Banana Fish - Characters

Characters

• Ash Lynx (アッシュ・リンクス?) - The protagonist, a street-wise young gang leader with expert marksmanship. His real name is Aslan Jade Callenreese (アスラン・ジェイド・カーレンリース?).
• Eiji Okumura (奥村 英二, Okumura Eiji?) - Japanese former athlete who, due to an injury, became a photographer's assistant.
• Blanca (ブランカ?) - A retired assassin and the man who trained Ash to become Dino Golzine's heir. Though he cares for Ash, he carries out any contract he is hired for.
• Dino Golzine (ディノ・ゴルツィネ?) - Ash's former patron, a mafioso kingpin with pedophiliac tastes.
• Shunichi Ibe (伊部俊一, Ibe Shun'ichi?) - Japanese photojournalist who brings Eiji to the U.S. to do a report on street gangs.
• Frederick Arthur (フレデリック・オーサー?) - A former member of Ash's street gang who allies himself with Golzine in order to usurp Ash. He is particularly vindictive and cruel.
• Max Lobo (マックス・ロボ?) - A Vietnam War veteran and journalist who has trouble with his ex-wife. Max Lobo also has a young son. He becomes Ash's main confidante in his battle against Golzine. His real name is Max Glenreed (マックス・グレンリード?).
• Shorter Wong - The gang leader who controls Chinatown, ally to Ash, who has been friends with him for a long time.
• Sing Soo-Ling - A very young member of the Chinese gang. Attacks with the deadly "flying dragon fang." He, like Ash, is amazingly smart and calculated for his age. He is loyal to Shorter.
• Lee Yut-Lung (李月龍, Japanese: Rii Yuerun, Chinese Hanyu Pinyin: Lǐ Yuèlóng, Cantonese: Lei5 Yut6Lung4) - The youngest son of the Lee family, the top family of China's criminal underworld. He despises his brothers for looking down on him and wants to depose them. Regards Ash and Golzine as special and is jealous of the care Ash shows for Eiji, a normal boy.
• Cain Blood (ケイン・ブラッド?) - The cool and collected leader of New York's African-American gangs. He supports Ash in his gang war against Arthur.