Takaaki Utsunomiya? Love it. Hopefully that means the show is as stylish as Gokaiger and Shinkenger.

But I have to say I'm disappointed by the appointment of Yasuko Kobayashi.

I mean, I like Kobayashi. But while her most recent shows -- Shinkenger, OOOs, and Go-Busters -- have some great arcs, interesting characters, and really cool ideas, all of them experience serious slumps that account for about half of their respective series. I hope that won't be the case with Tokkyuger -- that Kobayashi will give us something that's been as consistently involving as Kyoryuger -- but I'm concerned.

Toei's interesting choice of Urobuchi for Gaim raised my expectations that they'd go in a similarly unexpected direction for Tokkyuger.

This just feels so safe.

Edit: Just saw she was the head writer for the Attack on Titan anime. Hopes officially up.

That's a big part of it for me as well. The Akibaranger suits look more "Official". ;)

That's probably the point. Sentai is hemorrhaging viewers and Toei's not going to try to rock the boat too much.

Then why the shitty suits?

Which is funny because Den-O is one of my least favorites of her. Her best work to date is still TimeRanger and Ryuki, followed by Gingaman, OOO, and Sailor Moon. Then comes Shinkenger. And the less said about Go-Buster the better.

And then there is Attack on Titan, which is completely over hyped.

And that is my problem with Sentai recently. They just play it safe these days. I like Kyoryuger, but it is playing it safe. The last two took risks and did something new, Kyoryuger has not done such. Go-Buster could have been a really unique series, but played everything safe after the first 8 episodes.

As long as she's not gonna make Den-O 2 out of it... We had trains before and Kobayashi wrote it. Oh, the irony. I like Kobayashi's writing in general, especially for OOO and Shinkenger (and of course, PGSM), but Den-O wasn't really one of her best works...

As long as she actually develops the main villain this time and does not replace the main villain at the last minute for some stupid goofy dude with a puppet I'll be happyl

Thank you. :)