Anime Lectio: Remake Our Life

                                                              1. Why do Anime Lectio? 

Anime Lectio is a time for us to stop and take a breath. Between work, activities, family life, and social media, our minds are always moving. We rarely take time to contemplate and ask, why am I watching this anime? What’s the point of all this? And, how is this making me feel? 

2. Put away all distractions 

(phones, work, etc.)

We are so enslaved to things that stimulate our minds. Let this be a moment for us to free our minds, look inside of ourselves, and be at peace.

3. Deep Breathing

Take several deep breaths. Let your mind relax. If you’ve had any questions, desires, or struggles that you’ve been hiding or stuffing away, let them rise up to the surface. 

4. Open yourself to God’s Presence

Remember God places all our thoughts and desires inside of us, and He uses them to draw us closer to Himself. God gives us a community to help us understand who we are and what He is calling us to do. The faces of other people you know and don't know are like signs of God’s presence.  

5. Think About What’s on Your Mind in Relation to the Anime

Think about what’s been on your mind in relation to the anime.  The following is an example of such thoughts written by me.

Being able to change my life by doing what I could've done instead of what I did do is something that I think about a lot and not just lately either. I tend to do this a lot of the time since I like to overthink and have an active imagination without doing much about it.

6. Brief and written explanation of the anime

Pay attention to how the brief and written explanation of the anime seen on this blog, or seeing the anime for yourself since that's better than any explanation, might “speak” to you or shed light on the things that have been on your minds.

Remake Our Life is an anime series about a guy who wishes he could go back in the past and make a decision he should have made about what college to go to. Instead of going to a college to learn more about his interest in the arts, he went to a traditional university and ended up with a typical office job, which doesn't turn out well for him. This wish does come true for him somehow and he gets a chance to do what he wants to do by enrolling in the arts college he got accepted to. It starts out well, but then he realizes that what he wanted to do wasn't what was supposed to happen, or even ultimately what he wanted. This leads to him going back again after creating a different future in order to try remaking the lives of people he wanted to help again, not just his own life (I think a girl he meets in the past helps him go back again - did she do it the first time too?).

7. Reflect on the anime

Has this brief and written explanation of the anime, or seeing the anime, shed any light on what's been on your mind? The following is an example of a reflection on the anime from me.

What interests me most about the anime series Remake Our Life is how remaking your life influences the lives of others. One person wanted to change his life by changing a past decision, which he was able to do, in order to be part of something that he was interested in. However, this interest of his is what caused something else to happen due to wanting to have control over everything. Remaking your life is not only about you, but also about who else is involved in your life. What you may want for yourself may not be the best thing for others and/or even yourself, which proves to be the case for the character who does go back in time. Changing your life by making better decisions for yourself can be a good thing depending on what the change is for and what the decisions are, which involves how it impacts others, both people you know and/or live with and people you don't know.

8. Final Prayer

Please voice any prayer intentions for friends, family, or people around the world that relate to this anime. The following is an example written by me.

Let us pray for an understanding that remaking our life not only involves remaking our own lives, but also the lives of others that we both know and don't know, an understanding of the decisions we do make, including why we make them instead of others, and an understanding of overthinking, an active imagination, and using both to help ourselves and others.