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Originally Posted by Frontier

She looks cute!

Agreed!

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Originally Posted by Eclipyon

Kamen Rider Lopo is the female investigator!!!

Hell yeah!

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Originally Posted by Byg42

Similarly, this is partly why I never managed to stick with Kingohger, since Takano was Takahashi's understudy and thus Kingohger had a lot of the same writing quirks.

I think it's a little unfair to dismiss Takano for his past work as Takahashi's understudy, as he's made a good career for himself outside of Tokusatsu since the end of EX-Aid. Regarding your problem with King-Ohger, it's worth pointing out that the producer was Ohmori, who's notorious for being a meddlesome man and a dinosaur fanatic, which should explain at least one part of the show that wasn't Takano's fault.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

Well, while I like both Ex-Aid and Zero-One much more than Geats, I have to admit that from a purely technical standpoint of story writing, Geats is better. If only because the story itself fits within the show, rather than ended up in a summer movie that some viewers will watch six months later, and some will skip altogether. So Takahashi is clearly improving.

Yeah, I can see improvements, however slow and mild. Feels like Geats, in contrast to previous Takahashi shows, actually finishes when Geats IX defeats Suel for the first time and everything after that is like V-Cinema, the main reason being that Ace's story is essentially over and the focus changes to the other main Riders, other than Win. I hope for Zeztz that Takahashi can find a better balance between the mess of EX-Aid and Zero One and the haste of Geats.

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Originally Posted by Mesnick

But I must add to my previous post that I share the fear that Takahashi may confuse the already not very simple topic of the connection between dreams and reality, making a contradictory tangle out of it. Still, I hope that we will get at least a dozen episodes of fun adventures in the world of dreams before the show turns into endless intrigue, betrayal and tragedy.

Now that I think about it, the concept of Zeztz being an agent in a dream world reminds me of Akibaranger's delusion world, which also bled in to reality but in a way that was generally consistent. I think Takahashi should take inspiration from this.

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Originally Posted by Enchilada645

Listen, dislike how Ex-Aid and Zero-One ended all you want, they ended.

Fair point. They still had loose ends of course, but yeah, that's not the same as what happened in Decade. If Yonemura returned as often as Takahashi, I think the complaints would be even louder. Personally, I think all of these endings were pretty disappointing and yet, Inoue (Toshiki) usually gets the criticism for this.