Battle Fever J

Battle Fever J is a Japanese television series. It is the 3rd in Toei's Super Sentai series. Battle Fever J was a co-production of Toei Company and Marvel Comics. A total of 52 episodes aired on TV Asahi between February 3, 1978 and January 26, 1980.

Battle Fever J
Genre	Tokusatsu Superhero fiction Science fiction
Created by	Toei Company Marvel Comics
Developed by	Susumu Takaku Shozo Uehara
Directed by	Koichi Takemoto
Starring	Hironoki Tanioka Yukio Itou Narimitsu Kurachi Kenji Ohba Diane Martin Nahomi Hagi Daisuke Ban
Narrated by	Toru Ohira
Composer	Michiaki Watanabe
Country of origin	Japan
No. of episodes	52
Production
Producers	Tetsuo Kanno Kanetake Ochiai Itaru Orita Susumu Yoshikawa
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	Toei Company Marvel Comics
Original release
Network	TV Asahi
Release	February 3, 1979 (1979-02-03) – January 26, 1980 (1980-01-26)

Codenames

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.

Robots

This was 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.

Black Ranger

Battle Fever J also marks the first appearance of a Black Ranger in the franchise.

Other new things

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 also 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 Chouriki Sentai Ohranger was announced as the 19th Super Sentai team.

Plot

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. Although 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 is 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.

Characters

Battle Fever

Actor	Name	Rangers
Hironoki Tanioka	Masao Den	Battle Japan
Yukio Itou	Kensaku Shiraishi	Battle Cossack
Daisuke Ban	Makoto Jin
Narimitsu Kurachi	Kyosuke Shida	Battle France
Kenji Ohba	Shirou Akebono	Battle Kenya
Diane Martin	Diane Martin	Miss America
Naomi Hagi	Maria Nagisa

Cast

• Masao Den / Battle Japan: Hironori Tanioka
• Kensaku Shiraishi / Battle Cossack I: Yukio Itou
• Makoto Jin / Battle Cossack II: Daisuke Ban
• Kyosuke Shida / Battle France: Narimitsu Kurachi
• Shiro Akebono / Battle Kenya: Kenji Ohba
• Diane Martin / Miss America I: Diane Martin
• Maria Nagisa / Miss America II: Naomi Hagi
• General Tetsuzan Kurama: Chiyonosuke Azuma
• Keiko Nakahara: Noriko Itō
• Masaru Nakahara: Takumi Satō
• Tomoko Ueno: Keiko Kanno
• Yuki Ueno: Michiyo Satō
• Akio Hamamura: Shin'ichi Yoshimiya
• Shigeo Aoki: Seiji Suzuki
• Narrator: Tōru Ōhira

Guest Stars

• Boiser Martin (Diane's father) (1 & 24): David Friedman
• Black Tiger Mari (16): Mitchi Love
• Mitsuru Okiyama (16): Naoya Uchida
• Sayuri Kurihara (25): Lisa Komaki
• Car Owner (34): Kin'ya Sugi

Songs

Opening theme

• "Battle Fever J"
  • Lyrics: Keisuke Yamakawa
  • Composition and Arrangement: Michiaki Watanabe
  • Artist: MoJo with the Columbia Yurikago-Kai
• "Battle Fever J (Alternate Opening)"
  • Lyrics: Keisuke Yamakawa
  • Composition and Arrangement: Michiaki Watanabe
  • Artist: MoJo, the Columbia Yurikago-Kai, Feeling Free

Ending theme

• "Yūshu ga Yuku" ("Brave Men Go")
  • Lyrics: Saburō Yatsude
  • Composition and Arrangement: Michiaki Watanabe
  • Artist: MoJo