Sanji Vinsmoke

Sanji Vinsmoke, also known as Black Leg, Mr. Prince and Soba Mask, is one of the main characters from the One Piece series.
== Charactah Account ==
Sanji is the crew's chain-smoking, nineteen/twenty-one-year-old chef. There is not a dish he cannot cook, a pretty girl he will not try to woo, or something he will not argue with Zoro over. As a chef, he believes that he cannot afford to let his hands come to harm, as they are his most precious tools of the trade. So uses a fighting style which only involves the use of his legs and feet called the "Black Leg Style" (Kuroashi no Waza). He and Zoro have a complex relationship - they argue and fight with each other regularly, yet they're also so willing to cooperate and fight enemies together when it counts.
One of Sanji's most easily noticeable characteristics is the kind, calm, cool, and collected manner in which he carries himself. He tends to speak in a very composed manner, even in dire situations, and rarely acts without thinking. His demeanor in a lot of ways can be compared to that of a secret agent. This is amplified by the fact that he tends to wear a suit, very often enjoys a smoke, and in the anime they tend to play smooth music with jazzy undertones when he speaks. He quite often makes comedic exceptions to this, such as when in the presence of beautiful women, or when angered by a crew member.
Like Zoro, he is more perceptive than he seems, and often tells people what they need to hear instead of what they want. Hence, he is seen as one of the more hardened members of the crew. For example, when the Straw Hats first meet Laboon and learn that the whale had been waiting for 50 years for a reunion with his crew, it is Sanji who immediately (and correctly) points out that Laboon's crew is most likely dead. Sanji does possess an optimistic and idealistic side. His dream is to find a sea which even other cooks consider mythical. Furthermore, even after the abuse he experienced from his family as a child, he held out hope that they may have changed for the better. However, this hope proves to be completely futile, but he was more angry than surprised at the revelation, showing that he maintains a healthy sense of skepticism even at his most hopeful. Sanji also showed a high degree of faith in his fiancée, Charlotte Pudding, and was horrified and downcast when he discovered her true motive. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Nissan Serena x One Piece 3D: Mugiwara Chase - Sennyuu! Sauzando Sanii-gou
* One Piece
* One Piece 3D: Rush! Trap Coaster
* One Piece 3D: Strawhat Chase
* One Piece 3D2Y: Overcoming Ace's Death! Luffy's Pledge to His Friends
* One Piece Film: Gold
* One Piece Film: Gold Episode 0 - 711 ver.
* One Piece Film: Red
* One Piece Film: Strong World
* One Piece Film: Z
* One Piece Movie 02: Clockwork Island Adventure
* One Piece Movie 03: Chopper Kingdom of Strange Animal Island
* One Piece Movie 04: Dead End
* One Piece Movie 05: The Curse of the Sacred Sword
* One Piece Movie 06: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island
* One Piece Movie 07: The Giant Mechanical Soldier of Karakuri Castle
* One Piece Movie 08: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventures in Alabasta
* One Piece Movie 09: Episode of Chopper Plus - Bloom in the Winter
* One Piece Movie 14: Stampede
* One Piece Recap
* One Piece Special: Adventure in the Ocean's Navel
* One Piece Special: Open Upon the Great Sea! A Father's Huge, HUGE Dream!
* One Piece Special: Protect! The Last Great Performance
* One Piece Special: The Detective Memoirs of Chief Straw Hat Luffy
* One Piece: Adventure of Nebulandia
* One Piece: Episode of Alabasta - Prologue
* One Piece: Episode of East Blue - Luffy and His Four Crewmates' Great Adventure
* One Piece: Episode of Luffy - Hand Island Adventure
* One Piece: Episode of Merry - The Tale of One More Friend
* One Piece: Episode of Nami - Tears of a Navigator and the Bonds of Friends
* One Piece: Episode of Skypiea
* One Piece: Django's Dance Carnival
* One Piece: Dream Soccer King!
* One Piece: Emergency Planning, A Perfect Strategy for the One Piece
* One Piece: Glorious Island
* One Piece: Heart of Gold
* One Piece: Take Aim! The Pirate Baseball King
=== Manga ===
* Cross Epoch
* Food Wars! Shokugeki no Sanji
* One Piece
* One Piece Log Book Omake
* One Piece Party
* One Piece x Toriko
* One Piece: Vivi's Adventure
=== Video Games ===
* Battle Stadium D.O.N
* Fighting for One Piece
* J-Stars Victory Vs
* J-Stars Victory Vs+
* Jump Force
* Jump Super Stars
* Jump Ultimate Stars
* Jumputi Heroes
* One Piece
* One Piece Romance Dawn: The Dawn of the Adventure
* One Piece Thousand Storm
* One Piece Treasure Cruise
* One Piece: Aim! The King of Berry
* One Piece: Become the Pirate King!
* One Piece: Big Secret Treasure of the Seven Phantom Islands
* One Piece: Birth of Luffy's Dream Pirate Crew!
* One Piece: Burning Blood
* One Piece: Chopper's Big Adventure
* One Piece: Dance Battle
* One Piece: Dragon Dream!
* One Piece: Gear Spirit
* One Piece: Gigant Battle
* One Piece: Gigant Battle! 2 New World
* One Piece: Going Baseball
* One Piece: Grand Adventure
* One Piece: Grand Battle!
* One Piece: Grand Battle! 2
* One Piece: Grand Battle! 3
* One Piece: Grand Battle! Rush!
* One Piece: Grand Battle! Swan Colosseum
* One Piece: Grand Line Dream Adventure Log
* One Piece: Great Pirate Colosseum
* One Piece: Legend of the Rainbow Island
* One Piece: Ocean's Dream! - Oceans of Dreams
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3
* One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4
* One Piece: Pirates Carnival
* One Piece: Round the Land
* One Piece: Super Grand Battle! X
* One Piece: Treasure Battle!
* One Piece: Treasure Wars
* One Piece: Treasure Wars 2 Welcome to Buggyland
* One Piece: Unlimited Adventure
* One Piece: Unlimited Cruise
* One Piece: Unlimited World Red
* One Py Berry Match
* Set Sail Pirate Crew!
== Trivia ==
* Sanji has his own jolly roger, as does the rest of the crew. It has Sanji's right curly eyebrow, fork and knife for cross-bones, and a chef's hat placed on the top of his head.
** His post-timeskip jolly roger is similar, except his chef hat is slanted to the right which hides his right eye, the skull has a goatee and cigarette, and the crossbones fork has four prongs instead of three.
* Sanji's nickname "Mr. Prince" which he used in Arabasta, foreshadowed his own royal heritage as the third prince of Germa Kingdom.
* Sanji's left eye was considered one of the "mysteries" of One Piece. As of Chapter 598, the mystery has been solved. After the two year separation, Sanji's hair style changed revealing his left eye and covering his right.
** In chapter 173, Sanji talking through Robin's Den Den Mushi hinted at his eyebrows' appearance.
** In Episode 27, a shot of his left eye and eyebrow is shown, with the curl missing.
* Since he was born in North Blue, he is the first Straw Hat not to originate from East Blue.
* As a child, Sanji was imprisoned and forced to wear an iron mask. This resembles the story of the Man in the Iron Mask, allegedly a member of French royalty who was imprisoned in a similar manner.
** Duval shares this resemblance, although he wore a mask from choice to hide his face (ironically, because it looked like Sanji's).
* The reason for Sanji's massive nosebleeds is from the joke that Japanese people have high blood pressure. Therefore, they get nosebleeds when they are sexually aroused. This joke is a very common cliche in manga and anime.
* Sanji has been known to smoke two brands of cigarettes, King Ground and Death.
* There is a plot hole in the series when Sanji is unaware of a Devil Fruit user's inability to swim in the Baratie Arc, but he states that he became aware of this when he was a kid during the Thriller Bark Arc.
* Sanji has a habit of saying "Mellorine" (an alternative to ice cream made from fats other than the butterfat normally used in ice cream) when looking, talking, or commenting about a beautiful woman. This carries over to the FUNimation English dub. His personalized honorific for Nami "Nami-swan" (developed from san) also carries over.
* He, Luffy, and Usopp all claim to have never been sick, and thus do not know what it feels like.
* "Sanji" can mean "three o'clock" or "three o'clock snack". This points to a wider theme in Sanji's character, revolving around the number 3:
** Sanji is the third son of the Vinsmoke Family.
** In the popularity polls, Sanji has consistently been voted the third most popular character in One Piece since the second poll (except for the first, fifth and seventh polls, in which he was ranked fourth).
** His shadow was used to animate the third member of the Penguin Trio, Inuppe.
* Sanji is the only Straw Hat shown so far to have biological siblings; Nojiko is Nami's adopted sister, while Ace and Sabo are Luffy's sworn brothers. Ironically, while Nami and Luffy adore their siblings, Sanji and his brothers actively despise each other.
* In the Pirate Warriors series of video games, Sanji cannot attack female characters. This applies to both when the player is controlling him and facing female enemies, as well as when the player encounters him as an enemy while controlling a female character. When selecting a stage where female characters appear as enemies, if Sanji is selected by the player, a warning box will appear that points out Sanji's weakness to female characters and the player will be given the option to change to another character or ignore it and play the stage as Sanji. Generally there are two methods for dealing with female characters while playing as Sanji in the Pirate Warriors series: one is to avoid fighting them if possible (this may not be possible if a female opponent's defeat is required), while the other is to use support characters to deal with female opponents.
** In Pirate Warriors 2, even if Sanji is affected by a Mad Dial, he will still retain his principle and will not kick any woman.
** In One Piece: Burning Blood, Sanji has a special attack "I won't kick a woman, even if it means my death!" that causes all his attacks (including his special and ultimate moves) to comically change into hearts and causes his health meter's portrait and the face on character model to change to his "heart eyes" face, when fighting female characters (as well as Bentham who is considered a female character in his DLC "Nami Mode" form). Unlike the Pirate Warriors series, Sanji can still attack female characters and "hearts" he produces can cause minor damage to female opponents. However Sanji is still weak against female characters.
* In Chapter 831, a mirror clone of Sanji is seen with a lollipop instead of a cigarette, which matched with his appearance in the 4Kids dub.
* He is the first Straw Hat to personally share his backstory with others: with Luffy, his fellow Baratie cooks, and a number of Krieg Pirates (discounting Luffy's anime-only sharing of his backstory with Zoro).
* He is the third Straw Hat to almost unwillingly leave the crew for the greater good of everyone (after Nami and Robin).
* The Whole Cake Island group reached Wano Country on Tama's birthday of March 3rd, meaning logically Sanji should have celebrated a birthday the day before; however, the Vivre Card databook entry for "O-Soba Mask," which debuted a few days later in-story, still lists Sanji's age at 21.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Sanji at One Piece Wiki
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