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made me think of them.

him and hym

Shorter, Ash & Eiji

I decided to finish this after all (I totally could've done more here tbh, but I just wanted to get it done atp 😅)

I did hide shorters eyes behind the glasses, because he weirdly looked like Jackson Wang to me???? Idk why though, I never ever used a reference of him or anything 😭😭😭

🍌🐟 from 2023

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.

me and my homies who know why loki feels so guilty and peter has so many concerns about falling rocks reading their convo with absolute HORROR like yeah you sure do need to channel your uncle ben petey . on an unrelated note I think you should go talk to B

hehe yeah,,, i can't wait for the next chapter cause he finds out about that and we get to talk to B (+ more lore about Peter, specifically about his experimentation and Amaia). i posted a while back a comic for Peter and Bruce (that... i thought we'd have figured out by now... alas... LoF got longer...) where i didn't tell you guys what they were saying

might redeaw this since it's been a minute but yeah!! it's for the next chapter and it's such a sweet scene

some people liked my ash that i drew, so here are ash n eiji that i drew last year

LoF breaking a, years long, traditional art block in 4k (≧▽≦)

Thanks @erinwantstowrite and ur awesome, awesome, fic

Vers. with and without filter

Who's the monster?

another monster (2023) drawing... happy valentines day

behind the scenes of hirokazu kore-eda's monster (2023)

So, the original ending was supposed to be this shot where Hori sensei and Minato's mother find them near the rail tracks and call them and both Minato and Yori look back and stare into the camera.

The director, Hirozaku Kore-eda also mentioned that while making the film, the idea was that the boys survive the storm and run off free of judgement.

I’m not really sure, but I like someone. I can’t tell anyone, so I lie.

怪物 Monster (2023), dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Monster ‘怪物’ · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda (2023)

i watched kore-eda's recent film Monster this past week and i truly.. cannot stop thinking about it. maybe my favorite kore-eda film yet

"The title of the movie poses an interesting question that is asked time and again throughout: what does it mean to be human? When someone hears the word “monster,” they likely picture an otherworldly, grotesque creature that bears no resemblance to a human. In the beginning of the film, Minato asks his mother if a person would still be themselves if their brain was replaced with a pig’s brain. Saori begs the elementary school administration to respect her as a person as she confronts them about Mr. Hori. More than an attempt to get to the truth of the situation with Minato and Mr. Hori, Monster is a delicate exploration of humanity. It’s easy to call something or someone a monster, because that strips the soul out of the situation. It allows us to separate the darkness that people are capable of from humanity itself, but that’s not the truth. We all have the ability to be awful and good and cruel, but that doesn’t make us monsters, it makes us human." (x)

MONSTER 怪物 (2023) dir. Hirokazu Koreeda @pscentral event 31: faceless

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

Ash and Eiji's first meeting felt like two universes colliding. You can feel the entire room shift even when there's nothing to shake it, and see the colors turn a bit brighter than usual. The moment they locked eyes it feels uncertain yet they were so sure of each other at the same time.

I guess Ash is somewhat guarded since Ibe's there. Knowing how he can't trust adults so much. Yet the next scenes that come after their first eye contact, Ash is interested, testy or maybe teasing even towards Eiji. To say the least they were both interested in each other. Curious.

banana fish to help me get back into drawing more

ash&eiji + van gogh

like and reblog!!

credits: YASUKO ON TWITTER I LOVE UR ARTS!!

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Chapter 2 is finally out!

A fic I started writing since #daikeruday2023 @daikeruday 🍂

they’re teaching me to kill, who’s teaching me to love?

Eiji logic be like if dangerous why cute

Something that I love and appreciate about Ash Lynx that I don't see many people talking about is his lack of desire for personal revenge. It's such a small and obvious detail, that I don't think we stop to think about it enough, but Ash is not consumed by revenge. Even after everything that happened to him, we never see him express a desire to kill or torture Dino, or anyone else who hurt him, we just wants to be free. Even with researching banana fish he's just trying to figure out what's wrong with his brother so that he can cure him, his motive is never revenge. Wanting to destroy and make Dino suffer would be a completely understandable reaction, yet all he wants to do is prevent other children from experiencing the same things he did.

The only times we see Ash express a desire for revenge, is when people he loves are hurt. This is seen several times with Eiji, such as when he's shot and he chases the men and shoots them with rage in his eyes, or when Shorter dies and he kills Dawson as he begs for mercy. This is why at the start I emphasised *personal revenge*. But I just think that his overall lack of thirst for revenge and just deep desire to be free is an extremely important facet of his character, that really just highlights who he is on the inside beyond all the violence and suffering, and is also very telling of his strength.

This is also one of the reasons why I dislike the "yut lung is just ash without eiji" rhetoric, because I feel like it does such a disservice to both their characters. Yes, they've lived through similar trauma and are in several ways parallels to each other, but they're different people with or without someone to support them. First of all, before Eiji, Ash did have someone, Shorter, and he had other people he cared about such as Skipper and his gang. Obviously none where as influencial or life changing as Eiji was, but painting him as being completely alone before meeting Eiji simply isn't true. Secondly, Ash and Yut lung are very separate people with separate personalities and with indivual nuances to their stories despite their similarites. One of these is the desire for revenge. As I established Ash isn't consumed by personal revenge, but Yut Lung very much is, his entire first arc is his search for revenge agaisnt his own brothers, whom he wants to kill.

Yut Lung isn't Ash without Eiji, he's just Yut Lung. He's a different person with different responses and reactions to the world around him, and of course, having someone to love and care for him would be monumental, but he'd still be a completely different character to Ash, and in my personal opinion, would have a harder time accepting that love than him (as we see briefly with his connection with Sing).

Of course there's also differences in their stories that I think are worth noting. I won't do it on this post because frankly I've been procrastinating making lunch and I need to do that rn. But reducing Yut Lungs's character to an "ash without eiji" is truly tragic in my opinion, and not only a disservice to him as a character but also to his story. Yut lung isn't just there to be a parallel to Ash, and I feel like we sometimes forget that. Anyway I'll get more into the nuances of Yut lung's character, and the nuances of his and Ash's stories and they way they both parallel and differ from each other if y'all want. If not I'll probably forget, and it'll just live in my mind, keeping me awake at 4 am.

Eiji was the only one who made Ash look like the kid and teen he should’ve been without all the madness. And in the strangest way, Ash brought out the spark Eiji lost back in Japan.

I kind of want to see a live action series of Banana Fish. Just like they did in One Piece. This thought started from when I first found out who Ash and Eiji were based off on. I’m really just wondering. I do think it has potential. If any of you disagree it’s fine ofc. I’m just curious is all.

ash & eiji in every episode ↳ EP13 | THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO

“humans can be funny. they don’t understand death, but they instinctively fear it. there were so many times when i felt death would be better. dying would seem so sweet and tempting then.”

Eiji

I'm sorry but I can't ignore how Ash didn't know if he was going to come back from the Arthur fight and the last thing he did was to put a little blanket over Eiji,,,