bananafishlovers:

So I bet new Banana Fish fans have a lot of questions about this ,so let me explain. 

So Akimi Yoshida use actors as a inspiration/reference for some of her characters in Banana Fish back in the 80s, these are the ones we know of from the list above 

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  1. River Phoenix – Ash Lynx
  2. Hironobu Nomura – Eiji Okumura 
  3. Harrison Ford – Max Lobo 
  4. Hirata Mitsuru (Japanese actor)  – Shunichi Ibe 
  5. William Katt (American actor) – Charlie 
  6. Danny DeVito – Jenkins 
  7. Telly Savalas ( American singer and character actor ) – Dino Golzine 
  8. SunPlaza Nakano-kun (Japanese musician and writer) – Shorter Wong
  9. Sting – Frederick Arthur 

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