History Anime / ChargemanKen

* GirlWithPsychoWeapon: Caron becomes one in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3SMJ9KpjIk&feature=related episode 45]], due to her piano teacher (who, predictably, is a disguised Juralian) brainwashing her into trying to kill Ken. She's snapped out of it when her mother [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slaps her]].

''Chargeman Ken!'' is a notoriously bad 1974 CultClassic anime. Although the studio that produced the show, Creator/KnackProductions, was known for low-quality productions emphasizing cheap gags over quality, this show may be the bottom of the barrel even by their standards. The production was something of a reunion for those who worked on ''Astroganger''. Individual episodes only ran five minutes twenty seconds apiece (excluding the opening and end credits). It was cancelled after 65 episodes.

* BrInwashedAndCrazy: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3SMJ9KpjIk&feature=related episode 45]], Caron is brainwashed by her piano teacher and tries to stab Ken.

* ComplexityAddiction: The Juralians suffer from this big time. One of their wacky plans was to save a species of butterfly from extinction, give them the ability to eat human cells, breed them for '''fifty years''', then unleashing them on human cities. Not only does this plan end up foiled in five minutes as usual, but there's no explanation on why they didn't just launch the attack fifty years ago ''when Ken wasn't around to stop them yet''.
* CreepyCircusMusic: At the beginning of the CircusEpisode, the waltz "Waves of the Danube" is played in a minor [[{{Tonality}} key]], and has a very melancholic tone. Justified, because [[spoiler:it's an early cue that the circus is a trap to kill Ken.]]

* ElevatorSchool: In a rare attempt at actual worldbuilding, episode 6 reveals that in the show's futuristic setting, all grade levels from elementary school to university are housed in a single school building, and this is the case with schools the entire world over. The school Ken goes to is 70 stories tall.

* {{Zeerust}}: The show's visions of the future is so 70's it hurts, which only adds to the charm.

* EvilIsSexy: Invoked. Juralians are often disguised as really good-looking humans.

* CreepyCircusMusic: At the beginning of the CircusEpisode, the waltz "Waves of the Danube" is played in a minor key, and has a very melancholic tone. Justified, because [[spoiler:it's an early cue that the circus is a trap to kill Ken.]]

''Chargeman Ken!'' is a notoriously bad 1974 CultClassic anime. Although the studio that produced the show, Creator/KnackProductions, was known for low-quality productions emphasizing cheap gags over quality, this show may be the bottom of the barrel even by their standards. The production was something of a reunion for those who worked on ''Astroganger''. Individual episodes only ran five minutes twenty seconds apiece (excluding the opening and end credits), which led to horrendous pacing issues. It was cancelled after 65 episodes. This fascinatingly dreadful series would have been completely forgotten had it not been for the 2007 DVD release being added to Website/NicoNicoDouga. MemeticMutation ensued. [[NoExportForYou Sadly, no country outside of the series' homeland has ever officially released or dubbed the show.]] (This was first averted in 2017 when Creator/DiscotekMedia has secured the license to release the show in the United States and Canada into home video.)

* {{Bishonen}}: Hoshi. Ken is also supposed to be one.

* KansaiRegionalAccent: Happens a lot with the Juralians in human form, but hilariously [[ChewingTheScenery highlighted]] when an aspiring arsonist is told, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfkk3QJSaEw "Everyday, from now on, you will burn down a house."]] (Kore kara mainichi ie wo yakou'''[[PrecisionFStrike ze]]''')

''Chargeman Ken!'' is a notoriously bad 1974 CultClassic anime. Although the studio that produced the show, Creator/KnackProductions, was known for low-quality productions emphasizing cheap gags over quality, this show may be the bottom of the barrel even by their standards. The production was something of a reunion for those who worked on ''Anime/{{Astroganger}}''. Individual episodes only ran five minutes twenty seconds apiece (excluding the opening and end credits), which led to horrendous pacing issues. It was cancelled after 65 episodes. This fascinatingly dreadful series would have been completely forgotten had it not been for the 2007 DVD release being added to Website/NicoNicoDouga. MemeticMutation ensued. [[NoExportForYou Sadly, no country outside of the series' homeland has ever officially released or dubbed the show.]] (This was first averted in 2017 when Creator/DiscotekMedia has secured the license to release the show in the United States and Canada into home video.)

* ExcitedShowTitle: ''Chargeman Ken!''