The premise of these reviews is simple: watch the first episode of a series and then immediately sit down to record a review mini-podcast. The reviews are five- to ten-minutes long and entirely off the cuff. As always we only review new shows (so no sequels or continuations) and try to avoid anything that just looks outright awful. Here is first one of the new season:
Listen – Episode 1 of Battle Spirits: Sword Eyes from Sunrise with the opening “Wild Card” by Hiroshi Tada.
Reverse Thieves 
It sounds like this show’s concept was generated via mad libs: It’s a ____ style show, but it’s set in _____ and the characters ride on _____ and the main character has the same origin as ______.
Maybe it was created by the same manatees who write “Family Guy” jokes on “South Park?”
I think that the people who make the TCG anime just have to mix it up a bit to stay sane.
– Hisui