Anime Lectio: ZatsuTabi - That's Journey

                                                          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. 

When people go on some sort of journey, there is usually a reason for the journey in terms of getting to a particular destination.  But what happens when people go on some sort of journey for a different reason, like to figure out what they are doing?  An answer to this question can be seen in the series ZatsuTabi - That's Journey.

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 struggling manga artist is having trouble with her work in terms of figuring out how to improve it, so she decides to go on journeys in order to figure things out, letting her social media followers determine the destination.  When going on these journeys, she ends up going to locations based on the destination determined by her social media followers, which is also influenced by if she goes on these journeys with friends or on her own.  After doing this for a while, she gets the inspiration she needs to work on a manga that has to do with traveling and this inspiration is why she plans to continue these journeys.

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.

Going on some sort of journey is like going on a vacation, which I happen to be on now with my family. There is a particular destination for this vacation and the point of it is to spend time together. I started going on these vacations recently instead of just spending time in the monastery during one of our school breaks at the time. While I do like spending time with my family, I also like to figure out what I am doing, which is something that everyone should do no matter how they do it.

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 use the journeys in our lives, no matter how they happen, to figure out what we are doing and/or want to do too/instead.