Anime Lectio: Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions Season Two

                                                            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. 

Just because you are related to someone who is and/or was a criminal doesn't mean that you are one too.  What makes this interesting is if you are also related to someone who is and/or was a detective and you have the skills that make you an ideal detective.  However, even if you are related to both kinds of people and are only like one of these people, you will still be judged for what you do.  An example of this can be seen in the second season of Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions.

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.

In the course of solving murder mysteries that are linked to a criminal organization that the detective who solves them, with the help of his partner, has a history with, the detective and his partner are invited to some sort of resort with other guests for what seems like a dinner party. The guests, with the exception of the detective's partner, soon find out that they were all invited because they were all involved in a murder in the past that involved the detective's father. The guests are slowly killed off one by one based on the dinner menu and despite what the remaining guests think of the detective, due to his father being a criminal, he still helps them and figures out what is going on, which the criminal organization is aware of.

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.

Judging people shouldn't be based on who they are and were related to, but on what they do themselves. It's crazy to think that even though you clearly help people, the people who you help still criticize you for helping them because of who you are and/or were related to. This isn't just seen in this anime series, but also in many other examples in life, either directly in your own life or indirectly in what you see in your own life. Stopping such judgement is something that you can do by getting to know the person being judged so you can know them, and therefore judge them, based on what they do themselves, not on who they are and were.

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 judge people based on what they do themselves, not on who they are and were related to.