Well he worked on the Ichigou movie. Which was from what I hear pretty awful. So...

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But the Ex-Aid stuff sounds promising.

I hope tomorrow will be press conference of Ex-Aid because it's doesn't make sense if they revealed the staff of Ex-Aid on today but don't have a press conference tomorrow.

Ghost's press conference was on August 18th of last year. It didn't have the sort of reveal Ex-Aid had, so it's difficult to say when this year's will be.

Obviously that was a bit of a simplification, but I was more talking about the general, "light or dark" tone of a show. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'd imagine that gets decided pretty early on in the process.

I'm a pretty big Kobayashi fan, so it's easy for me to see the common DNA between shows as different as the one's she's written, but that's something you might not even notice if you don't actively think about it.

Whatever Ex-Aid is gonna be like is what it's gonna be like, regardless of the writer. I'm getting more and more excited for it with every bit of news though, and despite all the stuff I just said, I'm happy to see Toei not just bringing in old writers for all their shows every year.

Ex-Aid sounds great to me with the production team, the story stuff, and the special effects.

I'm not entirely sure myself. Takebe mentioned that the multi Rider toy line was already decided by the time she was given Gaim but she wanted to have them fight each other. I think there's a collaborative effort between the director and producer and then they hire the best writer for the job. Takebe asked Urobuchi to write because she thought he could best pull off a Rider war type series.

It's kinda hard to figure out why Takahashi was picked up for writer. The guy's credits include a lot of legal shows that involve brilliant or "perfect" characters who suffer from a major character flaw they have to overcome. At the same time, Lupin was also really big and handled a moderate size cast on the wrong end of the law in a very interesting manner.

My best guess is he's good at handling shows with large casts and main characters with specific quirks. It seems like most of his shows, even the ones that aren't legal dramas, usually center around a character who has a trait that makes them more than just an average joe.

The head writer worked on Tiger and Bunny? Hell yeah, sign me up. The way they explain the effects reminds me of Scott Pilgrim, too.

Yeah mention Riku Sanjo has written Kamen Rider, Super Sentai and other children shows before when he already wrote ultra violent stuff before like MD Geist.

Thinking about the mention of health bars: If Lvl 2 Hp drops to zero he reverts back to lvl 1 and if that gets hit once Ex-Aid transforms back entirely.

That's feasible, and would explain why they appear to have made Level 1 a suit rather than having it be wholly CGI.