Banana fish by Akimi Yoshida.
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I know Titanic is sad, but did you know that in Japan cutting your hair means moving on from the past? Tradition that comes from Edo period, as Samurai would chop their chonmage when they stepped away from their title, starting a new life.
So Eiji's very 90s-grungy hairstyle was a symbolic resource to show his complicated grief from Ash.
-orignal text by avatarparallels-
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akimi yoshida’s banana fish ||吉田秋生の『バナナフィッシュ』
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"Stay with me... I won't ask "forever". Just for now, Eiji." - Ash Lynx
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listening to banana fish spotify playlists is like "oh this song is so sad, let's see the other, oh this is depressive, shit this one is worse, oh well this one too, oh the intro slaps, oh this is also sad, and this one t-"
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I'm re-reading "Banana Fish" for a story I'm writing right now, and I just have to say, people that accuse Akimi Yoshida of killing Ash at the end for "shock value", or say that it "came out of nowhere", really weren't paying any kind of attention to the story at all. There's foreshadowing for Ash's death from the earliest stages of the story. It's referenced constantly. It really pisses me off when people say stuff like that about Yoshida, or say things like she doesn't deserve her own characters, etc... It's just ridiculous, and rooted in nothing more than their own inability to accept that "Banana Fish" is a tragedy, and was always going to end tragically as a result.
Media illiteracy strikes again.
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Petit Flower (プチフラワー) / Shōgakukan (小学館) / Sep 1984 issue
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Banana fish by Akimi Yoshida.
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「河よりも長くゆるやかに」吉田秋生 / Akimi Yoshida
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