A civilization buried alive doesn't just collapse into chaos, it collapses into pure predation, and Violence Jack walks through it like a god of consequence. Ichirō Itano directs this with the indifference of someone who has no interest in softening the brutality or justifying it; the violence isn't there to provoke discussion, it's there because this is what happens when law dies. The voice acting is genuinely difficult to take seriously, which somehow makes the apocalypse feel even more hopeless. This is exploitation that earns its transgression, not because it's shocking for shock's sake, but because it refuses to look away from what the source material actually says about human nature under pressure.
A chain of natural disasters has wrecked civilization and buried whole cities underground, leaving a savage world where only the toughest endure. The mightiest survivor of all is Violence Jack, a giant warrior. Deep beneath the surface lies Evil Town, an underground city whose miserable residents are on the verge of civil war, and Jack sets out to stop the conflict before it erupts. This one-episode OVA mixes action, drama and horror, and it is based on a character created by horror manga artist Go Nagai.