The characters from One Piece are so popular that they even have a small cameo appearance in other series. Even in The Walking Dead, a Straw Hat pirate appears for a few seconds.
What kind of appearance is that? At first glance, One Piece and The Walking Dead don’t have much in common. One is an anime from Japan where pirates chase their dreams. The other is set in a post-apocalyptic scenario where humans must protect themselves from zombies.
Nevertheless, a viewer of The Walking Dead has now discovered a scene where one of the Straw Hat pirates from Luffy’s crew can be seen. He shares the scene on Reddit where Daryl and Carol ride past a building on a motorcycle:
If you look closely, you can spot an image of Usopp as graffiti on the wall. Usopp is only visible for a few seconds, but many users in the comments are excited to see one of the Straw Hat pirates in The Walking Dead.
Unfortunately, our own research could not determine from which episode the clip is exactly taken. It is possible that Usopp’s appearance does not happen in the main series but in the spin-off The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.
Here you can find a trailer for The Walking Dead:
Usopp’s appearance in The Walking Dead fits with an arc from One Piece
What do fans say about this? There are several comments connecting One Piece and The Walking Dead. The outbreak of the zombie virus in the series is said to have occurred in 2010. At the same time, there was a time jump in the One Piece manga. Thus, the graffiti would have been created shortly before the apocalypse.
Additionally, many commenters joke that the Thriller Bark arc and The Walking Dead are also related. This arc is the only section in One Piece where zombies appear.
User ConsistentSearch7995 even suggests that the Thriller Bark arc is actually the basis for the story of The Walking Dead. We can be glad that Luffy and his crew made it off the island safely and not like many characters from The Walking Dead who fall victim to the virus.
On Thriller Bark, there were funny zombies that Luffy and his friends encountered. They almost became part of the crew. However, One Piece has so many more quirky characters that we don’t want to withhold from you: One Piece: These are the craziest 8 characters that Luffy wanted in his crew
