Violence Jack: Jigoku Gai-hen


Violence Jack: Evil Town

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Synonyms: Violence Jack: Evil Town, Violence Jack Jigoku Gai, Violence Jack 2, Violence Jack: Jigoku Gai Hen, Violence Jack: Jigoku Gai Arc
Japanese: バイオレンス ジャック 〜地獄街編〜
English: Violence Jack: Evil Town
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Type: OVA
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Dec 6, 1988
Licensors: Discotek Media
Studios: Studio 88
Source: Manga
Genres: ActionAction, DramaDrama, HorrorHorror
Theme: GoreGore
Duration: 58 min.
Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

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Score: 5.581 (scored by 57265,726 users)
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Ranked: #113932
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Popularity: #5978
Members: 11,717
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Preliminary Spoiler
Nov 27, 2014
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 ...
Jun 9, 2014
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 ...
Sep 16, 2009
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 ...
Oct 7, 2009
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 ...
Jan 18, 2015
Mixed Feelings
"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 ...
Oct 24, 2021
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 ...
Nov 2, 2015
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 ...
Oct 4, 2015
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 ...
Dec 30, 2011
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 ...
Aug 7, 2021
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 ...
Nov 25, 2023
Evil Town is an improvement over Harlem Bomber. The plot is interesting. It's about three groups who want to leave the town but can't agree on how to work together. To make matters worse, Jack's arrival doesn't help at all. The Mad Riders enjoy being tough troublemakers. Sadly, the difficult circumstances forced the regular men to surrender their primal instincts. This caused the women to leave the men and live by themselves. The same dynamic has been used before, but Evil Town executes it well, resulting in an interesting story. Jack is also more relatable in Evil Town, taking center stage and revealing his moral ...
Nov 4, 2020
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 ...
Dec 12, 2022
Mixed Feelings
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 ...
Jul 11, 2021
Mixed Feelings
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 ...
Aug 26, 2020
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 ...