Overview
The Straw Hat Crew , or the Straw Hat Pirates , also called just as the Straw Hats , are a fictional pirate crew and the main protagonists of the Japanese manga series One Piece, written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda, and its related media. Captain Monkey D. Luffy leads the pirate crew, recruiting three-sword-style swordsman and former bounty hunter Roronoa Zoro, navigator and thief Nami, sniper and inventor Usopp, cook and Modified Human Sanji, doctor and anthropomorphic reindeer Tony Tony Chopper, archaeologist and historian Nico Robin, shipwright and cyborg Franky, musician and living skeleton Brook, and helmsman and martial artist Fish-Man Jimbei. Additionally, the diplomat and princess of Alabasta Nefertari Vivi traveled with the crew for a time, being considered as an honorary crewmember for the first six members of the crew. Travelling with the crew is also the cloud Zeus, serving as Nami's companion, while the Super Spot-Billed Duck Karoo also traveled temporarily with them as Nefertari Vivi's companion. The Straw Hats initially sail the seas aboard the caravel Going Merry before Franky builds a brigantine-rigged sloop-of-war called the Thousand Sunny that is the crew's current ship.