'BANANA FISH' NHK Youth Drama Series

Banana Fish is a classic shoujo manga series by Yoshida Akimi which spanned nineteen volumes and several spinoffs, running from 1985 to 1994 in Flower Comics. In 1996, a radio drama was featured on NHK FM and subsequently collected onto three CDs.

"Dance, peons!"
CAST
Ash Lynx...Furusawa Tohru
Okumura Eiji...Inoue Kazuhiko
Yau-Si...Daiki Yuu
Akira Ibe...Ikeda Narushi
Max Lobo...Namase Katsuhisa
Frederick Arthur...Takeoka Junichi
Dino Golzine...Kawakubo Kiyoshi
Sing Soo-Ling...Azumi Reika

These drama CDs contain explicit SPOILERS for the entire manga series.

As these CDs are not easily available to many overseas fans of the manga, I've provided, ah...MP3 samples of the tracks from the first two CDs here via the MegaUpload. How to use MegaUpload: simply wait forty-five seconds and click on the 'download' link in the upper right-hand corner. These links are tentatively stable.

'BANANA FISH' Part One
This CD is the equivalent of volumes one through six.
Disk One
Track 01 - Bronx Incident
Track 02 - Ash and Eiji
Track 03 - Ash in Prison
Track 04 - A Man Called "Shorter"
Track 05 - Ash's Revenge

Disk Two
Track 01 - Homecoming
Track 02 - Moon Dragon
Track 03 - The Drug 'Banana Fish'
Track 04 - Shorter's Death
Way to go, title!
Track 05 - The Mansion Destroyed by Fire - Golzine
In which things come to a close and Ash's seiyuu hits vocal registers previously unknown to man.
 Track 06 - I Have No Words [Ending Theme]


'BANANA FISH' Part Two
This CD is the equivalent of volumes seven
through thirteen.
Disk One
Track 01 - Arthur's Chance
Track 02 - Ash Strikes
Yau-Si either got a new VA - or a
testosterone injection.
Track 03 - Duel in the Subway
Track 04 - Victory Full of Cracks
Track 05 - National Mental Health Center

Disk Two
Track 01 - Human Body Experiment
Track 02 - Wildcat's Escape
Track 03 - Golzine and Yau-Si
Track 04 - Blanka
Track 05 - Ash and Blanka
"Even though it came to this...I'm praying for your good fortune."
Track 06 - I Have No Words [Ending Theme]


12/07/05 - the links are currently down.
Re-uploads, and the last CD will be posted in a couple of weeks.

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Disclaimer and notice: Banana Fish is the property of Yoshida Akimi, Flower Comics, Viz, LLC and Shogakukan. The Banana Fish radio drama CDs are the property of NHK. I mean no disrespect by uploading them and am certainly not making any money off of this. This page is link-free, and anyone is welcome to upload the mp3s to their own website as long as you don't claim source. Yes, they ARE the full tracks. Shh. ;D Thanks to Freewebz for the free hosting. Thanks to Jesus for the MegaUpload hookup. He's not really Jesus. I think.