Battle Fever J
| Battle Fever J | |
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| Genre | Tokusatsu |
| Created by |
Toei Company Marvel Comics |
| Starring | Kouki Tanioka Yukio Itou Narimitsu Kurachi Kenji Ohba Diane Martin Chiyonosuke Azuma Nahomi Hagi Daisuke Ban |
| Narrated by | Toru Ohira |
| Composer(s) | Michiaki Watanabe |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 52 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Tetsuo Kanno Kanetake Ochiai Itaru Orita Susumu Yoshikawa |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
TV Asahi Toei Company |
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| Original network | TV Asahi |
| Original release | February 3, 1979 – January 26, 1980 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai |
| Followed by | Denshi Sentai Denziman |
Battle Fever J (バトルフィーバーJ Batoru Fībā Jei?) is a live-action Japanese TV series. The third entry of the Super Sentai series franchise, Battle Fever J was co-produced by Toei Company and TV Asahi. A total of 52 episodes aired on TV Asahi between February 3, 1979 and January 26, 1980.
The team have codenames named for countries around the world, also respectively named in their theme song: Battle France, Battle Cossack (Soviet Union), Battle Kenya, Miss America (United States) and Battle Japan. It was also the first series in the Super Sentai franchise where the heroes must control giant robots to defeat a monster who itself has grown to a gigantic size. Toei's tokusatsu adaptation of Spider-Man was the first to introduce this format and was also the inspiration for this series. The series was also partially inspired by the Marvel Comics character Captain America.
Battle Fever J was the first series to use the term Super Sentai (unlike the previous two who were just called Sentai, without the “Super”) until Toei announced in 1995 that its predecessors Himitsu Sentai Gorenger and J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai were also part of the Super Sentai series, when Chōriki Sentai Ohranger was announced as the 19th Super Sentai team.
General Kurama assembles four young agents who had been dispatched around the world for training. They are joined by FBI investigator Diane Martin, whose father was murdered by Egos. The five don powered suits to become the Battle Fever team. The Battle Fever team's trump card is the Battle Fever Robo. Egos tries to stop the construction of the Robot, but the monsters they send to perform this task are defeated one by one by the Fever team. Egos then unleashes the "younger brother" of the Buffalo Monster, a giant robot replica of its "older brother". The Robot, fortunately, is finished in time. Aboard it, the Fever team defeats the Buffalo Monster and its successors. The Fever team never stops, even when it lost two of its members (the original Miss America and Battle Cossack). With new members, the team defeats Hedder, now the Hedder Monster, and breaks into Egos' headquarters, where they are fed into the Egos Monster Making Machine so that they may be used as material for a Battle Fever Monster. The team destroys the machine and slays the mysterious deity Satan Egos himself with the Lightning Sword Rocketter sword-throwing move.
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