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I've said it multiple times. Liveman is THE final Showa era sentai and THE best Showa era sentai ever. The slogan really sells what the show is about.

Friends, why did you sell your souls to the devil?

Also, it seems that it was a big deal at the time cause Daisuke Shima who already was an established celebrity as a recording artist was the Red Ranger as well as Megumi Mori who was gaining attention as an actress and pop idol. The closest level of buzz would be Hideo Ishiguro and Tatsuomi Hamada being announced as Orb and Geed respectively. And then you got hotshot Kazuhiko Nishimura joining the team as the yellow ranger after a small role in Maskman as one of the engineers for the Maskman team.
Joji Nakata who previously played Sir Cowler and Yutaka Hirose who was Ley Wanda in Flashman respectively returns as Great Professor Bias and Dr. Kemp/Kenji Tsukigata. Other notable alumni are Akiko Amamatsuri as Dr.Mazenda/Rui Senda(she was Gara in Dairanger and that liontamer lady in Ohranger) as well as Mr. Battle Cossack & Jiro/Kikaider himself Daisuke Ban playing the role of their school headmaster early on.
While Flashman and Maskman gave us two robots, Liveman gave us two robots but then for the first time ever combined the two to form a super robot. And the show has the honor of having the franchise's FIRST EVER FEMALE BLUE RANGER and FIRST TEAM TO HAVE BOTH GREEN AND BLACK RANGERS. While Sun Vulcan is the first animal motif team, this team was the first to have mechanical robot animals for its robots. And I have mentioned this before, but yeah this show was airing the same year the Olympics were a thing and whaddya know, all five of them are the same color as the five rings of the Olympics. And I cannot help but think that this show was most likely the inspiration behind the premise for Hurricanger. Hurricanger was basically Heisei Liveman redecorated with ninjas to be honest. I mean even the two rangers that were added to their crew are modeled after animals with horns.
But the real great stuff about Liveman is the dichotomy. The way Liveman clashes with the more brainpower hungry Volt and how along the way they try to win back those that betrayed them was cool to see. So in conclusion, great show, and it has a moonwalking robot.
Also the theme song is one of my favs.