[ SECRET POST #3420 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3420 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, people think Eiji and that guy at the end is a canon pairing?

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. There's literally one line of maybe slight subtext coming from Sing in the 10 year retrospective, which Eiji seems to gently turn down, whatever Sing meant by it, and that's it. I think it's more a case of people knowing it's a manga where there is Boy's Love, and so they're taking EVERYTHING as Boy's Love. I do think Sing possibly feels a conflicted mix of affection, guilt, remorse, and maybe he has a slight crush on Eiji, but reading "Garden of Light" makes it obvious that Eiji hasn't let go, and that he's not willing now, and maybe not ever again, to romantically open up to anyone.

[luxshine]

I was just going to say this. I mean, I do have the whole series, and at one point I downloaded that one future story Akemi did for I think was an artbook and it is pretty, pretty clear that Eiji NEVER let go of what happened in the series.

I'd actually pity any guy who ended up with Eiji as that shadow is never going to dissapear.

[(Anonymous)]

The future story can be found here under volume 19 (http://kissmanga.com/Manga/Banana-Fish/Vol-001-Part-001-Read-Online?id=173572) if you want to reread it. But yeah, reading "The Garden Of Light" just kind of proves that everyone is slowly moving on but Eiji. Sing and Akira eventually get together (which was sweet actually, I liked their interactions in TGOL), people are moving on...but for Eiji, Ash will never disappear. The part where he sees someone who looks like Ash from the back is proof enough of that. He's still seeing him wherever he goes, and even banishing his private photograph memories of Ash into an old shoebox hasn't made any difference at all.

To be honest I kind of feel like Eiji became...asexual in a way? Like...there's no doubt that what he felt for Ash was romantic and sexual and all that (lol, I do have to laugh when Sing is like "it's not like their relationship was sexual or anything", because a)why would he know if it was, Eiji has been bottling up his feelings and memories of Ash for seven years and hasn't talked about him, and b)literally half the photos Eiji has of Ash are suggestive of a physical intimacy that very much could have been sexual, including several photos that look like photos only a lover would take), but post-canon Eiji seems almost like he's uninterested entirely in romance and sex with either gender (that's the thing too, we don't even really know much about Eiji, was he gay, bi, or, and I think this is more likely, was Eiji just swept up in Ash, period?).

I think it's pretty obvious that Ash is never going to be far from Eiji's mind. Any person who tried to create romantic intimacy with him will be battling a ghost they can't win against. It's...very sad, and what a shitty ending in general (tbh the way Ash bit the dust is stupid as fuck and I don't buy that Ash would have just given up like that, it was entirely decided by River Phoenix dying and Yoshida deciding to make Ash die too at the last second to "honour" him, and I could swear I've read even Ms. Yoshida regrets going down that path), but if it had to end that way, it's also very realistic. Some people just never get over that.