Banana Fish Returns: Anime Limited Nets Home Video, Netflix Streams Aug. 12

Street legend Banana Fish is back on the international radar. Distributor Anime Limited has locked the 2018 MAPPA television adaptation of Akimi Yoshida’s manga for the United Kingdom, North America, and France, pairing a near-term streaming push with a physical release plan.

Netflix will host the full series from August 12, 2026 in the U.K., Ireland, the U.S., Canada, and France. Subscribers get Japanese audio plus new English and French dubs—not a recycled track. Confirmed leads so far: Brandon McInnis and Sébastien Baulain as Ash Lynx, with Jonathan Tanigaki and Grégory Laisné as Eiji Okumura; the rest of the casts land later.

Collectors still get a disc path. Anime Limited is aiming for Blu-ray in early 2027 across the U.S., U.K., and France, after the Netflix window opens. The move fills a gap left when the series recently exited Amazon Prime Video, where it had long lived in subtitled form (and briefly carried short-lived “AI beta” dub experiments that were later pulled).

For anyone who missed the Noitamina run: Hiroko Utsumi’s MAPPA take transplants Yoshida’s 1980s New York crime tragedy into a modern setting while adapting the manga end to end—Ash Lynx’s brutal underworld, Eiji’s pure-hearted arrival, and the mystery that still defines the title. Stream first in August; stack the shelf in 2027.

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