMP…!!).
• Somehow appears at Drum Castle (pp. 7, 12-17) — on the castle parapet during Wapol’s flag-shoot-down (“CRAP!!! NOT AGAIN!!?” p. 7) and again as the broken-backed one Wapol levels his vaporize-cannon at (p. 12). Wapol: “The one with the broken back. I like your spirit, but it’s too soon.” Luffy stretches in to save him (KA-WHAM, p. 13). At chapter’s end Sanji asks the rubber-Luffy: “Straw Hat!! Are you all right?” / Luffy: “I’m fine. I’m made of rubber.”. (Reconciliation note: the timeline implies the castle scenes are not the same in-chapter time as the Big Horn scenes — Sanji’s appearance at the castle likely re-shows the Ch. 146-147 segment; the chapter cross-cuts the two locations.)
• First on-page articulation of Sanji’s unbreakable-spirit-via-loud-vow counterweight to Zoro’s unbreakable-spirit-via-quiet-action — see Zoro Carries Wounded Crewmates Up The Mountain Setup.

Drum Island (Ch. 147) — witnesses Wapol’s fusion; cover-page bound-on-grassland

• Watches Wapol’s three-technique demonstration (Mutation → House → Factory → Chessmarimo, pp. 7-11). Reads Chessmarimo as stupid: ‘That’s not cool!! It’s stupid!!!’ (p. 11) — diametrically opposite Luffy’s ‘That’s cool!!!’. The chapter’s Luffy-Sanji taste-axis split: Luffy reads any visual grotesque as marvel; Sanji reads the same as offense to form. Continues the Ch. 138 Marimo’s Surprise attack-name register where Sanji combat-coins on the fly.
• Title-page cover (p. 1): bounding mid-leap across a grassy plain alongside Kureha and Nami — forward-arc post-Drum-recovery composition. Sanji as one of three foregrounded characters; out-of-arc setting (no snow). See A caballo vamo’ pa’l mar! (On horseback, we go to the sea!).

Drum Island (Ch. 146) — defends Kureha; Static-Cling trapped and freed

• First counter-kick on Wapol (SHWOOOO, p. 3): ‘I owe you guys some lumps.’ — Sanji’s combat-grammar reactivated after the Ch. 135 can’t-kick-in-deep-snow terrain-disadvantage beat.
• Defends Kureha as Lady (p. 11): ‘Hey, Afro Man!! Throwing hair? That’s no way to treat a lady.’ — first Sanji-Kureha interaction, Sanji’s gentleman-toward-women register applied to the 139-year-old physician.
• Stuck with Kuromarimo’s Static-Cling hairballs (p. 12); breaks free in the snow when Chess ignites them (p. 14): ‘HOT!!! SNOW, SNOW!!!’ / ‘And I was bait!!! They were only a distraction!’. Snow-as-extinguisher beat.
• Finds Luffy after the Air-Assault recoil (p. 19) and is the one to note ‘That’s Nami’s jacket!!’ — the chapter-end punctuation.

Drum Island (Ch. 140) — castle interior; reads the snow-birds

• Maps the castle interior with Luffy (pp. 8-9) — ‘This castle’s weird, Luffy.’ / ‘This place is filled with snow. The doors to the unused rooms are frozen over!!!’ — the operational reader of every new environment.
• Misreads Kureha (p. 9) — ‘She’s no doctor! She wants to kill us!!’ — the witch-with-scalpels throws him off; later corrected when Chopper turns out to be the actual doctor.
• Reads the door-purpose correctly (p. 17): ‘If the door closes, they’ll fall.’ — Sanji canonizes the snow-bird sanctuary in one line. The protect-the-weak instinct (already established in Bell-mère / Yosaku-Johnny beats) extends to wildlife here.
• Mistakes Chopper’s transformed form for a monster (p. 18): ‘MONSTER!!!’ — the panel composition mirrors the villagers’ fear panel (p. 14) Kureha narrated; Sanji unknowingly re-stages Chopper’s foundational wound.

Drum Island (Ch. 139) — six broken ribs and a cracked spine; chef-reflex on Chopper

• Survives the Drum Rock climb — six broken ribs and a cracked spine (Kureha’s diagnosis, p. 17): “Six broken ribs and a cracked spine. Shall I operate on him?” — first on-page demonstration that Sanji took catastrophic damage during the climb (carried up by Luffy alongside Nami). See Zoro Climbed Drum Rockies Bare-Chested Straw-Hat-Carrying-Carrying-Crew Feat.
• Immediately lunges at Chopper to cook him on waking (p. 16): “Wait, Luffy! I’ll cook him up!! It won’t take a minute!” — chef-register reflex even on six broken ribs. See Chopper Eats Devil Fruit Talking Reindeer Origin.

Drum Island (Ch. 138) — Marimo’s Surprise attack-name debut; carries Nami before collapsing on the climb

• First on-page Marimo-as-attack-name (p. 3): “EAT THIS!! MARIMO’S SURPRISE!!!” — Sanji deflects Chess’s arrow-volley with a kick using the Zoro-only insult-nickname Marimo (moss-ball) as an ad-hoc attack-name while Zoro is absent. First on-page Sanji combat-coinage using a crewmate’s insult-nickname. See Sanji Marimo Nickname Combat-Coinage Debut. The Drum-arc Marimo name-game is dense here: same chapter has Sanji shouting Marimo in an attack-name against a man named Kuromarimo (kuro-marimo, black-moss-ball).
• Re-asserts the no-combat-around-Nami rule (p. 4): “…every blow you take will be felt by Nami!! If you mix it up with them…” — operationally re-installs the Ch. 135 doctrine that constrains the chapter’s entire combat-grammar. See Nami Grand Line Fever Onset Cliffhanger.
• Carries Nami through the early climb (pp. 10-13) while she chants “D-doctor… doctor…” in delirium. Collapses on the climb (AGH!! / KREK, p. 13) — the terrain-disadvantage of Ch. 135 (see Sanji Cannot Kick In Deep Snow Terrain-Disadvantage Beat) compounds across the blizzard. Sanji does not reach the summit on his own legs; he is left somewhere on the mountainside as Luffy continues alone with Nami.

Drum Island (Ch. 137) — avalanche-shield for Nami; chivalry-doctrine canonized

• Carries the unconscious Nami down the avalanche and refuses to crash-tackle the rock outcropping — “A lady requires… a gentle touch” (p. 10) — absorbs the impact face-first to spare Nami the shock. Knocked unconscious. See Sanji A Lady Requires A Gentle Touch Avalanche Rock-Face Shield.
• Articulates the Nami-comes-first-through-fifth chivalry-priority doctrine (p. 3) — “How should I know!? But Nami comes first, Nami comes second, Nami comes third, Nami comes fourth…!! And Nami comes fifth!! Got that!? Protect her with your life!!!” First on-page hierarchical-enumeration of Sanji’s lady-priority. See Sanji Nami Comes First Through Fifth Chivalry Priority Doctrine, Sanji Chivalry Toward Women.
• Continues the Ch. 135 terrain-disadvantage axis — cannot use his kick-based offense in deep snow + cascading-snow conditions; spends the entire chapter as a defensive shield. See Sanji Cannot Kick In Deep Snow Terrain-Disadvantage Beat.

Drum Island (Ch. 136) — recognizes the avalanche-trap

• Recognizes the Lapins’ avalanche-induction trap (p. 2) — pupils blow wide, “They can’t be!!!” — the first character to read the rabbit-behavior as deliberate. Cashes (pp. 18-19): “They’ve gone and done it, those darned rabbits!” The recognition is fast enough to save the team — Sanji orders the retreat (“Anywhere!! Anywhere but here!!”) before the avalanche reaches them. See Lapins Trigger Avalanche Apex-Hunter Trap Strategy.
• Continues carrying the gravely ill Nami throughout — the Ch. 135 Nami-can’t-survive-combat-shock premise pushed to its limit by the avalanche cliffhanger.

Drum Island (Ch. 134)

• Co-carries Nami through the blizzard; insists the huge white creatures are polar bears — “They’re big and white, so they must be polar bears. Yeah, that’s it!!” (p. 9) — wrongly; they are Lapins. See Lapins Bear-Sized Pack-Hunting Rabbits Named.

Drum Island (Ch. 132)

• Dismisses the panicking Wapol retainers as “a bunch of idiots… nothing to worry about” (p. 5).
• Spots Drum Island from lookout — “TA-DAH!! AN ISLAND!!!” (p. 8).
• Polices Luffy’s adventure-mode reflex — “We’re not here for an adventure this time. We’re going to find a doctor for Nami, then we’re leaving immediately.” (p. 9). First on-page articulation of the Drum arc as a rescue arc.

Alabasta voyage (Ch. 130)

• First on-page Sanji-as-ship’s-cook role-doctrine. Sanji canonizes the cook’s responsibilities: balanced nutrition (“as long as I’m the ship’s cook… you don’t have to worry about basic nutrition”), basic care, and dietary knowledge for different diseases. He explicitly draws the line — the cook covers nutrition, not medicine — which structurally clears the way for the crew’s doctor-slot.
• Tends to Nami’s illness within his role: offers to “cook up something she can eat” and rebuts Luffy’s “feed her all of ‘em” (“That’s a good way to make a healthy person sick”).

Little Garden (Ch. 128) — Pirate Pride — secures the Eternal Pose to Alabasta; counter-intelligence against Baroque Works; chivalric-relief jungle-arrival beat

• Secures the Eternal Pose to Alabasta (p. 12) — Sanji holds it aloft: “You found it!! The Eternal Pose to Alabasta!!! Now we can go!!!” — the arc-objective navigation-instrument is in the crew’s hands because of Sanji’s off-panel work.
• Counter-intelligence against Baroque Works (pp. 10-11) — Sanji spoke with Mr. 0 / Mr. Zero by Transponder Snail (Mr. Zero thought he was Mr. 3) and told him the Strawhats were all dead — throwing Baroque Works off the crew’s trail. First on-page Strawhat-side deception-operation against Baroque Works.
• Chivalric-relief jungle-arrival beat (p. 9) — bursts in heart-eyed: “NAMI!!! VIVI!!! …You’re all safe!♡ Thank goodness…” — the recurring Sanji-relieved-the-women-are-safe register.

Little Garden (Ch. 127) — Snail-o-phone — intercepts Crocodile’s call, impersonates Mr. 3, fights off the Unluckies

• First on-page Strawhat infiltration-by-deception beat. Sanji finds Mr. 3’s ringing Snail-o-phone in the abandoned wax-camp (Ch. 127 p. 8), realizes the caller is “one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea” — “the leader of Vivi’s enemies” — and deliberately impersonates Mr. 3 to misdirect Baroque Works HQ.
• Feeds Crocodile a false mission-report (p. 10): “Oh, yeah… mission accomplished. … Everyone who knew your secret… has been eliminated. So you can call off the hunt.” — a tactical lie to call off the hunt for Vivi.
• First on-page Sanji-as-tactician beat — Sanji improvises and recovers the deception under pressure when the Unluckies expose it with photographic proof, salvaging the call (“Turns out the Straw Hats were still alive. But it’s okay, I finished them for good this time.” — pp. 16-17).
• Fights off the Unluckies (Mr. 13 + Ms. Friday) at the wax-camp (pp. 12-15) — kicks them away (WAM!! / “Four-eyed monkey!!!”, FWIP!! / “…you over-grown chicken!”) while continuing the Snail-o-phone deception in parallel — a combat-and-comms-simultaneously set-piece.
• Cross-link Crocodile (the call-target deceived), Mr 13 + Ms Friday (the Unluckies fought off), Mr. 3 (impersonated), Den Den Mushi, Sanji Snail-o-phone Impersonation Of Mr 3 (new), Den Den Mushi Telephone Snail On-Page Debut (Ch. 0127 foregrounded-device evidence add).

Little Garden (Ch. 126) — Instinct — misses the entire Wax-Wax House battle (Sanji-arrives-too-late comedy-inversion); answers a Den Den Mushi as a prank and inadvertently takes a call from Crocodile / Mr. Zero

• LOAD-BEARING — misses the entire Wax-Wax House battle (Ch. 126 pp. 17-18) — having left the Going Merry to rescue the crew (Ch. 0125 captain-substitute-rescue-initiator beat), Sanji never reaches the fight. After the battle ends, he is found alone at Mr. 3’s abandoned Wax-Wax Mansion tea-table, sipping tea — the heroic rescue-initiative comically undercut (“Maybe I shouldn’t be sitting here sipping tea!! … What’s a nice place like this doing in the middle of a jungle anyway?”). First on-page Sanji-arrives-too-late comedy-inversion — pre-loads Sanji’s recurring misses-the-decisive-moment gag-register. Cross-link Sanji Misses The Whole Battle Comedy Beat (new).
• LOAD-BEARING — answers a Den Den Mushi as a prank and takes a call from Crocodile (Ch. 126 pp. 18-19) — a snail with a rotary-phone receiver mounted on its shell rings at the tea-table (RINGGG… RINGGG…); Sanji: “Hey, a telephone snail!!” — and answers it as a prank: “Hello, this is Restaurant Le Crap. … Would you like to make a reservation?” The caller barks: “Stop fooling around, you idiot. You’re late with your report!!” and self-identifies: “It’s me. … Mr. Zero.” Sanji has inadvertently taken a call from Crocodile, who mistakes him for Mr. 3. Sets up the Sanji-impersonates-Mr.-3 sub-plot — the gag is plot-load-bearing: the comedy beat that parks Sanji at the tea-table converts into the delivery-mechanism for the volume-15 Mr. Zero cliffhanger. Cross-link Crocodile (the caller), Den Den Mushi (new — first on-page appearance of the technology), Den Den Mushi Telephone Snail On-Page Debut (new), Mr Zero Crocodile Codename First Spoken On Page (new).
• Cross-link Crocodile (Mr. Zero phone-caller), Den Den Mushi (new), Sanji Misses The Whole Battle Comedy Beat (new).

Little Garden (Ch. 125) — Candle Champion — captain-substitute rescue-initiator beat (leaves the Going Merry to find the missing crew); first on-page Sanji-leads-the-rescue doctrine; multi-target rescue-priority (Nami AND Vivi); identifies the wax-mist as a Devil-Fruit-mechanic before Luffy

• LOAD-BEARING — captain-substitute rescue-initiator beat (Ch. 125 p. 2) — Sanji on the Going Merry (close-up, smoke trail rising): “They’ve been gone a long time. Something’s definitely wrong… Could something have happened to Nami or Vivi!!?” / “If so, this is no time for me to be cooking a lizard dinner.” / “That’s it, I’m gonna go look for them.” — Sanji abandons the cook-station and leaps ashore (TUMP!!). First on-page Sanji-leads-the-rescue beat — with Luffy in the jungle, Sanji takes the go-look-for-the-missing-crew initiative. The Ch. 119 Nami!? chivalric-rescue-priority reflex now scales into a multi-target rescue-initiator beat (Nami and Vivi). Pre-loads Sanji’s recurring I-leave-the-ship-to-rescue-women arc-grammar (Drum: rescue-Nami / Doctorine-summons; Alabasta: rescue-Nico-Robin; Skypiea: rescue-Conis; Sabaody: rescue-Camie; Whole Cake: rescue-Pudding). Cross-link Sanji Captain-Substitute Rescue-Initiator Beat (new — load-bearing), Sanji Chivalry Toward Women (Ch. 125 captain-substitute-rescue-initiator evidence add).
• Identifies the waxy mist as a Devil-Fruit-mechanic before Luffy (Ch. 125 p. 8) — Sanji (close-up): “A waxy mist!!” — Sanji is the first Strawhat to observe and identify the wax-mist deployment. The combat-cook’s environmental-detection register is on-page operationally — pre-loads Sanji’s recurring environmental-detection-precedes-strategic-counter combat-grammar.
• Jungle-arrival composition (Ch. 125 pp. 3-4) — Sanji walks up to the wax-pedestal trio: “Vi-vi! Na-mi!” — and reacts to the affect-painted captives: “What’s this?” Sanji’s too-late composition (he arrives at the rescue but finds the captives already wax-statued) pre-loads the Drum-arc Sanji-too-late-for-Vivi-Wapol-attack register.
• Cross-link Vivi (rescue-target), Nami (rescue-target), Zoro (rescue-target by-extension), Luffy (the captain Sanji is substituting-for), Sanji Captain-Substitute Rescue-Initiator Beat (new — load-bearing).

Little Garden (Ch. 122) — A Dead Body Is Useless — wax-bound; ugliest fight we can doctrine; Princess Vivi save the kingdom Strawhat-mandate articulation; break the pillar tactical-cooperation with Zoro; your legs are bleeding!!! concern-reaction

• LOAD-BEARING — ugliest fight we can doctrine articulated (Ch. 122 p. 10) — “We’re dead if we stay here, that’s for sure. I say we go out putting up the ugliest fight we can!!!” — first on-page Sanji ugly-fight doctrine. Combat-grammar: when prudential combat is impossible, perform combat-as-spectacle-of-defiance regardless of probability-of-victory. The ugly-fight register canonizes Sanji’s later I-will-fight-even-when-I-shouldn’t doctrine — pre-loads the Whole Cake Island I-fight-without-a-good-reason register and the Wano cooking-on-the-battlefield counterpoint. Cross-link Sanji Ugliest Fight We Can Doctrine (new — load-bearing).
• LOAD-BEARING — Princess Vivi save the kingdom mandate articulation (Ch. 122 p. 13) — “Princess Vivi!! It’s up to you to save the kingdom!” — first on-page Strawhat-articulation of the Vivi-princess-mandate as the load-bearing mission-objective. Sanji is structurally the Strawhat-Vivi-protector spokesperson — the Ch. 0111 Why would a guy like you want to protect the princess of Alabasta? (Mr. 5 question) now finds its narrative answer: Sanji acknowledges her as the kingdom-restoration-heir whose survival is the mission. Cross-link Vivi Princess Save The Kingdom Strawhat-Mandate (new — load-bearing).
• Forget your art, you twisted, top-knotted fiend!! combat-mock at Mr. 3 (Ch. 122 p. 7) — Sanji insults Mr. 3’s agony-as-art gloating register. Top-knotted-fiend register: the three-shaped topknot is reified as an insult-vector — Sanji uses the visual-design (which encodes Mr. 3’s codename) as a personal-mockery target.
• LOAD-BEARING — break the pillar tactical-cooperation with Zoro (Ch. 122 p. 19) — Sanji (still encased): “Could you break the pillar?? We’ll let you finish up here.” — first on-page Sanji-asks-Zoro-for-tactical-assist beat. The Sanji-Zoro rivalry register pivots into tactical-cooperation under combat-duress. The rivalry is operationally suspended in mortal danger. Companion to their Ch. 0115 hunt-rivalry — pre-loads the Sanji-Zoro tactical-pair-when-it-matters register that recurs across the saga (Enies Lobby, Wano).
• Your legs are bleeding!!! concern-reaction at Zoro’s half-cut (Ch. 122 p. 19) — Sanji (wide-eyed): “H-hey! Your legs are bleeding!!!” — Sanji’s partner-of-rival-injury-acknowledgement register. The reaction is the rivalry’s emotional underside — Sanji registers Zoro’s injury before the trap-escape is complete. The concern is non-rivalry-tier — pre-loads forward Sanji-Zoro mutual-respect beats (Thriller Bark Brook-rescue, post-time-skip).
• Wax-bound throughout the petrification set-piece — Sanji is vocal-strategic-source (not combat-actor) for the chapter. His role: doctrine-articulation, mandate-articulation, tactical-coordination with Zoro.
• Cross-link Vivi (princess-mandate recipient), Zoro (tactical-cooperation partner + ugly-fight parallel-register), Mr. 3 (combat-mock target), Sanji Ugliest Fight We Can Doctrine (new — load-bearing), Vivi Princess Save The Kingdom Strawhat-Mandate (new — load-bearing).

Little Garden (Ch. 119) — voice-of-strategic-restraint when Usopp panics; chivalric-rescue-priority-for-women engages immediately at Nami’s scream

• Voice-of-strategic-restraint in the opening dialogue (pp. 2-3) — “Hold it! Just hold it!! We’ve got to wait on the ship for the others and work out a plan.” Sanji-as-tactical-anchor when Usopp is panicking — pattern-instance of Sanji’s chivalry-doctrine extending to crew-management. The same character whose first-chapter is articulated through chivalric-feeding-of-an-enemy (Ch. 0043 Gin-rice-and-water) here articulates crew-restraint as a doctrinal corollary to the same chivalry-grammar: don’t act, plan.
• At Luffy’s side when Nami’s scream is heard (pp. 13-15) — Sanji’s heart-eyed “Nami!?” reaction kicks in immediately (pp. 14-15). First Little-Garden instance of Sanji’s chivalric-rescue-priority-for-women doctrine engaging at full operational tempo. The chapter’s chivalric-doctrine register pivots from the Whisky-Peak / Ch. 0114 Miss-All-Sunday smitten-with-the-female-antagonist register to the rescue-the-Strawhat-woman-in-distress register — the first time Sanji’s chivalry is operationally directed at a crewmate-in-mortal-danger. Pre-loads the entire Sanji-arc-grammar of I’ll cross any ocean for Nami / for Vivi / for Robin / for the women of the world.
• Cross-link Nami (Sanji’s rescue-target), Luffy (at-his-side composition), Usopp (panicking foil), Sanji Chivalry Toward Women (Ch. 0119 first-rescue-priority-tempo evidence add).

Little Garden (Ch. 116) — Big — separated-on-arrival opening; Sanji-treats-prehistoric-fauna-as-ingredients combat-grammar installs; rejoins crew off-panel at Dorry’s camp

• Separated from the rest of the landing party on arrival (p.2). Opens the chapter alone: ‘I thought I heard Nami calling me.’
• Encounters a T-rex and immediately registers it as food rather than threat: ‘What the…? Is it edible?’ (p.3) — installs the Sanji-treats-prehistoric-fauna-as-ingredients combat-grammar.
• Eventually rejoins the group (off-panel — present at Dorry’s camp by p.13: ‘We’re so young. We’re probably at the peak of flavor.’).
• Sanji’s location relative to the others at chapter close remains unresolved — possibly still partly-separated.
• Cross-link Dorry (new), Brogy (new).

Little Garden (Ch. 115) — Little Garden of Adventure — pirate-box-lunch + sweet-heart-lunch bento-class-system canonized; 30M-berry bounty self-mythologizing; challenges Zoro to a hunt-contest

• Credit-claims Luffy’s 30M-berry bounty as mostly for me (p.1) — “NEVER FEAR!! THE SLEEPING KNIGHT HAS AWAKENED… Rumor has it that the 30-million-berry reward on this wanted poster is mostly for me!!” Nami (deadpan): “Nope.” First on-page seed of Sanji’s lifelong bounty-anxiety and credit-claiming-grammar. Cross-link Sanji 30M Bounty Self-Mythologizing Doctrine (new).
• Serves a special drink he made (pp.3-4) — “Hey, guys!! Wanna try a special drink I made!!?”. First on-page Sanji-as-ship-bartender beat. “They’ll pitch in if there’s a blow. They don’t want to die, either.” (editor’s footnote: A blow is a storm at sea.)
• Wants to leave the island (p.11) — “I say we don’t set foot on this island!!” — Sanji’s prudence-register, broken immediately by Luffy’s I smell adventure declaration.
• Makes pirate box lunch for Luffy (pp.11-12) — “A box lunch!? Right!! A pirate box lunch!!!”. Editor-canonized as vegetable-free, quick-energy. First on-page canonization of Sanji’s bento-grammar. Cross-link Pirate Box Lunch Sanji Provisioning Grammar (new).
• Makes sweet-heart lunch for Vivi (p.12) — “I’ll fix you a sweet-heart lunch, Princess.” Gendered combat-provisioning grammar install — pirate-box-lunch (vegetable-free, for combatants) vs. sweet-heart-lunch (decorative, for ladies). Pre-loads the lifelong Sanji bento-class-system.
• Challenges Zoro to a hunt-contest (p.14) — “I CHALLENGE YOU TO A HUNT!!!”. First on-page bilateral hunt-format rivalry. Cross-link Zoro Sanji Hunt Contest Rivalry Origin (new).
• Leaves the ship with Zoro (p.15) — abandons Nami/Vivi/Usopp/Karoo all alone. Nami: “Why does it always end up like this?” — first comedic Nami-leadership-grievance about Zoro/Sanji synchronized-abandonment.
• Cross-link Zoro (hunt-rival), Vivi (sweet-heart-lunch recipient), Karoo (also gets a drink).

Whisky Peak (Ch. 114)

• Drags a sleeping Luffy out of bed by the ankle (p. 2 — WHAP!! WHAP!!). The Sanji-as-the-only-one-who-gets-up-on-time register.
• Smitten-with-Miss-All-Sunday at first sight (pp. 7, 12: Nice ship. / Hey! She’s beautiful!! DOOM!). First on-page Sanji-falls-for-the-female-antagonist beat — pre-loads the entire arc-grammar (Crocodile-side women, Doflamingo-side women, etc.).
• End-chapter alibi for not liking Miss All Sunday: “I don’t like her. She blew up the guy with the rollers.” (p. 17) — Sanji’s moral-justification-after-the-fact register; Igaram (the guy with the rollers = Igarappoi’s curlers-mask hair).

Whisky Peak (Ch. 113) — It’s All Right — opens the chapter with the SWAK SWAK dual-KO; carries the 1B-berry misread to its comic unwind; wolf-whistles at the Igaram-as-Vivi disguise

• Opens the chapter with the SWAK SWAK dual-KO of Mr. 5 + Miss Valentine (page 4) — “ENOUGH!!!” / “Well, the girl’s okay, that’s the main thing… JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING!?” The chapter is the on-page payoff of Sanji’s Ch. 0112 I-could’ve-collected-1B-on-her outburst; the rage carries fully into the chapter opener.
• Carries the 1B-berry misread to its comic unwind (pages 4-6): “DO YOU!? But do you realize you could’ve cost me a billion berries!?” / Vivi (in the unwind beat): “What’s a billion berries to you? / That’s impossible!!” — Sanji’s mortified silence is the chapter’s first major-character-realignment moment.
• 80M-Crocodile bounty rant (page 14): “EIGHTY MILLION!? THAT’S FOUR TIMES WHAT ARLONG WAS WORTH! TURN IT DOWN!!” The bounty-tier-comparison register Sanji established in Ch. 0112 (Vivi-vs-Arlong) continues here at Crocodile-vs-Arlong scale.
• Wolf-whistles at the Igaram-as-Vivi disguise (page 16): “ON WHO?” / “MISTER, THAT OUTFIT REALLY LOOKS GREAT!!” — Sanji’s misread-attractive-figure comic-grammar applied even when the figure is Igaram in drag. Cross-link Sanji Heart-Eyed For Nami sister-pattern (the female-form-trigger overrides Sanji’s identification-faculty even when the form is fake).
• Silent stunned reaction to the offshore destruction (page 17).

Whisky Peak (Ch. 111) — The Secret Criminal Organization — arrives to confront Miss Valentine; Not so fast. I’m here to rescue you; I have my reasons mystery-motive register installed; Luffy-tease Or do you owe her money, too? at chapter close

• Arrival-pose at the chase-resolution (page 14) — full-suit, cigarette in mouth, hands in pockets: “WRRR / Not so fast. I’m here to rescue you.” — addresses Miss Valentine in the I-rescue-women register. The Zoro-Mr. 5 / Sanji-Miss Valentine parallel-Officer-Agent pairing crystallizes — first instance of the Zoro-Sanji parallel-officer-fights combat-grammar that recurs across the Alabasta saga.
• I have my reasons (page 17) — confronts Mr. 5: “Why would a guy like you want to protect the princess of Alabasta? So you’re the one who’s been killing our people?” / Sanji: “I have my reasons.” The mystery-motive-as-affirmation register is installed for the first time on-page. The motive is chivalry-toward-women (known to the reader from Baratie); Sanji refuses to articulate it to the enemy. Forward-pattern: I have my reasons becomes a recurring Sanji catchphrase-grammar in encounters where the true motive is more revealing than the stated motive. Cross-link Sanji I Have My Reasons Mystery Motive Register (new), Sanji Chivalry Toward Women (the actual motive Sanji withholds).
• Smug tease — Or do you owe her money, too? (page 18) — to Zoro, after Luffy challenges Zoro to a fight. Sanji’s chronic Zoro-vs-Nami spectator-register is canonized.

Whisky Peak (Ch. 107) — Moonlight and Tombstones — flirts with 20 women at the celebration; reawakens with Nami at chapter-end as second-responder to the Zoro-vs-100 confrontation

• Flirts with 20 women at the welcome-celebration before passing out (page 5). The maximum-flirt-capacity-as-trap-trigger composition installs at the Whisky Peak welcome.
• Reawakens by chapter-end (page 18); first responder alongside Nami; lights a cigarette and assesses the situation: “Phew… was that a shotgun? You could hurt someone with that. We’ll have to be careful with them…” — the cigarette-pose-then-tactical-read register at the start of the new saga.

Reverse Mountain (Ch. 104) — Primary exposition-partner with Crocus; chain-smoking Grand-Line cynicism; they’re dead doctrine

• Primary exposition-partner with Crocus for the Laboon-50-year-wait backstory (pages 5-11). Chain-smoking, seated on the cape. Sanji’s combat-cooldown-cigarette-state is here re-keyed in a non-combat exposition context.
• Articulates the they’re dead doctrine (page 5): “It’s been 50 years now. There’s your answer. Those guys said they’d be back in a couple of years.” / “They’re dead. He’ll be waiting for them till the end of time.” — Sanji is the chapter’s adult realist voice against Usopp’s they could still return!!. The hard-cynicism-as-respect-for-the-grief mode is Sanji’s emotional-grammar here.
• Articulates the empathy-frame for Luffy (page 11): “Look at those scars on his forehead. …you can’t help but feel sorry for him.” — Sanji + Nami’s empathy-articulation triggers Luffy’s mast-bonk pivot.
• Panic-reaction during the mast-snap (Is that your newest wound!?) and the mast-bonk (…of our ship!? / Yeah, that’s the main mast).
• Cross-link Luffy Empathy-By-Equivalent-Pain Doctrine (new — Sanji + Nami’s empathy-articulation is the trigger-line for the doctrine).

Reverse Mountain (Ch. 102) — Kicks Luffy on the deck; cigarette-smoking-anchor pose; where’s Luffy / I hope they’re human call

• Kicks Luffy to stop the Laboon-engagement (page 11): THWAK!! / “Shut up, fool!” — the cook-as-crew-discipline register at the Grand-Line threshold. First on-page Sanji-kicks-Luffy beat post-recruitment.
• Cigarette-smoking-anchor pose (pages 16, 18): Sanji is the chapter’s left-edge composition-anchor on the Merry’s deck, cigarette in mouth, eyes-down. First on-page Sanji-as-the-on-deck-composition-anchor.
• First where’s Luffy call (page 18): “Hey, where’s Luffy?” / “I hope they’re human.” — Sanji is the crew-member who first articulates the captain-is-missing alarm after Laboon’s dive. Forward-pattern: the Sanji-notices-the-captain-is-missing beat is a structurally-recurrent register across the series.

Reverse Mountain (Ch. 101)

• Bunny-deference-to-Nami affect operationalized at full intensity (pages 2, 13) for the first time as a recurring crew-dynamic (vs. one-off scenes earlier).
• First Sanji-Usopp helmsman-rivalry comic-register beat (page 2) — Sanji tries to take Usopp’s helmsman-spot; Usopp defends. The Sanji-volunteers-for-Nami’s-role affect is canonized as a recurring crew-dynamic.
• First on-page utterance of Neptunians (page 10) as the in-world species-name for the Sea Kings. Sanji is the crew’s first on-page articulator of the Sea-King taxonomy.
• Quotes the East-Blue half-dead-before-you-enter Grand-Line rumor (page 13): ‘I HEARD YOU’VE GOT TO BE HALF-DEAD BEFORE YOU ENTER IT.’ The Ch. 47 Krieg Returns From Grand Line cultural-residue lands in Sanji’s mouth here.

Loguetown / East-Blue saga close (Ch. 100) — Extracts Luffy from scaffold-wreckage; states All-Blue vow on Going Merry; enters Grand Line

• Extracts Luffy from the scaffold-wreckage during the storm with Zoro (page 17 onward). The storm triggered by Dragon’s wind-blast collapses the scaffold; Sanji and Zoro converge on Luffy at the wreckage and carry him toward the Going Merry.
• States his vow on the Going Merry as the crew enters the Grand Line (page 21, five-vow-stack ritual): “I’M GOING TO FIND THE ALL BLUE. / KLUNK!” The Ch. 56 All-Blue-dream first articulated to Gin is here re-articulated at the East-Blue-saga close. Foot planted on the shared keg. Cross-link Three Vow Stack Pre-Grand-Line, Sanji All Blue Dream.
• Enters the Grand Line aboard the Going Merry at the chapter’s final panel. East-Blue saga closes.

Loguetown (Ch. 99) — Charges execution platform with Zoro; reacts to Luffy’s apology-smile at chopping-block

• Charges the execution platform with Zoro to stop Luffy’s beheading.
• Plans: ‘If I can just kick down the platform!!!’
• Reacts to Luffy’s apology-smile at the chopping-block: ‘Don’t talk crazy!!!’

Loguetown (Ch. 98) — Sanji-as-provisioner operational deployment; tangerine-grove guardian role canonized; runs Loguetown-search for Alvida

• Shopping at The Fisherman supermarket (pages 2-3). Buys an Elephant True Bluefin from the South Blue (the cook-as-provisioner role gets its operational-deployment scene before the Grand Line entry). Sanji: ‘I’ll take it whole. No. Want me to slice it up?’ / ‘I’ll take… these! All of them!’ (huge stack of fish). The chapter installs Sanji-as-Loguetown-stockpiler.
• Tracks a lady through the town (page 2): ‘It’s too bad about that lady. She was a real beauty, but I lost sight of her.’ Forward-pre-load: the lady is plausibly Alvida (pre-recognition by Sanji); the running search is the Sanji-Loguetown-search-arc setup.
• Reunites with Usopp in the thinning crowd (page 16). Sanji (smoking, paper bags piled): ‘You came along at just the right time, Usopp.’ / ‘By the way, I saw a strangely dressed man riding a lion earlier.’ — first on-page Sanji-side mention of Mohji and Richie.
• Heart-eyed shock reaction to Luffy’s execution announcement (page 17 final two-panel composite, DOOM!! / WHAT!?): ‘Luffy’s on the execution scaffold!?’ Pre-loads the rescue-arc.
• Page 18 paratext canonization — Sanji-as-tangerine-grove-guardian (Going Merry Ship Tour #7). ‘But Sanji’s the one who protects the trees from tangerine snatchers (like Luffy).’ Installs the Sanji-as-guardian-of-Nami’s-mother’s-living-asset register — the cook who gatekeeps Bell-mère’s transplanted tangerine trees from the captain who eats everything. The Ch. 95 Bell-mère-memorial-cluster (grave-cross + pinwheel + tattoo) gains a third token: the living-grove aboard the Merry, protected by Sanji.

Loguetown (Ch. 96) — Vows to guard Nami’s tangerine grove; on Merry deck reading the news; smitten over Nami; splits up for cooking ingredients

• Vows to guard Nami’s tangerine grove (pages 2-3). Sanji (mid-Pepper-Sauce-eye’d fury): ‘THIS IS NAMI’S TANGERINE GROVE!! I WON’T LET YOU TOUCH THEM!! NAMI, I SHALL GUARD THIS GROVE WITH ALL THE LOVE IN MY HEART!!’ The chapter installs Sanji-as-tangerine-grove-guardian — the Ch. 91 ship-cutaway location-8 (Nami’s Tangerine Grove) is paid off by Sanji adopting steward-duty.
• Reads the Vira coup d’état newspaper-news (page 3). ‘THERE WAS ANOTHER COUP D’ÉTAT IN VIRA. THE WORLD SURE IS IN TURMOIL.’ Sanji is the chapter’s news-reader voice.
• First Pepper-Sauce-in-eyes panic (pages 2-3, YEE-OWW!) — Usopp’s grinding-mortar overspill catches Sanji.
• Splits up for cooking ingredients at Roguetown (page 12): ‘I CAN PROBABLY GET SOME GOOD COOKING INGREDIENTS.’
• Smitten reaction to Loguetown (page 11, ‘WANT TO GO THERE?’ — heart-eyed to Nami).

Arlong Park (arc-resolution + departure) (Ch. 95) — Nami-anxiety at departure; She should leave the way she wants agency-doctrine; She got us!! heart-eyed leap-aboard reaction

• Held the let-her-leave-the-way-she-wants position at the moment of Nami’s apparent departure-failure (page 14). When the Merry pulls away from the dock without Nami visible, Sanji (close-up, sweat-drop): “She should leave the way she wants. Are you sure we should let her do this?” The chapter installs the Sanji-respects-Nami-agency character-position even at the cost of farewell-loss. Counter to the Sanji-as-pursuer-of-Nami’s-affection surface-comedic register — when Nami’s choice is at stake, Sanji holds Nami’s-choice-is-hers over his own desire.
• Heart-eyed She got us!! reaction to Nami’s mid-air leap-onto-Merry (page 15). The first Nami-leaps-aboard-on-the-fly recruitment-arrival lands with Sanji as the witness. Sanji’s heart-eyed-relief beat installs the recurring Sanji-witnesses-Nami’s-tactical-cleverness-with-admiration register.
• Background presence at the post-victory feast (page 3). Sanji as the kitchen-supplier of the chapter’s prosciutto-and-melon-and-ham — Luffy stealing his food becomes the chapter’s comedic-opening register.
• On the beach for Genzo’s tattoo-reveal (page 16). Background presence as Genzo and Nojiko examine the tangerine-and-pinwheel design — Sanji’s relationship to Nami’s surrogate-family is established as adjacent observer, not participant in the inner circle.

Arlong Park (arc-climax — post-victory celebration + protect-the-recruit’s-mother’s-property + village-celebration declaration) (Ch. 94) — Kicks Nezumi for desecrating Bell-mère’s tangerine grove; declares the village-wide celebration

• Drinking and witnessing the Park’s collapse from the village-side (page 2 — PLUP PLUP): mature-witness mode continues from Ch. 90.
• Kicks Nezumi for the Ch. 80 tangerine-grove destruction (page 10): ’…AND WRECKING BELLE-MÈRE’S TANGERINE GROVE.’ (PLOP!). Sanji never met Bell-mère but has internalized the arc-stakes. The chapter installs crew-fights-the-recruit’s-wound-by-proxy through Sanji’s kick. The chivalry-toward-women doctrine here lands its first arc-payoff outside the romance register — protection-of-the-recruit’s-dead-mother’s-property.
• Joins the post-Nezumi laugh chorus (page 11): ‘HIT HIM A THOUSAND TIMES MORE!!’
• Lights a cig + post-Nezumi reflection (page 13): ‘YOU HEARD MY WORDS…’. Then declares the village-wide celebration: YAHOO!!! / ‘COME ON, EVERYONE!!! WE SHOULDN’T BE CELEBRATING ALL BY OURSELVES!!! LET’S TELL EVERYONE ON THE ISLAND THE GOOD NEWS!!! ARLONG PARK HAS BEEN DESTROYED!!!’ — pivots the chapter from arc-climax-victory to arc-climax-celebration. Celebration-evangelism register installs (chef’s food-and-party-as-victory-ritual doctrine).
• Status at chapter close: at Cocoyasi, mid-celebration, having organized the village-wide party.

Arlong Park (courtyard chorus, off-Luffy-fight) (Ch. 93)

• Courtyard chorus reaction (page 5). Sanji is at the Park courtyard with the rest of the Coco-Village-side group (Nojiko, Yosaku, Johnny) when Luffy’s first piece of demolished furniture rains down: “IT’S JUST A DESK.” The chapter holds Sanji in off-Luffy-fight registry — Sanji is not yet on-mission against an Arlong-Pirates officer (his Kuroobi fight closed in Ch. 86-87; he is in convalescence/witness mode through the Luffy-vs-Arlong sequence). recent-chapter note: this is Sanji’s only on-page beat in the chapter — the Park-collapse will reposition all surviving combatants in Ch. 94.

Arlong Park (mid-pool, struggling with Luffy’s chain-stone, tactical-commentator during Luffy-vs-Arlong combat) (Ch. 92)

• Off-panel/mid-pool tactical-commentator during Luffy-vs-Arlong combat. Calls the Gum-Gum Shield by name (page 3 — “GUM-GUM… SHIELD!!!”); warns Luffy (“YOU’RE TAKING THE FULL FORCE OF HIS ATTACKS!! IF HE HITS YOU AGAIN, YOU’RE DOOMED!!! DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT HIDE MEANS, LUFFY!!?”); reacts to bounce (“NO!” / “HE BOUNCED BACK!!! THAT TRICK’S NOT GONNA WORK!!”, page 5); calls Luffy’s losing-status (“LUFFY’S LOSING!!!”, page 15).
• Still in the pool struggling with Luffy’s chain-stone and Kuroobi damage (page 15 — HUFF / OMI! / HUFF / UGH!! / KRASH!! / AGH!! / KRAK!!). The Ch. 84-88 chain-stone struggle continues into Ch. 92 without resolution.
• The chapter installs Sanji-as-tactical-commentary-from-the-margins combat register — he can’t engage Arlong directly, but his call-the-named-attack dialogue serves the audience-reading function.

Arlong Park — combat-spectator at pool’s edge (Ch. 91) — Urges Luffy to retreat; bandage-and-unable-to-engage state

Arlong Park (village-side trusting-witness mode; cigarette + bottle pose) (Ch. 90) — Discharges Ch. 88 You’re our last hope sink-line into trust-from-distance

• Village-side wall composition (pages 3, 14). Sitting cross-legged, drinking from a bottle (EWK EWK EWK, page 3); lighting cigarette (FWUP, page 14). Implicitly recovered from the Ch. 88 sink + freed Luffy off-page between Ch. 89 and Ch. 90 (the Ch. 88 ‘I’m counting on you… You’re our last hope.’ sink-line is now operationally discharged — Luffy is the one fighting, Sanji is on shore).
• Trust-from-distance declarative (page 3): ‘Big deal. Go, Luffy!! I’ve got your back!!’ The I-got-your-back line here means trust, not immediate help — Sanji has shifted from active rescuer (Ch. 86) to trusting witness. The captain-side-vs-crew-side combat-composition switching installs.
• Articulates the arc-climax stakes (page 3, cross-cut tableau with Yosaku/Johnny seated calm): ‘You’re right.’ / ‘That would be the end of the East Blue.’ / ‘If Luffy loses, we’re all dead.’ The chapter’s structural-stakes voiced by Sanji — the Arlong-Empire inverted-stake. Forward-pattern: every later arc-climax stakes-articulation by a witness-character traces here.
• Comic-deflation tag during Luffy’s friends-will-rescue-me monologue (page 9): SHOO!! sword-shot + Sanji aside: ‘Does he even know how to use a sword?’
• Status at chapter close: village-side wall, smoking, witnessing the combat.

Arlong Park — will-to-live-loss doctrine articulated; airborne-throws Luffy back into combat (Ch. 89)

• Articulates the Devil-Fruit-on-water will-to-live-loss doctrine on-page (page 2 — ‘Not only do people with Devil-fruit powers lose them underwater… but the ocean also takes away their will to live.’). First on-page statement of the will-to-live-loss sub-axis.
• Deduces Genzo-tier underwater rescue is happening (page 2 — ‘So if that brat is still alive, then someone… must be helping him!!!’). Combat-reading at field-commander tier.
• Plan: kick the chained-stone to pieces so Luffy can swing into action (page 2). Black-Leg stone-smashing-tier kick installed.
• Combat-engaged by Hatchan’s six-sword stance and Octopus-Fritter Frenzy (pages 5-8).
• Dives after Arlong-and-Luffy underwater (page 12), retrieves Luffy+stone, surfaces (page 13).
• Refuses to free Luffy from the stone — hands Luffy agency-of-action with impediment attached (page 13 — ‘Now get us out of it, crap-kid!!! Go beat that crap-shark to death!!!’).
• Throws Luffy + entire chained-stone airborne back over Arlong Park (page 14, full-page SHOOOM). Sanji-as-Luffy-launching-platform first instance.

Arlong Park — surfaces Luffy from the pool; delivers to Genzo; prepares to re-dive (Ch. 87)

• Surfaces from Arlong’s pool with the chained Luffy in tow (page 2 splash, KA-BLOOSH!!) — completing the Ch. 84 Sanji-dives-for-Luffy tactical-rule first leg. Hatchan and Kuroobi tableau’d face-down on the courtyard pavement (page 3, DOOM!! / DOOM!!) — Sanji’s ‘Looks like we’re the winners of this game.’ / ‘Like I said, insignificant small fry.’
• Delivers Luffy to Genzo on the beach; prepares to re-dive for the chain (pages 4-5) — ‘It means he’s not dead… yet.’ / ‘I’ll have to go back down to the ocean floor.’ The two-trip rescue combat-sequence is installed.
• Off-page combat resolution with Kuroobi: presumed Ch. 85-86; canonized in Ch. 87 tableau (page 3 — Kuroobi face-down KO’d next to Hatchan). The Ch. 75 Kuroobi etymology + Ch. 84 Fish-Man-Karate-named pre-load resolves off-page.

Arlong Park (Sanji-vs-Kuroobi combat-resolution) (Ch. 86) — Underwater fight-cascade; cover-vol-3; six new French-culinary attacks; defeats Kuroobi on-land; first culinary-pun cooldown-line

• Cover-story Vol. 3 (page 1): Sanji solo on a wooden dock-pier beside a bandanna-wearing bullfrog, holding a green apple, DON PANT(A) T-shirt, signpost reading BAD COWBOY / JUSTICE. Third installment of the solo-cover arc (after Ch. 80 zebra-grapes). Companion-animal motif continues; pre-loads the pre-Baratie-wandering-cook lore arc.
• Catches Zoro mid-stride to stop him diving for Luffy (pages 2-3 — “STOP, ZOLO!! IF YOU GO INTO THE OCEAN LIKE THAT YOU’LL DIE!!”). Articulates the Ch. 84 implicit only-non-DF-Straw-Hat-as-water-rescue tactical-rule out loud: “I’M STOPPING YOU BECAUSE I KNOW THAT ALL TOO WELL, CRAP-SWORDSMAN!! I KNOW THERE’S NO TIME.” The chapter installs Sanji’s I-must-be-the-rescuer-because-I’m-the-only-one-who-can doctrine in active combat-prelude dialogue.
• Dives into Arlong’s pool (page 7 — first on-page Sanji-in-the-water-as-combatant in the series). “NOT IF I CAN HELP IT!!” — Sanji’s combat-justification line for intervening between Kuroobi and unconscious Genzo.
• Absorbs Kuroobi’s full Fish-Man Karate combat-cascade underwater (pages 8-14): Duelling Hair Tether (anchored by hair), Bowel-Buster / Instant Undersea (gut-kick), Flaming Axe Kick (downward), Back Foot Jawbreaker (jaw-strike), Guffaw Palm Bomb (head-strike from behind, THWOP / KROOOOO), Pulverizing Pressure Plunge (dragged to deep-pressure-zone). Air-loss panic mid-fight (page 12 — I LET OUT TOO MUCH AIR! I NEED AIR! AIR!!). The chapter installs Sanji’s combat-endurance under hostile-arena-asymmetry as a Sanji combat-grammar register — the I-can-take-punishment-that’s-not-normal-for-a-human reading is voiced by Kuroobi on page 12: “YOUR ABILITY TO TAKE PUNISHMENT IS ANNOYING. IT’S NOT NORMAL FOR A HUMAN.” Pre-loads the Vinsmoke-genetic-modification reveal — Sanji’s punishment-absorption is already noted as non-human by Ch. 86.
• Breaks the tether and surfaces with Genzo’s upper-body (page 15 — SPLASSH!! HAAAAH!!!). Pivots the combat: calls Kuroobi onto land to invert the water-asymmetry doctrine. “COME ON OUT HERE, YOU LOUSY FISH!!! I’M GOING TO FINISH YOU!!!” The chapter installs combat-arena-relocation as Sanji’s tactical-pivot signature.
• On-land combat-cascade (pages 16-18): six new French-culinary named-attacks in three pages, each footnoted: Collier Coup (neck, re-print from Ch. 73), Épaule Sprawl (shoulder), Selle de Ouch (saddle), Côtelette Kabosh (back), Gigot Charlie-le-Horse (thigh), Poitrine Treader (breast meat), Mouton Mallet (lamb — the killing blow). The chapter functions as the maximum-frequency canonization of the Sanji French Culinary Attack Naming Convention — Oda’s most concentrated footnote-per-attack demonstration in the series.
• First culinary-pun cooldown-line (page 18 — “I GUESS YOU WON’T BE NEEDING DESSERT.”). The chapter installs the post-combat culinary-pun finisher as a Sanji combat-signature. Forward-pattern: every later Sanji-fight-cooldown-beat (Mr. 2 Bon Clay, Wanze, Jabra, Vergo, Black Maria) inherits this register.
• Status at chapter close: standing over fallen Kuroobi on the pavement; Luffy still chained underwater; Genzo retrieved but only upper-half-surfaced; Hatchan/Zoro still off-panel-fighting.

Arlong Park — underwater rescue + Kuroobi duel-lock (Ch. 85)

• Underwater on the pool floor trying to free Luffy from the chained-rock (page 8). “Darn it!!! I don’t know if this will work on the ocean floor!!! The water’s buoyancy is too strong!!” The three-variable rescue-problem: buoyancy + breath + chain-attached-to-rock.
• Operational awareness of Luffy’s DF-cannot-swim limitation: “He’s swallowed an awful lot of water!! We can’t free him soon, I’ll be too late!!” Pays off the Ch. 66 Sanji Knows Luffy DF Weakness in operational rescue form.
• Three-variable rescue-problem statement: “I need an oxygen tank, but there’s no time to get one!” + “I can’t carry him to the surface with the thing attached!!” — solution-flash held off-page (“That’s it!!!”).
• Sanji-Kuroobi duel-lock at chapter close (page 17). Sanji intercepts Kuroobi’s anti-Zoro rant on the pool-deck: “Hmph. I never thought there was a human in the East Blue who could take the full force of my punch and live…” (Kuroobi) / “You sent me flying quite a ways before… Especially at a certain restaurant I know.” / “You underestimate me. Aw, I’ll wager there are lots who could do it.”
• Baratie-tier calibration register (page 17 — “a certain restaurant I know”). The Ch. 84 Zeff-400th-degree-training calibration extends to a generic Baratie-veterans-hit-harder register. Sanji-tier is always implicitly Baratie-survivor-tier.
• Status at chapter close: dueling Kuroobi on the pool-deck; Luffy still chained underwater.

Arlong Park (vs. Choo + dives for Luffy) (Ch. 84) — First major Arlong-arc combat; one-shots Choo (40th-degree Fish-Man Karate master) with calibration line those kicks the crap-geezer used to lay on me must’ve been 400th degree; dives into Arlong’s pool for Luffy; cook-vs-fish combat-doctrine articulated

• Backs Zoro on the pavement (Ch. 84 page 3 — ‘YOU CRAP-FISH GOONS!! THAT WAS A ROTTEN TRICK…’) at the chapter open.
• Combat-doctrine articulation (Ch. 84 page 6 — ‘WELL, A FISH SHOULD NEVER PIT HIMSELF AGAINST A COOK!!!’) — the cook-vs-fish framing as Sanji’s chapter-running combat-grammar. The Ch. 73 Collier french-culinary-attack convention extends here to the fish-meat-grammar combat-rhetoric.
• Overrides Genzo’s solo-dive plan and dives into Arlong’s pool (Ch. 84 page 12). The chapter installs the Sanji-as-Luffy’s-underwater-savior tactical-rule — only-non-DF-Straw-Hat-as-water-rescue.
• Choo intercepts Sanji on the pool-deck (Ch. 84 page 12 — WHOOM projectile-volley + ‘Do you know why no human could ever beat me?’). Sanji’s swords are dropped (FWUMP / KLAK KLANK) — Sanji is forced to engage Choo before retrieving Luffy.
• One-shots Choo with a 40th-degree-class kick (Ch. 84 pages 15, 17 — KA-MIIIIII / KRASH!! / TUMP!!). Choo had declared himself a 40th-degree Master of Fish-Man Karate (page 15) — Sanji clears the named-discipline-master in one beat.
• Sanji’s calibration line installs Zeff-training at 400th-degree (Ch. 84 page 17 — ‘HMPH. THAT’S IT? … IF THAT WAS A 40TH-DEGREE PUNCH… THEN THOSE KICKS THE CRAP-GEEZER USED TO LAY ON ME MUST’VE BEEN 400TH DEGREE.’). The Ch. 56-67 Zeff-Sanji crap-geezer-training-was-a-beating doctrine is here quantified at 10× Arlong-Pirates officer-tier. Forward-payoff: every later Sanji combat-feat-at-higher-arc-tiers inherits this calibration baseline.
• Status at chapter close: pool-deck cleared of Choo (Choo sinking AAAAAAAAAH!!! / GLUB GLUB); presumably pivoting to retrieve Luffy or to engage Kuroobi.

Arlong Park (lead-fighter while Luffy is stuck — I was raised by a pirate lineage-claim) (Ch. 83) — First sustained Arlong-arc combat-chapter as lead-fighter; pirate-lineage self-identification; Excellent Plan deadpan

• Enters the fray on Luffy’s behalf (page 7): ‘I’VE ENTERED THE FRAY ON BEHALF OF THAT FOOL OF A CAPTAIN.’ — chapter’s first Sanji-as-lead-fighter line. The captain-stuck-while-cook-fights register installs Sanji as the emergency-captain-substitute combat-mode.
• Verbal-pair with Hatchan in deadpan-spar register (pages 7-8): ‘BUT HEY, COMPARED TO A BUNCH OF WOMAN-HATING CRAP-PIRATES… …BUT THAT WAS A RATHER GALLANT ACT FOR A PIRATE.’ (re Hatchan accidentally freeing Luffy from the stone). The Ch. 73 cordial-rapport with Hatchan is re-deployed in combat-register.
• CHAPTER’S LINEAGE-CLAIM PANEL (page 8, central calm-eyed close-up): ‘I WAS RAISED BY A PIRATE.’ / ‘WANNA TEST MY GALLANTRY, CRAP-FISH?’ First on-page Sanji-as-pirate-genealogy self-identification. Zeff is here categorically named a pirate by Sanji, not a chef or a mentor. Sanji frames his upbringing in pirate-lineage terms — a new biographical-tell distinct from the Ch. 56-58 raised-by-Zeff-on-a-rock register. The Ch. 56-58 Red-Footed Zeff pirate-captain backstory is here re-keyed at the lineage-claim level: Sanji is a pirate’s apprentice, not just a chef who chose to sail with pirates. Forward-resonance: Whole-Cake-arc I am Sanji of Zeff’s lineage, not Vinsmoke declaration.
• Hatchan acknowledges Sanji’s strength (page 8): ‘YOU’RE PRETTY STRONG, FOR A HUMAN…’ / ’…TO TAKE ME ON, HUMAN.’ / ‘I DON’T THINK YOU’VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES…’ — first on-page Hatchan-acknowledges-a-human-as-strong line.
• Saves Luffy from Hatchan’s bite + dunking (page 16 — ‘HOLD ON!! / I’M COMING, LUFFY!!’). Runs toward the pool to rescue.
• Deadpan EXCELLENT PLAN re Zoro’s finish-customers-off-first tactical pivot (page 17, panel 1, eyebrow close-up): ‘EXCELLENT PLAN.’ Sanji aligns with Zoro’s don’t-jump-in-the-ocean axiom despite his impulse to dive in.
• Crap-fish / crap-pirates combat-pejorative register install: the Ch. 58 crap-geezer / crap-hat verbal-affection code extends into the crap-{enemy-class} combat-pejorative register.
• Status at chapter close: on the pier with Zoro, mid-combat-pivot to finish off Hatchan/Choo/Kuroobi before rescuing Luffy underwater.

Arlong Park (combat-pivot — ‘You made our navigator CRY!!!!’ + ‘I came here to clobber YOU!!!!’ mission-statement) (Ch. 82) — Pivots from darling-register to navigator-register; mission-statement-target-locked-on-Arlong; mutual-clobber duel-lock with Arlong

• Arrives at Arlong Park alongside Zoro and Usopp (page 5). Catches sight of Nami crying off-stage (small inset of Nami, help…/Luffy…); pivots from calm-aggrieved register (‘Do you realize what you just…?’) to full-mouth shout (‘You made our navigator… CRY!!!!’, page 5 bottom tier, DOOM SFX). The chapter’s emotional pivot — Sanji frames the offense not as romantic-slight but as crew-role-violation (navigator, not darling). The Ch. 80 Sanji Heart-Eyed For Nami darling-register is here inverted into crew-role-defense register.
• Argues with Luffy mid-combat (page 6): ‘You always have to dive right in, don’t you?’ — Sanji-as-tactical-worry foil to Luffy’s I don’t lose.
• Deploys fish-themed insult on Arlong-Pirates (page 6: ‘Stay out of this, you crapfish!!!’) — the fish-insult-grammar register continues from Ch. 73 saw-nose / Ch. 80 that villain epithet.
• Co-interposes with Zoro between Yosaku/villagers and the Arlong-Pirates (page 8): ‘That’s a good enough reason for us to risk our lives.’ / ‘They made sister Nami cry.’ / ‘You have no reason to fight!!’ — the chapter’s most-compressed crew-loyalty axiom. The made-our-crewmate-cry standard is sufficient justification to risk lives — single-line axiom.
• Recognizes Momoo from Ch. 73 (page 11): ‘Oh, it’s just him.’ / ‘So he works for these guys.’ — Sanji’s deadpan deflation of the monster from the Grand Line villager-framing. The chapter’s tier-perception-mismatch line.
• Chapter-defining mission-statement (page 16): ‘I came here to clobber… I didn’t come here to waste time on small fry!! …YOU!!!!’ — target-locked on Arlong specifically. Mooks are small fry; Arlong is the target. Combat-objective declared with full-mouth shout. The chapter installs Sanji’s mission-statement-doctrine at Arlong Park.
• Mutual-clobber duel-lock with Arlong (page 17): Arlong matches Sanji’s clobber back at him (‘I was just thinking about clobbering you, too. Well that works out perfectly.’). The chapter installs the Sanji-Arlong duel-pairing via mutual clobber-statement. Forward-redirect: the arrangement-collapses in the next chapters — Sanji is redirected to Kuroobi.
• Status at chapter close: held back by Yosaku (‘Consider the danger, you fool!!’); on-deck for officer-pairing combat.

Arlong Park (CPR on Luffy + Poitrine Treader + Kuroobi-pair locks) (Ch. 88) — Retrieves Luffy from pool + CPR + named-attack + intercepted by Kuroobi + dropped by Arlong + dives again

• Performs CPR on Luffy (page 7, BREATHE!! …!! PLEASE!!). Luffy spits water (SPLUP!!). The Ch. 84 Sanji-dives-for-Luffy setup pays off — Sanji has Luffy briefly on the pool-deck.
• Attacks Arlong with Poitrine Treader (page 8, French poitrine = breast/chest). Second named attack in the Sanji French Culinary Attack Naming Convention lexicon (after Collier, Ch. 73). ‘What a joke!!!’ The kick is intercepted by Kuroobi (FWUP) — the Ch. 75/84 Sanji-vs-Kuroobi forward-prediction locks in.
• Dropped by Arlong’s BABMM shotgun-blast palm-strike (page 9). Inner-calibration: ‘But he’s like a shotgun blast!!! So this is the power of a shark… even among the fish-men, he’s in a class by himself.’ / ‘This is like nothing we’ve faced so far!!’ Sanji’s 400th-degree-Zeff-training (Ch. 84) calibration is operationally insufficient against Arlong.
• Dives back into the pool to retrieve Luffy (page 15, PLOOSH BLOOO… GAAAH!!!). Repeated dive — the rescue-rhythm continues.
• Kicked back into the water by Kuroobi (page 17, FWUP / THWOOM). Final line going under (GLUB, to Luffy underwater): ‘I’m counting on you. You’re our last hope.’
• Status at chapter close: sinking into pool, combat-paired with Kuroobi above; reliant on Luffy as the non-human-killer-required per Arlong’s Ch. 88 page 11 doctrine.

Arlong Park (backstory-witness) (Ch. 80) — Hears the Bell-mère-killed-by-Arlong backstory from Nojiko; first chapter cover-story arc begins

• Cover-story Part 1 (page 1): Sanji in straw-brimmed hat with bird on top, sitting beside a striped zebra in a vineyard, holding grapes. Cover marker S1.1 0302. First chapter cover-story arc since the Buggy-survival saga.
• Hears Nojiko’s narration of Nami’s backstory (pages 1-3). Erupts in lovesick rage at the Bell-mère-killed-by-Arlong reveal: “I, Sanji, shall beat him to death!!! That villain made my darling Nami suffer!” Bonked by Yosaku/Johnny (BONK!! page 3). Nojiko’s reprimand: “If you keep raving about Nami being your darling… the pirates will get suspicious and all of Nami’s efforts will be undone.” The chapter installs Sanji as the chapter’s emotional-amplifier for the Nami-backstory reveal.
• Status at chapter close: at the beach near Nojiko’s house, having received the full Nami-backstory.

Arlong Park — love-as-doctrine declaration (Ch. 76)

• Declares “Love is always a hurricane!!” (page 3) — first on-page articulation of his romance-as-load-bearing-doctrine. Counter to Zoro’s “You’ll complicate the story!!!” — the doctrine is declared in conflict with the mission-prioritizer voice. Forward-pattern: every later Sanji I-am-in-love-and-it-overrides-the-mission beat traces here.
• Argues with Zoro on Nami’s behalf (page 5): “What kind of swordsman attacks a young lady, Zolo?” — first time the chivalry-toward-women doctrine is applied against a Straw Hat crewmate. Forward-pattern: Kalifa / Viola / Black Maria all rhyme.
• Stays with Luffy on the island (page 8) — when Luffy declares the nap, Sanji’s HUH!? face-aside is the I-stay-because-Luffy-stays register. The chapter installs Sanji’s crew-loyalty-survives-romance hierarchy at the foundational level.
• Jealous-aside at Luffy’s you came (page 17): “Um, I’m here too… buddy.” — comic-deflation but also the Sanji-cannot-be-overlooked-in-a-Nami-rescue-context register.

Arlong Park (first on-page Straw Hat appearance) (Ch. 75) — First Arlong-arc on-page Sanji as crew

• First Arlong-arc Sanji appearance (pages 4-7). Falls from Mohmoo (AAAAAAHH!!! — page 5) alongside Luffy and Zoro. Canonical black suit, blond hair, cigarette. Operationally embedded in the crew. Speaks the first line at the crew-reunion tableau: ‘WHAT HAPPENED?’ (page 7) — the tactical-cool-observer register Sanji will hold across the arc is installed in his first arc-line.
• Crew-tableau composition install (page 7): four-figure standing-shot of Sanji + Yosaku + Luffy + Zoro — the crew-of-four (minus Nami, minus Usopp) tableau is now on-page. Pre-loads the Straw-Hat-of-five combat-line that will resolve at the chapter where Nami formally returns to the crew.

Arlong Park (Sanji vs. Momoo, first named attack) (Ch. 73)

• First on-page named attack: Collier (page 11, footnote: “COLLIER IS THE FRENCH TERM FOR ‘NECK MEAT’”). The chapter installs French culinary terms for cuts of meat as the Black-Leg combat-vocabulary’s etymological-spine. Every later Sanji attack-name (Mouton Shot, Concassé, Sélection, Diable Jambe, Bien Cuit, Frit Assorti, Anti-Manner Kick Course) reads as a continuation of this Ch. 73 convention.
• One-shots a Grand-Line creature — kicks Momoo into the water (pages 11-12, COLLIER!!! …COUP!!! KABAM!!!). Sanji’s combat-tier is demonstrated against a Grand-Line-tier opponent in his first arc-action as a Straw Hat. Pre-loads the Monster Trio tier-grammar.
• First joint combat with Luffy (pages 8-9). Luffy Gum-Gum Pistol’s Momoo; Sanji “Keep your flippers off our food!!!” and finishes with Collier. The Luffy-Sanji combat-pairing register installs.
• Comic interlude with Hatchan (pages 2-5, 14) — deadpan tolerance of Hatchan’s racial-recognition deficit; accepts Hatchan’s offer to ferry him to Coco Village. The cordial-first-meet register is retroactively reread at Sabaody (Ch. 491+) when Hatchan is no longer a villain.
• Saw-nose epithet for Arlong (page 14): “That saw-nose is around here somewhere.” — Sanji’s villain-epithet register installs.

Arlong Park (opening — first chapter as a Straw Hat) (Ch. 69) — Mermaid-obsession seed; on-board cook role booked

• First chapter as a committed Straw Hat (narrator caption, page 2: “Our heroes leave Baratie in their wake with Sanji, the precious sea cook, who has joined Luffy’s crew.”).
• Opens the chapter weeping over leaving Baratie (page 2): “Bud id was all so booving!!!” (= “But it was all so moving!!!” — phonetic deformation, choked-up voice). The Sanji-leaves-Baratie residue carries one chapter into the new arc.
• Mermaid-obsession seed planted (page 7, panel 4): “I’ve heard there are beautiful mermaids there.” Page 10, panel 6: “Maybe she’s really a mermaid! She’s pretty enough!” (BLUSH). The Ch. 43-45 Sanji Womanizer Tell extends to non-human women. Pre-loads ~500 chapters of mermaid-obsession bits (Sabaody, Fish-Man Island).
• Cooks lunch for the crew (page 11): Yosaku’s stir-fried bean sprouts, Luffy’s meat-on-a-bone. “I’d rather be cooking for Nami than for you swabs.” / “It sure is nice to have a cook.” — on-board cook role operationally booked.
• Echoes Zeff’s Grand-Line doctrine (page 3): “Paradise? It’s the pirate’s graveyard! That’s not what Chef Zeff told me. He said for some people the Grand Line is ‘Paradise.’” — Zeff’s Ch. 65-68 expository wisdom is now Sanji’s outbound register.

Baratie (Ch. 68) — Joins the Straw Hat crew as the fourth member; exposes the staged-goodbye; articulates the customer-is-king doctrine; bow-and-shout farewell to Zeff

Baratie (Ch. 67) — Carries Gin’s farewell-message and dream-doctrine to Luffy; declines Luffy’s re-issued recruitment offer with a grin but commits to the Grand Line and the All Blue as future-destination; chore-boy tenure ends; revised stay-condition installed (chef-acknowledgment); confronts Patty/Carne sabotaged soup and Zeff at chapter-end; takes a Zeff-fist to the face

Baratie (Ch. 66) — Voices the sea-hates-DF-users axiom (in dialogue with Zeff); first underwater rescue attempt; dragged back wounded with apparent poison exposure

Baratie (Ch. 65) — Bystander voice; arsenal-recognizer (names flamethrower, bazooka); receives Zeff’s grit-counts-more-than-steel master-doctrine in voice-over; “Don’t go up there, kid!!! Run!!!” warning; “Chore Boy!!!” cry at carpet-bombing

Baratie (Ch. 64) — Bled-out post-Gin; conscious but immobile; observer-only this chapter

Baratie (Ch. 63) — Pivot from duel-frame-with-Gin to rescue-frame-with-Gin; calls Patty/Carne antidote protocol; reads Luffy as “enraged fool” (first on-page Sanji-misread of Luffy)

Baratie (Ch. 62) — Witnesses Gin’s refusal to kill him; saved by Gin’s gas-mask transfer; articulates the “sin of gratitude” doctrine and the “wrong-captain-choice” moral verdict — the chapter’s moral-narrator

Baratie (Ch. 61) — Absorbs ~10+ tonfa-strikes from Gin and remains standing; smokes-and-mocks; prompts Gin’s confession; durability-floor canonized

Baratie (Ch. 60) — Mutual-apology duel-lock with Gin; running side-commentary across Pearl-Luffy fight; “let me kill the kid” spare-Luffy gambit; names Pearl as battle commander; closes the chapter with “You small-fry scoundrel” duel-lock

Baratie (Ch. 59) — On-page debt-thesis line names Zeff’s leg-eating in present tense; smirks-and-accepts-death prototype; receives Luffy’s “coward” rebuke and is silenced by it; “my enormous debt” unwithholds the Ch. 45 reason; hands-only-for-cooking doctrine survives extreme combat pressure

Baratie (Ch. 56) — Refuses to abandon the Baratie; takes the Pearl-Cymbals blow to protect Zeff; names the All Blue on-page first time; articulates the Zeff-debt thesis aloud; childhood-flashback aboard the passenger ship Orbit begins

Baratie (Ch. 55) — First sustained on-page kick-only combat (vs Pearl); cook-at-sea doctrine articulated as combat rationale; foot-rebound technique debuts; Oda SBS confirms eyebrow-curl as deliberate; age confirmed 19

Baratie backstory — Boyhood / Cook Pirates attack (Ch. 57) — First on-page appearance as a child; declares the All Blue dream for the first time in the series; saved from the storm by pirate-captain Zeff

Baratie backstory — Zeff/Sanji rock-island (Ch. 58) — 70+ days of starvation; would-kill-for-food origin; All Blue dream is mentor-transmitted; Sanji learns Zeff ate his own leg; entire moral system etiologically grounded as Zeff’s act of mercy re-enacted as policy

Baratie (Ch. 54) — First extended Black-Leg combat sequence; articulates the kick-only doctrine in his own voice; declares “a chef’s knife is his soul”; rescues a fallen cook’s knife from a Krieg-Pirate

Baratie (Ch. 53) — Operationally commands the Baratie defense; calls Luffy “Anchor Boy”; articulates the sea-rejects-DF axiom; orders FORWARD; pivots the cooks to combat-mode

Baratie (Ch. 52) — Witness to the Mihawk-Zoro duel; partial-face thought-balloon registration; first on-page recruitment-bargain offer to Zeff at chapter’s terminal panel

Baratie (Ch. 50) — Silhouette-only background appearance in the cooks’ reaction lineup; uncredited; recruitment-pattern’s pre-named silhouette axis fires for the next recruit

Baratie (Ch. 49) — Insult-trade with Zoro installed on first contact; tone pivot cynical→operational-alarm; cook-officer authority register; not named in dialogue (paratext-named “shady cook Sanji” in Q&A)

Baratie (Ch. 48) — Sanji’s name first verbalized in-dialogue on-page; Feed-the-Hungry doctrine + save-then-kill rule articulated in cleanest form; Luffy reads him as crew-class

Baratie (Ch. 47) — Identity-axiom declared on-page; recruitment-signature feat (arms-spread between guns and the hungry); silenced and knocked out by Patty; Zeff vindicates Sanji’s axiom offstage

Baratie (Ch. 46) — Krieg arc opens; feeds the starving enemy in defiance of the cooks; takes Krieg’s betrayal-punch

Doctrine layers reinforced this chapter

• Cooking is sacred — tolerates insults to himself but kicks Zeff for insulting his cooking (page 3).
• Kick-only fighting style — uses legs, never hands (page 3). The fighting-axiom is in place from his introductory fight.
• Chivalry-toward-women is automatic — free Grand Marnier and fruit macédoine for Nami; the reflex is immediate and not deliberated (pages 5-7).
• Cooking-as-mercy — feeds a starving person even when that person is a known killer who will betray him (pages 16-17). The cooks warn him. He feeds Krieg anyway.
• Stasis aspiration — “I’ll cook here forever!!!” (page 4). His first declared aspiration is not to leave. This is the recruitment-pattern’s anti-recruitment vow — must be released before he can join the Straw Hats.

Baratie (Ch. 45) — Declines Luffy’s recruitment; reason-to-stay withheld; love-at-first-sight with Nami; receives Zeff’s release-permission

Baratie (Ch. 44) — Named on-page for first time; brawls Patty; kicks Fullbody through ceiling; feeds the starving Gin off-stage; recruited by Luffy via moral-witness

Doctrine layers established this chapter

• Public doctrine (page 9): “Customers are the life’s blood of a restaurant!!” — defends the Baratie’s cooks against insult-from-customer.
• Private doctrine (page 20-21): the hungry must eat — feeds the starving Gin off-stage after Patty publicly expelled him for non-payment.
• Combat code: kicks only. His hands are a cook’s tool.

Long Ring Long Land — Groggy Ring (Ch. 309)

• Volunteers for Round 2 (“Boil me, grill me… do what you will!!”, p. 15) and is designated the Straw Hats’ “ball” in the Groggy Ring (wears the ball marker, pp. 17/19). One of the two Straw Hat players (with Zoro).
• Faces the Groggy Monsters; cigarette lit, “Bring it on.” (p. 19).

Long Ring Long Land — Groggy Ring (Ch. 310)

• Plays the Groggy Ring (Round 2) alongside Zoro; serves as the Straw Hat ball-man, vain about how the marker “looks great on” him (“I’ll do it!! I’m the ball-man!! This ball suits me!” — p. 8).
• Refuses to cooperate with Zoro the entire round; the two nearly brawl (p. 8) and each refuses to let the other score or save (pp. 18–20).
• Caught in midair by Hamburg and nearly dunked into the Straw Hat ring (pp. 14, 16–17), but the goal is denied — “Ball-man Sanji didn’t even come near the ring!” (p. 20).
• His attempted kick “Collier…” slides off Big Pan’s slippery fish-giant skin (mudfish blood, pp. 12–13).

Post-Enies Lobby — Water Seven (Ch. 435)

• First bounty: 77,000,000 berries (“Black-Leg Sanji”, p.17) — but the poster is a crude hand-drawn sketch (“photo not available”), the start of Sanji’s no-photo running gag. Erupts with joy at the Fish-Man Island / mermaid route (“a place where dreams come true!”, p.11).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 442)

• Cooks the captured shark; part of the lots-drawn boarding party (with Luffy and Nami) onto the ghost ship where the living skeleton Brook is found (pp. 3, 15-19).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 444)

• Worried for Nami after the scream from the island, he leaps toward shore but is grabbed in mid-air by the invisible intruder, slammed down, and then “floats” back up — manhandled by an enemy he cannot see (p. 12). See Invisible Beast-Growling Intruder Aboard The Thousand Sunny.

Thriller Bark (Ch. 447)

• Outdoor group; notes Cerberus has a fox for one head and “terrible wounds” — questions whether it is even a real animal (p. 5). (Not yet aware Absalom is claiming Nami.)

Thriller Bark (Ch. 458) — captured & shadowless; only “Beautiful female?!” stirs him

• Captured and shadowless, tied up and asleep with Luffy and Zoro in Mast Mansion’s dining room; stirs only at Robin’s bait word “Beautiful female?!” (pp. 17-19).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 460)

• Enraged that Absalom intends to marry Nami and “saw Nami naked in the bath”; vows to take care of Nami and refuses to let Absalom marry her (pp. 3-4).
• Caught by Perona’s Negative Hollow and reduced to groveling despair (“Any eyebrows are so curly… I wish I were dead”) (p. 15).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 461)

• Separated onto the lower floor with Usopp; flattened by Negative Hollow (“I’m dumber than a mackerel! I should just die.”) before recovering with the crew to go rescue Nami and Brook (pp. 10-18).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 462) — a burning ball of love bound for the church

• Peels off from the group to find Nami: “Nami!! I won’t let you get married!!!”; launches himself toward the church as “a burning ball of love” (p. 4). Reaches the laboratory and briefly intervenes in the Brook fight before Zoro takes over (pp. 10-11).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 463) — the shadowless knight vs. the invisible man

• Rescues the drugged, unconscious Nami from Absalom’s forced wedding: “Your knight is at your service. I’m here, Nami.” (p. 11).
• Learns his own stolen shadow had been wasted in a feeble penguin zombie, so he fights shadowless on pure skill (pp. 13-14).
• Unleashes a dense run of French butchery/meat-cut–named kicks: Basses Côte Blast, Tendron Tenderizer, Longe Lasher, Quasi Cracker, Queue Crippler, Cuisseau Crusher, Flanchet Flayer, Jarret Jarrer, Veau Vengeance (pp. 16-18). See Sanji French Culinary Attack Naming Convention.
• Uses Usopp’s Salt Ball to locate the invisible Absalom by his taste-reaction, then connects with a full-power kick (p. 18).
• Rage escalates from “annoyed” to murderous once he realizes Absalom is the invisible creep who peeped on Nami in the bath and licked Robin on the Thousand Sunny (pp. 17-19). See Sanji Heart-Eyed For Nami.

Thriller Bark (Ch. 469)

• Guards the sleeping Nami in the church; Oars’s rampage and the invisible Absalom snatch her away mid-chaos, leaving him raging “Dang it, give me back Nami!! Where are you?!” (pp. 13-16). (last_appearance advances 0464→0469.)

Thriller Bark (Ch. 470)

• Drawn off his Nami-rescue task into Oars’s path (“Did he rescue Nami yet?”); Oars matches him to the wanted pirates (“Identical… you’re with the pirates too!”), his WANTED poster (Dead or Alive — 77,000,000) shown (p. 4).
• Attacks with Collier, but Oars’s giant reach and speed counter him hard — he is nearly killed before Usopp’s Fire Bird Star intervenes (pp. 6-8). (last_appearance advances 0469→0470.)

Thriller Bark (Ch. 471)

• Among the regrouped Straw Hats around the injured Oars (pp. 18-19). His earlier fight with Absalom “on the bridge” is retroactively credited for leaving Absalom spent enough that Nami can finish him (p. 15).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 472)

• The crew’s tactician against Oars: opens with “throw HIM around for a change” and the big-fish doctrine (“weaken it little by little”), then supplies the felling principle — “no matter how big you are, the weak points of a human body won’t change!! Crack the chin and the brain will rattle!!” — and lands Kick Course!!! to knock the dizzied giant down (pp. 2–4, 11, 13–14).

Thriller Bark — racing the dawn (Ch. 474)

• Voices the erasure dread as the fog thins (“the danger of being erased is finally starting to feel a lot more real,” p. 8); helps set the strategy — keep Oars occupied, protect Luffy’s shadow, get to the kitchen for salt (pp. 6-8, 18). Notes only Luffy’s shadow auto-returns; his and Zoro’s shadows are elsewhere.

Thriller Bark (Ch. 475)

• Part of the combined salt-combo assault on Oars; reacts in alarm as Oars manifests Luffy’s rubber stretch (pp. 2-18).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 477) — deflects a Gum-Gum Bazooka; downed by Gum-Gum Gatling

• Ignites Diable Jambe and deflects Oars’s Gum-Gum Bazooka with Frit Assort, redirecting the blow into the mansion (pp. 11-12).
• Boosts Chopper into the air (“Arm Boost!! Jump Boost!!”) and combos Oars’s right arm with Armée de l’Air: Rose Assault (p. 16); knocked out alongside Chopper by Oars’s Gum-Gum Gatling (pp. 18-19).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 478)

• Down in the rubble, coughing (“KOFF!!”), among the wounded crew as Oars rampages (pp. 2, 5, 19). Reacts to Zoro’s near-hit on Oars (“Hey… he got him!!”).

Thriller Bark (Ch. 480)

• Part of the combo: assists pulling Oars’s spine straight and works the freeze setup (“Good, Sanji!! Now his spine is pulled straight!!”) (pp. 11, 16).

Thriller Bark — Kuma ambush (Ch. 484)

• Intervenes to cover the failing Zoro (“Zolo, behind you. Run!!!”) and lands Concasser on Kuma (p. 14) — but Kuma is so durable the kick does nothing (“Is his face made of steel?!”, p. 15). Kuma: “Black Foot Sanji… I expected more.”

Thriller Bark — aftermath (Ch. 486)

• Drags Lola’s two pirates aside, forces the full account of Zoro’s sacrifice out of them, and swears them to secrecy — “Keep your little secret or I’ll kick the crap out of you!!” (pp. 8-10).
• His reasoning is protective of Luffy, not Zoro’s glory: “how would Luffy feel, knowing his suffering is what caused his friend so much pain?!” (p. 9).
• Cooks the feast for the freed victims and the crew (pp. 4, 11). See Zoro’s Hidden Sacrifice And The Nothing-Happened Silence.

Thriller Bark (Ch. 489) — mermaid fervor; first mention of “Pirate Empress Hancock”

• Whipped into a frenzy at the prospect of Fish-Man Island’s mermaids (“I’m gonna flirt with the beautiful mermaids!!”); declares they’ll be “more beautiful than the Pirate Empress Hancock herself” — first on-page mention of Hancock — then nosebleeds at the “…don’t wear panties!!” revelation (pp. 17-18). Politely fends off Lola’s marriage proposal.

Post-War — Kamabakka Kingdom (Ch. 593)

• Stuck at the Kamabakka Queendom on Peachy Island, Sanji insists his grotesque wanted poster really is him so the Newkama will believe he is a Straw Hat, refusing to admit it to anyone with “even a 0.1 percent chance” of being a government goon (pp. 6–8).
• Confronts Emporio Ivankov, refuses to wear “that” dress again, challenges him to a duel and declares “I’m a manly man who loves the ladies!!” (pp. 8–9).
• Reads the newspaper about Luffy — “WHAT?! LUFFY?!” (p. 9).

Fish-Man Island (Ch. 605)

• Nearly bleeds out from his nosebleed condition; survives the dive only because Nami wears a coat and he “held it in” (p. 3).
• Leaves his bubble and moves underwater “like a fish-man” via “Blue Walk,” attacking the Kraken with Grill Shot, Bien Cuit, and Diable Jambe (p. 12).
• First in-action callback to his timeskip: “For two years I ran from those abominations!” — the Okama of Kamabakka (Momoiro Island) — and scorns the Kraken as nothing by comparison (p. 12).
• Swept into the deep-sea down-welling current with Luffy and Zoro (p. 16).

Fish-Man Island (Ch. 607)

• Near-fatal nosebleed merely imagining Fish-Man Island’s mermaids — “I’d rather bleed to death while I leer at those mermaids than live on with my dream unfulfilled”; Chopper warns it could kill him (p. 13).

Punk Hazard (Ch. 695)

• Present with the alliance during the Caesar-retrieval fight (pp. 10–11).

Dressrosa — Violet (Ch. 703)

• Loses track of Zoro in the city and is instantly smitten by the dancer Violet (p. 7). She flees armed “policemen,” embraces Sanji to hide (pp. 8-10), then begs him to escort her to the next town.
• Cliffhanger: Violet’s true request — “There’s a man I need you to kill.” (p. 11). Sanji, bleeding from the nose with delight, has already pledged to help.

Dressrosa (Ch. 795) — the Sanji/Sunny “Twirly Hat” group on a mystery New World island

• Leads the split-off Sunny group (Nami, Chopper, Brook, Momonosuke, hostage Caesar) one day after escaping Big Mom’s ship; chokes Caesar into obeying (“do as I say, or I’ll crush your heart”) and pushes to “save them” (pp. 4–5).
• Routs Sheepshead’s raiders with “Diable!! Mouton Mallet!!!” (p. 8).

Wano Country — Onigashima Raid (Ch. 989)

• On the floor with the regrouped crew; clocks Kaido’s aerial army — “Are those all flying Devil Fruits?” (p. 17).

Wano (epilogue) (Ch. 1058)

• New bounty 1,032,000,000, captioned “Cook: Black-Leg Sanji.” Despairs at being “beneath” Jinbe (“fourth place”). (p.5)

Egghead — rushing to the fight (Ch. 1113) — shown

• Charges in panting toward the Bonney/Gorosei melee (“SANJI!!” called by a satellite); part of the defense as the broadcast plays (pp. 10, 12).

Egghead escape (Ch. 1117)

• On the Sunny (flowered shirt) beside Jewelry Bonney, trying to reach Luffy by Den Den as Luffy “just yells really loud” (pp. 9, 17).

Elbaf (Ch. 1132)

• Helps knock out Rodo (with Zoro); ogles the giantess Gerd (“A giant babe!”, p.12); eager to “see this land of giants now” (p.11).

Notes

• Black-Leg Sanji alias is forward-canon — not yet on-page in Ch 43; the kick-fighting style is teased only via the “cook-fighter” combat archetype (the single-punch K.O. of Fullbody is fist, not kick — the kick-fighting reveal is later in the Baratie arc).
• The chapter title is “Sanji” (Ch 43) — first chapter in the series titled simply with a future-crewmate’s name, anticipating the future-recruit. Title-as-pre-introduction grammar.
• Wounds on first appearance (Ch 43 page 13) are unexplained — open question for next several chapters; likely resolved via the kitchen-staff-fled subplot.
• The All Blue dream is named on-page in Ch. 56 — payoff to the Ch. 46 negative-space seed. Cross-link Sanji All Blue Dream.

SBS reveals

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