Banana Fish, Vol. 5 (5)

Nature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer!VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s...Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of Papa Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ashs older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papas insatiably ambitious hands--and its exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynxs acquaintance... Epic in scope, and one of the best-selling shojo titles of all time in Japan, Akimi Yoshida put an electric shock into the genre and gained a huge crossover audience through Banana Fishs stripped-down, non-stop style.In search of more information about the substance, Ash flees to Los Angeles with a band of allies, where he clashes with Yau-Si, an alluring and duplicitous young assassin. Drawn in by Yau-Si, one of Ashs so-called allies betrays him to the Chinese mafia. Once again Ash is handed over to the rapacious Dino Golzine, who will do anything to cash in on Banana Fish!