Once a fifth grade student with a good heart and innocent spirit, Ryu's world changed forever after the Great Kanto Hell Quake. Ryu Takuma Ī young boy who survived the hell quake and became the leader to a group of children who live on the outskirts of Slum Town. Violent and sadistic in nature, Slum King is widely feared throughout Kanto and is known to make anyone who angers or upsets him into dogs by cutting off their arms and legs to the joints and then cutting their tongues out to prevent them from speaking or killing themselves. While his armor is meant to help in his medical condition, it also provides him with protection against most attacks. He later escapes his confinement after discovering his brother and tutor having sex and violently murders them and the rest of his family before disappearing.Ī large giant of a man, Slum King is extremely strong and is a highly skilled swordsman. During later sessions, the tutor becomes aroused by Doma’s lack of sexual experience and strips naked in front of him. Doma is later given a private tutor who helps him to read and write. He given a heavy set of Samurai armor and an iron mask to prevent any overgrowth of muscle tissue and is locked away in a shed by his family out of fear.

Born with a rare medical condition that accelerates the growth of muscle tissue which can potentially be fatal. Thirty years before the Hellquake, he was known as Takatora Doma and was the oldest son of the noble Doma family from Shinshu. The main antagonist in the central arc of Violence Jack, Slum King is a sadistic warlord who rules over the majority of the devastated Kanto region. He is also frequently accompanied by a Golden Bird that is only seen at the end of certain arcs. He is also shown to utilize hallucinations to those he encounters, having once shown a young woman who was planning to sell a girl into slavery where she and her boyfriend are ruthlessly slaughtered.

His presence alone sometimes incites those he is around to become violent and seek to attack him. Many of the towns he visits are often subjected to mysterious earthquakes that occur during or after his arrival. Often when he is finished helping the weak, he will suddenly vanish without a trace of him ever actually being there. He often helps those who are weaker than him who are preyed upon by violent nomads and criminals who scour Kanto.Īlthough Jack is described as human, he is often the focal point of strange phenomena that occurs in Kanto. Having appeared out of nowhere after the Great Kanto Hell Quake, Jack wanders throughout Kanto, often picking street fights with those he sees as a threat to Kanto. The man called Violence Jack had his name given to him for his unpredictable, violent nature and for his signature weapon, a large foldout jack-knife that he conceals and sometimes brandishes whenever necessary. He is often described being 7 to 10 feet tall with the muscles of a gorilla, the fangs of a wolf, and having burning primordial eyes. This titular antihero is a complete mystery to those who have encountered him. The original manga reuses many concepts and characters from other works by Go Nagai.Ĭharacters Violence Jack In some of these countries, the contents of the OVAs have caused censorship issues, while in Australia the second OVA was banned altogether. These OVAs have been released in the United States, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. Violence Jack is credited with creating the post-apocalyptic manga and anime genre.Ī set of sagas from the manga were adapted in three independent OVAs released in 1986, 19. Most of the stories have been compiled in around 45 tankōbon while a few of them have been published as special tankōbon or have yet to be published in that format. It has had several serializations and one-shot stories which have run in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Violence Jack is a Japanese manga, co-written and co-illustrated by Go Nagai since 1973, all the way to 2008.

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