After all these years, Gator is dead… again… kind of. The cheesy joke that became one of the biggest cult hits of recent memory has not had so much as a teaser image since the release of the franchise’s latest…
It all started when Stony Brook University’s Black Lives Matter movement stood with Mizzou in Nov. 2015. Stony Brook students requested a platform to voice their concerns on campus diversity issues. The school’s administration complied by providing a space for…
After its initial 52 episode run 12 years ago, the final season of “Samurai Jack” began on March 11. After such a long wait, one question begs answering: was the original series actually that good, or are people being blinded…
The first anime of 2017 are well underway, and all have had a chance for their respective openings to demonstrate the show’s best qualities and draw an audience to watch it. So all of the openings can be compared to…
Nowadays, the “Bridge to Nowhere” is something of a myth, a story told to freshmen about how absurd the campus they call home is. When new students are in their first semester or so, they are told about how Stony…
The tunnels underneath the academic mall at Stony Brook University have an almost mythical status. Most students seem to know something about them, but almost no one knows anything concrete. Some of the more popular myths are that any…
This past Sunday, “Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu” (“Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World-”) ended its 25 episode run as the highest rated anime television show of 2016 on MyAnimeList. The show features Subaru Natsuki, a 17-year-old shut-in NEET (Not…
Assassination Classroom is an anime about an octopus creature deciding to teach a group of Japanese middle schoolers precious lessons across various subjects like math, history and as the title suggests, assassination. They are being taught to kill because they…
At the start of every season, a new batch of anime begins. Most use opening credits and title sequences to get the attention of as many viewers as possible. With the current anime season well underway, all of the shows…