The new dubs will be available in select regions across the world.
Netflix is bringing back the acclaimed 2018 anime “Banana Fish”! The anime will begin streaming on Netflix in select regions (USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, France) on 12 August, 2026. Moreover, brand new and exclusive English and French dubs with an amazing cast have also been announced.
Banana Fish
Release year: 2018
Animation studio: MAPPA
Streaming service: Netflix (in select regions)
Who are the cast of the Banana Fish new English and French dubs?
The two main cast members of both the exclusive English and French dubs have been released. This includes:
English dub:
- Brandon McInnis as Ash Lynx
- Jonathan Tanigaki as Eiji Okumura
French dub:
- Sébastien Baulain as Ash Lynx
- Grégory Laisné as Eiji Okumura
The anime will be available on Netflix in the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and France. Netflix is yet to reveal any plans about global streaming.
What is Banana Fish about?
Banana Fish is a manga series written and illustrated by Akimi Yoshida, which was serialised from May 1985 to April 1994 in Shogakukan’s Bessatsu Shōjo Comic magazine. It received a critically acclaimed anime adaptation by MAPPA in 2018.
Hiroko Utsumi directed the anime at MAPPA, with Hiroshi Seko writing the series scripts. Akemi Hayashi designed the characters while Shinichi Osawa composed the music. Akitsugu Hisagi was the show's hard-boiled supervisor.
Viz Media published the original Banana Fish manga in English and describes the story as:
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 shōjo 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.