#banana fish rant

[chaotic-banana-fish]

THE CAMERA AND THE GUN

(tw: discussion/explicit mention of Ash Lynx's past)

I think that as a fandom, we don't appreciate the importance of Eiji being a photographer (or going to the US as one) enough.

Given Ash's past, cameras are something he's very vulnerable under. He's constantly been exploited for his body and image, and the child corn videos of him were still up for distribution until Max burned all of it. Even the sound of cameras can be a triggering memory, such as when he's confronting Kippard and he's transported back into a childhood memory with the incessant "click click click" of the camera.

Eiji, showing up to that bar, pulling up a camera with his job literally being to take pictures of him, embodied everything Ash should distrust. However Eiji asks is he can take the photos, and Ash replies "not the face", this obviously makes sense given he's a criminal, but with what we learn later it's obviously more than that.

Ash was carrying a gun, Eiji a camera, to both of them what the other person was carrying was the greater weapon. However, famously, Eiji asks for Ash's gun, takes it and gives it back and says "thank you for trusting me with it", which I think is really key. Ash has just seen that if he can trust Eiji with a gun, perhaps he can trust him with a camera.

Which he does. We never really see Eiji take pictures of Ash during the course of the show, but we know he did thanks to garden of light, where we actually see some of them. The fact that Eiji has a camera, giving him the power to make Ash feel vulnerable and observed, but doesn't at any moment, must've given Ash so much hope. In the same way he tells Eiji that it's the first time anyone has done something for him without "asking for something in return" this is probably the first time someone has had the power to hurt him and not used it.

The fact Ash can trust Eiji so fully with a camera, and feel comfortable and unguarded around him just speaks so so much to the nature of their relationship and just how deep and true it was. With Eiji, Ash really can just be himself "a boy of 17 years old" he's not afraid in the slightest, even if every single thing from his past should tell him to run. The trust Ash has in Eiji is just as great and moving as the trust Eiji has in Ash. Eiji tells Ash he was never scared of him, not for a moment, which is something that Ash finds great comfort in, but it's also true the other way around.

Eiji the one who trusted a boy with a gun and Ash , the one who trusted a boy with a camera. Gosh I love them.

🍌🐟

#banana fish #ash lynx #eiji okumura #aslan jade callenreese #asheiji #eislan #banana fish rant #banana fish analysis #ash lynx analysis #tw banana fish #tw sa mention #tw child abuse #shorter wong #yut lung lee

[chaotic-multi-fandom]

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.

#banana fish #banana fish rant #banana fish analysis #ash lynx #eiji okumura #ash and eiji #yut lung lee #ash lynx appreciation #yut lung lee appreciation #tw sa #tw violence #anime

[iceywrites]

Eiji: did it hurt- Ash: when, I fell from heaven? Eiji: No Eiji: WHEN YOU WERE FUCKING STABBED

#banana fish #ash lynx #eiji okumura #asheiji #okumura eiji #the writer of this post still can't vent enough about this #everytime i have a new rant

[puppyyboyy]

they should make an anime that doesnt make you wanna kys

#bungou stray dogs #banana fish #attack on titan #THE YAOI GETS TOXIC😿😿😿😿😿 #leos rants

[duncanor]

"I don't know what Ash is planning to do but no matter if he succeed or if he loses, he's dead meat."

I see how it is, Banana Fish volume 1..

#dunkar rant #banana fish #banana fish spoilers #Bought the first volume yesterday #And I'm reading it for the first time since the mappa adaptation #Which destroyed me forever btw #The foreshadowing is brutal on this one ngl #As most things in this story tbf #Also #Idk what it says in English #This is a quick translation of a line of dialog in the French translation

[uminohotaru]

Journey to the Land of the Gods

Banana Fish spoilers warning!

I'm late to the party but yeah, I just finished Banana Fish if you know what I mean. And maybe my heart would rather switch to smth else now and heal but my brain won't stop thinking about that story. So I feel the need to rant into the void, at least. I have no idea whether there are Banana Fish fans among my subscribers but if you haven’t seen it, I really REALLY recommend you watch this masterpiece, and that you better scroll this post without glancing under the cut since I'm going to analyze the end. Or rather, why could that story have had no other ending. 

And it all has probably been said and discussed a thousand times but hey, I’ve told ya I’m late to the party, and I haven’t read any thorough analyses except those in the youtube comments below random videos, so now I need my own chance to rant. 

During my short journey through the BF content (finally I can google it all I want without being afraid of the spoilers yay!) I came across different opinions on the ending. Mostly pain, of course, but then it’s either acceptance or denial. My first reaction was violent denial. But funny thing, as much as I wanted to immediately forget the Garden of Light and drown myself in fix-it AUs (the latter, I still do read), I realized quite soon that I can’t. That no matter how painful it is, the original ending is the thing that MAKES SENSE. No, Ash dying like that wasn’t something that had been decided on for the sake of shock, as some of the most bitter opinions I came across accused. Neither it devaluates the whole struggle and his final decision to leave to Japan with Eiji and have a normal life. No, there was something a lot deeper there, I realized once I’d cried my eyes out. As heartbroken as I was, I just couldn’t bring myself to hate it and reject it, and I tend to do that with the endings I do not like, as it happened with some other stories that I rejected with my whole heart and even devoted a good amount of my time to write the fix-its for. But strangely enough, it was not the case with Banana Fish. Its finale just makes sense. In fact, it makes so much sense that I’d go as far as to say that this whole story is the story of a journey to death which stemmed from the image of the leopard’s inscrutable journey to the summit of Kilimanjaro, the House of Gods. I can almost see the author being captivated with that image, and as someone who’s been writing from the young age I know that often (not always but still) you start the story from its finale. You take some resulting picture that for some reason appeared in your head and mesmerised you, and begin to unravel it, like an investigator: what could have happened? who are those people? why did they end up like this? Of course, it is only my assumptions but if I allow myself to guess, I’ll say the entire character of Ash, him being the wild cat, has originated exactly from that short excerpt of Hemingway. 

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai "Ngaje Ngai," the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

The concept is here. It was never a question whether Ash dies, it was the question of how and why he dies. Just like the riddle he’s been pondering on—what was the leopard doing near the summit? What did it seek there? Was it climbing or trying to descend? And that in either case, it must have realized it won’t return. The direct parallel to that leopard, in the end Ash finds the answers to all those questions for himself, on his own journey to the Land of the Gods.

The Japanese characters for the name Izumo literally mean “out of the clouds,” evoking images of a place where the seen and the unseen worlds blur together.

Long before there was a Kyoto or Nara, this region was the center of what was known as Shinkoku, the Country of the Gods.

This is no coincidence. Japan in Banana Fish, and for Ash especially, is the image of the world untouched by the evil where you don’t need a gun, rather than a real country with the same amount of evil and dirt as any other. The fact that Eiji describes it as the country where there are 80 thousand gods, and that he is from Izumo, the Land of the Gods, of all places, makes the spiritual connotation all the more evident. The white peak of Kilimanjaro soaring over the wild jungle, an impossible image of two different worlds in one--there could not have been a better symbolism. Ash, the character who in one of the early episodes says, “I’ve never repented, not even once”, cannot even imagine himself in such a world, just like the sinner can’t seriously think about paradise, or a leopard about climbing a snow-clad peak, so of course his immediate reaction is “Are you nuts? me in Japan? what I’d be even doing there?” But the invitation is there. And deep inside, he realizes that yes, he wants that. To be with Eiji, the angel, in his Land of the Gods. Yet his hands are stained with blood. He's been ruined and tainted in most horrible ways. Is it even possible? But what Eiji sees is his beautiful, fragile, wounded soul, and he says—yes, of course you can, and I will take you there, let’s begin with learning the language. This is when it starts—Ash’s journey from the jungle and toward the summit, toward the Land of the Gods. Or well, that’s when it becomes more or less a conscious decision. And maybe that is also when he realizes it will probably cost him his life. 

He tries to stop and turn back, more than once. Tries to convince himself that he will never belong there, that his fate is to be just another scum on these streets, in the world he has learned how to survive in, his jungle. Just as, more than once, he understands that no, he would rather die on his way to that summit, having decided to take this journey—but die with love, rather than remain in the jungle, even as the king, but empty inside. He has seen the white summit of Kilimanjaro above the wild forest, and that’s it—he can’t tear his eyes off it. 

He learns to repent. He learns to pray. And he even takes the ultimate step—asking God to take him in place of Eiji. Just like Aslan from Narnia, a representation of Christ, he learns such a deep love that he willingly choses to sacrifice himself for another; and it’s not to say he couldn’t sacrifice himself for his friends earlier—he could, risking his life constantly to save others, not exactly cherishing it too much to begin with. But his bargain, for the lack of a better word, with God in ep.23 was something different. It was a conscious offering, a prayer to the God whom he wouldn’t even consider asking for anything earlier, the scarred soul that he is—take me instead of him. Not in the mess of the fight, say, covering Eiji with his body from a bullet, but through a prayer, in the quiet hours on his knees before that window basked in the rays of light. The difference between an act and a prayer in that sense is the difference between one moment and eternity. I'm offering myself in his place, give him the divine protection, change his fate, please God--I'm willing to pay the price. It is different.

Eiji who had a 50% chance of surviving, I believe, survived exactly because of that, at least we can say that it was implied. Ash’s spiritual journey, from being the one who “never once repented”, through finding the spirit to hope and to say I want that, please take me to the Land of the Gods, and to finally offering himself in place of the one he loves—that journey is simply amazing. 

That's why his life could not be taken simply in the mess of the fight. Narratively it would have diminished that huge journey. So he defeats the strongest enemies and survives. Like Cain says, Ash will only die if he brings it on himself. The leopard dies near the summit, but you are not a leopard, you can choose—says Eiji. And we truly can say that Ash chooses to die—from a non-lethal wound (which is more clear in the manga.) Even then, God leaves him the chance to reconsider, to return to the jungle and lick his wounds. In a way, he is safe while he stays in the jungle. But once he tries to reach Eiji, to reach the Land of the Gods, after that prayer, it is no longer so as if fate says, you've exchanged your life for his, that's it. So Ash chooses to pay and to die, and he dies on his own terms to an extent—in the peace of that library, the only place in the “jungle” that has always been his refuge, a part of another world, and he dies smiling—which implies it is not the Grim Reaper who comes for him unlike back then in the hospital, bringing dead calmness devoid of any pain as well as of joy. No, what Ash sees in that moment is some beautiful and happy scenery, so we can say that yes, he sees the Land of the Gods, his paradise where their souls are together, the exact scene from the ED2. He dies, but he ends up reaching it.

So why does Ash, not the logic of the narrative, choose death? For one, this is his part of the bargain with God: and when he is attacked exactly at the moment when he finally runs to reunite with Eiji, he realizes that. Eiji has been able to live on because Ash offered himself instead. And he should have died exactly because he covered Ash with his body, exactly because there is a price for him staying in the jungle, as well as for Ash breaking from the jungle, and from the beginning, Eiji took multiple risks and he took that last bullet meant for Ash, too, because basically his very residence in Ash’s world was the act of his love and desire to save Ash. So of course, he does. But Eiji does more than just saving his life, he saves his soul—since in the end he provides the chance for Ash to say nope, I will not have that, I will ask God to save you and take me instead. Just like Aslan the lion's sacrifice that results in his rebirth. The pinnacle of his spiritual journey, his ticket to the plane going to the Land of the Gods. No, we couldn’t have had Japan as the real 3D country in this story. We simply couldn't.

...One of the distinguishing features of Izumo Taisha Grand Shrine: the shimenawa, or immense straw rope hanging from side to side in the front. The Kaguraden building shimenawa is the largest of its kind in Japan, measuring eight meters in diameter at its largest hanging parts.

It is a reflection of the main god enshrined here, Okuninushi-no-Okami, the god of human relationships. The Japanese word for this is enmusubi, which we can translate literally as “bound fate.” 

#banana fish #ash x eiji #umi rants #what have i dragged myself into #banana fish theory #banana fish analysis #aslan callenreese #ash lynx #eiji okumura

[rosies-den]

If you think I'll ever accept the "ending" of banana fish as canon, you've got another thing coming. My man is alive and happy and in love and has a new life for himself in Japan. Yoshida can't convince me otherwise.

#banana fish #ash lynx #eiji okumura #asheiji #banana fish spoilers #if anyone still cares about that in 2023 #bless mappa for those official arts btw #they agree with me #yoshida is such an enigma to me #she's contradicted herself so many times on so many things #it makes my head hurt #like i'm grateful that she created my boys to begin with #but uhhhh. #she's made some major writing issues #i'll save that rant for another time tho #rn i'm just thinking about my husbands and their love for each other

[ooh-its-simp]

Wanderer: Please, I need you to bring back his soul.

???: [laughs] That man's soul? Souls that are once lost cannot be reclaimed. Is that not the law of mortals? However, it may not be impossible.

Wanderer: Really?

???: That is, of course, if thou manage to accomplish what We askest... But heed this: the price you pay may be heavy indeed.

Wander: ...It doesn't matter.

Venting with Shadow of The Colossus and Banana Fish, best Ive ever drawn tbh

#romantic f/o: 💜🍍 #mrswongs: rant #banana fish #shadow of the colossus #shorter wong #oc #selfinsert #selfship #self ship #self ship content #selfship art #vent art #anime #manga #anime and manga #fictional other #proship #proship selfship #proship self ship #proselfship #proship safe #profic safe

[achilleslyre]

ppl will read/watch an animanga about a csa victim that’s a gang leader and caught up in a whole drug scheme to control military powers and make it out to be a romance between two boys who are just silly and goofy……

#ive said it before and ill say it again #i HATE the banana fish fanbase #none of them have reading comprehension #like i would love to see fanart of ash beat up and weilding guns and gross and bloody and sweaty but #instead all we get is some cutesy art if him and eiji #im tireddddddd of it #like do i srsly have to do everything here myslef #dont get me wrong some of the art is nice ect but #i just hate how soft the fanbase makesit all #and the way they often sexualize ash……. ugh whatever im done with my rant #not getting into that rn it makes me sick #u all already know i hate bfish fandom ill stop kicking this dead horse or however that saying goes #tw csa #csa mention #drug mention #jitter bugs u

[chaotic-banana-fish]

ASH LYNX'S NAME

(I already posted this in my main account but thought it was a good idea to repost it here to get the blog going + it has some additions)

I love the possible significance of Ash's different names. He's named Aslan, which means dawn, by his mother, as a symbol for a bright and beautiful beginning, but then he changes it to Ash, which evokes images of death and endings. In the dawn the light is beautiful and soft, while Ash implies burning, perhaps even the burning of oneself.

When Ash reveals his name to be Aslan to Eiji along with its meaning he allows him to see that part of himself as well as allows himself to be that person for a while. With Eiji he doesn't need to burn or destroy, he can be a dawn, which is in a way a sort of rebirth. It's therefore, also symbolic that so many scenes between them occur at dawn or the sunset, as that's what Ash embodies when he's with him, like Max says "just a boy of 17 years". As he lets his guard down around Eiji and calls himself Aslan, he rises from the Ashes of his name like a Phoenix. I like to think this was also somewhat intentional given that his character was based on River *Phoenix*.

I also feel like this really ties into the symbolism of fire in banana fish as well, which in different instances serves as a medium for both destruction and rebirth. For example, Ash uses fire to burn Shorter's body along with the laboratory, and it also appears as a haunting image in the opening, with Ash staring directly into it. Fire however, is also what rids Ash of his past, as Max burns all photographs and evidence of it. His name is just like that as well, Ash implies destruction, yet also rebirth as a phoenix that can rise from the Ashes, perhaps also showcasing his capability for recovery, that despite what he might've thought he wasn't unsalvageable. This is also present in "RED" one of the outros, with the lyric "if I decide to burn (like ash) instead of fading out (like dawn)". Which once again shows the two sides of Ash and the way they're embodied in his names, as well as the idea that perhaps after all, he did have a choice, unlike the leopard from the story he tells Eiji. (Conversation which I may add, happens at dawn.)

Finally, in Garden of Light, Eiji puts up a picture of him in a gallery (it's one of him sat at the window, calm) and titles it "Dawn". Obviously this reflects the actual background of the picture, as well as his name in a subtle way. But with it he's also choosing to remember Ash for his gentleness and brightness rather than the burning violence his life ignited in him. Ash is remembered by who he really was, or rather who he should've been able to be. His real name however, Aslan, Eiji keeps for himself, a touch of light that only he'll ever know.

Aslan was a Dawn cut short, by a sun that came too soon, too cruel, now re-birthed and remembered, by the eyes that caught its light before it burned into Ash.

#banana fish #banana fish analysis #banana fish rant #ash lynx #ash lynx analysis #eiji okumura #aslan jade callenreese #shorter wong #yut lung lee #🍌🐟

[chaotic-multi-fandom]

ASH LYNX'S NAME -

I love the possible significance of Ash's different names. He's named Aslan, which means dawn, by his mother, as a symbol for a bright and beautiful beginning, but then he changes it to Ash, which evokes images of death and endings. In the dawn the light is beautiful and soft, while Ash implies burning, perhaps even the burning of oneself.

When Ash reveals his name to be Aslan to Eiji along with its meaning he allows him to see that part of himself as well as allows himself to be that person for a while. With Eiji he doesn't need to burn or destroy, he can be a dawn, which is in a way a sort of rebirth. As he lets his guard down around Eiji and calls himself Aslan he rises from the Ashes of his name like a Phoenix. I like to think this was also somewhat intentional given that his character was based on River *Phoenix*.

I also feel like this rlly ties into the symbolism of fire in banana fish as well, which in different instances serves as a medium for both destruction and rebirth. For example, Ash uses fire to burn Shorter's body along with the laboratory, and it also appears as a haunting image in the opening, with Ash staring directly into it. Fire however, is also what rids Ash of his past, as Max burns all photographs and evidence of his past. His name is just like that as well, Ash implies destruction, yet also rebirth as a phoenix that can rise from the Ashes, perhaps also showing his capability for recovery, that despite what he might've thought he wasn't unsalvageable.

Then, in Garden of Light, Eiji puts up a picture of him in a gallery (it's one of him sat at the window, calm) and titles it "Dawn". Obviously this reflects the actual background of the picture, as well as his name in a subtle way. But with it he's also choosing to remember Ash for his gentleness and brightness rather than the burning violence his life ignited in him. Ash is remembered by who he really was, or rather who He should've been able to be. His real name however, Aslan, Eiji keeps for himself, a touch of light that only he'll ever know.

Aslan was a Dawn cut short, by a sun that came too soon, too cruel, now re-birthed and remembered, by the eyes that caught its light before it burned into Ash.

#ash lynx #banana fish #aslan jade callenreese #banana fish analysis #banana fish rant #ash lynx analysis #ash lynx appreciation #eiji okumura #akimi yoshida #I can write something like this for his second name “Jade” if anyone's interested #but I'd probably just connect it to yut lung #them being represented by different precious stones is so personal to me #jade and amethyst #Ash's name means dawn while yut lung's means moon #the parallels people #THE PARALLELS #before you ask yes I have adhd

[angyfishes]

WHY DO BANANBA HAVE TWO HEADS LIKE CENTIPEDED?? BONONA IS FOR EAT, NOT CONFUSE PREDBATOR??

#fishes is madded #angry vent #rant #banana #nature #centipede #myriapods #fruits and vegetables #inverts #fun facts #nature facts #animal facts

[bookwyrminspiration]

i like bananas

Bananas can be pretty neat! They have such a banana texture, it's impressive. Like you bit into it and it's like Wow That Feels Like Banana. I wouldn't say they're top of my list of favorite fruits, but they're respectable. They're the one fruit for me where it's like yes you are meant to be at room temperature

I personally prefer all my fruit cold except for bananas, those I've only ever had room temperature. My dad, however, eats all his fruit room temperature like some kind of barbarian, enjoying clementines and apples that have sat in the sun. My mom also microwaves her water so it's warm, so I think my parents are just allergic to the correct temperatures of things

anyway I'm partial to kiwis and pomegranates, though my mom recently bought plums and I am reminded that I also love plums! I just love fruit in general, so bananas are also great in my book <33

#quil's queries #nonsie #fruit #bananas #once I got an apple out of the fridge (the only apple in the fridge because I'm the only one eating cold fruit) #and my dad saw and was like 'oh we've got apples in the fruit bowl if you don't want it cold' #and I just stood there like!! girl!! I literally!! put it i the fridge!! specifically so it would be cold!! #I'm not settling for lesser i /want/ it to be cold #you and your freaky warm fruit #it makes the texture weird when it's room temperature #i literally paused mid stride like ??? do you think I am unaware of the fruit in the fruit bowl? sitting out at room temperature? #anyway that's my fruit rant #my mom microwaves all her water and my dad won't eat cold fruit #normal family things #actually now that I think about it I don't know if my sister eats fruit at all #I think she's surviving solely on chicken nuggets and fish sticks

[gimmieafuckingusername]

warning// minor spoilers for kotaro lives alone, tokyo revengers, and banana fish

i thought i knew what i was getting myself into. i really thought i knew what i was getting myself into.

But i didn't.

At first i started watching kotaro lives alone because i thought it was just gonna be a wholesome anime about a child. it wasn't. the anime broke my heart whenever i discovered something about kotaro's life.

After that i started watching tokyo revengers to ease the pain. i only thought that the anime was about gangs. it was so much more. i read the tr manga thinking it would get better, it didn't. it got worse. so much worse. Tr only made the hole in my heard bigger.

When i was done with Tr i started watching banana fish. i only thought that banana fish was a little sad, and only had some minor character deaths. oh how i was wrong. Banana fish was so much more than "a little sad" and "some minor character deaths" it was heartbreaking and had major character deaths. Banana fish only made it worse

After banana fish, i was feeling empty inside. i wished i had never seen any of them, yet at the same i was so happy that i had chosen to experience those worlds along with all of the characters.

#kotaro lives alone #thoughts #drabble #kotaro lives by himself #banana fish #tokyo revengers #rant post #ranting #anime rabbit hole lol

[duncanor]

What do you mean Nightow was a big fan of Akimi Yoshida's work...

#dunkar rant #Is it banana fish?? #Oh #This is hm #Hmmmm #No wonder it's so damn sad #At least Trigun ends on a more hopeful note #Those interview sure are something

[the-dumpster-fire-of-life]

I havee to ask for a MM!Donnie x reader who's super smart and loves kpop and anime? Like, after he attends highschool maybe he finds someone exactly like him and it's sorta like love at first sight? Just something fluffy :) thank you!

(hello! Suee I can but since this is my first mutant mayhem please be patient if it sucks or I didn't get Donnie down correctly. Anyways, enjoy!)

MM!Donatello x Nerd? Reader

He absolutely loves you so dang much

He loves that you can keep up and hold a conversation about practically anything with him

Even if you're not a Kpop fan he is still somehow ranting to you about anything going on with BTS

Buy him floor tickets babe, just do it

But if you are a Kpop Stan?!

His heart is just sealed

You can be mutant, human, fucking unicorn

He does not give a care at all

He is so happy he has someone to share and talk about interests with

Even if you didn't really stand BTS he will still rant about them and feel free to go on and on about whatever group ya want

And anime as well

Make him watch Banana fish

He will cry his eyes out

If you watch attack on Titan with his ass be prepared to literally have this boy sobbing into you

Every scene is a sad scene for him

Buy him merch for his bday

Even if you're not very smart he would still love and be excited to teach you something knew that you didn't know

Or he would at least listen or keep up with whatever anime or Kpop group you're into

You guys share answers all the time and it's like a full on mission

It wasn't very much so love at first sight

He knew of you, but he didn't know that you liked stuff as much as he did

Once he heard you mention them or see a piece of merch you had of them is when he fell

He's so shocked and is excited to talk to you about them

You're probably in that club he joined at the post credit scene as well

He is ready to full on geek out with you and be happy while doing it as well

#mutant mayhem x reader #teenage mutant ninja turtles mutant mayhem #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #mutant mayhem #tmnt x reader #tmnt x you #tmnt x y/n #donatello #donatello x reader