This story starts in South Vietnam, 1973.
Griffin suddenly begins firing at his fellow GIs.
Max Lobo shoots him to stop him from firing.
Griffin is out of his mind and can only say "Banana Fish".
The story jumps to New York, in 1985.
Ash Lynx, a street kids leader, comes across a man who is shot and
dying.
The man hands Ash a locket and says "Los Angeles Westwood 42.......
See Banana Fish". Ash goes home and asks his elder brother Griffin,
who has become a human vegetable, what Banana Fish is.
Dino Gorzine, who is a homosexual Corsican Mafia boss and loves Ash,
is also interested in Banana Fish.
Eiji Okumura comes from Japan with Shun-ichi Ibe, a photographer.
They meet Ash to take street kids' photos.
Dino frames Ash and he is sent to a prison. Ash meets Max Lobo there.
While Ash is in prison, Griffin is killed by Dino's henchmen.
Later, Ash is released from prison and attempts to kill Dino
with the help of his friend Shorter, but they fail and escape.
Ash, Shorter, Max, Eiji and Ibe visits Los Angeles Westwood 42.
There they find Dr. Dawson's house. Dr. Dawson is out
and they only meet his adopted son Yousiss, a Chinese American.
Ash secretly accesses Dr. Dawson's computer to find out what Banana
Fish is.
Max receives a phone from his wife. She states their house was burgled.
Ash and Max leave Dr. Dawson's house and rush to Max's wife's aid.
Max's son says the burglars were Asians.
Yousiss actually is Li Yuelong, the youngest brother of a Chinese mafia
family.
He forcibly takes Eiji and Shorter to Gorzine's place.
Ash and Max visit Gorzine to save them.
Gorzine injects Banana Fish into Shorter and tells him to kill Eiji.
Ash shoots and kills Shorter.
Ash and Eiji go back to New York.
Ash accesses Gorzine's bank accounts using a computer and steals his
money.
That causes the Corsican foundation to lose money and Gorzine leaves
the U.S.
Ash decides to challenge Frederick Ausser, another gang leader. They
fight in the subway.
Ash wins but is seriously injured and is taken to hospital by the police.
The TV news states that he had been moved to the National Mental Health
Center
and died there. Eiji doesn't believe the news.
Ash meets Dr. Alexis Dawson in the National Mental Health Center
and escapes with him. Ash studies in the library and speculates that
Banana Fish is a drug synthecized from an Alkaroid plant.
Dino and Yuelong employ Blanca. He is the one who taught Ash fighting
techniques.
Dino and Yuelong threaten Ash and say that they will kill Eiji
unless Ash hands over Dr. Dawson and all the report about Banana Fish
to them.
Also, Ash must live with Gorzine and become his successor.
Ash feels that he has no option.
Eiji saves Ash from Gorzine's place with the help of Shin Su Lin,
a Chinese-American gang leader, and Cane, an African-American gang
leader.
Dino employs Colonel Fox (who used to be a member of the French Foreign
Legion)
to destroy Ash's gang and it's new associates.
Ash's gang forms alliances with Chinese and African-American groups
to fight against Gorzine and Yuelong. Yuelong wants to kill Eiji.
One of the Chinese members shoots Eiji and he is taken to hospital.
After seeing Eiji at the hospital, Ash fights against Yuelong and Gorzine
at the National Mental Health Center. Gorzine dies.
Eiji has to leave for Japan. Ash decides not to see him again.
However, when he reads Eiji's letter he starts running to the airport.
He is stabbed on his way to the airport....
