[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by CEEFAX

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.

This is all very fair, and I mostly agree. I love Inoue, but I recognize he's not to everyone's taste.

As for the Bowie comparison, if you look at the whole of the tokusatsu, Inoue is very much a weirdo 80s outsider who shook up the classic elements of the genre and twisted them into something new and shocking that old-timers didn't initially accept. Obviously, they're not artists of the same caliber, but I don't know that the comparison to Bowie is that far off, at least within the milieu of the genre.

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

Oh yeah, there's a much greater chance that the movie would be good if Kobayashi were steering the ship. No arguments there.