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“I’ll cut your throat !! That will shut you up !” “You’re beautiful, Your Highness…”

A very self indulgent redraw to try and make the art block go away, feat. WuMing my favorite small bean 

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SHIV ROY + backless dresses:

Gabriela Hearst Betty Open-back Wool-blend Dress In Navy

Jay Godfrey Cameo Gown

Monique Lhuillier Plunging Back Draped Navy Gown

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– Смотри: я сфинкс….

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Fly boy, in the sky

So Eiji is often depicted as a bird throughout the story in both the manga and the anime adaptation. 

He is a tufted titmouse outside Ash’s window in the hospital in episode two, “a canary that forgot how to sing” in Max’s words in episode six and a blue bird in the back cover of the second DVD volume. @iamtrashforash talks about the scenes where Eiji is depicted as a bird in two brilliant metas, here and here. I would like to point out one more scene in addition to these, back in episode one. 

We are introduced to Eiji for the first time near the middle of the episode right after he arrives in New York City with Ibe-san. Then the scene changes and we get a visual of Manhattan from above while the sun sets and rises. Two gunshots ring in the air and a bird flies off of its perch, revealing Ash teaching a lesson to his gang members for going behind his back to do business with Dino.

I don’t know what kind of bird it is (robin?), but it’s really cute just like Eiji. And its cuteness is in stark contrast with the dingy back alleys of New York. Not surprisingly, the bird flies off almost immediately as if it is disturbed by the noise.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this bird appears right after we see Eiji for the first time. He arrived in New York, but hasn’t met Ash yet. So I think this scene serves as a premonition for what is to come. Although, unlike this bird, Eiji doesn’t “fly off” from this grisly world that he will soon come to know.

In the manga, the bird symbolism is less obvious but still there. Even in Fly boy, in the sky, which was published before Banana Fish, Ibe-san says watching Eiji pole-vault is like birdwatching. I think what he meant by that is that Eiji is truly in his element when he is up in the air.

“Nothing really,” he had said.

“What are you thinking of when you’re up in the air?”

“I’m not thinking of anything really.”

Despite that, you feel happy, don’t you?

You look so delighted. The expression on your face gets me every time.

I’ve been watching you through my camera from afar, you know.

It’s almost like birdwatching.

What is interesting is that the verb “to jump” and “to fly” are pronounced the same way in Japanese, although they use different characters. So it sounds as if Ash says “I envy you… Being able to fly like that…” in the scene below (and indeed, that’s how the anime subtitles were translated).

After I realised that, the analogy between Eiji pole-vaulting and a bird flying in the sky started to make more sense.

I can think of one last scene depicting Eiji as a bird in the sky and it is the ending scene. Eiji “flies off” to Japan. He can do it. It’s in his nature and nothing stops him. But when Ash wants to “fly” with him, he is fatally wounded and dies. It’s as if attempting to fly is unnatural for him. 

In his final moments, Ash lifts up his face to the sky like he’s looking at Eiji, who is, as I mentioned previously here, flying over New York on board a plane at that exact moment. 

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BANANA FISH (2018) #23 For Whom The Bell Tolls

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let's be real, 2017 shoma uno would have lost his mind if he'd known that 6 years down the line he'd be playing an extrovert in an ice show so convincingly people would wonder if it's really him

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Shoma Uno as Monkey D. Luffy || New footage of One Piece On Ice 2023

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I will never get over how long this hug is

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Marin Honda as Nefertari Vivi || One Piece On Ice 2023 Open Rehearsals

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Some Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai colored pages edits.

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May ／ log

2023.05.17 2023.05.09 2023.05.14 2023.05.29 2023.05.12 2023.05.04

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Hannibal season 3 - gag reel

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xie lian and his baby girl

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Season 3 prediction: swordfighting my ex-boyfriend in the parking lot of a Denny's

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he got a permit

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the angel and demon on the shoulder symbolism oh im sick