Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1739368-20121205124732/@comment-24463764-20160815193831

the best explanation is to think like video editing software. Time is the play button by default and in this example Dio is a pause button where he can manipulate a single second of a scene, Kira is the skip back button where you go back a few seconds on the timeline, and Diavolo is the cut tool where he can delete moments in the time line and when you watch the video there will be a skip where he cut. I think the reason this is confusing is because manga is made up of still images instead of a video which would better demonstrate his power.