Some fans have taken this explanation and ran with it, creating videos which show how the SSJ-Goku vs Frieza fight might look like in 'real time.' In truth, it largely has to do with all of the posing, grunting, powering up, and voice over that is added to pad about 10 pages of comic into a 30 minute episode, since the show was decided to have one episode per chapter of manga made, even when there isn't enough content to fill up the time.

The implication is that every major fight beyond a certain point would be too fast for the human eye. A lot of this sort of thing on the show is implicitly explained as the fight being slowed down so that the audience can actually follow it.he just made up the 'five minutes left' thing to not look like an idiot. Lampshaded later by the fact that Frieza flat-out admits he screwed up the whole 'destroying Namek' thing, and it was supposed to explode instantly. Ridiculously, one episode actually says 'two minutes' at the beginning and 'one minute' at the end. During the final fight between Goku and Freeza during the Namek saga, the planet Namek was minutes away from collapse for 10 episodes or 9 chapters.So his thoughts actually happen 'instantly'. In the anime at least the inner expository of Light is justified, as every other movement is shown to stop. Factoring in all ecstatic collapses, dramatic slow-motion door-opening, and lengthy yet vital inner expository monologues, the forty seconds in the Death Note finale are inflated by approximately 850%.The concept of events happening at extremely high speed is rather stretched. Just the scenes with Ichigo using the mask already take up about a minute, so even assuming everything's simultaneous doesn't explain it. In episode 139 of Bleach (which was titled 'Ichigo vs Grimmjow, the 11 Second Battle'), Ichigo can use his Hollow mask and the subsequent power up for 11 seconds.This can be handwaved by arguing that part of the fight scene (since rarely are there splitscreens showing the fight and the timer) started when or before the last shot of the timer was shown, thus, the fight and the countdown are happening at the same time chronologically but are shown separately to build tension and suspense (an editing technique known as 'cross-cutting' ).

When the camera goes back, the thing will mysteriously have farther to fall than it did before the cut, just enough to allow the characters to make a narrow escape. The shot cuts just before it hits to people trying to stop it or get out the way. Another common visual equivalent is the falling object or descending gate which is accelerating down at something. Sometimes a character will just yell that 'There's only ten seconds left!' and the heroes will prevent the calamity 25 seconds later.ДЄ variation is a fuse or Powder Trail which burns slower or faster when the camera's not on it. This doesn't have to involve an actually displayed timer. This version, at least, can occasionally be explained by the Law of Conservation of Detail В— the action we saw isn't necessarily all the action that took place. Sometimes the reverse effect takes place В— the character has a good forty seconds to stop or get out of the way of the destruction, then six seconds later the timer starts counting down from ten, which is a fairly cheap way of ratcheting up the suspense. This can be done subtly, to stretch things out a bit without the audience really noticing, but in most cases it's pretty obvious В— there have been times, in fact, when literally no time passes at all while the countdown's out of shot. This phenomenon tends to occur especially as a countdown starts approaching zero.ДЇor instance, the large digital readout on a Time Bomb may show thirty seconds to detonation, but after cutting to and from a climactic two-minute fight between The Hero and the Big Bad, the clock somehow has ten seconds left for The Hero to defuse it before it goes off. Any kind of stated time limit or countdown in fiction seems to know when it's Being Watched, and will cheat accordingly for maximum drama.

Anime countdowns