History YMMV / ChargemanKen

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Chinese deliveryman from the 29th episode, mostly due to the fact that he literally only appears in one scene, where he shows up to deliver a CatScare to Ken and the titular model, and then question what's happening before never appearing for the rest of the episode.

* The Juralian from Episode 30. He's injured by accident and thus outed as a Juralian, so he desperately tries to flee from people who want him dead just for being an alien. He does take Caron hostage, but he's clearly desperate and frightened.

* AngstWhatAngst: Ken engaging in this trope is part of the reason why he's a DesignatedHero and a MemeticPsychopath. He doesn't seem to be at all traumatized by how he's killed hundreds of Juralians, or how he and those close to him have been nearly killed on multiple occasions. He barely seems to mourn the losses of acquaintances who die and/or turn out to be Juralians, save for looking sad for a bit at the end of the episode.

* AngstWhatAngst: Ken engaging in this trope is part of the reason why he's a DesignatedHero and a MemeticPsychpath. He doesn't seem to be at all traumatized by how he's killed hundreds of Juralians, or how he and those close to him have been nearly killed on multiple occasions. He barely seems to mourn the losses of acquaintances who die and/or turn out to be Juralians, save for looking sad for a bit at the end of the episode.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: In Episode 21, after Ken is forced to destroy Caron's new doll (which turned out to be possessed) and the Juralians that used it to lure her and Mrs. Izumi into a trap, he buys her a new one at the end.

* NightmareFuel: Among all the NoBudget induced hilarity, every time Ken's transformation sequence is played without the ThemeMusicPowerUp is actually quite eerie with only the wind sound effects being audible (and being largely the only sound effect in the sequence).

* SoBadItsGood: The art and animation are godawful, even by mid-70's standards (the animators couldn't even draw a ''net'' properly, and that's just a bunch of lines!). Recording quality is bathroom level; 95% of sound effects are missing (Ken's laser gun is often the only exception). The pacing is horrendous; episodes can and do switch from too-quick to sluggish on a dime. The episodes are only five minutes long and typically fail to tell an engaging story within that amount of time, so the plots of each episode are utterly nonsensical. Finally, the [[DesignatedHero "hero"]] is a certified jackass. This show is terrible. And it's ''glorious''.

* OrphanedReference: The main reason Ken is so bloodthirsty towards the Juralians is because he's an {{expy}} of Knack Production's prior protagonist, Kantaro of ''Anime/{{Astroganger}}''. Kantaro hated the Blaster alien race for killing his mother as well as repeatedly attacking earth, and swore to kill them all as revenge. His father Dr. Hoshi often told him to calm down and assured him there were good Blasters amongst the bad ones. But Ken has no such motive, which makes him come across as needlessly brutal towards his enemies, which isn't helped by the episodes being too short (5-10 minutes runtime) to explore his backstory.

* OrphanedReference: The main reason Ken is so bloodthirsty towards the Juralians is because he's an {{expy}} of Knack Production's prior protagonist, Kantaro of ''Anime/{{Astroganger}}''. Kantaro hated the Blaster alien race for killing his mother as well as repeatedly attacking earth, and swore to kill them all as revenge. His father Dr. Hoshi often told him to calm down and assured him there were good Blasters amongst the bad ones. But Ken has no such motive, not helped by the episodes being too short (5-10 minutes runtime) to explore his backstory.

** The show's occasional and outright use of the word ''kichigai'' ('crazy', 'lunatic', 'loony', 'crackpot') can be quite shocking for modern audience, because it is considered as a discriminatory slur against the people with intellectual disability. [[UsefulNotes/{{kotobagari}}Modern networks in Japan forbid the use of this word for almost any occasion]], let alone the shows aimed at children.

** Many modern fans of ''Chargeman Ken!"' also like ''Anime/{{Astroganger}}'', which also has a reputation of SoBadItsGood because of the floppy animation and was also made by Creator/KnackProductions. Though, it is universally agreed that ''Astroganger'' has a much higher production value, and much better writing.

* FriendlyFandoms: Crossovers with ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' are so common that they have their own tag on Website/NicoNicoDouga, 東方充電男[[note]](Touhou Juuden Otoko, including a BlindIdiotTranslation of Chargeman into "Electric Charge Boy")[[/note]], with nearly 600 videos.

** The show's occasional and outright use of the word ''kichigai'' ('crazy', 'lunatic', 'loony', 'crackpot') is another example, [[UsefulNotes/{{kotobagari}} thanks to censorship]].

** The hair - every so often a hair that was caught on some of the animation cels and not cleaned off before filming will appear. This isn't exactly unheard of in cheap animation in general but it happens so frequently in this show that it became a meme. When there was a live action stage play made of the show in the [=2000s=] they put a hair on the poster.

* SoBadItsGood: The animation is godawful even by mid-70's standards (they can't even draw a ''net'' properly, and that's just a bunch of lines!). Recording quality is bathroom level; 95% of sound effects are missing (Ken's laser gun is often the only exception). The pacing is horrendous; episodes can and do switch from too-quick to sluggish on a dime. The episodes are only five minutes long and typically fail to tell an engaging story within that amount of time, so the plots of each episode are utterly nonsensical. Finally, the [[DesignatedHero "hero"]] is a certified jackass. This show is terrible. And it's ''glorious''.

* SoBadItsGood: The animation is godawful even by mid-70's standards. Recording quality is bathroom level; 95% of sound effects are missing (Ken's laser gun is often the only exception). The pacing is horrendous; episodes can and do switch from too-quick to sluggish on a dime. The episodes are only five minutes long and typically fail to tell an engaging story within that amount of time, so the plots of each episode are utterly nonsensical. Finally, the [[DesignatedHero "hero"]] is a certified jackass. This show is terrible. And it's ''glorious''.

* EvilIsSexy: The Jurals' human disguises pretty much always end up handsome or hot.

* SoBadItsGood: The animation is godawful even by mid-70's standards. Recording quality is bathroom level; 95% of sound effects are missing (Ken's laser gun is often the only exception). The pacing is horrendous; episodes can and do switch from too-quick to sluggish on a dime. The episodes are too short to tell an engaging story, so the plots are utterly nonsensical. Finally, the [[DesignatedHero "hero"]] is a certified jackass. This show is terrible. And it's ''glorious''.

** The hair - every so often a hair that was caught on some of the animation cels and not cleaned off before filming will appear. This isn't exactly unheard of in cheap animation in general but it happens so frequently in this show that it became a meme. When their was a live action stage play made of the show in the [=2000s=] they put a hair on the poster.

* HilariousInHindsight: The series title in that Creator/{{Capcom}} would eventually create characters named [[VideoGame/MegaMan5 Charge Man]] and [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Ken]].