Choujuu Sentai Liveman
Choujuu Sentai Liveman
Genre
Tokusatsu
Created by
Toei
Starring
Daisuke Shima, Kazuhiko
Nishimura, Megumi Mori,
Seirou Yamaguchi, Jin
Kawamoto
Narrated by
Takeshi Kuwabara (?? ???
,Kuwabara Takeshi)
Composer(s) Tatsumi Yano
Country of
origin
Japan
No. of
episodes
49
Production
Producer(s)
Takeyuki Suzuki
Kyōzō Utsunomiya
Running
time
30 minutes
Production
company(s)
TV Asahi
Toei Company
Toei Advertising
Broadcast
Original
channel
TV Asahi
Original run February 26, 1988 – February
17, 1989
Chronology
Preceded by Hikari Sentai Maskman
Followed by
Kousoku Sentai Turboranger
Choujuu Sentai Liveman (????????? ,Chōjū
Sentai Raibuman), translated into English as
Super Beast Squadron Liveman,
is the
twelfth entry of Toei Company’s Super Sentai
television series. It aired on TV Asahi from
February 26, 1988 to February 17, 1989. It is
the first Sentai with three members at the
start, with two others joining up later at the
series.
Plot
This series takes place on Academia Island,
which is both a location and a school for sci-
entists. One day, Academia’s three finest stu-
dents, Tsukigata, Senda, and Omura felt their
talents were being wasted at Academia and
left. They accepted a position in the evil or-
ganization Volt. On the night of their depar-
ture, their former classmates Yuusuke Amam-
iya, Jou Oohara, Megumi Misaki, Takuji Yano,
and Mari
Aikawa
saw
them
leaving.
Tsukigata drew a gun on the five, killing Tak-
uji and Mari.
Prior to the pair’s deaths, Takuji and Mari
were working alongside Yuusuke, Jou, and
Megumi in creating a suit strong enough for
space exploration. They had made substantial
progress on the night
that
they were
murdered. One of the professors at the
school, Professor Hoshi, pitched in to help
them complete
their original ambitions.
Hoshi was also worried that Volt would begin
attacking people, and thus helped out to pre-
pare against a future assault.
Two years later, Academia launched a
shuttle for space exploration. However, a
mysterious ship appears and downs the
shuttle;