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Banana Fish
Love is dangerous
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Yuma Uchida
Ash Lynx (voice)
24 eps
Kenji Nojima
Eiji Okumura (voice)
24 eps
Unsho Ishizuka
Dino Golzine (voice)
24 eps
Hiroaki Hirata
Max Lobo (voice)
24 eps
Jun Fukuyama
Yut-Lung Lee (voice)
24 eps
Yoshimasa Hosoya
Arthur Frederick (voice)
24 eps
Makoto Furukawa
Shorter Wong (voice)
24 eps
Soma Saito
Yuen-Tai Lao (voice)
24 eps
Shoya Chiba
Su Rin Sing (voice)
24 eps
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Blanca (voice)
24 eps
Yuki Ominami
Brandish (voice)
5 eps
Michiya Omata
Fellow (voice)
1 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Banana Fish actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Banana Fish reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Tension.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
A teenaged gang leader in New York City faces his abuser and rival gangs alongside a photojournalist from Japan as they investigate a deadly new drug.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S01E24
The Catcher in the Rye
- Directed by Kaori Makita, Daisuke Tokudo
- Written by Hiroshi Seko
S01E23
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Directed by Yui Umemoto
- Written by Hiroshi Seko
S01E22
As I Lay Dying
S01E21
The Undefeated
S01E19
Ice Palace
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Yuka OkayasuProducer
- Kyoko UryuProducer
- Nobumasa SawabeExecutive Producer
Writing
- Hiroshi SekoWriter
Direction
- Kaori MakitaDirector
- Yui UmemotoDirector
- Nobuyoshi AraiDirector
- Daisuke TokudoDirector
- Konosuke UdaDirector
- Yuki NishibataDirector
Cinematography
- Yusuke TannawaDirector of Photography
Music
- Shinichi OsawaOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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