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I found Desert Punk to be a wonderful combination of somewhat perverse comedy and deep, compelling morals. Kanta starts out as a desert handyman: not completely honest but not heartless as he appears at the end of the series. Conversely, Kasuna starts out as more of a heartless fighter (albeit a bit weak, and with no training to speak of), but becomes more of a kind hearted individual as the story progresses. The divide between herself and Kanta widens as he becomes more concerned with his own successes and less for her wellbeing or the wellbeing of others, and this is what strikes me as ... the major underlying moral throughout the story. To him, others are there to be cheated and robbed, and become less and less of actual people to him. In the end, he becomes hated by his childhood friends (the machine gun brothers, who, in actuality, didn't like him from the beginning but did not hate him), and his own apprentice chooses to leave him behind just like he had left them behind.