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Machine translations from Akimi Yoshida’s 40th anniversary art book about Banana Fish and Tomorrow’s Joe influence

These were from various pages from the book if you want the page numbers message me :) also please remember these are machine translations (Papago) so there are errors and is not 100% accurate.

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Yut Lung MLP concept

For his ponyified lore his name is Dragon Lily.

No illustration of his cutie mark but his special talent is being able to create poisons and concoctions.

In his original canon his brothers really value him for his abilities and looks thus his pony design is an Alicorn which in mlp is the most superior you can be.

Check out my asheiji ponies here!

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MLP: Banana Fish Concept

Hi everypony I used to be a hugeee fan of mlp when I was a kid and I thought it would be fun to fuse with my current interest..below are some key points :P

Abilities

- Shutter Fly (Eiji) is a unicorn, but his horn growth was very slow and stubbed. He usually keeps it hidden under his mane. It doesn’t develop fully until what would be in the original story New York Sense when he’s 27

- Ash (still haven’t come up with a name lol) can’t fly, he’s embarrassed by this so he wears a bandage over it as an excuse “it’s permanently broken”. In MLP pegasi learn how to use their abilities like flying or magic as fillies, but because of Ash’s chaotic childhood and was always on the run he never learnt to fly or been taught.

Ash not being able to fly and Shutter Fly not being able to use his magic is what connects them both not being able to use their born gaven abilities. Ash is fascinated by Shutter Fly for still being able to fly (leap) over the hurdles in vaulting despite not being born with wings, unlike him who has the inability to use them.

Cutie Marks

- Both grew up into teen years as blank flanks (in MLP world being a blank flank means you don’t have a cutie mark, and not having one past foulhood is mocked)

- Shutter Fly joined pole vaulting as a way of hoping he would be passionate about it enough to get a cutie mark from it. Right when he thought he was, he acquired an injury forcing him to give up the sport. Ibe took him to Equestria for the same reasons in the original but in the back of Shutter Fly’s mind he hoped that he’d be able to get his mark somehow on his trip in Manehattan. 

He eventually does throughout the events of the main story while he’s with Ash, that being a photographer’s camera.

- Ash never gets his cutie mark. His busy life style he was never able to make time for hobbies he felt passionate about and enjoyed himself. He also feels embarrassment for being a blank flank and admires Shutter Fly’s when he gets his that he has something he is truly passionate about that was discovered on his own will.

- If he did live though, (or maybe in the final scene it amazingly appears) it would be probably something academic like a book and quill since we know he does enjoy reading.

Hope you enjoyed this breakdown…I am going to do a pony of Yut Lung (his pony name is Dragon Lily) and Eiji post time skip too :)

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they should’ve been at cbgbs

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walked past the library yesterday sixth anniversary of banana fish anime’s ending coincidentally it snowed yesterday too…

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early banana fish volumes like 1-5 are the best imo it definitely feels more movie like and the grittiness of the akira art style is my favoriteeee. Also the eighties look is more standout especially in the designs like ash’s hair in the very beginning is 70-80s staple style lol

I really like the localization as well because they talk very American and sometimes they say things that you’d only know if you grew up in the tristate like I remember after Dino got ash’s gang members to kill Steven Thompson he told his guards to throw them in the pine barrens which is this crazy pine tree forest that runs throughout New Jersey that has a folklore that surrounds it being that the Jersey devil lives there.

The original CD drama especially..it used copyrighted music I’m still yet to listen to all 3 tapes because they are very long but when ash and eiji first meet at the bar the song playing in the background is shout at the devil by Motley Crue and somebody get me a doctor by Van Halen. I like the original voices too, I think ash and eiji’s fit more along with the soundtrack really gives the feel if it were to be animated then instead

As the story progresses I feel like it starts to lose a lot of that feeling as it turns more emotional and serious along with the art style becoming tighter and more perfected that’s not to complain it’s just when you read volume 16 and volume 5 it has a completely different feeling (naturally) but I dont mean the story or the emotions going on in the story I just mean overall feeling of the comics it starts out very 80s movie and then dissolves more into melodramatic shoujo story

don’t get me wrong not complaining at all I’m just a sucker for the roughness of the beginnings feeling

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Ash lynx money spread

They getting rid of the mta card ontop of the 1980s train carts with the orange seatings this is seriously like fifteen 9/11s I also lost my OMNY card last time I was there lol

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banana fish shelf 🤔

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update going to nyc this week since my cousin lives in Brooklyn…I think I’ve about hit every banana fish spot and uploaded it onto here lol also I watched tomorrow’s joe or ashita no joe which is what Yoshida had in mind when drawing Ash’s death. It really is parallel, and a very good series, ash and joe have many similarities I’ll have to write something on it later. Definitely check it out don’t pass it up just because it’s old and about boxing lol

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buddy of mine got me this as a Christmas present I am so joyful

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Stand by Me

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bought him…I really love this figure I think he looks so cool which btw, he’s currently $150 on Black Friday sale at crunchyroll (his resell price now is anywhere between $250-700 so it’s a really good deal if you’re looking into it don’t pass it up!!!)

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Ash…Dr. Know album cover sketch

some 80s crossover punk for you all

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American Museum of Natural History! + Liberty

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Banana Fish and Yasha scans from Akimi Yoshida 40th Anniversary Book

Sorry it gets so blurry around the bind my printer just do that 🙏🏼

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reminded me of ash