Jul 22, 2023
Banana Fish is a master tale of tragedy, and what you're willing to do to complete your goals.
There are minor spoilers about the themes of the story, but that is it.
Before watching this show, I had wanted to watch it for a long time due to the rumored "BL elements" of it. If anyone checks my page, you'll see that I love BL, and if the comments about the show had been positive due to that, I think I would have watched it sooner. One of the biggest things I hear whenever I try to recommend or talk about Banana Fish is that
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"Oh it's some gay crime anime" and with those comments, it's put a lot of people off from watching it. I believe that CDawgVA did a similar video talking about just that, and that the pre-conceived notion that the plot is only that deters a lot of people from actually enjoying it.
Though the intrigue of watching something BL pushed me to finally watch it- but goddamn, I was not expecting what I watched. Watching it with someone else, there were multiple times that we had to stop watching it out of pure shock and disgust; it was the type of show that really shook you to your core, because the world of Banana Fish is unforgiving, hateful, and not for everyone. Even if it made me turn away and take breaks from it multiple times, it kept me coming back to find out if Ash and Eiji could get the ending that they wanted and deserved.
It's the type of show you may only want to watch once due to how traumatic it can be from the start to finish, but it is beautifully created in a way that makes you root for everyone and their struggles. The BL aspects that may deter people should be labelled as more of a genuine connection between two lost souls in their journey for happiness. To me, Banana Fish is one of the purest expressions of love that I've seen in an anime.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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