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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Lucha

I've got a Top 3...

Toshiki Inoue
Noboru Sugimura
Yasuko Kobayashi

It's really hard for me to choose my favorite because they're all so good at such different things. Inoue is so good at melodrama. Sugimura is so good at blending pathos and surrealism. Kobayashi is so good with character and story...

I think Inoue and Kobayashi wrote the most Toku in the last 3 decades. I know people loved and hated them like me. I just want to talk about what I hate about them.

Inoue's style includes a lot of unnecessary long dragged on misunderstandings for the sake of adding more tensions and drama in every single episode. Also, he can never write good finales. He's kind of a weird perv too with adding all those lame goth-like romance subplot. Blade was pretty good with barely any fillers at all despite it's written by him and few other people. I wish Kabuto was that good. I usually liked his series for the actors, suits, or action.

On the other hand, Kobayashi series aren't that captivating at first because there's no stakes in most of them. She gives her characters a decent amount of characters development including the villains, but all the focus on the villains are vague. I think she wants to make them more relatable and sympathetic like Shinkenger, Go-buster, OOO, Toqger, and Den-O, but it just doesn't work as well as Gekiranger. Gekiranger did a good job with their villains despite also written by multiple writers. I felt like she's always trying to teach the viewers something, but always fail miserably. However, she does make her characters likable and fillers interesting.