Anime Lectio: Quality Assurance in Another World

                                                          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. 

I've always thought quality is more important than quantity.  Doing a lot of things, or wanting to do a lot of things, is meaningless to me unless you can do it well, meaning do it consistently (and the same thing consistently too in order to work at it), which also happens to be something that the headmaster of the school talked with his class of freshmen girls, that I help with, about in class today.  This can also be seen in the anime series Quality Assurance 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.

A dedicated game debugger gets trapped in a video game that he is assigned to work on debugging with the help of other game debuggers.  The dedicated game debugger ends up helping a village in the game with their various problems due to defects, but ends up having one of the girls in the village interested in helping him.  Together, they go on a quest to figure out how he can get out of the game, figuring that continuing to fix the bugs in the game by fixing all of them is the solution. However, most of the other game debuggers aren't interested in figuring that out and are more interested in using their debugging to cause more problems for the game, as well as the people in it, to their own advantage. With the help of some other game debuggers they meet on their quest, the dedicated game debugger and village girl, who eventually gets possessed by the game's AI that comes out to help sometimes, continue their quest of trying to get the game debuggers out of the game.

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 name of this anime series is Quality Assurance in Another World, not Quantity Assurance in Another World. Assuring the quantity of something can be done by simply seeing and knowing that a lot is happening that you supposedly want, but assuring the quality of this quantity can only happen by actually doing what you see, know, and supposedly want. Saying you want to do something is one thing. Doing what you want to do is another. This difference can be seen in your reactions to what is going on around you, like wanting to use your abilities to help people, including yourself, or just using your abilities to help yourself, which can be seen in various ways in the anime, not just in real life, like in my description of what happened in the girls class today that I help with given earlier. Other examples would include the differences between qualitative and quantitative research (research based on what you just see vs. research based on what you see in the research documents that you use for your own research) and the differences between teaching styles. Understanding the differences between quality and quantity 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 difference between quality and quantity.