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Why are there so many monologues in anime where characters seem to say their thoughts out loud to the nothing next to them. Its weird, unrealistic and slightly disturbing.

It's pretty common in anime. Sometimes it can be really stupid though. I recall it happening in Aquarion EVOL, something along the lines of:

Bad Guy A: *Thinking loudly/alone about secret plan mumbo jumble*
Bad Guy B: *Phases through floor* "What was that?"
Bad Guy A: "What? I didn't say anything about a secret plan."
Bad Guy B: "Oh, please continue."

Oh this too. Thinking out loud

I do it all the time, so how is it unrealisric?

Strange, I rarely ever find myself thinking out loud, maybe if I'm alone but normally never. Sometimes I might read loud enough that someone else in the room can hear me or let out an expression like "Wtf!" or "Omg!" but rarely thinking entire thoughts out loud.

I never think out loud either. Maybe I curse when no ones around but I wouldn't call that thinking xD My sister babbles to herself though all the time xD

They probably just can't be arsed to think of a more natural exposition.

Wait. I don't understand. I mean, first person narration can be tricky. Anime fails many times at dialogue, so failing at monologues is no surprise. But, are trying to tell me that all those characters that "speak" their thoughts say them out loud? I'm confused.

You do realize that some people simply think in sentences/phrases, right? I think -in my head, obviously- the same way the nameless protagonist from The Tatami Galaxy narrates. It's very difficult for me to do it any other way. If someone were to make an anime 'bout me, it would clearly need a VA to "narrate" my thoughts. Not that anyone would...

I don't think they're really supposed to be talking out loud, it's more of a way to show their thought process. Thought can go a lot faster than words so it seems like an eternity when you watch them blabber on, while in reality it's just a few seconds in their head.

I'm talking about the characters who narrate themselves, talk out loud what they are doing as if we cant already see that. Like for example: "Oh hey, this belongs to [someone], i am going to give it back to them." Its completely unnecessary 98% of the time and breaks the flow of the show.

Maybe they're talking to us? Lmfao.

I don't particularly remember an anime where this happened (out loud), but it's probably because the anime fails to convey the character's thoughts and emotions through his actions/reactions and so they need to be said out loud (whether it's him actually speaking or just thinking).

Are you nitpicking on the fact that these characters are actually speaking the words out loud, or would it be fine if it the lips don't move and we just hear the inner voice?

Saying/thinking blatantly obvious things can be useful for some viewers that either can't follow events well, are coming back to a series after a long hiatus or people that are just tuning in at that very moment to a particular show.

Also works for comedy a lot of the time. Like a tsundere's post-tsuntsun reflection time or something.

It is a pretty common means revealing character traits, plot information, etc. The "To Be, or Not To Be" soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet[/] is a classic example. It's really not so different than using a narrator. Expecting realism in anime is what is "slightly disturbing".

Ano Natsu did this as well I think. Pretty sure its just for the comedy factor and like what someone already mentioned, opens up plot information, character traits etc.

thinking to urself is fine

monologue in front of ur enemy is retarded

e.g. guy 1 sets up a trap for guy 2
guy 2 falls into the trap and suddenly realizes hes been tricked so he explains the whole story to guy 1 telling him what he did what the fuck is that srsly

and theres too much talking in most anime fights too so

Thinking out loud is unusual? Well I guess its nice to know I am strange in another way..

This.

I talk a lot more when I'm alone than when there's someone else in the room with me.

Gosh. Every new topic is a troll topic.

I think the answer to this is a combination of several of the answers already given. Basically when shows do this they are externalizing what is usually an internal process for the benefit of the viewer. For some viewers verbal cues can help them follow events more easily. In small does it's not a bad thing but it can obviously overdone, at which point it becomes a lazy expositional crutch as was pointed out earlier.

I think it's a stylistic thing and as long as the blocks of exposition are kept easily digestible I don't mind it. It only becomes a problem when shows do more telling than showing which can be kind of insulting to the viewer because at some point it feels like it becomes "we are pointing everything out because we don't think you are smart enough to get it otherwise."

Or at least that's how I see it.

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