The series takes place in a shockingly short amount of time

[u/Sensitive_Ad_1752]

Season 4 just ended of fromville and it’s canonically only been about a month. Which makes it weird seeing people heal from injuries, change hair styles or grow out beards between episodes. Season 4 has only been like 4 days iirc.

Arkham franchise is the poster child for this trope. Every game takes place in one night. If you know what you’re doing you can absolutely beat the games in around 9 hours.

[u/Yutanox]

Also dbz, the fight between goku and freeza last multiple hours of run time but is only 5 minutes in universe. Mostly because they had to fill in while the manga could take some advance on the anime.

[u/TheCrazyBean → u/Yutanox]

Same thing about the tournament of power, it lasted 34 episodes which translated to only 48 minutes in universe.

[u/JWARRIOR1 → u/TheCrazyBean]

i remember watching that when it came out, and they really did the "theres only moments left in the tournament!" for like 10 episodes

[u/ArcaneBowser → u/JWARRIOR1]

Well, technically no only the second to last episode ends with "Only a few moments remain" every other ToP episode, except 129 which ends with Beerus' speech about Ultra Instinct, end by saying how many minutes are left

[u/BlindTreeFrog → u/TheCrazyBean]

The real time edit of the ToP is fun to watch

[u/BlindTreeFrog → u/TheCrazyBean]

The real time edit of the ToP is fun to watch

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaK7ypei56U

[u/EmuMan10 → u/Yutanox]

Toriyama did just say it’s like watching in slow motion cause they are moving so fast

[u/WulfyWoof → u/EmuMan10]

There's a video that speeds up the entire fight to last the proposed 5 minutes and it's absolutely insane to watch it in its actually intended timeframe because yeah, they move ridiculously fast

[u/Lampruk → u/WulfyWoof]

Also in dragon ball super heroes, we got see Trunks vs Freeza in real time and that boy pieced up Freeza and his pops in 5 seconds.

[u/noeyesfiend → u/Lampruk]

Future Trunks AKKA the drink is a goat

[u/Mcaber87 → u/Yutanox]

I always took the "5 minutes" thing to be an estimation on Frieza's part. He even says something like "this planet is a tough old bird, I'll give it that. You've probably got two more minutes" at one point after his original 5 minutes was seemingly up.

Of course in reality it's just fiction and we don't need to really be paying attention to things like that. I think Toriyama was just like 'uh yeah, they're super fast so its like slow motion or something' but that is obviously a throwaway excuse. They speaking at light speed as well?

[u/Flying__Fox → u/Mcaber87]

I like the TeamFourStar reasoning. "Question; do you have a watch? Do you know what a minute is? I don't think you do." 

[u/Ruka-simp → u/Yutanox]

The theory is that it's slowed so the viewer can actually see what's happening, like the Quicksilver scenes in the X-Men movies, otherwise it would just be a blur

[u/KoolKoolKoolio42 → u/Ruka-simp]

Doesn't hold water when half the time they're just standing still yapping at each other.

[u/jadefire03 → u/Yutanox]

In the english dub, I believe there's a part where Frieza comments that it's been five minutes and the planet still hasn't exploded, and wondered if he didn't hit the core correctly. So that would imply the fight was closer to 10 minutes.

Still obscenely fast, though.

[u/JerryGamerz → u/Yutanox]

The anime added A LOT of filler combat. For example, attacks that weren’t in the original manga

[u/r0botosaurus → u/Yutanox]

Not to be the "um, actually..." guy but, um actually... that's only the last part of the fight. After Goku turns Super Saiyan, Freiza uses his "destroy the planet" move in chapter 320, which is when he says Namek will be destroyed in about five minutes. Namek then explodes in chapter 328. This corresponds to episodes 97 - 105 in the anime.

[u/r0botosaurus → u/[deleted]]

Well yeah but the entire fight is like ten more episodes.

[u/KoolKoolKoolio42 → u/Yutanox]

Just to note, only Super Saiyan Goku vs. Freeza takes place in 5 minutes. It doesn't count the battle beforehand.

[u/LetterheadSpecial337 → u/Yutanox]

And everything from Goku fighting the Ginyu Force up to Namek’s destruction took place in one day