Every instance of the English spelling on Japanese sites uses "Yuya". On his website (here) and on Twitter, he uses "Yuya" as the English rendering. Not sure why ANN lists it like that.

Yeah he's probably off of Kamen Rider for a while. He said he wanted to take a break from TV writing to get back into manga.

Also, something weird I noticed in the Ghost credits. Sasaki is goes from being credited as "producer" with Takahashi to "chief producer", a title he retains for Ex-Aid. A second TV Asahi producer, Kanno Ayumi, is also added to the credits. It's a pretty strange development.

http://i.imgur.com/t7qMvqH.png

We can only stop him for so long...

Don't speak like that. We can still believe.

So Ex-Aid is going either a lighter show or dark show? What was the tone from Lupin Part 4 which it was wrote by Yuya Takahashi?

Lupin Part 4 was a pretty fun show, it's about the adventures of a band of thieves. That said, it's also aimed at adults more than anything and was pretty dark in its storytelling at times.

That's irrelevant tbh, because if Toei wants a specific kind of story, they'll force it on the writer. Also, wasn't Amazonz's writer involved with Den-O?

Yes, and she also wrote Ryuki and ToQger, so your point is pretty valid.

I'd been kind of expecting the production team to give me at least some reason for cyncism. I love being wrong! I wonder whether it'll follow the Ghost arc of starting awful, then getting significantly better for no apparent reason.

I really have no idea what to expect in terms of quality, and I'm actually comfortable with that.

Looking forward to this! : D

It is, but it doesn't capture the whole picture. Like, it's definitely true that Toei will force them to do whatever but Kobayashi has her own set of unique writing quirks that appear in most of her writing, regardless of the tone. Many writers (not just toku or TV writers) have specific things they do if they write without a conscious effort to change their go-to ideas.