[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Before I say anything else though, I really am glad Inoue was allowed to do a couple episodes of the big final Heisei Rider show, because there's an argument to be made that it's not really Heisei Rider without the guy. Sure, okay, he stayed away from TV after Decade, but up to that point, he had written episodes for literally every Heisei show except Den-O, and with Zi-O doing this whole block of episodes spotlighting the first half of the era, you couldn't pick a better time to bring him in.

Him and Kobayashi are really the two voices I most associate with Heisei Phase 1. She was the one who wondered if you could do a show where there were a bunch of Riders who didn't all get along, and he was the one who said Yes Yes That That. Inoue brought a fun combination of emotional ambiguity and melodramatic lunacy to Kobayashi's template of curiosity and empathy. It's really not a proper Phase 1 celebration without at least one of them putting their fingerprint on it.