Random Greatest Anime Speeches (17 items)

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  (#1) Koro-sensei

  • Assassination Classroom

  The best parts of Assassination Classroom are the parts where you can see how effective Korosensei is as a teacher. After speaking harshly to Karma, an arrogant boy with excellent grades, he explains why he chose to do so. His reasoning is sound, and it also shows how much he's thinking about the right teaching method for each child:

  I cut him down so he'll spring back up. The boy's enormously talented, there's no denying that. But he's a novice. He's not yet learned how to be worthy of that talent. He refuses to meet any challenge except on his own terms. He doesn't see the true value of competition. To a young person for whom everything comes easily, the pain of defeat can be a much needed wake-up call.

  On the surface the whole concept of exams may seem arbitrary, but deep down, it's not about grades, it's about rising to the occasion. It's about tasting the rapture an triumph and disgrace of failure. They go hand in hand you see. One is meaningless without the other. To win, one has to lose! The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.
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  (#2) Sora's Speech On Human Weakness - 'No Game No Life'

  When Sora and Shiro take the throne, they know that they have to inspire their people - but those people have no special powers, and feel that they stand little chance against their magical enemies. By emphasizing the power that comes from weakness, Sora rallies his kingdom:

  My beloved citizens... No, my fellow Imanity. We Imanity live in a world where [conflict] is forbidden. By the 10 pledges yet we lost again and again and now all we have left is Elchea, our last city.

  So I ask you now: Why is this? Is it because the last king failed? Because we are the lowest ranked race? Because we can’t use magic? Because we are fated to [perish], helpless? No! In the ancient [conflict], the gods, the elves, the warbeast, all the races fought and we fought among them and survived!

  Why is it that this whole continent was once ruled by humans? Is it because we are a species that specializes in [aggression]? We can’t use magic like the elves, nor are we physically strong like the warbeast nor do we have the longevity of the Flügel. Why were we able to rule this continent? Is it because we are master of [conflict]? I tell you it’s not! We fought and survived because we are weak! In every time, in every world, the strong polish their fangs while the weak polish their wisdom.

  Why are we in such danger now? Because the 10 pledges have broken the fangs of the strong, they have learned to polish their wisdom. The wisdom and strategies that we the weak, once monopolized. The power to survive. The strong have gained them all! And brought us to this state!

  Answer me this, everyone! Why do you bow your heads? I repeat, why do you bow your heads? We are the weak! We are the weak, just as we have always been! Yes, nothing has changed at all! The strong may imitate our weapons, but they will never master them! Because at the hearts of our weapons lies the cowardice born of almost humiliating weakness. This cowardice has given us the wisdom to escape from magic. This cowardice has given us the wisdom, born from learning, and the experience to predict the future itself!

  I say for the third time, we are the weak! We are the proud weak who throughout history, who torn out the throats of those who sit back and boast out their strength!

  We declare now that we are Elkia’s 205th king and queen. We hereby declare that we will live as the weak, fight as the weak, and as the weak we will destroy the strong! As we once were and as we will always be.

  Accept the fact that we are the weakest race. Accept that we are the weakest race, one that can become anything, because we are born with nothing!
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  (#3) L Lawliet

  • Death Note

  L Lawliet is always something of an enigma. In this surprisingly insightful speech, he tells the children of Wammy's House something deeply personal about himself:

  There are many types of monsters that scare me: monsters who cause trouble without showing themselves, monsters who [take] children, monsters who devour dreams, monsters who suck blood... and then, monsters who tell nothing but lies. Lying monsters are a real nuisance: They are much more cunning than others.

  They pose as humans even though they have no understanding of the human heart; they eat even though they've never experienced hunger; they study even though they have no interest in academics; they seek friendship even though they do not know how to love. If I were to encounter such monsters, I would likely be eaten by them... because in truth, I am that monster.

   
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  (#4) Vegeta

  • Dragon Ball Z Kai, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, Dragon Ball Z: Bojack Unbound, Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku, Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks, Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler, Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan, Plan to Destroy the Saiya-jin, Dragon Ball: Yo! Son Goku and His Friends Return!!, Dragon Ball

  When Goku is able to go Super Saiyan before Vegeta can, Vegeta's perceived inferiority nearly crushes him. But after training himself to the absolute limit, Vegeta stops caring about how he stacks up next to his rival. Only then is he able to surpass his own limits:

  Afraid not! There's more than one way to reach the goal. Yes... to each his own. My motivation was very different than Kakarot's. My motivation was to be the best. To be the greatest Saiyan alive, as I always have been... until Kakarot came into the picture that is. Kakarot's success was like a demon in my head. How could he be a Super Saiyan when I, the prince of all Saiyans, could not?

  The intensity of my training was maddening. At 450 times normal gravity, a basic training game became a desperate struggle for survival. Even the simplest moves required every ounce of willpower I had. I wasn't sure how long I could sustain the effort without breaking in two. It seemed like the only thing holding my body together was my one desire... to be better than Kakarot. At times, I thought I was losing my mind. Why couldn't I obtain what Kakarot had obtained? It didn't make sense. It was infuriating and it was my fury that kept me alive.

  I decided to continue my training in the solitude of space, where I would be unhindered by the distractions of the Earth, and when a violent electrical storm had erupted in the skies of the planet I was on, I welcomed it. It seemed fitting... like it was an outward manifestation of the storm that was raging inside of me. Then the meteors started coming down, but I was determined to survive and to protect my ship from destruction. It was my only way out, my only way out of the nightmarish heap of rubble. I thought I had everything under control, but then, the mother of all meteors seemed to appear out of nowhere to claim my ship and my life. Normally, it would have been child's play to blow up that rock, but after training at 450 times normal gravity for so long it took everything I had, and more! Then something just snapped, something inside of me.

  "No! No more! That's it! I don't care!" I didn't care anymore. I didn't care about being better than Kakarot. I didn't care about being a Super Saiyan. I didn't care if I lived. I didn't care about anything! And then... it happened. Yes, that's how it happened... That's how I became a Super Saiyan. The sleeper has awakened. I am the prince of all Saiyans once again!
   
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  (#5) Simon's Dig To The Heavens Speech - 'Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann'

  Until Kamina's tragic passing, Simon relies on him as a source of confidence and safety. With Kamina gone, he has to stand on his own two feet. In this short but soaring speech, he declares his personal power and independence:

  My bro is... gone! But he's right there on my back. And here in my heart! He lives on as a part of me! If you're gonna dig, dig to the heavens! No matter what's in my way, I won't stop. Once I've dug through, it means that I've won! Just who... do you think I am? I'm Simon! I'm not my bro! I'm me! Simon the Digger!
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  (#6) Eren Jaeger

  If you're fighting against giant man-eating monsters, it's important to stay motivated. Otherwise, it's all too easy to just lay down and perish. Eren Jaeger's rousing speech helps inspire others to fight for their lives:

  We’re born free. All of us. Free. Some don’t believe it, some try to take it away. To hell with them! Water like fire, mountains of ice, the whole bit. Lay your eyes on that, and you’ll know what freedom is, that it’s worth fighting for! Fight to live, risk it all for even a glimmer of real freedom! It doesn't matter what’s waiting outside the gate, or what comes in! It doesn't matter how cruel the world can be, or how unjust! Fight. Fight. Fight. FIGHT! FIGHT!!!
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  (#7) Reigen Arataka's Speech On Being Realistic - 'Mob Psycho 100'

  Reigen Arataka may not actually have psychic powers, but in this speech, he proves that having them is unnecessary when it comes to bringing about change. In his message, he verbally attacks the arrogance of the psychic villains who have been snatching children in an attempt to take over the world, while simultaneously showing that having powers is less important than living in reality:

  It's like you're a little kid with a knife or something. I can't bear to watch. What's with all that stuff on your forehead? And what's with these goofy things that look like shoulder pads? They're fashion accessories. They don't serve any real purpose. You guys just don't get it. No matter what kind of special powers you may have, you're still only human. No more, no less. It's the same for everybody. But somehow, you've all forgotten that. You're so addicted to your special powers you've developed tunnel vision. You want world domination but you haven't seen the world. No one's going to follow you knowing that. Don't make me laugh. First, get rid of those ridiculous shoulder pads and grow up. You too - you just want to escape from society, right? If you want to make it big, you have to live in reality. Consider that the starting point. 

  ...Think about who... you are for a second! You're just a cog in the population! Look, I'M a commoner, and I'm much more powerful than any of you will ever be! So tell me - what... does that make you?
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  (#8) Tohru Honda

  • Fruits Basket

  When someone has a problem, Tohru Honda is always ready with an inspiring metaphor. To make her point about people not being able to see their own good qualities, she uses rice balls:

  Maybe the reason you don't see it is that it's stuck to your back. What I mean is, a person's admiral qualities - they're just like, say, a pickled plum on a rice ball. In other words the person's the rice ball and the plum's stuck to their back. So, all over the world you can have rice balls made with all sorts of wonderful ingredients, all different flavors and shapes and colors, but since they'd be stuck in the middle of everyone's back, someone could have a plum and not even know it. They'd look at themselves and think "I'm so plain, nothing but white rice," even though it isn't true because, turn them around and, sure enough, there it is. There's the plum.

  So if someone is jealous of somebody else, well, then, it's probably because it's easier to see the plum on someone else's back than it is on your own. Yup. I can see it. I can see it very clearly, Kyo. You don't know it but you have a great big plum on your back.
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  (#9) Chiyuki's Speech On Human Nature - 'Death Parade'

  Death Parade is about Decim, an arbiter whose job is to decide whether humans get reincarnated or not after putting them through elaborate, and often cruel, tests. Chiyuki, a human temporarily assisting him, corrects a few of his misunderstandings about humanity in the following outburst:

  People aren't as complex as you think they are. They're simple, and they get sad or angry over simple things. That's how they are. They're quickly affected by the littlest things, and live without knowing where they're going to fall down. That's who people are!
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  (#10) Kazuma Kuwabara

  • Yu Yu Hakusho

  When Kuwabara walks off to temporarily perish at the hands of the powerful Toguro, he gives a manly speech about determination and grit that's hard not to be moved by:

  There's no stopping him. If I'm going to go now, I'm going to go charging at full speed! A mullberry is a tree, Kuwabara is a man - and I'll prove it. We all have to [perish] when our time comes, but if we do our duty, we don't got regrets! 
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  (#11) Akio Furukawa

  When Nagisa Furukawa expresses sadness over the idea that her parents had to give up their careers in order to take care of her, her father Akio lovingly denies that notion:

  A child's dream is their parents dream! You can make it come true for us! Don't you realize that our dream is to watch you live out your dream? Your mom and I didn't give up our dreams at all. Don't you get it, Nagisa? You ARE our dream. That's what being parents is all about. That's what being family is all about. If you get discouraged and give up now, then all our dreams [perish]!
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  (#12) Gintoki Sakata

  • Gintama, Gin Tama, Gintama: The Movie

  You wouldn't think that a speech about peeing yourself because you drank too much strawberry milk would be especially inspiring; it somehow is. Not because it has anything whatsoever to do with the subject at hand - convincing the other members of the Yorozuya to finish a seemingly impossible job - but because he's just so damn enthusiastic about it:

  Listen up! Let's say you drink too much strawberry milk, and have to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. But it's cold outside your bed. You don't want to get up, but the urge to urinate is just too strong! You make up your mind to go! You run to the bathroom, stand in front of the toilet, and let loose! You think that all your life has led to this moment! But then you realize: It isn't the bathroom - you're still in bed! That feeling of lukewarm wetness spreads like wildfire! But you don't stop! You can't stop! That's what I'm talking about! That's the truth of strawberry milk!
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  (#13) Tanya von Degurechaff Challenges God - 'Saga Of Tanya The Evil'

  Declaring war on God is probably the most badass speech a character can make. That's exactly Tanya von Degurechaff - a middle-aged man stuck in the body of a high-ranking female official - does in this speech:

  If there is a God who rules this world, it is a stern, solemn, and definitely a good being. A being that is far too great. God keeps forcing us to confront these cruel fates. As those were the rules of this world! Oh, God... I'll slice you into tiny pieces and feed you to the pigs! Our battlefield is no place for that piece of sh*t, God! I think it's time we took over God's work. We... will take God's place. Put the arrogant a**, God, out of a job! 
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  (#14) Charles Di Britannia

  • Code Geass

  In this stomach-churning speech, Charles zi Britannia - the ultimate villain of Code Geass - explains his motivation for taking over Japan, and demonstrates the callousness and cruelty that allowed him to misuse both his power and his own children:

  All men are not created equal. Some are born swifter afoot, some with greater beauty. Some are born into poverty; and others are born sick and feeble. Both in birth and in upbringing, in sheer scope of ability, every human is inherently different! Yes, that is why people discriminate against one another, which is why there is struggle, competition, and the unfaltering march of progress! Inequality is not wrong, equality is!

  What of the EU who made equality a right? Rabble politics by a popularity contest. The Chinese Federation with its equal distribution of wealth? A nation of lazy dullards. But not our beloved Britannia. We fight, we compete; evolution is continuous! Britannia alone moves forward; advancing steadily into the future. Even the [passing] of my son Clovis demonstrates Britannia’s unswerving commitment to progress! We will fight on, we shall struggle, compete, plunder, and dominate and in the end the future shall be ours! All Hail Britannia!
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  (#15) Akira Midousuji's Acceptance Speech - 'Yowamushi Pedal'

  After taking first place on the second day of the Inter-High, Akira Midousuji starts off his acceptance speech being gracious, before quickly devolving into cruelly mocking his opponents, and declaring his rigid views on winning and losing.

  Not only is this speech just plain alarming, it also highlight's Midousuji's fluctuating personality. In the previous episode, there's a flashback about his relationship with his mother, and he concludes that he had to be less rigid, not more. Yet, here he is, making this painfully amazing speech:

  Hello everyone. My name is Akira Midousuji. I have one thing to say about today's race. Gross! Oh, excuse me, there was something wrong with the mic. Today I was involved in a very close race at the end. I was able to keep racing until the end because of my fans, my teammates, the support staff, and because I had these two strong, strong rivals. Because I had rivals. They're lizards. Like lizards who crawl around and are quick to hide under rocks. Because these imbeciles on either side of me rode without courage or strength, I was able to win.

  Gross! Gross gross gross gross gross gross gross gross gross! What's wrong? You look nonchalant! And you look so formal! You look like you're not frustrated! Your fans are disappointed! You've got to show them a greater variety of expressions! Are you trying to show off? Aren't you actually seething with frustration? Don't you wish that you could do it over if you had a time machine? But too bad! You lost! There's no price you can pay to change the results.

  They just barely lost! But in road racing, it doesn't matter how close you were. It's not the difference, but the rank. One kilometer, ten kilometer, a centimeter, it's all the same. Road racing is win or lose! Topography! Strategy! Resourcefulness! Will! Strength! Decision-making ability! In every way, I was far superior to these pests! I proved that of all the people who raced today, I was the most right!

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