## One Piece Chapter 653, pages 16-17: The Hero's Hat - Chapter: 653 - Pages: 16-17 - Characters: Monkey D. Luffy, Shanks, Portgas D. Ace, Jinbe, Silvers Rayleigh, Usopp, Eiichiro Oda, Nami, Nico Robin, Sanji, Mr. 3 ### Summary Page 16: Luffy remembers Shanks giving him the hat. Shanks told him, "I'll leave this hat with you. It's a precious possession of mine. Make sure you come and give it back to me someday... when you've become a great pirate." The memory expands into the larger promises of Luffy's journey: Ace told him, "You'll pull it off for sure...!! You're my brother, after all...!!!" and Jinbe once challenged him, "Ask yourself this!! What is there that still remains to you?!!" Rayleigh told him to head straight for the top. Usopp recalls that most people call the final ocean by another name, but it is the sea where great men gather to forge a brand-new age. The man who conquers that sea will be the Pirate King. Page 17: This SBS page includes several reader questions. One asks about Nami and Robin's measurements after the timeskip, leading Oda to joke by calling Sanji and then cutting him off. Another asks about the "Taolf Repus Planks," noticing that the phrase reads backward as "Super Float Planks" and connecting it to the earlier explanation of Mr. 3 floating. Oda confirms that this is the same idea and jokes that he had already been thinking of this scenario long before. A final question asks why One Piece women look like gravure models and men often have exaggerated muscular builds; Oda jokes that he wants to be a gravure model.