AniWorthChargeman Ken!
Introduction
It is the year 2074. In a world threatened by aliens... an unlikely hero emerges! Ken Izumi may look like an ordinary 10-year-old boy, but he secretly possesses weapons, armor, and accessories that transform him into the superheroic Chargeman Ken. Ken protects his mom, dad, little sister Caron, robot pal Barican, and the rest of mankind from the diabolical Juralians, shape-shifting alien invaders bent on terrorizing the earth with flesh-eating butterflies, booby-trapped scientists, an evil doll, a prison break, alien mummies, a kid that sets stuff on fire, a song that makes you die... basically, they have about 65 plans for world domination.
The only thing standing between the fragile human race and conquest by the Juralians is Chargeman Ken and his unquenchable thirst for fiery, atomic justice!
(Source: Discotek Media)
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 4.42/10 · 1917
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Audience reviews
4 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
INU4SH4
Genuinely one of the worst anime productions of all time, yet I can't stop recommending it to everyone else.
Chargeman Ken is one of the very rare cases of anime where everything that could go wrong, did. It's a true gem worth watching with other funbad anime enthusiasts. I had a blast watching every single episode with a couple of buddies. We always knew exactly what was going to happen in every single episode because they were all the same, however, we could never predict what kind of asspull, plot armor, absurdly convoluted Juralians' plan were conjuring or what kind of terrible animation mistake we would find next episode.
I must talk about the narrative and the episode structure of this anime. I just can't stay quiet. There's 65 episodes in total and only the first and final ones ha…
Read at the sourcegarkon_icky
Utterly terrible in every way that matters and some that don't. A must watch. This studio loathed every second of making this show and the results that barely make every 5 minute episode functional are peak art. The titular Ken is a one-man Juralien apocalypse, he does not suffer a single one to live and will do as many pointless transformation sequences as he needs to until the job is done. He will gun them down in the street. He will run them over in a truck. He will tie their families to bricks and throw them in the river. He will traumatize them and force them to do it themselves. He does this not because he wants to, nor because anybody told him to, because nobody did, but because it must be done. Juralians could be anywhere. They could be anybody. They could be your parents. They cou…
Read at the sourcedoctorminsuks
Chargeman Ken.... Oh, Chargeman Ken. Probably one of the few anime everyone can cohesively say is the worst anime ever made. But oh, that's the charm of the entire anime.
I first discovered Chargeman Ken by this video by Kenny Lauderdale that a friend sent to me — https://youtu.be/uczvIKDcnS4 (this is not sponsored in any way) — and I watched this in disbelief. Surely there can't be an anime as bad as Kenny's saying. It can't be as lazy, thrown together and hash tag as anyone is saying in the comments. It just couldn't be.
So I went with a few episodes Kenny highlighted in the video and I ended up on a full binge of Chargeman Ken.
Look : everything about this anime is lazy and the definition of cutting corners.
There's literally no sound effects. There's a scene where a giant statue s…
Read at the sourceZarvanis
I adore this show with every fiber of my being. I was genuinely disappointed when I finished it because I knew I wouldn't be able to experience anything so beautifully terrible again.
Never in my life did I think there could be an anime so staggeringly lazy, so bafflingly inept, so utterly spellbinding in how it gets everything wrong in the most spectacular way possible.
Chargeman Ken makes Mars of Destruction, Skelter+Heaven, and Garzey's Wing look almost competent by comparison.
I could go into incredible details explaining why this show is a disaster on every conceivable level, but I implore you to watch it knowing as little as possible. It is an experience like no other. You can find a playlist of the entire series on YouTube, or you could watch it on Crunchyroll if you feel so incli…
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