I Need Therapy Specifically For The Emotional Damage Banana Fish Has Caused Me Lol

Snack time with Ibe and Max 🌭☕️🥤

Another amazing art from Banana Fish (supervising) anime director Ayumi Yamada (山田 歩)

She replied to a comment that, after this (meaning after dropping the hotdogs), Max gets really angry and goes shopping again (laughs). And also that he’ll probably get yelled at.

We can probably imagine who’ll yell at him😏

Find her on Twitter —> @24_ayame✨

Ash & Eiji’s Body Stats

Source: Shogakukan Bunko edition. Please note that the volume and page numbering are different from the more ubiquitous Flower Comics edition.

Ash

Vol. 4 pg. 254, police’s report:

Height: 5′9′‘ (175 cm).

Weight: 135 lbs (61 kg).

Note that the police’s data likely originated from Ash’s stint in jail. Hence, these were probably Ash’s height and weight when he first met Eiji. (Thank you, @maluron , for bringing this to my attention.)

Vol. 5, pg. 65, Ash himself:

Height: 5 ft. 11 in. (180 cm).

Weight: 135 lbs (61 kg).

By the time the Christopher Winston arc rolled around, Ash had grown by 2 inches.

Vol. 10 pg. 34, Foxx’s report:

Height: 5 ft. 11 in. (180 cm).

Weight: 150.5 lbs (68 kg).

Note that Ash lost a lot of weight during his time in Golzine’s hands, and this data was probably taken before he fell sick.

Eiji

Banana Fish: Another Story, Fly Boy in the Sky, pg. 275-276, Ibe was comparing Eiji’s height to that of another pole-vaulter, Kazuhiko Mizuno (187 cm):

Height when he was 17: 172 cm (15 cm shorter than 187 cm).

Note that Eiji’s weight is never mentioned in the series. That said, we know Eiji could manhandle Ash (from bedroom to bathroom to dining room and back to bathroom; see Vol. 7 pg. 226):

…while Ash has never been shown to carry Eiji around.

In other words, Eiji is definitely shorter than Ash, but it doesn’t mean he’s a lot weaker in terms of raw muscle power than Ash. Ash is a canonical speedster who prefers stealth, ambush, and one-on-one combat, and whose main weakness is his relative lack of stamina and power. In fact, Blanca criticised him for not having enough bulk on his frame (Vol. 8 pg. 59). Meanwhile, Eiji can literally catapult his entire body weight metres into the air using a fibreglass pole.

Please use this as reference when you want to write/draw some R18 stuff for your fan creations, and remember that when the going gets physical in more ways than one, Eiji is more likely to manhandle Ash than Ash is to manhandle Eiji.

Help! I got a cardiac arrest (cuteness overload!!!)

big brother

sentiment from @starpeace

I think this is what's so haunting about banana fish. jk, there are a lot of things that linger when it comes to banana fish. but I think this is what drives the au's where langa and reki or viktor and yuuri are ash and eiji in another life. they crossed oceans to find one another, and found home in another person. where ash (and all associated danger) eventually drew eiji out of his ennui following his retirement and general naïveté, eiji's gentle innocence and compassion (that came without strings) made ash feel safe and loved despite a life riddled with abuse and objectification.

whether you choose to see them as a romantic pairing (vikturi au) or as friends who made one another better through their connection (renga au), the ending they got was heartbreaking. because after everything they survived, everything they sacrificed, having found each other against all odds in the first place - there's no resolution. no happy ending. just more trauma to punctuate a life ensconced in trauma.

ash deserved more. aslan deserved so much more. and he deserved to think that he was worth saving.

At the bar

people who write fics. how do you feel about comments on super old ones you wrote like 2+ years ago

banana fish to help me get back into drawing more

Dawn