Hey! I’m looking for the Akimi Yoshida interview where she says that Ash and Eiji would possibly go on to have a sexual relationship if he had lived. Do you know where I could find it? Thank you if you do, but if you dont that okay too
hi! uh... i've never read such an interview nor have i heard of it before... as far as i can remember anyway................?
do let me know if you ever find something like that though, i'd love to read it myself haha.
that said, there is one interview coming to mind that sounds like it could be a distorted version of what you're describing? is it possibly the oft-quoted interview with fujimoto yukari, aka where the infamous "ash is a unicorn" quote came from?
there was an exchange in there that went something like this:
(discussion about some of her older works with m/m relationships)
fujimoto: but it never gets sexual, does it.
yoshida: i mean, that's because it never got sexual in midnight cowboy. that's why my stories never get to that point either. it's always like, "we could have had sex, but it just so happened that there wasn't any reason to, so we didn’t" (laughs). that's how it usually ends up, doesn’t it? but in my current series, yasha, rin and takeru have a sexual relationship. this is kind of the first time i've drawn a relationship like this, one that involves sex.
it wasn't specific to banana fish though. no explicit mentions of ash/eiji, just in general. not sure if that's what you're looking for?
also i have no idea if someone has done an english translation of that interview, sorry. i did do something like a summary of the banana fish-related parts here, but it’s not a complete translation of course. if you want the interview in japanese, i can send you some low quality photos taken with my phone lol. feel free to slide in my DMs.