Anime Lectio: Call of the Night 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.

Do you ever feel like there's more, or even something else, that you could be doing, or maybe even want to be doing, with your life?  Does this feeling cause you to do things that others don't understand?  This is an important feeling for everyone in some way and can be seen in different ways.  An example of this can be seen in the first two seasons of the anime series Call of the Night.

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.

The anime series Call of the Night starts off with a young man who is interested in going out at night to see what it's like and because he's not interested in what he does during the day, which is go to school. He also doesn't really understand the concepts of love and friendship either, which is why he doesn't like school and stops going so he can live his life at night in order to learn how to become a vampire by hanging out with the female one he becomes friends with. Even though he wants to be a vampire, he learns that he has to fall in love with the vampire he becomes friends with. At first, he thinks he has time to make this happen, but he eventually learns that he has a time limit of one year for them to fall in love with each other. Despite this, as well as other obstacles, like friends not understanding this decision (but still supporting it) and questioning what being a vampire really means after seeing and hearing other perspectives about it, he resolves to fall in love with the vampire he becomes friends with within a year.

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.

If you don't do enough during the day, then the night offers more chances for you to do more. The night also offers other chances for you to do not only more, but things you couldn't do during the day, like hang out with people at a different time and be a different person because of this different time. If others don't understand this, but you not only do, but can also explain it, then it shouldn't be a problem as long as you can explain why you are doing something different.

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 understand what other people do and that these other people can also understand what they do.