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Anime NYC : Hear from international stars Mackenyu (KAMEN RIDER, RUROUNI KENSHIN, NETFLIX’S ONE PIECE) and Taz Skylar (WARHEADS, GASSED UP, NETFLIX’S ONE PIECE) as they discuss their journey in the worlds of stage, game, and screen.
“The first season set up the promise of entering the Grand Line,” co-showrunner, executive producer, and writer Joe Tracz tells Tudum. “We’re going to make good on that promise,” he says of Season 2, which is titled “ONE PIECE: Into the Grand Line“.
In the extraordinary adventure, Luffy (played by Iñaki Godoy), Nami (Emily Rudd), Zoro (Mackenyu), Usopp (Jacob Romero), and Sanji (Taz Skylar) journey through an unpredictable realm where they’ll encounter bizarre islands and a host of deadly new adversaries from Baroque Works, the dangerous and formidable secret society of assassins that was teased in Season 1 (RIP Mr. 7).
“Every place they stop in the Grand Line is going to test one of the Straw Hats in a unique way,” Tracz notes. “They’re going to learn that if they’re going to fulfill their dreams, they have to have each other’s backs.”
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Mackenyu
Enemies beware: Zoro is a lethal pirate hunter on a mission to fulfill a promise to become the world’s greatest swordsman. To do so, he must defeat the best of the best.
At the end of Season 1, Zoro joined his Straw Hats crewmates around a barrel and pledged to achieve his dreams with them by his side. In Season 2, he’s determined to see it through. “Zoro is stronger, sharper, and more powerful,” Mackenyu says. “He has become a lot more dangerous and deadly.”
“Assassin’s Creed Shadows“, “Pacific Rim: Uprising“, “The Fullmetal Alchemist” film series, “Knights of the Zodiac.”
Taz Skylar
Sanji, the honorable chef of the crew, is as charming and flirtatious as Laboon is large. He dreams of finding the All Blue, said to be the only place in the world where fish from all four seas — East Blue, West Blue, North Blue, and South Blue — can be found.
“He’s very individualist in the sense that he does his own thing,” Skylar says. Season 2 is “very much about him learning to exist within the team [and] rely on people, which is something I don’t think comes very naturally to him.”
“Cleaner“, “Gassed Up“, “The Lazarus Project“, “Agatha Raisin“, “Boiling Point“, “The Deal”, “Villain“, “Lie Low“, “The Kill Team.”
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