NO FUCKING WAY.

I mean, his track record is spotty. But Jetman is my all time favorite Sentai. I am....beyond curious as hell now.

...This could end up a very polarizing series. From what I heard, the Kamen Rider series that Inoue wrote for had a very... divisive response.

I'm going to wait and see for now, but I'm a bit worried about how Donbrothers will end up.

Outside of Sentai, he wrote my favorite KR season, Faiz!

Bring on all the love triangles! I'm prepared!

According to the same article, Ryuta Tasaki will be returning as lead director, marking his first Sentai as lead director since Gingaman. Tasaki was also director for Agito, 555, and Kiva. So this series just became an early Heisei Rider reunion.

INOUE'S BACK??

OH YESSSSSSSSSSSS.

Even if it isn't good, it will not be boring.

This is maybe the only thing that will get me to try out this show. I am morbidly curious to see what Inoue writing a Sentai series in the 2020s looks like.

So Inoue is Head Writer, Shirakura is the producer...

Buckle up people! When Toshiki Inoue and Shinichiro Shirakura are BOTH involved in a show, this can give us three potential things:

-This will be a revolutionary work that will reshape the genre.

-This will be an absolute trash-fire of a show.

-Both

The staff news here is extremely exciting. It's worth noting Shirakura is apparently continuing as the chief producer, too, so this really is a team we haven't seen since Faiz. A lot of Inoue's recent smaller contributions to Rider have felt sort of half-hearted, but I have to imagine if he's accepting a head writer job again this long after Kiva, he probably has something in particular he wants to say or do with this series. And if Shirakura specifically talked Inoue into it, than he's probably got his own little scheme going here that'll be exciting to find out... even if it ends up being frustrating too.

(Although if the goal is simply to be even weirder than the scripts Koumura turned out for Zenkaiger, than, yeah, Inoue is maybe the only one who stands a chance of topping that madness.)

I hope Shirakura can reign in Inoue. A lot of Inoue's recent work on Rider isn't great. He wrote the worst two-parter of Zi-O, he wrote the awful Rider Time: Ryuki specials, and was responsible for the even worse Decade Vs Zi-O specials.

I'm extremely curious to see what this show looks like, because while he was pretty decent at writing like twenty years ago? Things have only went downhill for his writing, lest we forget his awful Faiz book as well.