

I mean, yeah I would like to listen to Naruto's speeches and his 5000
flashbacks with that swing in front of the Academy, but does the villain want
to listen also? They wait for the characters to stop talking or planning or
whatever to attack. I don't really get it from the villain's viewpoint because
it's better to just get on with it, right?


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Why do anime villains always wait for the whole duration of whatever character is giving the speech before attacking?


Anime comes from manga. And manga (and comics) as a story-telling medium is
limited to panels. Each panel can contain a drawing accompanied by texts. The
drawing can only show a "slice" of an event in time, since showing the entire
sequence isn't feasible. For example, a hero running while talking can be
depicted in a single panel with a lengthy dialog.

Since anime, like Naruto, are adaptation of the manga, these scenes are
translated into animation with little divergence from the original material.
And these types of scenes, where the enemy would wait for you to stop talking,
flashbacks, or finished transforming, becomes more obvious and may look
ridiculous.


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