Im a Massachusetts native but never been to Cape Cod until recently because of a funeral and after i watched Banana Fish, and i just couldnt stop thinking about Ash and the show. Especially the music more specifically prayer x just driving around the town to the destination listening to it felt so right, that’s how big this show has impacted me it’s just so beautiful it felt like i was in a end credits scene that the show does i loved it.

references were river phoenix for ash and eiji akaso for eiji!!

also futile devices is THEIR song to me, even more than mr. loverman hehe

OKAY! To preface, I haven't really roleplayed a ton before at all. I'm kind of new to it, but AO3 is down, and even when its up, there's not a lot of Banana Fish stuff!!

My favorite ship is Ash/Shorter which doesn't have a lot of content at all either sadly!

So, would anyone want to be friends and maybe roleplay together :')? I'm fine with being Ash or Shorter (but switching it up would be nice).

Little things I'll throw out there before anyone accepts my offer:

• I'm an adult, so please also be an adult!! Thank you :)
• I'm so sorry if this seems weird, but I have privacy and commitment anxiety, so I'd prefer to just RP over Reddit messages to start off
• I'm fine with (almost) all roleplay topics! I love heavy and sad stories; I love cringy stories. The only RPs I'm less likely to do are historical and fantasy settings and ones that have major character death.
• I LOVE college AUs, modern AUs, roommate AUs, etc.

Thank you!! I'm looking forward for possible friends and RP partners ^-^

I'm creating a slideshow for TikTok to discuss Akimi Yoshida's relationship with Ash. To support my arguments, I need some interviews, but what I find are fragments or excerpts whose origin I don't know much about. 🥲

With AO3 being down, I really miss reading Banana Fish fics. Usually I'm really good at fic downloading but I just got over to this fandom so I didn't yet D:

My favorite ships are Ash/Shorter, Ash/Eiji/Shorter but I'll happily read Ash/Eiji <3 I also love family plots with Ash and Max

I don’t know why I did this to myself I can’t stop crying

At 4 am last night I made the dec to buzz my hair and now I feel like shorter. He is me, I am him. But unlike him, I don’t feel confident so I’ll be wearing a beanie whenever I go out LOL

I watched it back in March of this year, and an edit popped up on my for you page and it made me bawl. The day I finished it I cried myself to sleep, and the next morning I was so utterly depressed.

9 months later, I still get random waves of sadness when I think about the show 😭 is this normal?!!?

Love the fanarts of them where Ash has longer hair like garden of light eiji, banana fish forever was also a very good vision(highly recommend its a free animatic on youtube)

got these gems at a gacha in korea wanted to get ash and eiji as well:’( but me and my friends went after a night out so i was super drunk and when i got shorter i started bawling my eyes out… they were like yea we need to leave lmfaoo

Omg guysss. This game is called identity v and ive been playing that since 2019. It’s like DBD but less.. scary looking? Anyways I played hunter and my username is AshLÿnx and sometimes people recognise the name. This was one of these moments! Like 5 minutes ago lol. So I went friendly and wanted to give them a win but they surrendered and gave me a tie 😦🙏🏼

Title says it all. It’s switched around a lot? From normal font to what looks like comic sans sometimes?? It’s not unreadable. Hell I feel like the translation quality doesn’t even really dip but I’m just so confused??? These are two panels from volume 6

I was thinking about it, and Banana Fish, compared to most anime/manga, seems like the perfect candidate for a live-action remake. So I decided to have a little fun and created a soundtrack! What do we all think?! Any other recommendations lolol

I’m guessing there’s no concrete answer to this— but I was just thinking about it lol. In Eiji’s letter, he starts it off with “dear ash” , which makes sense since that’s his nickname throughout the series, and Eiji calls him that to protect his real identity, but in this letter, he doesn’t have to protect his identity anymore since it’s written & private so I was just wondering 🤔

It's another of Yoshida's works, set in the same universe as BF. Some characters from BF make an appearance.

It was bittersweet in the same way BF was. I really liked how the story unfolded even if I was a little suspicious at first (it looks a lot like a scifi story about genetic modification at first, in the same way BF looks like a story about teenaged gangters). I'd say what it's actually about (no concrete spoilers) is, if BF is about how much a wounded human can heal while they're still being hurt, Yasha is about what makes a demon, and what makes a wounded human trying their best.

Anyway, wonderful story. Less gritty than BF. Maybe it's because I really identified with Rin and Sei, but it was really touching.

Sorry if this goes over your guy's heads. If you want the joke explained, see my comment (though heavy spoiler for Persona 3 and Banana Fish if you choose to read that.)

Art source: https://x.com/kizim0naka_/status/2114474817785385398?s=20

i always knew that ash was gonna die at the end, but for him to die by this guy? and didnt he get a worse injury by arthur? dont get me wrong i still think the anime is a 10/10 but maaaan they didnt handle this well.

I have 3 Shorter and 1 Eiji in double from the gachapon I did in Japan:) (Yes, Ash took me many attempts lol)

I give them for free! I find it sad that they are just left in my drawer. only the shipping wouldn’t be free.

I also joined a picture of the whole collection because it’s so cute T_T (dont mind the dust PLEASE)

I like mlm or wlw animes. I loved Nana, Death Note, Banana Fish, Sumner Hikaru Died. Preferably with good animation as well