Imu, the Straw Hat, and the Will of D — June 2018
What exactly is being preserved in that frozen room?
Why would the World Government go out of its way to freeze a straw hat?
Is it really about the hat itself—or something hidden behind it?
Japanese fans started circling around one unsettling idea: the “D” is not history, it’s a threat.
The Frozen Straw Hat Itself
667：Anonymous Pirate
I don’t really get why the straw hat is huge, or why it’s frozen in the first place.
669：Anonymous Pirate
>>667
That straw hat is definitely the Cool Brothers’ property.
Both the size and the freezing make sense if that’s the case.
And that silhouette is Gastino for sure.
He was researching giants, and the government wanted giants too.
If you reread One Piece from the start, there’s always foreshadowing, so don’t overthink it—just reread.
679：Anonymous Pirate
>>667
I think what matters isn’t the straw hat, but what’s inside it.
When I hear cryogenic preservation, I think of a brain.
Doflamingo said that with the Ope Ope no Mi and the national treasure, you could control the world.
So maybe the Ope Ope power is being used to revive the brain’s owner.
But if that’s true, it’s weird that Law isn’t being targeted.
671：Anonymous Pirate
When Luffy hit a 100 million bounty, one of the Five Elders looked at the poster—
Was it the “D” in his name that caught their attention, or the straw hat?
What Is Actually Being Preserved?
685：Anonymous Pirate
Is it the hat itself,
or is there something inside the hat?
695：Anonymous Pirate
Imagining what’s under the cape.
704：Anonymous Pirate
>>703
Even the fingers were drawn kind of feminine.
715：Anonymous Pirate
Rayleigh is still alive, so why would Rayleigh be Law lol
This isn’t a loop or anything.
Rejecting the Time Loop Theory
717：Anonymous Pirate
719：Anonymous Pirate
>>717
It’s about the dawn.
724：Anonymous Pirate
The loop theory isn’t just suspicious—it was nonsense from the start.
Mary Geoise and the World’s Collapse
729：Anonymous Pirate
Oda supervised the game ONE PIECE WORLD SEEKER,
and visuals of Mary Geoise collapsing were revealed.
Is the collapse of Mary Geoise basically confirmed? In the manga too?
738：Anonymous Pirate
>>729
If that happens, what happens to that giant straw hat?
817：Anonymous Pirate
>>729
So does this mean the Revolutionary Army ends up as the single dominant power?
If that happens, it wouldn’t be surprising if we eventually end up fighting the Revolutionary Army too.
731：Anonymous Pirate
Isn’t it Fisher Tiger?
747：Anonymous Pirate
Besides Luffy’s poster, whose bounty posters were those?
Visual Motifs and the “D”
748：Anonymous Pirate
Celestial Dragon men are drawn ugly,
but women like Charlos’s sister or Doffy’s mom are drawn beautiful.
849：Anonymous Pirate
>>748
Well yeah, Celestial Dragon wives are probably all beautiful,
so their daughters would be too… though some probably look like their dads.
749：Anonymous Pirate
Every “D” besides Garp and Dragon wears a hat.
Dragon wears a hood, and Garp used to wear that dog hat.
This is important.
The Ancient “D” Lineage Theory
763：Anonymous Pirate
>>754
Once there was a King of D who ruled.
He commanded warriors from seven powerful clans:
Gol family, Monkey family, Portgas family, Jaguar family, Trafalgar family,
and then the Circle family and Jewelry family.
Circle D. Shanks, and Jewelry D. Bonney.
772：Anonymous Pirate
Details aside,
there were people in the past who carried the genes of D.
The Celestial Dragons seized power through dirty means and became rulers.
Whether D were the original rulers or just rebels is another question.
Oda’s Foreshadowing and Fan Shock
836：Anonymous Pirate
Nobody thought this was foreshadowing back then.
What the hell is going on in Oda’s head?
Gol D. Roger
“I’m Roger!!!”
“This meeting is destiny, Rayleigh!
How about you join me and turn the whole world upside down!!?”Rayleigh
“The world? …Hahaha.
Who the hell are you? Get lost!!!”
Gol D. Roger
“I’m not gonna die… you know?”
“My partner…”
838：Anonymous Pirate
>>836
Wait… is that Luffy?
Ideology vs Weapons
956：Anonymous Pirate
Donquixote Doflamingo
“By using the ‘national treasure’ of Mary Geoise,
I could have even taken control of the world itself!!!”
966：Anonymous Pirate
>>956
What the government really fears more than ancient weapons is the ideology of D.
There might even be some kind of brainwashing device
that spreads the Celestial Dragon ideology across the world.
(´・ω・`) Temple Knights.
👉 Why Japanese Fans Frame This as “Ideology, Not an Object”
Japanese readers tend to distrust symbols without systems.
That’s why many comments quickly move away from “the hat itself” and toward what it represents or contains—memory, ideology, lineage.
The fear isn’t physical destruction. It’s ideas resurfacing.
👉 What This Suggests About One Piece’s Endgame
If the World Government freezes history, then the final enemy isn’t strength—it’s truth returning.
The “Will of D” isn’t a bloodline power-up.
It’s a worldview the government failed to erase.
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