Banana Fish manga volume 6 features story and art by Akimi Yoshida.

Eiji Okamura, a young photographer from Japan, has made Ash's acquaintance; just in time to fall with him into this bloody whirlpool. Now the Chinese Lee syndicate has delivered Ash, Max Lobo, Ibé and Dr. Alexis Dawson to Papa Dino. Banana Fish has been used to brainwash Shorter Wong and manipulate him into mutilating Eiji right before Ash's very eyes!

Banana Fish manga volume 7 features story and art by Akimi Yoshida.

The smell of gunsmoke still clings to Eiji and Ash from their violent breakout of Papa Dino's compound in New Jersey. Ash arranges for a shipment of small arms, even while hacking into Dino's money-laundering network to enrich himself and make Dino appear to be embezzling from his partners in crime!

Can Ash and Eiji ever be anything more than comrades-in-arms, or are they lost somewhere among the schemes for power surrounding the frightful mind-control drug code-named "Banana Fish"?

Banana Fish manga volume 8 features story and art by Akimi Yoshida.

Ash squares off with Arthur in a final showdown, but can Arthur be trusted to stick to the rules that he has set up? This showdown has Ash and Arthur surf a sea of blood through the bowels of the New York subway system.

Banana Fish manga volume 9 features story and art by Akimi Yoshida.

The epic battle between Ash and Arthur reaches its gruesome conclusion. Ash is left hospitalized, but not out of reach from the sinister hands of Papa Dino. Unbeknownst to Ash's crew, Dino has arranged Ash's transfer to a medical facility with a very special purpose in mind. Yut-Lung has finally begun to unveil his plans, but mystery still surrounds him.

Banana Fish manga volume 10 features story and art by Akimi Yoshida.

The announcement of Ash's death on television news has young Eiji in shock and denial. Ash's body is prepared for autopsy, but Max Lobo is convinced that the body has only been made to look like Ash. Meanwhile, the real Ash Lynx is transferred to a medical compound controlled by the Union Corse and corrupt Senator Kippard, where he will be a guinea pig for the dreaded Banana Fish. But neither Ash nor his friends are content to let him rot there, and they begin their own independent escape plans!