Shorter WONG

07-13-24

"Now I wait alone for death to come Faded pictures so I know Nowhere to go so I don't Picture your body Hearing your voice And fall into your eyes"

On my monthly Banana Fish Reread. Ash’s death was predicted from the very first volume (his life with Eiji was short and happy). I’m gonna be SICK

Machine translations from Akimi Yoshida’s 40th anniversary art book about Banana Fish and Tomorrow’s Joe influence

These were from various pages from the book if you want the page numbers message me :) also please remember these are machine translations (Papago) so there are errors and is not 100% accurate.

Late but here it's 😁

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

Ash Lynx | Banana Fish

At first I didn't understand why I was obssessed with platonics and romantics relationships like Ash and Eiji's ( Banana Fish), Eddie and Richie's (It), He tian and Mo Guan Shan's ( 19 days), Wilhelm and Simon's (Young Royals), Hachi and Nana's (Nana), Marceline and BubbleGum's ( Adventure Time), Mike and Will's ( Stranger things)...

It's ONLY because I've never been the first choice, never had a best friend or a lover. Nobody was or is in love with me. I never feel wanted and people don't need me. And that's why I've been watching those shows and dreaming about this kind of relationship.

I don't even know if they helped me when I felt alone or if they make it worse. But sometimes I tell myself that one day, one day it's going to be my turn, my turn to be loved.

It's crazy because if you look at their relationships they love each others for who they really are, even if one of them has trauma, one of them is a loser, one of them has issues and has been abused, one of them is weird.

Anyways.

Eiji is so talented, he's an expert at taming rowdy boys. I love them all.

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just rewatched banana fish and i still can’t get over that ending. i remember the first time i finished it i was just sitting there totally wrecked. then i looked up the second ending song and once the lyrics clicked i straight-up started ugly crying...