Sanji — April 19–20, 2018 — Was That Farewell Necessary, or Was Something Left Unsaid?
Chapter 902 closed the Whole Cake Island arc.
Some readers cried. Others felt oddly unsatisfied.
What was the Sanji and Zeff scene really trying to say?
- “Someone Always Has to Die” — Opening Reactions
- Disappointment and Confusion
- Pudding’s Memory Choice
- Who’s Still in Danger? (Aladine / Reiju)
- Morgans, Big News, and Unresolved Hate
- Sanji vs Bege — The Poison Debate
- Where Sanji Goes Next?
- Katakuri, Brûlée, and Emotional Payoff
- Poison Logic in One Piece
- “Was the Zeff Scene Necessary?”
- Sympathy for Pudding and Reiju
- Brûlée’s Design and Unexpected Praise
- Tone Shift on the Sunny
- Is the Big Mom Arc Really Over?
- Fishman Island and Shirley’s Prophecy
- “Sister Love” as the Cleanest Ending
- Sanji & Zeff — How Should We Feel?
- Luffy-Centric Concerns
- Direction, Framing, and Overall Execution
- Kaido Speculation Going Forward
- 👉 Why This Ending Split Japanese Readers
- 👉 What Chapter 902 Was Actually Closing
- “Someone Always Has to Die” — Opening Reactions
- Disappointment and Confusion
- Pudding’s Memory Choice
- Who’s Still in Danger? (Aladine / Reiju)
- Morgans, Big News, and Unresolved Hate
- Sanji vs Bege — The Poison Debate
- Where Sanji Goes Next?
- Katakuri, Brûlée, and Emotional Payoff
- Poison Logic in One Piece
- Sanji & Zeff — Praise and Rejection
- Survival Expectations
- “Explain This to Me”
- Sympathy for Pudding and Reiju
- Brûlée’s Design and Unexpected Praise
- Tone Shift on the Sunny
- Is the Big Mom Arc Really Over?
- Fishman Island and Shirley’s Prophecy
- “Sister Love” as the Cleanest Ending
- How Are We Supposed to Feel?
- Brûlée Praise Continues
- Luffy-Centric Concerns
- Direction and Framing
- Kaido Speculation Going Forward
- 👉 Why This Ending Split Japanese Readers
- 👉 What Chapter 902 Was Actually Closing
“Someone Always Has to Die” — Opening Reactions
7: Anonymous Pirate
The Straw Hats are like a plague god.
They can’t move forward unless someone gets sacrificed.
Disappointment and Confusion
9: Anonymous Pirate
Man… this development is kinda disappointing.
Pudding’s Memory Choice
12: Anonymous Pirate
Why did Pudding have to erase Sanji’s memories?
16: Anonymous Pirate
>>12
Sanji never realized she loved him until the very end,
so she probably didn’t want to confuse him now.
Who’s Still in Danger? (Aladine / Reiju)
25: Anonymous Pirate
Isn’t Aladine or Reiju in real danger?
Life or death, basically.
Morgans, Big News, and Unresolved Hate
27: Anonymous Pirate
In a couple weeks, maybe Morgans will break a huge story about massive losses for the Big Mom Pirates.
28: Anonymous Pirate
All that hatred built up toward Germa never got resolved.
Sanji still feels weaker than Ichiji and Niji…
Only Yonji losing is kinda funny.
Sanji vs Bege — The Poison Debate
47: Anonymous Pirate
Bege:
“Who’s dumb enough NOT to poison them?
You’ve got a chance to erase one of the Yonko.”
Sanji:
“Shut up! This is a cook’s pride on the line.
Don’t pull cheap tricks. Beat the enemy with flavor!”
Bege:
“Stop dreaming! You’ll regret not killing her now…”
Maybe Bege was right.
51: Anonymous Pirate
>>47
Poisoning a Yonko is impossible lol
56: Anonymous Pirate
>>51
Blackbeard:
“Take that back… right now…!!”
Where Sanji Goes Next?
49: Anonymous Pirate
Any chance Sanji joins the Inuarashi team to protect Pedro’s homeland?
65: Anonymous Pirate
>>49
What Inuarashi team?
Isn’t Inuarashi with Momo heading to Wano?
130: Anonymous Pirate
>>65
139: Anonymous Pirate
>>130
I know that already.
But Momo just said he wanted to stay on Zou a bit,
so they’re heading to Wano later — meaning they’re basically Wano-bound already, right?
Katakuri, Brûlée, and Emotional Payoff
54: Anonymous Pirate
Katakuri and Brûlée made me cry.
Pudding was heartbreaking too.
Poison Logic in One Piece
71: Anonymous Pirate
If a Yonko could die from poison,
Don Krieg with poison gas would be the strongest character ever.
75: Anonymous Pirate
Pudding erasing Sanji’s memories
was predicted way in advance, honestly.
78: Anonymous Pirate
In One Piece, you don’t die from being kicked at light speed,
but you die easily from poison.
Doku-doku >>> Pika-pika.
Sanji & Zeff — Praise and Rejection
904: Anonymous Pirate
Big Mom’s final scene was way too cool.
The Sanji and Zeff scene wasn’t needed.
22: Anonymous Pirate
The final Zeff and Sanji scene was beautiful,
but worrying about Germa and Jinbe dulls the emotion.
In the end, nobody’s really saved.
Survival Expectations
32: Anonymous Pirate
Germa will probably survive just fine.
Big Mom’s heading toward Jinbe’s group anyway.
The clone soldiers will die, sure,
but the main family will live.
“Explain This to Me”
33: Anonymous Pirate
Can someone explain why the Zeff and Sanji scene was necessary?
40: Anonymous Pirate
>>33
After everything, it confirms:
Sanji is a normal human, and Zeff is his father.
Sympathy for Pudding and Reiju
55: Anonymous Pirate
I want some kind of salvation for Pudding and Reiju.
They both let the man they loved escape,
so maybe that’s enough for them…
but their futures are just too cruel.
Just like 13 years ago when Reiju let Sanji escape,
Sanji’s the only one freed from that trash family.
Brûlée’s Design and Unexpected Praise
56: Anonymous Pirate
Blushing Katakuri is cute.
Brûlée somehow looks beautiful too.
Tone Shift on the Sunny
99: Anonymous Pirate
The Sunny crew is way too carefree again.
They rescued Sanji, sure,
but they enraged Big Mom and left Jinbe behind.
108: Anonymous Pirate
>>99
They already did the gloomy stuff last chapter.
This smile is rest after surviving hell,
and joy that Sanji came back.
This is fine.
Is the Big Mom Arc Really Over?
103: Anonymous Pirate
Little girl Brûlée.
Should’ve made her a beauty from the start.
107: Anonymous Pirate
Wait — is the Big Mom arc really over?
Nothing got wrapped up.
Fishman Island and Baratie are just gonna get retaliated against…
Fishman Island and Shirley’s Prophecy
111: Anonymous Pirate
So Shirley’s prophecy about Fishman Island burning
will be proven by Big Mom’s future raid?
“Sister Love” as the Cleanest Ending
112: Anonymous Pirate
The cleanest wrap-up being unrelated sister moe is hilarious.
115: Anonymous Pirate
>>112
Katakuri and Brûlée got a happy ending lol
How Are We Supposed to Feel?
116: Anonymous Pirate
Are we supposed to cry at the Sanji and Zeff scene?
Brûlée Praise Continues
127: Anonymous Pirate
The fact Oda can make Brûlée look cute
is proof of his skill.
This is true sister moe.
Luffy-Centric Concerns
146: Anonymous Pirate
This arc really showed how hard Luffy worked.
Everything was cool overall.
178: Anonymous Pirate
>>146
It felt like the manga became “only Luffy matters.”
This isn’t the One Piece we used to know.
Direction and Framing
172: Anonymous Pirate
Even with mixed opinions,
the direction in the Big Mom arc was great.
Especially the film-style narration.
195: Anonymous Pirate
Yeah, lots of things weren’t cleanly resolved,
but the narration-based ending made me think.
Totto Land itself was a fake country built on lies.
Even the wedding was a farce.
The final truth shown was Katakuri and Brûlée’s sibling bond.
Leave the messy stuff for later —
I think this was a good ending.
Kaido Speculation Going Forward
283: Anonymous Pirate
If “everyone working together” counts, that’s Oars.
The Kaido fight will probably be similar.
285: Anonymous Pirate
Moria has a grudge against Kaido →
Moria shows up as a guest →
uses Kage Kage powers to support Luffy →
Kaido fight power-up = Nightmare Gear 4 Luffy?
Oda even joked he doesn’t know how to beat Kaido.
So Nightmare Luffy powered by top-tier Yonko commanders’ shadows,
reaching a temporary all-time peak like Gon-san,
would let Kaido fall without cheapening “strongest creature.”
👉 Why This Ending Split Japanese Readers
Japanese readers weren’t arguing about what happened —
they were arguing about what this ending was allowed to close.
The Zeff scene worked emotionally, but it collided with unresolved debts:
Germa, Jinbe, Fishman Island, and Big Mom’s revenge.
That emotional dissonance is why some cried
and others felt nothing.
👉 What Chapter 902 Was Actually Closing
Chapter 902 didn’t close the conflict.
It closed Sanji’s identity question.
Not prince, not experiment — just a cook,
raised by Zeff, returning to where he belongs.
Everything else was deliberately left unpaid.
And Japanese readers noticed.
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