Anime Lectio: The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to be Archenemies

                                                        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 happens when you fall in love with someone romantically that is supposedly your archenemy?  Is it still possible to be the archenemy of who you've fallen in love with?  If there were only two people involved in this situation, then that would be one thing.  However, if both of these people had other friends fighting with them that would be another and an example of a situation like this can be seen in the series The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to be Archenemies.

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 lieutenant of an evil organization ends up falling in love romantically with the magical girl that this evil organization fights for some reason.  In order to prove to his friends in the evil organization that he also wants to fight the magical girl, he ends up doing most of this fighting on his own, even though they never really fight, as least not in usual ways.  

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.

What interests me most about this series is the title of it - The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to be Archenemies.  If they used to be archenemies, then why are they still fighting each other, even if they really aren't fighting each other?  If they still care about their friends, especially since they still care about fighting each other for real (the evil organization fighting the magical girl and vice versa), then do they (the magical girl and evil lieutenant) really love each other?  This series makes you think about what loving other people means.  There are different ways of loving other people, as seen in this series between the evil lieutenant and the magical girl, the evil lieutenant and his friends, and the magical girl and her friends, and therefore, different ways of understanding this.  

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 different ways of loving people and how we love them based on who we are.