Dunno how I feel about CG characters, especially black/inu. I'm into these designs though. Momotaro looks great! Plus I'm curious what a modern Sentai written by Inoue is like.

Consider me, I don't know, cautiously... interested? Or something.

and here is the first combination- "Don ZenkaiOh!"

It still blows my mind that DonBrothers is a continuation of Zenkaiger. This is like In Space to Lost Galaxy on how LG started the borrowed Sentai tradition of a new team each series going forward but elements of In Space where in it.

I thought I was hardcore into tokusatsu, but... how do you know off by heart who the main writer of all these Kamen Rider shows are?! I remember Yasuko Kobayashi did Ryuki(which I didn't mind the Rider Time by the way), and Inoue was apparently a bit big in Kiva, but I don't think I do analyse production aspects of toku to that degree funnily enough!

Yeah me too, I think that's a great idea.

It thematically fits Zenkaiger's world-theme to have a Sentai member show up from a place that is new to the audience, and I like that at least some characters will make a few appearances in the new show as well.

Ugh, having a combo with the Little Tykes Tyrannosaurus means that it's combos with the actual team will be limited.

I hope there's a mecha combination that doesn't combine with any Zenkai garbage and contains elements from the DonBrother team.

It?s mostly Inoue and Kobayashi I remember the writimg credits for due to their both A) being very prolific and hence influential and B) their trademarks and running themes being very noticeable in each of their shows. There?s certain story beats, types of characters and humour etc they go for that makes it obvious to me when I?m watching their work so it stands out in my head. Aside from those I usually remember writing credits in current/recent shows since they come up a lot in discussion

There's a certain Rider-like aspect to DonBrothers. Example: Ex-Aid and Ghost team-up and both obtain forms similar to each other by using a power-up based on their respective gimmicks, allowing last year's gimmick to maintain a sense of relevancy.

I also think that Pandemic-related distribution woes are a contributing factor in continuing the Sentai Gear theme. Can't say if the gimmick is actually good and well received in terms of sales.

I think a lot of people know Inoue because he wrote episodes for 9/10 of the shows in the original Heisei run of Kuuga-Decade, head writing 3 of those nine shows and writing anywhere from a couple to a handful of episodes for every other one except Den-O.

So I think it's difficult to not notice him eventually, he's just absurdly prolific

While I can't say I'm a big fan if him personally, his level of influence on Rider is almost unrivaled, Shirakura may be the only person who's influenced Heisei Rider more lol

I think Kobayashi might have made a similar impact when it comes to what tropes have stuck around, but idk if anyone has written as much modern Rider content as Inoue has, look up his writing credits in the Rider wiki it's almost unbelievable how much of original Heisei this guy wrote