Choujuu Sentai Liveman (1988)
Episode 1 - Friends! Why Did You Do This!?
February 27, 1988 • 20 minutes
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.
Episode 2 - Three Powers Sworn to Life
March 5, 1988 • 20 minutes
With Academia destroyed, the Liveman gain from their dying mentor Doctor Hoshi instructions and a clue to assist in their battle against Volt.
Episode 3 - Obular Demonic Transformation
March 12, 1988 • 20 minutes
Jou shows doubt in facing down his old friend Gou as he prepares to use a virus to evolve into the ultimate being.
Episode 4 - Expose! The Dummy Man
March 19, 1988 • 20 minutes
Megumi suspects Mazenda in a plot involving transforming Jimmers into Dummy Man spies.
Episode 5 - The Reckless Driving Engine Monster
March 26, 1988 • 20 minutes
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.
Episode 6 - Attack! The Dinosaur That Lived
April 2, 1988 • 20 minutes
A boy befriends a young dinosaur brought to the present by Obular's time-manipulating Brain Beast.
Episode 7 - Dinosaur VS Live Robo
April 9, 1988 • 20 minutes
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.
Episode 8 - The Duel of Love and Anger!
April 16, 1988 • 20 minutes
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.
Episode 9 - Rose! Smell Feverish
April 23, 1988 • 20 minutes
Megumi attempts to protect the love of her newlywed friends from being corrupted by Mazenda's love-potion perfume.
Episode 10 - The Skateboard to Escape the Maze
April 30, 1988 • 20 minutes
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.
Episode 11 - The Man Who Bit a Brain Beast
May 7, 1988 • 20 minutes
Arashi Busujima, a self-proclaimed idiot gang leader, causes trouble for both Volt and the Liveman by making a Brain Beast his own servant.
Episode 12 - Super-Genius Ashura!
May 14, 1988 • 20 minutes
Bias transforms the idiotic gang leader Arashi into Doctor Ashura, the ultimate genius who befuddles the Liveman with both brains and brawn!
Episode 13 - Burn! Steel Colon
May 21, 1988 • 20 minutes
A malfunctioned Jimmer who falls for Colon assists the team in stopping a plot by Mazenda to poison the city.
Episode 14 - The Scream of Kettle-Man Yusuke
May 28, 1988 • 20 minutes
Ashura depowers and estranged Yusuke with a Brain Beast that turns him into a walking electromagnet.
Episode 15 - Deadly! Grim Reaper Gash
June 4, 1988 • 20 minutes
Jou protects a robot being targeted by Gash for a special crystal Bias wishes to obtain.
Episode 16 - The Letter of Jiang Shi
June 11, 1988 • 20 minutes
Yusuke returns to Academia to retrieve love letters he left that are being used for jumping, zombie-like apparitions of his fellow students.
Episode 17 - The Crying Doll! The Attacking Doll!
June 18, 1988 • 20 minutes
Megumi fights to regain a doll with emotions that is transformed by Kemp into a doll-controlling Brain Beast.
Episode 18 - A Trap! Joh's Beloved Brain Beast
June 25, 1988 • 20 minutes
Jou falls for a mysterious girl created from the remnants of Mazenda's loving heart into a Brain Beast.
Episode 19 - Geek-Boy Obular
July 2, 1988 • 20 minutes
A Brain Beast created with Obular's own mind leads to a shocking revelation to the Liveman about their enemy Gou.
Episode 20 - Failing Obular's Counterattack!
July 9, 1988 • 20 minutes
Gou is kicked out of Volt for his failures, forcing him to return home in order to resume experiments for becoming the ultimate Obular.
Episode 21 - Listen, Gou!! Mother's Voice…
July 16, 1988 • 20 minutes
Yusuke attempts to convince Gou's mother to save her son as Volt bring him back for their own schemes.
Episode 22 - Enter the Space Karaoke Master
July 23, 1988 • 20 minutes
Megumi tries to give confidence to a girl whose song may be the only means to stop a mad musical alien.
Episode 23 - The Life Risked at 0.1 Second
July 30, 1988 • 20 minutes
Colon tries to prove her worth to Yusuke against a swordsman Brain Beast using a new metal developed by Kemp.
Episode 24 - Can You Get a 100 for Playing!?
August 6, 1988 • 20 minutes
Yusuke tries to convince a boy the importance of hard work in school and fun while dealing with Mazenda's mental manipulation of children.
Episode 25 - The 8 Brain Beasts of Tsuruga Castle!
August 13, 1988 • 20 minutes
On vacation in Aizu, the Liveman help a boy get over his fears of a castle haunted by revived Brain Beasts.
Episode 26 - Aizu's Huge Rhinoceros Beetles!
August 20, 1988 • 20 minutes
The Liveman investigate a strange light caused by Mazenda's new Giga energy making the insects of Aizu giant-sized.
Episode 27 - Daughter!! Destroy the Giga Project
August 27, 1988 • 20 minutes
The Liveman are unexpectedly assisted by Megumi's father as Volt ups the ante with the activation of the Giga Project.
Episode 28 - The Challenge of the Huge Giga Volt
September 3, 1988 • 20 minutes
The Liveman struggle against Bias' completed "Giga Volt", but are saved by a mysterious young man with his own hatred of the enemy.
Episode 29 - The Vengeful Live Boxer
September 10, 1988 • 20 minutes
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.
Episode 30 - Five Warriors, Here and Now
September 17, 1988 • 20 minutes
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.
Episode 31 - Mama! The Parasitic Monster's Cries
September 24, 1988 • 20 minutes
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.
Episode 32 - Kemp, The Riddle of Blood and Roses
October 1, 1988 • 20 minutes
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.
Episode 33 - Do Your Best, Tetsu-chan Robot
October 15, 1988 • 20 minutes
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.
Episode 34 - Love That Runs through the Future and Present!
October 22, 1988 • 20 minutes
An accident by Ashura allows for a girl from fifteen years in the future into 1988, where she has a peculiar encounter with Jou.
Episode 35 - Yusuke and Kemp's Promise!!
October 29, 1988 • 20 minutes
Yusuke and Kemp return to Academia Island to see how far they've come and settle old scores as promised four years prior.
Episode 36 - Crash! The Tackle of Friendship
November 5, 1988 • 20 minutes
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.
Episode 37 - 16-Year-Old Kemp's Fear Beast Transformation!
November 12, 1988 • 20 minutes
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.
Episode 38 - Mobile Weapon of Destruction Mazenda
November 19, 1988 • 20 minutes
Yusuke unexpectedly runs away from a rampaging Mazenda, who has furthered her modifications into a living mechanical weapon!
Episode 39 - Protect it! A Lifeform of Space
November 26, 1988 • 20 minutes
Jou assists an alien in retrieving a seed from its homeworld trapped within a meteor Brain Beast.
Episode 40 - Love!? Megumi and the Jewel Thief
December 3, 1988 • 20 minutes
A tricky jewel thief interested in Megumi gets his hands on a gem containing a Brain Beast that helps him in his devious tasks.
Episode 41 - The Confession of Gou, The Invisible Man!!
December 10, 1988 • 20 minutes
Jou fights to protect his former rival Gou from Volt when he regains memories that are key to the truth behind Bias.
Episode 42 - Bias' Challenge From Space
December 17, 1988 • 20 minutes
Bias uses the power of Giga Brain Waves to brainwash Tetsuya into sabotaging the Gran Tortoise and killing his Liveman teammates.
Episode 43 - A Mystery!? Guildos' Final Form
December 24, 1988 • 20 minutes
Junichi desperately tries to prove his power against Guildos, who wishes to prove the power of his planet to Bias.
Episode 44 - Butchy's Great Reckless Driving of Tears!!
January 14, 1989 • 20 minutes
After discovering the horrifying truth about himself and Guildos, Butchy goes on a rampage through Earth which is interpreted sympathetically by Megumi.
Episode 45 - Ashura Reversal One Chance Game
January 21, 1989 • 20 minutes
Fearing being left behind by Bias' remaining pupils, Ashura enacts a plot to hack all information from the world computer networks into himself.
Episode 46 - Honorable Man, Arashi! The Final Battle
January 28, 1989 • 20 minutes
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.
Episode 47 - A 1000-Point Brain! Mazenda!!
February 4, 1989 • 20 minutes
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.
Episode 48 - Birth!! Boy King Bias!
February 11, 1989 • 20 minutes
As Kemp finally achieves a thousand-point brain for Bias, Yusuke sneaks into Brain Base to stop the Giga Brain Wave from controlling humanity.
Episode 49 - The Fall of Great Professor Bias
February 18, 1989 • 20 minutes
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.
