Audience reviews
18 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
TapeRot
Violence Jack: Evil Town is a noticeable step up from Harem Bomber. Trapping the cast underground and dividing them into increasingly feral tribes gives the story a much tighter framework, and Jack himself feels slightly more like an actual character this time rather than an indestructible force wandering through the plot.
The sleaze is also pushed considerably further. The sexual violence is more graphic, to the point that some shots are actually mosaicked, while the regular violence remains exactly what you want from Violence Jack: viscerally excessive and spectacularly gross. There’s even a trans love story involving the villain, which is a surprisingly welcome bit of characterisation in an OVA where almost everyone is otherwise pretty shallow. It gives the villain something personal t…
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More fleshed out than the first OVA, not just because of the longer runtime but simply putting slightly more thought to the setup. The idea of a community of survivors trapped underground, beneath ruined Tokio and splitting into faction is solid, the basic idea behing each group also works. The opening scene, with an enforcer of the "civilized" community catching and executing a thief is honestly great in setting the tone. Everything after that though... Is pretty garbage. The episode focuses A LOT on random sexual violence and has absolutely terrible pacing. There are some fun moments of grotesque gore, but they're all pretty much lumped together in three scenes and the fights Jack is involved, outside of the final one, are really low on tension. Most deaths are either random or stupid, e…
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Continuing my Violence Jack re-watch, now onto part 2. What can I say? Just wow; I am really impressed. Completely balls-to-the-wall in absolutely the best ways.
This entry is much longer than the first OVA, and as such has much more time to lay out a tension filled, if still simple and accessible story. The whole OVA is like a slowly boiling pot and when it's about to burst - oh it's electric. This is a prequel, taking place before the events of the first OVA. The world catastrophe occurred about 6 months ago and we get to see more immediate results from society's rapid collapse (literally and figuratively).
Jack is given more of a character this time around, he seems less of a force of nature, perhaps we see a little bit of the kind of man he was before whatever happened to the world…
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“Violence Jack: Evil Town” is what happens when the writer has some serious rape fantasies.
I’m actually rather angry with this one. Not because of the rapes, not because of killing of children or other things on display. I’m angry because this OVA fixes some problems of its predecessor and absolutely butchers what I liked about the protagonist — Jack. Unlike “Violence Jack: Slumking” this one actually is watchable and is even pretending to be a coherent movie and not just ideas loosely put together by spit and other bodily fluids. It has a solid plot and even a decent story. Of course both aspects are half backed but it’s still way better than what came before.
I use the definitions for “plot” and “story” as Lisa Cron describes them:
“What happens in the story is the PLOT, the surface…
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Violence Jack: Jigoku Gai-hen does not cut any corners showing the viewer all of the horrible acts post apocalypse. It is not for the faint of heart. The gratuitous violence and extremely disturbing rape scenes show the absolute worst of humanity. The excellent animation of this OVA makes it extremely difficult and uncomfortable to watch. While not everyone will enjoy Violence Jack, it should be respected for its classic animation and symbolism. The overall plot, however, leaves much to be desired and brings down the overall experience. This is not an anime for everyone but if you have any interest in 80s animation this is worth the watch.
Read at the sourceNeonGod7
The GOAT of Violence OVA!!!
If you rate it anything lower than 8 out of 10, then clearly this type of anime is not for you, so you should not even be rating this. I put the threshold at 8 because, although I love this type of 80s/90s OVA, this particular title has some very minor weaknesses, which I overlook in my rating by giving 10/10 but others might not. So there it is.
This second installment in the Violence Jack series has the infamous director Ichirō Itano on the directors seat, who is by far the best director when it comes to gory sexy violence in anime.
The theme and story is very dark that it delivers what it advertises in the opening: "darkness falling in humans hearts". Darkness really fell in my heart watching it and I loved it and if neither of the aforementioned events (…
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Violence Jack : Jigoku Gai-Gen / Evil Town, again the ultimate show is this. A true high testosterone and maximum impact violent show of all the time.
Art style is the first I will touch on, Cel shaded gets an automatic positive score. The real gem is how the brutality can be shown on screen. This is it guys, you want no pain no gain ? this is not the show like usual Shounen shows out there and latest Anime shows which have comedy and blood. This is dark and visceral. The old Anime art style of Japanese have women depicted in a perfect sense, absolutely adore how they design and draw such beautiful girls with hands and give a superb expression and feelings. I suppose you already know Kawaijiri, yep this show is on par with his works perhaps a touch not that polished since no Bluray exists…
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I considered dropping the Violence Jack OVA’s after watching the travesty that was Slumking, but this was a surprising improvement. ‘Evil Town’ is set several months after the apocalypse in a small-scale underground area, split into three separate areas due to infighting. Jack is re-introduced after being found buried by some of the residents who are seeking escape. He still isn’t a fully fleshed out character but at least he talks now and has an actual personality, even if it is a bit thin. Similarly, the other characters also have something resembling a personality too, and the main villains manage to say more than a few words. You know, this is one of the few times I’ve watched a post-apocalyptic show where the dystopia actually FELT like a dystopia. Everyone out for themselves, cold at…
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A thing I really like to see, in the works of art I watch or read (movies, novels, comic books and so on) is when the author(s) gives me something to think about the nature of violence. Because I hate violence, but it's everywhere, and I feel like I need to understand from what it generates.
Violence Jack (and, in particular, this OAV) fails to do it. Not only, but somehow it celebrates its violence, it finds some pleasure in showing it.
Now, I will make some spoilers, but the story is very formulaic: basically, it's not about "what happens", but "how it happens", so you could watch it and "enjoy it" (even if there's nothing to enjoy about it) even knowing how it ends.
So, the plot is about this guy, named Violence Jack, because he has a jacknife and he's violent, who is found, inside a…
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let me start by saying that reading most reviews over here makes me think that i dont get the anime community at all....
anime as a artform is known for pushing the boundaries and create the kind of media u wouldn't usually have because of the amount of mass censorship it happens due to the human necessity of creating something that is close to societies ethical and moral values ... not only cos it sells to a bigger and wider audience but also because of the perpetuated idea that said values should be applied in any sort of media to prevent people from emulating those behaviors. (the most common example is of that obnoxious person that believes you will turn to violence just because you play a game with said violence and brutality and that it represents or influences you to somehow think…
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Tokyo is decimated by a major earthquake that leaves millions of people dead. Many survivors become trapped underground and they have broken up into three factions; Block-B is a mad biker gang lead by a hulking man named Mad Saulus, Block-H are made up of random men, and Block-C are made up of random women. They all hope to make it to the surface, but there's a chance they may kill each other before that can happen. -summary
Violence Jack is a three part OVA based on random stories from the manga written by Go Nagai. For some reason, the OVA was aired out of order when shipped to the states. This volume is meant to be second in Japanese order and first in English, but it doesn't really seem to matter which order these stories are seen, because when looking at the beginning of this story…
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I love old anime. I really do. I think they have a charming naivety and simplicity, something that is now lost due to the chaotic overabundance of anime today. But this one... There's just no defending it. As much as I have an immense respect for Go Nagai, it's impossible to appreciate Violence Jack. I don't mind violence at all in any media (that's exactly why the title didn't stop me from watching it), but when that is the ONLY thing you have to offer with such sloppy execution, then we have a problem. Evil City is a OVA filled with underdeveloped character, stale animation and random acts of violence that amount to nothing, kinda like the first one, but even worse. The dialogue is silly as expected from such corny title and action sequences are okay at best. It would be way easier to in…
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"We meet again, General Cockroach."
Overview:
Violence Jack 2 Electric Boogaloo.. What a trip. Our protagonist Jack finally finds his voice in this nonstop, brutal, shockfest of an OVA. The basic premise is still the same as the first movie: exploitative ripoff of a Mad Max world, only this time, much more emphasis on the exploitation.
Let there be no questions about it: this OVA is strictly adults only. It has extreme violent sexual content and some grisly violence (this OVA is notorious as I understand, a sort of quasi Cannibal Holocaust in the anime realm.) According to my cursory Google search, it was banned in several countries at the time of release. [still banned in Australia, woot!]
The sexual violence aside, nothing that should offend anyone over the age of 14. (If anyone under…
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Overview:
I continue my review of the god awful Violence Jack trilogy with Violence Jack 2: Evil Town. Despite the hilariously cheesy title, this movie is...fairly dark. What do I mean by fairly dark? I mean that depraved weaboos on dark corners of the internet praise this movie for its prevalent use of rape, "guro", and "vore". If you don't know what the latter 2 terms mean, you obviously need to lurk MOAR. Or you could choose not to lurk and keep your sanity and humanity. I leave the choice up to you. Anyways, time to review another shitty old anime!
Plot and characters: 1/10
Violence Jack doesn't really have much a plot. In a post apocalyptic future, an underground town is controlled by an evil gang that likes to rape, kill, and eat people, but not always in that order. One day, some…
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Ok so It seems this site is full of sensitive little snots who can't appreciate violence and symbolism, but anyways on to fucking Violence Jack an awesome ova series of three. This review will be for the 2nd episode of the Japanese release "Evil Town".
Plot: 10
ok the story, the story is about how humanity got hit by a bunch of natural disasters and 1 big ass earth quake. Because of this some humans have gotten stuck underground, they split into factions, they live disgustingly low eating cockroaches and shit(literally), 1 faction is the buisiness men, then you have have the criminal bike gang dudes, and then you have the innocent fashion models, this is all important because it reflects certain aspects of our society, the business men are like the conservatives of the old days when shit…
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After a terrible earthquake levels tokyo{what new }lol the few survivors are forced to live under the most extreme of conditions.Eating rats,cockroaches,canned dog food while all at the same time being plaqued be disease due to insanitary conditions.Conflicts rage's among the survivors as they all justle for the few precious resources and are eventually forced into three factions,section a-c.One day members of section A, while trying to dig their way out of the tonnes of roble uncovers a giant man who for some reason have survived the earthquake which took place over 6 months ago,he eventually reveals himself to be called violence jack and he will do whatever he can to aid the survivers.Now the animation for this show is really dated,most wont like it but it didnt bother me.The action is a…
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In theory canibalism, rape, breasts (well not really--why not watch porn instead?) and violence might be okay (good?) to see in a movie. But this is fucking awful. The way it is presented makes it completely unenjoyable. If you have ever seen an action movie before...well, it doesn't matter, there isn't even any real action here. ...So Boring...
The voice acting in this show is easily the worst I have ever heard. It is probably humanly impossible to be as unenthused as the voice actors on the english dub. Though, this may have been one of the few pros of the movie: I might've laughed at some of incredibly bad parts if I weren't so tired and bored. Well, probably not. I'm just being nice. None of it was that funny.
Avoid.
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Edit: Sorry, I don't think I said how much this sucks, strong…
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Here we have the sequel to 1985 gory OVA based on a Go Nagai manga. Go Nagai’s the master of Horror in case you have forgotten.
After another catastrophe, this time it was a big earthquake, the survivors of Tokyo get trapped underground. After some months after experiencing the difficulties of living underground and the lacking of food, people start to get crazy and kill each other over the smallest thing, thus the city is renamed by Evil City. That led to the starting of the division of three areas that still get each other involved in conflicts after conflicts. Area A, trying to dig a tunnel back to the outside find a strange and enormous Human, his name is Violence Jack.
Well, the ending fight had some inconsistencies. That was confusing.
The animation was not as good as some obvious…
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