Banana Fish, Vol. 15

Author: Akimi Yoshida
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974712273
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 187

Book Description
Ash, freed from the clutches of Dino, races to find Eiji, but Dino's men beat him to the punch. A deadly battle rages at the National History Museum, and Ash captures Yut-Lung. Perhaps a deal can be struck and hostages exchanged... -- VIZ Media

Banana Fish, Vol. 17

Author: Akimi Yoshida
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 197471229X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 187

Book Description
Ash is held captive and interrogated by the brutal Colonel Foxx who does everything in his power to get information on Golzine's "ace in the hole" against the U.S. government. But a caged animal can be held only so long before it bites back. Chaos erupts and Eiji's life hangs in the balance while Ash's key players are captured and brought to Mannerheim's dreaded complex. -- VIZ Media

Banana Fish, Vol. 19

Author: Akimi Yoshida
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974712311
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
The final volume of Banana Fish contains the same dichotomy of darkness and light that characterizes both Ash and Eiji. Harsh reality and soft dreamlike memories find themselves hand-in-hand with heartbreak and hope, sentiment and cynicism, love and murder. -- VIZ Media

Banana Fish, Vol. 16

Author: Akimi Yoshida
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974712281
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 187

Book Description
Ash and his crew are faced with a new deadly enemy, as Golzine has hired ex-member of the French Foreign Legion Colonel Foxx and his elite cadre to destroy them. To fight back, Ash has formed alliances with local Chinese and African American gangs. While the two sides clash in an all-out melee in New York's garbage-strewn back alleys and abandoned buildings, Yau-Si is still obsessed with the notion of killing Eiji... -- VIZ Media

Banana Fish, Vol. 1

Author: Akimi Yoshida
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 9781569313206
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Banana Fish, Vol. 1

Author: Akimi Yoshida
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974711013
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
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. -- VIZ Media

Banana Fish, Vol. 12

Author: Akimi Yoshida
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974711609
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
Ash has finally escaped from the mental institution where he was held captive and has brought with him crucial evidence of the proof and power of the drug known as Banana Fish. Golzine has hired Blanca, the man responsible for Ash's training in the fighting arts, to bring Ash "home" at any cost!! -- VIZ Media

Banana Fish, Vol. 3

Author: Akimi Yoshida
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 197471103X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
The idea that Ash Lynx would be more controllable in jail has worked out for nobody, because in between gang rape and random assaults, Ash has not only managed to get Eiji to carry out info to his allies in Chinatown, but he's met cellmate Max Lobo, another survivor of his brother's unit in Vietnam. That means as soon as Ash makes bail, he's only headed for bigger trouble. But what's more dangerous for him, confronting Papa Dino or his real father...? -- VIZ Media

Banana Fish, Vol. 5

Author: Akimi Yoshida
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974711056
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
In search of more information about the substance, Ash flees to Los Angeles with a band of allies, where he clashes with Yau-Si, an alluring and duplicitous young assassin. Drawn in by Yau-Si, one of Ash's so-called allies betrays him to the Chinese mafia. Once again Ash is handed over to the rapacious Dino Golzine, who will do anything to cash in on Banana Fish! -- VIZ Media

Banana Fish, Vol. 13

Author: Akimi Yoshida
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974711617
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 187

Book Description
In a desperate attempt to save Eiji, Ash accepts the role of Papa Dino's right-hand man. He then threatens Max at gunpoint to give him the magazine story on Banana Fish before it hits the press. Grooming Ash to become his successor, Dino sets in motion a chain of events that will truly make him part of the "Family." -- VIZ Media