Why am I not surprised at Decade? That thing struggled to explain its main plot, let alone loose ends

That's what happens when you replace the head writer halfway through the series and don't bother to ask for notes on what he had planned.

Wait what :confused:? Ultraman came out 5 years before Kamen Rider and a decade before Sentai. Ultraman has nothing in common with Sentai other then they have giant monsters. Ultraman tends to work on his own like a Kamen Rider does. Ultraman popularity help the Henshin Hero genre became even more popular in Japan and which help lead to the 70's Toku hero boom. Other henshin heroes like Star Man, Gekko Kamen and Golden Bat exist long before Ultraman, but Ultraman did help create the genre more popular in Japan. Just like how Mazinger Z help create the Mecha genre become even more popular in Japan even though other mecha anime & manga like Gigantor and Giant Robo (Johnny Sokko) exist before it.

I guess you don't know much about Toku besides Kamen Rider and Sentai. That's why we have stuff like Google ;).

An entirely new crew behind Ghost? Consider me highly optimistic now. I can't wait to see how this pans out because it means Toei is going to take another risk.

I have a good feeling about Ghost too. I'm still trying to catch up to Drive and I still don't care for the show. I hope this will be as great as Gaim or as good as W, OOO, Kabuto or Den-O in my opinion.

Something that caused me to raise an eyebrow: I've noticed that nearly all the official suit images so far for Ghost Ore Soul keep the hood down. HM. Maybe what they've filmed so far made them feel that having the hood up during fight scenes doesn't work for whatever reason?

Yeah I am excited too. I'm optimistic that we have new blood here.

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By looking at this schedule for the figures, I guess the Benkei Tamashii will be like an upgrade form for Ghost and the Nobunaga Tamashii will be an upgrade form for Specter.

SO are they supposed to be Oni? Just curious since Ghost has 1 horn and Spectre has 2.

As discussed earlier in the thread, it's just the classic beetle bros trope. While these guys aren't bug related it's pretty clear that Ghost & Specter repeat that traditional pattern.