A 10-year-old boy fights flesh-eating butterflies and evil dolls with the dead-serious conviction of a show that believes every frame matters, except nothing works the way it's supposed to. The animation quality is objectively a disaster, the plot barely holds together, the aliens are introduced and forgotten in the same episode. You watch it alone and it's incoherent filler; you watch it with people and suddenly you're all experiencing the same fever dream, laughing at the same inexplicable choices, rewinding to confirm what you just saw actually happened. This is the purest form of entertainment through incompetence, a show that becomes unmissable precisely because nothing about it should have made it to air.

Ten-year-old Ken Izumi lives in the year 2074, in a futuristic city where science has advanced greatly. He looks like an ordinary boy, but he secretly owns weapons, armor and gadgets that turn him into the superhero Chargeman Ken. With them he defends his parents, his little sister Caron, his robot companion Barican and the rest of humanity from the Juralians, shape-shifting aliens set on conquering Earth. Their plots are wildly strange: flesh-eating butterflies, rigged scientists, an evil doll, alien mummies and even a song that kills. Originally aired in 1974, this short-form sci-fi action cartoon gained a new following decades later among fans drawn to its odd artwork, clumsy animation and famously inept storytelling.