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Billy Bat #19
ビリーバット 19 [Billy Bat 19]
崩壊へと向かう地球。それを知りつつもビリーが見えないケヴィン。世界の果てに出現したビリーバットマニアの集団、黒蝙蝠教団とは正か邪か!? 終わりの始まりの開幕だ――。
198 pages, Paperback
First published June 23, 2016
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About the author
Naoki Urasawa
299 books2,875 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
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July 19, 2025
"Observe the world around you and never give up. Keep drawing, again and again."
Attuned Soundtrack
2017.
Maggie Culkin goes on a trip with director Kotarō Akechi in order to find the fabled origins of the black bat, straight to Tibet, where a bat cult seems to gather, creating bat-shaped geoliths. She is soon joined by her mother Jackie and Kevin Goodman. Little do they know that they are about to meet again with Yamashita and armless Kevin Yamagata, drawing with his mouth!
Timmy Sanada's Billy Bat proves resoluty warlike and out-and-out hollow, while its author shows his true colours: a violent control freak, utterly scornful and careless CEO, obsessed with seizing energy sources and water, worldwide through Culkin Enterprise's subsidiaries. Feeling threatened by the giant bat structure in Tibet, he demands that Chinese authorities squash the cultists.
To say nothing of the great reunion of these memorable characters for a grand finale in Tibet and next in Javier, Spanish Basque Country, I enjoyed the references old, spunky Akechi makes to legendary documentaries Lost in la Mancha and Hearts of Darkness, the one about Apocalypse Now's production hell.
"Maybe I can see him... or maybe not. [...] Billy is in your heart."
See also:
Earthly Powers
Attuned Soundtrack
2017.
Maggie Culkin goes on a trip with director Kotarō Akechi in order to find the fabled origins of the black bat, straight to Tibet, where a bat cult seems to gather, creating bat-shaped geoliths. She is soon joined by her mother Jackie and Kevin Goodman. Little do they know that they are about to meet again with Yamashita and armless Kevin Yamagata, drawing with his mouth!
Timmy Sanada's Billy Bat proves resoluty warlike and out-and-out hollow, while its author shows his true colours: a violent control freak, utterly scornful and careless CEO, obsessed with seizing energy sources and water, worldwide through Culkin Enterprise's subsidiaries. Feeling threatened by the giant bat structure in Tibet, he demands that Chinese authorities squash the cultists.
To say nothing of the great reunion of these memorable characters for a grand finale in Tibet and next in Javier, Spanish Basque Country, I enjoyed the references old, spunky Akechi makes to legendary documentaries Lost in la Mancha and Hearts of Darkness, the one about Apocalypse Now's production hell.
"Maybe I can see him... or maybe not. [...] Billy is in your heart."
See also:
Earthly Powers
August 23, 2018
Ahora que apenas falta un tomo, ya puedo responder a la pregunta que atenaza con Urasawa desde que concibe sus historias como algo más que episodios procedimentales: ¿merece la pena meterse entre pecho y espalda 4000 páginas una vez más llenas de promesas, cliffhangers y giros locos? Pues en este caso, habiéndolo leído como no se debe, a salto de mata a lo largo de cuatro años, si gustan el cómic y su historia, su influencia desde los tiempos del pulp hasta la actualidad, la respuesta es sí. Con sus expectativas mal gestionadas (por los autores, por los lectores) y sus vaivenes, he vuelto a quedar atrapado por el relato y los personajes. A mi me resulta satisfactorio.
January 29, 2017
Au lieu des passages du passé, nous avons ici un peu de futur proche....Toujours aussi intrigant !
April 21, 2023
Le rythme accélère trop ; il y a une sensation que tout est expédié pour conclure.
May 10, 2025
não entendi
February 3, 2023
Ho una tremenda voglia di piangere... E tanta angoscia...
June 8, 2024
One of the wildest things I’ve ever read but the ending somehow tied it together.
January 19, 2025
so rushed at this point theyre just tryna finish it
June 4, 2025
My Heart Can’t stopping pounding. The anticipation is on the peak!
February 19, 2026
WOW WOW WOW THIS STORY KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER??! WE'RE ON THE FINAL ARC MAN I'M EXCITED ABOUT IT
let's talk about what happened:
the volume starts with Maggie that met for the first time Akechi; while Kevin Goodman takes care of his old parents that were sweet. Culkin complains with Kevin Goodman about the new billy Bat's story by Timmy Sanada since they're always talking about the war and Kevin says it's his fault leaving it on his hands, then they're nostalgic and talk about how interesting and majestic was Yamagata's billy bat. Now Maggie and Akechi went to Tibet to find out the truth and leader of the leader of the religious cult about the bat for Akechi's newest film. Then we see Timmy Sanada complaining with his coworkers (?) about their useless job about not killing already the leader of the religious organisation since he says it's a copy of his Billy Bat. Then our Akechi and Maggie are finally there in Tibet and Maggie heard for the first time the bat telling her to kill the leader of the religious cult. The story goes with the meeting after a long time between Audrie and Kevin Goodman, Jackie calls Kevin for saying her daughter heard the bat so he should go asap to Tibet too. The Akechi and Maggie exploration to the Tibet starts on the mountain where they met Kevin Goodman.
Timmy Sanada, nasty asf, goes to Beijing and talks to the Chinese ministers saying that they should kill all the copies of Billy Bat; while in Tibet the group met again Yamashita boy and he guides to them into the cave where the most awaited and beautiful scene happens: Kevin and Kevin Yamagata finally met, that was really the most beautiful scene from all the volume. While things outside the cave are all messy, terrorists want to kill everyone so the two Kevin are getting separated BUT with a big suprise that Kevin Yamagata told to Goodman he can finally go to Spain to meet the REAL BILLY BAT THAT'S INCREDIBLE
let's talk about what happened:
the volume starts with Maggie that met for the first time Akechi; while Kevin Goodman takes care of his old parents that were sweet. Culkin complains with Kevin Goodman about the new billy Bat's story by Timmy Sanada since they're always talking about the war and Kevin says it's his fault leaving it on his hands, then they're nostalgic and talk about how interesting and majestic was Yamagata's billy bat. Now Maggie and Akechi went to Tibet to find out the truth and leader of the leader of the religious cult about the bat for Akechi's newest film. Then we see Timmy Sanada complaining with his coworkers (?) about their useless job about not killing already the leader of the religious organisation since he says it's a copy of his Billy Bat. Then our Akechi and Maggie are finally there in Tibet and Maggie heard for the first time the bat telling her to kill the leader of the religious cult. The story goes with the meeting after a long time between Audrie and Kevin Goodman, Jackie calls Kevin for saying her daughter heard the bat so he should go asap to Tibet too. The Akechi and Maggie exploration to the Tibet starts on the mountain where they met Kevin Goodman.
Timmy Sanada, nasty asf, goes to Beijing and talks to the Chinese ministers saying that they should kill all the copies of Billy Bat; while in Tibet the group met again Yamashita boy and he guides to them into the cave where the most awaited and beautiful scene happens: Kevin and Kevin Yamagata finally met, that was really the most beautiful scene from all the volume. While things outside the cave are all messy, terrorists want to kill everyone so the two Kevin are getting separated BUT with a big suprise that Kevin Yamagata told to Goodman he can finally go to Spain to meet the REAL BILLY BAT THAT'S INCREDIBLE
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December 29, 2024
Wow!
I just can't fathom this turn of events.
Partly because Kevin & Kevin finally met after their first fateful meeting!
Partly because this feels like Urasawa upped the pacing.
Good God!
This was too good.
I'm still giving a 5/5 because it's still really good. The abrupt increase of pacing did not bother as much.
I just can't fathom this turn of events.
Partly because Kevin & Kevin finally met after their first fateful meeting!
Partly because this feels like Urasawa upped the pacing.
Good God!
This was too good.
I'm still giving a 5/5 because it's still really good. The abrupt increase of pacing did not bother as much.
May 13, 2025
Meine Güte, diesen Band habe ich regelrecht verschlungen. Wahnsinn welche Geschwindigkeit dieser Manga gerade am Ende der Story aufgenommen hatte. Die Ereignisse überschlagen sich und der Spannungsbogen wird zum Abschluss bis aufs Äußerste gespannt.
Fast schon schade, dass es mit dem nächsten Band nun auch schon wieder vorbei ist.
Fast schon schade, dass es mit dem nächsten Band nun auch schon wieder vorbei ist.
November 24, 2025
Guess I was mistaken. That guy who looked like zofu was actually Kevin, that makes sense. He just looks a lot like zofu. One volume left and I might finally get to find out all the secrets of Billy.
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December 4, 2019
Amazing.
January 20, 2022
Reappearances and the build up to the climax of this manga is here!
December 27, 2025
The return of Yamagata wasn’t executed well.
March 27, 2026
Im currently living in spain and i cant help but love that the final destination is in Spain xD
February 6, 2017
Un sursaut avant la fin...
May 27, 2024
Esto se encamina a su final!
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