About the ending of Banana Fish
As people may have known, Banana Fish got its name from a short story written by the author of "The catcher in the rye", J.D Salinger, which is called "A perfect day for Bananafish".
The story was a glimpse into a day on vacation of a young couple Muriel and Seymour Glass. While Muriel was on the phone talking to her mother, Seymour was having a conversation with a little girl named Sybil on the beach. Seymour told the little girl about "the very tragic life" of the banana fish: they were ordinary-looking fish before they swim into a hole, gorge themselves on bananas, became too fat to escape the hole, and died. Later, Seymour returned to the hotel room where Muriel was taking a nap, retrieved a gun from his luggage and took his own life.
The bananafish was an emblematic image of Seymour himself. Seymour was a veteran who fought in World War II, he was an ordinary citizen before he went out to the battlefield, had seen and suffered too much pain, became unable to escape the silhouette of the war, and consequently committed suicide. "A perfect day for bananafish" was his perfect day to die.
And for Yoshida Akimi's Banana Fish, Ash Lynx was a quite similar case. He was an ordinary, innocent kid before he went through tons of horrible things. All his life, he only knew to hate, to fight, to kill. All his pain, all his suffering was too much for a lifetime. Even when he won the fight, he was unable to escape the haunting ghost of his world. In the end, he did not seek for medical help, which was clearly available, because it was a perfect day for him, "a perfect day for bananafish", a day when he finally found peace.
"I've heard that there's a kind of bird without legs that can only fly and fly, and sleep in the wind when it is tired. The bird only lands once in its life... that's when it dies." [Days of being wild (1990) dir. Wong Kar Wai]
Ash Lynx was finally able to land, so that Aslan Jade Callenreese could fly forever.
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