Sunabozu

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

Desert Punk

Sunabouzu

砂ぼうず

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Latest Release(s)

c.139 by ManhwaFreak 1 year ago

c.137-138 by ManhwaFreak 1 year ago

c.136 by ManhwaFreak 1 year ago

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Status in Country of Origin

22 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1

Ends at Vol 8, Chap 43 (EP 19) Diverges, Chap 76-77 adapted in the finale

User Reviews

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Forum

2 topics, 10 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.2 / 10.0 (165 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.91 / 10.0

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Last Updated

October 10th, 2024 11:04am PDT - 7 months ago

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Genre

Action Adventure Comedy Drama Sci-fi Seinen
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Original Publisher

Enterbrain

Serialized In (magazine)

Comic Beam (Enterbrain)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #755

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Monthly Pos #1687 (No change)

3 Month Pos #2288

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6 Month Pos #4265

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Year Pos #5037

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List Stats

On 1135 reading lists

On 930 wish lists

On 99 completed lists

On 49 unfinished lists

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Desert Punk/Sunabozu Manga to Resume After 3 Years posted on 2013-03-09 15:20 EST

12 years ago

Sunabouzu Manga

12 years ago

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Great.

by panos
14 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

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

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 13 years ago

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Very underappreciated manga

by kirika
14 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

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 😛 ) 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 12 years ago

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Too sick and depraved

by alphaGulp
14 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

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.

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 14 years ago

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The Search For Sunabozu

by Voyager9
17 years ago

Rating: N/A

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...

by RwR
18 years ago

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...Has sent me searching for this (2nd OP shows various manga pages). Fun stuff. Maybe someday...

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anime

by EvilTomte
18 years ago

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Saw the anime and it was cool... Hopefully I can get hold of the manga sometime. 🙂

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