Story 7/10: Desert Punk's main theme is this, a midget mercenary known as the demon of the desert (aka, "desert punk" or just "the punk") goes around the post-apocalyptic great Kanto desert doing the jobs no one else will do with a near perfect success rate (unless tit's get in the way). That however is the theme and background really since Desert Punk doesn't really have a plot, most the episodes are just random skits following those guidelines. And it works great, Desert Punk is nothing but crazy action, vulgar humour, and tit's, if you're looking for a deep show with a complex plot search elsewhere, but if you want something that will make you laugh so hard you'll cry you're in luck friend.
Art 9/10: Lets get the boring stuff out the way first, the backgrounds. The show takes place in a post-apocalyptic desert and therefore all the backgrounds won't really vary all the much from your basic brown and other shades of brown. Now that that's out of the way lets move on to the good part, the character design! Most modern anime follows a basic template for characters where they all look the same, pointy chin tiny nose pretty boys. Desert Punk takes that template, whips its ass with it, and then sends the shit stained paper back to who gave it to them. Almost all the characters in Desert Punk are (for lack of a better term) ugly, Kanta (the punk) is a short little bastard with big eyebrows, massive ears, a fat round nose, and generally sporting a massive shit eater/psychopath smile, he looks kinda like a rapist monkey at times. And it don't stop with just the punk, everyone in this show looks like they've been beaten to death with the ugly stick, and it fantastic! In a world where almost every anime character looks like the exact same pretty boy seeing characters like it is beyond refreshing.
Sound 10/10: This show has one of the most memorable soundtracks I've ever heard in anime. It's the kind of music where you hear the first half second of the song and suddenly jump up and yell "that's the Desert Punk song!" and then slowly slink back into your seat to avoid the confused glares you're getting from everyone around you. But does memorable necessarily mean good? No. Does it mean good in Desert Punk's case? Hell yes, this music is awesome. And now for the acting, good god the acting. Generally my opinion on dubs is this, the reason to watch a dub is so you don't have to read the subs and miss half the action. Is that the case with this show? Not at all. See most dubs will attempt to stay as true to the original script as possible, problem is Japanese jokes and sayings don't really translate well and as a result the dub just seems off. However the people dubbing Desert Punk decided "here's the basic gist of what they're saying, now make it sound good in English!" The finished product? A dub that might just be better then the sub (blasphemy!). Let me give you an example, in the original Japanese he says "crap, better retreat for now" and in the English dub he says "remember kids, a smart man knows when it's time to RUN LIKE A LITTLE BITCH!" Another problem is that English voice actors half ass like they aren't even being paid to do it, fandubs usually have more emotion. But with Desert Punk the actors really are giving it their all, and you can tell just from their performances that they're actually enjoying their work from once.
Character 9/10: Dear god, the characters, I don't even know where to begin. The characters in Desert Punk... Well there are no good guy characters (except one, but he gets sold into slavery to a gay guy), every character in Desert Punk is more or less, a completely asshole. Kanta, the main protagonist of the show, is a bigger dick then most villains in anime. He is overly-horny, treats everyone like shit, acts like he's the greatest person in the world, he isn't just a jerk, he is the living incarnation of the word jerk, and that's what makes him so great! This is a character you're supposed to hate, the kind of character you're supposed to look at and say "I want you to die!" but in the end you just end up loving this fucking guy. The same goes for most the other characters, the odd part is the characters you generally end up hating the most are the ones that in any other anime you would consider the good guy, like Stryker (the dude who Kanta sells to a gay guy). Characters are definitely the strong point of Desert Punk.
Enjoyment 10/10: This can really go both ways. Do you hate vulgar humour about sex, do you consider the thought of a bunch of goons getting covered in a massive trucks worth of shit and vomiting their guts out to be just plain disgusting? Then you will hate this show. But if you're like me and enjoy vulgar humour that has no real point then you will laugh to death watching this show.
Overall 9/10: Desert Punk is a show that takes every cliche in anime, eats it, shits it out on to a plate, and then forces the modern romance anime market to eat it. Watch this show, it might just end up being one of your favourites.
