User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 938 Thoughts/@comment-29391896-20190330101811/@comment-2600:1702:3C50:A6E0:5D8:A6AE:1FF1:71F8-20190330204646

It demonstrates to me that despite appearances, the Strawhats are flesh and blood. No matter how much they might seem to be invincible superhumans they can still be killed. Luffy could be killed right from the start through a sword through his heart or cutting off his head. Zoro from the start could die with a bullet through his heart or brain. This has not changed since the beginning, it is just harder to see a character managing to do this to any of them now. As for Sanji, I think that the Strawhats are stronger and weaker to different circumstances. I wouldn't call Sanji much weaker although I would agree that there is a difference, but Zoro has had too much time effortlessly overpowering opponents post time skip and it was beginning to annoy me. Now I can be happy that with this arc he will actually struggle instead of people saying that he deserves to be the next pirate king because he demonstrates more traces of being Gol D. Rodger reincarnated then Luffy does. Now he seems to be more the many who has to struggle and bleed to be the strongest swordsman just as Luffy must do the same to become the pirate king.