Monkey D. Luffy — June 2018
Is the Straw Hat just a keepsake… or the core device behind One Piece’s endgame?
The Straw Hat is treated as a symbol — but what if it’s actually a mechanism?
Japanese readers aren’t asking who gave it anymore.
They’re asking what it points to, what it hides, and why it keeps showing up.
Red Line, Coordinates, and Ancient Weapons
429: Anonymous Pirate
The red band represents the Red Line.
The straw hat might be something that points to coordinates.
447: Anonymous Pirate
This battleship-looking thing is often said to be Pluton,
and this sea monster is said to represent Poseidon.
The Hat, the Sun, and Uranus
Anonymous Pirate
Is Uranus something related to sunlight?
The straw hat’s original purpose is to protect from the sun.
Anonymous Pirate
A lot of the D. clan wears some kind of headgear…
D. Clan, Headgear, and Intentional Design
488: Anonymous Pirate
>>447
It’s not just “a lot” — every D. we’ve seen so far has something on their head.
Dragon has a hood, Blackbeard has a bandana.
No way that’s accidental. Oda is 100% doing this on purpose.
Any new character with a hat is worth watching.
Planets, Logos, and Alignment Theories
459: Anonymous Pirate
If you force the planetary symbols into an interpretation,
they kinda start to look like the ONE PIECE logo.
They’re lined up horizontally — maybe something happens during planetary alignment.
Moon Races, White Sea People, and Migration
468: Anonymous Pirate
Among fishmen, merfolk, giants, dwarves, long-arm tribes, long-leg tribes, etc.,
there’s this outlier called the “White Sea People.”
Anonymous Pirate
The names of the ancient moon cities and sky islands strangely match.
It’s fair to think the White Sea People are descendants of a race that migrated from the moon.
“Birka…?”
“Far off in the southeastern skies… the Sky Island where Enel was born and raised. I’ve heard it disappeared without a trace five years ago.”
541: Anonymous Pirate
There’s also the theory that if you combine two hats, they form some kind of map.
Nami: “By the way, what’s with that hat? You got mad earlier when “it” got damaged! Is it expensive?”
Luffy: “It’s my treasure!”
Nami: “Ohhh, a treasure…! Does it have jewels inside or something…? Ah! Don’t tell me—it’s a treasure map!?”
Luffy: “Quit yapping. I’m busy right now.”
Nami: “Ahh, now it makes sense… so “that map” is for treasure hunting, huh…”
Luffy: “I already said it’s not a treasure map!”
Nami: “Oh please! Then what is it!? You expect me to believe that crappy old hat is a treasure?”
Early Serialization and Foreshadowing Doubts
Anonymous Pirate
Early on, Oda probably didn’t think the series would last this long,
so it’s possible he casually dropped extremely important foreshadowing.
545: Anonymous Pirate
>>541
That can’t be right. Buggy nearly destroyed the straw hat early on.
548: Anonymous Pirate
>>545
It might be written on the ribbon-like cloth instead.
543: Anonymous Pirate
It’s amazing we’re not on break this week.
564: Anonymous Pirate
Whitebeard:
“…And so, from the distant past, it has been passed down without ever fading…!!!!
And then, in the future… someday…
a man will appear, bearing the weight of hundreds of years of history, and challenge this world itself…!!!!!”
“Sengoku… you people of the World Government…
you fear that day that will inevitably come…
a great war so massive it will engulf the entire world!!!!!”
“I’m not interested… but when someone finally finds that treasure…
the world will be turned upside down………!!!”
“Someone will find it.
That day will come for sure….”
“It seems that nation once boasted overwhelming power… yet all information about it has been erased with obsessive thoroughness.”
“Having realized their defeat before the alliance that would later call itself the World Government, they entrusted their dying will to the future, carving the entire truth into stone.
That is what remains in the present day as the True History—the Poneglyphs…!!!!”
Robin:
“Yes… the scattered Poneglyphs that hold fragments of information across the world will only fill in the Void Century once they are read together, as one.”
“A text that does not yet exist, completed only when all are connected—that is the True History, the Neo-Poneglyph.
And the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger… without a doubt, delivered that text to its destination.”
Mariejois, National Treasure, and the Giant Hat
1: Anonymous Pirate
Ummmmmm……
Doflamingo:
“So you sent assassins to silence me…
just to make sure I wouldn’t spill the secret of the ‘treasure’ hidden in Mary Geoise!?
Fuffuffuffu!!”
“At this point, it doesn’t matter if it gets out anymore…
power moves fast.
And it’s something that rots away in no time…!!!”
7: Anonymous Pirate
Isn’t that hat huge?
8: Anonymous Pirate
Just hurry up and get to Wano already.
10: Anonymous Pirate
Is this really the national treasure of Mariejois?
34: Anonymous Pirate
36: Anonymous Pirate
>>34
That’s stupid. If you say that, every character’s mouth is shaped like a “D.”
42: Anonymous Pirate
>>36
Right now we think of it as rubber, so it’s rubber.
Once you realize it’s “stretch,” the rubber image disappears and it gets stronger.
Doflamingo couldn’t escape the string image, so his awakening stayed string-based.
It was actually about “grabbing.”
47: Anonymous Pirate
So what is D, anyway?
Bounties, Secrets, and Too Many Clues
70: Anonymous Pirate
What if it’s a fake pattern and there’s treasure hidden inside the hat?
88: Anonymous Pirate
So whose is the other wanted poster?
90: Anonymous Pirate
>>88
Straw Hat Luffy and Straw Hat Shanks, obviously.
👉 Why Japanese Fans Read the Straw Hat This Way
Japanese readers don’t treat the Straw Hat as a sentimental object.
They treat it like a device.
Coordinates, celestial alignment, ancient weapons, sunlight, the moon, the Red Line —
these comments stack symbolism on top of function, not emotion.
The question isn’t “Why is it important?”
It’s “What does it activate?”
👉 What This Says About One Piece’s Final Mystery
To this crowd, the Straw Hat isn’t about inheritance — it’s about access.
Something that points, aligns, shields, or unlocks.
That’s why Mariejois having a giant version matters.
That’s why D. clan headgear matters.
That’s why “too many clues” stops being a joke and starts sounding like a warning.
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