Template:Infobox mediaBanana Fish (バナナフィッシュ) is an anime series based on the manga of the same name by Akimi Yoshida. It is produced by Fuji TV. The first season began airing July 6th, 2018, and the second season airing October 11th, 2018. The adaption revises the setting of the series from the 1980s to the present day, adding modern references such as smartphones, and substituting the Vietnam War with the Iraq War.
Plot
In New York, Ash Lynx attempts to survive as a gang leader. The secret that drove Ash’s older brother mad in Vietnam has now fallen into the hands of “Papa” Dino Golzine, at the worst time when Eiji Okumura meets Ash.
Characters
Main
Secondary
- Max Lobo (Hiroaki Hirata)
- Jusis (Jun Fukuyama)
- Shorter Wong (Makoto Furukawa)
- Shunichi Ibe (Shinji Kawada)
- Blanca (Toshiyuki Morikawa)
- Dino Golzine (Unshō Ishizuka)
- Frederick Arthur (Yoshimasa Hosoya)
- Skip (Ayumu Murase)
- Marvin Crosby (Katashi Ishizuka)
- Antonio Jenkins (Mitsura Ogata)
Additional
- detective (ep 1) (Akinobu Imai)
Weisenberg (ep 2)
- Alex (episodes 1-2) (Haruki Ishiya)
- Garvey (ep 3) (Kenjiro Tsuda)
- Sun Su Rin (Shoya Chiba)
- Lao Yen Tai (Soma Saito)
- Mahdia Wong (episode 3) (Umeka Shouji)
- Charles Dickinson (Yoji Ueda)
- Evanstine (episode 2) (Yoshimitsu Shimoyama)
- Abraham Dawson (episode 2) (Yuu Hayashi)
Episodes
- Main article: List of Banana Fish Episodes
Musical score
Opening Theme:
1) “found & lost” by Survive Said The Prophet
2) "FREEDOM " by BLUE ENCOUNT
Ending Theme
1) “Prayer X” by King Gnu
2) "RED " by Survive Said The Prophet
Banana Fish Key Image
Japanese Companies
2nd Key Animation
- A-Real
- animo caramel
- GONZO
- Satelight
- Seven Seas
- Snow Light Staff
- Studio Massket
- WHITE FOX Izukōgen Studio
Animation Production
Backgrounds
CG Production
- MAPPA
In-Between Animation
- A-Real
- Chiptune
- Dr. Movie
- FAI
- HORNETS
- MAPPA
- Sakura Create
- Snow Light Staff
- Studio CL
- Studio Gimlet
- Studio Lings
- Synod
- WHITE FOX
- World Anime Networks
- Xenron
Paint
- A-Real
- DEFA
- Dr. Movie
- FAI
- M.S.J Musashino Production
- MAPPA
- R.I.C
- Studio CL
- Studio Elle
- Studio Gimlet
- Studio Massket
- World Anime Networks
- xenron
Photography
- MAPPA
Staff
- Screenplay: Koji Seko
- Storyboard: Hiroko Utsumi
- Director: Hiroko Utsumi
- Assistant Director: Hashiguchi Junichiro
- Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko
- Animation Director: Akemi Lin
- Assistant Animation Director: Mashima Jiro, Koji Hisaki
- Music: Shinichi Osawa
- Art Director: Toshiharu Mizutani
English Companies
- Amazon Prime Video
Trivia
- The Banana Fish anime was voted #1 by the fan votes for the Tokyo Anime Award Festival. It topped the 100 anime titles from a total of 524 titles that aired and were released in Japan between October 15, 2017 - October 13, 2018.[1][2]