Chapter 2 Is Finally Out!

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banana fish!!!!!!!111!!!1

I headcanon that once eiji found that his feelings for ash were mutual he started doing like pretty bad attempts at flirting knowing it makes ash laugh and now i need drabbles of eiji making ash laugh with his awful flirting moves

includes nongraphic nsfw jokes

A good amount of desperation led Eiji to this point.

In his defense, English isn't his first language. Everyone knows that. He's been getting more fluent with the submersion into the language that being in America offers, but there are still certain things—certain nuances—that Eiji doesn't quite understand.

Especially when it comes to pickup lines.

He started off by asking Alex—which, in retrospect, was probably not the best idea. This led to a whole coaching session by the gang, and resulted in Eiji saying, "Ash, since you lost your virginity, do you want to take mine?"

Eiji still gets flustered just thinking about it. But the best part—the part that got Eiji invested in the idea of bad pickup lines in the first place—is that Ash laughed when Eiji said it.

This was pretty shortly after Eiji met the whole gang, and he didn't really understand what he was saying. He knew it had sexual connotations, of course—he knew the word virgin, but at the time he wasn't entirely sure what he had just asked Ash, other than that Alex had insisted on it.

Ash, on the other hand, did understand what Eiji was saying, and seemed to know immediately that the gang was responsible. And he laughed. Didn't take it seriously, leaving Eiji flustered and a million sorts of embarrassed. But he had laughed.

Ever since then, Eiji's been trying to have a repertoire ready of bad pickup lines—never quite as bad as that first one, but just enough to throw off Ash's game and, ideally, make him laugh. He's grown a little bolder since he realized that his feelings toward Ash are reciprocated. Alex assured him early on: If anyone else had tried to pull that shit with him, Boss wouldn't have laughed. And the other guy probably wouldn't have made it out alive.

It took a few months and several conversations with Ash himself before Eiji actually believed it, but now—during these times when he's holed up in the condo with the gang, Eiji discusses whatever pickup line of the day he found online, screening it with them and judging based on their laughter if he's missing on something vital.

"What about this one?" Eiji asks, reading off of one of the many tablets scattered across the room. " 'Can you pass me an inhaler? Because you just took my breath away.' "

Bones snorts. "Corny! I like it. But what about something a little nerdier? 'Feeling thirsty? Because my body is over 50% water.' "

Eiji feels himself flush. "I'm not going to ask if he's thirsty, Bones." That was a mistake Eiji made early on.

"I've got it!" Alex yells. " 'Do you like plums? Then can I offer you a date?' Get it? Because you're fruity."

"Oh my god," Eiji mumbles. "Next!"

Bones tries again. " 'Do you have a name, or can I just call you mine?' "

"He literally has two names, Bones, and I know both of them. No."

Kong starts laughing suddenly, and Eiji perks up. "Got a good one for us?"

Nodding, Kong says between bouts of laughter, " 'Do I ... Do I need a library card, or can I just check you out?' "

... Huh. It really is perfect, in a way. It's the sort that'll make Ash laugh, for sure, and it's got the library in there. "All right, men," Eiji says triumphantly, "I think we have a winner for today."

I’m not really sure, but I like someone. I can’t tell anyone, so I lie.

怪物 Monster (2023), dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Banana Fish | 1x03

It's a dream to have life as peaceful as this

behind the scenes of hirokazu kore-eda's monster (2023)

For my first BF related post, I'm sharing gifs I made. I chose manga panels from volume 1 that I thought would be the easiest to animate.

The idea I had was to animate a few panels from every volume. So keep an eye out.

You can use the gifs as long as you credit me.

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"Sweet Nothing" by Taylor Swift is such an asheiji song I feel soft. I felt the need to share this thought with someone

They said the end is coming Everyone's up to something I find myself running home to your sweet nothings. Outside they're push and shoving You're in the kitchen humming All that you ever wanted from me was Sweet nothing.

As far as the Midnights album goes, I've been a big fan of "Anti-Hero" and "Would've, Could've, Should've", but this one REALLY hits the soft spot that those two don't. Thank you for sharing!! 💗

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.