Banana Fish, Vol. 17

Akimi Yoshida, Akimi Yoshida

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Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
12 December 2006

Graphic novels: Manga; Manga

Series: Banana Fish

Nature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer!

VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s...

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... Epic in scope, and one of the best-selling shojo titles of all time in Japan, Akimi Yoshida put an electric shock into the genre and gained a huge crossover audience through Banana Fish's stripped-down, non-stop style.

Ash is held captive and interrogated by the brutal Colonel Foxx who does everything in his power to get information on Golzine's ""ace in the hole"" against the U.S. government. But a caged animal can be held only so long before it bites back. Chaos erupts and Eiji's life hangs in the balance while Ash's key players are captured and brought to Mannerheim's dreaded complex.

By: Akimi Yoshida, Akimi Yoshida
Imprint: Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Shojo ed.
Volume: 17
Dimensions: Height: 191mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 175g
ISBN: 9781421505275
ISBN 10: 1421505274
Series: Banana Fish
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 12 December 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Akimi Yoshida made her manga debut in 1977 with the college manga story her college story, A SLIGHTLY STRANGE NEIGHBOR. Her immensely popular series BANANA FISH, her longest work to date, ran from 1985 to 1994 and made her a superstar in the shojo manga world, injecting a new realism and narrative energy into the genre and attracting a large male crossover readership. Yoshida was honored twice with the top annual prize for excellence in shojo from Japanese publishing giant, Shogakukan.