Genres:Seinen(M),Mature,Drama,Historical,Mystery,Psychological,Supernatural
🇬🇧English
Publication:Original Publication:Completed
< 300 votes
0 votes
5
00.0%4
00.0%3
00.0%2
00.0%1
00.0%Billy Bat is a comic-in-a-comic and the real protagonist is a Japanese-American artist named Kevin Yamagata who draws Billy Bat for "Marble Comics".
Shortly after they transition to the artist in his studio with his assistant, two actual detectives, who look like Laurel and Hardy in Dick Tracy era suits and trench coats, knock on the door and appropriate Kevin's room for the purpose of conducting surveillance on a room in an adjacent building. One of the detectives, the skinny “Laurel”, sees Kevin's work and it turns out he's a Billy Bat fan. The other chubby "Hardy" detective picks up a page and says that the characters look familiar and accuses Kevin of translating an old "Jap" comic.
As Hardy remembers the comic he thinks Kevin is ripping off, we make another Urasawaesque time jump to 1949 Tokyo.
Shortly after they transition to the artist in his studio with his assistant, two actual detectives, who look like Laurel and Hardy in Dick Tracy era suits and trench coats, knock on the door and appropriate Kevin's room for the purpose of conducting surveillance on a room in an adjacent building. One of the detectives, the skinny “Laurel”, sees Kevin's work and it turns out he's a Billy Bat fan. The other chubby "Hardy" detective picks up a page and says that the characters look familiar and accuses Kevin of translating an old "Jap" comic.
As Hardy remembers the comic he thinks Kevin is ripping off, we make another Urasawaesque time jump to 1949 Tokyo.
Note: Won the Max und Moritz Prize for "Best international Comic" in 2014.
Views
Total: 11K/360 days: 7K/180 days: 5.6K/90 days: 4.3K/30 days: 1.6K/7 days: 571/24 hours: 27/12 hours: 18/6 hours: 5/60 minutes: 1
Readers
194 follows/8 Plan to read/1 Reading
Bato Page Creation
at GMT
Chapters(165)
Chapter 165: The Very Last Final Wish
0
6+1.4K
Chapter 164: Decision Time
0
1+831
0
2+738
0
2+821
0
2+756
0
2+824
0
4+786
0
1+781
0
2+765
0
1+766
0
1+687
0
1+735
0
1+721
0
1+762
0
1+853
0
1+780
Chapter 149: Kevin and Kevin on the Sands (8/8)
0
1+745
0
1+795
0
1+744
0
1+778
0
1+677
0
1+547
0
1+570
0
2+626
Chapter 141: A Teacher of the Heart [8/8]
0
1+610
0
3+562
0
1+562
0
1+619
0
1+552
Chapter 136: Coming and going
0
1+557
Chapter 135: Spotlight [2/8]
0
1+550
Chapter 134: The Person I Wanted To Meet [1/8]
0
1+573
0
2+641
Chapter 132: Fantasy's Demise [7/8]
0
1+581
Chapter 131: Destination [6/8]
0
1+584
Chapter 130: Joint Work [5/8]
0
1+563
Chapter 129: America's Enemy [4/8]
0
2+550
Chapter 128: Heart of Justice [3/8]
0
1+498
Chapter 127: Conditions for genuinity [2/8
0
1+586
Chapter 126: The next artist [1/8]
0
1+590
0
1+565
0
1+548
Chapter 123: Kiyoshi's Life [6/8]
0
1+529
Chapter 122: Redo [5/8]
0
1+508
Chapter 121: Prediction of Ruin [4/8]
0
1+538
Chapter 120: Last Numbers [3/8]
0
2+571
Chapter 119: Re-Energence [2/8]
0
1+511
Chapter 118: Golden Boy [1/8]
0
1+604
Chapter 117: Last Scene [8/8]
0
1+537
Chapter 116: The Fate Of The World [7/8
0
2+559
0
1+473
0
1+524
Chapter 113: Too Late
0
1+617
Chapter 112: The Bat's Guidepost
0
1+508
Chapter 111: The Truth of the Beginning(fixed)
0
1+501
Chapter 110: Prologue
0
1+476
Chapter 109: Final Chapter?
0
2+560
Chapter 108: Depends on You
0
1+523
Chapter 107: Stop
0
1+493
Chapter 106: Talking Thing
0
2+455
0
1+513
0
2+474
Chapter 103: Spotlight
0
5+1.3K
Chapter 102: Adolf and Hitler
0
1+489
0
1+432
Chapter 100: Unfulfilled Dream [7/8]
0
4+489
Chapter 99: One Of The Three Great Urban Legends [6/8]
0
2+488
0
2+470
0
2+438
0
2+435
0
1+446
Chapter 94: Golden Bat (1/8)
0
1+448
0
1+449
0
1+447
0
2+429
Chapter 90: Incantation [5/8]
0
1+457
Chapter 89: I am a Mangaka [4/8]
0
1+460
Chapter 88: Wish to The Bat [3/8]
0
1+452
Chapter 87: Posthumous Work of The Future [2/8]
0
1+459
Chapter 86: Serialization Suspended [1/8]
0
1+448
0
1+468
0
1+444
Chapter 83: From The Future to The Past [6/8]
0
1+465
Chapter 82: From the Past to the Future [5/8]
0
1+446
Chapter 81: Connecticut Lullaby [48]
0
1+442
0
1+483
0
1+459
0
10+459
0
2+479
0
3+473
0
4+441
0
3+463
0
3+462
0
2+431
0
3+469
Chapter 70: OPPOSING BILLIES
0
4+495
Chapter 69: Two Simpletons
0
2+474
Chapter 68: I Am 8 Man
0
5+457
0
3+453
0
3+457
0
2+470
0
2+478
0
2+436
0
2+444
0
8+502
0
2+497
0
2+434
0
2+457
0
2+496
0
2+509
0
2+465
0
3+480
0
2+458
0
3+524
0
2+457
0
4+453
0
5+493
0
5+455
0
4+456
0
3+436
0
8+443
0
4+453
0
4+436
0
4+459
0
3+459
0
3+438
0
3+513
0
3+450
0
4+469
0
4+473
0
4+452
0
3+463
0
5+474
Chapter 32: The Japanese Impression
0
3+492
Chapter 31: To The West, To The East
0
3+452
Chapter 30: Thus spoke Oswald
0
3+488
Chapter 29: Lee's Lnnards
0
4+510
Chapter 28: The Bat's Innards
0
3+503
Chapter 27: The Scroll of Momochi [10]
0
2+489
Chapter 26: The Scroll of Momochi [9]
0
3+444
Chapter 25: The Scroll of Momochi [8]
0
2+482
Chapter 24: The Scroll of Momochi [7]
0
2+455
Chapter 23: The Scroll of Momochi [6]
0
3+454
Chapter 22: The Scroll of Momochi [5]
0
2+506
Chapter 21: The Scroll of Momochi [4]
0
2+504
Chapter 20: The Scroll of Momochi [3]
0
2+499
Chapter 19: The Scroll of Momochi [2]
0
4+530
Chapter 18: The Scroll of Momochi [1]
0
3+502
Chapter 17: After the Church
0
4+512
Chapter 16: Before the Chapel
0
5+495
Chapter 15: Father, Son, or Holy Ghost?
0
3+506
Chapter 14: Shape of the Lord
0
4+518
Chapter 13: A Forced Destiny
0
3+488
Chapter 12: A myriad of suspects
0
4+548
Chapter 11: A continuation of the beginning
0
6+493
Chapter 10: A continuation of the end
0
4+533
0
10+497
0
8+519
0
9+512
0
4+492
0
5+569
Chapter 4: The Bat & The Ancient Text
0
17+592
0
24+552
Chapter 2: A Sincere Night
0
12+630
Chapter 1: Dreary Night Murders
0
23+973
Reviews(0)
Comments(0/0)
BatoLists(0)