JAKQ Dengekitai

J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai
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Genre	Tokusatsu Superhero fiction Science fiction
Created by	Shotaro Ishinomori
Written by	Shōzō Uehara Kuniaki Oshikawa Hirohisa Soda Susumu Takahisa Hikaru Arai Kimio Hirayama Shukei Nagasaka
Directed by	Kōichi Takemoto Atsuo Okunaka Kimio Hirayama Katsuhiko Taguchi Minoru Yamada
Starring	Yoshitaka Tanba Heizan Itou Mitchi Love Yuusuke Kazato Hiroshi Miyauchi
Narrated by	Toru Ohira
Music by	Michiaki Watanabe
Country of origin	Japan
No. of episodes	35
Production
Producer(s)	Takafumi Hagino Yoshiaki Koizumi Susumu Yoshikawa
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	TV Asahi Toei Company
Release
Original network	TV Asahi
Original release	April 9 – December 24, 1977
Chronology
Preceded by	Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
Followed by	Battle Fever J

J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai (ジャッカー電撃隊, Jakkā Dengekitai, lit. J.A.K.Q. Blitzkrieg Squad) is the second Super Sentai series. It aired from April 9, 1977 to December 24, 1977. It was created by Shotaro Ishinomori, and ran for thirty-five episodes. Toei Co. Ltd also gave it the title The Jackers, for international distribution.

Iron Claw is the leader of a global criminal empire, known simply as "Crime". With a network of wealthy and influential sympathizers, and employing an army of faceless, leather-masked thugs and cyborg assassins, Crime seeks to become the most powerful mafia organization in the world.

To combat this threat, ISSIS, the International Science Special Investigation Squad is formed. ISSIS organizes its forces around the world to battle Crime, including Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo's ISSIS branch commander, Daisuke Kujirai, proposes a radical experiment to aid his forces in Japan. Taking the code name "Joker", he recruits four young test subjects to undergo his cyborg enhancement project — multi-talented athlete and Olympic Gold medalist Goro Sakurai, disgraced boxing champion Ryu Higashi, critically injured policewoman Karen Mizuki, and clinically dead and cryogenically sustained oceanographer Bunta Daichi. Surgically altered and given various bionic enhancements as well as energy manipulation powers, the four youth begin their mission to destroy Crime as a crime-busting quartet code-named J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai. Later on, Joker leaves and Sokichi Banba, a master of disguise and a cyborg, becomes their new boss, known as Big One.

ISSIS, (the International Science Special Investigation Squad (国際科学特捜隊, Kokusai Kagaku Tokusō Tai)), was formed to combat the international threat of Crime across the globe. The Tokyo ISSIS branch was led by Kujirai Daisuke (codenamed Joker), a brilliant bionics specialist and engineer, who initiated the J.A.K.Q. project and recruited the various team members. He was married and is known to have had a young daughter. He was later tasked to head ISSIS’s advanced engineering branch and thus replaced by the flamboyant Banba Soukichi (Big One).

ISSIS’s Tokyo headquarters is located in a towering skyscraper in the heart of Shinjuku. ISSIS utilizes its own army of blue uniformed military troops to assist J.A.K.Q. when needed. Only a handful of ISSIS agents are identified, among them Agent 7 (Hayashi Keiko), Agent 8 (Yamamoto Junko), Agent 9 (Iijima Yoshiko), and Agent 10. Another notable member of ISSIS is Hime Tamasaburou, a somewhat dimwitted and clumsy low-level agent who masquerades as a ramen takeout cook and carrier. Unfortunately, he gets in the way more than he helps out.

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