Banana Fish (バナナフィッシュ, Banana Fisshu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akimi Yoshida. It was first serialized in Shōjo Comic from 1985 to 1994. The series produced 19 volumes (tankōbon) which were published by Shogakukan.
For North America, publisher Viz Media licensed and translated two editions. The first was published from 1999 to 2002 and covers volumes 1 - 7. The second spanned the full 19 volumes and was published from 2004 to 2007. Viz Media also printed the series in manga magazines Pulp and Animerica Extra whilst they were operating.
Viz began to reprint the series shortly after the announcement of the anime adaption in July 2018. Viz Media began republishing the manga shortly after the anime began airing.
Banana Fish has sold over 11 million copies and was ranked first in a "Fifty Best Manga" poll conducted by the
magazine Comic Link in 1998.
Overview[]
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. 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 Okumura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance...
Story[]
Part 1:Prologue[]
- Volume 1
Part 2:Solving the Mystery of "BANANA FISH"[]
- Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6
Part 3:Ash's Counterattack[]
- Volume 7, Volume 8, Volume 9, Volume 10, Volume 11
Part 4:Golzine's Rehabilitation[]
- Volume 12, Volume 13, Volume 14
Part 5:Battle's End[]
- Volume 15, Volume 16, Volume 17, Volume 18
Part 6:Epilogue[]
- Volume 18, Volume 19
Chapters and Volumes[]
- Main article: List of Banana Fish chapters and volumes
Volumes[]
Flower Comics volume covers[]
Viz Media volume covers[]
External Links[]
- Viz Media is the official publisher of the Banana Fish reprint manga, available in link.