Banana Fish 9
Posted: May 3, 2009 Filed under: Banana Fish 1 Comment »While I was quite satisfied with the conclusion of the fight between Arthur and Ash, I felt like the story lost a lot of forward momentum after that. As soon as the police got involved and had both Ash and Eiji back in custody, I just knew the book was going to slow down again. Granted, there’s still a lot of interesting stuff going on. The parts with Ash in the hospital alone are worth the price of admission, and I was quite drawn in by the uncertainty surrounding what would happen to him. But the parts that are most interesting to me are when Ash and Eiji are together and when Ash is free to do his scheming, and it looks like it’ll be another couple volumes before I get these elements back.
In fact, the situation Eiji finds himself in is quite bad. Ash’s situation is quite possibly worse, since… well, everyone will stop looking for him at the end of this volume, but I can trust Ash to free himself from almost anything. Eiji, on the other hand, is just lost to everybody, and there’s no telling what will happen to him.
On the plus side, I don’t think anyone save for Ash is in a truly life-threatening spot. While I do have confidence in Ash’s abilities to get himself away from… whoever has him at the moment (the government, maybe?), I have a feeling that Banana Fish will somehow be involved. Hopefully not directly.
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