Item from One Piece by Eiichiro Oda
Luffy's trademark — a simple straw hat with a red band. Given to him by Shanks as a child with the words 'Give it back to me someday... when you've become a great pirate.' Previously worn by Gol D. Roger himself. The symbol of inherited will.
The straw hat is the series' central symbol — a thread connecting Roger, Shanks, and Luffy across generations. Roger wore it during his time as Pirate King. He gave it to Shanks. Shanks gave it to Luffy, a crying boy in a bar in Foosha Village, betting on the next generation to finish what he and Roger started. For Luffy, the hat IS his promise: to become a great pirate, to return it to Shanks, to prove worthy of the trust placed in him. He never lets anyone damage it. When he places it on someone else — Nami when she was crying, the crew's flag when they declared war on the World Government — it means 'I'm going to fix this.' The existence of a giant identical straw hat in a frozen vault beneath Mary Geoise, shown briefly during the Reverie, suggests the hat's significance extends far beyond personal sentiment — it may be connected to Joy Boy, the Void Century, and the very nature of the One Piece.
A plain straw hat with a red ribbon band. Weathered, slightly frayed at the edges, bearing a small repair where Nami stitched it after Buggy damaged it. It is completely ordinary in construction — there is nothing physically special about it. And yet it is the most symbolically significant object in the entire series. Luffy protects it with his life. He places it on the heads of people he trusts to hold his dream. An identical straw hat, enormous in size, sits frozen in a vault beneath Mary Geoise — and no one knows why.
Also known as: Straw Hat, Luffy's Hat, Roger's Hat, Shanks's Hat