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Often, you'll have heroes spend entire episodes [[Trash Talk|taunting each other]] mid-battle, [[Combat Commentator|explaining their last move in excruciating detail]], [[To the Pain|explaining their next move in even more excruciating detail]], [[Calling Your Attacks|calling their attacks]], building up their [[Battle Aura]], gathering their composure for the next attack, [[Asskicking Pose|adopting a silly pose]], reflecting on all the things they stand to lose if they don't win this one, or just [[Contemplate Our Navels|being randomly philosophical]].
This is a very distinctive anime variety of [[Padding]]. See also [[Overtook the Manga]], [[Sounding It Out]], [[Talking Is a Free Action]]. [[Talk to
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== [[Anime]] ==
* ''[[
* The all-time king of this sort of time-filler is ''[[
** The most infamous example of this is the 19-episode Goku vs Frieza fight, after which Frieza set the planet of Namek to self-destruct in "5 minutes", and they continue to fight on Namek for an additional 9.5 episodes. In fact, halfway through the battle a computer calculates how long until Namek explodes, and the answer is 3 minutes. I mean, Frieza powering up must have taken longer then that, and none of the previous statements were exaggerations - well, maybe the bit about Frieza powering up.
** Whenever there is a draw to choose placement in a tournament, expect at least five episodes. This also goes for the original ''Dragonball''.
** ''Dragonball Z's'' spending large amounts of time talking about doing things before actually doing them was lampshaded by [[Ax Crazy|Super Buu]] of all people, who gets increasingly pissed that everyone is just sitting around talking and waiting when he wants to fight. Amusingly, it was an invoked trope. They really were stalling for time in that instance.
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** Much less [[Egregious]] in the remake, ''[[Dragon Ball Kai]]'', though it still has its share of monologues. The amount of pointless chattering removed is truly amazing.
** Thanks to all this padding and every single episode of the dub explaining the [["Previously On..."|plot of the previous episode]] ''and'' [["On the Next..."|the next episode]] ([[Large Ham|Next time, on]] [[
* This trope describes half or more of the screen time of ''[[Bleach]]'', in which Ichigo and his friends invade the Soul Reaper citadel in agonizingly slow motion. One on one duels with the Soul Reaper officers often take up most of two and three episodes to complete, most of the time occupied in taunts, threats, warnings, and detailed explanations of each character's strengths and invincible spiritual powers.
** Not to mention cutting to a flashback just before the climax of the fight, in order to explain the bad guy's entire life story. Although, those flashbacks happened in the manga as well, just with slightly less detail.
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** Just watch/read the fight between Kurotsuchi and Szayel. Just... do it.
** Ironically, the series still [[Overtook the Manga]] and got caught in Fillerland- one of which was so stupidly made, it got the anime '''''cancelled'''''- right before the final arc began. [[And That's Terrible]].
* Another major offender is ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'', which is a show about a ([[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
** Incidentally, the average two-episode duel lasts for about six rounds, and no more than ten. This would take all of about five minutes to play in real life, without the endless exposition.
*** Assuming that the players use half the normal (8000) Life Points, and keep their turns under 30 seconds. Which isn't likely when both players are highly skilled (most of the characters on the show are described as being "the best") and are trying to predict every facedown card, and formulating an appropriate course of action for every possible annoying card.
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** This is given a [[Lampshade Hanging]] in [[The Movie]] which was told its entire story in 80 minutes, shorter then most large duels. When Yugi plays a very common card and explains its effect, Kaiba yells at him to shut up, insulted that Yugi thinks he needs it explained it to him.
** Additional Inaction Sequences come from the large number of flashbacks in episodes. To keep more casual viewers abreast of the plotline, any time a character references a prior event, the scene cuts to a brief flashback of the event. For example, count how many times during the Battle City arc Joey mentions his promise to Yugi, which always leads into the flashback of him saying, "It's true. We'll whip this Marik creep and his Rare Hunter goon squad so hard, they won't know what hit 'em." That same phrase every time.
** Its [[Oddly
* ''[[Naruto]]'', as you might expect from the [[Overtook the Manga|vast differences in the speed of the production of the anime and manga]], uses this often. Frequently during a fight (especially the [[Tournament Arc|Chunin Exam]] [[Arc]]), after someone uses a special technique of any kind, another character will spend the next
** During a section of the first battle between Kakashi and Zabuza, Naruto and Sasuke rescue Kakashi from Zabuza's hydro-prison technique. Zabuza swings his sword, which Kakashi blocks with his fist. For the next 5 minutes, they both stand in this posture, until Naruto completes explaining what they had just done to rescue Kakashi.
** It gets particularly bad with the first one or two story arcs of ''Shippuden'' where they went from covering about 1.5 chapters per episode, to about 1 chapter per episode, necessitating multiple stretches [[Leave the Camera Running|without even any dialogue]]. Luckily, when they actually started to pad it out with a lengthy [[Filler]] arc, they came back to more regular levels (or at least [[Padding|adding new scenes]] instead of nothing).
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** The talking instead of fighting is ludicrous from the get-go and only gets worse. The first few battles probably would've been over in seconds if someone was [[Combat Pragmatist|willing to just shoot]] instead of [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|angsting over taking the life of something that just tore a teammate limb from limb]]. One would think they would get used to it later, but [[It Never Gets Any Easier|no such luck]]. The sad and ironic part is that the above-mentioned scene in the Abridged series isn't that far off from what actually happened in the real anime...
*** Except they didn't bring up such philosophical arguments about it. It was more like "We should save him!" "But he's a Jerkass!" "But we should still save him!" "Well, it's too late for that now."
* ''[[
* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]!'' does this fairly frequently, to the extent of making the battle for the sky
* ''[[
* The ''[[
** The worst example of this in the ''[[One Piece]]'' anime was episode 377, which covered a single chapter that had no extended action sequences or was particularly dialogue heavy. The first full ten minutes were a recap of the previous episode and the rest of the episode was full of pans and zooms. However, the events being covered were very dramatic, and the artwork was movie-quality, so it's a bit more forgivable.
* The matches between big-name teams in ''[[Slam Dunk]]'' suffer from this too. Not only in the anime, where a single 40-minute match takes up around five 24-minute episodes (in average, being generous) to have a result, but ''also in the manga'', in which they take mostly ''three whole volumes'' from start to finish. While other things that usually would take much longer (such as Sakuragi spending one whole week improving on his shooting) are said and done in a single issue.
* ''[[Ninin ga Shinobuden]]'' parodies this, with Onsokumaru into a long series of flashbacks from the previous week of his life... to explain something that occurred five minutes earlier. All of the ninja wonder why he wasted their time.
* The final episode of ''[[The Sacred Blacksmith]]'' has [[Black Knight|the black-cloaked man]] wait for a minute while Cecilly gives Luke a motivational speech, and then another two minutes while Luke and Lisa [[Instant Runes|use magic]] to forge a sword to fight him. It's not as drastic as most other examples here, except that neither Luke nor Cecilly had a weapon at that point, and he seemed to have no compunction against killing them while they were unarmed.
* The anime ''[[Monster (
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