Forum - View topicJust finished Desert Punk.
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Aoi_Sakaraba
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Just saw desert punk. With the first few episodes I was going to rate it as the worst series I have ever seen with the endless slapstick style jokes and the ecchi, but by the time kosuni came around the series made a pretty decent turn around. The ecchi jokes were still there but began to blend in with the serious action around episode 13. The logical deductions in the series while still having a toilet humor nature made perfect sense, and the last 4 episodes with that turn around for spoiler[ desert punk] was flawless. He himself said spoiler[you have to do what you can to survive out here]. and the fits his style throughout the series perfectly.
At first I was going to rate it 3 out of 10 especially because the spoiler[ 3 guys nearly dancing around flipping off the viewer near the beginning], but somehow this series managed to climb all the way up to an 8 for me. The 2 points it were lost were obvious, because the ecchi, and what not. [EDIT: Since your original thread title was exceedingly ambiguous, I changed it to fit what you're actually talking about in your opening post, which is the fact that you finished watching Desert Punk. -TK] |
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HaruhiToy
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I always wanted to see more the protégé girl (not least of which because the VA is Monica Rial) in action and also how she ultimately resolves her relationship with Desert Punk. I agree the story did better at the end, just as what was happening was getting worse. |
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Keonyn
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Alright, I have effectively reset this post. To avoid confusion, this is basically about Desert Punk, so feel free to post if you have something to add in that vein. If you want to argue about the threads supposed intent or purpose then feel free to do so privately.
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V1046-R
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I agree with thinking it was so bad at first I almost didn't keep watching. But overall I was glad I stuck it out to see the story develop, even though it is hard for me to get too much into a story when I don't like any of the characters in it. So although mildly entertaining I was not really into it enough to care what happened in the end. But I did think it was an interesting angle to have the main character of a show intentionally be an unlikable person that instead of growing like one would expect, instead stays a total untrustworthy self centered a-hole through the end.
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Kruszer
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Well, I sort of expected what the show would be like from the chick on the cover of the DVD posing like a porn star, so when I watched it I kinda knew what I was getting into.
 So when it actually gained some substance that was the surprising part, yeah.
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Nobuyuki
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Luci Christian, actually. 
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Animegomaniac
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What I love the most about Desert Punk is the format as it very nearly and very neatly alternates between two stand alone episodes and two parters.
Stand alones: Jokes and perverted situations. Two parters: Doublecrosses and dire situations. The seres doesn't kick into gear until Kosuno becomes Punk's student/bootlick. That's the point when we learn not so much what makes Punk kick, uh tick, but why he has the most successful world view in the series. And it's not because he's right, it's because the world is such a crapheap. The pleasure of the series is watching Kosuno take it all in and come to her own conclusions. There's quite a bit more to this series than violence and boobs but, yeah, I initially watched it for the boobs and explosions. I bought the DVD because it's not as depressing as another apocalytic movie, A Boy and His Dog. spoiler[ In the original manga, Kosuna eats a dog rather than a pet bug and I would imagine it's a reference to the climax of that movie where the man and dog eats the love interest rather than them feasting on the dog. Sometimes the dog gets you and sometimes you get the dog.] |
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