Billy Bat
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First volume cover of Billy Bat.
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ビリーバット (Birī Batto) |
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| Genre | Thriller, Crime fiction, Metafiction |
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| Written by |
Naoki Urasawa Takashi Nagasaki |
| Illustrated by | Naoki Urasawa |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Magazine | Weekly Morning |
| Original run | October 16, 2008 – August 18, 2016 |
| Volumes | 20 |
Billy Bat (ビリーバット Birī Batto) is a Japanese seinen thriller manga series written by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki and illustrated by Urasawa. The series was announced in issue 45 of the Japanese manga anthology Weekly Morning in 2008, and its first chapter was released in the next issue of Morning on October 16, 2008.Kodansha is collecting the individual chapters into tankōbon volumes, and has released eighteen volumes so far, on December 22, 2015. Volume 1 was the fifth best selling manga volume in its week of release, selling over 145,000 copies in that week.
The story begins in 1949 and follows Japanese-American comic book artist Kevin Yamagata as he draws the popular detective series "Billy Bat". When he learns he may have unconsciously copied the character from an image he saw while serving in occupied Japan, he returns to Japan to get permission to use Billy Bat from its original creator. Upon arriving there, however, he becomes embroiled in a web of murder, cover-ups, and prophecy that all leads back to Billy Bat.
It is soon evident that the truth of Billy Bat's nature is far larger than Kevin could ever guess, spanning across millennia and the world. Kevin finds that The Bat is related to an ancient scroll which is said to enable anyone who possesses it to rule the world.
On January 2016, it was announced that the second half of the series' final story arc would begin in June 2016. In July 2016, it was announced the manga would end on August 18th.
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