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The facility is used to test Banana Fish on human subjects; Ash's extraordinary intellect has made him an ideal candidate to refine the effects of the drug on a live brain. When Golzine attempts to halt in the experiment, he is removed from the Banana Fish project. Meanwhile, Eiji escapes from Yut-Lung and is taken in by Sing.
A fourteen-year-old Chinese American boy who assumes control of the Chinatown gang upon Shorter's death. He becomes a reluctant ally to Ash after initially blaming him for Shorter's death. Though outwardly child-like and carefree, he is a skilled tactician and leader. Lao Yen-Thai (ラオ・イェン・タイ, Rao Yen Tai) Voiced by: Soma Saito [9]
New York City in the 1980s, the primary setting of the series. Banana Fish is set in the United States during the mid-1980s, primarily in New York City. Seventeen-year-old street gang leader Ash Lynx cares for his older brother Griffin, a Vietnam War veteran left in a vegetative state following a traumatic combat incident in which he fired on his own squadron and uttered the words "banana fish".
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Yoshida is best known for the crime thriller series Banana Fish, which she published between 1985 and 1994. The series was reprinted many times and received an anime adaptation produced by MAPPA in 2018. [5]
Bananafish or banana fish may refer to: "A Perfect Day for Bananafish", a short story by J. D. Salinger; Banana Fish, a manga series by Akimi Yoshida;
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in the January 31, 1948, issue of The New Yorker.It was anthologized in 1949's 55 Short Stories from the New Yorker, as well as in Salinger's 1953 collection Nine Stories.
One of the fish in the aquarium exclaims, "Oh shit, it's Mr Creosote!" as he passes, causing all the fish to swim for cover. The scene opens with a short dialogue between Mr Creosote (who speaks with a coarse Cockney accent) and the maître d'hôtel (who speaks with a fake, exaggerated French accent), played by John Cleese: