The summer 2018 anime series Banana Fish is getting its home video releases handled by Aniplex Japan and they’ve set a solid schedule for it. With the first set out recently we’ve gotten an update from Aniplex Japan that gives us a look at the packaging spread as a whole. It definitely expands on the two pieces of artwork we had before and gives you a good sense of the quality of the set itself. The twenty-four episode series is getting released as four box sets beginning on October 24th, 2018. The DVD sets are priced at 14,000 yen each and the Blu-rays at 16,000 yen. Check the full schedule below!
The show has set Hiroko Utsumi to direct based on the series composition by Hiroshi Seko. Akemi Hayashi worked on the character designs and MAPPA animated it.
The Japanese cast includes Yūma Uchida as Ash Lynx, Kenji Nojima as Eiji Okumura, Unshō Ishizuka as Dino Golzine, Hiroaki Hirata as Max Lobo, Makoto Furukawa as Shorter Wong, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Frederick Arthur, Shinji Kawada as Shunichi Ibe, Jun Fukuyama as Jusis, and Toshiyuki Morikawa as Blanca.
The work, which was released by Viz Media in North America, began in 1985 and ran for nineteen volumes through 1994 in Betsucomi.
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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…
| Volume | Date | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10/14/18 | Booklet, Drama CD |
| 2 | 12/26/18 | Booklet, Bonus CD |
| 3 | 03/27/19 | Booklet, Bonus CD |
| 4 | 05/29/19 | Booklet, Bonus CD |
[Source: Banana Fish]
