Banana Fish

Poster Banana Fish, Manga écrit par Akimi Yoshida, paru de mai 1985 à avril 1994.
Synopsis
New York. Ash Lynx est un garçon d’une beauté exceptionnelle, ultra-fort au combat. A 17 ans, il est déjà chef de bande. Une nuit, un homme abattu par son subordonné lui transmet le mot « Banana Fish » et une adresse. C’est un mot que Griffin, le frère aîné d’Ash, infirme, a souvent mentionné. Au même moment, Ash rencontre Eiji Okumura, un garçon japonais venu en tant qu’assistant photographe.
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Les spécificités de la demande de ma cliente furent les suivantes : avoir un titre au poster assez grand, introduire des détails textuels en japonais, reprendre les couleurs du manga et des affiches des différents supports sur lesquels le manga est adapté, et pour finir, composer un premier plan avec les personnages principaux. Pour une des rares fois, je ne connaissais rien au manga en question ni à l’animé. Ce fut donc un travail de recherche intéressant où il est agréable de plonger artistiquement tant le manga semble qualitatif et tout l’art qui l’entoure : dessin du manga, animé, poster, visuel de communication, tatouage et autres supports artistiques.
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My client’s specific requests were as follows: to include a fairly large title on the poster, to incorporate textual details in Japanese, to use the colors from the manga and the posters of the various media adaptations of the manga, and finally, to feature the main characters in the foreground. For one of the rare occasions, I knew nothing about the manga in question or the anime. It was therefore an interesting research project—one in which it was a pleasure to immerse myself artistically, given the high quality of the manga and all the art surrounding it: manga illustrations, anime, posters, promotional visuals, tattoos, and other artistic media.
📌 Mention : Poster réalisé sur mesure, et donc non disponible à la vente
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Couleur et police de caractère
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Color and Font
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(The poster being custom-made with a client, it features aesthetic characteristics specific to the client’s tastes and requests. My input and experience here serve as support, resulting in a more general description and analysis.)
The goal here is to preserve the simplicity and effectiveness of a manga box. Playing on the relationship between the characters, which is inherently complex, it will therefore serve as a medium for reflection and guide the poster. The layout therefore respects the « credo » imposed with four manga panels, reduced to their simple isolated meaning, but making sense when reading the poster with, in the foreground, our two main characters hugging each other. Visually, a simple black monochrome background, reflecting the manga’s environment, highlights the subject. The whole is topped by a set of textual elements consisting of the title in English and in Japanese, as well as the name of the mangaka and author of this work.
The choice of colors is based on the client’s request, as she uses the main colors of the manga covers with a major color, bright yellow, combined with contrast black and white and blue to indicate the title detail in Japanese. Their uses are very simple and bring a certain visibility necessary for the subject and major object of the poster: the main characters in black and white. A completely black and white version comes to lay the poster flat and takes up the characteristic codes of the manga. This offers a more natural, but smoother reading experience. Finally, a pink and purple version is made in order to present an alternative artistic version, simply for aesthetics.
The choice of writing fonts is based on two choices of sans serif fonts, slightly condensed, in order to provide verticality in reading and simplicity in use and readability. The combination provides an interesting combination that allows you to play with negative areas and rectangular capacity. This offers a vertical arrangement of elements that naturally leads the reader to the central pair.
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