Sanji — May 9, 2018
Is this world-building genius… or just nonsense everyone ignores?
One Piece is Japan’s national manga.
But even loyal readers sometimes stop and go, “Wait, what?”
This thread spirals into pure chaos over one small, very One Piece detail.
- The original complaint
- Immediate shutdown
- “If you’re gonna nitpick…”
- Selective realism
- Sanji slander and defense
- Completely unrelated takes
- Is it intentional comedy?
- The “stop thinking” crowd
- Fantasy logic solves everything
- Final word
- 👉 Why fans don’t actually care about consistency here
- 👉 Nitpicking as a form of affection
The original complaint
1: Anonymous Pirate
Apparently there’s a cook who lights a cigarette and judges recipes by smell.
Immediate shutdown
3: Anonymous Pirate
>>1
Shut up!
Argument destroyed.
4: Anonymous Pirate
It’s a cocoa cigarette.
7: Anonymous Pirate
In the Western version it’s candy, so it’s fine.
8: Anonymous Pirate
Got a problem with Oda (the author)?
“If you’re gonna nitpick…”
9: Anonymous Pirate
If you’re saying that, Usopp surviving a full-power bat hit in Alabasta already makes no sense.
15: Anonymous Pirate
>>9
That’s just how damage works in One Piece.
Even bombs that wipe out a whole town don’t kill people.
20: Anonymous Pirate
>>9
There’s this idea that gag characters don’t die, right?
It’s foreshadowing that he ate the Gag-Gag Fruit.
Selective realism
10: Anonymous Pirate
You’re not questioning the guy whose body is literally rubber?
Sanji slander and defense
13: Anonymous Pirate
A trash human (Sanji) smoking in a woman’s body.
14: Anonymous Pirate
There’s this idea that smokers can’t be real chefs,
but plenty of Michelin-star chefs smoke in real life.
18: Anonymous Pirate
>>14
They don’t smoke in the kitchen though.
Completely unrelated takes
16: Anonymous Pirate
Japan’s real representative manga is Shigurui.
17: Anonymous Pirate
Zoro looks like he has insane jaw muscles.
Is it intentional comedy?
22: Anonymous Pirate
Lighting it just from smell.
If that’s intentional gag writing, it’s genius.
The “stop thinking” crowd
24: Anonymous Pirate
If you start nitpicking at this level, you’ll find thousands of things.
25: Anonymous Pirate
You really think manga cigarettes are the same as real ones? lol
Those don’t even have a smell.
26: Anonymous Pirate
He smokes and is already an amazing cook.
So quitting would make him even stronger — foreshadowing.
28: Anonymous Pirate
>>26
God-tier foreshadowing.
Fantasy logic solves everything
35: Anonymous Pirate
This is a fantasy world.
Cigarettes there might be totally different from real ones.
37: Anonymous Pirate
In the One Piece world, cigarettes are probably harmless.
Alright, done.
Final word
30: Anonymous Pirate
Luffy: “Shut up!!!”
👉 Why fans don’t actually care about consistency here
Most replies aren’t defending realism.
They’re defending vibes.
Once One Piece is accepted as a gag-flexible fantasy, logic stops being the point.
👉 Nitpicking as a form of affection
This thread isn’t hatred — it’s familiarity.
Only a manga this deeply internalized gets roasted at this microscopic level.
And somehow, the answer is always the same: “Don’t think about it.”
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