Banana Fish
Manga
BANANA FISH
1985/05/01
Character count352,366
Word count150,271
Unique words12,316
Words (1-occurrence)6,502
Unique kanji1,810
Kanji (1-occurrence)313
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Volumes12

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... (Source: Viz Media)

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Volume 1
Character count33,591
Word count13,868
Unique words2,967
Words (1-occurrence)1,838
Unique kanji848
Kanji (1-occurrence)299
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Volume 2
Character count35,882
Word count15,247
Unique words3,183
Words (1-occurrence)1,965
Unique kanji950
Kanji (1-occurrence)332
Difficulty beta
Easy
Volume 3
Character count35,624
Word count15,379
Unique words3,242
Words (1-occurrence)1,966
Unique kanji994
Kanji (1-occurrence)307
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Volume 4
Character count30,609
Word count12,882
Unique words3,173
Words (1-occurrence)1,980
Unique kanji931
Kanji (1-occurrence)291
Difficulty beta
Hard
Volume 5
Character count28,431
Word count12,080
Unique words2,897
Words (1-occurrence)1,806
Unique kanji886
Kanji (1-occurrence)310
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Volume 6
Character count32,427
Word count13,849
Unique words3,257
Words (1-occurrence)1,957
Unique kanji986
Kanji (1-occurrence)295
Difficulty beta
Hard
Volume 7
Character count27,757
Word count11,775
Unique words3,073
Words (1-occurrence)1,942
Unique kanji935
Kanji (1-occurrence)313
Difficulty beta
Hard
Volume 8
Character count26,476
Word count11,222
Unique words2,774
Words (1-occurrence)1,730
Unique kanji911
Kanji (1-occurrence)327
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Volume 9
Character count21,959
Word count9,546
Unique words2,565
Words (1-occurrence)1,630
Unique kanji909
Kanji (1-occurrence)338
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Volume 10
Character count25,781
Word count10,996
Unique words2,869
Words (1-occurrence)1,803
Unique kanji904
Kanji (1-occurrence)304
Difficulty beta
Moderate
Volume 11
Character count21,476
Word count9,342
Unique words2,349
Words (1-occurrence)1,471
Unique kanji836
Kanji (1-occurrence)315
Difficulty beta
Easy
Volume 12
Character count32,353
Word count14,085
Unique words3,374
Words (1-occurrence)2,095
Unique kanji998
Kanji (1-occurrence)336
Difficulty beta
Moderate