Sensei Sensibility

  Welcome to Sensei Sensibility!  You  are the hungry mind yearning to devour quality Anime -  I  am the (questionably) knowledgeable  Sensei , more than happy to satiate your televisual appetite. "The sky and the earth are far apart - but the people are close together." The pace at which we now live - or perhaps "just exist" is more appropriate? - has amplified to a terrifying degree. Hustle culture is king making down-time "on-time", and everything we do is under the surreal veil of a vaguely dystopian atmosphere. If you didn't laugh - you'd cry. The perfect (temporary) antidote to this is the quaint manga-turned-anime  Non Non Biyori (Season 1)  /  Non Non Biyori (Season 2 ). Non Non Biyori focuses on the day-to-day adventures of five young pupils at Asahigaoka Branch School. These youngsters are unique in that they are the only pupils in the entire school, such is the sheer smallness of village. Things are mildly shook up (and I use the...

Welcome to Sensei Sensibility!  You  are the hungry mind yearning to devour quality Asian cinema;  I  am the (questionably) knowledgeable  Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. Who doesn't love an overly long anime title that refuses to trip elegantly off the tongue, but awkwardly stumbles out in the wrong order, complete with loo roll stuck to its shoe. Such is the fate of light-novel-now-anime The Tunnel To Summer, The Exit of Goodbyes. Gloomy but handsome Kaoru Tono (Oji Suzuki) is just one in a long line of awkward anime teens who decide to tamper with the very fabric of existence in order to escape their grim reality. Kaoru has begun fleeing his troubled homelife and traversing ever further into the secluded Urashima Tunnel. Local legend has it that the further you go into this mysterious, ethereal tunnel, the closer you are to regaining a lost heart's desire. As Kaoru is harbouring a dark secret pertaining to his tragic past, he has...

Welcome to Sensei Sensibility!  You  are the hungry mind yearning to devour quality Asian cinema;  I  am the (questionably) knowledgeable  Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. This is your captain speaking, buckle your seatbelts as we land in bumbling college newbie Tamaki Tsuru's world.  Fresh from a less-than-ideal high school experience, Tamaki is determined that college will be the new start she desperately longs for.  Our defiantly optimistic and somewhat klutzy heroine has it all mapped out. She's going to join an extra-curricular society, be Belle of the Ball, meet the love of her life at said society group and live happily ever after. Aw.  And by " aw " I mean, "Aw shit! Watch what you're doing, you fool! You're about to send a tennis ball soaring straight through an expensive piece of aviation equipment belonging to the Aviation Society, thus landing yourself in crippling repairs related debt that you'll spend the...