Desert Punk
| Desert Punk | |
Cover of the first manga volume (reprint)
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砂ぼうず (Sunabōzu) |
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| Genre | Action, Comedy, Science fiction, Weird Western |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Usune Masatoshi |
| Published by | Enterbrain |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Comic Beam |
| Original run | August 5, 1997 – present |
| Volumes | 18 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Takayuki Inagaki |
| Produced by | Kazuhiko Suzuki Takashi Watanabe Takeyuki Okazaki Takuya Chiba Yoko Kawahara Yuichi Tanaka |
| Music by | Kohei Tanaka |
| Studio | Gonzo |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Mainichi Broadcasting System |
| English network | |
| Original run | 4 October 2004 – 28 March 2005 |
| Episodes | 24 |
Desert Punk (Japanese: 砂ぼうず Hepburn: Sunabōzu?) is a post-apocalyptic manga series written and illustrated by Usune Masatoshi, serialized in Enterbrain's Comic Beam since 1997. The published chapters have been collected in 13 volumes.
The manga was adapted into a 24-episode science fiction action adventure anime television series produced by Gonzo and directed by Takayuki Inagaki with character designs by Takahiro Yoshimatsu and music by Kōhei Tanaka. It aired in Japan from 4 October 2004 to 28 March 2005.FUNimation has licensed the series for distribution in the United States.
After an implied global nuclear catastrophe Japan has been reduced to a desert and the surviving humans seek out a meager living in the hot sands. Desert Punk focuses on the adventures of a wandering mercenary named Kanta Mizuno, nicknamed Desert Punk (Sunabōzu), due to his seemingly incredible feats of skill and daring while on the job. Throughout the series, he acquires an apprentice and makes a few friends as well as enemies. "The Great Kanto Desert is a truly miserable place. It’s also the home of hero-for-hire Desert Punk, the closest thing to a good guy the sandy wasteland’s got. He’s never failed to complete a mission, and he’s known far and wide as the best man for any job.
Desert Punk began as a manga series written and illustrated by Usune Masatoshi, which began serialization in Enterbrain's Comic Beam manga magazine on August 5, 1997. thirteen bound volumes have been released in Japan as of March 2010. The manga is significantly different from the anime with a more realistic look and far more common use of black comedy as opposed to quirky and sexual humor. Many changes were made to give the anime a more light hearted feel when adapting it from the manga. The manga also has a different ending than the anime. Also notable is that five story arcs are missing from the anime and at episode 19 the anime separates from the manga, leaving a new 6 episode ending in place of chapters 43 to 86 of the manga.
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