Narik

Bounties dont necissarily have anything to do with combat power. Someone can have a high bounty for any number of reasons, buggy has a high bounty almost exclusively because he was on rodger ship, and robin has a high bounty because she has knowledge that the world government deems illegal. I'm doubtful that Loki is currently stronger than sanji and I'm 100% certain hes not stronger than zoro or luffy.

I mean? It makes sense. Only issue I have is how the hell we came to the conclusion that gaban can sense haki types that arent there. Nobody at marine ford new about luffys conq until he awakened and there were a ton of powerful haki users at marine ford, same thing with kaido and zoro kaido didnt know zoro had it UNTIL he used asura, it wouldnt be the first time oda has just up and introduced some new random power but it is odd how with 0 confirmation everyone seems to have come to this conclusion.

Shanks is more than likely passed his prime. Dude is 39 years old 14 years ago puts him at about 25 the prime years for a person are typically 25-35. Also? What does it matter if blackbeard scarred him when he was younger? Shanks has been a pirate all his life and grew up training with the best of the best, him and buggy were so adept that even grown men were saying they are basically veterans, its entirely possible shanks hit his prime at a much younger age, hell it's more likely that he hit it early than it is that he hasnt hit his prime yet.

One piece, even without the wit remake, is already bigger than solo leveling. By a large margin. One piece is one of the highest grossing animanga of all time, solo leveling isnt even top 10. And solo leveling winning the award of best anime ofr the year is questionable with some of the judges even pointing out that the judging this year was questionable at best.

I doubt it's going to be gunko. If oda was going to make it someone with a connection to the crew I think hed use somone with a mucb less flimsy connection, like reiju. I hope it's not vivi but she does make a lot of sense, she's already an honorary member, shes current on the run from imu and most likely will run into the strawhats again, her father cobra, was killed by imu, and she seemed to hold a connection to the former queen of alabasta that magically vanished, nefertari lily, who shares the same name as vivis mother nefertiti titi. I also think rhat I'd she does shes probably going to be the reason 1 of the strawhats die and i think that person will be usopp. I hope she doesnt join, I never really cared for vivi as a character, I'm still holding out hope reiju joins tbh, might help keep sanji out of traps...

I didnt bring up "context" because im not trying to show the size of the gap. Just pointing out that a gap currently exists. But since you wanna go there. First? Sanji's "moral compass" as you call it IS part of their gap (I dont call it that because he was litterally just simping the whole time) if you go back and watch sanji fight kalifa in enies lobby sanji actively defended against kalifas attacks and didnt just let her step all over him like the current sanji. Queen isnt shown shown to be close to king. You said yourself that queens man asset was his durability, well guess what? King and kaido both have extreme durability guess who injured both? Zoro. Kaido without advanced conquerors and ryou haki was pretty much invulnerable (with exception to certain durability negating df powers) and king was seemingly immune to damage so long as his flames are burning on his back but on top of that both kaido and king have better AP, better speed, etc. Queens more than just "fat"? Okay first of all big moms durability isnt even in the same ballpark as kaido and on top of that how did queen knock her out? He jumped off a cliff... That was it he jumped off a cliff and let gravity and his weight carry him into big moms head.... (I'm also feeling the need to bring up that law, kidd, jimbei, and brook all have feats against big mom, speed, strength, etc. So? Characters that are "weaker" than or equal to sanji have gotten the better of big mom) Another feat queen has is haveing a sumo match with a weakened luffy. Other than that queen used technology specifically 2 biochemical weapons (which chopper made a cure for both in a relatively short amounts of time), a machine gun, lasers, his neck, and a sword. And the whole "he made sanji bleed after his exo-skeleton upgrade" yeah. Because it's not an actual exo-skeleton an exo-skeleton refers to a skelton that exists OUTSIDE the body not inside like sanji's. His skin is still just skin