Banana Fish
| Banana Fish | |
|---|---|
| Original title | BANANA FISH |
 | |
| genre | Thriller, Shōnen Ai |
| Manga | |
| country |
 Japan
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| Illustrator | Akimi Yoshida |
| publishing company | Shogakukan |
| magazine | Betsucomi |
| First publication | 1985-1994 |
| expenditure | 19th |
| Anime television series | |
| Country of production |
Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 2018 |
| Studio | MAPPA |
| length | 25 minutes |
| Episodes | 24 |
| Director | Hiroko Utsumi |
| music | Shin'ichi Ōsawa |
| First broadcast | July 6 - December 21, 2018 on Fuji TV ( noitaminA ), Iwate Menkoi TV , Sakuranbo TV |
First publication in German |
Amazon Prime Video on July 5, 2018 |
Banana Fish is a manga series by the Japanese artist Akimi Yoshida . The approximately 3,400 page comic, which was first published from 1985 to 1994, belongs to the genre Shōnen Ai . Compared to other shōjo mangas, the thriller was well received by its action-packed story and the realistic, clear style of drawing, even among male readers.
An adaptation as an anime series has been released since July 2018 .
action
In 1973 some young Americans were stationed in Vietnam . More and more Americans are dying mysteriously. Griffin Callenreese shows symptoms similar to those of the deceased and shoots several of his friends in a rampage before collapsing and mumbling the words "Banana Fish".
In 1985, Griffin's seventeen-year-old brother Aslan, known by everyone as Ash Lynx, led street gangs in New York City . Ash, who is highly intelligent and skilled with weapons, was kidnapped as a child and forced into prostitution . Among other things, he was the lover of the Mafia boss Dino Golzine, who helped Ash gain the power he has on the street. Ash takes care of his brother, who has become a nursing case as a result of the incident in Vietnam and continues to only utter the words "Banana Fish".
The Japanese photographer and journalist Junichi Ibe arrives in America with the nineteen-year-old Eiji Okumura; they know police officers who investigate mysterious suicides and see in them a connection to Ash. Ash received a pill with the drug "Banana Fish" in a side street from a man who died shortly afterwards of his injuries, which is linked to his brother's suicides and rampage . The police introduce Ibe and Eiji to Ash, who quickly feels affection for Eiji.
Publications
Banana Fish appeared in Japan from issue 5/1985 to 4/1994 in the manga magazine Bessatsu Shōjo Comic , which at that time had a circulation of approximately 800,000 , in which Yumi Tamura's Basara was published at the same time . The Shogakukan publishing house also brought out these individual chapters in 19 anthologies ( Tankōbon ). A new edition was later published in twelve Bunkoban volumes.
The manga has been translated into Korean, Chinese, English, Italian, French and partly also into German. Planet Manga published seven of the nineteen volumes in Germany. The publication was canceled due to poor sales figures. Since the end of February 2020, the series has been published again by Panini Manga as the Ultimate Edition, each with two original Japanese volumes in oversized format and with a dust jacket.
Anime
Studio MAPPA adapted the work as an anime directed by Hiroko Utsumi and character design by Akemi Hayashi. The 24-episode series was premiered from July 6 to December 21, 2018 after midnight (and thus on the previous television day ) on Fuji TV in the program block noitaminA , the affiliated channels Iwate Menkoi TV and Sakuranbo TV , as well as with a half hour and a half offset on Akita TV , Fukushima TV , Nagano Hōsō , TV Ehime , TV Shizuoka , Niigata Sōgō TV , TV Kumamoto , Kansai TV , TV Shin-Hiroshima , TV Nishi-Nippon , Sendai Hōsō , Kagoshima TV , Tōkai TV , the next day on Saga TV , two weeks later on Kōchi Sakuranbo TV and four weeks later on San'yō Chūō TV .
Amazon Prime Video streams the series as an international, exclusive sales partner for noitaminA as a simulcast , including with German subtitles.
synchronization
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) |
|---|---|
| Ash Lynx | Yūma Uchida |
| Eiji Okumura | Kenji Nojima |
| Shun'ichi Ibe | Shinji Kawada |
| Max Lobo | Hiroaki Hirata |
| Dino Golzine | Unshō Ishizuka |
| Frederick Arthur | Yoshimasa Hosoya |
| Yue-Lung Lee | Jun Fukuyama |
| Shorter Wong | Makoto Furukawa |
music
The series music was composed by Shin'ichi Ōsawa . The opening credits found & lost come from the rock band Survive Said The Prophet , the closing credits Prayer X from the rock band King Gnu .
backgrounds
The name of the series is inspired by JD Salinger's short story A Perfect Day for Bananafish .
literature
- Frederik L. Schodt: Dreamland Japan. Writings on Modern Manga. 2002, Stone Bridge Press, ISBN 1-880656-23-X , pp. 203-207
swell
- ↑ Jacqueline Berndt: Manga phenomenon , p. 124
- ^ Editions of Shōjo magazines from 1979 to 2000 ( Memento from December 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )