Banana Fish 5
Posted: February 6, 2009 Filed under: Banana Fish 1 Comment »My supply of Banana Fish is exhausted! I think I’ve got the next five volumes coming either tomorrow or Saturday, and I also just placed an order for the rest since I wanted to take advantage of the current Right Stuf Viz sale. I got an appalling amount of stuff, on top of the fact I just ordered all of Red River, like, yesterday from there. I knew I should have waited for a sale.
But what was I talking about? Oh yes, Ash Lynx and friends. I got a kick out of the fact that I paused briefly during a scene at the beginning where Eiji is being put to sleep with acupuncture to flip to the back, and the last page inexplicably featured Ibe and Lobo chained together while wearing tuxes and Shorter screaming at the sight of Eiji. In context, that’s a really intense scene. Out of context, it’s pretty hilarious, especially since there’s no hints whatsoever at the beginning of the volume what’s going on there.
I felt pretty bad for Shorter in this story. I’m glad Ash knew what was going on and wasn’t blaming Shorter for things, but Shorter had a rough time. He did his best, but the bigger fish sort of jerked him around. I felt pretty bad about him being the guinea pig, too. That’s actually quite terrifying, and I know it won’t end well.
There’s a lot behind that scene the book ends on. But one of the nicer things is the nice tuxedo dinner. Not only do we get to see Ash in a suit and acting all high-class, we also get to see Ibe and Max making weird faces throughout the dinner. I’m just starting to appreciate those two. I keep kind of wishing that Ibe would go away, but he’s a good guy, and Max needs someone to hang out with.
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