[ SECRET POST #3252 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3252 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 047 secrets from Secret Submission Post #465.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 2 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

different anon

SPOILERS

WHAAAAAAAAAT? I had no idea this is why Ash got killed. When I first read the series, I thought that Ash getting stabbed outside a public library was sort of anticlimactic (and not in the good way?) with all the constant awareness of his surroundings and all the death escaping he had done.

I think I first read BF back in one of the American manga magazines (Animerica Extra?) and liked it enough that I started buying it. It's one of the few series I went to the effort of collecting the released English versions of (liked it enough, plus good translation, and art unflipped) and I'm so glad I have all of it now that it's out of print.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Yep. It's pretty well known in the more hardcore BF fandom that this is the reason. The mangaka was a huge fan of River Phoenix and had even joked that he would be the perfect actor to play him in a movie if one were to ever be made. When River died the mangaka kind of....went off the deep end and tied to the two together symbolically that way. That's why the ending reads so damn, as you put it, "anticlimactic". It reads like an OOC fantasy because that's basically what it is, Ash giving up all form of street smarts just long enough to get shanked and then do precisely nothing about it except write a letter and torture Eiji with his ghostly presence forever more.

I actually started reading it on a whim. Way back when I started collecting manga and anime one of the only suppliers in the West we had was this small, bimonthly zine that would come with pictures and a short description of each manga or anime (2 episodes for $29.99, 1 manga volume for $15.99-20.99), and you had to order out of that. My only two enduring loves from that period are Banana Fish and Kyuuketsuki Hime Miyu, which came out at the tail end of the zine's run and still hasn't been fully translated into English because the company doing it (IronCat) went under.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Well, that just makes it absurdly easy to ignore the ending then, lol. I'm gonna play the 'ignoring canon' card HARD, since it seems to be a case of the story suffering due to outside influences.