Banana Fish, Vol. 2 by Akimi Yoshida

Banana Fish, Vol. 2

Akimi Yoshida

VIZ Media LLC · Paperback · May 5, 2004

Banana Fish, Vol.

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Who it’s for
A taut manga thriller pairs dangerous power struggles with a photographer’s chance encounter.
Themes
Crime and murder, Coded mystery, Abusive upbringing
Pacing
Fast

About this book

Nature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer! VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s... Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of “Papa” Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him.

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But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... Epic in scope, and one of the best-selling shojo titles of all time in Japan, Akimi Yoshida put an electric shock into the genre and gained a huge crossover audience through Banana Fish's stripped-down, non-stop style. When Dino arranges Ash's frame-up for the murder of a man he had motive to kill twenty times over, an "accident" behind bars is on the agenda. But in the same prison is Max Lobo, a journalist himself on the trail of the enigma code-named Banana Fish...

Crime in Motion

A taut manga thriller pairs dangerous power struggles with a photographer’s chance encounter.

Come here for

  • New York crime and a code name that invites questions
  • A sharp contrast between Ash’s ruthlessness and Eiji’s gentleness

Expect

  • A prison frame-up with danger close at hand
  • Fast-moving, stripped-down storytelling

Where it sits

Crime & Mystery Comics45%
Gay Graphic Novels43%
Action & Adventure Comics41%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Crime & Mystery Comics
  • General Manga
  • Action & Adventure Comics
Authors
Akimi Yoshida
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Published
May 5, 2004
Format
Paperback
Theme
Crime and murder · Coded mystery · Abusive upbringing
Reading lane
Crime & Mystery Comics