Banana Fish is a Japanese manga series written and
illustrated by Akimi Yoshida. Banana Fish follows the relationship
between Ash Lynx, a teenage gang leader in New York City, and Eiji
Okumura, a Japanese photographer's assistant. Though Banana Fish is
not a boys' love (BL) series, critics have noted the series' depiction
of homosexuality and homoeroticism as having been influenced by (and
in turn having influenced) the boys' love genre. The series is further
noted for achieving crossover success between audiences of
shōjo manga (girls' manga) and shōnen manga (boys'
manga).
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