Genres:Seinen(M),Drama,Historical,Mystery,Psychological
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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...
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Chapter 113: Too Late
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Chapter 112: The Bat's Guidepost
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Chapter 111: The Truth of the Beginning
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Chapter 110: Prologue
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Chapter 109: Final Chapter?
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Chapter 108: Depends on You
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Chapter 107: Stop
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Chapter 106: Talking Thing
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Chapter 105: Real and Fake, New and Old
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Chapter 103: Spotlight
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Chapter 102: Adolf and Hitler
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Chapter 101: Moon Walking [8/8]
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Chapter 100: Unfulfilled Dream [7/8]
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Chapter 99: One Of The Three Great Urban Legends [6/8]
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Chapter 98: Second Hands Good [5/8]
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Chapter 96: Partner [3/8]
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Chapter 95: The Whole Story [2/8]
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Chapter 93: A New Journey [8/8]
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Chapter 92: The Scroll's Code[7/8]
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Chapter 91: Scroll [6/8]
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Chapter 89: I am a Mangaka [4/8]
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Chapter 88: Wish to The Bat [3/8]
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Chapter 87: Posthumous Work of The Future [2/8]
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Chapter 86: Serialization Suspended [1/8]
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Chapter 85: Emperor of the New Country [8/8]
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Chapter 84: The Truth About Gary [7/8]
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Chapter 78: Serial Murder Case (1/8)
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Volume 17 Chapter 134: The Person I Wanted To Meet [1/8]
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Volume 16 Chapter 132: Fantasy's Demise [7/8]
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Volume 16 Chapter 131: Destination [6/8]
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Volume 16 Chapter 129: America's Enemy [4/8]
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Volume 16 Chapter 128: Heart of Justice [3/8]
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Volume 16 Chapter 127: Conditions for genuinity [2/8
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Volume 16 Chapter 126: The next artist [1/8]
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Volume 15 Chapter 125: Must Not Touch [8/8]
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Volume 15 Chapter 124: Escape [7/8]
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Volume 15 Chapter 123: Kiyoshi's Life [6/8]
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Volume 14 Chapter 116: The Fate Of The World [7/8]
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Volume 9 Chapter 77: Demon on the Moon
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Volume 9 Chapter 75: Abnormalities on a Moonlit Night
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Volume 9 Chapter 73: Everything Continues
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Volume 9 Chapter 72: Various Lives
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Volume 9 Chapter 71: Time Travel and Infinite Earths
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Volume 9 Chapter 70: Opposing Billies
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Volume 8 Chapter 69: Two Simpletons
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Volume 8 Chapter 68: I Am 8 Man
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Volume 8 Chapter 67: Beyond Point and Line...
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Volume 8 Chapter 66: Japan Travel Diary
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Volume 8 Chapter 65: Devivie
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Volume 8 Chapter 64: Cartoon's Destination
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Volume 8 Chapter 63: Coincidence
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Volume 8 Chapter 62: Kevin And Kevin
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Volume 7 Chapter 61: The Real Truth
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Volume 7 Chapter 60: Half In A Dream
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Volume 7 Chapter 58: A Hot Autumn Day In Dallas
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Volume 7 Chapter 57: The President's Parade
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Volume 7 Chapter 56: The Final Rabbit
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