Ash Lynx and Eiji Okumura are immediately dedicated to each other from the moment they meet, even though their lives and personalities couldn't be more different. Some of Blue Flag can be read on Jump's Manga Plus app, while Viz Media is localizing and releasing its printed volumes. Banana Fish is a yaoi anime in that there's a same-sex couple at the helm, but it doesn't adhere to many of the medium's tropes. For such a title not to be marketed as yaoi and make it into the pages of such a major magazine shows the strides that LGBTQ media is slowly making. It's an LGBTQ manga that deals with being outed and homophobia - and was published in Weekly Shonen Jump, one of the biggest, most popular manga magazines, catering mostly to young boys. Yaoi, otherwise known as boys love (BL), is a genre of media originating in Japan that features homoerotic and romantic relationships between male. One criticism of Blue Flag is that the manga's conclusion ends up feeling rushed, but Blue Flag is still an extremely important manga. However, a surprising twist threatens their blossoming romance, and Taichi realizes he definitely doesn't know Touma as much as he thought he did.
Taichi avoids Futaba at first, but the two soon become closer. Then, a quiet girl named Futaba admits her love for Touma and asks Taichi for his help in winning Touma over.
Taichi has always felt inferior to his popular friend Touma, and thus keeps his distance as they approach their senior year. Blue Flag, by mangaka KAITO, seems like a generic love triangle at first glance.
