Violence Jack (1986–1990) User Reviews

Violent action in a Devastated Japan

[Tweekums · 7/10 · 10 April 2019]

These comments are based on watching the UK DVD release from which most of the series' sexual violence has removed. This version was also dubbed into English with no option of watching in Japanese with subtitles.

After the Earth is struck by a comet Japan descends into lawlessness; most of the infrastructure is destroyed and the survivors become victims or oppressors. This series of three stories each feature the eponymous Violence Jack; a brutal giant of a man who uses his great strength to help the weak and brutalised. Whether it is under the wreckage of Tokyo or across the Kanto plain there will always be murderers and rapists for Jack to kill!

Given its title it is no surprise that these series is very violent at times and the sexual nature of some of that, even in the cut version, is somewhat disturbing. That said the stories are entertaining with lots of action. Violence Jack is an unusual protagonist; he doesn't say very much but grunts and growls during his many violent encounters. The villains are definitely evil so one feels no sympathy when they meet their ends. The animation is decent enough for a series of this age and the characters' design style suits the nature of the story. Overall I wouldn't call this a classic but if you like older, more violent anime then it is worth watching.

Missed potential

[FlorianLaur · 5/10 · 27 November 2019]

I've seen all 3 episodes of "Violence Jack", starting with "Evil Town". It starts out somewhat interesting, reminding you of post-apocalyptic movies like Mad Max or Omega Man. However, the set up seems a little too staged. We've 3 groups that seem to co-exist up until "Violence Jack" shows up (or is discovered). Soon violence erupts and we see a multitude of mostly rapes and people being either smashed or cut, a few shot. For an anime that claims to be super gory and violent, I didn't think it was really terrifying or too shocking. Sure, rape scenes are always unpleasant to watch, but I've seen similar amounts of blood or gore in every second or third anime. Not that I mind, that wasn't really the reason why I watched it. But I'm sure it might be kind of a let-down for torture-porn fans. Unfortunately, there isn't too much story to go with either, so having everyone either die or eventually escape seems to be the logical conclusion of the near-hour run time.

The second one, "Harlem Bomber" was definitely the worst. It almost seems as if it was stuck together with pieces of another movie, seeing how we are told that after a meteor hit earth, the "Slum Lord" emerged and "Violence Jack" was there to stop him. We see them fight and...well, that's the last you see of the Slum Lord (until the 3rd movie). Instead, some women on a truck who were captured and are supposed to be sold as slaves can escape when the truck is attacked (by Violence Jack). The other women who were with them on the truck seem to disappear (or maybe I missed it, I was already kind of bored at that point), but are soon recaptured. They are shown the "future" that awaits them (basically becoming submissive sex slaves, literally being "whipped" into shape) and quasi-raped by a one-eyed lady with a whip, who seems to be the Harlem Bomber's right hand (who, himself, is the Slum Lord's right hand).

For some reason now, we see how Jack is in some hotel, but the owner betrays him. People show up, attack Jack, but he kills them all. More people are sent to find him, destroy the city and kill anyone who tries to escape (one wonders, why, what for? Aren't quasi-slaves near your headquarter more useful than dead civilians?). Again, Jack shows up, kills everyone.

In the meantime, some guy named Ken, who turns out to be the ex bf of one of the two girls that were shown their future sees his ex being raped by the Lesbian dominatrix. He crashes his gyro copter (it's amazing how those insane biker gangs and Yakuza all know how to fly helicopters) through the window, but doesn't kill the dominatrix upon his gf's request. I guess she doesn't want him to be "a murderer" (never mind that he threw his knife into a guys neck only seconds before). The Harlem Bomber and his men find him though and give him a choice: If he kills Jack, the girl gets to live.

So Ken goes out, finds Jack, throws a knife in his eye and...well, that's about it. Jack just leaves and his eye soon seems to be fine anyway.

So Jack kills, kills (yawn), kills...finally, he reaches the big boss and they both fight. Ken tries to escape with his gf. Her best friend (who betrayed her) conveniently died (how?), so they don't have to take her. They try to fly from the top of the building while Jack and the HB fight next to them. The girl pleads to help him, but her bf denies it. But she won't listen, throws Jack a rope and he uses it to pull down the copter to smash the Harlem Bomber and kill Ken (wow, what a nice guy he is!). Then he stabs the Harlem Bomber and...turns into a Phoenix or something? Yeah, this is what happens and it's utter non-sense. You might as well skip this one.

Lastly, we have "Hell's Wind". It opens with a couple, trying to escape from an ambush by some bikers. They run over one(two?) of them, but eventually, the bikers manage to disable their jeep. They cut the guy in pieces with a chainsaw and (of course) rape the girl, but somehow leave her alive.

We then see some small shanty town, called "Hope Town". A pretty, young woman is teaching some kinds in the ruins of a building. A boy (that looks a bit like an adult in a kids body) tells her he did his homework and runs away. He runs home where his father runs a small store, but hides in a sort of bunker he built in the ruins to build a bow. Not long after, a trembling sound. The biker gang "Hell's Wind" approaches. They find the citizens hiding and start wrecking buildings and amassing the town folk in the center of the city. There, they indulge in some torture and prepare to rape the aforementioned teacher. Just before they have her completely naked (like every woman in this anime, she has bouncy boobs), the woman from the introduction shows up. She has turned into some kind of amazon warrior and blows up a few bikes with explosive arrows. The bikers decide to retreat for now, but on their way out of town, she attacks them again until they ambush her(she escapes though). On their way out of town, Violence Jack stands in the middle of the road, looking violent. He smashes 3 bikers who try to run him over, but otherwise just stands here, being shot until he keels over. Left for dead, the amazon warrior and the little bunker boy take him back to the city to play "Let's wrap you like a mummy" with him.

The amazon warrior lady asks the town folk where the bikers might reside and they say they probably live in a deserted army air base. She gets on her motorbike to go there to kill them all, like she swore herself to, despite Violence Jack's warnings.

None of the town folk want to help her (except the little boy and his friends), but when Violence Jack says who he is, they agree to take him to the base.

There, the bikers have strapped the teacher on a fighter jet and soon capture the amazon warrior lady. Just as they did the usual "cut off all clothes, short of undies" game, Violence Jack shows up and starts killing them. He kills, kills, kills...before he gets to the "boss", that guy sends someone to "get help from the boss". Then he kills the leader of the gang as well (kind of disappointing actually). In the end, we see the messenger the biker boss sent dead in front of some vehicle (Think Mad Max 2) and a huge kind of armoured vehicle and some guys who look like Samurai are on their way through the desert. Inside, we see that Slum King...

Well, yeah, that's pretty much it. I guess these 3 mini movies would have had some potential if they would have had some more depth and actual story. But basically, all you get to see here is rape, boobs, rape, more boobs, rape, murder, rape, torture...oh, and did I mention rape?

Grim

[Bunman · 8/10 · 2 December 2022]

I recently managed to acquire the fully uncut and uncensored version of this infamous OVA. My goodness, it really is rough to watch, especally the 2nd episiode, Hell Town.

Episodes 1 and 3 are your standard 80s sex and violence anime fare. No. 3, Hells Wind, has a particularly brutal chainsaw sequence that was very cool. But no.2 is where most of the controversy hits.

Hell Town is about an underground "town" split in to multiple sections. Each section hates the other. Basically, all the men down there are sexual degenerates and cant help but rape all of the women. Its extremely graphic and completely messed up. Ive seen a lot of hentai in my time, but none of it was as grim as this, probably because its not done by monsters with long tentacles.

Prior to seeing it uncensored, I watched a version of it that had all of the "naughty bits blurred out. But watching this uncensored version really upped the impact of it.

Saying all that, I still enjoyed it. Episode 3 is the weakest of the series IMO. If you get the chance to see, then go for it. Its brutal, sex-filled and competely insane :)

Go Nagai's Classic Manga Adaptated Into The Most Violent Anime Ever

[adamhorner-62015 · 9/10 · 3 February 2021]

Violence Jack is personally one of my favourite animes because of the sheer rawness and that they have the balls to show such dark scenes but the Violence Jack Manga is a lot worse when it comes to the dark scenes it is more messed up Jack might not have all the personality of most anime heros but he makes up for it in sheer badassery anyway the plot is similar between the 3 episodes it is that a Earthquake known as the Hellquake and it is put Kanto Region of Japan and it has lead the strong to pray on the weak and Violence Jack is the only becon of hope for the Kanto Region I would give episode 1 a 8 out of 10 it is lower than the rest because of the animation then episode 2 a 10 out of 10 and episode 3 a 9 out of 10 so the final score is 10

Not for kids

[azoozkiller · 10/10 · 28 May 2020]

This ova or show For anyone said anime for children and kids Because they see this like cartoon But i must admit not all cartoons and not all anime for children