User blog comment:Woohoot/Sunny crew/@comment-3986064-20150720060458/@comment-10543621-20150720064404

Sanji himself tends to disappear for a bit in the middle of arcs only to reappear to do something useful. This sort of disappearance though is unique.

Yeah, the entire crew missed out on the action for a long time. But I think the main difference was that we were at least informed of their whereabouts before we were thrown into the whole Luffy solo adventure.

Actually wait, it's been too long and I'm too lazy to check. At which point did they first show the crew member locations? During Amazon Lily? Before Impel down? Before Marineford?