Talk:Banana Fish

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The image resolution is very bad. Could someone upload a better version? 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 11:20, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

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Yaoi
Good afternoon. As far as I know, although the work has a definite yaoi-bait and an ambiguous image of the relationship between the two males, neither the work nor the author himself has ever given any assessment to this. Therefore, I wanted to ask, are we really able to add the yaoi tag here only based on several reviews? Perhaps it would be better to describe this in the reaction section of the critics? Solaire the knight (talk) 10:39, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
 * UPD. As I was told, neither the original shoujo magazine nor the American company not deals with BL works, which makes it even more confusing. Solaire the knight (talk) 10:48, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 July 2018
EditorWarrior (talk) 11:44, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Please change the genre "yaoi" into "shonen ai"
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. &#8209;&#8209; El Hef  ( Meep? ) 17:00, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 July 2018
Banana Fish should not have a yaoi tag. This series does not contain any of the standard BL qualities or traits aside from one kiss that was quite frankly plot related. This will cause many to over look this amazing series all because of a misplaced tag. GoddessKiya28 (talk) 13:24, 20 July 2018 (UTC) .
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Dolotta (talk) 19:55, 20 July 2018 (UTC)
 * "This may be confusing to some in that Banana Fish is considered influential on the Boy's Love genre and was praised by Fred Schodt for its positive depiction of gay relationships. There definitely is a relationship between Eiji and Ash, but it is essentially nonsexual, something like a platonic romance, soulmates, best friends. They spend part of the manga sleeping in a room with two single beds, side by side with a nightlamp between them. The sensuality in this manga is in Ash teaching Eiji how to shoot a gun, or Ash and Eiji's friendly, teasing, couple-like dialogue. They don't really talk About Love, or about being gay (though the manga is aware of the existence of homosexuality, and makes a brief reference to gay marriage). I won't spoil whether they kiss."
 * As it turned out, in fact, there is no need for "opposing" sources, because already mentioned sources obviously do not contain such tag, ANN directly writes that although this work is considered "influential" among gay-related manga, it doesn't depict the relationship between characters except as platonic, and the third source only once says that the manga is "close to yaoi" because of intimate relationships that "look like suppressed homosexuality". Thus, both sources mention that there is a certain content in the manga, but none of them defines it as yaoi, which makes the tagging an original research. Solaire the knight (talk) 08:21, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

about this
i think this anime is not gay so.. 212.15.85.162 (talk) 17:14, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Homosexuality and homoerotica
I have made some changes to the article after reading the relevant sections, as the phrase "homosexuality and homoerotica" seems somewhat tautological when even the thematic section describes it as a homoerotic relationship without a directly attested nature, which provokes discussion about its nature among critics. I also put in "according to Christie Parte" as her statement about the chastity and asexuality of shoujo manga seems rather odd to me, especially at a time when overly passionate or even taboo themes were quite common in girl manga. This manga is obviously homoerotic and the author has explicitly admitted to wanting to write it as something like a male Class S, so I'm not even trying to "dispute" the LGBTQ nature of this manga or anime. It's just that this wording has been an eyesore to me for a long time. Solaire the knight (talk) 13:58, 2 August 2023 (UTC)