A fair bit of Anime is adapted from manga, its print cousin. There are good things and bad about this. The trouble is that the narrative style of manga derives from literature, where the amount of space you spend on something is proportional to how important it is, while the narrative style of Anime, like all of television, derives (even after all the tricks of time compression and such are considered) from how long things actually take. As a result, characters in Anime derived from manga tend to talk a lot. A whole lot. At totally inappropriate times. Examples of Inaction Sequence include: