When Manga Writers take REAL LIFE INSPIRATIONS for their stories!

[AishaAriwijaya-rj]

The fact that the characters in Banana Fish are based on real actors surprises me. Of course, Manga Artists take inspiration from real life, but making characters based on real actors is surprising

[nataliebateman]

As much as the ending to Banana Fish destroyed and crushed my soul, I am glad she stuck to her original vision. Downer endings can work when done right, and Banana Fish's ending was done right. Even though to this day it still tears my soul into tiny little pieces T^T

[LizzieShiro]

Honestly it makes sense why Takahashi loved the English dub of Seto so much. He was probably more accurate to his friend.

[ogeid]

Funnily enough, the yugioh trading card game would eventually reach the "goal" of having over 10 thousand cards

[gHst_artist]

It's been 4 years and im still not over banana fish. Watching it was the best and worst decision of my life.

[Nullis_Vd]

Guess Rohan kishiba was right realism is the best tool of a manga artist

[ZephyCluster]

RIP Takahashi-san. Went out like a hero o7

[junnaredd]

Banana Fish brings back memories when I first ventured into BL in 2000s. A lot of early BL mangas(80s to 2000s) had similar tragic end.

[bluee]

bungo stray dogs characters are almost entirely based off of authors, like jjba with music

[Jackal_LanternX]

Honestly, thank you so much for putting spoiler warnings in your videos. The amount of times i have gotten things from my favourite shows completely spoiled for me because some content creators couldn’t be bothered to give a simple heads up is ridiculous, and i’m so grateful that you give us a warning and time to scroll away

[SaffySia]

I’m still so mad at my friend for spoiling it when I told her I wanted to watch banana fish 😭

[kquinnvandevelde]

Really need to finish banana fish. I never finished it not because I didn't enjoy it, but because it got too stressful to read. Like, my heart rate would spike to levels that made my fitbit think I was working out levels of stress 😬😂

[platypusfox]

In his first appearance in the Manga Kaiba even says the same line to Joey about collecting 10'000 cards as reference to this inspiration.

[Hopey_happy_homo]

ASH IS ALIVE *i scream as they drag me into the mental asylum*

[superben]

Holy shit, Kaiba’s a Magic The Gathering player.

[bastionsea]

I think Oda has stated his creating characters after notable people, the admirals most notably, though I'm pretty sure there's some others as well

[caitlinpowell]

Banana fish is immaculate and so good. Yet another masterpiece made by a woman Mangaka

[WillowTreeMeadows]

Ash dying had me completely floored and crying under my covers for three months

[dagmarabiernat]

Ah, added the spoiler alert XD Fair
Also designing characters based on actors for a movie is a really, really cool concept

[poppinpineapples]

I appreciate the spoiler warning, I’m in the middle of the anime rn and you gave me enough time to pause, god bless 🙏