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Liveman appears to be the first super sentai to involve, on hero costumes, the use of mini flash pots with flash cotton and electric sparkle additive using momentary firing switches in the index finger knuckle of the costume glove, which became a routine part of super-sentai through Kakuranger (1994), usually supervised by Toei special effects supervisor Nobuo Yajima. This and the use of titanium tetrachloride to produce the white smoke rising from surfaces (e.g., scenes of mecha having been shot down and have crash landed, fried swords, etc).

I was not able to confirm the use of electric sparkle flash on hero team uniforms in earlier sentai (e.g., Maskman). If you've seen an episode where this effect was used, please add your correction. 