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I know that he can move very quickly (and even instantly). That's why when
freeza says there are 5 minutes left till the planet explodes it didn't bother
me that those 5 minutes took 11 episodes. Because of their high speed they can
move super quickly and many episodes were needed to show everything. What I
don't undestand is how they were able to give an enormous amount of speeches
in those 5 minutes.


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Does Goku possess super quick talking skill?


In the Dragonball series, in one of the tournaments, Krillin was fighting
Master Roshi. They had a clash, which happened in an instant. No one saw what
happened, so they acted the scene out in explaining in detail what happened.
It included several attacks, and even a game of rock paper scissors. I don't
know if its was in the manga or not, but it is solid evidence showing their
speed. Even way back then, when large boulders were a challenge to deal with,
they were still fast enough to, in an instant, play a game of rock paper
scissors and know who won and lost, in the middle of throwing several attacks.

Later on in the series, we see higher speed fighting. Spectators see numerous
shock waves filling their vision, each several meters apart. The fighters are
attacking/defending in one place, then distance themselves and clash again
dozens of meters apart numerous times in a very short period of time. This
kind of speed is a higher leveled version of the Rock paper scissors earlier.

With such things as evidence, we can say it is very possible that they can
talk at high speed when necessary. Sometimes, they do talk as they are
clashing, though we only ever see that from their perspective, so we cant say
for sure if they slowed down or not to talk. So while they at least somewhat
can talk at a higher speed thanks to their insane speed and ability to
comprehend everything while going at such speeds, they generally don't, and we
don't have any solid evidence if they truly can.

But, there are other factors at play here. First off, Anime, even in the
middle of canon fights, can and usually do throw in filler. They extend the
fights to make the show go on longer, filling in more minutes with less story.
There are numerous examples where people are exhausted in the middle of a
fight, and yet later in the same fight that is still going on, they magically
recovered, because of such filler. Some of that Frieza fight in the anime was
filler, or canon scenes extended to fill more time.

Secondly, due to their vast speed, their clashes can be significantly faster
than portrayed. Some times, they even count the seconds, and yet each time the
count goes down can not only be greater than a second between them, but that
time gap can even vary. When we are viewing the fights from the perspective of
Goku, we cant possibly tell how much it has been slowed down for us to
comprehend.

A third thing, specific to this case, Frieza held back, which caused the 5
minutes in the first place

<http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Frieza>

> In frustration, Frieza sends a Death Ball into the core of the planet,
> starting a chain reaction that would destroy Namek in five minutes
> (revealing immediately afterwards that he held back too much of his power
> for the Death Ball to be a complete success).

Its not unreasonable that his estimation was off by a few minutes due to his
fear of being on the planet as it explodes, with an opponent he doesn't know
he can win against. The wiki summary of the 5 minutes is also quite short,
half the size of this answer, not a lot actually happened in those 5 minutes.


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