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* AmericansHateTingle: The three episode OVA series was negatively received in Western countries (especially America) for its graphic violence, scenes of rape, and lack of story, but was generally well-received in its home country, Japan.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luh9Fs5bTLo theme]] from the first OVA.
* BileFascination: Both fans and dissenters tend to agree that ''Violence Jack'' doesn't have a real plot other than atrocities being committed and the title character being occasionally there to punish evildoers. Every arc tends to have its own cast with little overlap, a reflection of the manga's constant changes in publisher, and there's often little effect on the series' CrapsackWorld each time, thus making it difficult to compose a lineal plot, especially given that Jack is explicitly uninterested in putting an end to it. As a result, the series could be considered basically a sandbox for Creator/GoNagai to exert his AuthorAppeal of violence and raunchiness without having to care for a general storyline - and that's often precisely what draws readers to it, wanting to see Nagai do what he does best.
* CatharsisFactor: This series is ''full'' of this, but quite a few examples stand out.
** After seeing what a despicable scumbag [[DirtyCop Kawamori]] is by raping Aira at gunpoint, and then killing and murdering his own allies (which itself was also catharsis factor, since they were just as loathesome as he was) and then taking sides with Mad Saurus shortly after, all just to [[DirtyCoward save his own skin]] and then attempting to rape Aira again, seeing the bastard later get stomped to death by Saurus (manga) or getting [[KarmicDeath stabbed in the back]] by Blue (anime) are both absolutely satisfying to watch, given what a disgusting piece of vermin he was.
** After seeing Mad Saurus's gang brutally murder Riki and then raping Aira and her friends, seeing Jack slaughter them all like the scum they are, also more than counts as this.
** After watching Dante ordering his men to murder and slaughter innocent people and then kidnapping Jun and Keiko, he deserves every bit of him getting his skull crushed by Jack's foot, as well his men getting slaughtered.
* CompleteMonster: [[Manga/{{Devilman}} Jinmen]]. See Monster/{{Devilman}}.
* CrazyIsCool: The cast of Mazinger Z are reinterpreted as karateka, with the eponymous mech itself being reinterpreted as a [[HandicappedBadass blind karate master]], with Kouji Kabuto being his spotter who rides on his shoulders, essentially becoming a human version of the Pilder. [[spoiler: And there's Kenzo Kabuto, who was thought to be dead, coming back for revenge against Jigokusai Dokuta, the equivalent of Dr. Hell, and finishing him off by '''RIPPING OUT HIS HEART WITH ONE HAND AND THEN CRUSHING IT RIGHT BEFORE HIS VERY EYES.''']]
* CriticalDissonance: The anime adaptation has been bashed by critics. However, that hasn't stopped it from earning fans.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** The world went to crap following a major natural disaster. Cool! Did we mention that the disaster took place on September 11th, 197-? Oh...
** ...or that the natural disaster was ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami a massive earthquake that completely demolishes Japan]]''.
* ItWasHisSled: The fact that ''Violence Jack'' is a sequel to ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' is actually a plot-twist not revealed until near the end of the story. However, it's become common-knowledge among Go Nagai fans.
* MemeticMutation: The manner of the characters to pronounce the name of Jack after his pathos sudden appearance, very quickly enter into your memory and you will remember this for a long time even when you forget about the work itself.
* {{Narm}}:
** The [[ClusterFBomb excessive swearing]] in the English dub.
-->'''Lazer''': Goddamit! Where the hell is Jack, the fuckin' chicken shit! Fuckin' fuckin shit, fuckin' shit!
-->''[Jack appears]''
-->'''Mook''': HOLY SHIT, THE BASTARD'S HERE!
** Counting also as {{Squick}}, Shingo inexplicably getting a very graphic [[JizzedInMyPants orgasm under his loincloth]] while dead scared by the tiger. That this is never explained or mentioned at all only makes it even more awkward.
** The Dog-People. It's such a BlackComedy outburst that the viewer is forgiven for breaking into laughter at their sight. That being said, the Narm factor is averted when they are being abused, tortured, and even raped...
*** There's a CallBack (sort of) to this in ''Shin Violence Jack'', where Miki's disembodied head has the body of a dog, and it's quite an unusual sight.
** The very fact that the setting is actually called "Eviltown" is so on-the-nose that it's downright hilarious.
* NarmCharm: At certain moments in this work there is so much absurd and exploitative violence that it is simply impossible to take it seriously. OVA does not help much, since, due to the release time, this is also supplemented by AOR soundtrack and a rather awkward attempt to portray rape and violence as fanservice.
* NauseaFuel:
** The rape scenes from the Evil Town arc definitely count.
** Also at one point in the manga, Miki is raped by [[spoiler:a dog]] in The Black Forest arc.
** The gory violence also often falls under this because of how graphic it is.
** Mad Saurus eating Blue's corpse, nuff said...
* SequelDisplacement: Due to the manga not being released outside of Japan, except for Italy, not a lot of people know that ''Violence Jack'' is a sequel to ''Manga/{{Devilman}}''.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Being at least 10 times more brutal, graphic and crapsacky than ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' with an (at first) apathetic and sadistic main character, it's pretty hard to go through this series for some.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids:
** This series was originally a {{Shounen}} series, of all things; however, it's worth noting that the manga was first published in the early 70s, where standards for what was appropriate for shonen manga were looser. Eventually, though, enough people complained to get it shifted to a {{Seinen}} magazine.
** The OVA however, is definitely not for kids, that it even got an "adults only" classification because of its extreme content. The second OVA (''Evil Town'') is borderline Hentai.
* TheWoobie: Just about all of the people that Jack helps count as this, either from their past or what they have to go through by the time of the present.
** Takeshi Kaido, from the Sumo Devils of Kanto arc. He's an all together good-hearted and just young man, thanks to the lessons his [[GoodParents wise and kind-hearted father]] gave him that let him grow up to be such a person, but he is already introduced in a sorrowful state, as we're seen that he's being forced to risk his life alongside a group of orphans that he acts as a leader to by catching animals for the Onigawa Lodge, a gang of violent sumotori who take advantage of their superior size and strength, due to them having taken a group of girls from the orphans he leads as hostages, threatening to violate and torture them unless they do what they say. After Jack rescues him, he returns to the Onigawa Lodge for the sake of the orphans under his care, only to find out that cruelly enough, they were killed and hung out so that Kaido could see them as punishment, and then he has to see Rumi, a longtime friend & love interest of his who accompanied him when he travelled back to the lodge kill herself by biting her own tongue off rather than get violated by the wrestlers. It's no surprise that he's reduced to planning to suicidally attack the Onigawa Lodge and at least have the dignity of dying when fighting against them. Thankfully Jack arrives to give him a pep-talk, telling him that even if he failed the orphans, he's still able to be a champion for the downtrodden for their sake, and lets Kaido hire him to kill the Onigawa Lodge and avenge his fallen friends.
** Kikunosuke. Her mother was completely insane and forcibly tattooed "Abashiri Fiend" onto her back, something that's a source of great shame for her, which lead to her having a lonely and sorrowful existence even before the Great Kanto Hellquake, as she was a target of bullying and ostracized by other girls who spread rumors that she was a Yakuza because of the tattoo on her back, and Ryuji Matsukawa, a faculty member she went to for help turned out to be an ephebophile who was covertly grooming her under the guise of trying to protect her and be somebody she can confide her secrets in, and even when things began to look uphill for her due to a fellow student, Yuki Shirane, coming to her rescue and befriending her, then eventually becoming her girlfriend, Ryuji turned out to be stalking them and took pictures of them together for blackmail before he forced himself onto Yuki and drove her to suicide, and then when Kikunosuke attempted to avenge Yuki, Ryuji managed to overpower her with the intent of raping her before he kills her and burns her house down, which is narrowly averted by her half-brothers coming to the rescue and saving her from Ryuji, and even when things appear to go uphill once more due to Kikunosuke, once again, finally getting a place in life and having family to support her no matter what, it's all taken away from her yet again by the Great Kanto Hellquake, which killed all of her half-brothers except for Naojiro, who survived, albeit completely amnesiac and having no clue who he is, and wound up unwittingly tormenting his sister by capturing her and forcing her to work on his slave farms before he regained his memory, only to die shortly afterwards.
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