Anime Lectio: No Longer Allowed in Another World 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. 

Writing someone's story should be based on what you think about them.  What you think about them should be determined and/or changed based on what you find out about their story based on talking with them, people who know them in a good way, and even people who know them in a not so good way.  Your own personality can also influence this, as well as the people around you helping you with this.  An interesting example of this can be seen in the first season of the series No Longer Allowed in Another World. 

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.

Before a couple can commit suicide together, they end up in another world without each other after getting hit by a truck.  Before finding each other again, the male author in the couple, who is actually based on an actual author in our history, ends up as a hero from another world with powers that can help the world he's in now according to the priestess/female bishop who summoned him.  At first, he doesn't seem like he can do anything different and gets by with what he usually does, as well as with the help of the priestess/female bishop who summoned him and a cat girl that he happens to meet (and eventually a kid who tries to fight with his father's sword).  However, he finds out that he has the ability to send people who were summoned to this other world back to where they came from or to power people up based on their story and what he writes about it due to what he thinks.  Despite his personality of still being suicidal and not understanding or even caring about what's going on around him, unless it interests him, his writing ability makes him the savior of this other world that can defeat the other people summoned to this world from another like him, including his love interest that he tried to kill himself with.

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.

Power in writing is usually seen in a figurative way, meaning it can influence change based on what is written, as well as why it's written, who it's written for, and other things. It can also influence any ability in the sense of what is written about it, like a review of the ability based on what's seen of it. Personalities involved in this ability, whether it be the person with the ability or the people that are influenced by this ability in any way, are also important. In the first season, and likely all seasons, of the series No Longer Allowed in Another World, this power isn't just seen in this figurative sense as well, but also in the literal one. Whether it's figurative or literal, the power of writing, as well as other things involved in it like various personalities, is important.

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 influence of the power of writing and what goes into it, like various personalities.