This article contains spoilers for the Final Saga of One Piece.
Summary
- Every new character is theorized to join the Straw Hats.
- The current crew already has a strong dynamic.
- Vivi is believed by many fans to be the final Straw Hat.
The slow introduction of the Straw Hats has always been one of the most unique aspects of One Piece. Rather than introducing the main crew right away, instead, Oda chooses to introduce new members slowly over time, allowing them to feel like more natural additions to the story. Due to this style, fans are always predicting which characters may be new Straw Hats, often taking their theories to the internet and various communities on social media.
However, in the modern age of the series, it has gotten to a point where some members of the community are starting to get sick of hearing about a new Straw Hat joining the crew. For some One Piece fans, it feels like every new character introduced to the series is going to be the “next Straw Hat”. In fact, some of these fans truly believe that there will never be another new Straw Hat, making Jinbe the last member to officially join the crew.
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Fans Have Been Trying To Guess The Next Straw Hat Ever Since Jinbe Officially Joined
From Yamato To Bonney Many Characters Were Potential Candidates
In the early days of the series, Luffy actually mentioned how many members he would want to join the Straw Hat Pirates, saying 10 members, not counting himself, of course, would make for a perfect crew. As of now, with the addition of Jinbe on Whole Cake Island, the Straw Hats have 9 additional members outside of Luffy, meaning that Luffy is one character short of reaching his 10-person goal. However, Luffy may have picked a random number as an estimate, meaning he could end the series with even more, or at the very least one less, than his original idea.
Oh just shut up and come with us already! – Luffy to Chopper
Currently, ever since the Wano Arc of One Piece, fans have been heavily theorizing that a character will join the crew soon. One of the biggest theories throughout Wano was that Yamato would join the crew, while others believed that the SWORD member, X Drake, could have been a potential candidate. When neither of these came true, the theories continued on Egghead with Kuma and Bonney being new potential crew members. When neither of these characters joined the crew, once the Straw Hats arrived on Elbaf, fans now believe that either Loki or Gunko will become the next Straw Hat.
Fan Speculation For The Final Straw Hat Has Gone Overboard
Every New Character Is A Potential Straw Hat At This Point
- Every New Character Is Theorized To Join The Straw Hats
- The Straw Hats Already Have A Strong Dynamic
Overall, while it’s nice to speculate on which characters may join the Straw Hat Crew, at this point in the series, it may be going a bit overboard. In the past, the introduction of each character felt like a national addition to the roster of the story. However, as is the case with many of the characters that fans are constantly hoping will join One Piece’s Straw Hats, these characters would be far from natural or logical choices to join the crew, at least not without hefty amounts of character development. Even a character like Yamato, who felt like a good fit for the crew personality-wise, very obviously had other priorities, like defending Wano, that would make him a bad fit for the crew overall.
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Additionally, a lot of One Piece fans already believe that the current Straw Hat Crew has a perfect dynamic. Adding another character so late in the series, especially with the Final Saga well underway, would make it hard for the new crew member to establish a strong connection with the rest of the group. This would be doubly true for characters like the God’s Knight, Gunko, and Loki who have had a very short amount of time in the story so far.
The Final Straw Hat Already Exists
For Many Fans Vivi Will Be The Final Straw Hat
However, many fans agree that if a person were to join the Straw Hat Crew as the last member, it wouldn’t be a new character like Loki, Yamato, or Gunko. Instead, it would be Vivi, who is already an honorary member. Unlike most new characters, Vivi already has a strong bond with many of the crew members of the Straw Hats and works well with the overall dynamic of the crew.
But if there is one day where we meet each other again… will you take me as a friend? – Vivi
In the end, although Vivi would be a strong choice as the last member of the crew, the Straw Hats may not even get another member. Overall, it seems just as likely that the crew will remain as it is until the end of One Piece. Still, hopefully, if someone does join the crew, they will fit in naturally like every new addition thus far.
- Release Date
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October 20, 1999
- Network
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Fuji TV
- Directors
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Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou
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Mayumi Tanaka
Monkey D. Luffy (voice)
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Kazuya Nakai
Roronoa Zoro (voice)
