Fight Ippatsu! J?den-chan!! (Japanese: ??????!?????!!, Hepburn: Faito ippatsu! J?den-chan!!, lit. "Fight, One Shot! Charger Girls!") is a manga series by Bow Ditama, which is also adapted into an anime television series of the same name that began airing on the AT-X network in Japan from June 25, 2009. It features anthropomorphized characters representing aspects of charging electrical equipment. This series contains some explicit fanservice, including omorashi (panty wetting). An edited version of the series was released on Crunchyroll under the title of Charger Girl, Ju-den Chan.
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Plot
From a planet called "Life Core", which exists parallel to the normal human world, females known as "J?den-chan" (charger girls) are patrolling the human world in search for individuals who feel depressed and unlucky. Their job is to charge these people up with the help of electricity in order to improve their mental states. While normally unseen by human eyes, one of these J?den-chan, Plug Cryostat, accidentally meets a young man who is able to see her, because she was targeting his father (his sister in the anime). This series revolves around the various antics between the main characters and the quest for this J?den-chan to improve herself.
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Characters
J?den-chan
J?den-chan (aka Charger Girls), are people from a parallel world whose jobs at the Neodym company are to monitor the levels of depression in people. They are generally not seen or heard by humans, and are equipped with technology that allows them to phase through objects too. The people they monitor are ranked A through F based on their depression levels, with A being near suicidal. When a target ranked C or higher is spotted, the j?den-chan pulls a giant plug from a nearby electrical source and charges them with positive energy.
- Plug Cryostat (????????????, Puragu Kuraiosutatto)
- Voiced by: Kaori Fukuhara (Japanese); Brittany Lauda (English)
- The protagonist of the series. She is a "J?den-chan": someone from a world that is parallel to our own, capable of recharging people who are depressed or unlucky. She is however not very good at it and is a bit of an airhead. Because she has the ability to use phasing, she normally cannot be seen by regular humans. This is done so she can do her job without causing distraction. She loves to watch an ecchi anime series called "Miracle Witch Milly". While other J?den-chan focus on charging people and getting paid, Plug focuses on discovering the root of their problems so that they won't become depressed again, eventually learning to create these chances herself.
- Arresta Blanket (???????????, Allesta Buranketto)
- Voiced by: Ayahi Takagaki (Japanese); Kira Buckland (English)
- Plug's fellow J?den-chan and rival, who becomes her supervisor. She is rather serious when it comes to work and is rather annoyed with how Plug is carrying out her job. In turn, Plug finds Allesta irritating for interfering with her work and the two girls tend to fight a lot. She sometimes ends up crying, which Plug uses as blackmail material. Compared to Plug, Allesta is rather busty, which causes Plug to tease her about that.
- She has feelings for Sento from the moment she saw him, but he is rather oblivious to this. Following their first meeting, Allesta seems to have garnered a fetish for being hit by a baseball bat.
- Pulse Trans (????????, Parusu Toransu)
- Voiced by: Michie Tomizawa (Japanese); Amber Lee Connors (English)
- The head of the organization that oversees the J?den-chan and R?den-chan. She has a fierce temper and constantly deducts from Plug's salary due to her incompetence. She does however have good judgment in her commands.
- Kuran Shunt (????????, Kuran Shanto)
- Voiced by: Ai Shimizu (Japanese); Rose Dyson (English)
- A R?den-chan, aka Leakage Girl, who monitors activity such as electrical disturbances, and apprehends criminals suspected of harboring electricity for profit. They have more advanced equipment than the J?den-chan, as well as gadgets to apprehend criminals.
- Reika Galvini (??????????, R?ka Garuv?ni)
- Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese); Hazel Summer (English)
- Another R?den-chan, who often partners with Kuran. Both of them seem to take a liking to Sento after their first encounter with him.
- Rinko (???), Maako (???), Taako (???), Chiiko (???) and Sokko (???)
- Fellow J?den-chan from Plug's department, who are pretty similar to her in personality, but still occasionally berate her when her pay gets cut.
- Weber (????, W?ba, derived from the SI unit of magnetic flux Weber)
- A J?den-chan who heads up the Samarium Cobalt company that Plug becomes a part of dedicated to charging targets in Africa. She is also a lesbian in a relationship with another J?den-chan, Tesla.
- Tesla (???, Tesura, derived from the SI unit of magnetic flux density Tesla)
- Another member of the Samarium Cobalt company, and Waver's lover.
- Ohm (???, ?mu, derived from the SI unit of electrical resistance Ohm)
- Another member of the Samarium Cobalt company, who has freckles on her cheeks.
- Farad (????, Farado, derived from the SI unit of capacitance Farad)
- Another member of the Samarium Cobalt company, who has messy hair and is generally sleepy.
Humans
- Sento Oumi (?? ??, ?mi Sento)
- Voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi (Japanese); Daniel J. Edwards (English)
- A young man who is the only human capable of seeing both Plug and Allesta. He works at a family restaurant and has a rather short temper, which results in frequently hitting Plug (and at times Allesta as well) with a baseball bat or whatever is within reach; this has become a running gag in the series. He occasionally helps Plug and Allesta with their work, teaching Plug that the best way to find an opportunity to charge is to make one yourself. He lives with his younger sister. He's capable of absorbing the counter-current of Kenta Kajiwara, the Z-class boy.
- Hakone Oumi (?? ???, ?mi Hakone)
- Voiced by: Ui Miyazaki (Japanese); Cheryl Li (English)
- Sento's younger sister. She lives together with her brother and wants to do household chores, but Sento told her not to because he feels responsible for her. She cares for her brother and is frustrated that she is not allowed to help him, making her depressed and unhappy (and a prime target for Plug). She starts the series a third year junior high student, before moving on to her first year in high school.
- Iono Tomonaga (?? ???, Tomonaga Iono)
- Voiced by: Sayuri Yahagi (Japanese); Felecia Angelle (English)
- The best friend of Hakone. She has a crush on Sento, whom she calls "Sen-nii", and is struggling to confess to him, but Sento seems to be unaware of it and only thinks of her as a little sister, much to her frustration. Later on in the manga, she gains the ability to see and touch J?den-chan. She starts the series as a second year high school student, and later enters her third year.
- Kenta Kajiwara
- A young boy who became worried about the prospect of bullies at school, due to the effects of Rona Elmo. He is called a Z rank since the counter-current he gives off to J?den-chan trying to charge him is too powerful. Nonetheless, Plug became determined to save him, even at the risk of burning her arms off.
- Boss (??, Tenchou)
- Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese); Michele Knotz (English)
- Sento's well-endowed boss at a family diner he works at. She appears to have a lolita complex and takes interest in young girls, particularly Hakone.
- Eiji Oumi (?? ??, ?mi Eiji)
- Sento's and Hakone's father. While absent in the anime, he appears in the first chapter of the manga in place of Hakone. The berating he received from Sento for being a poor father caused him to reach a level higher than A, which would cause his heart to fail if left alone. With Plug's help, he is saved.
Other characters
- Rona Elmo (??????, Rona Erumo)
- Voiced by: Aya Hirano (Japanese); Daisy Guevara (English)
- A H?den-chan (discharger girl) that saps away positive energy from people. She hates being alone, and since no one in the human world can see her, she treats everyone like toys. Despite her small appearance, she is very powerful, being able to defeat R?den-chan at the snap of her finger.
- Ruiji Kido (?? ??, Kido Ruiji)
- The founder and president of the Neodym company.
- Sweety Milly (??????????, Su?te? Mirii)
- Voiced by: Tae Okajima (Japanese); Yara Naika (English)
- A magical girl from a rather perverted television show called "Miracle Witch Milly" that seems to be aired at whatever time of day is convenient. Partnered with her insulting sidekick Bitch Voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda (Japanese); Billy Bob Thompson (English), she goes against her arch rival, Bloody Selica Voiced by: Asami Imai (Japanese); Michaela A. Laws (English), generally having her clothes removed in the process. In the end though, she falls in love with Selica and they become lovers instead of rivals.
- Seru Acturator (?? ???????, Seru Akuchur?ta)
- An original character who appears in the PSP game.
Terminology
- J?den-chan (?????)
- Charger girls. Their job is to monitor depression levels in people. They are generally unseen by normal people, and can adjust their stealth levels to avoid being touched as well. People they monitor are ranked A - F depending on how depressed they are, F being the lowest and A being the highest, possibly leading to suicide. When a C rank or higher target is found, a J?den-chan pulls out a giant plug from a nearby electrical source, and charge them with electricity to make them more energetic. How they go about their energetic way depends on what they are thinking of when they are charged.
- R?den-chan (?????)
- Leakage girls. Their job is to investigate cases in which electricity is stolen and illegally sold on the black market. They have more advanced equipment than the J?den-chan, including several gadgets used for apprehending suspects.
- H?den-chan (?????)
- Discharger girls. These girls do the exact opposite of J?den-chan, and are able to steal a person's energy and increase their depression levels greatly in an instant. They can use the energy they steal for profit.
Media
Manga
The manga began serialization in Comic Gum magazine from June 24, 2006. Nine tank?bon volumes have been released so far.
Anime
The anime series, produced by Studio Hibari, aired on the cable/satellite channel AT-X between June 25, 2009 and September 10, 2009. The opening theme is "Charge!" by Kaori Fukuhara and Ayahi Takagaki while the ending theme is "Please, Sweet Heart" (???Sweet heart, Onegai Sweet Heart) by Fukuhara. Crunchyroll worked with avex entertainment on an edited version which censors some of the nudity and urination for UHF broadcast. This version was streamed on Crunchyroll under the title Charger Girl: Ju-den chan.
Media Blasters have licensed the series in North America and released it on DVD, in Japanese language with English subtitles, June 25, 2013. The series premiered on Toku in the United States on December 31, 2015.
Episode list
Bonus episodes
Extra short episodes are featured in the DVD releases of the series, featuring more explicit content than the broadcast show.
Video game
A visual novel developed by Russell entitled Fight Ippatsu! J?den-chan!! CC (??????!?????!! CC) was released for the PlayStation Portable on May 27, 2010.
References
External links
- Anime official website (in Japanese)
- Fight Ippatsu! J?den-chan!! (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Fight Ippatsu! J?den-chan!! (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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