Personally, I'm most interested in hearing who the producer, writer, and director are. For me, those are going to make or break the season way more than the designs and gimmicks.

Agreed. But then, some people have proven they can be great writer and have a terrible series while others can be terrible but come up with a great series.

Just look at that Inoue guy. He has done great things with Agito, Kiva, Jetman and has done awful things like Decade, the second half to Hibiki, and Shougeki.

Even Kobayashi is a mixed bag (although, she tends to be more positive).

Unfortunately, next year's Sentai has fate stacked against it as every other Sentai series has been good ever since GekiRanger. Geki was good, Go-On was bad, Shinken was good, Gosei was bad, Gokai was good, Go-Buster was bad, and Kyoryuger is good.

True dat. I had a lot of high hopes for Kyoryuger given how much of its production team came from Kamen Rider W, but I ended up hating it. Still, if Naruhisa Arakawa gets announced as the writer I will be incredibly excited. I've loved everything that man has touched (Dekaranger, Kuuga, Akibaranger).

100% in agreement.

As far as head writers go, I wonder if they'll take a page from recent Kamen Rider series and mine a writer from a popular anime and/or manga series.

I'd love a fresh take on Sentai, along the lines of Kazuki Nakashima's Fourze and Gen Urobuchi's Gaim.

Gimmie gimmicks o_o

i'm still getting a very strong "Tokyu yusha might gaine" from evrything weve heard about Tokyuger

I want the Mech to look so much like Might Gaine..

That would be gorgeous and perfect.

Because I'm impatient, let's see some minor new rumors dukemon22 has over at Rangerboard:

for any of you who don't know what "might gaine" is here you go

http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2c3cd42b.png
http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/...ps70357109.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_PhZ7cSDjI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6zwIkd6Xdc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzXHkURafZs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtV-lf10kk8

Heads up peeps. Dukemon is hitting the usual spots letting people know that the official reveals will indeed happen tonight. Current time in Japan is 8:42 AM. Supposedly the TV Asahi Press Event started at 8. So stick with us this evening as we (hopefully) bring you some concrete info.