Anime Lectio: The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten

                                                             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.  

Helping people is the right thing to do, even if it involves two people helping each other who are male and female.  A romantic relationship doesn't have to be the goal if the purpose of this relationship is to help each other, which is what the purpose of every relationship should be.  This also assumes things like when a boy and girl are together a lot, it means they really like each other in a romantic way.  This can be seen in a lot of ways, like in the anime series The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten. 

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 The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten starts off when a boy helps a girl out in the rain by talking with her and bringing her back where she lives. She happens to not only live in the same apartment building as the boy, but they also live next door to each other. The girl wants to be friends with the boy since she feels she should also be helping him, so she comes over to his house frequently to cook for him, since she was already doing that for him at her place next door, as well as to help keep his place clean. The boy and the girl also go to school together, where the girl is popular and well liked while the boy isn't, so their classmates wouldn't understand their relationship, which is why they keep their relationship a secret there until the end of the anime. However, some of their friends not only know about their relationship, but actually see it for themselves and support it, which helps in keeping their relationship a secret until the end of the anime.

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.

Helping people isn't just the right thing to do and should be the purpose of every relationship, which would depend on the relationship, but it's something that should be done without others wondering why it's really happening. By this I mean are people helping each other because they want to or are they doing it just to get something out of it? Getting something out of the relationship is a good thing since that's what makes relationships useful, but getting something out of the relationship shouldn't be the only purpose of the relationship. A relationship with more than one purpose can get romantic, which is why it isn't surprising that the relationship between the boy and the girl in the anime series The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten ends up as a romantic relationship, but there can be several purposes of a relationship. These purposes are up to the people in the relationship.

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 the purposes of our relationships, as well as the people in these relationships.