[TheJaz]

Personally I'd say, even rumours aside, process of elimination leaves Muto as the most likely imo, a lot of past writers are busy or haven't shown interest in returning in the past and Build was quite well received over all, it alsio matches their trend of using fairly recent writers for early Reiwa.

I would like to see some new writers, but honestly Mutou would be one of my top picks, I've also always wanted to see Junko Komura head write a series, I like a lot of her episodes in Wizard, and Wizard in Magic Land is still one of my favourite rider movies, but obviously she's busy with Zenkaiger so it won't be her this year.

If I were to place bets on likelihood I'd say from most likely to least likely

1. Motou (Build) or a brand new writer [either seems equally likely to me]
2. Sanjo (W/Drive) [popular writer and its been a while]
3. Takahashi (Ex-Aid/Zero-One), [this one's a really odd guess but I feel like toei is really into this guy, he got 2 series just 3 years apart, I feel like he could be the new Inoue, getting brought back constantly]
4. Shōji Yonemura (Kabuto) [This is my dark horse bet, totally a gut feeling and not much else. He's written for Toei as recently as 2020 on Pretty Den-O, and I think he could bring in that original hesei tone while not going toooo dark, just to change things up a bit after saber went very whimsical and light hearted]

While there are others I wouldn't be shocked to see return these are my bets lol