I've seen plenty of crazy anime over the course of my life; these range from "cutesy weird" to "OH MY GOODNESS, THAT'S SICK!!" Violence Jack is the pinnacle of the latter. In the beginning of the video, a few men dig up this giant ogre-like creature who is an amnesiac, and the man asks them to call him "Violence Jack". Then when Jack is introduced to section B, the women of section C inform Jack the men of section A raped them in their sleep. Then the video shows this prolonged mass-rape scene you'd normally find in extreme porno works. Jack joins section C and section B starts killing everyone in section A. What follows is the most brutal and mindless act of extreme graphic violence and mass-killings unlike anything I've ever seen. Section A starts to commit mass-rape again (cue more porno rape scenes) and Jack kills nearly everyone. Then the leader of section B graphically cannibalizes his transvestite girlfriend and mutates into a giant red devil (eh?). Jack kills him and everyone left alive escapes. You understand what I'm getting at? I'll make it simpler: The story is razor-thin at best, the characters are severely discriminating to both men and women, and the entire video is just a flimsy excuse for watching shameless amounts of extreme, gory, disgusting violence and gore. Please skip it.

I'm sure Rape Town would probably would have not been a good title for this thing. Considering it happens a lot in it though. Hell Town's fine though.The shocking second OVA in the adaptation of Go Nagai's rather grim series has Jack helping a group of models who live in a survivor community that is in three sections A,B,C. All of this underground. The first section is sort of civilized group of supposed normal men, but really they are just as evil as the 2nd section which is some kind of Road Warrior-esque gang that looks like they escaped from Fist of the North Star. What comes next is a lot of disturbing stuff. But keep in mind this is suppose to be taking place during an apocalyptic earthquake that has leveled Tokyo. Grim stuff is going to happen. And this OVA certainly is not going to shy away from even Child Murder in parts to show the grim reality of the situation. The rape content is equally disturbing and there's even a added crop of cannibalism and necrophilia shoved in to make the OVA extra grim. Which is of course why it was refused classification in Australia. And censored by Manga entertainment at first. The most surprising thing about the acting of the whole thing, at least in the Japanese voice casting is the guy who played Jack in this one. As usual the series of 3 OVAs cycled out Voice actors for Jack and this time didn't go with Tessho Genda who did it in Harem Bomber. But instead went with Kiyoshi Kobayashi. Now Kobayashi is actually more famous for playing Lupin the 3rd's famous right hand man Daisuke Jigen in Anime for years that it's kind of odd hearing his voice coming out of a ultra-brutal killer hulk of a monster like Jack. Equally strange is the fact he would play the bad guy in the 3rd OVA not long after that.

"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 age 18 has ever even heard of this, I'd be about as shocked as a Maury Show paternity test recipient.)Story: 5 Violence Jack is unearthed underground in a a pile of garbage (same place I found this OVA.. hmmmm) and then proceeds to deal with the three factions he meets in typical Jack fashion.. with extreme prejudice. We have something resembling a plot this time around: Jack meets a group of survivors trapped underground in a mall who have divided themselves into three sections, the Bros, the Models, and the Thugasses. Jack works with the Bros until he learns the super secret mystical conundrum that they'd been hiding the past 5 minutes: nobody is the good guy. Violence ensues, people die, somebody manages to walk away at the end.Art: 7 A major step up from the first OVA, not bad at all for low budget 80's schlock. I especially liked the wire frame drawn fight from the end- added an element of cool to the otherwise Scooby-Doo level drawing.Sound: 3 Nothing much stuck out to me. More cheeseball 80's D list porno music, with a bit of riffage here and there. Characters: 4 Well, Jack finally gets to show off his much touted intelligence by... eviscerating anyone and anything in his way. At least he found his voice somewhere underneath that mall he was buried in. The other VA's are fine, nothing interesting enough to comment on. Enjoyment: 5 Well, I'll admit it. I was shocked by the rape orgy scenes. It was pretty reviling in a can't-look-away way. There were some AWESOME disembowelments, complete with anatomically correct viscera, and at least a gallon of blood spewing forth. Head splits, face rips, and straight up butcher style slaughter- this film gives you what you want and expect from a movie with Violence in the title. Overall: 5 Better than the first one, still not an objectively _good_ OVA on its own merit. They succeeded in shocking the audience with sexual content, necrophilia, and cannibalism combined with the odd ultraviolence. Violence Jack promises pain and delivers it with a jackknife to the face.

This second installment of Violence Jack is probably the best out of the three. The earth has been obliterated by a meteor attack and a group of survivors build a small village called Hope Town. Everything is peaceful until a motorcycle gang 'Hell's Wind' attacks killing and burning everything in sight. Enter Violence Jack who rips a few of them to pieces to get warmed up while the others run scared. Jack is also aided by a girl who survived an attack from them in the past. The film continues to show Jack killing this motorbike gang with some fantastic gratious violence with his Jackknife ending with a gory finale. If you are looking for a film that has more guts and violence than a plot then this is what you should watch!!