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Does anyone else feel that dull ache and emptiness after finishing a heavy manga/anime?
SPOILER ALERT FOR BANANA FISH (I tried to not give spoilers as best I could and only talk about my feelings but you might still be spoiled if you haven’t watched/read it)
I just spent 3 days watching Banana Fish and reading what little I could of the manga including Garden of Light and Angel Eyes. And I did not take it well, I lost my appetite in those 3 days. After I finished BF, I just felt numb with this dull ache in my chest and a feeling of deep emptiness. So I slept to alleviate some of the pain but when I woke up, I cried so hard, harder than I’ve ever had in years. And the catharsis felt sooooo healing. I have a long way to go before I can look at that particular photo in Garden of Light without hurting but that’s okay. Crying until my eyes were completely swollen is my first step to healing.
(This next part is more spoiler-y but I still tried my best) I feel broken bc of everything that transpired in Banana Fish. I can understand why Ash did what he did in the end and it may have been the best choice for both Eiji and himself but that doesn’t make it hurt any less. Garden of Light gave me the closure that I needed but in a way, it was even more painful than the end of Banana Fish. I’m just so broken right now bc of everything Ash went thru. The world failed Ash so hard over and over again and he was so strong but so broken inside. If I had met him myself, I would have done anything to take away all of his pain and all of his demons. It still kills me that I can’t do anything for him. And I can’t let go of everything just yet but I’m on my way to healing.
The same dullness and numb my brain cells got!! When I finished Reading ( Blood Bank) by silb the heavy plot and the angst uwahhh!!!!! And the last open ending made me numb for next 3 days!!! I was crying river's I know that Eric didn't die but!!! The way shell and eric wants to live in that world wasn't possible and that ending made me feel wors...... 2 reply
ive only read the title so i got no idea what u wrote about bc im scared of the banana fish spoiler lmao. but if ur asking how to deal with the emptiness there isnt really any tbh, u just gotta wait and let time heal the wound. but to speed up the process just watch some fluffy (or very very lewd stuff -.,-) anime afterwards and itll feel better. t...... 1 reply
damn i thought i was the only one.. i watched Banana Fish last year and it broke me to every fuckin pieces.. until now im still thinking about Ash and Eiji everyday and im trying to move on and accept both of their fate but... its not that easy.
yeah Garden of Light gave us some sort of closure but it still hurts everything hurts... it made me re...... 2 reply
I believe that banana fish scarred me for life it’s had such an emotion I don’t think anybody could handle it if not crying for two whole weeks
And every time I listen to the ending red I still feel the pain of ash and the way eiji Felt after knowing that ash was no longer there
I couldn’t describe my pain to my friend because most likel...... 1 reply
BF SPOILERS!! istg banana fish haunts me. The ending hurts so bad BUT GARDEN OF LIGHT left me empty i cried really hard. And even tho the story hurts me so fucking bad i can't stop reading stuff related to it. BANAN FISH WILL FOLLOW ME TILL MY DEATH.
They could at least give ash an happyending after they let him go through HELL 1 reply
HUGE BF SPOILER! I get that feeling all the time, my stomach drops, and my whole body feels like its a mist like I could fly out fo my own body, but there's always a pain not a sharp one but a dull pain, unfulfilled in a type way. Omg, I was so sad about BF I've been listening to the ending song when ash gets stabbed banana fish liberty, but I've a...... 1 reply
i still remember so clearly. december 20th a cold thursday night. i braced myself for the last episode of banana fish. and when i saw it was +40 minutes long? i knew i was going to get fucked up. and i did. i cried so fucking much i didn’t even care that i had tears and snot dripping down on my face. honestly every episode of BF was like a punch ...... 2 reply
Dude, I didn't even touch a single episode of BF, never knew anything about it AT ALL, was kind of miffed at BF fans for comparing it to YoI (theyre hella different so I got really mad) so I didnt watch it but when I learned that it ended, I got curious why people are "crying" or "cant get over" and I told myself "oh ok, i'll watch just the last sc...... 1 reply
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when it comes to banana fish, there really is no easy way to get over it. i binged the whole thing in one day, and holyyyy was that a hard night. it's been over 4 months since i watched it, but i still cry rewatching the last episode every now and then. actually, when i first finished it, i genuinely thought he was just sleeping and tha...... 1 reply
SPOILER ALERT (Banana Fish) ️️️
To anyone who is dealing with grief over what happened in the last episode, I’d just like to tell you that in another one of Yoshida Akimi’s work entitled, “Lovers’ Kiss”, Ash and Eiji made a cameo not as their characters in Banana Fish but as different people living a completely different life. I ho...... reply
