-Must Be A Nice Dream.

BOTH Ash and Yut Lung deserved better!

Help! I got a cardiac arrest (cuteness overload!!!)

Jacket Illustrations from the BANANA FISH Blu-ray Disc BOX (1〜4)

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we always talk about how ash looks at eiji but what about how eiji looks at ash?

sentiment from @starpeace

I think this is what's so haunting about banana fish. jk, there are a lot of things that linger when it comes to banana fish. but I think this is what drives the au's where langa and reki or viktor and yuuri are ash and eiji in another life. they crossed oceans to find one another, and found home in another person. where ash (and all associated danger) eventually drew eiji out of his ennui following his retirement and general naïveté, eiji's gentle innocence and compassion (that came without strings) made ash feel safe and loved despite a life riddled with abuse and objectification.

whether you choose to see them as a romantic pairing (vikturi au) or as friends who made one another better through their connection (renga au), the ending they got was heartbreaking. because after everything they survived, everything they sacrificed, having found each other against all odds in the first place - there's no resolution. no happy ending. just more trauma to punctuate a life ensconced in trauma.

ash deserved more. aslan deserved so much more. and he deserved to think that he was worth saving.

Happy Halloween! 🎃

Dawn

why is guilt such a leading theme and motivation in banana fish. omg

- max’s guilt for shooting griffin that leads him to research banana fish for 10 years and go to that whole adventure

- ash’s guilt for killing people (mostly shorter; ash and shorter are a clear parallel to max and griffin), putting eiji in danger, being unable to protect his friends

- shorter’s guilt for having to betray his friends

- eiji’s guilt for… well, everything, mostly getting in the way and doing stupid things and also a good bunch of stuff he isn’t responsible for  (he tends to blame himself a lot)

- sing’s guilt for not being a good enough boss, also for ash’s death in “garden of light“

- ibe’s guilt for taking eiji to the usa in the first place

The Banana Fish Stage Play - but featuring the rest of the (side) characters: Ibe, Max, Arthur, Dino, Sing, Yut Lung✨

Don’t they look great?💕