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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".
An African-American boy and a member of Ash's gang. Killed in a confrontation with Golzine's men. Bones (ボーンズ, Bōnzu) Voiced by: Masato Niwa [6] A lieutenant in Ash's gang assigned to protect Eiji. Kong (コング, Kongu) Voiced by: Takahiro Sumi [6] A lieutenant in Ash's gang assigned to protect Eiji.
Ash Lynx, a seventeen-year-old leader of a street gang in New York City, is given a street address and a vial of an unknown substance by a mortally wounded man. The man speaks the words "banana fish" before dying: the same last words spoken by Ash's brother Griffin, an Iraq War veteran who fired on his own squadron under mysterious ...
Dee, a police detective, repeatedly tells Randy "Ryo" Maclean, a New York City rookie cop, he is bisexual, while Ryo and Dee enter a relationship throughout the course of this manga. [16] [17] Ash Lynx Banana Fish: 1985–1994 Ash has slept with men and women during his time as a prostitute.
Most of the chapters of the manga were reprinted in Shukan Gendai from March 2, 2009, to the year end. [5] In February 2024, Kodansha USA announced that they had licensed the manga for English release in North America. They will release it digitally and in eight oversized hardcover volumes, starting in December of the same year. [6]
This is a list of notable manga that have been licensed in English, listed by their English title. This list does not cover anime, light novels, dōjinshi, manhwa, manhua, manga-influenced comics, or manga only released in Japan in bilingual Japanese-English editions.
Ashihara Hinako, Japanese author of the “Sexy Tanaka-san” manga, was found dead near Tokyo n a suspected suicide days after protesting the TV adaptation of her comic.
A depressed author only known as Sensei makes a suicide pact with his girlfriend Sacchan by a raging river. However, they are struck by a truck before they can jump.. Sensei suddenly finds himself in another world, where an elf priestess named Annette says she summoned him to be a hero.