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Desert Punk(TV show/series, 2004-2005)

Original title: "砂ぼうず" (Japanese/JA)
25min per episode | Genre: Animation

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 24 episodes

Desert PunkRating: 3.4/5 (with 6 votes)
Desert Punk (Japanese: 砂ぼうず, Hepburn: Sunabōzu) is a Japanese post-apocalyptic manga series written and illustrated by Masatoshi Usune, serialized in Enterbrain's Comic Beam from August 1997 to October 2020. The published chapters have been collected in 22 volumes. The manga was adapted into a 24-episode anime television series produced by Gonzo and directed by Takayuki Inagaki with character designs by Takahiro Yoshimatsu and music by Kouhei Tanaka. It aired in Japan from 4 October 2004 to 28 March 2005. Funimation has licensed the series for distribution in the United States. ()
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About Desert Punk

In the future, Japan is a wasteland. In the Great Kanto Desert, scattered humans eke out a living in the hot sand. Among them, a short-statured man they call "Sunabozu" makes a living as a bounty hunter. Like a demon of the sand, he seems unbeatable. Yet, like all men, he has a particular weakness for the opposite sex...

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Desert Punk Seasons and Episodes

10/06/2004Season 1 - 24 episodes
#1 | 10/06/2004The Demon and the Double D's
Desert Punk’s got two vices: money and babes. Today both are on the line, as he tears apart the Kawazu Gang. But after a bait-and-switch, he’ll have to salvage his reputation.
#2 | 10/13/2004Rock, Paper, Scissors
When Desert Punk discovers that he and the fierce Rain Spider are after the same guy, tempers begin to boil. With egos like these, who knows what’ll happen.
#3 | 10/20/2004Fire Dragon Kong
After taking a job from Junko, Desert Punk learns he’ll have to work with the Machine Gun Brothers and face the most powerful force in the entire desert - Fire Dragon Kong.
#4 | 10/27/2004An Ace in the Sand
Before Desert Punk can get in his first practice round with his awesome new M40, he finds himself targeted by the infamous Shimmer Sniper.
#5 | 11/03/2004The Price of Water
#6 | 11/10/2004Wandering Lust
A lust for revenge - and Mariko - keeps Desert Punk’s spirits alive as he traverses the endless sands to his final, humiliating destiny.
#7 | 11/17/2004Age Before Beauty
Things are looking brighter now that Desert Punk has a new apprentice. But will Kosuna become a killer mercenary? Or will she just send Desert Punk’s reputation further down the toilet?
#8 | 11/24/2004A Dog in Heat
After Desert Punk and Kosuna are hired to blow up the supposedly cursed Inumeiwa Rock, they begin to think the curse might be real. Everything that could go wrong goes wrong. Sometimes twice.
#9 | 12/01/2004All That Glitters
Punk and his apprentice head to a desolate city with Junko and Kaizuka. Deep within the ruins, a menacing sentinel awaits. Will they join the other souls in the Treasure Hunter’s graveyard?
#10 | 12/08/2004A Little Bit of Wisdom
Something dubious is afoot when a legendary treasure hunter hires Desert Punk to help him retrieve a ghost town’s fortune.
#11 | 12/15/2004Compromising Positions
Desert Punk takes Junko prisoner and stashes her away in a top-secret hideout. After she knocks the exit code out of his memory, they may not get out of the tin can alive.
#12 | 12/22/2004A Change of Heart
Desert Punk’s been hired to rescue a kidnapped young girl, but she’s more of a handful than he hoped. And with the legendary Night Mist right on his tail, escape won’t come easy.
#13 | 12/29/2004Opposites Collide
With an official IOU from Stryker, Desert Punk might finally land the big stack of dough he’s always longed for - until a gang of creeps comes and messes it all up. It’s a dog eat dog world.
#14 | 01/19/2005Kosuna: Fully Automatic
Kosuna’s out to arm herself to the teeth after a brush with death. An old arms dealer teaches her a thing or two about Desert Punk and the ways of survival in the Great Kanto Desert.
#15 | 01/26/2005The Girl Next Door
Desert Punk and the Machine Gun Brothers go on a very important mission - hauling human feces across the desert. While the boys complain about their load, an old enemy waits to attack.
#16 | 02/02/2005A Load of...
Desert Punk discovers that the load of crap he’s hauling is a weapon of mass destruction. When Rain Spider’s men attack, Desert Punk’s plan might kill everyone for miles around.
#17 | 02/09/2005Perv in Pursuit
Junko and Desert Punk are on the run from a sniper who’s sporting a state-of-the-art desert suit. There’s nowhere to hide and the mysterious man on their tail isn’t giving up.
#18 | 02/16/2005Too Close for Comfort
Desert Punk’s trying to get Junko back after she’s kidnapped by Tech. But all three end up on the same side of a fight against a group of armed mercenaries.
#19 | 02/23/2005Scratching the Surface
After Desert Punk teams up with the Machine Gun Brothers to find missing Natsuko, Ikeda takes them to a top-secret tunnel that holds many treasures.
#20 | 03/02/2005A Raw Deal
Desert Punk realizes that Stryker, Natsuko, and many others are all part of the Underground Mercenaries, a group bent on overthrowing the government. Punk has only one thing in mind—saving his own hide.
#21 | 03/09/2005Successor of the Desert
With Desert Punk dead, it is up to Kosuna to take his place when the Kawazu Gang returns.
#22 | 03/16/2005Hidden Agendas
Kosuna is hired to guard a secret meeting of the Underground Mercenaries Union.
#23 | 03/23/2005Voices in the Wind
Kosuna accepts a new job from Natsuko, this time to guard a secret laboratory. On the way there, they see a mysterious cloud appearing on the horizon.
#24 | 03/30/2005The Demon Revealed
With the thought of Kanta being dead quickly erased from her mind, Kosuna sets out to prove herself as a true mercenary one last time against her old master. Kanta reveals that Kaizuka may not be all that he seems to be, and the Underground Mercenaries are destroyed. Kosuna chooses to forget about her past and Desert Punk, knowing that is the only way she can truly become Kanto Desert's greatest power babe.

Additional Information

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Production country: Japan
Derivative works/Adaptions: "Desert Punk" (find it on Amazon)
Made by: Gonzo
Original language: Japanese (JA)
Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)
Translated into 10 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 10/06/2004
Last episode released on: 03/30/2005
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Desert Punk - Il demone del deserto"
"Sunabouzu"
"Sunabôzu"
Keywords: anime

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