Over the weekend my daughter took me down a rabbit hole without realizing it. This anime was written in 1984 originally. Akimi Yoshida wrote back in 1986. I don’t know if she realized what she was showing but it’s a lot of truth about how things really work. Of course, you can watch Banana Fish on Prime (Amazon). Unfortunately, I couldn’t find it anywhere else. Plotline: The official plotline is about the relationship between Ash Lynx and Eiji Okumura. These boys are two years apart in age. Also, there was a drug the government developed and tested on soldiers during an operation in the Middle East. Ash's brother suspected the doctor performing the test and was going to expose him. Until Giffen, Ash's Brother paid the price for that decision. You couldn’t pick two kids of completely opposite personalities if you tried. Talk about polar opposites. Eiji is from Japan, a calmer and I would say saner society. They don’t resort to violence to solve problems as a first resort. Th...