One Piece features a vast world of endless seas and exotic islands that pirate crews can visit at their leisure. Some crews, such as the famed Straw Hats, visit those islands just to have fun and enjoy life, while other, more villainous crews like the Blackbeard pirates will wreak havoc and plunder whatever they can.
Marshall D. Teach, the infamous Captain Blackbeard, is a pirate commander who always enables his crew to be the most violent, selfish, and cruel people they can be. Blackbeard will welcome anyone who has the right attitude and a love of freedom, and a variety of powerful, free-spirited anime characters would gladly join Blackbeard’s crew and go wild in his name.
10 Muscular (My Hero Academia)
The villainous Muscular, like many Blackbeard recruits in One Piece, wants a boss who will let him run free and cause mayhem and suffering to satisfy his bloodlust. As the Summit War saga proved with those Impel Down recruits, Captain Blackbeard loves recruiting thugs who will commit atrocities in his name.
Muscular is a powerful, depraved antagonist in My Hero Academia, and he doesn’t like taking orders or fighting as a team. Among the Blackbeard pirates, he would only need Teach to point him at the enemy, and Muscular would charge right in to tear Blackbeard’s enemies apart.
9 Kakuzu (Naruto)
Several Akatsuki members in Naruto have the right skills and mindset to join the Blackbeard Pirates, including the merciless bounty hunter Kakuzu. Unlike Hidan and Deidara, who kill for fun or for their faith, Kakuzu is after money and treasure above all else.
Kakuzu would love to fight for any pirate crew strong enough to keep up with him, and Blackbeard’s crew is the right match. Captain Blackbeard himself doesn’t care that much about money, but he would still encourage Kakuzu to go out there and slaughter people to seize their treasure.
8 Grimmjow Jeagerjaques (Bleach)
Grimmjow fancies himself an apex predator in Bleach, stalking Hueco Mundo’s sands to defeat and devour the strongest rivals he can find. He barely cooperated with Aizen and the other Espadas, all because he was so self-centered and reckless.
Now that Aizen’s gone, Grimmjow needs a new boss, and Marshall D. Teach is a good start. Grimmjow doesn’t like being anyone’s subordinate, but still, Blackbeard would enable Grimmjow and give him plenty of new rivals to fight to the death in the New World to give Grimmjow’s life meaning.
7 Solf J. Kimblee (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
The explosive alchemist Solf J. Kimblee is an enhanced version of Mr. 5, a vicious alchemist who can set off devastating explosions once he puts his palms together to complete his transmutation circle. Kimblee even thinks the sound of collapsing buildings is music to his ears, as he himself said in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
Kimblee will fight for whoever can give him fresh enemies to fight and buildings to destroy. If he ended up in the Grand Line, Captain Blackbeard would be Kimblee’s ideal new boss, who would encourage Kimblee to let loose and show the Grand Line what a real Boom-Boom Fruit looks like.
6 Galand (The Seven Deadly Sins)
The Ten Commandments were the main villain squad in The Seven Deadly Sins, and among them, the tall, armored Galand was the most vicious and aggressive of all. He wasn’t the group’s strongest member, but he would be the most willing to quit the Ten Commandments and join another team.
Like many brutal anime villains, Galand will only take orders from a boss who will support his aggressive behavior and give him enemies to fight. In One Piece‘s world, Captain Blackbeard fits the bill, and Galand would make a terrifying addition to Teach’s sinister pirate crew.
5 Yamori/Jason (Tokyo Ghoul)
Many ghouls in the seinen Tokyo Ghoul universe are solitary predators who hide behind masks and black leather outfits, but some of them do join street gangs such as Aogiri Tree, which Yamori belongs to. If ghouls got wiped out in Tokyo, then Yamori could flee to the Grand Line and start his sadistic career over.
Among all Grand Line pirate captains, Blackbeard would be the first to recruit the mighty Yamori and put his ghoulish power to work. Yamori’s kakuja kagune would feel like a bizarre new style of Zoan-type Devil Fruit, all without the penalty of never swimming.
4 Revy (Black Lagoon)
The mercenary Revy is most used to gun battles and motorized vehicles, so relocating to the Grand Line would take some adjustment. There, the antihero Revy would join any pirate crew that would accept her, so long as they pay well enough.
Revy values her privacy and freedom, as her scenes in Black Lagoon showed, so she wouldn’t object to joining Blackbeard, who’d be amazed at her gunplay. Revy would demand that Blackbeard and his men leave her alone during their adventures, and in return, Revy could easily plunder Grand Line islands at gunpoint to fund Blackbeard’s cause.
3 Mugen (Samurai Champloo)
Mugen is a ruthless anime antihero in Samurai Champloo, and if it meant living a free life, he would join practically any anime team, including the Blackbeard Pirates. Mugen wouldn’t care much about Devil Fruits or becoming an Emperor, but joining Blackbeard’s crew still has its perks.
Mugen would have fun freely wandering the world with his thuggish new crew, fighting and plundering as they please while staying one step ahead of the Navy. Mugen is often bored and feels aimless, so joining this pirate crew would keep him entertained for many months and cheer him up.
2 Akaza (Demon Slayer)
The twelve Moons are all loyal to their boss Muzan Kibutsuji, but only barely. Muzan and his Moons don’t seem to appreciate each other that much in Demon Slayer, and Akaza only stays on board so he can find strong rivals to fight under Muzan’s command, such as Kyojuro Rengoku.
If Akaza gets fed up with Muzan, he could join the Blackbeard Pirates and satisfy his lust for battle on the Grand Line. He could lead a nighttime squad of raiders under Blackbeard’s command and enjoy fighting the most worthy Devil Fruit users the Grand Line has to offer.
1 Thorkell (Vinland Saga)
In Vinland Saga’s world, the brutish warrior Thorkell is a mercenary to the last. He fights not for a cause, but for the sheer pleasure of combat, and he’ll join whichever side enables his warlike nature the most. Raiding and plundering are fun too, but combat is a better prize than any treasure chest.
If Thorkell wandered the Grand Line, he would only fight for a captain like Blackbeard, who would support him and give him plenty of worthy foes to fight. Thorkell is a Viking, too, meaning he already has experience with raiding coastal settlements and getting away with it.
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