Read more about Choujuu Sentai Liveman at: Wikipedia Official Site: Toei Company is the twelfth entry of Toei Company's Super Sentai television series. The last Super Sentai title of the Shōwa period, 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 in the series. In addition, it was also the first series to have animal-themed mecha. Its international English title as listed by Toei is simply Liveman. The series was broadcast in France as Bioman 3, being marketed as the direct sequels to Choudenshi Bioman and Bioman 2 (Hikari Sentai Maskman). Academia Island is an elite school that various genius students from across the globe attend. Among them are Yuusuke Amamiya, Jou Oohara, Megumi Misaki, who with Takuji Yano, and Mari Aikawa sought to create a suit strong enough for space exploration. However, three of their fellow classmates and dear friends, Kenji Tsukigata, Rui Senda, and Gou Omura, felt their talents are being wasted and leave to join an evil organization called Volt where offers them to raise their full scientific potential. As a result, when Yuusuke and company saw them leaving, Kenji draws a gun on the three with Takuji and Mari taking the fatal blow. Soon after, one of the professors at the school, Professor Hoshi, pitches in to help Yuusuke and his friends complete the suits so they can serve to prepare against Volt. Two years later, with that Kenji, Rui, and Gou now known as Doctors Kemp, Mazenda, and Oblar, Volt begins its attack by devastating Academia Island. As a result, Yuusuke, Jou, and Megumi take up the suits they created and becom the Liveman to battle against their former classmates and Volt. Though they managed to get Gou to leave Volt, the organization recruits new members in Doctor Ashura and the aliens Guildos and Butchy. Soon after, the Livemen are joined by Tetsuya and Jun'ichi, the respective younger brothers of Takuji and Mari, while learning that there is a darker agenda behind Volt that only its leader Bias knows. After Black Bison and Green Sai join the team, the Livemen can execute the , turning into balls of light and strike the enemy.
Choujuu Sentai Liveman has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.
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