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Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Fri May 11, 2018 9:35 pm

I thought that since my random goofy topic about that single episode went so well, and after rewatching some of the other episodes and realizing they're all horrendously bad, we could try a sort of book club, except it's a series of 7ish minute episodes of a really really bad anime. Since this kind of thing needs to be experienced, The plan is for me to post an episode every day, (when possible), and we can discuss and make fun of it. The advantage over making this a stream is that we don't need to worry about all meeting at the same time!

So anyway, without further Ado, let's start with the first episode.



DANGER!! THE CHILDREN'S SPACE STATION
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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

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we will hold these children known as Earth's children hostage!
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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri May 11, 2018 9:43 pm

Ken can apparently do a barrel roll in mid-air, which you can see in the 4 minute mark.

I mean, that has to be one of his powers. Otherwise it'd look like they didn't layer the cels and the backgrounds properly so that he'd be on the ground!

Also, the sound engineering on this show is the worst. Why doesn't his laser gun make a sound when he blasts those aliens? Were sound effects expensive back then?

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Fri May 11, 2018 9:44 pm

Mr. Big wrote:
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Ken can apparently do a barrel roll in mid-air, which you can see in the 4 minute mark.
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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri May 11, 2018 10:38 pm

Also, Barikan is useless :-I

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Nick Onimura (?) » Fri May 11, 2018 11:27 pm

At first I thought you couldn't get any more low-budget than Speed Racer. Then I saw this.

As you'll see in a couple choice episodes, Ken is kind of a sociopath.

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri May 11, 2018 11:30 pm

Nick Onimura wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 11:27 pm
At first I thought you couldn't get any more low-budget than Speed Racer. Then I saw this.
There are anime with even lower budget than "Ken", too :-I (if only somebody would sub "Hoshi no Ko Poron"...)

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 12:34 am

Mr. Big wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 11:30 pm
There are anime with even lower budget than "Ken", too :-I (if only somebody would sub "Hoshi no Ko Poron"...)
*Watches ken barrel roll for a while*

are you serious there's something lower budget than this? :-I
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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 12:40 am

Gloomy Rube wrote:
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*Watches ken barrel roll for a while*

are you serious there's something lower budget than this? :-I


You tell me :-I

I don't know if this can get any cheaper.

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Weird Autumn (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 4:09 am

Mr. Big wrote:
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You tell me :-I

I don't know if this can get any cheaper.
you can count the individual frames of animation in this show on one hand

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Madeline (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 6:37 am

Mr. Big wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 10:38 pm
Also, Barikan is useless :-I
Correction: everybody in this universe is useless :-I

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Madeline (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 6:37 am

“These children, known as Earth’s children” yeah, we understood you the first time, Mojo Jojo

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Madeline (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 6:50 am

Mr. Big wrote:
Sat May 12, 2018 12:40 am



You tell me :-I

I don't know if this can get any cheaper.
I like how the main character’s dialogue just keeps going even after the short fades to black :-I

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by minty (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 10:02 am

Why would children continue to play cheerfully after being kidnapped by some space octopus?

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 3:05 pm

So after a wonderful adventure in which those children, known as earth's children, were attacked and saved in an overly long 'action' sequence so long the theme song repeated multiple times, let's take a look at today's adventure:

SAFE BY A HAIR



Despite the title, the gimmick for today's episode is ~darkness~, in which we learn that chargeman ken can't transform if it's dark. I guess???
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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

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Mr. Big wrote:
Fri May 11, 2018 10:38 pm
Also, Barikan is useless :-I
don't worry, in this episode he gets to be... useful??? kinda??? :-I
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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 3:16 pm

I love that Ken asked Caron where she got the matches. Didn't he see Barikan bring her some?

Why did the sound effects disappear half-way into the episode? Did the budget run out?

Soo...why can't Ken transform in the dark? :-I Why did Caron have to set Barikan on fire in order for that to happen? So many questions I know I'll never get answers to.

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 3:22 pm

I'm ~assuming~ it was too... uh, windy. or dark. or something for the matches to stay lit without giving it shelter inside Barikan's... body? What the heck even is Barikan?
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 3:28 pm

Also, the main villain is the dumbest evil overlord ever. Why does he keep coming up with these zany schemes that always easily backfire!? :twonk:

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by minty (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 4:24 pm

Why did he bring Barican and Caron with him anyway, if they'd just be in danger? It would be like Sailor Moon bringing her little brother with her to fight the Negaverse.

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 4:49 pm

minty wrote:
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Why did he bring Barican and Caron with him anyway, if they'd just be in danger? It would be like Sailor Moon bringing her little brother with her to fight the Negaverse.
Well it was Caron's birthday, so of course she gets to come. :-I As for Barican, he can help! I mean, he is a... whatever he is, and that's important and useful, right? :-I
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Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sat May 12, 2018 11:57 pm

I'd also like to mention how weird it is to hear people sing Happy Birthday in an anime
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun May 13, 2018 12:05 am

Just want to mention that a lot of the animation of Ken shooting the Octo-aliens with his laser gun is reused in a lot of later episodes, especially the one at 5:48. I've seen that one in at least two or three other episodes.

Really, the more the show goes on, the more they recycle old animation. There's probably an episode that's composed entirely of reused animation.

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sun May 13, 2018 2:56 am

How does Barikan hurt himself at 2:39ish...? It looks like he burns his butt on literally nothing.
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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

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Gloomy Rube wrote:
Sun May 13, 2018 2:56 am
How does Barikan hurt himself at 2:39ish...? It looks like he burns his butt on literally nothing.
I watched that part 3 times, and I can’t tell how he burns himself either :-I

I also like the part at 4:49 where Caron says the matches won’t light, even as the animation shows a flare of light on her face :-I

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by minty (?) » Sun May 13, 2018 11:12 am

I think he just falls on the floor. What kind of an asshole programs a robot to feel pain anyway?

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sun May 13, 2018 3:50 pm



THE BUTTERFLY SWARM FLUTTERS!

Gotta watch out for those butterflies, they might flutter you to death. Let's hope CHARGEMAN KEN can handle them!!
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The episode in which chargeman ken drives a species to extinction.
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Ken's Acts of Sociopathy Count: 1

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Post by minty (?) » Sun May 13, 2018 7:00 pm

I can't believe Chargeman Ken killed Fluttershy.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sun May 13, 2018 7:09 pm

That was pretty barebone for Chargeman Ken. How do you make Killer Butterflies dull!? How!? :twonk:

I just love the ending, though. "Those poor butterflies" "Yeah" CUE WACKY END CREDITS.

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Post by W.T. Fits (?) » Sun May 13, 2018 7:47 pm

I can't help but notice that Chargeman Ken's mom has an abnormally long neck.

Also, yeah, this episode was a bit jarring in the pacing.

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Madeline (?) » Sun May 13, 2018 11:55 pm

That beak looks nothing like a hawk’s beak. I am skeptical of this man’s scientific credentials :twonk:

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Madeline (?) » Sun May 13, 2018 11:58 pm

Chargeman Ken, the super hero: petrified by fear :-I

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Madeline (?) » Mon May 14, 2018 12:05 am

A sneak peek at Chargeman Ken’s new enemies:

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Stop him before he wipes out another species!

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Mon May 14, 2018 12:14 am

As far as I've been able to tell, that first butterfly doesn't even exist, but I will admit I only checked wikipedia which might just be lacking in butterfly info :-I
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon May 14, 2018 12:19 am

Gloomy Rube wrote:
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As far as I've been able to tell, that first butterfly doesn't even exist, but I will admit I only checked wikipedia which might just be lacking in butterfly info :-I
Looks like it's a real butterfly (a subspecies of Agrias claudina known as "A. c. sardanapalus"), although this is what the real thing looks like:

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Also, it's not extinct from what I can gather. They live in South America.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon May 14, 2018 12:27 am

W.T. Fits wrote:
Sun May 13, 2018 7:47 pm
I can't help but notice that Chargeman Ken's mom has an abnormally long neck.
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I don't know where I was going with this :-I

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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Mon May 14, 2018 12:33 am

Mr. Big wrote:
Mon May 14, 2018 12:19 am
Looks like it's a real butterfly (a subspecies of Agrias claudina known as "A. c. sardanapalus"), although this is what the real thing looks like:

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Also, it's not extinct from what I can gather. They live in South America.
That explains a lot, they're actually spelled that way, not 'Sandarapalus" as they said in the anime :-I
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Re: Let's Watch Chargeman Ken!

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Mon May 14, 2018 12:41 pm

Since I already had a thread up about episode 4, today you can discuss episode 4 THE MYSTERIOUS HANDSOME BOY


Or episode 5, TERROR! THE MUMMY COMES BY CARRIAGE
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