Netflix Adds Banana Fish Anime on August 12
The move brings a critically acclaimed MAPPA title to a wider audience after its departure from Amazon Prime Video, with no word yet on whether the English and Spanish dubs-briefly available as AI beta versions on Prime Video-will return.
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Netflix announced it will add the television anime of Akimi Yoshida's Banana Fish manga in select regions on August 12. The series previously streamed on Amazon Prime Video with subtitles, but left that service recently. The 2018 MAPPA adaptation updates the setting to modern day New York.
Netflix announced on Monday that it will add the television anime of Akimi Yoshida's Banana Fish manga in select regions on August 12. The series previously streamed on Amazon Prime Video with English subtitles, but left that service recently. Amazon Prime Video's streams had listed "AI beta" dubs for English and Latin American Spanish in late November, but removed them in December after ANN reached out to Aniplex for comment. The anime premiered on Fuji TV's Noitamina block in July 2018. Directed by Hiroko Utsumi at MAPPA, the series adapts the entire manga but moves the setting from the 1980s to modern day New York. Hiroshi Seko handled series scripts, Akemi Hayashi designed the characters, and Shinichi Osawa composed the music.
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