Thank you for your wonderful answer on my ask.....Do you mind if I ask (again) for your favorite moments from Banana Fish...?
HELL YEAH!!!! i was actually thinking about this on and off all day SKDFJHSJDK so lets see!!!! this will be a kinda long post because i HAVE to include caps this time around.
1. "do i scare you?" / "never."
(not pictured: me, screaming endlessly)
this scene has had me by the ass since 2018 and is not letting go anytime soon. i am a SUCKER for "character constantly dehumanized gets seen as a whole person for the first time in ages" and ash seeing himself as a weapon and a murderer but eiji seeing him as a protector and as safety.... AUGUGUGHHGH. it GETS ME okay?!?!?!
[at full volume] i'm always a slut for hurt/comfort!
no but honestly one thing i always want in stories with a lot of action and such are the softer, quieter moments where the characters actually process and FEEL things. and by GOD did this scene deliver.
being stupid together is a love language. need i say more
4. soup scene soup scene soup scene
have i yet mentioned that i am, in fact, always a slut for hurt/comfort?
frankly i am of the firm opinion that pain and suffering in stories are most worthwhile when paired with some sort of catharsis. if there was no focus on the impact, the comfort, the fallout, and the healing, i would call ep19 just grimdark and edgy. soup scene is what makes that entire arc actually make me Feel Things instead of just rolling my eyes at gratuitous tortureporn. ALSO, i love hurt/comfort. in case that i hadn't mentioned that yet.
5. "i envy you. you know how to fly."
okay okay okay okay THIS SCENE THOUGH. THE BIRD METAPHORS. GOD. i have a LOT of thoughts and feelings about the eiji bird metaphors and also the fact that eiji cries for ash here. there is SO MUCH LOVE stored in the eiji. and ash sees himself as being in a cage and eiji as someone who can escape the world he sees himself as trapped in. and that makes me feel many things. GOD. this scene is also iirc the first place that "blue bird" plays and that track also just... gets me.
THANKS FOR THE ASK ILY this was once again very fun to answer!!!