Random Greatest Anime Speeches (17 items)

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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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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