Banana Fish

Synopsis

Ash Lynx is a beauty, a genius—and a murderer. Since childhood, he had been in the care of Dino "Papa" Golzine, the mafia boss who turned him into the ruthless killer he is now. At first, Ash was just a pretty face for Golzine's pleasure, but now estranged from him, a 17-year-old Ash runs his own gang with an iron fist. Eiji Okumura is a young Japanese photographer. Traveling to New York as an assistant, Eiji is set to work on a report about kids living in the streets. There, he meets teenage gang leader Ash and is mesmerized by the boy—who in turn is curious about Eiji's different lifestyle. But this is the dark underground of New York, and recently a series of murders has surfaced in the city, connected only by the words "Banana Fish." With personal stakes in this mysterious battle, it is up to Ash, Eiji and their allies to discover what exactly "Banana Fish" is, where it came from and how to get rid of it—before the world as they know it descends into chaos. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

The first seven volumes of Banana Fish were initially published in English by VIZ Media under the Pulp Graphic Novel imprint with flipped pages from January 8, 1999, to November 13, 2002. The publisher later completely released the series under the VIZ Shojo label from March 3, 2004, to April 10, 2007. For several years, the series also ran in both of VIZ's now-defunct manga magazines, Pulp and Animerica Extra. The manga was also published in Brazilian Portuguese by Panini Comics in 10 omnibus volumes from July 17, 2020, to January 7, 2022.

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