Compress
Line
Line verb - Make a mark or lines on a surface.
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- Judging by the first film, it looks like the fans' fears were dead-on, as characters in the movie will spout endless amounts of exposition, line after line, in an effort to compress an entire season into one film.
Source: Compressed Adaptation - What's more, this was the arc the crew got their Log Pose (Grand Compress) from which originally was given to them by Laboon's keeper who fills them in on how the Grand Line works.
Source: Bowdlerise / Anime and Manga - Instead, the Compress just falls onto the deck of the Merry and some of the crew state they have knowledge of the Grand Line gotten while growing up (with clips reused from previous episodes to showcase this).
Source: Bowdlerise / Anime and Manga
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