NEW YORK IN THE 80s... Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A child runaway brought up as the adopted heir, hatchet man, and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, the East Coast's Corsican crime lord, Ash is now at the rebellious age of seventeen-forsaking the kingdom of power and riches held out by the devil who raised him, preferring a code he can live with among a small but loyal gang of street thugs. But his "Papa" can't simply let him go-not when the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into his insatiably ambitious hands. It's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to arrive in NYC and make Ash Lynx's acquaintance...and fall with him into the bloody whirlpool of pride, greed, lust and wrath unleashed by the enigma code-named Banana Fish...
Banana Fish is a shoujo manga series that ran from 1985 to 1994 in the magazine Bessatsu Shoujo Comic, is widely credited as "revolutionizing" the shoujo genre to include more mature, adult themes, and to win a large male crossover audience. Banana Fish certainly was not the first manga to include the genre stereotypes of hot, angsty bishounen and steamy boy-on-boy sexuality that we still see in more adult-oriented shoujo titles today. But it was among the first to marry pretty-boy bishounen with a simple, action-oriented style of artwork and a hard-boiled, violence-filled plot. Basically, it's not for kids. ^^ But the backbone of the story is really the same basic themes that can be found in any shoujo series - friendship, loyalty, trust, sacrifice, believing in yourself, and facing your fears. And yes, there's even romantic love. Most important of all is the achingly sweet love that grows with an almost agonizing slowness between Ash and Eiji.(boyfruit)
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