A gripping tale set in Vice City, New York in the 1980s. Follow bisexual gang leader Ash Lynx as he embarks on a brutal battle with the mafia over a mysterious drug called "Banana Fish." Raised as a ruthless killer by a crime lord, Ash must navigate his loyalty to his adoptive father while also escaping the kingdom of power and riches that he holds. When a young Japanese photographer arrives in town, he unwittingly falls into the bloody whirlpool of pride, greed, lust, and wrath surrounding Banana Fish.

Banana Fish, Vol. 1

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... Epic in scope, and one of the best-selling shojo titles of all time in Japan, Akimi Yoshida put an electric shock into the genre and gained a huge crossover audience through Banana Fish's stripped-down, non-stop style.