Anime Lectio: Urusei Yatsura (2022)

                                                           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.  

Relationships are important for everyone no matter who they are, what they want, and how they get what they want.  What also makes relationships different for everyone, but still important for everyone, are how these relationships start, why they start, and where they go.  Interesting examples of this are usually seen in romance anime and anime with romance in it, but one of these examples is the recent remake of the anime series Urusei Yatsura.

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 recent remake of the anime series Urusei Yatsura starts off with aliens invading Earth and will agree to stop the invasion if an Earthling of the choice of the alien leader can catch his daughter by the horns on her head. The Earthling of his choice happens to be an average boy who is known to be a womanizer. Despite the fact that the alien girl can fly, the boy manages to catch her after getting motivated by his girlfriend by telling him that she will marry him if he wins. However, this motivation is misunderstood as the boy marrying the alien girl, which the alien girl accepts, but the boy doesn't, which leads to a lot of crazy adventures involving several of their friends, both new and old.

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.

I haven't seen the original version of the anime series Urusei Yatsura and besides the fact that the original series is a lot longer than the remake, I don't know the differences between the two versions. What I do know, however, is that relationships are important in both versions. In certain ways, relationships are important in every anime, even if the relationships are seen in interesting ways, like in the remake of the anime series Urusei Yatsura and most likely in the original as well since the only difference I know between them is that the original is longer than the remake.

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 of the relationships in our lives, both the ones we know of and the ones we don't know of or see differently from others