Some People Liked My Ash That I Drew, So Here Are Ash N Eiji That I Drew Last Year

i watched kore-eda's recent film Monster this past week and i truly.. cannot stop thinking about it. maybe my favorite kore-eda film yet

big brother

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

he is part of your soul, as the poets say

The pray of the Lynx

They're both alive I have proof right here

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.

Banana Fish Magazine Clippings + Covers

Credit source @/nekokinu on Twitter

"I'm Mr Loverman, and I miss my lover, man" 🍌🐟

Banana Fish fanart from 2023 bc I just finished rewatching the show.