I'd say the Shichibukai are pirates AND bountry hunters. Look at Moria and Kuma. Look at Crocodile's public face in Arabasta. And Mihawk for that matter. Some of these don't collect bounties, but the government lets them be pirates because they hunt bounty heads.
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i always assumed that sanji was on a similarl level with zoro because they are always level pegged in many instances.
please not when im talking levels here i dont think like DBZ levels nor do i think hat way for bountys, we all know enel woul dhave a higher bounty than luffy right now despite the fact that luffy is "stronger". Its like magneto in x-men.. his power is a pretty poor one to have and vs another mutant in a naken fight he would almost certainly lose HOWEVER it just happens that his strength is to exploit the main strength of everyone else... the whole world uses metal weapons and magento controls them, thus hes an incredibly powerful mutant. Same for enel, technology is run by electricity and he controls electricity and also can use this to effect what? metals. This automatically makes him a HUGE threat to a government system.
First off we have the rivalry between the two. A one sided rivalry wouldnt be so ever present as there feud is. This tells us that there is at least SOME truth to the fact they they are on a similar level with each other.
Second we have the displays of power. There have been a couple of times when things happen to demonstrate just how monsterous some of the straw hat crew are in terms of power. An example of this would be early on when seakings attacked the boat and zoro slices one, luffy bazookas one and sanji kicks one. Now it would b logical to assume that luffy being the protagonist is the stronger of the three of course and performance in fights have kind of indicated this. But think back to even kuma's appearance Sanji was just as willing to take the pain im sure as he was willing to fight kuma ahead of zoro in order to protect luffy. This is one of the main indications i feel that they are of similar lvl of strength.
Thirdly we have the order of fights... almost always the order of fights in one piece is tied to str, with people like chopper, nami, ussop having there joke fights before everyone else and luffy fighting last.... zoro and sanji almost always fight at the same time and there fights end in similar fashions.
In terms of bounty sanji is obviously the surprise... they say things like "i cant beleive that man follows somone else" about zoro because they know of his bounty hunter fame also... but sanji is an unknown i can almost gurantee it that sanji will defeat a captain in this arc with a much higher bounty to him and everyone other than the strawhats will be gobsmacked... thats if the arc devolves into a serious fight.
And about the sichibukai its pointless debating... they are needed by the world government to supress the powers of the 4 emps. If they didnt have the warlords the world government would be weaker than the 4 emps... although im not quite sure about the insistance about having SEVEN warlords... perhaps its somthing to do with the number ten, seven warlords and 3 admirals being needed to do somthing like work an ancient weapon that the world government obviously have :P
Similar yes...but if you look at it from a technicality standpoint, Zoro always ends up fighting the higher ranked cronies than Sanji.
During the CP9 arc, Zoro fought Kaku, while Sanji fought the wolf guy. It was proven in that arc that Kaku was stronger than the wolf guy.
During the Arabasta arc, Zoro fought Mr. 1, while Sanji fought Mr. 2. Of course, Mr. 1 was stronger than Mr. 2.
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I don't think there's quite that kind of rivalry there. They have competed in things that don't really show power, like beating dinosaurs for the meat, and are often arguing because their personalities differ. However, like I said earlier, their interests are completely different, so what kind of a serious rivalry could there be? Zoro wants to be the best swordsman, Sanji the best cook and woo as many pretty ladies as possible. What kind of a setting for rivalry is that?Originally Posted by chambers
They may have said something about the bounties now and then, but that's, I think, more a matter of amusement and a part of being a pirate. Since they officially are pirates, they need to pay attention to their bounties. It's a part of the job. If they really competed with that, they would be their own captains, because captains always have the biggest bounties, not underlings. Now Zoro simply fights because he wants to excel in fighting and Sanji fights out of responsibility.
Only the most important rivalry there is! Who wins the "most popular character" polls in Shounen Jump!
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