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Grand Line, here we come!

Basically, our mantra for season two is scale it all up.

This season, it's all bigger, it's all crazier.

And of course, we have the amazing stunt team back.

That's our cue!

Obviously, we've got to make our Straw Hats

step up one more notch when they go into the Grand Line.

This season, the fights are a lot larger,

and far more complicated than they were last year.

Choreography, it was a lot more intense.

Stunt-wise, I learned a lot last season,

and I'm just way more confident and way more comfortable this time.

This season, there is added expectation and pressure.

-The stunt team's bigger. -Two, one.

The stunts are bigger.

I may be a little bigger too.

The first season was about training and learning how to do all the stunts.

And then I kept training from there

because this season was more about how much more creative can we get?

One of the best parts of our show is that we all do most of our own stunts.

It just makes it feel more real.

The entire cast stepped up from an acrobatic perspective.

We've got everyone involved doing a lot of gymnastics training.

Luffy, of course, he loves to fight.

And I've been training in acrobatics for a year now,

so we've been trying to add more of that into the show.

I bring a backflip now.

Stunt rigging is a huge part of the show.

It just looks so cool when you've got the cast in the wire doing the gag

and making it look phenomenal.

Everyone, hang on!

One of my favorite things to film this season was Reverse Mountain.

At the highest point of the Merry, it was roughly at a 45-degree angle.

So all the crew members were trying just to stay on their feet,

and so were we.

We spent days on the cliff face

where the wind turbines would just blast us

with fake snow as we were climbing.

We'd be like, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, okay. We can do it."

And we'd keep climbing.

Home Run Hide-a-Bat!

This season, we've got so many new characters

with the most outrageous powers.

That makes for really interesting action.

The peacock slashers are Miss Wednesday's weapon of choice.

I think they're very sleek and sexy.

I don't have a martial arts background, but I do dance,

and so I really approached it from, "It's just choreography."

It's like learning a dance.

Not going anywhere.

Smoker's devil fruit power is that he can turn into and control smoke.

It does make doing stunts kind of hard because while everyone else is like…

…I'm just like…

And it's all just gonna be an after effect.

For Tashigi, I wanted to make the character my own,

but I had never worked with a sword before this project.

Tashigi did extensive training with Koji, our sword master.

She learned a very precise style of fighting. That's really incredible.

It was great fun to see her up against Zoro.

And then we have a fight in the saloon.

Gonna need more than two to take me down.

We knew going into the season that one of the big things

fans would want to see is Zoro's fight in Whiskey Peak.

We built this saloon set with multiple layers,

and as Zoro's taking out a batch of agents,

he's ascending higher and higher.

It's the biggest sequence we've done. Mackenyu just embraced that challenge.

He kills 100 assassins in about ten minutes.

We knew there'd be fans who'd be pausing their screens and saying,

"Okay, that was only 97."

"That was only 98."

Okay, we have to do this right.

Good sword.

It was a monumentous task to get it done.

We spent about a month choreo-ing the sequence in our stage.

Then we've got a pre-vis team where we actually use the film cameras itself

to pre-vis the sequence with our stunt doubles

to make sure it works in the space.

During a short period, we mastered so much choreography.

Mackenyu is a brilliant fighter. Brilliant and wise.

So everything you see on screen he does himself.

Ninety more to go.

Major props to the stunt teams.

The cast are all such talented fighters and athletes.

Everybody looks incredible.