Ash has the opposite of a green thumb.
Credit for dialogue goes to my friend @itsmusicgirlactually !
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Ash and Ibe's dynamic is so underrated, which is understandable because we don't see much of it.
But in the five stories (03) "Other voices, Other rooms" we see more of Ash and Ibe together and it's probably my favorite because their interactions are so wholesome 🥺
Here are my favorite moments:
(Info: Ibe thinks back to the time they all spent in Cape Cod)
Ibe saying that present Ash looks similar to smiling Griff 🥺
Ash slyly asking Ibe if he has pictures of Eiji's pole vaulting career.. I see you Ash
+ Ash sounding genuinely disappointed that Ibe doesn't have the pictures of Eiji with him 🤭
We get a tiny little bit more information on just HOW bad Eiji's mental state must have been in Japan with Ibe saying that bringing Eiji to the US was an "emergency evacuation"
No but seriously Ibe uses words like "abducted" to describe how he got Eiji out of there
So despite literally being in life-threatening danger CONSTANTLY, Ibe confirms that he has never seen Eiji any happier UHM
Also Ibe says Eiji seems more lively ESPECIALLY around Ash 🥺🥺🥺
Literally right after Ibe tells Ash that Eiji has changed (for the better) you can hear the most SOFTEST gasp from Ash I'M CRYING
"Have you had Ei-chan tell you anything about Japan?"
"Gomen."
Ibe teaching Ash Japanese except it's an Osakan dialect, which already has some differences to the "standard" Tokyo dialect but even better; some of the words Ibe teaches him are usually only heard in Osaka,,,, Ibe is literally teaching Ash old slang
ON TOP OF THAT Ibe explains these are popular Japanese phrases "right now" which,,,, sorry Ibe you're just getting old LMAO
"Hey don't teach me anything weird. I won't remember it anyway." Meanwhile 20 episodes later and Ash can perfectly reminisce all japanese phrases Ibe taught him to Eiji 💀
Ash is so cute here 🥺 he's repeating the phrases to himself and actually takes it seriously to pronounce them right
Max walks in and Ash IMMEDIATELY starts using the new phrases and Max is just like "wtf"
Max "I can at least speak Japanese" followed by random japanese words that don't have any connection BAHAHA
The only coherent sentence Max forms is "Please don't touch the dancers." Max wtf did you do 🤨
At the end Ibe is scared how Eiji will react when he finds out what he has been teaching Ash 😭
Highly recommend y'all to check it out and the other parts too !!! It's healing for the soul
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max being there for ash after a nightmare, because he's the father in the world.
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art insta: eiji_is_mine
art twt: fvnnyb0ne
please do not repost or claim.
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I love their father-son relationship
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Happy New Year everyone🎉💫
Here are all the amazing Banana Fish artwork of 2022 drawn by Banana Fish (supervising) anime director Ayumi Yamada (山田 歩) ✨
She posted a collection on Twitter. Please find her at @24_ayame!
I thought it would be great to end the year with these artworks!
First half of the year:
Second half of the year:
Let’s all hope that 2023 will bring some good news. I hope all your New Year’s resolutions will be fulfilled and the at you can create some precious memories you can look back on at a later time! ✨
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TW: Discussions of SA and SH
So I was thinking about those two scenes in Banana Fish (the anime) where SA/SH is presented to the audience as funny. The first with the nurses in the hospital, and the second with the random doctor at the National Institute of Mental Health. Any scenes where SH or SA is depicted as humorous leaves a bad taste in my mouth. (Big Bang Theory is probably the most prominent example of this I can think of). But these scenes came off as particularly off-key, because it's literally Banana Fish. Like, did the writers legitimately forget their own narrative's theme? A good chunk of the show is dedicated to presenting and then repeatedly reinforcing the concept that SA is bad, which it is. So why would the writers of BF, who showed careful, deliberate attention to every other part of the show, put these two scenes in?
Both scenes involve women and/or femininity in some way.
The scene that takes place between the nurses and Ash involves four female characters. These characters have already decided that they will take turns "assisting" Ash, and inform him of this in a way that is distinctly uncomfortable for both Ash and the audience. The important thing to remember in this situation as that the ones doing the harassing are meant to be interpreted as female. With the exclusion of the other scene I mentioned, every other time a character commits SH or SA, they are always male and it is always painted in a light that is meant to be unsettling and disturbing. But here, when the ones doing the harassing are female, it's supposed to be funny. Because women are not seen as capable of sexual predation, it's generally considered okay, entertaining even, to depict scenes like the one above. After all, they're women, what harm can they do?
Immediately after, Ash is shown to be highly uncomfortable. His boundaries have been threatened by people who are not supposed to take advantage of his situation. The nurses' actions obviously cause harm.
Next, the scene with the random doctor. He enters the elevator with Ash (who is pretending to be a female nurse), Max, and Ibe (though he doesn't know Ibe is there). Although he is in the elevator with what he thinks to be two other people, he only pays attention to Ash, specifically. He proceeds to call him "sexy" and gets very much in Ash's personal space. After a brief attempt to keep up the façade, Ash punches him, and calls his actions what they are: SH.
The key detail here is that Ash is presenting himself as a woman. He is wearing a skirt, unnecessarily large fake breasts, and is speaking in a higher, softer voice than normal. Ash (and the writers) are doing their level best to make him come off as feminine at first glance. This scene would not be acceptable otherwise.
It's up for debate what the audience is supposed to take from this scene. Are we supposed to laugh at a female victim of SH, or are we (an audience that the writers probably assumed would be mostly women) supposed to get catharsis from someone who looks female punching a sexual harasser with the "physical strength of a man"? Possibly both? There's no real way to know.
I honestly can't tell if the writers did this intentionally or not. It could be a way of talking about SA perpetrated by and/or against women and how this particular category of SA is viewed differently in society. The scenes do have a very, very different tone from all instances of SA/SH within the show that exclusively involve characters who are intentionally presenting themselves as men. However, it could also be a reflection of the writers' own personal biases and stereotypes. With the attention to detail present in Banana Fish, I think it's likely the former.
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I come bearing more Ash fanart because this is all I am anymore lmao
I was reading a fic by @chaoslynx (literally one of the coolest nicest people ever, go tell him he's awesome, yes this is a threat) and I just. Ash deserves parental hugs. (Ash deserves literally everything good, of course but we can talk about that later) so I had to draw just that.
the fic I'm referring to is this one, do be careful reading it, there's... yeah. it's a lot.
Head canon that Micheal rips the paper wrappings off of his crayons when he draws with them, totally not because I didn't want to put forth the extra effort and draw them, whatever are you accusing me of?
and I am aware Ash is not that short, but let him be smol for once, he didn't get to be a kid very much.
I'll add some closeups/alt versions/in progress screenshots under the cut.
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Y'all, I think that I'm not gonna recover from banana fish. I might not watch it again for the sake of my mental health (who am I kidding?) but I cannot see myself not not thinking about the characters all the time. I might be emotionally attached to them.
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Having very very shitty Griffin Callenreese thoughts again. His name is going to utterly dissappear. Literally nobody knows him. Nobody could think of him, even Max as he tries will mourn for a man he scarcely knew for longer than he knew him. Literally just tried to support his brother in his shitty family with an abusive father, got turned into a lab rat and got brutally murdered by a man who he was kind to. Out of all people Abraham could have viciously hurt like that he chose Griff, who meant no harm, who was "the only one who didn't bully him" Griffin was never cruel to anyone and this is the lot he gets.
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dumb baby cat does not realize he has been adopted
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I love how Eiji knows exactly when to use his sad puppy face
He uses it when Ibe is about to give him shit:
To get Max to take care of Ash in prison:
And obv on Ash like,,,, all the time:
And honestly, good for him
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Moments before disaster
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idk why there’s so much porn in the Banana Fish tag but it feels like the world is writing a poem for me and it’s gonna put me in the ground
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