Genres:Seinen(M),Mature,Drama,Historical,Mystery,Psychological,Supernatural
🇬🇧English
Publication:Original Publication:Completed
< 100 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: 26.4K/360 days: 19.8K/180 days: 7.6K/90 days: 2.6K/30 days: 951/7 days: 241/24 hours: 29/12 hours: 16/6 hours: 7/60 minutes: 2
Readers
202 follows/9 Plan to read/1 Reading
BATO Page Creation
at GMT
Chapters(165)
Chapter 1: Dreary Night Murders
0
46+1.4K
Chapter 2: A Sincere Night
0
14+874
0
26+797
Chapter 4: The Bat & The Ancient Text
0
30+786
0
8+724
0
5+655
0
11+665
0
11+656
0
11+685
Chapter 10: A continuation of the end
0
5+714
Chapter 11: A continuation of the beginning
0
7+690
Chapter 12: A myriad of suspects
0
4+705
Chapter 13: A Forced Destiny
0
5+635
Chapter 14: Shape of the Lord
0
4+660
Chapter 15: Father, Son, or Holy Ghost?
0
3+647
Chapter 16: Before the Chapel
0
6+601
Chapter 17: After the Church
0
4+633
Chapter 18: The Scroll of Momochi [1]
0
3+650
Chapter 19: The Scroll of Momochi [2]
0
6+669
Chapter 20: The Scroll of Momochi [3]
0
2+599
Chapter 21: The Scroll of Momochi [4]
0
2+634
Chapter 22: The Scroll of Momochi [5]
0
2+636
Chapter 23: The Scroll of Momochi [6]
0
3+586
Chapter 24: The Scroll of Momochi [7]
0
2+582
Chapter 25: The Scroll of Momochi [8]
0
2+614
Chapter 26: The Scroll of Momochi [9]
0
3+576
Chapter 27: The Scroll of Momochi [10]
0
2+613
Chapter 28: The Bat's Innards
0
3+619
Chapter 29: Lee's Lnnards
0
4+643
Chapter 30: Thus spoke Oswald
0
3+616
Chapter 31: To The West, To The East
0
3+593
Chapter 32: The Japanese Impression
0
3+625
0
6+593
0
3+602
0
4+570
0
4+635
0
5+600
0
3+571
0
3+634
0
3+564
0
3+590
0
4+605
0
4+623
0
4+586
0
8+557
0
3+569
0
4+585
0
6+606
0
5+610
0
4+579
0
2+594
0
4+672
0
2+618
0
3+652
0
2+667
0
2+677
0
2+673
0
2+633
0
2+589
0
2+644
0
9+654
0
2+613
0
2+589
0
2+683
0
2+626
0
3+621
0
3+586
Chapter 68: I Am 8 Man
0
5+632
Chapter 69: Two Simpletons
0
2+615
Chapter 70: OPPOSING BILLIES
0
4+659
0
3+635
0
2+588
0
3+587
0
3+594
0
5+598
0
4+611
0
2+613
0
11+607
0
1+590
0
1+632
Chapter 81: Connecticut Lullaby [48]
0
2+580
Chapter 82: From the Past to the Future [5/8]
0
1+577
Chapter 83: From The Future to The Past [6/8]
0
1+584
0
1+582
0
1+609
Chapter 86: Serialization Suspended [1/8]
0
1+585
Chapter 87: Posthumous Work of The Future [2/8]
0
1+601
Chapter 88: Wish to The Bat [3/8]
0
1+595
Chapter 89: I am a Mangaka [4/8]
0
1+611
Chapter 90: Incantation [5/8]
0
1+585
0
2+568
0
1+602
0
1+577
Chapter 94: Golden Bat (1/8)
0
1+563
0
2+587
0
3+575
0
2+568
0
2+585
Chapter 99: One Of The Three Great Urban Legends [6/8]
0
2+620
Chapter 100: Unfulfilled Dream [7/8]
0
5+632
0
2+585
Chapter 102: Adolf and Hitler
0
1+697
Chapter 103: Spotlight
0
5+1.5K
0
3+595
0
1+656
Chapter 106: Talking Thing
0
2+590
Chapter 107: Stop
0
1+616
Chapter 108: Depends on You
0
1+674
Chapter 109: Final Chapter?
0
2+685
Chapter 110: Prologue
0
1+622
Chapter 111: The Truth of the Beginning(fixed)
0
2+647
Chapter 112: The Bat's Guidepost
0
1+662
Chapter 113: Too Late
0
2+765
0
1+654
0
2+629
Chapter 116: The Fate Of The World [7/8
0
3+724
Chapter 117: Last Scene [8/8]
0
1+690
Chapter 118: Golden Boy [1/8]
0
1+757
Chapter 119: Re-Energence [2/8]
0
1+642
Chapter 120: Last Numbers [3/8]
0
3+691
Chapter 121: Prediction of Ruin [4/8]
0
1+702
Chapter 122: Redo [5/8]
0
2+655
Chapter 123: Kiyoshi's Life [6/8]
0
1+662
0
2+691
0
1+697
Chapter 126: The next artist [1/8]
0
2+712
Chapter 127: Conditions for genuinity [2/8
0
1+769
Chapter 128: Heart of Justice [3/8]
0
1+623
Chapter 129: America's Enemy [4/8]
0
2+693
Chapter 130: Joint Work [5/8]
0
1+701
Chapter 131: Destination [6/8]
0
1+725
Chapter 132: Fantasy's Demise [7/8]
0
1+726
0
2+796
Chapter 134: The Person I Wanted To Meet [1/8]
0
1+729
Chapter 135: Spotlight [2/8]
0
1+727
Chapter 136: Coming and going
0
1+684
0
1+694
0
1+782
0
1+685
0
4+693
Chapter 141: A Teacher of the Heart [8/8]
0
1+760
0
2+764
0
1+705
0
1+697
0
1+798
0
1+930
0
1+893
0
2+947
Chapter 149: Kevin and Kevin on the Sands (8/8)
0
2+906
0
1+905
0
1+1K
0
1+914
0
1+866
0
1+887
0
1+814
0
1+909
0
2+916
0
1+926
0
5+908
0
2+959
0
2+905
0
2+973
0
3+908
Chapter 164: Decision Time
0
1+986
Chapter 165: The Very Last Final Wish
0
11+1.6K
Reviews