#garden of light

[summmernostalgia]

I know Titanic is sad, but did you know that in Japan cutting your hair means moving on from the past? Tradition that comes from Edo period, as Samurai would chop their chonmage when they stepped away from their title, starting a new life. So Eiji's very 90s-grungy hairstyle was a symbolic resource to show his complicated grief from Ash.

-orignal text by avatarparallels-

[lets-go-banana-fishing]

If I had a nickel for every time a guy is shown to move on from his deceased lover by displaying their photos that he refused to acknowledge, I'd have two nickels

Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

[sadiahakim]

The word "failure" should be legitimately banished either it is dealt as the first step of success or whatsoever, or the dictionaries should redefine it- the least.

Sadia Hakim

[bananafishmanga]

[lucys-pastry-shoppe]

people make fun of the shirts worn by characters from the Banana Fish manga.

what?

didn't you know this is cutting edge fashion?

[aslan-jade-okumura]

i saw you in a dream by The Japanese House

[amesakigami]

My little "What if" where the queen didn't return at the end of max heart (because Hikari is her total reincarnation who is alive and happy on Earth here) and that's why Porun is crowned king of the garden of light. Lulun's crystal became the scepter of porun (which took on a new form similar to the "heart" that the queen held before and Lulun got a formal dress because she deserves it too).

[jliciousart]

「dear ash, さよなら」

I won’t say goodbye (I will continue loving you) my soul is always with you (even when dawn breaks)

[indianabananabanango]

Just finished Garden of Light, and this is me now

[manlover2]

[http-eiji]

Hello good day. Can i ask where to read manga of banana fish. Is their posibility have season 2. Its so painful watching this i cant accept ash died he deserve to be happy with eiji. In manga have a garden of light there. Why not in anime dont have episodethank you..

I've not read the manga in a very long time so I'm not sure where to read it online.

So let's talk about why Banana Fish is never getting a season 2 and why they didn't animate the epilogue chapter.

Banana Fish won't be getting a season 2 because the manga is over and they adapted (nearly) everything. The closest we could get is if a studio ever adapted Yasha. Yasha is another manga by Akimi Yoshida following an entirely different set of characters years after the events of Banana Fish. Sing is featured, Yut-Lung is mentioned and Ash gets hinted at.

If you want more Banana Fish content, there's plenty of side content. There's Private Opinion, Angel Eyes, and Fly Boy in The Sky, which are all set prior to the events of Banana Fish. There's also New York Sense which is an album/art book of all the pictures Eiji took during and after Banana Fish (even spanning after the epilogue chapter, Garden of Light).

Garden of Light was published in the final volume of Banana Fish. It's set 7 years after Banana Fish and follows Akira, Ibe's niece, who comes to stay with Eiji in his home in New York as he's preparing to launch his photo exhibition.

Originally, many in the fandom thought we'd get a GOL OVA. This never happened and, now 4 years on, almost definitely never will.

IIf I had to guess why GOL never got animated, I'd say it was because of:

1) Time constraints

It's impressive that MAPPA managed to adapt a 19-volume manga into a 24-episode show. They were already having to cut and rush through things.

2) Wanting to keep the ending open to interpretation

The anime clearly wanted to keep the ending more "open." Whilst many will say that Ash dying is obvious in the anime too, it technically was never confirmed in the anime. After every episode aired, there was a little relationship chart showing who was alive, who was dead, and what everyone's connections to each other were. After episode 24 aired, the relationship chart changed several times. This wasn't usual. Normally, a new, updated chart would be released, and that was that. This chart originally showed Ash as dead, but later it showed that maybe he was alive. 

(You can read the relationship chart here and all the changes made over the course of several hours after the final episode aired.)

Why would the anime do this? 

It could be for marketing reasons. For example, after the show aired, people would look at newly released official art and speculate if it showed a post-canon Ash and Eiji together. It could be that someone on the team wanted to change the ending but couldn't because they weren't allowed to. They may have thought it would be better because this is such an old manga and it had never had an anime adaptation before then. So it wasn't important to do the story justice. 

I really don't know the real reason, so this is purely speculation.

[shes-my-kind-of-boy]

Ugh I hate this. I just heard the phrase “garden of light” (unrelated) and I immediately started crying right in the middle of my day godammit you can leave banana fish but banana fish never ever really leaves you bruh

[incarn]

Where is your sense of being?

[olivinecabocone14]

This wasn’t a good idea...I fell and now I can’t really move. At least no one’s in the garden of light at the time otherwise this would be even more embarrassing. All I know and really remember is that she loves this place however, so my plan here is to just wait and hide behind a tree. If I can get up that is...I’m even more sore now and maybe even paralyzed. 

[bananafishmanga]

[bebs-art-gallery]

The Knight of the Flowers (1894)

— by Georges Rochegrosse