Sheriff Rao, who is a legendary, former general of the king's army, is able to quickly deal with all of the current army's attempts to hinder their progress. This attracts the anger of the king, who mobilizes his forces to stop them. Soon after their quest begins, their car breaks down as they are attacked by a centipede-dragon, and they are forced to steal a tank from the king's army. Along with a wise demon called Thief (シーフ), the trio goes in search for the Phantom Lake.īeelzebub, Rao, and Thief travel in the desert He informs Beelzebub, the son of the king of the demons, of the existence of the elusive lake which might meet the needs of the inhabitants of Sand Land. Tired of the king's greed, the old sheriff Rao goes in search of a long-lost lake presumably located south of the country, as seem to be proven by migrations of Water Finch. With the bottled water sold by the king's government becoming increasingly more expensive for the citizens to buy, the people of Sand Land thirst constantly and begin robbing one another for water and money.

This desolate wasteland is inhabited by humans and demons, who live in peace together.

The river that provided water to the land dried up long ago, and the supply of water is now controlled by a greedy king. In the far future, fifty years of natural disaster and war destroyed most of the Earth, leaving only a barren wasteland called Sand Land. Despite Toriyama's complaints about designing the tank, the art style is praised as being highly detailed and imaginative. Although he became frustrated to the point of wanting to remove the tank from the story, he had already devised the plot and thus was forced to put up with it.

Once it came time to draw the tank, however, Toriyama had difficulty getting it to look as he had envisioned it. The series creator intended for Sand Land to be a short story about an old man and a tank that he wrote for his own enjoyment. Toriyama worked without any assistant and depicted an arid world similar to that of Pink. The main characters: Beelzebub, Thief, and Rao

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