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Originally Posted by Kurona

I'm gonna say that Kobayashi is probably unlikely to come back in general as the lead writer? I wouldn't be overly surprised to see her work on an episode or two or some spin-off miniseries like Inoue, but when she wrote Toqger she did state that was intended as her last work on Sentai. While that of course is Sentai and not Rider, I think it points towards a desire to move on from Masked Hero Toku in general; which I'm not too surprised at given the wealth of material she's contributed to it!

(She did write Amazons after Toqger, but I think that's actually evidence in support of this rather than against it; given how drastically different it is thematically and demographically compared to your Den-O or your Go-Busters)

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.