Showa, Heisei, Reiwa…The third generation debuts as a Masked Rider scriptwriter!　Legendary Inoue Family’s “Tale of Three Generations of Tokusatsu

The Brilliant “Special Effects Scriptwriter Family

On January 21, there was a very hot topic among tokusatsu fans.

It was the 19th episode of “Masked Rider Gatchard” (TV Asahi, every Sunday from 9:00 a.m.), which is currently airing, “Rinne’s Dawn! Transformation Majeed! was written by Akiko Inoue.

This is because Akiko Inoue’s grandfather is Masaru Inoue, who has participated in many “Masked Rider” scripts, and her father is a scriptwriter who has worked on many works including “Masked Rider 555 (Phaze)” and “Goutarou Sentai Don Brothers” and is known among special effects fans as “Inoue O-sensei Toshiki Inoue, known to tokusatsu fans as “Grand Master Inoue,” is a member of the “splendid family of tokusatsu scriptwriters” that has been involved in the Showa, Heisei, and Reiwa eras for three generations.

We interviewed the remarkable “third generation” Akiko Inoue (hereafter, Akiko). We asked her about her thoughts on her debut as a scriptwriter for the Masked Rider series, her involvement with special effects, the Inoue family, and more.

When I received the offer, I thought to myself, “This is a bit presumptuous of me, but it has finally arrived. Writing a script for a tokusatsu series had been on my list of things I needed to accomplish in my life for some time, so I was very enthusiastic.

(Akiko Inoue, same as above.) After writing “Novel: Masked Rider Decade: The World of Kadoyashi – Hakoniwa in the Lens” (Kodansha Character Bunko/’13) under the name of Aki Kanehiro, Akiko went on to write “Magical Pretty Cure! (Kodansha Character Bunko/’13) and “HUGt! Pretty Cure” (’18) and “Gegege no Kitaro” (6th film/’18-’20). In fact, she has previously revealed that she is Toshiki Inoue’s daughter, but “it wasn’t really talked about that much in the anime community,” she laughs.

On SNS, voices such as “As expected of the Inoue family” and “I can feel the Inoue verse”…

Episode 19 of “Masked Rider Gachado,” the debut episode of the Masked Rider series, depicted Rinne (Reiyo Matsumoto), a female rider, torn between her promise to her father, Kazemasa (Kanji Ishimaru), who has been called a traitor, and the code she has kept, and how she transforms after a struggle.

In addition, the episode was filled with scenes reminiscent of Toshiki’s works, such as “many meal scenes” and “food stalls,” and the ability to organize and structure information by picking up elements from previous episodes and including a lot of information to depict the growth of the characters in one episode. The social networking sites were filled with comments such as “As expected of the Inoue family” and “I can feel the Inoue verse”. ……

We had decided from the beginning that the vertical axis of episode 19 would be the story of Rinne’s transformation. I then began by carefully reading the scenarios up to episode 18 to understand the characterization of each of the characters.

I think that the scriptwriter who joins a show from the middle of the season inevitably creates an image that is somewhat different from the previous episodes, and this is something that would be very confusing to me as a viewer, so I tried to keep in mind how the characters had been feeling up to that point.