The anime takes place in modern day New York, instead of in the 1980s when the original manga took place.
The official website for the television anime of Akimi Yoshida’s Banana Fish manga revealed on Monday that the group BLUE ENCOUNT is performing the second opening theme song “FREEDOM” for the anime.
Akitsugu Hisagi (key animator for Kids on the Slope, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG) is the show’s “hard-boiled supervisor.”
The anime premiered on Fuji TV’s Noitamina block on July 5.