Japanese Manga: Original Edition

There are nineteen tankouban of the original Japanese manga, all published by Flower Comics, a division of Shougakukan. Immediately below you will find information about the original manga; information about the Japanese reprints follows after.

The original manga is now out of print, but it actually isn't all that hard to find, if you're willing to shop online. For example, Acclimate Solution and Amazon.co.jp offer most of the tankouban for a reasonable price.

Here is a checklist of all of the original tankouban. Images of the covers come from Manga BonBons. These images are not thumbnails.

	Banana Fish Volume 01 ISBN-10 4091324517 ISBN-13 978-4091324511 Published 1/20/1987
	Banana Fish Volume 02 ISBN-10 4091324525 ISBN-13 978-4091324528 Published 2/07/1987
	Banana Fish Volume 03 ISBN-10 4091324533 ISBN-13 978-4091324535 Published 4/20/1987
	Banana Fish Volume 04 ISBN-10 4091324541 ISBN-13 978-4091324542 Published 7/20/1987
	Banana Fish Volume 05 ISBN-10 409132455X ISBN-13 978-4091324559 Published 12/20/1987
	Banana Fish Volume 06 ISBN-10 4091324568 ISBN-13 978-4091324566 Published 6/20/1988
	Banana Fish Volume 07 ISBN-10 4091324576 ISBN-13 978-4091324573 Published 1/20/1989
	Banana Fish Volume 08 ISBN-10 4091324584 ISBN-13 978-4091324580 Published 8/20/1989
	Banana Fish Volume 09 ISBN-10 4091324592 ISBN-13 978-4091324597 Published 11/20/1989
	Banana Fish Volume 10 ISBN-10 4091324606 ISBN-13 978-4091324603 Published 8/20/1990
	Banana Fish Volume 11 ISBN-10 4091335314 ISBN-13 978-4091335319 Published 11/20/1990
	Banana Fish Volume 12 ISBN-10 4091335322 ISBN-13 978-4091335326 Published 5/20/1991
	Banana Fish Volume 13 ISBN-10 4091335330 ISBN-13 978-4091335333 Published 11/20/1991
	Banana Fish Volume 14 ISBN-10 4091335349 ISBN-13 978-4091335340 Published 6/20/1992
	Banana Fish Volume 15 ISBN-10 4091335357 ISBN-13 978-4091335357 Published 11/20/1992
	Banana Fish Volume 16 ISBN-10 4091335365 ISBN-13 978-4091335364 Published 5/20/1993
	Banana Fish Volume 17 ISBN-10 4091335373 ISBN-13 978-4091335371 Published 11/20/1993
	Banana Fish Volume 18 ISBN-10 4091335381 ISBN-13 978-4091335388 Published 4/20/1994
	Banana Fish Volume 19 ISBN-10 409133539X ISBN-13 978-4091335395 Published 10/20/1994 Volume 19 also contains the short spin-off stories "Angel Eyes" and "Hikari no Niwa."

  Japanese Manga: Reprint Edition

Ditching the "Flower Comics" title, Shougakukan republished the entire manga series in eleven deluxe tankouban during 1997. Here is a checklist of the reprinted manga. Images with borders around them are thumbnails, and you can click them to view a larger image of the tankouban covers; images without borders are not clickable.

	Banana Fish Reprint Volume 01 ISBN-10 4091911617 ISBN-13 978-4091911612 Published 12/96
	Banana Fish Reprint Volume 02 ISBN-10 4091911625 ISBN-13 978-4091911629 Published 12/96
	Banana Fish Reprint Volume 03 ISBN-10 4091911633 ISBN-13 978-4091911636 Published 1/97
	Banana Fish Reprint Volume 04 ISBN-10 4091911641 ISBN-13 978-4091911643 Published 1/97
	Banana Fish Reprint Volume 05 ISBN-10 409191165X ISBN-13 978-4091911650 Published 2/97
	Banana Fish Reprint Volume 06 ISBN-10 4091911668 ISBN-13 978-4091911667 Published 2/97
	Banana Fish Reprint Volume 07 ISBN-10 4091911676 ISBN-13 978-4091911674 Published 4/97
	Banana Fish Reprint Volume 08 ISBN-10 4091911684 ISBN-13 978-4091911681 Published 4/97
	Banana Fish Reprint Volume 09 ISBN-10 4091911692 ISBN-13 978-4091911698 Published 5/97
	Banana Fish Reprint Volume 10 ISBN-10 4091911706 ISBN-13 978-4091911704 Published 5/97
	Banana Fish Reprint Volume 11 ISBN-10 4091911811 ISBN-13 978-4091911810 Published 5/97
	Another Story ISBN-10 409191182X ISBN-13 978-4091911827 Another Story collects all of the Banana Fish spin-off short stories that Akimi Yoshida ever wrote.

The reprinted tankouban should be easier to find than the originals, since they were more recently published.

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