I had to stop watching Banana Fish out of pure disgust after main plot points to like every episode were child porn, rape, child rape, and child prostitution encouraged by the father.
Nigger like what are you doing? Who writes that and who continues to watch it?
It's funny that even in the '80s, the mangaka didn't sugarcoat how gays reproduce by raping kids, and the adaptation, now taking place in 2018, didn't change that at all. As far as crime drama goes, I'm glad there's one that decided to go with the worst of the worst, but it relied
way too heavily on that for Ash's character. I mean yeah, part of his psychological problems is because he's a victim of child abuse, but there's way too many characters who like to mock him for it and that's what's the most baffling about it. It was
only at the end that Max stood up and burned the pictures and told Ash he can't be shackled to it forever and finally have a life, but the dude's kinda being an idealist about it.
The father being cartoonishly evil about disowning his abused son because "people talk" is just fucking hysterical, though. I could understand if Ash was willingly gay and if it still took place in the '80s, but that he was continuously rubbing the rape and abuse in Ash's face like everyone else in the crime world (including a fucking policeman who's the Don's mole, he was waving around the CP as an intimidation tactic in front of members of the goddamn press LMAO) is why fujos cry about how he's worse than Shou Tucker because "He's homophobic!" No, morons, he's a terrible father because he put a price tag on his son being raped by the evil gays. No wonder he disappeared from the narrative after the shoot-out lol.
I can't really recommend it to people despite the interesting premise of the mysterious "banana fish". Crime dramas are great and all, just be tasteful about the dark underbelly of the most depraved crimes against humanity and bring karmic punishment onto those characters who mock it (legit, don't think that detective I mentioned got punished for his smug "LOL you got raped" at all). Or just don't write cartoon villains in an otherwise down-to-earth setting and story.
