Anime Lectio: DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION

                                                           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 is important to you in this world?  A better way to ask this question may be to focus on who is important to you in this world instead of what is important to you in this world.  While certain things may actually be, or seem to be, important depending on what is happening, who it's happening to, what they think about what is happening, as well as other things, like why it's happening in the first place, this thinking depends on the person.  This is still true if the same thing is affecting different people who all live in the same place.  An interesting example of this can be seen in the anime series DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION. 

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.

This series focuses on two young girls trying to live their lives in a way they want to live it while an alien invasion is going on around them.  While other people are concerned about this alien invasion, thinking it's a threat, which is handled in various ways by various groups of people, the two young girls try to live their lives as if this alien invasion isn't happening with their families and friends (mostly friends), despite one of these friends being one of the alien invaders in a human body.  This alien invader in a human body asks for the help of the two young girls to help the alien invaders since they aren't actually a threat and have come back to Earth since they originally lived there.  However, this help is too much for these girls as it involves using devices they can't really handle, which leads to the death of one of them, the other creating a new world where her dead friend is still alive so she can still be with her, and the end of the world (or at least part of it - the ending's kind of confusing).

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.

Not everyone is the same. It's our differences that make even the same thing interesting. These differences are seen in our reactions to whatever is happening, even if what is happening is the same for everyone else. For example, some people may see an alien invasion as a threat even if it really isn't due to not really understanding what is going on and why it's going on. Even the same people who see this alien invasion as a threat may do different things to stop this threat. And others may try to stop the people from trying to stop the threat that's not an actual threat. And still others may try to ignore all of this, even if they get involved due to someone from the supposed threat itself that wants to help his own people in his own way. The world is more than a place we live in. Several different people live in it and different ideas of what their world, as well as things like what's happening in it, is/should be.

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 a mutual understanding of what the world is, even if this understanding is agreeing to disagree about it.