Banana Fish Miscellaneous -> Stageplay, Signature Artwork, Booklet, Concept Art

Banana Fish fic recs

It feels like it's been years since I posted one of these; my bad

Almond Milk: Barista Sing falls for a haughty new customer. Rating: General Audiences

Chaos Theory: Ash's posthumous impact on the people who cared about him. Rating: Teen Audiences

Dusk Til Dawn: Howl's Moving Castle AU. Fun Fact: I watched HMC for the first time, just so I could read and understand this fic, and it was worth it. Rating: Teen Audiences

golden fly-boy: Eiji makes it to the Olympics, with Ash by his side. Rating: Teen Audiences

The Hands of a lover, and other synonyms for comfort: Ash may not be able to define his relationship with Eiji, but he knows that it doesn't hurt. Rating: Teen Audiences

If you'll return to my side: After breaking up with Eiji, Ash goes to Max and Jessica for advice. Rating: General Audiences

porgi, amor, qualche ristoro: While enjoying the winter holidays in Izumo, a commercial triggers bad memories for Ash. Rating: Mature (mentions of Ash's past trauma/CSA, description of severe anxiety attack)

Postcards: Ash Lynx is dead; Eiji starts recieving random postcards from him. Rating: Mature (mentions of past abuse/assault, graphic depictions of violence). I highly recommend subscribing to Special Agent Rick Henry, FBI, which is this fic's companion piece, written from Ash's perspective.

The Song of a Dull Knife: a jet-lagged Eiji rushes to visit Ash in the hospital. Rating: Teen Audiences

What Is and What Can Never Be: The only way to save Eiji is for Ash Lynx to die, and Ash knows it. Rating: Teen Audiences (not as sad as it sounds, I swear)

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Make sure to check all tags before reading these; I try to give summaries so that you know what you're getting into, but double check. And if you can, give a comment/Kudos for any fics you liked. Enjoy!

Bonus: here's some official art to cry over

BOTH Ash and Yut Lung deserved better!

gonna draw peter as a little cowboy cause i can

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.

🍌🐟

TW SA

People be telling how we need more male SA representation which sure but they couldn't handle Ash and they COMPLETELY ignored Eiji

ash lynx my boy👏

i’ve wanted to do smth like this for a while and finally got around to it

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, jokingly: Eiji, if I died, would you miss me? Eiji: It's SO funny that you think death can get you out of this relationship Ash: Eiji: Ash: We're in a relationship? Everyone else who was listening to their conversation: YOU'RE NOT?!?!?!

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” 

just rewatched banana fish and i still can’t get over that ending. i remember the first time i finished it i was just sitting there totally wrecked. then i looked up the second ending song and once the lyrics clicked i straight-up started ugly crying...