[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Sh Ranger

Now that you mention it, I notice Kobayashi's writing style started getting progressively darker and edgier and weirder after she finished OOO. Gobusters was relatively tame and not too extreme, but after that, it's like she tries to force her works to be more like Ryuki. I wonder what happened to cause such a dramatic change.

Kobayashi has had a "dark and edgy" style since Gingaman (see: the Bull Black arc).

Timeranger is, arguably, the darkest and edgiest Sentai series.

I'd say she's always had a darker streak and that her light series -- Den-O, OOOs, and ToQger -- are the aberrations.