What do you think?
Rate this book
Billy Bat #6
Billy Bat, Vol. 6
Chi è l'impostore che si spaccia per Chuck Culkin e qual è il suo scopo? E che fine ha fatto il vero Chuck? E nel mentre, che sta facendo Lee Harvey Oswald? Cosa accadrà quando Kevin riuscirà ad arrivare a lui? Chi è l’universitaria newyorkese capace di vedere Billy Bat? E che c’entra con Kevin e col misterioso rotolo? Domande che portano solo ad altri misteri, nello stile inconfondibile di Naoki Urasawa, spalleggiato in questo caso dal talento narrativo e labirintico di Takashi Nagasaki. Non c’è da dire nient’altro… dovete leggerlo!
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
11 people are currently reading
108 people want to read
About the author
Naoki Urasawa
356 books2,801 followersUrasawa Naoki (浦沢直樹) is a Japanese mangaka. He is perhaps best known for Monster (which drew praise from Junot Díaz, the 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner) and 20th Century Boys.
Urasawa's work often concentrates on intricate plotting, interweaving narratives, a deep focus on character development and psychological complexity. Urasawa has won the Shogakukan Manga Award, the Japan Media Arts Festival excellence award, the Kodansha Manga Award and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. In 2008 Urasawa accepted a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University.
Series list (not including short stories collections):
- Pineapple ARMY (パイナップルARMY) 1985-1988, written by Kazuya Kudo;
- YAWARA! 1986-1993;
- Master Keaton (MASTERキートン) 1988-1994, written by Hokusei Katsushika;
- Happy! 1993-1999
- MONSTER 1994-2001
- 20th Century Boys (20世紀少年) 1999-2006
- 21st Century Boys (21世紀少年) 2007
- PLUTO 2003-2009, based on Tezuka Osamu's Tetsuwan Atom
- BILLY BAT 2008-2016
- Master Keaton Remaster (MASTERキートン Reマスター) 2012-2014
- Mujirushi (夢印-MUJIRUSHI-) 2017-2018, collaboration with Musée du Louvre
- Asadora! (連続漫画小説 あさドラ!) 2018-ongoing
Urasawa's work often concentrates on intricate plotting, interweaving narratives, a deep focus on character development and psychological complexity. Urasawa has won the Shogakukan Manga Award, the Japan Media Arts Festival excellence award, the Kodansha Manga Award and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize. In 2008 Urasawa accepted a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University.
Series list (not including short stories collections):
- Pineapple ARMY (パイナップルARMY) 1985-1988, written by Kazuya Kudo;
- YAWARA! 1986-1993;
- Master Keaton (MASTERキートン) 1988-1994, written by Hokusei Katsushika;
- Happy! 1993-1999
- MONSTER 1994-2001
- 20th Century Boys (20世紀少年) 1999-2006
- 21st Century Boys (21世紀少年) 2007
- PLUTO 2003-2009, based on Tezuka Osamu's Tetsuwan Atom
- BILLY BAT 2008-2016
- Master Keaton Remaster (MASTERキートン Reマスター) 2012-2014
- Mujirushi (夢印-MUJIRUSHI-) 2017-2018, collaboration with Musée du Louvre
- Asadora! (連続漫画小説 あさドラ!) 2018-ongoing
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 25 of 25 reviews
July 17, 2025
Forking Paths
Now is the time to explore the relationship between Kevin's former assistant illustrator Chuck and the pseudo Chuck, posing as Billy Bat's father.
Kevin and Lee Harvey Oswald meet one another.
Enter Jackie, Kinji Momochi's daughter, a descendent of Tanba Momochi, a feudal lord who passed down the Black Bat scroll to Kanbei... Would she and Kevin be able to locate the place where Kanbei buried the scroll?
I enjoyed the scenes involving young lady Momochi and the dialogues between Kevin and Lee Harvey Oswald!
Now is the time to explore the relationship between Kevin's former assistant illustrator Chuck and the pseudo Chuck, posing as Billy Bat's father.
Kevin and Lee Harvey Oswald meet one another.
Enter Jackie, Kinji Momochi's daughter, a descendent of Tanba Momochi, a feudal lord who passed down the Black Bat scroll to Kanbei... Would she and Kevin be able to locate the place where Kanbei buried the scroll?
I enjoyed the scenes involving young lady Momochi and the dialogues between Kevin and Lee Harvey Oswald!
December 14, 2023
➺
4/5 🌟
December 22, 2019
J'étais un peu moins à fond que le tome précédent mais ça reste intriguant et passionnant ! Hâte de voir ce que Kévin va faire pour la suite.
January 27, 2025
The last three volumes have been sooo good and I am glad it‘s only getting better
August 22, 2020
4 Stars
No one mixes reality with fiction better than Urasawa.
No one mixes reality with fiction better than Urasawa.
April 11, 2025
El arte complementa muy bien la historia y la hace mucho más fácil de entender. Es un manga complejo, aún así el misterio mantiene la continuidad y la intriga, te envolvés en el mismo desarrollo que el personaje en busca de la verdad.
Read
October 5, 2019Sure enough, the Oswald story ended up awesome, unexpected things happened, there were shifts that promise to link things in further unexpected ways, and every chapter and page was a pleasure. In short, this was another of the most satisfying volumes yet, and it's causing me to re-evaluate earlier volumes that I was slightly less sold on.
I'm coming to enjoy the voice of Billy Bat (the character) more and more, nagging, whining, fast-talking enigma that he is.
I love that much of the cast is made up of unwilling visionaries, and I mean visionaries in the noun sense that doesn't actually apparently exist, following the adjective that does: "relating to or having the ability to see visions in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition."
I love the cameo that a Freewheelin' Bob Dylan LP makes.
There was an action scene that literally got my heart racing, which almost never happens this side of Hunter x Hunter.
The only pity about the character-shifting set-up, with all its opportunities for narrative momentum and off-stage character growth, is that you have to leave behind favorite characters with no idea of when they might next reappear.
Choice quotations:
Character A: “I want to be Alexander the Great! Caesar! Napoleon!”
Character B: “All those men’s stories ended badly.”
and
“Whether an ending is happy or not all depends on where the author chooses to stop writing. If the story gets cut off once the man and the woman are happily together, there’ll be a happy ending. Keep writing to the end, and their love might turn to hate, and the both of them die miserable.”
I'm coming to enjoy the voice of Billy Bat (the character) more and more, nagging, whining, fast-talking enigma that he is.
I love that much of the cast is made up of unwilling visionaries, and I mean visionaries in the noun sense that doesn't actually apparently exist, following the adjective that does: "relating to or having the ability to see visions in a dream or trance, or as a supernatural apparition."
I love the cameo that a Freewheelin' Bob Dylan LP makes.
There was an action scene that literally got my heart racing, which almost never happens this side of Hunter x Hunter.
The only pity about the character-shifting set-up, with all its opportunities for narrative momentum and off-stage character growth, is that you have to leave behind favorite characters with no idea of when they might next reappear.
Choice quotations:
Character A: “I want to be Alexander the Great! Caesar! Napoleon!”
Character B: “All those men’s stories ended badly.”
and
“Whether an ending is happy or not all depends on where the author chooses to stop writing. If the story gets cut off once the man and the woman are happily together, there’ll be a happy ending. Keep writing to the end, and their love might turn to hate, and the both of them die miserable.”
September 29, 2017
Kevin riesce a incontrare Oswald e lo convince che è meglio ritirarsi dalla folle corsa imposta dal pipistrello, salvo poi aver salva la vita proprio grazie a un atto di eroismo di Oswald, comandato dal pipistrello stesso. Il problema della storia, come di tutte le storie, è il finale: riuscirà Kevin a scriverne uno adeguato? cosa succederà alla terra e a Kevin? Il pipistrello riuscirà a influenzare Kevin? Sembra di no, ed è per questo che entra in scena Jackie, studiosa di storia, appassionata del nuovo Billy Bat e di origini giapponesi, come Kevin. Sarà reclutata dal pipistrello per ritrovare, in giappone, il rotolo Kanbei sotterrato ai tempi del giappone feudale.
September 11, 2019
Ya no sé si es un relato de terror, una épica o una reversión histórica fantástica; aunque quizás sea una mezcla de todas estas, de verdad que el giro que se le da a hechos históricos, de los que en verdad tenemos pocos datos, es súper original, ¿será que Billy Bat no era el villano que se creía, o uno mucho peor?
Algo que noto en los dibujos de Urasawa son los detalles de las vestimentas, algunos poco creíbles porque parecen pegados al dibujo con computadora, pero creo que es la primera queja que tengo de sus dibujos.
Algo que noto en los dibujos de Urasawa son los detalles de las vestimentas, algunos poco creíbles porque parecen pegados al dibujo con computadora, pero creo que es la primera queja que tengo de sus dibujos.
November 19, 2019
Really good.
November 15, 2021
Urasawa is unmatched in manga. This man weaved so many historical events so perfectly in this world that my mind is blown. This manga is never coming to the US for sure!
October 16, 2022
Estou escrevendo essa história meio aos prantos.....
February 2, 2024
4.5
This just keeps getting better and better.
This just keeps getting better and better.
November 17, 2024
☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️☎️🔦
November 29, 2024
Oswald
Rotolo
Terza guerra mondiale
Rotolo
Terza guerra mondiale
December 17, 2024
Oh, God. No way.
This is too overwhelming.
The suspense building up to JFK's assassination conspiracy is insane.
This is too overwhelming.
The suspense building up to JFK's assassination conspiracy is insane.
March 30, 2025
Quando esse volume começou eu só ouvia a voz da lola vindo lá do fundo dizendo GAYS GAYS GAYS GAYS
May 12, 2025
Everything is connected and falling back in place!!! It’s mind blowing🤌🏻
Read
May 25, 2025it got more twists than any thriller ones
November 30, 2025
THE MEETING BETWEEN KEVIN AND LEE WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING FOR THE MOMENT 😮💨
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 22, 2025
Damn. It's tragic to know how Oswald's fate happened. Also, it is good to know that Kevin is getting active!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 16, 2014
Nach Exkursionen in das japanische Mittelalter und sogar die Zeit Jesu kehrt Billy Bat wieder in die Gegenwart (sprich die USA im Jahr 1963) und zum Haupt-Plot zurück. Das Geheimnis um den doppelten Comic-Zeichner Chuck Culkin wird offenbart, und Kevin Yamagata kommt in Kontakt mit dem ebenfalls von der Fledermaus geplagten Lee Harvey Oswald.
Deutlich bodenständiger als die letzten Bände - aber kein bisschen weniger interessant.
Deutlich bodenständiger als die letzten Bände - aber kein bisschen weniger interessant.
March 30, 2015
I could not possibly care less what happens next and refuse to pay even 99c to find out. Don't read this series.
April 30, 2024
Oh. OH. OOOOOOOH. Me gusta el formato puzzle que va ensamblando la información poco a poco y YA NO SÉ POR DÓNDE ME VA A SALIR.
Displaying 1 - 25 of 25 reviews