Summer Day Somewhere In Izumo.

I'm awkward and anxious as hell, but if there's a Banana Fish discord I could join in, please let me know. I can't keep suffering through this yearly banana fish depression alone everytime. Really want someone I can fully share it with aaaa, hell, maybe not just BF related all the time too. So yes yes, please let me know. 👉🏻👈🏻

there’s a word for them

made me think of them.

it's his birthday

Garden of Light is so weird like imagine you go to visit your uncles friend Eiji’s house because your dad won’t accept your gender Identity but you get kidnapped by this tall dude who is your uncles friend’s friend. And then your uncle’s friend’s best friend’s father figure’s son comes over and he’s all like “yo, remember ash? got any pictures?” and Eiji’s all like “what? Pfft no way” and you’re like “hey let’s go to the library” but that really triggered your uncles friend. So you talk to the tall guy and your like “who the fuck is ash” and then he’s all like “oh yeah that’s somebody Eiji loves but they dead now” so your like “oh ok she seems cute” and he’s like “no you dumb bitch Eiji is gay” and then everyone is crying, a computer is verbally harassed, and you’re like “damn I just wanted to go to the library” 

Eiji

THE CAMERA AND THE GUN

(tw: discussion/explicit mention of Ash Lynx's past)

I think that as a fandom, we don't appreciate the importance of Eiji being a photographer (or going to the US as one) enough.

Given Ash's past, cameras are something he's very vulnerable under. He's constantly been exploited for his body and image, and the child corn videos of him were still up for distribution until Max burned all of it. Even the sound of cameras can be a triggering memory, such as when he's confronting Kippard and he's transported back into a childhood memory with the incessant "click click click" of the camera.

Eiji, showing up to that bar, pulling up a camera with his job literally being to take pictures of him, embodied everything Ash should distrust. However Eiji asks is he can take the photos, and Ash replies "not the face", this obviously makes sense given he's a criminal, but with what we learn later it's obviously more than that.

Ash was carrying a gun, Eiji a camera, to both of them what the other person was carrying was the greater weapon. However, famously, Eiji asks for Ash's gun, takes it and gives it back and says "thank you for trusting me with it", which I think is really key. Ash has just seen that if he can trust Eiji with a gun, perhaps he can trust him with a camera.

Which he does. We never really see Eiji take pictures of Ash during the course of the show, but we know he did thanks to garden of light, where we actually see some of them. The fact that Eiji has a camera, giving him the power to make Ash feel vulnerable and observed, but doesn't at any moment, must've given Ash so much hope. In the same way he tells Eiji that it's the first time anyone has done something for him without "asking for something in return" this is probably the first time someone has had the power to hurt him and not used it.

The fact Ash can trust Eiji so fully with a camera, and feel comfortable and unguarded around him just speaks so so much to the nature of their relationship and just how deep and true it was. With Eiji, Ash really can just be himself "a boy of 17 years old" he's not afraid in the slightest, even if every single thing from his past should tell him to run. The trust Ash has in Eiji is just as great and moving as the trust Eiji has in Ash. Eiji tells Ash he was never scared of him, not for a moment, which is something that Ash finds great comfort in, but it's also true the other way around.

Eiji the one who trusted a boy with a gun and Ash , the one who trusted a boy with a camera. Gosh I love them.

🍌🐟

once in a blue moon i remember asheiji

him and hym.

Here’s another art drawn by Banana Fish (supervising) anime director Ayumi Yamada✨

This time, she drew Eiji. He looks so adorable🥺

It’s great that she keeps blessing us with so many amazing Banana Fish artworks these last few months!

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