Violence Jack
Nagai is credited with pioneering the super robot genre with "Mazinger Z" and the magical girl genre with "Cutie Honey". "Violence Jack" also created the post-apocalyptic manga and anime genre. Its desert wasteland setting had biker gangs, anarchic violence, ruined buildings, innocent civilians, tribal chiefs, and small abandoned villages. This was similar to, and may have influenced, the desert wasteland settings of later post-apocalyptic franchises such as the Australian film series "Mad Max" (1979 debut) and the Japanese manga and anime series "Fist of the North Star" ("Hokuto no Ken", 1983 debut).