Yes, thank you. It's been a while since I talked about him, so I couldn't remember his name off hand.

I forgive him for Ohranger because he has so much greatness outside of it. Forgot he was part of Black. No wonder I love that show so much. :lol

I don't think Ohranger's badness was Sugimura's fault. If you look closely, every episode he wrote is pretty damn solid -- including 7 of the first 8 pre-retool episodes, the much-lauded episode 32, and the excellent finale arc. If I were to only take Sugimura's episodes into account, Ohranger would be a top-3 Sentai series... alas, most of the non-Sugimura episodes are real bad, which makes the series as a whole hard to recommend.

Other Sugimura gems: Metal Hero's Winspector and Solbrain series, and the 80s J-Drama Sukeban Deka. The guy is just the greatest, IMO. :lol

I would say Yasuko Kobayashi's is my favorite Super Sentai and Kamen Rider writer because she knew which direction she want for her show and I love she give a plot twist to any Red Ranger!

I think she starting to give a plot twist to Red Ranger around Timeranger

Timeranger:Tatsuya's descendant was the one who is responsible for release Londers Family and was a corrupt man

Shinkenger:Takeru wasn't lord at all! He was a decoy for Princess

Go-Busters:The reason of why Enter keep coming back because Hiromu was his SoulJar

ToQger:Right was consumed by DARKNESS by Emperor when they invade his home

Definitely Arakawa for me. Even if he hadn't written anything else, he did episode 37 of Dekaranger.

Sugimura is probably second. I'd put Inoue on there, too, but... Inoue.

Oh yeah, he definitely did the best episodes of Ohranger, but wasn't he the one in charge of the overall production? Either way, you are right about his episodes from the show being the best.

Never saw any of those Metal Hero series though. :-(

Whomever wrote Gekiranger.
Michiko Yokote? Sure.

Sugimura is my favorite Sentai writer. I'm not a big fan of Ohranger, but Zyu, Dai, and Kaku are some of my favorite shows. Sugimura does this wonderful job when creating a world, giving it a ton of lore and making it feel like the series you're watching is the culmination of that world's history. (my two favorite shows aren't by him but he has written more shows I loved than any other singular Sentai writer)

The producer was the one in charge. The writer's job is basically to take their idea and flesh it out. Ohranger is also a show that had a lot of real world issues going on with it, so sometimes it feels weird to judge it just the same as a show that wasn't meddled with.

Hiroshi Soda ( Writer from Goggle V to Fiveman)

Naruhisa Arakawa, the writer of Gokaiger and Dekaranger

One thing to consider about Ohranger though, is that to their defense the show fell victim to a series of unfortunate and unforeseeable domestic tragedies in 1995. This made it hard for them to move forward with their original direction making huge shifts in tone and last-minute adjustments, etc. to avoid negativity. Of course, this does not mean them maintaining the original vision would have equaled better ratings and success, but it is something to consider(the show might not have been perfect, but they did SUPER WELL in merch sales so I guess not all was lost :)).

Moving on, Kobayashi to me is the best still and Arakawa is a genius for writing episode 28 of Carranger.:rock: