One Piece: Sanji Defies Imu’s Domi Reversi—No Conqueror’s Haki Required?

So Imu just rolled out a mind-control cheat code in the manga, and it is scary. But there is one Straw Hat who might be built different enough to shrug it off without Conqueror's Haki: Sanji. And weirdly, we already have a pretty good test case for that from a non-canon video game.

Imu's Domi Reversi is busted, but Sanji might be the exception

Domi Reversi, Imu's new trick, flips a target's personality and yanks the wheel. It is one of the most overpowered abilities we have seen yet. Even Rocks D. Xebec was shown pushing back against it in recent chapters, but he still could not fully break free.

Sanji, though, has a firewall most characters do not: his unbreakable code about women. And yes, I know, a video game is not canon. But the way One Piece: Pirate Warriors 2 plays this exact scenario out is hard to ignore.

The Pirate Warriors 2 test run

Quick refresher: Pirate Warriors 2 launched in 2013. Like a lot of One Piece games, it mostly remixes arcs we already know, shuffles the order, and tosses in some wild what-ifs. It swings from Orange Town to Punk Hazard, but with twists. Eiichiro Oda was not involved, and it is not drawn from the manga, so it is firmly non-canon. Still, the character work often tracks, especially with Sanji.

The big twist lands during a heavily altered Marineford arc. Blackbeard scatters a bunch of Frenzy Dials (also called Control Dials) across the base, cracks them open, and floods the area with a fog that turns anyone who breathes it into his puppet. Sanji and Zoro both get a lungful.

Zoro goes feral. Sanji gets the full evil makeover too — dark aura, glowing red eyes — and boots a few guys across the map. Then he locks onto Robin... and stops. That vow about never hitting a woman? It is stronger than the fog. He refuses to attack her and fights the influence off mid-charge. A clip of this has been bouncing around social media again — user @dengekivinsmoke flagged it on November 14, 2025 — because the whole thing looks suspiciously like Domi Reversi in spirit.

Are Frenzy Dials as overwhelming as Imu's mind flip? Probably not. But escaping any kind of personality override still takes a ridiculous amount of willpower. If Imu ever targets Sanji, Pirate Warriors 2 feels like a preview of how that goes.

Receipts from the manga

Sanji's chivalry is not just a running gag — it is his spine. He has put himself in awful spots to keep that promise intact:

• Enies Lobby: Facing Kalifa with his life on the line, he refuses to fight her. Nami rips him for it, then backs his code and takes Kalifa down herself. The moment comes with one of his defining lines from One Piece chapter 403:

'I will not kick a woman, even if I die.'

• Wano: He will not raise a hand to Black Maria, period.
• Thriller Bark: Gecko Moria steals Sanji's shadow to animate a zombie named Inuppe — and Sanji's will still bleeds through. Inuppe flips on Hippo Gentleman when he threatens Nami and refuses to hit Lola. It is Sanji's shadow steering the body, and he even challenges the other Wild Zombies to come at him if they have a problem with his philosophy.

So, could he break Domi Reversi?

Sanji does not have Conqueror's Haki (at least not yet), but he has something just as stubborn: a code he literally will not violate. The games are not canon, but that Marineford detour in Pirate Warriors 2 lines up with how Oda has written Sanji for decades. People joke about him being the crew's gag man — and sometimes he is — but underneath that, he is one of the most iron-willed characters in One Piece.

If anyone can rip free from Imu's control on sheer conviction, it is Sanji.

Does Sanji's vow win out against Domi Reversi, or does Imu finally find a limit to his chivalry? Drop your theories below. And if you want to revisit the chaos, One Piece is streaming on Crunchyroll.