Anime Lectio: Delicious in Dungeon Season 1

                                                            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. 

What would you do to save someone you care about?  Even if other people didn't want to help you anymore in order to do that, even if you had to do something you shouldn't do in order to do that, and even if you had to do something difficult in order to do that again, would you do all of that?  Answers to these questions can be seen in the first season of the anime series Delicious in Dungeon.

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.

After one of their party members is eaten by a dragon, some members of this party decide to stay in the dungeon in order to save this party member before she's digested while others decide to leave the dungeon to figure out what to do next.  Before the party members who remain in the dungeon decide to go back into the depths of the dungeon again to hopefully save their party member who was eaten by a dragon, they gain a new party member who knows what's edible in the dungeon so they don't have to leave for food, which saves them time.  After several crazy adventures in the dungeon, they manage to find the dragon that ate the party member that was eaten by the dragon and kill the dragon, but this party member is already digested since nothing but her bones remain.  The other mage in the party, with the approval of her other party members, decides to bring her back with dark magic, which works temporarily, but eventually causes the lower half of the one that was eaten to transform into a dragon.  After more crazy adventures of trying to find her, which involve friends both new and old, they learn that in order to save the one that was eaten that was restored by dark magic, they have to eat the lower half of her body, but they have to find her, as well as other friends to most likely help with this, in order to do that (all of this, and most likely other things too, will most likely happen in the second season).

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.

The first season of Delicious in Dungeon offers its own answers to the questions posed in the reflection before an explanation of the anime is given here. What's also important is the party members who stay in the dungeon in order to save the party member who was eaten. One who stays is the brother of the party member who was eaten, another is a friend of the one who was eaten, and the other is one who supports the others in his own ways. What also helps with this is meeting up with someone who not only knows what's edible in the dungeon, but knows a lot about the dungeon itself due to living in it, in order to help them. While a lot of their adventures do involve the edible things that they find in the dungeon, as well as cooking it and eating it, they are also there to save someone they care about.

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 also help and save others that we care about, which should be everybody, depending on how we can, as well as think we can, do that.