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Title: Violence Jack, Part 1, Slum King (09 Sep 1996)
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| Episode credited cast: | |||
| Tesshô Genda | ... | Jack (voice) | |
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Shigezô Sasaoka | ... | Slumking (voice) |
| Norio Wakamoto | ... | Bomber (voice) | |
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Yoshino Ohtori | ... | Rose (voice) |
| Maya Okamoto | ... | Mari (voice) | |
| Hiromi Tsuru | ... | Yumi (voice) | |
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Keiichi Nanba | ... | Kenichi (voice) |
| Unshô Ishizuka | ... | Narrator (voice) | |
| Issei Futamata | ... | Laser (voice) | |
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Masashi Hirose | ... | Yamaguchi (voice) |
| Mayumi Tanaka | ... | Sabu (voice) | |
| Nobuaki Fukuda | ... | Driver (voice) | |
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Junpei Tachibara | ... | Aide (voice) |
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Toshiharu Sakurai | ... | Thug (voice) |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Julia Braams | ... | Mari (voice) (as Janet Coats) |
Set on a future Earth that has been ripped apart by natural disasters. Civilization has turned into a brutish nightmare of survival. Violence Jack is caught in the crossfire when a new violent war erupts. Meanwhile Mari, a beautiful women, is looking for her lost lover, Ken.
To its credit, I did watch this anime all the way through. Most of Go Nagai's productions have that effect on me. But if you're a fan of anime, keep in mind, not all anime that makes it to this side of the Pacific is good.
There were some half-hearted attempts to bring some sophistication to this story, but personally, I was quickly distracted from those attempts by the gratuitous breast shots and the fountains of blood.
There is also an attempt to build Savage Jack into a anti-hero, which doesn't completely succeeds, and winds up making him more of a thug than anything else.