I really can't with when pandemonium will strike. What is Jinbei going to do? What is Capone going to do? How will the bomb-in-a-treasure-chest affect the wedding? And above all what is Sanji going to do? I also just love it that the Vinsmokes got outwitted as I still dislike them far more than Pudding and BM. I mean the latter are pirates, so you could have expected such deplorable tactics. The Vinsmokes however are a bunch of bullies that act like wannabe royalty that rules over nothing. That Judge thought that a shallow plan like "hold Pudding hostage" would be enough to deal with a Yonkou, is nothing more than misplaced arrogance.
Yes Sanji seems to have grown fond of Pudding, but that and being truly in love with her are very different things. You really need to read the situation here: Sanji hates his family and is traumatized by them. However he was then forced to become their disposable tool as if he didn't, everyone he cares about would be in danger. The Strawhats are one thing, but it's impossible for him to protect people living all the way in East Blue. On top of that to make sure he doesn't do anything funny, they strapped two bombs to his hands and then he learned that the Strawhats invaded BM's territory. Sanji is completely stuck on all sides, he is nothing more than a powerless pawn in the game his father and BM are playing. This wedding pretty much means he's a prisoner for the rest of his life, but at least in all of this the girl he's supposed to marry is gentle and sweet, his only ray of light in the darkness. The Sanji we saw the past few chapters, is simply a Sanji who has accepted the situation he is in and realized that he can't change anything about it anymore. So he is gathering around that single ray of light. Don't forget he currently believes everyone else is safe as BM promised no harm would come to them. By no means though does this mean that Sanji is madly in love with Pudding and that he chose her over everyone else. You seem to be forgetting here that even Luffy trusted Pudding and that till know both Sanji and Luffy believed she was helping them.
That's what this chapter's title meant and now he learned that that ray of light is in fact a murderous sociopath that's planning to kill him, the other Vinsmokes and the Strawhats while they're saying their wedding vowels. I've said this before, but the only thing Sanji can be blamed for is his naivety for believing that Luffy would stay put with a shallow letter, which was completely out of character for Sanji. Putting that aside he tried everything he could in the situation he was in to keep everyone from harm.
If Sanji would give priority to random women over the Strawhats, he wouldn't have spent two years on an island that had a population consisting solely out of okama's.Sanji has been very disappointing. Earlier, people were arguing that he is forcing himself to love Pudding for the sake of Straw Hats. This chapter made it abundantly clear that Sanji will take any woman over his crew. It was pretty clear that he was not forcing himself to lover her or anything. For God's sake the guy was dreaming about Pudding being naked and shit. All this while his nakama is on the verge of death. He deserved this. Sanji as a character has regressed for me in this arc.
Luffy, Pedro and Chopper were good though.
Yes Sanji seems to have grown fond of Pudding, but that and being truly in love with her are very different things. You really need to read the situation here: Sanji hates his family and is traumatized by them. However he was then forced to become their disposable tool as if he didn't, everyone he cares about would be in danger. The Strawhats are one thing, but it's impossible for him to protect people living all the way in East Blue. On top of that to make sure he doesn't do anything funny, they strapped two bombs to his hands and then he learned that the Strawhats invaded BM's territory. Sanji is completely stuck on all sides, he is nothing more than a powerless pawn in the game his father and BM are playing. This wedding pretty much means he's a prisoner for the rest of his life, but at least in all of this the girl he's supposed to marry is gentle and sweet, his only ray of light in the darkness. The Sanji we saw the past few chapters, is simply a Sanji who has accepted the situation he is in and realized that he can't change anything about it anymore. So he is gathering around that single ray of light. Don't forget he currently believes everyone else is safe as BM promised no harm would come to them. By no means though does this mean that Sanji is madly in love with Pudding and that he chose her over everyone else. You seem to be forgetting here that even Luffy trusted Pudding and that till know both Sanji and Luffy believed she was helping them.
That's what this chapter's title meant and now he learned that that ray of light is in fact a murderous sociopath that's planning to kill him, the other Vinsmokes and the Strawhats while they're saying their wedding vowels. I've said this before, but the only thing Sanji can be blamed for is his naivety for believing that Luffy would stay put with a shallow letter, which was completely out of character for Sanji. Putting that aside he tried everything he could in the situation he was in to keep everyone from harm.