Men who can't wipe away the tears from a women's eyes, aren't real men.
"Black Leg" Sanji, born as Vinsmoke Sanji, is the cook of the Straw Hat Pirates and one of the Senior Officers of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet. He is the fifth member of the crew and the fourth to join, doing so at the end of the Baratie Arc.
Born as the third son and fourth child of the Vinsmoke Family (thus, making him a former prince of the Germa Kingdom), he disowned his family twice, once in his youth and again after reuniting with them as an adult. After fleeing the Vinsmokes as a child, he eventually entered the care of Zeff as the sous chef of the Baratie, where he would remain until he met Monkey D. Luffy, who convinced him to join his crew.
His dream is to find the rumored chef's paradise, All Blue, which is where the East Blue, West Blue, North Blue, and South Blue meet, along with their wildlife. He is one of the top three fighters of the Straw Hats, alongside Luffy and Zoro, who are referred to as the "Monster Trio".
Sanji is a slim, muscular, long-legged man with blond hair which he keeps brushed over one side of his face. Before the timeskip, this was the left side. After the two-year timeskip, he switched his hairstyle so that it covers the right side. It also appears that Sanji's hair is less straight and scruffier after the timeskip.
Among Sanji's physical traits are his distinctive eyebrows. Both form a spiral but at different ends. His right eyebrow forms a spiral at the outer end, while his left eyebrow forms a spiral at the inner end. His eyebrows curl in the opposite direction from his siblings, whose eyebrows curl in a counterclockwise direction (i.e., to the left side). Sanji's eyebrows instead curl in a clockwise direction (i.e., to right side). During his battle with Queen, when his dormant genetic modifications awakened, Sanji's eyebrows switched to curling in the same direction as his siblings' (i.e., to the left side). After being unconscious for a brief period, when he awoke, his eyebrows had returned to their original shape. When fighting S-Shark, his eyebrows changed direction again.
He wears dress shoes, mostly for his Black Leg Style. These shoes are extremely durable and were designed to increase the power of his attacks, though he can attack sufficiently without them as shown in his fight against Kuroobi. Sanji is also a chain-smoker and is rarely seen without a cigarette.
After the two-year timeskip, Sanji now covers his right eye, shows his left eye, and has grown his hair just slightly longer. He also sports a dark anchor style facial hair, and stubble on his upper lip. Sanji's neck has gotten thicker as well, similar to Luffy and Zoro. He has grown taller, and therefore remains nearly the exact same height as Zoro. He wears a black double-breasted suit with golden buttons and a yellow dress shirt together with a brown tie. In Punk Hazard, he wears a full black double-breasted suit with golden buttons and a grey dress shirt together with a very light grey tie.
As the cook of the Straw Hat Pirates, Sanji provides an extremely valuable service to his crewmates. Alongside Luffy and Zoro, Sanji is considered one of the Monster Trio (怪物三人組, Kaibutsu San-ningumi?) of the Straw Hats due to his strength. Because of their role as Luffy's main support, Zoro and Sanji are referred to as the Pirates King's Wings (海賊王の両翼, Kaizoku-ō no ryōyoku?). Despite his great strength, Sanji tends to be underestimated by the World Government and has almost never been in the top three highest bounties, with one exception after the events of Whole Cake Island, when he ranked third. Sanji currently has the fourth highest bounty in the crew after Luffy, Zoro, and Jinbe, at Beli1,032,000,000. Alongside Jinbe, Sanji is one of two members of the crew to fight without weapons or Devil Fruit powers in combat, until acquiring the Raid Suit, but then abandoned it as his dormant genetic enhancements awakened.
While Luffy often fights the strongest enemies, Sanji and Zoro often end up fighting against enemies considered the second or third primary threat. However, Sanji's and Zoro's opponents could be often characterized as matching (or countering) their particular fighting styles, such as his fight against another leg-based martial artist, Mr. 2, during the Arabasta Arc, while Zoro fought against Mr. 1, an assassin who ate a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that made him a Fullbody Bladed Human resistant to swords. Although Sanji and Zoro usually let their rivalry impede their fighting performances, they have proven to be a near-unstoppable force if they agree to cooperate for the battle.
As a former prince of the Germa Kingdom, it can be assumed that Sanji would have had the same political and military power possessed by the rest of his family. However, due to his decision to renounce his title and status as a royal (as well as his father's decision to cast him out of the family), Sanji has willingly given up any and all claims to these kinds of advantages. Despite this, it has been shown that he still retains political authority over the Germa Kingdom's subjects as shown during his childhood, where the rest of the kingdom treated him with the same respect as they treated the rest of his family (despite his family's own poor treatment of him), and when he returned to the kingdom after 13 years, they continued to do so.
Self-taught since childhood and also personally trained by Zeff, Sanji is an exceptional culinary master of the highest caliber, possessing immense knowledge and the capability of preparing almost any kind of delicious food with a strong sense for the aesthetics of cooking. He cooks with amazing speed and dexterity, particularly in his use of knives. His sense of taste is also not lacking. Often, he is able to deduce the qualities of aspects (i.e., ingredients and methods of cooking and preparation) involved in a prepared dish in a very short period of time. He has an extremely sharp sense of smell, as he correctly figured out all the ingredients Streusen used for the wedding cake and even perfectly figured out Streusen's secret recipe solely by its fragrance, a feat that completely shocked Chiffon and the 31 Head Chefs of Whole Cake Island.
According to Chiffon, Sanji's cooking skills have surpassed even Streusen, Totto Land's finest chef. He was able to completely remake a giant wedding cake in less than twelve hours, where it took Streusen several days to make the first cake. The cake was so delicious, it made Big Mom, a sweets enthusiast who had spent her entire life eating all sorts of treats from all over the world, fall into a state of absolute bliss that she had not known since her sixth birthday party.
When Sanji was a child, he was weaker than his siblings (who always outpaced him) to the point that he was considered a disappointment and a failure to his family. This was due to the drug that his mother took during her pregnancy to ensure Sanji would still have his humanity, thus resulting in him being born without any apparent genetic enhancements, much to Judge's fury.
However, during the Raid on Onigashima, Sanji noted that after three uses of the Raid Suit that his body began to feel different, and even in some cases, "better", which perplexed him early on during his fight with Queen. Later on, in his fight with Queen, Sanji angrily realized that the genetic modifications that laid dormant within him since birth have finally awakened, granting him a superhuman physical constitution and an exoskeleton that makes him nearly invulnerable, including an accelerated healing rate. After surviving being crushed to death, Sanji stood back up, even with all of his bones broken, shocking everyone as his body snapped back into place and reformed. Queen then struck Sanji with his sword, only for the blade to shatter against Sanji's neck, with Sanji only feeling minor pain and annoyance as a result. He would then pull his cheek back into place and also withstood several bullets to the head by the Beasts Pirates without any injury.
After realizing that his genetic modifications only awakened due to him wearing his Raid Suit, Sanji chose to accept the changes to his body, but not before destroying the canister that held his suit to permanently cut off his ties to Germa. After mastering his new gifts to some level, he discovered that he has become so fast that it is as if he can become invisible without the suit and his already impressive strength has grown to a level far greater than he would have imagined. By combining all these augmentations to his body and his Busoshoku Haki, Sanji developed fighting techniques that would have been physically impossible for him to do before. He has not displayed the total lack of empathy associated with his brothers' genetic enhancements, as he was horrified when he thought he was responsible for hitting a woman as his powers were manifesting.
Sanji is an extremely skilled user of Kenbunshoku Haki, which is his specialty. During his stay in the Kamabakka Kingdom, Sanji trained his Kenbunshoku Haki to become an advanced master of it due to being on a constantly careful watch for the harassment from the okama day and night who sought to steal his manhood. He can sense the presence, strength, emotions, and intent of others. Most remarkably, Sanji could even dodge a jelly bean shot by Charlotte Katakuri despite the Sweet Commander possessing a higher level of Kenbunshoku Haki.
Sanji is a highly skilled user of Busoshoku Haki. During his fight with his father, he blocked his spear by hardening his right leg. Sanji damaged Luffy despite his rubbery body when they fought on Whole Cake Island. Having awakened his dormant genetic enhancements, Sanji combined his sturdy exoskeleton and Busoshoku Haki to enhance his legs, allowing them to endure much hotter flames, resulting in the creation of Ifrit Jambe.
Hiroaki Hirata (平田 広明, Hirata Hiroaki, born August 7, 1963) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. He is the founder of Hirata Production Japan. He is best known for voicing Vinsmoke Sanji in One Piece. His other known roles include Sha Gojyo in Saiyuki, Kotetsu T. Kaburagi in Tiger & Bunny, Klein in Sword Art Online, Vergil in the Devil May Cry series, Mutta Nanba in Space Brothers, Leomon in Digimon Adventure, George Kodama in Kaze no Yojimbo and Mr. Kondo in After the Rain. He is also the official Japanese dub-over artist for Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, Noah Wyle and Matt LeBlanc. In addition, he dubbed many roles of Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, and Josh Hartnett.
Eric Vale (born Christopher Eric Johnson)[4] is an American voice actor who provided voices for a number of English versions of Japanese anime series. He is known for voicing Koichiro Iketani in the Initial D series, Trunks in the Dragon Ball series, Sanji in One Piece, Kogoro Akechi in Trickster, Keisuke Umehara in Big Windup!, Huey Laforet in Baccano!, Tobari Durandal Kumohira in Nabari no Ou, Jean Croce in Gunslinger Girl series, Kisumi Shigino in Free! series, Kakeru Ryuen in Classroom of the Elite, Solf J. Kimblee in Fullmetal Alchemist, Kazuma in Noragami series, Tsunenaga Tamaki in Deadman Wonderland, and so on.