Name: Banana Fish
Rating: 4.671428571428572 (105 reviews)
ISBN: 9788891290199

Akimi Yoshida

Banana Fish

New York City, 1985. A dying man leaves bisexual gang leader Ash Lynx a strange drug, the key to something called "Banana Fish." The mysterious potion will lead Ash to a disturbed Vietnam vet who remembers a massacre – and into brutal battle with the mafia over control of the drug.

Vice City: New York in the 80s... Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A child runaway brought up as the adopted heir, hatchet man, and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, the East Coast's Corsican crime lord, Ash is now at the rebellious age of seventeen – forsaking the kingdom of power and riches held out by the devil who raised him, preferring a code he can live with among a small but loyal gang of street thugs. But his "Papa" can't simply let him go – not when the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into his insatiably ambitious hands.

It's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to arrive in NYC and make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... and fall with him into the bloody whirlpool of pride, greed, lust and wrath unleashed by the enigma code-named Banana Fish...

I could put all the trigger warnings available in the world and cram them all into this series because it's just that dark and traumatising. and yet, and yet, I fell in love with the characters here, especially the main ones and their connection with each other. I explored that here: 

https://www.gencontrolz.com/all-that-jazz/the-intersection-of-asexuality-and-trauma-in-banana-fish

fairuza hanun

I could put all the trigger warnings available in the world and cram them all into this series because it's just that dark and traumatising. and yet, and yet, I fell in love with the characters here, especially the main ones and their connection with each other. I explored that here: https://www.gencontrolz.com/all-that-jazz/the-intersection-of-asexuality-and-trauma-in-banana-fish

Gavin

Very difficult to tell all the strapping blonde lads apart. There are about 12 of them.

Only thing that marks this out as a girls' story is the amount of innuendo. Darker than expected, still pretty flat.

Belle Ellrich

Ash and his crew are faced with a new deadly enemy, as Golzine has hired ex-member of the French Foreign Legion Colonel Foxx and his elite cadre to destroy them. To fight back, Ash has formed alliances with local Chinese and African American gangs. While the two sides clash in an all-out melee in New York's garbage-strewn back alleys and abandoned buildings, Yau-Si is still obsessed with the notion of killing Eiji... -- VIZ Media

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