TV series
Desert Punk
Overview
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...
Details
- First air date
- 2004-10-06
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 24 episodes
- Genres
- Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Network
- CBC, MBS
- Production
- GONZO
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Tamio Ohki as Narrator (voice)
- Chihiro Suzuki as Desert Punk (voice)
- Chiwa Saito as Taiko Koizumi (voice)
- Tomoko Kotani as Junko Asagiri (voice)
- Norio Wakamoto as Amagumo (voice)
- Yasuhiro Takato
- Nozomi Masu
- Tomomichi Nishimura
- Kenta Miyake
- Fumi Morisawa
- Naoko Suzuki
- Atsushi Imaruoka
Episodes
Episode 1: The 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.
Episode 2: Rock, 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.
Episode 3: Fire 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.
Episode 4: An 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.
Episode 5: The Price of Water
Before Desert Punk can get in his first practice round with his awesome new M40, he finds himself targeted by the infamous Shimmer Sniper.
Episode 6: Wandering Lust
A lust for revenge - and Mariko - keeps Desert Punk’s spirits alive as he traverses the endless sands to his final, humiliating destiny.
Episode 7: Age 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?
Episode 8: A 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.
Episode 9: All 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?
Episode 10: A 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.
Episode 11: Compromising 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.
Episode 12: A 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.
Episode 13: Opposites 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.
Episode 14: Kosuna: 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.
Episode 15: The 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.
Episode 16: A 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.
Episode 17: Perv 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.
Episode 18: Too 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.
Episode 19: Scratching 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.
Episode 20: A 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.
Episode 21: Successor of the Desert
With Desert Punk dead, it is up to Kosuna to take his place when the Kawazu Gang returns.
Episode 22: Hidden Agendas
Kosuna is hired to guard a secret meeting of the Underground Mercenaries Union.
Episode 23: Voices 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.
Episode 24: The 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.
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