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Welcome to the desert! In a bleak future where the region of Kanto is now a wasteland, and justice is on the side of whoever is left standing! The Desert Punk, the feared ‘Demon of the Desert’ is a mercenary for hire who always gets the job done, so long as the price is right. A gunman with plenty of tricks up his sleeve, and a large reputation among bandits everywhere. In the middle of a retrieval job, the Desert Punk comes across Junko, a half-naked woman passed out in the middle of nowhere. Claiming to have escaped from some nearby bandits, Junko easily ‘motivates’ Punk into finishing his mission. With a mix of skill and some useful |
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tricks, Punk finds his target, only to be double-crossed by Junko, who turns out to be a mercenary herself. Things don’t get much better for the Desert Punk as he finds himself in various different situations as he goes from job to job. Having a duel with the mercenary known as Rain Spider, in order to decide who gets the debt money an old man owes, with the promise of the mans beautiful daughter if he wins. Being ‘convinced’ by Junko to help deal with the huge battle tank, Fire Dragon Kong. Volume one ends with a standoff as Desert |
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Punk’s survival skills are put to the test when a sniper challenges him to a battle. But the sniper seems to have a few tricks of his own, and seems to be able to move from place to another with great ease. Is he just that good, or is it another trick? Desert Punk is a bit of a mixed bag, with a fair dose
of action and some good laughs. The humour mainly seems to be more on the
smutty side though, as it mainly came from Desert Punks reactions to Junko, due
to her well endowed figure. It seemed that in episode you would hear him
muttering something along her body. Junko acts as the anime's sole focus
of fan-service too, and the show is more then happy to give you a shot of her
bust when she’s on the screen. |
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I had trouble liking the main character though. At first, the Desert Punk comes off as a pretty cool guy, a skilled mercenary, if a bit focused on the money. But as they episodes moved on, he slowly became more of a pervert and a bit of a jerk. Its almost like that when the Desert Punk has his mask on, he’s all cool and mysterious, but with the mask off, he’s rather neurotic. There weren’t too many characters really introduced either. Aside from Punk and Junko, we briefly met Rain Spider, but other characters were left in the sand with background roles. |
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Extras: Some decent extras with the first volume. Along with the clean opening and closing and anime trailers, volume 1 has an interview with the singer of the shows opening and closing (Takatori Hideaki) along with a making of video of the live-action opening. There are also some cast audition, but they felt more like some voice samples taken from the episodes, and there is an ‘original tv airing’ version of the first episode which contains some alternate dialogue. Ratings Feature:
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