Charge! Men's Private School
Charge! Men's Private School
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Charge! Men's Private School

7.0 / 10
1988
1 season
34 episodes
AnimationAction & Adventure

Otokojuku, a private school for juvenile delinquents that were previously expelled from normal schools. At this school, Japanese chivalry is taught through the feudal and military fundamentals. Similar to an action film, the classes are overwhelmed by violence. Only those who survive it become true men.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Freedom and Youth? This is the Fabled Otokojuku

    25-02-198824m

    Momotaro Tsurugi enrols at Otokojuku and meets the other First Year students. They have to undergo a physical test through a wooden maze just to get to the school itself. Disgusted...

  • Ep 2

    2.Otokojuku Breaks Loose! We Won't Let Anyone Get in Our Way

    03-03-198824m

    he First Years engage in a Forward Marching exercise that takes them through local people's homes and the headquarters of the Pure Evil Group, a local criminal gang which Momotaro...

  • Ep 3

    3.How's the Water? This is Otokojuku's Oil Bath

    10-03-198824m

    The Otokojuku instructors put the students on a strict, and very unpopular diet so two students decide to raid the kitchen. The Instructors are also concerned about the students fo...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Roppongi Skirt-chasing War! We Won't Lose to a Foreigner

    17-03-198824m

    Instructor Oni-Hige is seen of harassing a woman in the Roppongi district, and is beaten up by George, her huge American boyfriend. For revenge, Oni-Hige then sends the students on...

  • Ep 5

    5.Now it's War? The Dangerous Principal Edajima's Dutiless Battle

    24-03-198824m

    Togashi, Tazawa, Matsuo and Hidemaro decide to test Principal Edajima's skills, but mistakenly attack Oni-Hige instead. For punishment Togashi must do the Boulder Bunny Hop. Oni-Hi...

  • Ep 6

    6.Professional Sumo at Otokojuku: The Dropout Tsubakiyama Vs Oniyokozuna

    04-04-198824m

    Tsubakiyama Kiyomi is having trouble coping with the physical rigor of training at Otokojuku and decides to escape at night with his pet canary. He is intercepted by the Second Yea...

  • Ep 7

    7.What Can You Do to Us, Second Years? Don't Get Cocky Just Cause You're Older

    11-04-198824m

    To take revenge for the defeat of Oniyokozuna, some Second Year students start beating up on First Years. Momotaro stops the First Years from taking immediate revenge as it is agai...

  • Ep 8

    8.Otokojuku Goes to the Safari Park: We're the Kings of the Beasts!!

    18-04-198824m

    Second Year leader Edogawa invites the First Year students to an outing at the Orient Safari Park. The rules are that the First Years must split into groups of three and spend the...

  • Ep 9

    9.The Principal's Fearsome Idea: Starting Tomorrow, You're All Shaving Your Heads!!

    02-05-198824m

    Following the loss of his last hair, Principal Edajima decrees that all First Years must shave their heads, unless one student can perform the Head Seal. This involves writing the...

  • Ep 10

    10.The Second-Years Strike Back: Don't Look Down On Us Cause We're Younger

    09-05-198824m

    Tsubakiyama chases his pet squirrel onto the Second Years' lawn but balk at punishing him when Momotaro appears. The instructors are concerned at the Second Year's cowardice. Princ...

  • Ep 11

    11.Swords Clash on Ganryu Island! Showdown! Momo Vs Akashi

    16-05-198824m

    On the day of the planned sword contest on Ganryu Island, Momotaro decides that he doesn't want to fight and be part of a tawdry money-raising spectacle. Togashi volunteers to take...

  • Ep 12

    12.A Breakwater Mother Tale, Otokojuku-style: Even Delinquents Need a Mother

    23-05-198824m

    Togashi is in Harajuku with no money and no girl and rescues an old lady from a thug. She takes him home, mistaking him for her lost son. Togashi goes to leave, but the old lady le...

  • Ep 13

    13.Bloody Boxing? The Enemy is the Super Police Academy

    30-05-198824m

    Three months after enrolling, the students a Super Police Academy aeroplane drops a group of parachutists into the Otokojuku. Principal Edajima reveals that he has enrolled 30 Supe...

  • Ep 14

    14.Friend or Foe? The Man of the Steel Mach Punch Arrives: His Name is J

    06-06-198824m

    The second bout of the Picaresque Boxing Match of Japanese and American students is between Keith Jackson and Gokukoji Hidemaro. Meanwhile another SPA student arrives and is challe...

  • Ep 15

    15.Chapter of Mighty Rivals. The Struggle Begins: Otokojuku Vs Great Kanto Student Alliance

    13-06-198824m

    Oni-Hige is put in charge of the school while Principal Edajima goes to Kansai. The instructors see this as an opportunity to make some money to replace the bonuses they have not r...

  • Ep 16

    16.All-Out Rugby Showdown. Momo, Bear Your Friends' Tears and Run!!

    20-06-198824m

    The violent rugby game between the Kanto Great Student Alliance and Otokojuku students begins with an all-out brawl. The Otokojuku students get the ball first, but it is taken by M...

  • Ep 17

    17."The Four Great Trials of Terror" Begin. What is on the Sacred Mt. Fuji

    27-06-198824m

    Date Omito, President of the Kanto Great Student Alliance arrives at the gate of Otokojuku with his students and immediately a fight breaks out between the two groups. Principal Ed...

  • Ep 18

    18.Battle in the Sulfur Spring of Tears. The Last of J. This is the Spirit of the Yanks

    04-07-198824m

    The Otokojuku group arrive at the Temple of Hell's Treasure at the foot of Mt. Fuji with the four representatives wearing traditional white uniforms. The trial will be in the hands...

  • Ep 19

    19.A Real Man Dies Smiling! The Gutsy Togashi Clashes with the Beautiful Man Hien

    11-07-198824m

    With J's death, the three remaining Otokojuku representatives, Momotaro, Togashi and Toramaru carve the initial J on their arms in his memory. The two teams push their giant steel...

  • Ep 20

    20.Another Tearful Parting!! The Burning Man Toramaru Dies on the Icy Arena

    25-07-198824m

    The remaining representatives, Momotaro and Togashi, and Date and Gekkou push their giant steel balls to the next site of the Four Great Trials of Terror, to the Bridge of No Retur...

  • Ep 21

    21.The Final Battle: Momo vs. Date: The Countdown to Death Has Begun

    01-08-198824m

    In the final of the Four Great Trials of Terror, Momotaro faces Date. Principal Edajima arrives at the temple where he reveals that he's the legendary fighter who survived the Four...

  • Ep 22

    22.Conclusion of the Four Great Trials of Terror: Reunion With Friends! But the Next Enemy Is...

    08-08-198824m

    The Otokojuku continue the Great Chime Yell of support Momotaro while Hidemaro struggles to hold the heavy flag off the ground. Date still holds Momotaro impaled on the sharp horns...

  • Ep 23

    23.Invitation to Death from the Third Years: The Next Battleground is the Evil Tendo Shrine!

    15-08-198824m

    Momotaro, Togashi, J and Toramaru are ordered to report to the Head of the Third-Years, Daigouin Jaki at the Tendo Shrine . To get to him the must pass the Corridor of the Deity, f...

  • Ep 24

    24.The Gutsy Togashi's Tearful Confession! Daigouin Jaki Is My Brother's Murderer

    22-08-198824m

    Togashi continues his passage, while coming under attack from Dokugantetsu, until Daigouin Jaki stops them. He allows the First Years to pass to the third and final chamber. Meanwh...

  • Ep 25

    25.Entering the "Great Trembling Conquest of the Unified Eight": Momo, This Is the Final Battle!

    29-08-198824m

    Togashi attacks Jaki with the dynamite strapped to his body. He is easily beaten back, but does not give up until Jaki cuts the fuse rendering the dynamite useless. Just as he stab...

  • Ep 26

    26.The Great Wall of the Eight Dragons That Leads To Hell! There's an Entrance, But No Exit!

    05-09-198824m

    The group of Eight juniors travel to the location of the Great Trembling Conquest of the Unified Eight contest, the legendary Great Wall of Eight Dragons. Head Priest Wan Ta-Ren te...

  • Ep 27

    27.Raiden Dies: The First Years' Hard Fight! We're Counting on J's Mach Punch!

    12-09-198824m

    J and Henshouki start the match on the Forest of a Hundred Magnetic Columns, but J is outmanoeuvred, so Raiden takes over. Raiden is a match for Henshouki, but is tricked and stabb...

  • Ep 28

    28.A Messenger from Heaven? A Million Reinforcements: Come to the Desperate J!

    19-09-198824m

    J must now face Manjimaru. Head Priest Wan Ta-Ren says J has no chance against Manjimaru who has mastered the Evil Spirit Fists' Hundred-Man Poison Trial. In the first contact Manj...

  • Ep 29

    29.The Bridge That Went To Long: Tazawa and Matsuo Die at the Great Wall of the Eight Dragons!

    26-09-198824m

    The Great Trembling Conquest of the Unified Eight contest moves to the second gate while J gets medical attention. Unfortunately the wall is broken preventing the First Years group...

  • Ep 30

    30.Hien's Agony! The Steel Yogo Mercilessly Attacks the Handsome Man

    17-10-198824m

    The Otokojuku group reaches the statue of the Dragon War God, but only the six warriors to fight in the Great Trembling Conquest of the Unified Eight contest can proceed further. T...

  • Ep 31

    31.Round Four Has Begun! Finally Daigouin Jaki Takes the Stage!

    24-10-198824m

    Senku attacks Hien with his Thousand-Streak Mounted Wire Fist technique, using fine, flesh-cutting wires. Hien battles valiantly, and risks everything in a final attack in which he...

  • Ep 32

    32.The Final Battle! First-Years vs Third-Years! They're the Ones Who Will Die!

    31-10-198824m

    The final round, Battle of Crooked Balances, is to be fought on the summit of Mt. Tengatutou. Each group of students is put into a cage suspended above the valley, and the keys are...

  • Ep 33

    33.Friendship and Victory! Those Who Were Left After the Great Trembling Conquest of the United Eight...

    07-11-198824m

    Jaki is still not dead, but mortally wounded. He concedes defeat to Momotaro and plunges his hand into his own body to retrieve the key to free the First Years. The Third Years are...

  • Ep 34

    34.Farewell, Otokojuku! Refine Your Manhood with Courage and Guts!

    14-11-198823m

    A month later, and almost a year since they enrolled, Momotaro, Togashi, J and Momotaro reminisce over the year's events. They meet Upperclassman Akashi who congratulates Momotaro...

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