TV Anime 'Banana Fish' Announces Additional Cast Members

by tsubasalover
May 24, 2018 9:51 AM | 32 Comments

The official website for the upcoming Banana Fish TV anime has announced additional cast members, along with a new key visual and preview. Survive Said The Prophet will perform first opening theme song "found & lost." The anime will broadcast on Thursdays 1:55 a.m. via noitaminA timeslot starting July 6. Amazon Prime Video will also stream the anime in Japan and worldwide.

Cast
Shorter Wong: Makoto Furukawa (One Punch Man)
Frederick Arthur: Yoshimasa Hosoya (the Saiki Kusuo no Ψ-nan (TV) series)
Shuishi Ibe: Shinji Kawada (Hisone to Maso-tan)
Yut-Lung Li (Jusis): Jun Fukuyama (the Nanatsu no Taizai series)
Blanca: Toshiyuki Morikawa (Black Clover)

First two episodes will be pre-screened via an event on June 30. Yuuma Uchida (Aslan Jade Callenreese) and Kenji Nojima (Eiji Okumura) will appear for a talk show.

PV

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Source: Moca News

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OP2: "FREEDOM" by BLUE ENCOUNT
https://www.animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1536632015

ED2: "RED" by Survive Said The Prophet
https://www.animatetimes.com/news/details.php?id=1539236097

Sep 10, 2018 8:03 PM by tsubasalover

TSignature said:
The only "BL" in this show is the fact that some antagonists are child rapists who enjoy raping little boys...and these antagonists are not pretty boys but fat old men.

The series literally comes out and says that Eiji and Ash are romantically in love with one another, though? As in, saying they feel the same way towards one another that lovers do. I don't know how so many people overlook or misinterpret that, but there you go.

May 26, 2018 10:31 AM by tokinokanatae

PV looks good & it's going to be 2 cours!!

I'm hyped!!

May 25, 2018 6:09 PM by -Arisa

This is my most hyped new series outside of Grand Blue this summer.

Also, hell yeah Survive Said the Prophet ! Thats a nice surprise.

May 25, 2018 11:04 AM by DatRandomDude

PV still doesn't convince me too much but eh, I guess it looks promising enough? I dunno.

May 25, 2018 9:39 AM by removed-user

0536365157 said:
How many episodes are 12 episodes or 24 episodes?!🤔

2-cour (24 episodes) I'm pretty sure it's a consecutive, not split cour.

May 25, 2018 6:56 AM by Stark700

How many episodes are 12 episodes or 24 episodes?!🤔

May 25, 2018 6:43 AM by Rayan_alomri

Ash's character design still doesn't sit well with me for some reason, too skinny perhaps. xD

But otherwise, this is shaping up to look pretty decent. Two cours... oh man, I hope it turns out good and do the manga justice~

May 24, 2018 6:16 PM by Mirorin

Never change MAL..never change...

Banana Fish is about as opposite from YOI/Free! as it gets, they are completely different genres. The only "BL" in this show is the fact that some antagonists are child rapists who enjoy raping little boys...and these antagonists are not pretty boys but fat old men.

If I were to compare, Banana Fish is more similar to something like 91 Days with a male heavy cast due to the nature of the show (gangs and mafia). 91 Days also had lots of fangirls who see the friendship as romance, but it is not canonically a romance. I don't personally see Ash and Eiji's friendship as romance in the original manga because Eiji kind of feels like a plot device half the time, but with Utsumi as director there may be a lot more focus on them as she said in interviews that she really wanted to bring out their relationship.

May 24, 2018 6:13 PM by removed-user

PV is perfect and I'm loving OP plus that more cast. I'm extra hyped can't wait.

May 24, 2018 6:12 PM by Shadow-Chan

Tbqh, it seems a bit of a cop out to have a very romantic natured work and then be like... it was such strong friendship.

I think it annoys me because there's usually this undertone of m/m or f/f relationships being impure if they're romantic in nature, but it's very rare to see an m/f relationship end on a note of 'we're soulmates not lovers we cannot be constricted by romance' etc etc

Anyway gripes aside, I like Banana Fish and I'm interested to see it animated. But unless the story is changed (which we can't possibly know yet) it shouldn't get a shounen ai tag and I'm not sure why people would argue it should.

May 24, 2018 5:47 PM by Claptrap

Ah, this must be popular here. Just like Yaoi on Ice.

May 24, 2018 3:13 PM by Detective1412

mh i dont like the vibe of the pv and the mood(also visually), i'll check the next pv

May 24, 2018 2:28 PM by anemonespotte

Oh, yet another Mappa yaoi anime. Gonna avoid like it never existed. One Gomi on ICE was enough for me.

May 24, 2018 12:58 PM by shanimebib

@lady_freyja Lol, you were not aggressive. Moreover, I myself often meet with such discussions around PriPri or Amanchu, when the author sates a strong friendship between the characters with strong homoerotic or near-love symbolism.

But if in my case it's an ambiguous Class S, then I'm interested in what should symbolize such a relationship between the two men.

May 24, 2018 12:52 PM by RobertBobert

I agree with @lady_freyja. There is a little BL in this but it isn't a BL title. This is hardboiled crime/mafia/gang story over everything else. Think like the shoujo version of Sanctuary.

May 24, 2018 12:49 PM by Brand

@RobertBobert
"Romantic Friendship" might be a word here, the relationship is strong enough for seeing it both as a friendship or as a love. I'm sure it was what the author wanted and I find judicious : fujoshi who want to see beautiful love will see it, people who aren't interested in that sort of thing will see strong friendship.

Personally, even if I love BL and thus can be called a "fujoshi", I'm not into shipping, thus here I see just a really strong friendship.

And yes, I dunno why people expect genuine BL out of this work, and it really annoy me.
That's why I should stay away from that topic, it will be better for my moral.
Sorry if I sounded aggressive to you. Swagernator's message really annoyed me.

May 24, 2018 12:23 PM by removed-user

Continue to delude yourself in your illusions…

lol what does this statement even mean.

Anyway, for whatever dumb reason, I was expecting something related to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananafish_Magazine
Color me disappointed.

May 24, 2018 12:13 PM by casual_filth

@lady_freyja So, if I understand correctly, in this context, this manga is a "male" version of the works about romantic friendship between the girls? Of course, I do not expect two guys will be gently looking into each other's eyes or sleeping in the same bed, but I'm wondering why so many people expect the canonical BL from this show.

May 24, 2018 12:04 PM by RobertBobert

MAPPA trying to wipe out the fujoshis wallets again. Nothing new.

Swagernator said:
Why it is still not tagged as shounen ai ?

Pretty misleading for people.

For once I agree with Swagernator.

May 24, 2018 11:45 AM by removed-user

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