Im, Vivi, Rebecca, Shirahoshi — June 2018
What exactly is the Straw Hat… and why does everyone feel uneasy about it?
Chapter 906 dropped one image and Japanese fans immediately split.
Is the giant frozen Straw Hat a world-shaking artifact — or just bait?
And why did the princess scene hit harder than the lore bomb?
The Straw Hat’s True Nature
857: Anonymous Pirate
They tease the hat a little and then probably leave it untouched for like 10 years.
893: Anonymous Pirate
Other than it being “one of the legends tied to One Piece,” we don’t know anything.
Feels like the original owner might’ve been a key figure in history.
Personally I think the Celestial Dragons and the D. clan were originally the same people.
921: Anonymous Pirate
Come to think of it, the only ones who know the entire Straw Hat crew already are the Fishman Island group…
929: Anonymous Pirate
>>921
Vivi: “Sanji-san, Nami-san, Tony-kun…”
Rebecca: “Who are those people?”
Leo: “Robland was—”
Vivi: “I don’t like that guy.”
Vivi / Leo / Rebecca: “……”
Princesses, Celestial Dragons, and Bad Premonitions
7: Anonymous Pirate
Feels like Charlos is gonna show up trying to enslave Shirahoshi, then see Vivi and Rebecca and decide he wants them as wives too.
9: Anonymous Pirate
If a Celestial Dragon demanded a royal as a slave, what would you even do?
12: Anonymous Pirate
>>9
I wanna see the world finally get sick of it and turn against the Celestial Dragons.
18: Anonymous Pirate
>>12
Honestly that’s probably where this is going.
Doflamingo, Sabo, and “What If” Chaos
13: Anonymous Pirate
Doflamingo’s obviously gonna get released somehow.
Yeah, yeah, we all know it.
82: Anonymous Pirate
Vivi, Rebecca, and Shirahoshi together is wholesome, but from a reader’s POV Vivi is clearly special.
Rebecca and Shirahoshi were with the crew for a day or two.
Vivi actually sailed with them.
144: Anonymous Pirate
I like Doffy, but it’d be wild if he got assassinated here.
Being killed while imprisoned wouldn’t really downgrade him.
If the assassin was Moria, that’d be hilarious.
146: Anonymous Pirate
>>144
Doffy: “Fufufu… Moria, who sent you? CP0?”
Moria: “Kishishishi… lower than that.”
The Hat, the Shape, and Theory Overload
91: Anonymous Pirate
If you count the visible dents, there are seven.
So besides the Straw Hat, there must be six other something.
110: Anonymous Pirate
140: Anonymous Pirate
>>110
So that means there were two Straw Hats from the beginning.
259: Anonymous Pirate
Was Law staring at the Straw Hat after Marineford a hint?
262: Anonymous Pirate
>>259
From Doffy and Law’s conversation, both of them knew what the “national treasure” really was.
Looking back, that explains it.
264: Anonymous Pirate
Depending on why someone’s holding that wanted poster, you can tell if they’re from the past or still active.
281: Anonymous Pirate
People keep pushing theories in a sci-fi direction lol.
Yeah… no way the Straw Hat’s secret gets revealed next chapter.
361: Anonymous Pirate
If you look at the Straw Hat sideways, it kinda looks like a D.
3: Anonymous Pirate
If they’re freezing it on purpose, then it’s probably a Straw-Hat-shaped Devil Fruit.
11: Anonymous Pirate
I figured out Luffy’s name.
Monkey D. Luffy
Mon = gate
Key = companion
D = Degin (beginning)
So Luffy was born to open the new era.
16: Anonymous Pirate
>>11
Then Garp and Dragon just become useless losers who did nothing.
21: Anonymous Pirate
I thought Laugh Tale was the D. Kingdom,
but if the D. Kingdom lost and the Celestial Dragons moved there,
then Mariejois used to be the D. Kingdom.
That would mean the hat is tied to it.
38: Anonymous Pirate
Garp being part Celestial Dragon actually feels plausible and that’s scary.
Maybe the reason they raise the Tenryubito as idiots is because
if they trained seriously, they’d break the world balance.
Would also explain why Vivi’s weirdly strong for a princess.
45: Anonymous Pirate
Why the hell is that hat so huge anyway?
Stop trying so hard to be weird.
Symbol vs. Artifact
59: Anonymous Pirate
What I like is that a totally ordinary hat became special through bonds —
Roger → Shanks → Luffy.
If Luffy’s hat turns out to be some insane key item, I honestly hate that.
62: Anonymous Pirate
>>59
Same.
Honestly didn’t even need it to come from Roger.
Shanks buying a cheap hat in some random town, liking it,
and Luffy treasuring it would’ve been enough.
881: Anonymous Pirate
So… what is the Straw Hat in the end?
👉 Why Japanese Readers Lean Toward Suspicion, Not Hype
Japanese readers don’t treat the frozen Straw Hat as a reward reveal.
They read it as a warning object — something dangerous, political, and tied to oppression.
That’s why theories instantly drift toward Celestial Dragons, erased kingdoms, and moral rot instead of “power-ups.”
👉 When “Symbol” Matters More Than Lore Answers
A huge portion of the comments actively reject the idea of the hat being special by design.
To them, its power comes from relationships and memory, not mechanics.
Turning it into a literal artifact risks breaking what made it meaningful in the first place.
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