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Banana Fish (Manga)
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A crime/action/noir manga by Akimi Yoshida, published from 1985 to 1994 in the magazine Bessatsu Shojo Comic, Banana Fish is about teenage gang leader Ash Lynx, his fight against mafia boss Dino Golzine, his relationship with Japanese photographer Eiji Okumura, and the mysterious "banana fish" that is at the center of it all.It later received an anime adaptation, produced by MAPPA and directed by Hiroko Utsumi (who previously directed the first two seasons of Free!). It aired for 24 episodes, running from July 5, 2018 to December 20, 2018. The anime celebrates the 40th anniversary of Yoshida's debut as a mangaka. It was brought over internationally via Amazon.Viz Media originally published the English version of the manga (retroactively under its Shoujo Beat imprint). Following the anime's broadcast, they decided to issue a reprint. | |
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I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin | |
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Im Dying Please Take My Macguffin: One of the kick-offs for the main plot. Ash Lynx, out for a stroll, happens upon a well-dressed man who's been beaten within an inch of his life. The guy hands Ash a slip of paper with an L.A. address and a small vial filled with powder, says the words "banana fish," then dies. | |
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Comic-Book Fantasy Casting | |
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Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: Yoshida confirmed that several of the main characters were visually based on real-world celebrities. Ash was originally based on the tennis player Stephen Edberg, and later River Phoenix. Max Lobo was based on Harrison Ford. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: Sexual violence is often preferred over other forms of physical violence. | |
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Conflicting Loyalty | |
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Conflicting Loyalty: Shorter is loyal to Ash, but he's even more loyal to the Lee family—which makes it difficult when the Lees ask him to betray Ash. He does, but he's extremely unhappy about it. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: Ash on occasion, especially when he seduces people as a way to distract them or get information. Though mostly it's a serious case of Fan Disservice, considering the circumstances he's put through—especially in his past, when he was a child. Blanca gets a bit of this too, especially in the anime. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Minor example with major consequences. Sing Soo-Ling finds out that Ash killed Shorter Wong, but Ash never bothers to explain that Shorter was Brainwashed and Crazy at the time, begging Ash to kill him before he killed Eiji. Even after Sing learns the truth, his lieutenant doesn't—which ultimately drives him to kill Ash. | |
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Bishōnen | |
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Bishōnen: Ash, most definitely. Eiji also qualifies, moreso in the anime. And Yau-Si. Sing Soo-Rin grows to be one in Garden of Light. It's not quite a Cast Full of Pretty Boys, but there's several of them. | |
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Heroic Suicide | |
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Heroic Suicide: A particularly cruel weaponization of the trope. At one point, Dino has Ash totally cornered and with no hope of ever escaping Dino again. Dino offers Ash a deal: if Ash commits suicide right there, Dino will leave Eiji alone for the rest of his life. Ash immediately takes the offered gun, puts it to his temple, and pulls the trigger. It's empty. When he realizes this, he asks for bullets. Dino has no intention of letting Ash slip through his fingers again. | |
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For Science! | |
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For Science!: Downplayed with Dr. Alexis Dawson, the man who accidentally created "banana fish", who doesn't want to destroy it because it's such an interesting substance—even though it can only really be used for evil purposes. Played straighter with Dr. Mannerheim, who does all sorts of fascinating and horrible brain experiments on living patients. | |
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Unknown Rival | |
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Unknown Rival: Downplayed villainous example. Yau-Si considers himself to be the Evil Counterpart to Ash, as they were both horribly abused children who learned to kill in order to survive, and he vows to kill Ash personally. Ash doesn't consider him a threat, at least not on the same level as Dino. Yau-Si isn't, in the end, and once he completes his revenge against his own family, he's essentially out of the game. | |
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Abuse Discretion Shot | |
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Abuse Discretion Shot: Early on in the series, a cop forces Ash to watch child pornography video featuring himself, but fortunately the audience is spared having to see or hear any of the details. As this history is a recurring part of the plot, pretty much every instance of his sexual abuse as a child is discretely shown primarily in character reactions instead. | |
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Literary Allusion Title | |
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Literary Allusion Title: To J. D. Salinger's short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish." The anime takes this up several notches and makes every episode title a reference to mid-20th century American lit as well. | |
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Career-Ending Injury | |
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Career-Ending Injury: Eiji used to be a talented pole vaulter, but an unspecified injury has left him looking for a new line of work. | |
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The Big Rotten Apple | |
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The Big Rotten Apple: The brutal gang-violence, power-hungry Mafia, corrupted police force, rampant underground network of child prostitution, and extreme drug trade among other issues is what the world of Banana Fish is really set in. | |
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Fantastic Drug | |
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Fantastic Drug: The "banana fish" that everyone is searching for is a variant of LSD that can be used to brainwash people into doing whatever you want. | |
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Theme Music Power-Up | |
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Theme Music Power-Up: "Lost and Found" plays during Ash's final battle with Foxx. | |
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Create Your Own Villain | |
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Create Your Own Villain: Inverted. Dino spent years raising and educating Ash, training him to be a perfect soldier. It comes back to bite Dino hard. | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Played straight, with the consequences of the trope explored. "Banana fish" was a complete accident, which is why they're trying to figure out how to make more. It's taken years of experiments, analysis, and autopsies to get this far. | |
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Sex Slave | |
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Sex Slave: Part of Ash's background. Dino has plenty more young boys in a private club on the docks, whom he whores out to various politicians and top-level executives. | |
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*Click* Hello | |
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*Click* Hello: Sort-of. While getting ready to take out Dino after finding out his brother is dead, Ash wakes up Eiji by poking his gun in his face. Eiji's...rather startled. | |
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Keystone Army | |
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Keystone Army: In the final arc, Ash's forces are made up of well-armed Gangbangers with some street-level experience, but they're up against highly-trained mercenaries with superior equipment and intel. Ash's tactical smarts are the only reason they don't get stamped into paste immediately, so Ash himself is the keystone, and Foxx's men go straight for him. Ash manages to turn this to his advantage: he and a few men hole up in a building and let Foxx besiege them, giving the rest of his forces time to escape and regroup. The only reason this works is because Golzine wants Ash to be taken alive, so Foxx can't just fire an RPG into the building. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Golzine is killed, the "banana fish" is destroyed, and the blackmail photos are leaked, causing the resignations of corrupt politicians and officials, but Eiji leaves for Japan, inviting Ash to come with him ... and then Ash is stabbed to death and dies alone in the New York Public Library with a smile on his face and Eiji's beautiful letter in his hands. | |
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Brainwashed | |
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Brainwashed: The eponymous "banana fish" is actually a combination of LSD and a plant derivative that can be used to brainwash people into doing whatever you want. It's exactly as useful as it sounds, which is why everybody and their mother is trying to get their hands on it. | |
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Animal Theme Naming | |
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Animal Theme Naming: Ash Lynx and Max Lobo are major characters. Subverted in that their real names are Aslan Callenreese and Max Glenreed, respectively; they're both using fake names for various reasons. Could maybe still apply to Ash, though: Aslan is Turkish for "lion", which brings to mind a certain lion in The Chronicles of Narnia... Ash's older half-brother, Griffin, shares his name with the mythological creature (Griffin). | |
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Reel Torture | |
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Reel Torture: When Ash is arrested for murder, one of the cops forces him to watch one of the child pornography videos filmed of Ash when he was younger. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Blanca gets a bit of this too, especially in the anime. | |
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Improbably High I.Q. | |
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Improbably High I.Q.: The first time Ash's IQ is mentioned, it's 180. Later in the series, it's remarked as being over 200. | |
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Laughing Mad | |
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Laughing Mad: When Ash is forcibly under Golzine's custody again and learns he's to be adopted by his abuser and rapist, he bursts into hysterical laughter talking about how he and the other kids were always treated as objects, until he's slapped and snaps out of it. | |
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Post-Climax Confrontation | |
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Post-Climax Confrontation: After Golzine is killed and all the "banana fish" evidence destroyed, Eiji leaves for Japan. He sends a letter to Ash, asking him to come to Japan as well, and live out the rest of his days in peace. Ash agonizes over the decision, finally making up his mind to leave—and he's promptly stabbed by Sing's lieutenant, who never forgave Ash for killing Shorter Wong. | |
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Rape as Backstory | |
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Rape as Backstory: Yau-Si and Ash. In the case of Yau-Si, it's seeing his mother raped that gives him the motivation for revenge. In the case of Ash, he's been systematically abused since the age of eight. | |
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Back-Alley Doctor | |
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Back-Alley Doctor: Dr. Meredith, who actually has a medical degree but is no longer licensed. He provides illegal abortions. | |
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Gayngster | |
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Gayngster: Ash, Dino, Marvin, and many others. The level of actual angst varies. | |
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I Have Your Wife | |
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I Have Your Wife: Happens a couple times, once with Max and his ex-wife and son, and, more significantly, with Ash and Eiji. Ash is forced to work for Golzine in order to keep Eiji safe. Even then, Golzine is careful to keep Ash closely guarded, even temporarily blinding him when they leave the mansion. | |
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Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl | |
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Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Well, Eiji's not a girl, but that's not really an issue. | |
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Prison Rape | |
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Prison Rape: Referenced, and the aftermath of one is shown. Played for Drama. | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Sort of. Ash's brother is indeed heavily damaged and barely functional, but it's due to the side effects of a heavy dose of "banana fish," not his actions in the war. Max is also shown to be scarred from the war, though he handles it pretty well. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: For both Ash and Eiji, at the same time. In the first chapter, sweet and innocent Eiji meets street-tough and world-weary Ash in the rough and run-down club that Ash's gang calls home. Eiji, who's never left Japan before, asks Ash if the revolver in Ash's waistband is a real gun, and if he can hold it. The entire club freezes and silently watches as Ash pauses—and hands over the gun. Eiji, looking like an excited kid, marvels at the gun for a moment, then hands it back. It establishes just how naive and childlike Eiji is, but also how he can sense the goodness in someone. For Ash, it establishes how dangerous and savage he must be, to be carrying a gun like that at seventeen years old, but also that, deep down, he's just a kid too, willing to put his faith in Eiji and give up his weapon. | |
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Star Wars (Franchise) | |
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In the manga, Ash thinks Eiji's Japanese sounds like the language of an Ewok, a creature from Star Wars. | |
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Cultured Badass | |
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Cultured Badass: Ash has been killing people since the age of eight, but he can also tell you the vineyard and vintage of a bottle of expensive wine from a single sip. Blanca is this as well. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: During the Cold War, the U.S. (and probably Russia, too) did indeed try to use LSD as a method of brainwashing. It was ultimately unsuccessful. For more information, read up on Project MKUltra. Additionally, the US government was willing to do remarkably unethical things in order to prevent the rise of communist governments in South America. | |
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Absurdly Spacious Sewer | |
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Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: A couple times, Ash and allies escape into the sewers, subway tunnels, or storm drains, which are usually pretty massive and run all over the place. To be fair, it is in New York City, but even so ... | |
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Rape Discretion Shot | |
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Rape Discretion Shot: Several times, most notably when Ash is raped by Foxx, but also featured several times during Ash's child assault. | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate: Initially, there's Dino Golzine, who works for Union Corse but is also connected to a cabal of politicians and military officers. The situation gets complicated: Dino is forced out of the Union, the Lee family (represented by Yau-si) wants in, Dino comes back after murdering most of the other Union members, followed by knocking off the lead senator and officer in the cabal. Eventually, Dino and Yau-si are the only major players left standing, so they enter into an alliance, and are the primary villains for the second half of the series. | |
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Pressure Point | |
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Pressure Point: Yau-si's favored method of incapacitating his opponents involves jabbing them in very precise ways with acupuncture needles, paralyzing them or robbing them of their senses. | |
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Taking the Bullet | |
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Taking the Bullet: Ash's young friend Skip takes a fatal bullet for Ash early in the series. Later, so does Ash's stepmother. | |
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Beauty, Brains and Brawn | |
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Beauty Brainsand Brawn: Eiji, Ash and Shorter respectively as the male equivalent of the trope, though Ash is all three at once. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The titles of the anime's episodes are all references to mid-century novels and short stories by American authors such as J. D. Salinger (whose short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" inspired both the first episode's title and the title of the series itself), Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner. | |
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Master Poisoner | |
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Master Poisoner: One of Yau-si's methods of assassination. He's said to be extremely talented at it, though we don't see him use it often. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: It comes in handy much earlier in the story than most examples of this trope, but Eiji's pole vaulting skills help him escape Marvin's men and contact the police. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker:Everyone, to a degree,but notably Ash can be counted on for a sarcastic reply during lighter chapters. Yau-si and even Eiji deserve mention here too. | |
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Setting Update | |
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Setting Update: The anime, which comes out in 2018, sets the story during The New '10s instead of The '80s like in the manga. | |
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Extra-Long Episode | |
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Extra-Long Episode: The final episode of the anime ran for about twice the length of the prior ones. | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
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After Ibe hears about Blanca's Improbable Aiming Skills, Ibe says, "My God, it's just like Golgo13." | |
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Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot | |
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Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Several minor crimes, actually, all leading to the same plot. In 1973, a soldier in Vietnam goes crazy and attacks his own platoon, saying only the words "banana fish."note The anime version updates this to the Iraq War in the early 2000s In the present, Ash happens upon two of his own gang attacking a man in a suit, who hands Ash a mysterious vial and says "banana fish" before dying. And the police are investigating a string of mysterious suicides of fixers for various mafia groups. | |
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Big Applesauce | |
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Big Applesauce: The setting of much of the series, apart from jaunts to Los Angeles, Cape Cod, and a flashback or two to Vietnam. The Big Rotten Apple: The brutal gang-violence, power-hungry Mafia, corrupted police force, rampant underground network of child prostitution, and extreme drug trade among other issues is what the world of Banana Fish is really set in. | |
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The '80s | |
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The '80s: The manga is explicitly set in 1985, during the height (depth?) of New York City's gang problems. The anime gives the story a Setting Update to The New '10s instead. | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
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Boom, Headshot!: Ash's favorite method of killing. Blanca's, too. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: At one point, Eiji does a brief Kojak impression. The title comes from a short story by J. D. Salinger, which is explained in an early chapter. Ash quotes Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," comparing himself to the leopard found frozen near the summit. Islands in the Stream is also Blanca's favorite book; he leaves a copy in Ash's apartment as a coded signal that he's back in town. When Ash tries to pronounce the name of Eiji's hometown, Izumo, he says "Gizmo." Eiji says, "No, that's a Gremlin." In the manga, Ash thinks Eiji's Japanese sounds like the language of an Ewok, a creature from Star Wars. After Ibe hears about Blanca's Improbable Aiming Skills, Ibe says, "My God, it's just like Golgo13." In the epilogue, Garden of Light, the classic series Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball both get a mention! | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady: Yau-si. Ash pulls off a pretty convincing nurse at one point, too. | |
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Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon | |
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Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Ash isn't a villain, but otherwise fits this perfectly. Many times over the course of the series, someone makes the mistake of underestimating the 17-year-old who looks like a Calvin Klein model—and they end up paying for it, because behind those looks is the mind of a Napoleon and the ruthlessness of a, well, lynx. Borrowing from a different religion, Ibe compares Ash to an asura, from Buddhist mythology. He even notes that, in Japanese, you would pronounce it Ashura. | |
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Cruel Mercy | |
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Cruel Mercy: A defining trait of Dino Golzine, who almost always orders his men to take Ash alive. He's spent years raising and training Ash; he's not going to let his investment go to waste. Late in the series, he manages to adopt Ash and force him to work for him. Ash comes up with several brilliant but extremely ruthless plans to expand the cocaine trade, at the expense of potentially hundreds of lives. He's horrified at having to be so merciless, and begs Golzine to simply let him be a Sex Slave instead. Golzine replies that prostituting Ash's body is nothing new; he wants to utterly degrade and despoil his soul. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: Limited mostly to Ash, whose given last name is "Lynx" and who is often compared to a predatory cat, like a leopard or panther. | |
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Art Evolution | |
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Art Evolution: Yoshida's art in the first few volumes resembled Katsuhiro Otomo's. By volume 5, the style she became associated with had developed along with refined character designs. | |
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The Starscream | |
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The Starscream: A couple examples. First, there's Arthur, Ash's nominal subordinate; when Golzine gets displeased with Ash, he uses Arthur to take over the gang. Later in the series, there's Colonel Foxx, who is hired by Golzine along with his mercenaries to take down Ash's gang, but who quickly realizes the potential of Ash and the "banana fish" and decides to take over. | |
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Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like | |
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Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Ash does this a couple times. To be fair, on at least one occasion, he was already getting himself out, and the rescuers happened to show up at the same time, complicating the escape. | |
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Combat by Champion | |
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Combat by Champion: While Ash is in L.A., his untrustworthy second-in-command Arthur takes over Ash's gang and almost every other gang in New York City. Once Ash comes back, he declares war on Arthur, and quickly takes out most of Arthur's lieutenants. In desperation, Arthur challenges Ash to a one-on-one knife fight, refereed by the leader of one of the few unaffiliated gangs. Arthur tries to cheat by bringing a train full of his gun-toting henchmen, but ultimately the fight comes down to him and Ash anyway. Ash wins. | |
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Enemy Civil War | |
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Enemy Civil War: The U.S. government wants to use "banana fish" to take down communist regimes in South America, and is willing to work with the Union Corse to achieve this. Dino Golzine is a major player in the Union and the primary point of contact between the two groups. Things start getting complicated when Ash steals millions from the Union, making it look like Dino is embezzling, leading to Dino's ouster from the Union. Things get even more complicated when the Lee family joins the fray. Every group wants to get its hands on "banana fish," or at least prevent the others from getting it. The only constant is Dino himself, who remains the Big Bad for the series as a whole. | |
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Sleight of Tongue | |
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Sleight of Tongue: Ash uses an empty medicine capsule and a kiss to pass some important information to Eiji while in prison. It's implied to be Eiji's Sacred First Kiss, but he doesn't seem to mind... | |
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Translation Punctuation | |
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Translation Punctuation: Since the characters mainly speak English due to the story being set in New York, the English translation of the manga puts any dialogue spoken in other languages (like when Eiji or Ibe speak Japanese to each other) in angle brackets. | |
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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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Dark and Troubled Past: The more we find out about Ash's past, the more we wish we hadn't. | |
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