What do you think of Toshiki Inoue?
He's fine as a writer in my opinion.
Nothing super offensive, though he does some really surreal episodes and shows at times.
Him coming on board for Hibiki's back end was just him doing an ugly job he was hired to do to reign in costs and make the show sell to kids.
Ushio & Tora was a practical adaptation of a 300+ chapter manga into a 39 episode show. Karakuri Circus was him desperately trying to do right by the show but that Dog don't hunt when it really needed to be a 4 Cour show.
Jetman's the definitive Super Sentai, and is still pretty good for an 80s/early 90s Sentai.
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Toei) was on meth, but it was a fun trainwreck kinda meth, and considering he had to adapt 7 Volumes of mostly unconnected stories into a 27 episode show that worked, all the power to him, he did a decent job for the job he was given as a writer.
Devil May Cry was hardly bad, maybe not the best thing ever, but it did feel Devil May Cry shaped.
Garo: Crimson Moon is actually pretty good and dumb in a fun shlock-y way.
Agito and Faiz were bad shows, but that's mostly more a symptom of non-Kuuga early Heisei Rider being bad.
Kiva was at least experimental.
And Donbrothers is. I'm not sure I approve of it as a Sentai, it feels like a Kamen Rider pretending to be a Sentai, but it IS a fun and interesting and surreal show very much in the vibes of like say Jetman on whatever drugs he was doing for endgame Hibiki and Toei Yu-Gi-Oh!
So, he's not a bad writer for what he's lead, he goes down same strange routes but he's worth respecting for when his shows land.
