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Biographical Note:
Akimi Yoshida made her manga debut in 1977 with the college manga story her college story, A SLIGHTLY STRANGE NEIGHBOR. Her immensely popular series BANANA FISH, her longest work to date, ran from 1985 to 1994 and made her a superstar in the shojo manga world, injecting a new realism and narrative energy into the genre and attracting a large male crossover readership. Yoshida was honored twice with the top annual prize for excellence in shojo from Japanese publishing giant, Shogakukan.
Marc Notes:
First published by Shogakukan Inc. in Japan as Banana Fish, c1987.;Parental advisory ... contains strong language, realistic violence and sexual themes--T.p. verso.;Reads from right to left.;The television news has reported that Ash is dead and Eiji is shocked and unwilling to believe that it is true. Max Lobo thinks Ash's death has been faked. The real Ash has been abducted and is about to be used as a test subject for Banana fish.;Rated T+ for older teens.;Translated from the Japanese.
Publisher Marketing: Nature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer!
VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s...
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 Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... Epic in scope, and one of the best-selling shojo titles of all time in Japan, Akimi Yoshida put an electric shock into the genre and gained a huge crossover audience through
Banana Fish's stripped-down, non-stop style.
The announcement of Ash's death on television news has young Eiji in shock and denial. Ash's body is prepared for autopsy, but Max Lobo is convinced that the body has only been made to look like Ash. Meanwhile, the real Ash Lynx is transferred to a medical compound controlled by the Union Corse and corrupt Senator Kippard, where he will be a guinea pig for the dreaded
Banana Fish. But neither Ash nor his friends are content to let him rot there, and they begin their own independent escape plans!
