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This isn't the first sequel to be written by Inoue. His first Rider show was Agito, which was technically a sequel to Kuuga, which was written by Arakawa, who was Komura's mentor, so this kind of goes around in a circle. Of course, this sequel is going to be a lot more connected to its predecessor, even more than Sun Vulcan was to Denjiman with Queen Hedrian, since Zenkaizer Black and Juran are apparently going to be recurring characters for a while and the Avatarou Gears are a permanent reminder of their connection.

While I will admit that Inoue can sometimes, usually for the sake of landing a joke, bend a character in to doing something they generally wouldn't, I think he has a lot more self-control than Sanjo, who can't even write his own characters consistently. Furthermore, I think Inoue has learned that his habit of taking liberties with the characters can actually be used as an asset, like all those different Sougos from Zi-O VS Decade and Akari referring to Mayu as both "Tachibana-san" and "Mayu-chan" in Kamen Rider 1, after she hypocritically berated Takeru for using "chan". With Zenkaiger having a lot of focus on alternate worlds, I wonder if this Zenkaizer Black is even the same Kaito, or rather Inoue's Kaito.

Anyway, something else I noticed in the picture with Don Momotarou, Zenkaizer and Don Zenkai Oh is that Zenkaizer is spelled as "Zenkaiser" like how Over-Time does it, despite being romanized as Zenkaizer literally everywhere else. I guess Toei wants to encourage people to make their own choice like they did for Balon/"Baron", instead of declaring only one official. Not like most people have been paying attention to official romanizations though. It's especially humorous when Hakaizer debuts with HAKAIZER written in the background while the subs are all like: Hakaiser!