Wait… Are We Actually Watching Dragon Ball Super Fights in Extreme Slow Motion?”
Okay, so this thought literally kept me up last night have you ever really sat down and wondered about the absolutely INSANE time difference in Dragon Ball Super, because when I actually started calculating it, we’re basically watching everything happen in super slow motion and it completely blew my mind once I realized what’s actually going on in their world versus what we’re seeing unfold on our screens week after week!
The Tournament of Power Time Mystery
What really messed with my head was remembering how the Tournament of Power is supposed to be only 48 minutes in their world, but somehow we got 35 whole episodes out of it, and that’s not even mentioning the Goku vs Jiren fights where these absolute monsters are literally throwing punches and energy blasts at the speed of light while we’re sitting here watching every single movement! The moment that completely broke my brain was when the Grand Priest announces “only 8 minutes remain” and then I’m sitting there counting episodes on my fingers as we proceed to watch them duke it out for MANY more episodes, which means those 8 minutes are being stretched out into hours of content for us viewers who are desperately trying to follow along with these godlike beings moving at speeds our brains can’t even comprehend.
Looking Back at Dragon Ball Z Speed
This actually clicked for me when I was rewatching Dragon Ball Z and saw that scene where Future Trunks shows up and absolutely obliterates both Frieza and his father King Cold in what’s literally an instant, just slicing through them like they’re nothing before anyone can even blink – I literally had to pause and rewind because I thought I missed something! That’s when it hit me that the same exact thing is happening for all the episodes of Dragon Ball Super where everything we’re watching must be happening at these absolutely bonkers speeds that would make The Flash look like he’s standing still!
Vegeta’s Reality Check About Time
The thing that really drove this home for me was this moment where Vegeta literally says to the destroyer Belmod that they’ve been given only 48 minutes and that’s all they get, and I remember sitting there doing the math they’ve surpassed their limits not once, not twice, but MULTIPLE times while in our real-world time I’m sitting through around 35 episodes watching them power up again and again! I actually laughed out loud when I realized these warriors are pushing past their biological and spiritual limits over and over in what’s basically less than an hour for them, breaking through power ceilings that shouldn’t even be possible to break, while I’m here on my couch watching it unfold over literal months of weekly episodes and feeling every single second of their struggle!
The Funny Side of It All
I couldn’t stop laughing when this finally clicked because we’re essentially watching the most intense, most epic, most ridiculously over-the-top slow-motion replay ever created in the history of animation, and most of us don’t even realize it while we’re watching!
Conclusion
When I really sat down and analyzed what’s happening, it blew my mind that Dragon Ball Super is literally showing us fights where punches that happen in mere nanoseconds are being stretched out into full 20-minute episodes, and we’re watching these warriors who move faster than light itself in such extreme slow motion that our regular human eyes and brains can actually process and follow the action without our heads exploding from trying to comprehend their true speed. Next time I watch an episode, I can’t unsee it now – what takes us 20 minutes to watch probably happened in less than a heartbeat in their universe, and these characters are having full conversations, making strategic decisions, and experiencing emotional breakthroughs all within timeframes that would make a hummingbird’s wing beat look like slow motion!
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