Desert Punk

This has got to be the strangest anime I have seen. It’s full if rather adult content and jokes. I actually really like Kanta’s personality, he actually is not afraid to admit once in a while that he’s a complete pervert and shows that he actually really does care about some people. The storyline is really good, starting when his job was stolen and then he seems to never get back to the top. It makes for a lot of hilarious things happening and a lot of old man perverted jokes that would make lovers of that stuff swoon and those who cringe at it will not want to watch it after the first episode. There are even times that the side characters become nude… from the waist down. It may be blurred in the version I watched but they might not on the DVD. Pretty much, if you watch the first episode, you will tell what this whole story is just from that.
The artwork feels a lot like Saiyuki or Trigun, the background is rather nicely blurred and makes it look perfect with the heat of the Desert. It has a nice vintage feel and really adds to the feeling of post-apocalyptic world that he lives in. Buildings are either broken up or sandstone cut though I don’t understand why the older buildings are like that as well. Some of the action seems to be the same images over and over again, with some action lines but it captures some of the action nicely. I have to smile at the opening though where they decided to add a live-action opening to it and they did rather nice making it fit with the cartoon version. Sadly, the character that plays Kanta does not have the right height and so some of that joke is lost. It’s really surprising that Gonzo made this because they were really good to this and makes me want them to do more of this more often. I think they really shined here.
Now music… it is something to be desired. There is a lot of ‘soft porn’ music pretty much everywhere and not much of the fun action music until right up to the point where he decides to actually go bad ass. Most of the main cast has rather nice sounding in English, while the others are just placed around in bad taste but its fine because they didn’t stay for long.