Anime Lectio: Skip and Loafer Season One

                                                            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. 

The point of any relationship doesn't have to involve two people ending up as boyfriend and girlfriend (or something like that), but it should involve people in the relationship helping each other.  When two people don't end up dating in anime, especially if the anime is a romance anime of some kind, then people tend to not like it and/or miss the point of the anime.  An example of such an anime with a helping relationship, as well as helping relationships, which is also important to remember, can be seen in the first season of the anime series Skip and Loafer.

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 Skip and Loafer starts off with a girl from the country who has big dreams, so she decides to go to a high school in the city to focus more on her studies and live with an aunt in the city while doing that. As someone with big dreams who is serious about her studies, she tends to overthink things, which causes problems for her, like being late for her first day of school. While rushing to get to school, she meets someone else who is also late to school, but isn't worried about being late since he tends to be pretty relaxed most of the time. Since he's familiar with how to get to the school they are going to, he helps her get there, which also leads to other adventures involving their lives, other friends, and doing things with these other friends.

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.

Throughout the anime series Skip and Loafer, it seems like the overthinking girl from the country and the pretty relaxed guy from the city would end up dating, but instead, they not only end up helping each other, but also other people, mainly people at their school. Not only is it important to help each other in a relationship, since that's what a relationship that does involve dating should involve, but also to help others while also helping each other. It's not just about the two people who are dating, or seem to be, but also the other people that they interact with. Helping just one other person is meaningless without helping other people too and by helping other people, you can also care more about one other person you want to be with in a way that you are not with others.

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 care about, and help, everyone, not just one person in a certain way if we want to do that or not.