Anime Series Like Banana Fish

During the Vietnam War, a soldier named Griff goes insane and starts killing his own platoon. After being subdued, all he kept speaking was the words “banana fish”. Years later, Griff is taken care of by his brother Ash, a boy who ran away from home and was taken in by mob boss Papa Dino. Ash was groomed as both heir to the Mafia family and sex slave to Papa Dino. Now he seeks to unravel the mystery between this banana fish, a phrase that keeps mysteriously popping up in his life.

Though based on a shoujo manga, Banana Fish the manga and the anime are the manliest series you’ll run across. Combining mob politics and deep conspiracy, it is a non-stop anime of action and intensity. If you are looking for similar series, then look no further.




For Fans of Foreign Crime



91 Days

Set during Prohibition, a man named Avilio returns to Lawless, a town famed for brewing illegal liquor, after the murder of his family by the mafia. A mysterious letter prompted him to return and infiltrate the Vanetti family to get his revenge. This anime tells the story of 91 days leading to the tragic end between Avilio and Nero Vanetti, the Don’s son.

If you enjoyed Banana Fish because of its American-style Mafia themes, then there is more of that to be enjoyed in Banana Fish. However, 91 Days is a straight-forward revenge story. Banana Fish is also about revenge against the Mafia, but it has many more elements to it.



Black Lagoon

Average business man Rokurou Okajima found his life turned upside down when he was captured and held hostage by a mercenary group in Thailand called Black Lagoon. In order to survive, he ends up joining the mercenaries. Now he must adapt to the lifestyle, or die.

Most notably, you will see plots in both shows that feature an average Japanese guy ending up with a bunch of foreign criminals aboard. However, that is not the only similarity that Black Lagoon has to Banana Fish. As a show about mercenaries, you will find a lot of the same politics and criminal elements within as well.



Gangsta

Nicholas Brown and Worick Arcangelo work as handymen, mercenaries that will do anything for the right price. Working for the mob and police alike, they delve into the underbelly of the city, a place that was once haven for Twilights, people who were augmented by a special drug.

Drugs, crime, violence, sex – that’s the criminal underworld for you. It also happens to be the keywords of both Gangsta and Banana Fish. In both shows you have battered criminals, each with their own problems, and seem to just struggle in order to live.

For Fans of Conspiracy



Monster

Dr Kenzou Tenma has the perfect life as one of the world’s most renowned brain surgeons. However, one night he is presented with a doctor’s most painful choice – to save an injured child or the mayor, both mortally wounded. Against his colleague’s advice, he saves the kid. However, when a series of crimes start happening around him, all evidence points to the child he saved.

Banana Fish starts off seemingly small, not unlike Monster. However, both of these shows and the mystery they want to show you solved grows into expansively huge conspiracies full of death, destruction, and ruined lives. If Banana Fish caught you with the mystery, you will be endlessly pleased by following it up with Monster.



Terror of Resonance

After a terrorist attack on a Japanese nuclear facility, the country was paralyzed to act. After six months of searching for the perpetrators, the public is shown a video tape of two boys known as Sphinx that take credit for the attack. Threatening more mayhem, it is up to the police to catch these terrorists.

Banana Fish and Terror in Resonance are great shows to explore what happens when children grow up in problematic environments. While they both have that criminal element as well as mystery, they are of different genres and thus explore different themes.



Ergo Proxy

The domed city of Romdo is the last bastion of civilization, Inside, humans are assisted by AutoReiv androids in their daily life. However, when the AutoReivs start going haywire, Re-l is sent to investigate. Elsewhere, an immigrant called Vincent Law is blamed for the virus causing the AutoReivs to go haywire. Through circumstance, the pair of forced together and strike out into the wasteland looking for answers.

Banana Fish and Ergo Proxy both start off with a mystery. In both shows, you are led to believe certain things and then they are unraveled almost painfully slow to show something completely unexpected. Both shows are excellent trips down the rabbit hole despite being of completely different genres.

For Fans of Well-Built Relationships



Neon Genesis Evangelion

The world is on the brink of destruction following the landing of the Angels, massive monsters that want nothing more than to kill and destroy. The only hope lies with the select few that can pilot government agency Nerv’s special Evangelion-type mechs. The pilot must be compatible in order to pilot the Evangelions, and for Nerv leader, Gendo Ikari, one of those compatible few is his son, Shinji. With the fate of mankind on his shoulders and fights that often mean death for the pilots, is 14-year-old Shinji up to the task?

For all its flaws, NGE does relationships pretty well. Banana Fish has a touch more subtly in the relationships of its character, but both shows have an intense and interesting plot while still not forgetting to show you how and why those characters interact with each other.



Yuri on Ice

After a crushing defeat at the Grand Prix finale, Yuuri Katsuki returns home no longer as Japan’s most promising figure skater. With his window for skating success closing, he assesses his options. After a video of Yuuri doing a performing a routine by five-time world champion Victor Nikiforov goes viral, he suddenly finds the champion on his doorstep, offering to be Yuuri’s mentor.

Both shows, while having different plots, have the same way of developing their relationships. It starts at first with a non-romantic plot and then in both shows you start to have a bit of curiosity if something is there or not. Whether the shows realize it or not, that is up to you to find out.



Nana

This is the story of two girls, both of which are named Nana. Nana Komatsu is a naive girl addicted to love who is moving to Tokyo to chase after her boyfriend going to school there. Nana Osaki is a proud punk rocker that is moving to Tokyo to become a rock star. By chance they meet on the train. By even bigger chance they end up wanting to rent the same apartment only to decide to rent it together.

While Banana Fish is built around unraveling a great mystery and occasionally vengeance, Nana is built purely around relationships, and that is what they have in common. The relationships develop and deepened naturally. Furthermore, Nana and Banana Fish both share undertones of same-sex romance between the characters.

Do you have any more anime recommendations like Banana Fish? Let fans know in the comments section below.


Vistas 2202
Compartilhar
Comente
Emoji
😀 😁 😂 😄 😆 😉 😊 😋 😎 😍 😘 🙂 😐 😏 😣 😯 😪 😫 😌 😜 😒 😔 😖 😤 😭 😱 😳 😵 😠 🤔 🤐 😴 😔 🤑 🤗 👻 💩 🙈 🙉 🙊 💪 👈 👉 👆 👇 🖐 👌 👏 🙏 🤝 👂 👃 👀 👅 👄 💋 💘 💖 💗 💔 💤 💢
Você pode gostar