Lurker
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Technically Blade changed staff too, but that show got better from it, so you didn't notice it.
As for Fukuda coming back, will he though? From my understanding, both Ghost and Saber did terribly in toy sales. I don't see why they would let someone who has had two failures in a row come back for a third. But then again, Junko failed with Zyuohger and LupvsPat and here we are with Zenkaiger...
I never said changing the staff was bad; sometime it can improve the show.
As far as Komura goes, she would have done better job with Saber than Fukuda IMO.
Komura really needs another shot at Kamen Rider though.
Saber did worse than Zero-One, but I don't think its sales were terrible. Ghost sales were weak but mostly because of Drive's sales crush previous year (and still were an improvement).
Honestly, Fukuda episodes of Saber were, for the most part, among weaker ones, so I don't mind him writing less. I do think they should have made Keiichi Hasegawa main writer if he writes most of the show anyway (and his episodes tended to be better ones), but Saber's storybeats and developments are interesting on paper.
It's a very sloppy production but nowhere near the worst tokusatsu I've seen (not sure it even lands in my top 5 bottom Rider shows, though same was true for Ghost which I had a lot of problems with but still find overhated), especially after recently rewatching most of toku shows I actually can't stand. I'm not even sure it's worse than Zenkaiger which gets way less criticism than it deserves.
So far, this year, particularly the first half (January~June) has been pretty mediocre ~ lukewarm year for tokusatsu, despite anniversary year; Saber is terrible and Zenkaiger is OK for most part; strangely, Power Rangers Dino Fury, has been the best tokusatsu this year so far.
It's still a better anniversary year than 2016 IMO.