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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.
Sentence: Free to Go
Listen – First impressions of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable from David Productions. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.
Listen – First impressions of Space Patrol Luluco from Studio Trigger. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.
Listen – First impressions of My Hero Academia from Bones. It is streaming on Hulu and Funimation.
Listen – First impressions of Joker Game from Production I.G. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.
Listen – First impressions of Bungou Stray Dogs from Studio Deen. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.
Listen – First impressions of Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto from Studio Deen. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.
Listen – First impressions of Tanaka-kun is Always Listless from Silver Link. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.
Listen – First impressions of Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou from Studio Deen. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.
Listen – First impressions of Macross Delta from Satelite.
Sentence: On Parole
Listen – First impressions of The Lost Village from Diomedia. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.
Listen – First impressions of Kabenari of the Iron Fortress from Wit. It is streaming on Amazon Prime.
Listen – First impressions of Kiznaiver from Studio Trigger. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.
Sentence: Lock ‘Em Up and Throw Away the Key
Listen – First impressions of Ace Attorney from A-1 Pictures. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.
Listen – First impressions of Bakuon!! from TMS Entertainment. It is streaming on Crunchyroll.
Listen – First impressions of Endride from Brain’s Base. It is streaming on Funimation.
Listen – First impression of Kumamiko from Kinema Citrus. It is streaming on Funimation.
Reverse Thieves 
I followed the Bungo Stray Dogs manga for a while and did quite enjoy it, but I haven’t read it in ages for some reason , so the start of the anime was a good occassion for me to pick up from where I had left it.
The characters (and the powers) aren’t really that strongly linked to the actual persons, though there are some neat references. The suicide-thing of Dazai in Bungo Stray Dogs makes a lot more sense if you realize that the real Dazai had tried to commit suicide like four times.
The series is based on ‘classic’ writers, but they designed three ‘modern’ characters as part of a marketing campaign two, three years ago. So Dan Brown does not actually appear in the series. Though they did turn the other two promotion characters of Yukito Ayatsuji (Another, The Decagon House Murders) and Natsuhiko Kyogoku (Summer of the Ubume) into a book earlier this year, so perhaps in the future…
About the KumaMiko episode: Some kind of Grizzly punishment? Really? That was a pretty un-bear-able pun.
I just felt a tremor in the force as Kate blamed me for this comment existing in the first place. I guess my bad puns have now infected the listeners.
– Alain
I had zero idea that these characters wee based on authors; a benefit of not reading descriptions beforehand.
Now that I know this, there will be much pausing for an internet search