Tune in as Pride Month keeps rolling down its path on the program! For this third episode of June, Clayton Jones II (Men Who Like Men Who Like Movies Podcast) is regaining his guest chair to unpack Banana Fish, the 2018 crime thriller anime series about a 17-year-old street gang leader and a 19-year-old photographer’s assistant who get drawn into a criminal conspiracy involving a dangerous drug. The deeply homoerotic bond between Ash and Eiji, the traumatic and tragic backstories that numerous characters have suffered from, and the surprising amount of tact that this anime uses to depict rape and pedophilia make up some of the topics for this episode. Directed by Hiroko Utsumi and adapted from the manga that’s written and illustrated by Akimi Yoshida, Banana Fish stars Yuma Uchida, Kenji Nojima, Hiroaki Hirata, Makoto Furukawa, Jun Fukuyama, Shoya Chiba, Shinji Kawada, Yoshimasa Hosoya, Unshō Ishizuka, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Kenyu Horiuchi, Yu Hayashi, Hidenari Ugaki, Kenta Miyake, Masato Niwa, Takehiro Sumi, Rica Fukami, Kazuhiro Fusegawa, Soma Saito, Ayumu Murase, Mitsuru Ogata, and Yōji Ueda. Spoilers start at 22:40 Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastr Here’s how you can learn more about Palestine and Israel Here’s how you can keep up-to-date on this genocide Here’s how you can send eSIM cards to Palestinians in order to help them stay connected online Good Word: • Clayton: Widow’s Bay and Apple TV+ in general • Arthur: What Keeps You Alive Reach out at email2centscritic@yahoo.com if you want to recommend things to watch and read, share anecdotes, or just say hello! Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes or any of your preferred podcasting platforms! Follow Arthur on Twitter, Goodpods, StoryGraph, Letterboxd, and TikTok: @arthur_ant18 Follow Arthur on Bluesky: @arthur-ant18 Follow the podcast on Twitter: @two_centscritic Follow the podcast on Instagram: @twocentscriticpod Follow Arthur on Goodreads Check out 2 Cents Critic Linktree
