Choujuu Sentai Liveman — Season 1

Aired 27 February 1988 • 20 min

The three traitorous Students Kenji Tsukigata, Rui Senda and Gou Omura come back from Outer Space in the name of the Armed Brain Army Volt to begin their attack on the Earth.

Aired 5 March 1988 • 20 min

With Academia destroyed, the Liveman gain from their dying mentor Doctor Hoshi instructions and a clue to assist in their battle against Volt.

Aired 12 March 1988 • 20 min

Jou shows doubt in facing down his old friend Gou as he prepares to use a virus to evolve into the ultimate being.

Aired 19 March 1988 • 20 min

Megumi suspects Mazenda in a plot involving transforming Jimmers into Dummy Man spies.

Aired 26 March 1988 • 20 min

Yusuke is approached by Takuji's little brother to help complete a car he was working on, which becomes sabotaged by Dr. Kemp and an engine Brain Beast.

Aired 2 April 1988 • 20 min

A boy befriends a young dinosaur brought to the present by Obular's time-manipulating Brain Beast.

Aired 9 April 1988 • 20 min

Takeshi and the Liveman try to work out a final solution regarding Gon while Obular decides to experiment in making the dinosaur into a city-destroying giant.

Aired 16 April 1988 • 20 min

The Liveman trio must learn to draw on other emotions to fight after Dr. Kemp creates a Brain Beast that sucks away anger for power.

Aired 23 April 1988 • 20 min

Megumi attempts to protect the love of her newlywed friends from being corrupted by Mazenda's love-potion perfume.

Aired 30 April 1988 • 20 min

Jou takes a delivery job to save a pizza shop - "Pizza Sweet" , which becomes more dangerous after a Brain Beast turns the town into a maze.

Aired 7 May 1988 • 20 min

Arashi Busujima, a self-proclaimed idiot gang leader, causes trouble for both Volt and the Liveman by making a Brain Beast his own servant.

Aired 14 May 1988 • 20 min

Bias transforms the idiotic gang leader Arashi into Doctor Ashura, the ultimate genius who befuddles the Liveman with both brains and brawn!

Aired 21 May 1988 • 20 min

A malfunctioned Jimmer who falls for Colon assists the team in stopping a plot by Mazenda to poison the city.

Aired 28 May 1988 • 20 min

Ashura depowers and estranged Yusuke with a Brain Beast that turns him into a walking electromagnet.

Aired 4 June 1988 • 20 min

Jou protects a robot being targeted by Gash for a special crystal Bias wishes to obtain.

Aired 11 June 1988 • 20 min

Yusuke returns to Academia to retrieve love letters he left that are being used for jumping, zombie-like apparitions of his fellow students.

Aired 18 June 1988 • 20 min

Megumi fights to regain a doll with emotions that is transformed by Kemp into a doll-controlling Brain Beast.

Aired 25 June 1988 • 20 min

Jou falls for a mysterious girl created from the remnants of Mazenda's loving heart into a Brain Beast.

Aired 2 July 1988 • 20 min

A Brain Beast created with Obular's own mind leads to a shocking revelation to the Liveman about their enemy Gou.

Aired 9 July 1988 • 20 min

Gou is kicked out of Volt for his failures, forcing him to return home in order to resume experiments for becoming the ultimate Obular.

Aired 16 July 1988 • 20 min

Yusuke attempts to convince Gou's mother to save her son as Volt bring him back for their own schemes.

Aired 23 July 1988 • 20 min

Megumi tries to give confidence to a girl whose song may be the only means to stop a mad musical alien.

Aired 30 July 1988 • 20 min

Colon tries to prove her worth to Yusuke against a swordsman Brain Beast using a new metal developed by Kemp.

Aired 6 August 1988 • 20 min

Yusuke tries to convince a boy the importance of hard work in school and fun while dealing with Mazenda's mental manipulation of children.

Aired 13 August 1988 • 20 min

On vacation in Aizu, the Liveman help a boy get over his fears of a castle haunted by revived Brain Beasts.

Aired 20 August 1988 • 20 min

The Liveman investigate a strange light caused by Mazenda's new Giga energy making the insects of Aizu giant-sized.

Aired 27 August 1988 • 20 min

The Liveman are unexpectedly assisted by Megumi's father as Volt ups the ante with the activation of the Giga Project.

Aired 3 September 1988 • 20 min

The Liveman struggle against Bias' completed "Giga Volt", but are saved by a mysterious young man with his own hatred of the enemy.

Aired 10 September 1988 • 20 min

Tetsuya and Junichi, the siblings of the Liveman's deceased friends, push forwards to do whatever it takes to defeat Giga Volt, even with unexpected assistance.

Aired 17 September 1988 • 20 min

With the continued threat of Giga Volt and Tetsuya and Junichi still driven by revenge, the Liveman must figure a means to come together as a true team to defeat Volt's greatest weapon.

Aired 24 September 1988 • 20 min

Junichi is implanted with the child of Guildos and Butchy's Brain Beast, forcing him to make a decision regarding his unusual situation. Great Professor Bias begins a mysterious competition for his generals.

Aired 1 October 1988 • 20 min

Kemp is forced to confront a noble deed of his past when he creates a Brain Beast to steal blood for upgrading his altered form.

Aired 15 October 1988 • 20 min

Tetsuya dons a costume to make a "robot friend" for a young boy, only to fall into a scheme with Mazenda's own Brain Beast copy of it.

Aired 22 October 1988 • 20 min

An accident by Ashura allows for a girl from fifteen years in the future into 1988, where she has a peculiar encounter with Jou.

Aired 29 October 1988 • 20 min

Yusuke and Kemp return to Academia Island to see how far they've come and settle old scores as promised four years prior.

Aired 5 November 1988 • 20 min

Junichi tries to reconcile with a member of his school rugby team as the rest of the team becomes minions to Mazenda's Brain Beast.

Aired 12 November 1988 • 20 min

An attempt to stop Kemp's Fear Beast evolution accidentally makes Kemp return to his 16-year old self whom Megumi tries to change from his dark path.

Aired 19 November 1988 • 20 min

Yusuke unexpectedly runs away from a rampaging Mazenda, who has furthered her modifications into a living mechanical weapon!

Aired 26 November 1988 • 20 min

Jou assists an alien in retrieving a seed from its homeworld trapped within a meteor Brain Beast.

Aired 3 December 1988 • 20 min

A tricky jewel thief interested in Megumi gets his hands on a gem containing a Brain Beast that helps him in his devious tasks.

Aired 10 December 1988 • 20 min

Jou fights to protect his former rival Gou from Volt when he regains memories that are key to the truth behind Bias.

Aired 17 December 1988 • 20 min

Bias uses the power of Giga Brain Waves to brainwash Tetsuya into sabotaging the Gran Tortoise and killing his Liveman teammates.

Aired 24 December 1988 • 20 min

Junichi desperately tries to prove his power against Guildos, who wishes to prove the power of his planet to Bias.

Aired 14 January 1989 • 20 min

After discovering the horrifying truth about himself and Guildos, Butchy goes on a rampage through Earth which is interpreted sympathetically by Megumi.

Aired 21 January 1989 • 20 min

Fearing being left behind by Bias' remaining pupils, Ashura enacts a plot to hack all information from the world computer networks into himself.

Aired 28 January 1989 • 20 min

Although changed back to his former idiot form, Arashi continues to try and prove his true worth in a climactic showdown with Kemp's most powerful Brain Beast.

Aired 4 February 1989 • 20 min

Mazenda fights the Liveman to complete her goal of achieving a thousand-point brain for Bias, even as Gou tries to warn of the consequences of doing so.

Aired 11 February 1989 • 20 min

As Kemp finally achieves a thousand-point brain for Bias, Yusuke sneaks into Brain Base to stop the Giga Brain Wave from controlling humanity.

Aired 18 February 1989 • 20 min

As a Bias with restored youth descends to Earth to continue his cycle of destruction for the sake of knowledge, the Liveman must hold him off and find a way of either changing his ways or stopping the mad genius permanently.