Violence Jack: Jigoku Gai-hen

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 ... compass. Jack won't harm the innocent. In Evil Town, Jack gives aid to the women and even shows concern for them when he realizes that they're in danger towards the end. Although the supernatural still surrounds Jack, he appears more relatable and human in this episode, which I found interesting.

Evil Town has improved production overall. The animation is better, with smoother movement. The violence is much more intense, showing brutal murders and explicit gore. Additionally, there are graphic sex scenes. If these elements make you uncomfortable, it's best to avoid watching this. The sex scenes in Evil Town are crucial in demonstrating the consequences of such situations. It elicits empathy for the women who were subjected to undeserved treatment. Evil Town paints a vivid picture of the post-apocalyptic world more than Harlem Bomber. It displays a dark and gritty atmosphere that truly captures the essence of the setting.

In terms of its downsides, there's a lot of music in the show, but none of it is memorable. Moreover, it doesn't have any connection to the previous episode. I expected it to pick up where Harlem Bomber left off, especially since that ending was strange and inconclusive.

Evil Town is an incredibly violent and gory animated series. It features scenes of rape that may be disturbing to some viewers. I appreciate its extreme nature, and the controversial subject matter only adds to its appeal. If you are looking for an entertaining show full of gore, violence, and disturbing content, then this is definitely worth watching.

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.

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 wall (I swear), by the inhabitants of a city in the underground of Tokyo. Japan has been devastated by a cataclysm, and people live in difficult situations, much like in a Mad Max film or a Fallout game. This story in particular is about the war between three sectors, one ruled by men, one ruled by, how can I put it, monsters, and one by women. Jack allies with the ladies, trying to protect them, but the war will be inevitable.

Now, the point with Violence Jack is, that it tries to show how, even in very difficult situations, humans are incapable of collaborating, but instead, they try to fight even further for supremacy. This could be a good thing to talk about, if it wasn't shown in such a horrible way.
The problem of the series is that it has some kind of a sadistic pleasure in showing killings, rapes and violence of different kinds. There are scenes of children getting viciously killed, rapes that are shown in long scenes in a pornographic way, there is necrophilia and cannibalism, and all characters that are, in a way, LGBT+, are evil and perverse.
I haven't read the original manga from Go Nagai, but by watching this OAV I really can't understand the success of this work. It seems more like the perverted fantasy of a man who enjoys all the things I have just described, who tries to put them in a story in which in the end, good prevails because Violence Jack avenges the victims of these crimes. Yeah, he does, but so what? People have died, they have been brutalized and raped. But yeah, a huge good guy has killed the bad guys, so justice has won. Sure.

If you enjoy watching tortures and gore of any kind, this is for you. For the rest, it's just 60 minutes of "why I am I even watching this? What's the point of this senseless violence? Is this a rape porn?"