>>57337881I know that I can't really summarize trends that I've seen across multiple shows, or maybe I just didn't describe it well enough in the first place, but I really have to disagree
when I read old books from a long-running series, like '90s Star Wars EU books, they will do something like that, where characters spend the first few chapters of the book reiterating information to one another about their recent past adventures that each of them would already know -- to try to give an in-universe way of bringing any new readers up to speed
in writing, this is sometimes called "maid and butler dialogue"
but it has seemed to have disappeared from pretty much any Western books or other media by the late '90s or early 2000s because audiences finally went "this is dumb"
but in anime, the over-explaining that I'm talking about isn't done to recap past episodes or seasons
I honestly can't tell what, if anything, it's meant to clarify for the audience, since it's done all the time, where it seems completely unnecessary
like, for an example, two characters will be pinned down behind cover during a gunfight
the situation's dire
and they'll just start emptying their hearts to one another
they each start giving these long, carefully-worded, well-reasoned arguments as to why they should sacrifice themselves, out of nowhere
and one guy will give a long resume of all the stuff that the other has done for him, and how much it's meant to him, and that's why he just CAN'T let the other guy be the one to die here
and meanwhile the whole world has just gone into a holding pattern in order to facilitate this long, out-of-place, unnecessary, immersion-breaking conversation
the enemies who were shooting at them haven't noticed that their targets have been having a minutes-long conversation without shooting back this entire time, and that now might be a good chance to flank them
and the guys speaking haven't seemed at all concerned about that being a possibility this entire time
