Ranked #5519

Violence Jack 2

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 titles of that year, but it won't be on your way to enjoy the OVA.
The character designs looked awfully familiar, reminded me of those Akio Suginoi's character designs of series, like Ace Wo Nerae, Oniisama E..., Golgo 13, Rose of Versailles, Cobra, They Were Eleven... you got the point. But they weren’t, they were made by some guy name Takuya Wada, that only did this character design. I can guess where he went to get inspiration from.

Once again the sound department was horrible, due to the file that I watched was US English dub. Pretty horrible, bad voices and the BGM and music were far behind. (I’ll edit this part when I have watched a proper release with actually good sound ans the original voices)

Thanks to the excessive gore, this one is a pleasant view again, for if it wasn’t for the gore, almost the entire OVA would better go to the garbage bin.

Who is Violence Jack, and what the hell is with those powers of his? We still will have to wait for the answer.

Rate: 7/10 read more

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, strongly enough. How is this rated so high? Mars of Destruction is more offensive than this??? Not really.

There is no reason to rate this even moderately high. This is not filling some kind of void. Similar, enjoyable, "more extreme" movies already exist. Just Google Search: 'Category III' .....

Making a boring drama is one thing but a boring action short-movie. God. This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

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