Anime Lectio: The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen - From Villainess to Savior

                                                          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. 

As I've mentioned before on this blog with my post about the series Dragonball Z (Dragonball too - one of my first posts on this blog), pride isn't just a bad, or insolent, thing.  It can also be good, or pardonable, depending on what it's like, how it can be seen, and why it can be seen that way.  Besides the series Dragonball Z, the differences between good, or pardonable, pride and bad, or insolent, pride can be seen in the series The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen - From Villainess to Savior.

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.

When a girl is reincarnated as a character in her favorite video game, she decides that she will change what this character does in the game since what this character does eventually gets her killed. This change is to stop using her ability to take advantage of others for her own sake and use her ability to help people instead. Despite the girl not being sure that this will ultimately change anything and tells people that she helps to kill her if she stops helping people and goes back to being evil, this change of helping people instead of hurting them seems to be a good thing that everyone benefits from in their own ways based on who they are and how they are helped.

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's really interesting to me about the series The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen - From Villainess to Savior is that the video game character that the girl is reincarnated as is named Pride. The two different types of pride can be seen in the same person, but not at the same time. Due to an experience of the evil Pride as a character in a video game that she played, the girl reincarnated as Pride decides to be a good version of Pride. This could be because the evil Pride ultimately gets killed for using her power for her own, or evil, purposes (in my Dragonball Z reflection, I link pride with power - I guess that can happen here too), but whatever the reason, the reincarnated Pride is good. Pride, whether it's a person or the feeling, can be good or bad. It's ultimately up to us how we use, and/or, see pride.

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 how we use, and/or, see pride.