History Trivia / ChargemanKen

* LateExportForYou: The show did not leave Japan until 2017, when Discotek Media announced the distribution of ''Chargeman Ken!'' into North America.
* NoExportForYou: No country outside of the show's homeland has ever officially released or dubbed ''Chargeman Ken!''.
** First averted in 2017, when Discotek Media announced the distribution of the series in the United States.
** Finally averted in 2020 when Knack Productions' official channel (as ICHI Corporation) [[RereleasedForFree uploaded ''Chargeman Ken'' into YouTube]].

* NoExportForYou: No country outside of the show's homeland has ever officially released or dubbed ''Chargeman Ken!'' until 2017, when Discotek Media announced the distribution of the series in the United States.

* FanNickname: The muscular man in a wrestling singlet who wears a bra from "Horror! Mental Hospital!" is named マッチョブラ (Macho Bra) by the Japanese Fandom, and he even has his own page on [[https://dic.pixiv.net/a/マッチョブラ Pixiv]]'s dictionary that refers to him as this.

** The show's production studio was Creator/KnackProductions. Despite Knack Productions being founded by some of the best animators of the era and having had notables in the anime industry working with them, quite a number of their productions (especially in the 70s-80s) are for some reason either very low quality (sometimes horrendously so) and/or [[TheMockbuster outright copycats of more-popular shows]]. This reputation was acquired early in the American anime fan community, thanks to the release of some of their mockbusters - namely ''Ninja the Wonder Boy'' (original title ''Manga Sarutobi Sasuke'') and Creator/KenIshikawa collaboration ''Robby the Rascal'' (original title ''Cybot Robotchi'') -- on U.S. home video for the 1980s kiddie audience. Nevertheless, not all of their shows were terrible and some of them found legitimate international success. Anyone who watched Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the late 1980s may remember them for ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' anime, which was good enough to win a commendation from the U.S. National Educational Association. ''Don Chuck Monogatari'', a {{kodomomuke}} show about an anthropomorphic beaver and his friends, and the volleyball comedy/drama ''Anime/AttackerYou'' found tremendous success in Europe and, in the case of the former, in French-speaking Canada (as ''Le Petit Castor''). And although the studio's team-up with Creator/GoNagai, ''Psycho Armor Govarian'', was something of a ''Anime/MazingerZ'' redux, it was well made for its era and became popular in South Korea.

* FanNickname: The muscular man in a wrestling singlet who wears a bra from "Horror! Mental Hospital!" is named マッチョブラ (Macho Bra) by the Japanese Fandom, as observed by a tag on [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/tags/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9/illustrations Pixiv]].

* {{Defictionalization}}: In Episode 16, minor characters mention fictional songs titled "Brahms Symphony No. 8" and "Silly Goldfish". They both became real songs and were included in the official soundtrack.

** The show's production studio was Creator/{{Knack}}. Despite Knack Productions being founded by some of the best animators of the era and having had notables in the anime industry working with them, quite a number of their productions (especially in the 70s-80s) are for some reason either very low quality (sometimes horrendously so) and/or [[TheMockbuster outright copycats of more-popular shows]]. This reputation was acquired early in the American anime fan community, thanks to the release of some of their mockbusters - namely ''Ninja the Wonder Boy'' (original title ''Manga Sarutobi Sasuke'') and Creator/KenIshikawa collaboration ''Robby the Rascal'' (original title ''Cybot Robotchi'') -- on U.S. home video for the 1980s kiddie audience. Nevertheless, not all of their shows were terrible and some of them found legitimate international success. Anyone who watched Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the late 1980s may remember them for ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' anime, which was good enough to win a commendation from the U.S. National Educational Association. ''Don Chuck Monogatari'', a {{kodomomuke}} show about an anthropomorphic beaver and his friends, and the volleyball comedy/drama ''Anime/AttackerYou'' found tremendous success in Europe and, in the case of the former, in French-speaking Canada (as ''Le Petit Castor''). And although the studio's team-up with Creator/GoNagai, ''Psycho Armor Govarian'', was something of a ''Anime/MazingerZ'' redux, it was well made for its era and became popular in South Korea.

* {{Defictionalization}}: In Episode 16, minor characters mention the fictional songs titled "Brahms Symphony No. 8" and "Silly Goldfish". They both became real songs and were included in the official soundtrack.

* HeAlsoDid: The show's production studio was Creator/{{Knack}}. Despite Knack Productions being founded by some of the best animators of the era and having had notables in the anime industry working with them, quite a number of their productions (especially in the 70s-80s) are for some reason either very low quality (sometimes horrendously so) and/or [[TheMockbuster outright copycats of more-popular shows]]. This reputation was acquired early in the American anime fan community, thanks to the release of some of their mockbusters - namely ''Ninja the Wonder Boy'' (original title ''Manga Sarutobi Sasuke'') and Creator/KenIshikawa collaboration ''Robby the Rascal'' (original title ''Cybot Robotchi'') -- on U.S. home video for the 1980s kiddie audience. Nevertheless, not all of their shows were terrible and some of them found legitimate international success. Anyone who watched Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the late 1980s may remember them for ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' anime, which was good enough to win a commendation from the U.S. National Educational Association. ''Don Chuck Monogatari'', a {{kodomomuke}} show about an anthropomorphic beaver and his friends, and the volleyball comedy/drama ''Anime/AttackerYou'' found tremendous success in Europe and, in the case of the former, in French-speaking Canada (as ''Le Petit Castor''). And although the studio's team-up with Creator/GoNagai, ''Psycho Armor Govarian'', was something of a ''Anime/MazingerZ'' redux, it was well made for its era and became popular in South Korea.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Even though this anime is set in the future, everyone still uses vinyl records.

* HeAlsoDid: The show's production studio was Knack. Despite Knack Productions being founded by some of the best animators of the era and having had notables in the anime industry working with them, quite a number of their productions (especially in the 70s-80s) are for some reason either very low quality (sometimes horrendously so) and/or [[TheMockbuster outright copycats of more-popular shows]]. This reputation was acquired early in the American anime fan community, thanks to the release of some of their mockbusters - namely ''Ninja the Wonder Boy'' (original title ''Manga Sarutobi Sasuke'') and Creator/KenIshikawa collaboration ''Robby the Rascal'' (original title ''Cybot Robotchi'') -- on U.S. home video for the 1980s kiddie audience. Nevertheless, not all of their shows were terrible and some of them found legitimate international success. Anyone who watched Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the late 1980s may remember them for ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' anime, which was good enough to win a commendation from the U.S. National Educational Association. ''Don Chuck Monogatari'', a {{kodomomuke}} show about an anthropomorphic beaver and his friends, and the volleyball comedy/drama ''Anime/AttackerYou'' found tremendous success in Europe and, in the case of the former, in French-speaking Canada (as ''Le Petit Castor''). And although the studio's team-up with Creator/GoNagai, ''Psycho Armor Govarian'', was something of a ''Anime/MazingerZ'' redux, it was well made for its era and became popular in South Korea.

* FanNickname: The muscular man in a wrestling singlet from "Horror! Mental Hospital!" is named マッチョブラ (Macho Bra) by the Japanese Fandom, as observed by a tag on [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/tags/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9/illustrations Pixiv]].

** Sho Terashima from ''VideoGame/ZankiZero'' looks identical to Ken, with a large [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS "T" on his shirt]].

** The entirety of the ''Manga/SgtFrog'' anime episode "Jerseyman Fuyuki" is a somewhat affectionate TakeThat towards the notoriously bad 1974 anime. Fuyuki buys Ken's jersey online and becomes AxCrazy after putting it on, alluding to how Ken constantly does needlessly cruel things in the name of defeating the Juralians and gets no comeuppance for it.

** Sho Terashima from ''VideoGame/ZankiZero'' looks identical to Ken, with a large [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS "T"]] on his shirt.

* HeAlsoDid: The show's production studio was Knack. Despite Knack Productions being founded by some of the best animators of the era and having had notables in the anime industry working with them, quite a number of their productions (especially in the 70s-80s) are for some reason either very low quality (sometimes horrendously so) and/or [[TheMockbuster outright copycats of more-popular shows]]. This reputation was acquired early in the American anime fan community, thanks to the release of some of their mockbusters - namely ''Ninja the Wonder Boy'' (original title ''Manga Sarutobi Sasuke'') and Creator/KenIshikawa collaboration ''Robby the Rascal'' (original title ''Cybot Robotchi'') - on U.S. home video for the 1980s kiddie audience.\\
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Nevertheless, not all of their shows were terrible and some of them found legitimate international success. Anyone who watched Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the late 1980s may remember them for ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' anime, which was good enough to win a commendation from the U.S. National Educational Association. ''Don Chuck Monogatari'', a {{kodomomuke}} show about an anthropomorphic beaver and his friends, and the volleyball comedy/drama ''Anime/AttackerYou'' found tremendous success in Europe and, in the case of the former, in French-speaking Canada (as ''Le Petit Castor''). And although the studio's team-up with Creator/GoNagai, ''Psycho Armor Govarian'', was something of a ''Anime/MazingerZ'' redux, it was well made for its era and became popular in South Korea.

** In the ''Manga/SgtFrog'' anime episode "Fuyuki, Birth! Jerseyman Fuyuki", Fuyuki Hinata buys Ken's sweater online and starts acting as crazy as him.
** The anime podcast [[https://dynamiteinthebrain.com/ Dynamite in the Brain]] is named after the infamous episode with Dr. Volga.

* HeAlsoDid: The show's production studio was Knack. Despite Knack Productions being founded by some of the best animators of the era and having had notables in the anime industry working with them, quite a number of their productions (especially in the 70s-80s) are for some reason either very low quality (sometimes horrendously so) and/or [[TheMockbuster outright copycats of more-popular shows]]. This reputation was acquired early in the American anime fan community, thanks to the release of some of their mockbusters - namely ''Ninja the Wonder Boy'' (original title ''Manga Sarutobi Sasuke'') and Creator/KenIshikawa collaboration ''Robby the Rascal'' (original title ''Cybot Robotchi'') - on U.S. home video for the 1980s kiddie audience.
** Nevertheless, not all of their shows were terrible and some of them found legitimate international success. Anyone who watched Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the late 1980s may remember them for ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' anime, which was good enough to win a commendation from the U.S. National Educational Association. ''Don Chuck Monogatari'', a {{kodomomuke}} show about an anthropomorphic beaver and his friends, and the volleyball comedy/drama ''Anime/AttackerYou'' found tremendous success in Europe and, in the case of the former, in French-speaking Canada (as ''Le Petit Castor''). And although the studio's team-up with Creator/GoNagai, ''Psycho Armor Govarian'', was something of a ''Anime/MazingerZ'' redux, it was well made for its era and became popular in South Korea.

** In the ''Manga/SgtFrog'' anime episode "Fuyuki, Birth! Jerseyman Fuyuki", Fuyuki Hinata buys Ken's sweater online and starts acting like him.as crazy as him.

* HeAlsoDid: The show's production studio was Knack. Despite Knack Productions being founded by some of the best animators of the era and having had notables in the anime industry working with them, quite a number of their productions (especially in the 70s-80s) are for some reason either very low quality (sometimes horrendously so) and/or [[TheMockbuster outright copycats of more-popular shows]]. This reputation was acquired early in the American anime fan community, thanks to the release of some of their Mockbusters - namely ''Ninja the Wonder Boy'' (original title ''Manga Sarutobi Sasuke'') and Creator/KenIshikawa collaboration ''Robby the Rascal'' (original title ''Cybot Robotchi'') - on U.S. home video for the 1980s kiddie audience.
** Nevertheless, not all of their shows were terrible and some of them found legitimate international success. Anyone who watched Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the late 1980s may remember them for ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' anime, which was good enough to win a commendation from the U.S. National Educational Association. ''Don Chuck Monogatari'', a {{Kodomomuke}} show about an anthropomorphic beaver and his friends, and the volleyball comedy/drama ''Anime/AttackerYou'' found tremendous success in Europe and, in the case of the former, in French-speaking Canada (as ''Le Petit Castor''). And although the studio's team-up with Creator/GoNagai, ''Psycho Armor Govarian'', was something of a ''Anime/MazingerZ'' redux, it was well made for its era and became popular in South Korea.
* ReferencedBy: The anime podcast [[https://dynamiteinthebrain.com/ Dynamite in the Brain]] is named after the infamous episode with Dr. Volga.

** Nevertheless, not all of their shows were terrible and some of them found legitimate international success. Anyone who watched Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the late 1980s may remember them for ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' anime, which was good enough to win a commendation from the U.S. National Education Association. ''Don Chuck Monogatari'', a {{Kodomomuke}} show about an anthropomorphic beaver and his friends, and the volleyball comedy/drama ''Anime/AttackerYou'' found tremendous success in Europe and, in the case of the former, in French-speaking Canada (as ''Le Petit Castor''). And although the studio's team-up with Creator/GoNagai, ''Psycho Armor Govarian'', was something of a ''Anime/MazingerZ'' redux, it was well made for its era and became popular in South Korea.

** Nevertheless, not all of their shows were terrible and some of them found legitimate international success. Anyone who watched Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the late 1980s may remember them for ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' anime, which was good enough to win a commendation from the U.S. National Education Association. ''Don Chuck Monogatari'', a {{Kodomomuke}} show about an anthropomorphic beaver and his friends, and the volleyball comedy/drama ''Anime/AttackerYou'' found tremendous success in Europe, with the former also being shown on the Creator/{{CBC}} in French-speaking Canada. And although the studio's team-up with Creator/GoNagai, ''Psycho Armor Govarian'', was something of a ''Anime/MazingerZ'' redux, it was well made for its era and became popular in South Korea.

* HeAlsoDid: The show's production studio was Knack. Despite Knack Productions being founded by some of the best animators of the era and having had notables in the anime industry working with them, quite a number of their productions (especially in the 70s-80s) are for some reason either very low quality (sometimes horrendously so) and/or [[TheMockbuster outright copycats of more-popular shows]]. This reputation was acquired early in the American anime fan community, thanks to the release of some of their Mockbusters - namely ''Ninja the Wonder Boy'' (original title ''Manga Sarutobi Sasuke'') and Creator/KenIshikawa collaboration ''Robby the Rascal'' (original title ''Cybot Robotchi'') - on U.S. home video for the kiddie audience.
** Nevertheless, not all of their shows were terrible and some of them found real international success. Anyone who watched Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the late 1980s may remember them for ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' anime, which was good enough to win a commendation from the U.S. National Education Association. ''Don Chuck Monogatari'', a {{Kodomomuke}} show about an anthropomorphic beaver and his friends, and the volleyball comedy/drama ''Anime/AttackerYou'' found tremendous success in Europe, with the former also being shown on the Creator/{{CBC}} in French-speaking Canada. And although the studio's team-up with Creator/GoNagai, ''Psycho Armor Govarian'', was something of a ''Anime/MazingerZ'' redux, it was well made for its era and became popular in South Korea.

* HeAlsoDid: The show's production studio was Knack. Despite Knack Productions being founded by some of the best animators of the era and having had notables in the anime industry working with them, quite a number of their productions (especially in the 70s-80s) are for some reason either very low quality (sometimes horrendously so) and/or [[TheMockbuster outright copycats of more-popular shows]]. If you've seen ''Ninja the Wonder Boy'' (original title ''Manga Sarutobi Sasuke'') or ''Robby the Rascal'' (original title ''Cybot Robotchi''), you know how lame and derivative Knack could get.
** Nevertheless, not all of their shows were terrible and some of them found real international success. Anyone who watched Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the late 1980s may remember them for ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' anime, which was much better made. ''Don Chuck Monogatari'', a 1975 {{Kodomomuke}} show about an anthropomorphic beaver and his friends, and the 1984 volleyball comedy/drama ''Anime/AttackerYou'' found tremendous success in Europe, with the former also being shown on the Creator/{{CBC}} in French-speaking Canada. And although the studio's 1983 team-up with Creator/GoNagai, ''Psycho Armor Govarian'', was something of a ''Anime/MazingerZ'' rehash, it was well made for its era and became popular in South Korea.

* HeAlsoDid: The show's production studio was Knack. Despite Knack Productions being founded by some of the best animators of the era and having had notables in the anime industry working with them, quite a number of their productions (especially in the 70s-80s) are for some reason either very low quality (sometimes horrendously so) and/or [[TheMockbuster outright copycats of more-popular shows]]. If you've seen ''Ninja the Wonder Boy'' (original title ''Manga Sarutobi Sasuke'') or ''Robby the Rascal'' (original title ''Cybot Robotchi''), you know how lame and derivative Knack could get. ** Nevertheless, not all of their shows were terrible and some of them found real international success. Anyone who watched Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the late 1980s may remember them for ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' anime, which was much better made. ''Don Chuck Monogatari'', a 1975 {{Kodomomuke}} show about an anthropomorphic beaver and his friends, and the 1984 volleyball comedy/drama ''Anime/AttackerYou'' found tremendous success in Europe, with the former also being shown on the Creator/{{CBC}} in French-speaking Canada. And although the studio's 1983 team-up with Creator/GoNagai, ''Psycho Armor Govarian'', was something of a ''Anime/MazingerZ'' rehash, it was well made for its era and became popular in South Korea.

* HeAlsoDid:
** The show's production studio was Knack. Anyone who watched Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the late 1980s may remember them for ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' anime, which was much better made.
** Despite Knack Productions being founded by some of the best animators of the era and having had notables in the anime industry working with them, quite a number of their productions (especially in the 70s-80s) are for some reason either very low quality (sometimes horrendously so) and/or [[TheMockbuster outright copycats of more-popular shows]].

** Despite Knack Productions being founded by some of the best animators of the era and having had notables in the anime industry working with them, quite a number of their productions (especially in the 70s-80s) are for some reason either very low quality (sometimes horrendously so) and/or [[TheMockbuster outright copycats of more-popular shows]].