#battle cossack

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Battle Cossack from Battle Fever pls

Battle Cossack from Battle Fever J is Aspec

Apparently there's been two guys to hold the title and neither was specified so take your pick of who this could be.

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Giftober 2023 │ Day 24: Countries

Gokai Changes │ Battle Fever J

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I'd say “RIP Black Condor, DragonRanger, TimeFire, Shurikenger, AbareKiller, Gosei Green, Beet Buster, Kyoryu Cyan, Kyoryu Silver and Gaisorg” but you know...

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I was re-watching a random BFJ episode and I noticed something hilarious that seemed to have escaped me somehow on my first watch.

Japan throws his spear weapon.

Escargot Monster deflects it back at the team.

It almost hits Battle Cossack and Miss America, but very clearly misses.

Cossack STILL FALLS OVER.

“IDIOT”

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For what reason do you think that the Soviet member of Battle Fever is called "Battle Kozak" instead of "Battle Soviet"? Also, you opinion about the series.

Ok, it’s time to talk about Battle Fever J once again! Yay!

I have talked about how weird it is that Battle Cossack in called Battle Cossack before but this is an angle I’ve never talked about.

Let’s start with the names of the rest of the team; Battle Japan, Battle France, Battle Kenya and Miss America. All of them are named after countries. Yes, I know that technically it’s the United States of America but everyone knows when a person says they are American, they mean the USA and not the general area taking up space between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

However, Battle Cossack is not named after a country but an ethnic group.  Why is that?  Well, I think there may be several reasons.  The first is the time in which the show was produced and originally aired. Japan was (and still is) an American ally and the Cold War was very much a thing at the time with countries either align with the US, the Soviets or trying to remain neutral. Japan as also involved in a dispute with the Soviet Union over the ownership of several islands to the North of Hokkaido (it still is today with the modern Russian Federation) called the Kurils.

So, having a hero trained in the Soviet Union was pretty daring but it was one of the two massive world powers at the time so ignoring it would have been strange. That said, Soviet doesn’t really name a country, it’s a form of government. A Soviet is an elected local, district, or national council which is where the country got its name, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Yes, it can also be used to refer to a person from the Soviet Union but it is not a country name in and of itself. It also wouldn’t work for him to be called Battle Soviet Union because it breaks the one word country descriptor the others have.

Also, the Soviet Union wasn’t just one country.  It was a block of countries united under the authority of a central government in Moscow but all with their own cultural, historical and national identities. The USSR was a bit like a much more aggressive and domineering version of the modern European Union with a shared economic system and rules for government and membership. This is one of the reasons it so easily fragmented back into separate countries after the fall of Communism in the late 1980s/early 1990s. 

So why Cossack?

The answer, I believe, has to do with the reason the series was called Battle FEVER. Originally, it was supposed to be a Japanese version of the Avengers, to follow in the success of their version of Spider-Man.

However, as the series was written, it was tied less and less into the Marvel series and became a team of specialists from around the world. The original name of the main character was going to be Captain Japan, an analogue to Captain America but that was changed to Battle and the series was going to be named for him as Battle Japan.  However, something happened as the series was being created that changed the entire direction of the idea, DISCO!

Well, more specifically the amazing international success of the movie Saturday Night Fever.

Yes, this is where the Fever in Battle Fever J comes from. It is also where the secondary theme of the series comes in, dance.  Each of the heroes has a different style of dance with Miss American being Disco in tribute to the movie and the origins of the dance style.  When it came to the Soviet Hero, well, there really is only once choice there, the Cossack dance!

So there you go, a long and probably too detailed explanation of why I think Battle Cossack is named as he is.

As for what I think of the series itself?  Well, I like it!  It’s really goofy and has some of the silliest monsters and villains plots ever but it never loses a sense of fun or takes itself too seriously.  It was also a good bridge between the Sentai series before it and the genre as we know it today that would be completely formed in the 1980s.

Thanks for the question!

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A few panels from the Battle Fever J manga. Wow, look at how much more stereotypical the characters are in this!

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Day 13: January 13, 2026

Shiraishi Kensaku: Battle Cossack (Battle Fever)