Anime Lectio: NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE

                                                           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. The only device you need is the one you use for this blog.

3. Deep Breathing - Open yourself to God’s Presence

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. 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 people you

know and don't know are like signs of God’s presence. 

4. 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 do you do to make yourself happy?  Does it involve making other people happy too?  What if it does, but you don't really care if it does or not?  What else is involved in this happiness, like various things you can be addicted to (drugs, beauty, etc.)?  The answers to these questions, as well as others, can be seen in the series NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE.

5. Brief and written explanation of the anime

Pay attention to how the brief and written explanation of the anime seen on this blog, as well as seeing the anime for yourself since I think that's better than any explanation, might “speak” to you or shed light on the things that have been on your minds.

A girl ends up becoming the most popular internet streamer due to her seeming interest in making other people happy.  This is only a seeming interest because she doesn't really care about making other people happy as long as she can keep doing what she wants to do in order to keep making herself happy.  A group of girls who are also popular internet streamers plan to defeat the girl who is currently the most popular internet streamer, even though this girl and this group don't exactly hate each other.  Before the group's challenge to the girl, they (the group of girls and the one girl) all experience their own individual struggles, which includes learning more about each of them and why they are doing what they are doing for their own happiness based on what they want.  This also includes another girl who is a friend of the group, as well as other people who are influenced by these online streamers.  The most popular internet streamer is defeated by this group, but this girl makes a comeback, even though they all give up their internet streaming lives in order to do other things that make them happy.

6.  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.

NEEDY GIRL OVERDOSE is definitely a series that makes you ask a lot of questions, as well as a series that you need to see for yourself in order to understand it. While I don't think my description of it is bad, there is a lot that happens that I think involves happiness due to how it ends, which is basically a speech about finding your own happiness. Throughout the series, there were several ways that the characters would do that, which involved using the internet somehow, reasons for doing that, and why, but ultimately I think this is really about finding your own happiness. Finding your own happiness makes you think about a lot of things, like questions about life and death (the references to the classic anime film Night on the Galactic Railroad helps with that - didn't expect that either, but didn't know what to expect here). However, finding it is important and thinking about it helps in order to know what you are looking for, as well as why.

7. 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 find our own happiness, starting with what we are looking for, as well as why.