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Akimi Yoshida Signatures (70s- Early 80s ish) + Bobby’s Girl anime illustration book

The autographs where found on mandarake and seller did not put dates.

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Akimi Yoshida Misc (California Story, Bobby’s Girl, Banana Fish other clippings etc)

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Akimi Yoshida’s June novel illustrations The End of the World/Endless Love Song

(Disclaimer these are NOT ash, eiji or sing works. Her artwork just suffers from same face syndrome lmfao.)

To my knowledge that I remember she did these illustrations for her friends novels and the artwork was also posted in June (BL) magazines.

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New York on Digicam (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx) 🗽

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Banana Fish Shojo Magazine Clippings

going to ny today again lel

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Crooklyn

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The Devil and the Princess (Akuma to Himegimi)

One of Yoshida’s first depictions of the California Story characters and with a manga of the same name. The anime was released in 1981 in theater and eventually aired on TV. As far as I know and from some others that searched for it, it’s lost media so if anyone has any information that’d be great lol

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Akimi Yoshida “Bobby’s Girl” 1985 anime internet archive 

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Banana Fish Cassette Tape Covers + magazine and poster

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Banana Fish + Yasha Misc (articles,posters, 90s doujin, other yoshida illustrations)

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Banana Fish Early Concept Designs + Subway Graffiti

Usually don’t post anime content but it’s such a loss they changed their 80s influenced designs looks better lol Blanca also had an early concept but it barely looks any different from the one they chose.

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Banana Fish Real Clothing References

And of course chuck taylor

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Banana Fish Dolls 2020 (80s Designs)

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Not sure if this was asked already but where have you gotten all the Banana Fish articles, scans photos etc? What app/website if you don’t mind me asking!

Thank you for all the scans provided so far :)

Hey! I’m a big collector it’s my hobby so I pour a lot of money into it especially because it’s old series. So most of the book scans are mine but when I post miscellaneous merchandise how I find it is a lot of keyword searching in Japanese on proxy sites (can be any one you get the same results) Twitter, Pinterest (usually won’t find anything you’ve already seen) and Google by tapping around usually I find stuff buried in the recommended images. Also, by reaching out to JPN fans and translators helps too lucky for us the series/fandom is so old we’ve got some serious veterans who’ve been around since the 80s.

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COMC BOX Banana Fish 1990 Full Scans

Won in an auction. Item I was looking out for, for awhile. I still have 3 other Yoshida books to scan.

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Banana Fish Poster 1986 (?)

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bitchin’ camaro 1985

from the 1985 punk album respectively