It was shocking last fall when we learned that the Banana Fish manga from Akimi Yoshida was getting an anime adaptation to celebrate Yoshida’s 40th- anniversary debut. The series is part of the noitaminA block on Fuji TV in July on Amazon Video worldwide where it’ll run for two-cour and will be updated to take place in the modern day as opposed to the 80’s of the original. The show has set Hiroko Utsumi to direct based on the series composition by Hiroshi Seko. Akemi Hayashi is on board with the character designs and MAPPA will be animating it.
The Japanese cast so far includes:
- Yūma Uchida as Ash Lynx
- Kenji Nojima as Eiji Okumura
- Unshō Ishizuka as Dino Golzine
- Hiroaki Hirata as Max Lobo
The work, which was released by Viz Media in North America, becgan in 1985 and ran for nineteen volumes through 1994 in Betsucomi.
Plot Concept: Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of “Papa” Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash’s older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa’s insatiably ambitious hands—and it’s exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx’s acquaintance…
【第1弾PV公開】【キャスト情報】アッシュ・リンクス:内田雄馬さん/奥村英二:野島健児さん/マックス・ロボ:平田広明さん/ディノ・ゴルツィネ:石塚運昇さんとなります!キャストの皆様からのコメントも到着!!詳細は公式HPへ!https://t.co/yhXuwKnVuV #BANANAFISH pic.twitter.com/nsR5HCwpkF
— TVアニメ「BANANA FISH」公式 (@bananafish_tv) February 22, 2018