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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

Basing your entire perception of Inoue on The First and The Next is like basing your entire perception of Bowie on Hours or of Weezer on Raditude.

The dude was the head writer on Ryuki (with an assist from Kobayashi). In theory, he should know what he's doing with this world and these characters. In theory...

Inoue struggles with overarching storylines, is prone to repetitive character types and re-used episode plots across the various series he's worked on, seemingly struggles to write female characters, is far too often 'edgy' for the sake of it - I just don't really rate him as a writer at all....

.....I've enjoyed various series he's written for (Changerion was often a lot of fun; Faiz looked cool as hell despite being a hot mess; Jetman had some truly epic moments), but not for his writing, and I definitely wouldn't mention him in the same breath as Bowie.

I'm a sucker for some Kobayashi, though - definitely agree with Fish sandwich and would prefer if she were penning this.