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Sunabozu  
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Description
After a nuclear war turns most of the Earth into desert wastelands, surviving humans had used the sands in order to survive. One of them is a professional mercenary named Sunabozu, who makes a living by hiring himself out to anyone who needs his talents.

Type
Manga

Related Series
N/A

Associated Names
砂ぼうず
모래돌이
Desert Punk
Sand Boy
Sunabouzu

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Latest Release(s)
v.7 c.39 by Gantz_Waitingroom & HappyScans! & MiB (9d ago)
v.7 c.38 by Gantz_Waitingroom & HappyScans! & MiB (17d ago)
v.7 c.37 by Gantz_Waitingroom & HappyScans! & MiB (29d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
14 Volumes (Ongoing)

Completely Scanlated?
No

Anime Start/End Chapter
Starts at vol. 1, chapter 1
Ends at an alternative ending (total 24 episodes)

User Reviews
N/A

Forum
2 topics, 10 posts
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User Rating
Average: 8.4 / 10.0 (84 votes)
Bayesian Average: 8 / 10.0
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 5% (4 votes)

Last Updated
July 3rd 2012, 12:36am PST

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Genre
Action  Adventure  Comedy  Ecchi  Seinen 
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Author(s)
USUNE Masatoshi

Artist(s)
USUNE Masatoshi

Year
1997

Original Publisher
Enterbrain

Serialized In (magazine)
Comic Beam (Enterbrain)

Licensed (in English)
No

English Publisher
N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #793 decreased(-215)
Monthly Pos #389 increased(+172)
3 Month Pos #520 increased(+93)
6 Month Pos #583 increased(+541)

List Stats
On 648 reading lists
On 493 wish lists
On 14 unfinished lists
On 114 custom lists

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Forum Posts
Desert Punk/Sunabozu Manga to Resume After 3 Years posted on 2013-03-09 15:20 EST 72 days, 15 hours, 1 minutes ago
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 VERY good.   
Rating: 8.0 / 10.0
by GoldenKaos
April 22nd, 2013, 2:03pm
I always like these GUNMM-like post-apoc dystopian worlds in manga. Maybe there's something about the Japanese take on it, but I love these things, and am not too fussed about the Western iterations like Fallout. Then again, I may not like Fallout because of the 1960's Americana themes. Doesn't matter here anyway.

One of those seinen about a gun-for-hire/mercenary types, set in a post-apoc Japan, which is now a massive desert for some reason.

And it's kinda great. Pretty original aesthetic and art to it, or just familiar to old school seinen fans maybe. It's hard to pin down what I like about it so much, but I suspect it's how a lot of stock pieces of storytelling came together pretty neatly. A main character who uses mind games and dirty tricks instead of brawn or pure intellect is almost always refreshing when you come across them, since they're fairly rare. A main character who's also a right depraved piece of work - that you still root for, for some kind of "he's the underdog here" logic - reminds me of Yongbi in that way to be honest, although Yongbi isn't an underdog, he's just awesome and hilarious.

And this I think is the main success of the manga. It's very funny. The fights are funny, because Desert Punk outwits his opponents in the most humiliating of ways, and sometimes vice versa. The parts of the story are funny, because Desert Punk's terrible, terrible personality comes to the surface and some hilarious reaction or insult will ensue. It's also satisfying to see a piece of work like him get into trouble once in a while because of his innately humongous greed.

The stories are all pretty fantastic too - mostly little standalone arcs revolving around different jobs - so far (around vol 7/chapter 37) - with a cast of a few recurring characters who are just about as funny and despicably "look out for no.1" as the main character is. It's an extremely dog-eat-dog setting, and we just don't have too many things in that vein, so I like it for being a fresh wind as well.

As for the "This manga tries to convince you that the most logical approach to life is to have ZERO EMPATHY for others, that being a psychopath is normal and desirable" way of looking at the manga - just no. Seriously no. This manga tries to entertain, often by pushing hard at the borders of acceptability (welcome to seinen, we have cookies) and with black humour. And ecchi, one must admit. Again, welcome to seinen. Not every story is a morality play or tries to teach a lesson about how to live life. Some are out to provide escapism and entertainment only, and that's basically what you should be looking for here.

And I think it achieves that pretty damn well.
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 Someeone please scanlate this   
Rating: N/A
by DrManga
September 9th, 2012, 2:01pm
I wish someone would scanlate this. Its an ok Manga but much better as an Anime. The story picks up when they get to the Underground Movement (Anime) which is yet to be reached in scanlation releases.
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 Awesome!   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by achyif
November 23rd, 2011, 12:38pm
The action, plot, and wit are all quality, but what makes Sunabozu unique are its characters.
90% of them are pure selfish !!!holes, including the main character. It's pretty much a "either you like or you don't" thing, but I'd still reccommend it to anyone.
Many thanks to GWR for scanlating

... Last updated on November 24th, 2011, 9:40am
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 Great.   
Rating: 9.5 / 10.0
by panos
August 23rd, 2011, 11:33am
This manga is bloody hilarious.The scene where "what the, it's just anormal shoot out made me rofl".
Anyway, some of of the things mentioned by @Kirika are mostly correct.Desert punk is mostly a comedy though with a weird kind of humor that might not appeal to everyone.It has some stupid elements like the balloon clones but the behavior of the characters considering the situation the characters are in and the "mad max" setting looks pretty justified.There is no fake character development like Arms Peddler where
Spoiler (mouse over to view)
the female protagonist sold the boy as a slave and when the boy broke out 1)didn't bother escape from her 2)didn't even held a grudge against her(only a page of seeing him getting mad)
. But the comparison between the two is a little off.The only NEARLY common thing is the setting and the oppression common folks have.I believe you mentioned Arms Peddler so as to give an example of an unnaturally character development.
As i mentioned, Desert Punk is mostly comedy with kick ass action at times.There are some more serious chapters such as ch 23 though which will annoy you though due to the cruelty of the desert, but still realistic since we are talking about a post apocalyptic environment in the first place.

... Last updated on January 7th, 2012, 10:01pm
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 Very underappreciated manga   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by kirika
August 17th, 2011, 9:32am
War... War never changes....

Since I've commented on a much, much, much worse manga (Arms Peddler) it would be a crime to not comment on one of the best manga I've read (and anime I've seen). I've become a fan of this title the moment I saw anime (which was in 2008) but unfortunately, until a while ago finding this manga in English was impossible.

Sunabōzu is a unique manga, interesting from start to finish and even though humour wasn't too refined (it was more of a college humour) I consider it as one of the most valuable reads I've had in my life as a manga reader. Paradoxically, despite it's often primitive jokes or out of the top behaviour (sometimes even cartoonish) of characters, there are not many manga that depict reality as well, even if it's in a setting almost completely unknown to us. The same goes for characters who we see as made from flesh and blood and not ink and paper. It's very rare to find characters such as these. Since the world they live in is more cruel than the one most of us know and here motto "survival of the fittest" is a fact and not just an empty slogan, characters behave very logically in such conditions.

The main hero (and most of other characters that have at least half a brain) are pragmatist and/or opportunists. If there was a chance to screw someone over they don't miss it, if the opponent has an advantage they don't think twice about withdrawing. The latter action is something that most mangakas do not consider. Main hero would run ?! That's ridiculous. He can't. He must stand firmly and fight with his foes and surely he will defeat them because of sheer fighting spirit... Well, not in Desert Punk (but in Arms Peddler unfortunately yes). There is no honour here, no pardon, what matters are results and effectiveness. It reminds me of Fallout game (but not crappy Fallout 3 but Fallout 1 - godly game) and maybe that's why I've loved it so much. It also reminds me of Firefly (the best tv show ever) and I haven't found any cartoon/anime or other tv series that would get even close to it.

Even though the plot isn't very original, carrying it out is. Desert Punk surprises (in a good way) in every chapter. Often I had to pick up my jaw from the floor, even more often I laughed (my sense of humour isn't too refined bigrazz ) and sometimes my adrenaline level would rise. There are only few manga/anime that could trigger such reactions from me and even fewer that managed to maintain it from start to finish (Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, Legend of Galactic Heroes, SPT Layzner, FMA, Urasawa's mangas, Romeo no Aoi Sora, Kemono no Souja Erin, Kaiji and that's about it). So if you're looking for a non-schematic, action manga, something that would allow you to relax and something you won't forget than this manga is for you.

Manga and anime are unfortunately very under-appreciated. This title has disappeared in tons of sh*t that floats around and are considered as masterpieces when they can't even compare to Desert Punk.

... Last updated on April 22nd, 2013, 11:58pm
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 Too sick and depraved   
Rating: 1.0 / 10.0
by alphaGulp
August 3rd, 2011, 11:39pm
It's one thing to have the story be set in a lawless world, but it's another to have the hero be so sick and twisted.

It's not even so much that the guy is a product of his environment: in fact, he's a little shit-for-brains troll who gets his kicks from making the people around him miserable, who gets pleasure from wrecking things or degrading people, and who certainly never bothers with things like ethics or morality.
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For example, when confronted with a truly decent guy, the 'hero' ends up selling him as a slave to a homosexual pervert, at a loss (even though the 'hero' cares only about money), just to wreck the guy's life, just because he can.

Later, the 'hero' spends an entire chapter trying to rape a woman he imprisoned.

Nice, huh? And half of the people rating this garbage gave it a '10'.

Don't let the nice drawings and decent action draw you in: this is another revolting piece of garbage that's meant to corrupt you, to make you think that living your life this way is normal, inevitable or 'smart', given the world we live in.

Well, certainly you can choose to become a POS banker, or a corrupt politician/police/..., or a drug dealer/murderer, or whatever else you can think of that gives you the easiest and most despicable approaches to wealth and power. You may well get some fleeting, superficial advantages - smart, huh?

As Max Keiser (a non-mainstream commentator whom I like quite a bit) mentions from time to time, studies have shown that traders with diminished empathy due to slight brain damage do better at playing the stock market, apparently because they don't get distracted by concern for others, or by any thoughts of the impact of their actions. This manga tries to convince you that the most logical approach to life is to have ZERO EMPATHY for others, that being a psychopath is normal and desirable.

Fact: you will not only make others miserable if you live your life that way - you will also be miserable yourself, inevitably. WAKE UP!

... Last updated on August 3rd, 2011, 11:54pm
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 The Search For Sunabozu   
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by Voyager9
July 24th, 2008, 1:55pm
Yes, I saw the anime and loved it. I'm hunting down the manga as well, translated, import or no, doesn't matter... but thanks to FUNimation for giving this series such a great treatment in its tin box set!
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 Yes the anime version...   
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by RwR
May 8th, 2007, 12:56pm
...Has sent me searching for this (2nd OP shows various manga pages). Fun stuff. Maybe someday...
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 anime   
Rating: N/A
by EvilTomte
February 21st, 2007, 5:00pm
Saw the anime and it was cool... Hopefully I can get hold of the manga sometime. smile
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