: With Jim’s blessing and financial support, Ash, Eiji, Shorter, and Max flee to the West Coast.
: Jim reveals that Ash was sexually molested by his baseball coach at age seven. When the town and police refused to believe him, Ash took matters into his own hands and shot the abuser a year later. Banana Fish Episode 6
: The title references an essay by F. Scott Fitzgerald, symbolizing the loss of innocence and the impossibility of returning to a "pure" version of one's past. : With Jim’s blessing and financial support, Ash,