▪	RELEASED BY:		FUNIMATION ENTERTAINMENT
		▪	ASPECT RATIO:		4:3 FULL SCREEN
		▪	AUDIO:		ENGLISH DD 5.1 / 2.0 AND JAPANESE DD 2.0
		▪	RUNNING TIME:		300
		▪	RATING:		TV MA
		▪	RELEASE DATE:		07/10/2007
		▪	REVIEW DATE:		07/25/2007
		▪	REVIEWED BY:		DAVEY C. JONES

SYNOPSIS:
Meet Kanta, the... err... "hero" of our story. Well, the good guy. No, not quite. Hmm... Anyway, styling himself the "Desert Punk," he's out to make a name for himself as the best handyman for hire. No job is too tough, and no opponent too nefarious. That is, until he runs into Junko, the siren of the sands. Double-crossed by these double-D's, Desert Punk finds himself with a job he couldn't complete and a debt he can't repay.

The complete 24 episode series on 6 DVDs.

REVIEW:
Get ready to get your Punk on!

Like peanut butter and chocolate, post apocalyptic sci-fi and comedy go together for sweet perfection in Desert Punk. It’s based on the Sunabozu novels by Masatoshi Usune. The dude with the tude is like none other. The Punk is short, he’s a total perv and he always gets the job done. At least when Junko the Vixen of the Desert isn’t using her womanly double DD (Or should that be double GG?) charms on him! He is so ruthless. A mercenary who doesn’t have a heart, he’s out for himself and makes sure everyone knows it. The anime goes through a lot of fun gags and stand alone episodes as he takes on one job after another, all in the name of the all mighty dollar or sex. He takes on Kosuna as his sidekick, kind of like a Desert Punk-ette, only because he thinks she‘ll grow up to have a big bosom. The Demon of the Desert only seems to find his match in the Vixen of the Desert Junko. She’s as ruthless and mercenary as he is, but she’s got the buxom weapons of doom for this little perv. She gets him wrapped around her tyrannical finger nearly every time.

The only time the show dares to have an actual ongoing plot is near the very end. Suddenly in the story there’s lot of mentions of the Oasis government, their nasty ways, a robot army, and a rebellion in the works. There’s this wicked twist at the end that is played out brilliantly. It’s sure to leave fans talking.

This perverted piece of comedy is animated by the king of anime companies – GONZO. They have done some of the slickest anime like Trinity Blood, Last Exile, Black Cat, Basilisk, etc. So you bet that the animation is top notch. The jiggle bounce hits a new high with Junko. What’s really cool is the live action opening with a live Desert Punk roaming the wasteland. The first opening and ending theme songs are hilarious; especially the ending where the guy is singing about how to draw the Desert Punk. 

EXTRAS:
Holy milk jugs! This set has more extras than Junko’s bra can hold! There’s the ultra cool embossed tin case the set comes in, a 20 page booklet with the parody covers for the series, and the regular stuff like trailers, clean opening and ending animation for both versions of each. Then there’s the extra spiffy goodness like English cast auditions, Desert Punk Parody Cover Galleries, As Seen on TV which shows Japanese eps in their original as aired state, Punkisms which takes you through all the twisted little terms they improvised in the English dubbed version, Life in the Desert character files, bloopers of the English dubbed version, and two commentaries. The first is on episode 9 with Eric Vale (the Punk himself!), Luci Christian (Kosuna), and Callie Young (luscious Junko). The second and final one is on the last episode with director Zach Bolton and Jeremy Inman (Fuyo). 

The best features are the “Original Japanese” features which are many, many, many! There’s the Desert Punk Survival Game, video interviews with the singers of the opening and ending songs (Takatori Hideaki who did the first version, YUKA who did the second ones),  videos of live Radio Sunabozu dj’d by Japanese voice actors Chihiro Suzuki (the Japanese original Punk) and Chiwa Saito (Kosuna). There’s Making of the Live Action Opening, Tokyo Animator College where you get to go with the director Inagaki back to his Alma Mater,  a Desert Punk Side Story by the original author Masatoshi Usune, original Japanese trailers for DP under the feature “Desert Punk Video Treasure Vault”, and in “Desert Punk Company Caravan”, the lovely Mari Shimomura goes along with a live action Desert Punk to Newtype and Weekly Famitsu for promo shoots.

IN SUMMARY:
This anime will see you seriously punked! It will help you get in touch with the Desert Punk in you. You’ll snicker, chortle and roar with laughter throughout this entire anime! If you like Lupin the Third you’ll want to check this out. Heck, if you like pervy comedy, you’ve gotta check this anime out!