In the year 2074, with humanity under threat from aliens, an unexpected champion steps forward. Ken Izumi, who appears to be a typical ten-year-old boy, secretly carries weapons, armor, and accessories that let him transform into the heroic Chargeman Ken. He shields his mother, father, younger sister Caron, robot companion Barican, and all of humankind from the wicked Juralians—shape-shifting extraterrestrial invaders who terrorize Earth with schemes like flesh-eating butterflies, scientists rigged with booby traps, a malevolent doll, a prison break, alien mummies, a child who ignites things, a lethal song, and roughly sixty-five other plots for world domination.
The only thing standing between fragile humanity and Juralian conquest is Chargeman Ken and his unquenchable thirst for fiery, atomic justice.
Chargeman Ken originally aired on Japanese television in 1974. This delightfully odd children’s cartoon was rediscovered in 2007 by Japanese fans, who embraced it for its strange artwork, clumsy animation, and fantastically inept storytelling—some episodes of which were banned from Japanese TV entirely.
