빌리 배트 19

Billy Bat #19

by Naoki Urasawa, 우라사와 나오키

2017. ¿Billy Bat provocará el final de la Humanidad o, por el contrario, será su salvador? Penúltima entrega de este manga seinen del gran Urasawa (Monster, 20th Century Boys, Happy).

Genres: Manga, Comics, Mystery, Seinen, Graphic Novels, Comics Manga, Fiction

Paperback

First published June 23, 2016

About the author

Urasawa 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

Reviews

[P.E. · Rating 5 out of 5]

"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

[Ignacio · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.

[Viedefun · Rating 4 out of 5]

Au lieu des passages du passé, nous avons ici un peu de futur proche....Toujours aussi intrigant !

[Frey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Le rythme accélère trop ; il y a une sensation que tout est expédié pour conclure.

[Emi gosto ruim · Rating 3 out of 5]

não entendi

[Dr. Tosetto · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ho una tremenda voglia di piangere... E tanta angoscia...

[litty (literature) burger 🍔 · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the wildest things I’ve ever read but the ending somehow tied it together.

[yoniko · Rating 3 out of 5]

so rushed at this point theyre just tryna finish it

[Princess Keziah · Rating 5 out of 5]

My Heart Can’t stopping pounding. The anticipation is on the peak!

[John Lemonsmith · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Aaron · Rating 5 out of 5]

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.

[Chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing.

[Solim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reappearances and the build up to the climax of this manga is here!

[A A · Rating 3 out of 5]

The return of Yamagata wasn’t executed well.

[Bouilloire · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un sursaut avant la fin...

[Milenrrama · Rating 5 out of 5]

Esto se encamina a su final!