Seinen Billy Bat by Urasawa Naoki

[ukimix]

Does anyone knows what book is that one Kurusu's father had? It seems to be German and Chinese, and with all the references to communism I wonder if is something by Marx or Engels.

Kurusu seems to be one of the main minions of the bad bat. I suppose he had chances to make his own path. He was bullied boy, who became an assassin. But he also found people who told him he had the power to decide about the world he wanted for him. I wonder if later we will see him waiting for his master, who, we know, died and never came back. It's interesting that the story focuses now on him.

 

[Josef]

The bad bat is the white one, he does not seem to take a certain form, though I think he is talking to adult Kurusu till this day.

 

[The Fool]

Bullied boy named Kiyoshi who becomes evil, this is a reference to Sadakiyo!

 

[redon]

BILLY BAT 110 RAW

http://www.sendspace.com/file/vbhrfk

 

[Ganner_Rhysode]

Wow, finally. More or less forgot about the release in December! Thank you, redon! Didn't expect to see Kevin so soon again... ;D

 

[Josef]

Spoiler: newest raws^^

A weird flashback chapter? I think the last chapter of the last batch was not scanned so I find it difficult to follow, I do understand that we are getting some back story on both real and fake Chuck though ...

---------- Post added December 15, 2013 at 11:01 AM ---------- Previous post was December 10, 2013 at 02:59 PM ----------

Oh now that makes sense we are getting some back story on Kevin and Chuck, the real chuck, now I understand we are getting back into the timeline, but it seems like it can be viewed as a flashback of the real Chuck ...

 

[redon]

BILLY BAT 114 RAW

http://www.sendspace.com/file/2jjqq0

 

[Josef]

114? What happened to chapters 111-113?

 

[kewl0210]

The public raws all exist online.
111:
http://exstorage.net/download/2746e...3814303b042a0e90ef4512d945e0b23c0e1e1?ref=CZW

112:
http://exstorage.net/download/36c10...47f628f09873395e0c6672c5572bfb3335e30?ref=CZW

113:
http://exstorage.net/download/b1283...06af69644a157d5f140e0540901ca31095e3a?ref=CZW

 

[Josef]

Well, they got scanned now! Nice.

Things are developing slowly but Kurusu's story actually got us to go to the moon! We'll see how this goes. Fake Chuck's Empire might slowly be crumbling ... HE WORKS FOR HITLER! Lol, this manga gives so little info and yet that info is filled with so much awesome stuff, we are dealing with similar stuff and yet we are discovering the deepest of mysteries, we are in a revolving door of history and yet we learn new tihngs for each event that happened, makes u rethink the whole thing.

Kurusu is dying soon, so I guess he was not the big bad guy .... he is just one of the people the bat talks to so that the bat can manipulate them towards his own ends, and in the end Kurusu is DYING TO SEE THE BAT ON THE MOON!

---------- Post added February 09, 2014 at 06:09 PM ---------- Previous post was January 27, 2014 at 06:39 AM ----------

115 and 116 raws here

http://raw.senmanga.com/Billy_Bat/


I think kewl has the translations for these, check his translator page here on MH.^^

---------- Post added February 16, 2014 at 07:37 AM ---------- Previous post was February 09, 2014 at 06:09 PM ----------

117 is also out, check link above.^^

How many more chapters before a break? Or was this it?

 

[Ganner_Rhysode]

That's it, so far. More to come in May.
There's also a translation for it, from kewl, as usual.

 

[Josef]

Finally read the two more chaps that are out, two more still need scan - read trans.

Well pretty clear as kewl said, but I loved the way Kevin decided to use his smarts to end the situation, one of the many mysteries is the power of the "MANGAKA" that draws billy and how he can change history, I sure hope next batch of 8 is not the last.

 

[kewl0210]

Does anyone know which issue BB is supposed to come back in? It said may and I think the new volume is coming out soon, but it wasn't in last week's Morning.

 

[Ganner_Rhysode]

I'm waiting myself on it and have no idea. Maybe redon's got a clue.
I check frenetically on senmanga (they had all the raws almost instantly, and were for me the fastest source I knew, when it came to Billy Bat) - but so far to no avail.

 

[Josef]

Well the end of chapter 117 just said "May"? It can be any day tho, unless any info was given after that? In any case assuming there are 2 more or so issues this month of the magazine? It would appear that it will be the last one?

 

[Heiji]

Back in #26 (29/05) with cover and lead color.

 

[redon]

BILLY BAT 118 RAW

http://www.sendspace.com/file/q1k01a

 

[The Fool]

So is Kevin Yamagata still alive? I don't get this manga

 

[Josef]

Berlin wall coming down! Thanks for the trans kewl and thanks for the raws redon!

So it would seem we are going to get the 3 chapters in one batch, joy! This is a nice chapter after the end of that arc, and I love how the authoritarian fake Check is getting the Hitler/Stalin treatment with big pictures hung of him.

---------- Post added June 08, 2014 at 05:10 AM ---------- Previous post was June 01, 2014 at 01:19 PM ----------

119 translation is up by kewl.^^ Check main page for trains.^^

Okay ... so I think everything is in a bit of a mess, might be due to timelines and shit being shifted? Or something completely different?

 

[Ganner_Rhysode]

I cannot find a raw of 119... :/ Andybody?