![]() Hayashi noted there weren’t many opportunities in anime to draw a good looking boy and an old man. Another favorite they all agreed on was the first time Ash meets Papadino in the series. However, they knew they had to give this one their all because it was pivotal to the plot and the show’s emotional punch. It wasn’t fun for any of them to draw because they were all so attached to their unique version of the character. One that they all cited was Shorter’s death. Again, extreme spoiler territory from here on. The staff talked about some of their favorite scenes in Banana Fish. Later in the talk, she admitted that the hot-headed purple mohawk clad Shorter was the easiest for her to animate while Ash was the most difficult. Ash, the other protagonist of the series, has never lived in Japan and so he struggles. She also stressed the importance of animating small details for instance, Eiji is a Japanese person so he can hold and use his chopsticks perfect. She noted Eiji’s fashion, one of the two main characters in the story, was a little off on purpose since it added to the charm.Īyumi Yamada, a supervising animation director, talked about what it was animating those said designs for Banana Fish. When she does faces, she tries to eliminate as much movement in the bridge of someone’s nose as possible because it can look awkward. They wanted the character to have a more masculine facial structure and gave him abs so he’d be better looking than he used to be. Hayashi then talked about the drastic changes to the character Shorter who was bald in the original, and in 2018’s Banana Fish, has a purple mohawk. ![]() They gave characters fluffier, more realistic looking hair because it fit the style and made the animation look better. The character designer Akemi Hayashi, an industry veteran of many years, then detailed how she updated the character designs for the anime. She said they specifically used Nom Wah Tea Parlor in Manhattan’s Chinatown as the basis for the fictional Chang Dani restaurant. Some of the buildings and scenery that were present in the original manga were no longer present, so it was important for Utsumi to have the anime portray a realistic New York City. She and her team scouted dark alleys to use for gang violence and snuck around a lot of open spaces. The director Hiroko Utsumi, who also directed the first two seasons of Free!, talked a little about her adventure to New York City. The first thing the team covered at the panel was background modification. ![]() A lot has changed in New York City since then, and the animation team at MAPPA were determined to modernize the story for today’s audience. Banana Fish started serialization in 1985 and finished up in 1994.
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