Anime Lectio: Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Seasons One and Two

                                                            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.  

Maturity is important in how you see and understand what's happening around you. Maturity is influenced by, and seen in, experiences of how you are raised, treat others, and how you are treated by others yourself. Maturity is also influenced by what you like to do, as well as how you like to do it, and how you respond to what happens in your life, whether it be what you want and need, just what you want, or just what you need.

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.

In the anime series Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, a middle-aged man who doesn't do much except stay in his home ends up being reborn in another world as an infant to a new family after being hit by a vehicle when saving kids from being hit by said vehicle. Even though he's reborn as an infant to a new family, he still has the mind of the middle-aged man he was before being reborn. As he grows up, he also learns that he's highly skilled in magic. This combination of his mind and magic leads him to have interesting adventures that influence his maturity.

7.  Reflect on the anime

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

What makes maturity in Mushoku Tensei interesting for the main character is that he has the mind of a middle-aged man from his previous life in the body of a growing boy in his new life. His maturity is influenced by what he liked to do in his old life, as well as experiences from that life, and what he does, or what he thinks he has to do, in his new life based on what happens to him in it. He sees things in his new life based on how he thinks as a middle-aged man from his previous life, but this thinking is also influenced by the people he interacts with in his new life. We all have a new life, and thinking from and in it, and a previous life, and thinking from and in it, to deal with in our own ways. How we deal with this balance of lives helps us figure out our maturity.

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 that we can figure out how to deal with the balance of our new lives and previous lives, as well as the thinking from and in them, in order to figure out our maturity.