Choudenshi Bioman (超電子バイオマン) is a Japanese Tokusatsu television show; Toei Company's eighth installment in the Super Sentai metaseries. Its 51 episodes aired on TV Asahi from February 4, 1984, to January 26, 1985, replacing Kagaku Sentai Dynaman and was replaced by Dengeki Sentai Changeman with a movie being released during the show's initial run. It is the first Super Sentai series to have two females in the main five as well as the first Super Sentai series to have a female Yellow Ranger. It was also the last series to have a Ranger change mid-season. The international English title is listed by Toei as Bioman. In the Philippines, Bioman was aired on ABS-CBN from 1987 to 1988 and in France on Canal+ in 1985, dubbed in English and French respectively.

Synopsis

The once prosperous Planet Bio (バイオ星) is destroyed after a world war erupted over the use of a scientific discovery called "Bio Particles". The Planet Bio Peacekeeping Alliance (バイオ星平和連合), which sought to use Bio Particles for peaceful purposes, sends the giant robot Bio Robo and an assistant robot named Peebo to prevent the same tragedy from happening on Earth. Bio Robo arrives in 15th century Japan, where it showers Bio Particles on five young individuals. Five centuries later, the descendants of these individuals, infused with Bio Particles, are chosen by Peebo and Bio Robo to become the Bioman team to protect the Earth from the Neo-Empire Gear, an organization led by mad scientist Doctor Man.

Characters

Bioman

The eponymous Bioman team are the descendants of five people showered with Bio Particles centuries ago who was spirited away by the Bio Robo during Gear's initial attack to obtain the Techno Braces (テクノブレス) from Peebo to become the Bioman. To transform individually they call their color and number, and to transform as a group they call "Bioman". Along with their Bio Swords (バイオソード), a versatile sidearm with sword, dagger, and blaster modes, the Bioman have a variety of team attacks that are executed after their Bio Brain Computers are synched up. Among their team attacks are the Bio Electron Beam (バイオエレクトロビーム) and Miracle Laser (ミラクルレーザー).

Vehicles

Mecha

Allies

Neo-Empire Gear

The Neo-Empire Gear (新帝国ギア) was founded and led by the cyborg Doctor Man, from his Neo-Cloud fortress at the South Pole. Gear's forces believe themselves to be a technologically advanced society with the right to rule Earth.

Jyunoids

The Five Beast Warrior Jyunoids (ジューノイド五獣士) are mechanical monsters that fight the Biomen and support the Big Three in their battles.

Others

Silva

Bio Hunter Silva (バイオハンター・シルバ) is a robot who was given the Anti-Bio Particles as a power source and with a built-in arrow launcher in his elbow, from Planet Bio built by the Anti-Bio Union (反バイオ同盟) with the objective to terminate anything with Bio Particles. However, Silva malfunctions and uses his mecha Balzion (バルジオン) to destroy Planet Bio. Tracking the Bio Particle signature of Peebo and the Bio Robo, Silva arrives on Earth to complete his objective. Though an arch-enemy of the Bioman, Silva is also at odds with Gear who desire to utilize Balzion's technology for their own use. Losing his robot, Silva retrieves Balzion while killing Mason. In the end, Silva is destroyed when Balzion was defeated by a sudden charge of Bio Energy from the Bio Robo.

Episodes

Movie

A movie version of Chōdenshi Bioman premiered at the Toei Manga Matsuri film festival on July 14, 1984, the same day episode 24 aired. It was directed by Nagafumi Hori and written by Hirohisa Soda, who both worked on the series. The events of the movie are set somewhere between Episodes 11 and 31 due to the presence of Jun Yabuki as Yellow Four and the appearance of all five Beastnoids.

Cast

Voice actors

English pilot cast

Songs

Opening theme

Ending theme

International broadcast and home video