>>539104525
It's the best thing about interface in Masa actually. It allows you to look at the face of a talker while also seeing the participants of the conversation with your peripheral gaze because they usually stand on the opposites of each-other.
As opposed to modern slop-vns that can only ever exploit the bottom text bar to force you to look at girl's pantsu while you read.
Stay Night also did this and very well at that. You want to both read text and see action at the same time in chuuniges.