The word 'anime' (アニメ) is a Japanese shortening of the English word 'animation' — a gairaigo, or foreign loanword.
The word 'anime' (アニメ) is a Japanese shortening of the English word 'animation' — a gairaigo, or foreign loanword.
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 Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands—and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance… (Source: Viz Media) *Note: Vol 19 includes the oneshots "Angel Eyes" and "Garden of Light", later reprinted in [Banana Fish another story](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=33581770674).* --- **Original Japanese:** [Comico](https://www.comico.jp/magazine_comic/129305), [Flower Comics](https://flowercomics.jp/title/1310), [Piccoma](https://piccoma.com/web/product/7286?etype=volume), [Shogakukan](https://csbs.shogakukan.co.jp/book?comic_id=2497) **Official Translations:** [English](https://www.viz.com/manga-books/banana-fish/section/119501/more), Korean ([Kakao Page](https://page.kakao.com/content/54089481), [Manyeo Comics](https://www.mcomics.co.kr/cartoon/10880), [MrBlue](https://www.mrblue.com/comic/dcwcm_0987), [Naver Series](https://series.naver.com/comic/detail.series?productNo=4648607), [RIDI](https://ridibooks.com/books/1019030550))
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