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In _Naruto_ , _Bleach_ , _One Piece_ , _Reborn_ , and possibly many others,
there are timeskips. Why are these so prevalent?


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Why do so many anime and manga have timeskips?


There can be many reasons, but I personally think that the most important one
is to give an opportunity for the characters and the story to develop to a new
phase.

Naruto is a perfect example for it. What did we have in the first part? We
learned about the main characters of the series, got acquainted with them, got
familiar with their personal stories. We also learned about who were the true
antogonists of the series. With that knowledge, we came to the time-skip.

But what was the situation before the time skip? All of the main characters
were too weak to really be able to compete with the antogonists. What if Pain
(spoiler)

> came to destroy Konoha in the end of the first season? What would happen?

The anime would probably have ended just there, that's what. By including a
time leap, the characters are given the opportunity to change, gain new
abilities and powers. A lot of background events might have happened. After
the time skip the series are almost reborn: while the readers/watchers already
know the personalities of the main characters well, they once again have no
idea of their abilities and powers, no idea about the current situation in the
world. It opens a lot of opportunities for the story developing. It's also so
easy to use, and to correct mistakes with. If you see there's a mismatch
somewhere in the story, you can always explain it by the events that happened
during the time leap! Very convenient, isn't it?


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Imagine having to wait through every day, every month, every year, or every
decade to see your main character grow up. That would be longer than one
piece. That's why we have time skips because the creator wants to give the
main character a new technique so they learn it offscreen. Or so that the
creator can have a little break. Maybe some other reason. I'm gonna name the
in-universe reasons why each main character I know has a timeskip.

  * Naruto - To get stronger with jiraiya.
  * Luffy - To learn haki and get stronger to protect his crew and dreams.
  * Ichigo - I don't remember.
  * Goku - He was getting stronger. (Is it a time skip if the show begins at the end of the time skip? If so then ...)
  * Meliodas - Protecting Britannia from demons and other threats.


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