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Mangahelpers Translations https://mangahelpers.com/translators/rss 2017-01-10T00:18:14+00:00 /favicon.ico MangaHelpers Admins admin@mangahelpers.com https://mangahelpers.com/t/g-i-a/releases/43001 [Português Brasileiro] [Translation] Billy Bat 133 by G_I_A 2017-01-10T00:18:14+00:00 G_I_A admin@mangahelpers.com

1

Desde aquele tempo, eu sempre fiz da mesma forma.
Acordo às 5:30... 6:00 é muito tarde, tem que ser 5:30 exatamente.
E depois de uma volta no parque...

O ex-assassino Devivie, que enterrou muitos trabalhos "verdadeiros" na escuridão... O seu "dia especial" começa agora?!

2

Eu entro numa cafeteria...
Encontro a mesa mais interna de todas...
E me sento de frente pra parede.
Se a mesa que eu quiser não estiver disponível, o dia termina aqui.
O que vai querer?
Mas sempre peço a mesma coisa...
Café preto bem forte.

3

Uma xícara...
Duas xícaras...
Sim, pois não?
Mais uma, por favor.

4

Depois que termino de tomar a terceira xícara, os preparativos estão completos.

Capítulo 133: Um Certo Procedimento (8/8)

O volume 15 está à venda!!! Graças ao seu apoio, mais de 5 milhões de cópias já foram vendidas!!!

5

Você é o único que ainda não votou.
A respeito de Timmy ser ou não um verdadeiro artista do Billy Bat...
Kevin já deixou bem claro que ele acha que Timmy é verdadeiro.
E eu também votei da mesma forma.
A trama que ele calculou tão elaboradamente... Sua técnica de expert...
Os cenários são satisfatórios assim...

6

E esses desenhos tão carismáticos dos personagens !!!
Como cartunista, você o avalia como perfeito, correto?
Sim. Se fosse para dizer as falhas...
Então seria...
Puramente devido a inveja.
Então é por isso que acha que ele é verdadeiro?
Sim.
Tudo o que resta é você nos dar a sua opinião.
Como trabalho artístico, eu concordo completamente com você...
O gibi dele é perfeito. No entanto...
No entanto?

7

Uma avaliação dessas é inútil em minha busca para um verdadeiro artista do Billy Bat.
Hoh... Então como você o julgou?
É que quando avalio a arte...
Checo se tenho vontade de matar o artista ou não.
Durante muitos anos, foi assim que fiz.
Depois de seguir um certo procedimento.
Um certo procedimento?

8

Sim. Pode-se dizer que é um certo tipo de ritual...
Depos de tomar a terceira xícara, eu me levanto e deixo o dinheiro sem esperar troco.
Depois saio da cafeteria...
E dou uma volta pela cidade durante algum tempo.

9

Eu não tô dormindo.
É uma boa cadeira, não é?
Sim...
Mesmo se eu travar, sinto que se deitar aqui posso ter boas ideias.

10

Então até você trava as vezes?
Sim, as vezes.
Sinto como se estivesse vagando em direção a um beco sem saída.
Ei, Timmy...
Acho que não tem problema em não desenhar o Billy Bat 100% das vezes.
Se tiver algo que quiser desenhar, desenhe como quiser.
As coisas que ele fala são bem loucas.
Foi o mesmo com o meu predecessor, Kevin Yamagata.
Ele ouvia o que o Billy dizia em 1963...

11

E terminou indo até Dallas, sem saber direito o que ia acontecer.
E Kennedy foi morto bem na frente dele.
Mas se quiser saber o que Kevin Yamagata conseguiu fazer...
Quando eu era criança, ele me salvou de uma bala perdida.
Então por isso eu acho...
Que Kennedy morreu no meu lugar.

12

Então basicalmente, o que o Billy diz não é 100% certo.
Se simplesmente escrever o que sente, isso vai se tornar a história do Billy.
Sério?
O Billy pode errar?
Como assim?
O Billy nunca erra.

13

Não tem nada que ele diga que não tenha sentido.
Ah, entendi...

14

Ei, mãe.
Quanto tempo esse cara vai ficar aqui?
Hmm?!
Isso tá ótimo!!!
Você é muito boa, Jackie-chan. Nunca pensei que poderia comer um Nitsuke tão gostoso aqui em Nova Iorque.
Nota: Nitsuke é um prato de peixe com muito molho de soja
Ah... Muito obrigado...
Ei, mãe.
Como é bom!
Eu disse pra você arrumar um novo namorado, mas não me diga que esse cara-

15

Pare de brincadeira!!!
Eu devo a minha vida a ele!!!
E é só isso mesmo?
Falando nisso, agora é a sua vez de salvar o mundo, Jackie-han!!!
Ha... Odeio quando as pessoas falam assim!!!
Como se o mundo estivesse em perigo ou fosse mesmo acabar!!!
Mas eu já te falei...
O mundo tá se afogando.
Tá, tá. Eu sou a "palha" lá... Já entendi.
Oh!!!
Ei, escuta o que o morcego tá falando agora!
Hã?
Eu entendi.
Aconteceu o mesmo quando eu estava cortando as cebolas...

16

Aaah, não, eu não quero!
Hã?
O que foi, mãe?
Hã?!
Não, sério?!!
O-O que foi?! Qual é o problema, mãe?!!

17

E então eu paro numa banca.
Geralmente entro na fila quando tem um gibi do Billy Bat à venda.
Aqui está. Billy Bat, 2,50.
Se tiver acabado, o dia acaba ali, mas...

18

Aqui está. É a última edição do Billy Bat. 2,50.
Claro, eu mesmo pago.
E começo a ler enquanto ando.
Como uma criança que mal pode esperar para ver o que vai acontecer.

19

Quando faço isso, chego a uma conclusão.
Timmy Sanada... Ele, o novo artista do Billy Bat é...
Entendi...

20

nada

21

nada

22

O que foi?
Entendi...

23

Entendeu o quê?
O lugar que a organização pretende atacar.
Oh, está falando do lugar onde o líder vai atacar?
Então... Onde vai ser?
Acho que é em Nova Iorque.

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Nova...
Iorque...

Uma súbita mudança no rumo dos acontecimentos!!! Finalmente, a tragédia?! O arco de 2001 volta em Abril! Esperamos que estejam ansiosos por ele!!!

Billy Bat Capítulo 133 / Fim

https://mangahelpers.com/t/g-i-a/releases/42999 [Português Brasileiro] [Translation] Billy Bat 132 by G_I_A 2017-01-09T11:46:43+00:00 G_I_A admin@mangahelpers.com

1

O LA City National Plaza...
O Seattle Westin
O Philadelphia Commerce Square...
E este...

O gibi de Timmy, as palavras de Billy, as previsões de Kevin. Será que tudo isso sugere o fim dos Estados Unidos e do mundo?!!

2

O volume 15 está à venda!!!
Obrigado por todo o apoio, já foram mais de 5 milhões de cópias vendidas!!!

Capítulo 132: A Morte da Fantasia (7/8)

O World Trace Center...

3

Ele visitou várias "torres gêmeas", mas...
Consegue pensar em alguma imagem específica?
Não...
Nenhuma.

4

O que eu pensei foi...
Que basicamente alguém atacaria as "torres gêmeas".
E as torres que você desenhou tinham estilo medieval.
Sim. Foi como imaginei.
E agora estou preocupado em como essa imaginação...
Pode se tornar realidade.
Foi você que quis dar uma volta ao redor das torres gêmeas.
Eu não sou um profeta.
Só quer desenhar mangás interessantes.

5

É a sua frase favorita.
Se bem que seja verdade o fato de você não ser mais um profeta.
Já que o Billy parou de falar com você.
Tá dizendo que eu não sou mais um profeta?
Eu nunca fui um pra começo de conversa!
Já desenhei um monte de mangás...
E a maioria deles nunca se tornou realidade!
Porque são só mangás!

6

Já entreguei meus esboços e anotações pro Timmy.
Ele disse que os Estados Unidos serão atacados.
Então o que será que ele vai desenhar?
Acha que Timmy pode fazer isso?

7

Vamos almoçar. Tem um hambuguer ótimo por aqui.
Tem um monte de turistas e homens de negócios.
Esses arranha-céus são o símbolo dos Estados Unidos.
Se acontecer alguma coisa aqui...
A fantasia de que este país é pacífico, acabará.
E tudo se tornará real.

8

Vai deixar de ser um cartunista que desenha fantasia?
Vamos logo. Os hamburgueres de abacate vão acabar.
"Torres Gêmeas", "9/11"...

9

Entregue esses dois itens para a segurança interna.
Isso... É tudo?
Foi o que nossas previsões puderam produzir.
Não concorda?
Não, senhor...
É que...
Isso foi tudo o que pudemos confirmar a respeito do pergaminho que nos mandaram analisar.
Mas acha que eles ficarão satisfeitos só com isso?
Não posso assumir a responsabilidade por nada além disso.

10

Mas nós sabemos um pouco mais do que isso...
Já falei, não posso assumir a responsabilidade.
Sim, senhor...
Analise mais amplamente.
Mesmo que aja uma previsão, o que tiver que ser, será.
Sim, senhor...
Se fosse possível impedir que algo acontecesse...
Então essa previsão jamais aconteceria pra começo de conversa.

11

Prever corretamente algo que realmente vai acontecer...
Isso sim é uma profecia.
S-Sim, senhor...
É por isso que não posso me responsabilizar por mais nada.
Desculpem! Vendemos tudo!

12

Aaah, acabaram os hamburgueres de abacate...
Por mim pode ser um hamburguer normal.
Não... Se acabaram os daqui, tem outro a duas quadras naquela direção.
Hmm, eu não ligo...
Vamos!!!
Hmm?
Este hamburguer de abacate é bom demais!!!
Caramba, o que tem nisso?!!

13

Mãe, quem é esse cara?
Hmm... Eu podia te explicar, mas vai levar um tempo...
Resumindo, acho que ele é um tipo de super-herói a quem eu devo a minha vida...
Yamashita-kun!!!

14

Super-herói? Esse cara?
Sim... E ele realmente nos ajudou naquele tempo...
Kevin-san...

15

Por favor, melhore logo...
Vamos para Basque, na Espanha... Juntos...
Vamos...
Não chore.
Chorar não vai...
Fazer o Kevin-sensei melhorar.
Não seria mais útil pedir pro morcego fazer alguma coisa?
Ah! O mascote!!!
Ele caiu mais ou menos quando Zofuu-sensei foi embora. É importante, não é?

16

Tente pedir a ele pra curar o Kevin-sensei.
Por favor, Billy. Poderia salvar o Kevin?
Claro.
Isso pra mim é fácil. Mole, mole.
Deixa comigo.
Que ventriloquismo tosco!!!
E isso ainda foi com o dialeto de Kansai!!!

17

Você riu! Eu vi! Hohoho!
Hahahaha! Para com isso! Chega de ventriloquismo!!!
Quietos!!!
Gehuuu!
Cara, tô cheio.
Esse cara te salvou?
Bem... Sim...
Ei, Yamashita-kun, eu queria te perguntar uma coisa.
Heh?
Como você sabia que eu morava em Nova Iorque?

18

Eu não sabia!!! Também fiquei surpreso!!!
Eu estava visitando o túmulo do Zofuu-sensei e o morcego apareceu!
Morcego...
E ele voou direto pro aeroporto de Kansai!
Aaaah!
Hmm?
Por favor, pode não falar isso na frente da minha filha?
Do que estão falando? Eu sei um pouco de japonês...
Mas não consigo entender muito bem o que esse cara fala.
Ah... Sim, japonês.
E no dialeto de Kansai... Kuh...
Enfim, sim, eu imaginei que isso...
Fosse coisa do morcego.
Sim.

19

Mas por que voltar depois de tanto tempo...
Jackie, não aconteceu nada, não é...
Vai acontecer alguma coisa, não é?
Já faz um tempo que sinto um zumbido no ouvido...
É a voz do morcego, não é?
Mãe, você tá bem?
Ha~
Jackie-chan.
Escute...
Acho que é a "palha"

20

Palha?
Sim, como se tivesse "procurando por palha".

Nota: o provérbio japonês literalmente diz: "quando se está se afogando, até palha serve para ajudar".

Eu não sei do que você tá falando... Faz tempo que não falo japonês e você agora vem com provérbios..
É tipo, como se alguém estivesse se afogando e até uma palha ajudasse!!!
Hã?
Agora, não há uma vida boa como no tempo do Zofuu-sensei e do Kevin-sensei!
Então em horas assim, ele tá dependendo de "palha" como a gente!!!
Quem?

21

O morcego.
O morcego tá se afogando?
É a Terra que tá se afogando!!!
Ah...

22

Me perdoem!!!
Ei, mãe, tá tudo bem mesmo?
Hmm, sim...
Enfim, Zofuu-sensei me disse isso a muito tempo atrás...
Yamashita-kun, o destino de muitas coisas diferentes, depende de você.
M-Muitas coisas diferentes... Tipo o quê?
O futuro do mundo.
O futuro do mundo...
Sim.
Foi isso o que Zofuu-sensei me disse.

23

Agora que falou nisso, há um tempo eu também...
O mundo vai acabar, não é?!
Não, é o contrário.
Eu quero que você o impeça de acabar!
O que foi, mãe?
Hmm... Nada...
Ooh!!!

24

Huh!!!
Rápido, vai!!!
Vá encontrar Kevin Goodman, rápido!!!
Yamashita-kun...
Sim?
Eu imploro, por favor me diga que está fazendo seu ventriloquismo de novo...
Vai!!!
Não sou eu!!!
Rápido, vai!!!
Hih!!!

Billy Bat Capítulo 132 / Fim

Será que essa estranha dupla poderá impedir o fim do mund... Não, impedir seu "afogamento"?! Será que a voz de Billy alcançará Kevin?!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/41713 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 141 by kewl0210 2015-08-29T08:13:43+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

It feels like it's been 35 years since we had that conversation.
Ok, volume 17's all translated.

[Billy Bat 141 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Devivie: It's not here.
It's Chicago.
Title: The Heart's Master
Kevin: Mr. Devivie...... You lied to me.
Didn't you?
The truth is you knew that the World Trade Center was the target for the terrorism and still said that.........
Why?

Page 2:
Kevin: Did Billy tell you to lie to me or something......?
Where am I......
supposed to go............?
Title: Chatoer 141 The Heart's Master

Page 3:
Jackie: Please.....
Please talk to me.
What am I supposed to do, Billy?

Page 4:
Jackie: Please, tell me.......
Audrey: We will not be making any changes due to 9/11 whatsoever.
The Billy Bat animated movie will be move along for release just as planned.

Page 5:
Audrey: How are our ratings?
Guy: Up 150% compared to last year. And with this momentum it will be 200% by the end.
Audrey: And the additional printings?
Guy: We've ordered a urgent re-printing of all previously published issues.
Audrey: And new works,
Timmy?
I've heard you want to change the Billy Bat artwork to be more of a Chuck Culkin style, yes?
Kevin: Yeah. I did some test drawings for that, but......

Page 6:
Audrey: So you want to use these pictures to give people hope...... is that right?
I agree with your decision. Let's go with it.
Kevin: Okay!!
Audrey: You must be happy, this being originally your style and all, right Chuck?
Chuck: Yes.
Audrey: Very well.
Now the world needs Billy Bat more than ever. So our company must rise to fulfill that duty!!
Men: Yes, m'am!!

Page 7:
Audrey: Well, I have a charity meeting to get to.
Guys: Yes, m'am!
SFX: KAH KAH
Chuck: Timmy.
I got a phone call from Kevin.
Tim: Thank god!!
So he's okay?
Chuck: He's searching for Devivie.
He may have been a victim of the terror attacks.
Tim: Mr. Devivie......

Page 8:
Chuck: I tried all I could to convince him otherwise, but he's made up his mind.
Kevin Goodman isn't coming back.
He's truly passed the baton to you.
Hey,
I don't mind if you change the artwork, but......

Page 9:
Chuck: Is that what he......
what the bat wanted?
People: NO TO WAR!!
The middle east is not our enemyyyy!!
PEACE NOT WAR!!
PEACE NOT WAR!!
SFX: DON
SFX: WOBBLE WOBBLE

Page 10:
People: War is not the answer!!
NO TO WAR!
SFX: GI....

Page 11:
Guy: Oh, it's you!
Kevin: Can I...... go in?
Guy: Y...... Yeah. Hold on a sec.
M'am, could you finish up what you're reading there?
They're pretty expensive, these books in here......
Jackie: Ah...... I'm sorry.
Kevin: Ah.......
Jackie: Ah......
Guy: Huh? You guys know each other......?

Page 12:
Kevin: Could I have a minute?
Guy: Uh...... Sure.
Be careful with those books.
Kevin: Yeah, I got it.
Sure didn't expect to meet you here......
Jackie: Y...... Yeah.
Kevin: Did Billy say anything to you after that?
Jackie: No, nothing......
Kevin: Well...... While I'm here, I've gotta thank you.
It's thanks to you that I'm here, safe and sound......

Page 13:
Jackie: What do you mean?
Kevin: It's nothing......
Do you come here a lot?
Jackie: No. It's my first time here...... I looked it up online.
Kevin: This place has a collection of Kevin Yamagata version 'Billy Bat's.
Jackie: I was surprised to see it when I got here.
I used to have some of my own, but I gave them all away. But they're all in a row here......
If I stay at home I feel like I'm gonna go insane...........
I keep wondering if there's something more I could've done......

Page 14:
Jackie: I don't know what I'm supposed to do now.......
So I thought maybe I'd find something in Kevin Yamagata's 'Billy Bat' comics......
Kevin: I was thinking the same thing.
So, was there anything there?
Jackie: They're the same ones I read when I was a girl.......
Fun, exciting..........
heart-pounding and interesting...........

Page 15:
Jackie: It's so bittersweet............
Kevin: I loved this scene from 'The Volume of the Mystery of the Cave".
When Cissy was driven to the edge of a cliff by the bad guy
and she slips,
and then.......
the flapping wings of a bat come out of nowhere...............

Page 16:
Billy: You awake?
Cissy: You...... You saved me?
Billy: Dunno what yer talkin' about.
Cissy: I'm sure I heard wings the moment I fell off the cliff.
Billy: You were probably just havin' a nightmare.
Cissy: Huh?
Billy: Just so ya know, I.......
Jackie: "don't start flapping my wings for something like that,"
Kevin: That's right!!

Page 17:
Kevin: Man, the Kevin Yamagata version of 'Billy Bat' sure is cool.
Jackie: Hey, what about this one?
'The Volume of the Murder at the 120th Street Intersection'.
When the shoe-shine boy tried to join the gang that went around robbing people all night......
Billy: Got it, boy?
Nighttime is for sleeping.
Never think about goin' around at night again.
Kid: But Billy, you're a bat. Doing things at night is your specialty, isn't it?
Billy: Don't joke around.
If I went wanderin' about at night
Kevin: "I wouldn't be able to show off these shoes you made sparkle to anyone!"
Jackie: That's right!!

Page 18:
Jackie: Billy sure was invincible.
Kevin: Then I think my favorite one is "The Volume of the Pharaoh's Curse".
Jackie: Ah, that's my favorite, too!
Kevin: Billy had finally captured the great scoundrel Gonzo...
Billy: Okay, Gonzo!!
Gonzo: Forgive me~~~
Billy: Do you know how much you made that old lady cry?!!
Gonzo: I know, but I'm beyond hope!!
Billy: You are not beyond hope!!
Gonzo: Huh?
Billy: You never learn anything from others, that's why you're always like that!
You need to make a master for your heart.
Gonzo: Master of my heart......?
Billy: Yeah. A master you can hold in high esteem for your whole life.

Page 19:
Jackie: "Find a master."
"Travel the world"
"and find your true master."
Kevin: My heart's master is......
Kevin Yamagata......
Jackie: It's been 35 years since I said goodbye to him in Japan.......
Kevin: Huh......?

Page 20:
Kevin: You know the actual Kevin Yamagata......?
Jackie: Yeah...... He suffered some really bad injuries......
but we had to go back home to America. We didn't have time to wait for him to recover.
..........!!
Kevin: !?
Wh...... What is it?
Jackie: "Travel the world".......
"and find your master"......
Kevin: Huh......?
Jackie: We promised, didn't we......?

Page 21:
Jackie: That we'd go together.
Kevin: Where?
Jackie: To Basque Country, Spain.

Page 22:
Timmy: Yes.
Of course he wanted it.
Chuck: Then it's fine......
Perfectly fine.
Timmy: Of course 'he' wanted it.
Isn't that right?

Page 23:
Narration: 1990-----

Page 24:
Disney: Who......
are you......?
Timmy: I'm......
Timmy.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/41712 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 140 by kewl0210 2015-08-29T04:50:05+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

[Billy Bat 140 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Bush: This is war.
We will stand against them.
Title: Chapter 140 The Heart's Visitor
Bush: The congress of the United States has recognized these acts of terror
and adopted resolutions to give the president necessary and appropriate powers to combat countries that plan, consent to, enact, and support terrorism.
This is war.
We will stand against them.

Page 2-3:
Somebody: We will stand against them!!
SFX: ZA... ZA...
Title: Chapter 140 The Heart's Visitor

Page 4:
Narration: Union Square, New York----

Page 5:
[Shit's all already in English.]

Page 6:
People: PEACE NOT WAR!!
We want peace!! Not war!!
PEACE NOT WAR!!
Woman: I know what you're trying to say, but then how do we fight the terrorists without war?!!
Guy: War never solves anything!!
Then are we just supposed to sit here and do nothing?!!
People: PEACE NOT WAR!!
PEACE NOT WARR!!
The Middle East is not our enemy!!
The victims of the attack would not want war!!

Page 7:
Somebody: We cannot respond to this with waaar!!

Page 8:
Kevin: It'll stand out more if you put it a little higher.
Kid: Ah......?
Kevin: How about here?
Kid: Thank you.

Page 9:
Kevin: Is it okay if I put one up next to it?
Kid: That's not a photo, huh?
Kevin: Yeah.
I don't have any photos of this person.
Kid: Who drew it?
Kevin: I did.
Kid: You're really good.
Kevin: Really? I just hope it looks enough like him......

Page 10:
Kid: I'm sure it looks like him.
It's okay. You'll find him.
Kevin: Same with your dad.
Kid: Yup.
Kevin: I'm sorry.......
Kid: What're you saying you're sorry for?
Kevin: I know I could've done something......

Page 11:
Kevin: But......
I wasn't able to do anything......

Page 12:
Maggie: Mom.
You've gotta get up and eat something.
Jackie: Nnnnnnn...
I'm not hungry..............
Maggie: Hey, the whole world gets sad when stuff like this happens.
You're kinda acting like you're shouldering the whole thing.
Jackie: I guess......
Maggie: There's nothing one person can do on their own.
So c'mon, get up......

Page 13:
Jackie: Maybe I could have......
Maggie: Huh?
Jackie: Same with what happened in Dallas in '63......
If I just did what I was supposed to, then President Kennedy wouldn't have......
Maggie: Kennedy?
Jackie: If I'd just done what I was supposed to......
I'd be looking at the Twin Towers through this window.

Page 14:
Chuck: So here's where you are.
Timmy: I would come here and space out when I finished jobs, too.
You'd better rest up while you can.
There's going to be a big commotion starting soon.
Timmy: Big commotion..........?

Page 15:
Chuck: Yeah......
You did write a manga that predicted a terrorist attack, after all.
I'm sure Audrey will manage it well, but.......
you're going to be the focus of an incredible level of attention.
Everyone will be wondering what Timmy will draw next.
Don't lose yourself in all of that.
Tim: Um......
Chuck: Hm?
Tim: I've been thinking.
About......
what I'd draw next.

Page 16:
Chuck: Oh?
Timmy: I want to change the Billy Bat character.
Chuck: Huh?
Timmy: Is it okay if I go back to your Billy Bat?
Chuck: What are you talking about?
Timmy: Your Billy Bat is bright and cute.
I want to brighten up this world that's gotten so depressed.
Chuck: But look how old I am. It'll be hard for me to help out.
Tim: It's okay. I'll can draw Billy Bat
just like yours.

Page 17:
Tim: I want to bring a light of hope to the world.
Maggie: BUHA~~~~!!
Woah!! Wh-What's with that getup?!!

Page 18:
Yamshita: I'm volunteerin' ta clean up the rubble.
Tha's all I can do.
I'm headin' back out after I take a shower 'n eat somethin'.
Jackie-han
is still asleep, eh?
I know how she feels.

Page 19:
Yama: But ya gotta get up.
The real problem is still comin'.
There's gotta be somethin' only we can do.
Maggie-han, food, ple~~~se!
SFX: DOTA DOTA
Maggie: Aaaah, geez. You're gonna get the whole house covered in mud!

Page 20:
Jackie: Something only I can do.

Page 21:
Jackie: Ah......
Here it is.........
SFX: GI...
Jackie: Um......
Er, excuse me.

Page 22:
Guy: You buyin' or sellin'?
Jackie: Er...... Wellll......
Do you have any Kevin Yamagata edition 'Billy Bat' in?
Huh? In here?
Guy: Though we don't have much in stock now.
Jackie: Oh......
Guy: Ever since those terrorist attacks, 'Billy Bat's' been selling like crazy.
What's more, it's the Kevin Yamagata verison.
So it ain't cheap.
Jackie: Uh...... How much?
Guy: Prices start at 500 dollars. The good condition ones are more than twice that.
Jackie F....... Five hundred?! M...... More than twice......?!

Page 23:
Jackie: O...... Okay, then could I just have a little look at them?
Guy: Yeah, be careful with them.
Jackie: Waa......
Mr. Kevin......
Hey......

Page 24:
Jackie: Say something...........
Please, say something to me......
Please, Billy......!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/41709 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 139 by kewl0210 2015-08-28T03:50:34+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

I got the volume of this so I can finally finish the rest of this set at least. I'm still looking into getting it scanlated.

[Billy Bat 139 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
SFX: BOM BOBA BO BON
SFX: DODOTAN DOGAGA
SFX: GYAN GYAN GYAU
Guy: Get out of heeeeere! [Music note]
Run away, babyyyyyyy! [Music note]
SFX: DODOH DOGAGA GYOO
Title: Chapter 139 Fated Day

Page 2:
Guy: These towers are dangerouuuus! [Music note]
Watch out for these toweeeers! [Music Note]
SFX: GYA GYAN
Guy: Somebody's comin' to tear apart the skyyyyy! [Note]
He's comin' all right! [Note]
Get the hell outta heeeeere! [Note]
Get out, get out, get oooooout! [Note]
Get ooooout! [Note]
Kevin: We're screwed......
SFX: DOKA DOKA BOBON

Page 3:
Kevin: Nobody's paying any attention......
Guy: Get out! Get out, get ooout!!
SFX: DON GAN GOGOGAN FYA FYAII
Title: Chapter 139 Fated Day

Page 4:
Guy: GET OUT GET OUT GET OOOOOUT! [Note]
GE......
Aw man......
SFX: DODON...
Kevin: Why'd you stop?
Keep playing!!
Guy: You idiot! There's a cop!!
Kevin: So you should keep going!!
Phil: Huh?
Kevin: Getting in a dispute with a police officer will draw more of a crowd!
We've got to get attention somehow!!
Phil: I don't want to get any attention from a cop......
Cop: A-HEM!

Page 5:
Cop: Could I have a moment of your time?
Phil: Ah...... Hah.
Kevin: Please don't interrupt.They're in the middle of a live concert.
Phil: You idiot......
Kevin: If you think you can stop us, go ahead and try!!
Cop: No, no......
I just want you to turn the volume down a little.
Phil: Huh?
Cop: Julia says she can't sleep.
Phil: Julia......?
Cop: Yes. Julia Roberts.
She's been working all night filming on location so now she's sleeping.

Page 6:
Phil: Okay......
Cop: I know you want to go all out with your performance,
but just do us a small favor and turn the volume down a bit.
Phil: One, two...
SFX: BOM DON DON TSUKU
Kevin: Hey!!
Be a little flashier about it!
Phile: We don't want anymore trouble with the cops.
SFX: DON TSUKU
Phil: Hey-

Page 7:
Phil: Hey, ladies and gentlemen. We have a special guest taking the stage.
The most famous Billy Bat author in the world, Kevin Goodman!!
Guy: Billy Bat......?
Woman: Kevin Goodman?
Kevin: Ah, yeeees.
Uuhhh. everyone.
I have a very important announcement to make.
So please, everyone listen.
Guys: What?
What's he saying?
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA ZAWA ZAWA
Kevin: Please get away from these center buildings of the World Trade Center.
Not long from now, there's going to be......

Page 8:
Kevin: something really bad happening......
SFX: KAH
SFX: KAH KAH
Kevin: Mr. Devivie......
Devivie: You're wrong.
Kevin: Huh?
Devivie: It's not here.
It's Chicago.

Page 9:
Kevin: Wh...... What did you say?
Devivie: The incident isn't going to happen at the New York World Trade Center.
It's going to happen at the Chicago Marina City Twin Towers.
Kevin: .........!!
Devivie: You met a Japanese American woman, correct?
Kevin: Y...... Yes.
Devi: If you couple what I'm saying with what she said, you should understand.
Jackie: That person is a big liar!

Page 10:
Kevin: But who'd you get that information from.....?
Devi: From the bat.
Kevin: Timmy......... You're......
So then Chicago is where......
Devie: You should head there now.
Kevin: Guys, we're going!!
Phil: Huh?!
H...... Hang on! Our equipment's still......!! Hey......!!

Page 11:
Guys: What the hell.........?
Is it over already......?
I was wondering what was going on there......
Just a false alarm........
Devi: Now then..........

Page 12:
Devi: I suppose I'll get started..........
SFX: UIIIIII
Devi: Billy......
I did as you said.

Page 13:
SFX: PAN
Billy: YO!
Yo!
I want you to tell a lie.

Page 14:
Devi: Me? A lie......?
Bill: Yep.
If you don't do something, Kevin's gonna die.
Devi: Kevin Goodman..........?
Billy: Yep.
Let me tell you just what's gonna happen
on September 11th.
SFX: DING...
SFX: GAKO...N

Page 15:
Kid: Woah! It's so high up!!
Devi: Are you alone, boy?
Kid: Yeah. My mom's working on one of the lower floors. She told me to wait for her at the restaurant upstairs.
Devi: I see.
Kid: Look, look! We're so high u~~p!
Devi: Boy.
Boy: !!

Page 16:
Devi: Something very bad is about to happen to this building.
You should get out of the building as fast as you can.
Kid: Hu~~~~h?
Devi: I'm serious!!
Kid: Uh...... Er, but......
What about you, mister.........?
Devi: Mister has done horrible things to a lot of people.
He has to make up for that.

Page 17:
Devi: Go! As fast as you can!!
Use the stairs, not the elevator!!
Now then........
How many people can I save?
SFX: KAH
Devi: Everyone!!

Page 18:
Devi: Vacate the building immediately!!
Sign: Grand Central Station----
Guys: Hurry up! Our train to Chicago's gonna leave without us!!
But out equipment!!
Kevin: We can just get some equipment there!!

Page 19:
Phil: Uhoh. You'll buy us some new amps?!
And a drum set, too?
Kevin: Sure, just hurry up!!
Guy: Do you think he'll get me a guitar, too?
Phil: You idiot. First we gotta get a huge amp.

Page 20:
SFX: ZUUN
Phil: What the?
Guy: What was that..........?
That wasn't normal......
Phil: That sounded like a giant amp going off at full volume.........
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA ZAWA ZAWA
Guys: Hm?

Page 21:
[No text]

Page 22-23:
[And there it is.]

Page 24:
TB: And now, following the attack on the North Tower,
the South Tower has been hit by a second passenger plane.
I repeat. The New York World Trade Center buildings have just......
Chuck: M......
My God.......
Kevin: I was right..........

https://mangahelpers.com/t/gbr/releases/41699 [Português Brasileiro] [Translation] Billy Bat 71 by GBR 2015-08-24T18:48:29+00:00 GBR admin@mangahelpers.com

Reservado para Breaker Scan.

pág.01

Viagem no tempo, hein...?
Assim como eu pensei, você sabe sobre isso.
Por favor, pare! Pare de pensar sobre coisas tão terríveis!!
Porque você acha que viagem no tempo é tão terrível, Professor Einstein?
Capítulo 71: Viagem no Tempo e Terras Infinitas
Tendo chegado o maior gênio da história da humanidade, Einstein, que é a verdade mais hedionda e terrível...!?

pág.02

Chega! Professor Einstein está cansado!!
Kobe 1922---
Professor, por favor, vamos para o hotel!!
Por favor, espere.
Apenas dois ou três minutos.
Que línguas você fala? Você sabe alemão?
Sou muito bom com a literatura alemã. Ich liebe dich!
N/T: Ich liebe dich = Eu te amo.
Qual foi o que você viu?

pág.03

Qual...?
Estou perguntando se você viu o preto ou o branco?!!
Há um preto e um branco?
Sim!! E é extremamente importante!
Se você ainda não sabe algo assim, fique de fora desses assuntos!
Eu não tenho escolha.
Esse cara fala comigo.
Então eu não vou falar mal de você.
Mas mesmo que ele fale com você, nunca responda ele de novo.
Se você ignorá-lo por um tempo, ele vai parar de aparecer.
O que é terrível sobre viagem no tempo?

pág.04

Não parece que você é muito bom com a língua alemã, então eu vou ser bem sincero.
Se você for a fundo nisso, então...
Irei viajar através do tempo...
e matarei sua família.
Aldeia Koumori 1964
HAAHHAHHAHHAH!!

pág.05

HAHHAHHAH Essa é a sua razão certificada?
Porque o Professor Einstein disse que a viagem no tempo era possível...
e que ele iria voltar no tempo e matar sua família...?
E o que o professor disse que aconteceria se ele fizesse isso?
Se meus pais desaparecessem, o que você acha que aconteceria comigo?
HAHAHAHA!!
Então o maior gênio estudioso na história disse isso para você, não disse?
E por isso, se você tivesse que voltar no tempo e matasse meus pais,
Você está dizendo que eu iria desaparecer...!!

pág.06

Hmph. Mesmo a coisa que você deseja é algo similar.
Você está queimando meus livros "Komori Kozo"...
e eliminando todos os livros do "morcego" que foram desenhados em todo o mundo até agora.
E fazendo com que o seu camarada Chuck Culkin, ou qualquer coisa que você tenha chamado,
o único "Billy Bat" restante neste mundo.
Em outras palavras, você está falsificando a história.
Mesmo o seu sendo uma farsa, você está destruindo os artigos genuínos e supostamente o seu será o único real genuíno.

pág.07

Mas, o que seu chefe realmente quer, é,
o pergaminho.
Se você queimar o resto a cinzas, o único artigo genuíno restante será o pergaminho.
Se você tiver esse pergaminho, você pode controlar o tempo.
Para alguém amador que não sabe se o morcego é preto ou branco para se envolver com isso,
alguém como o seu chefe, é o mais perigoso.
Não tem como eu deixar um imbecil como esse controlar o tempo!!
GUHOU!!
GUI

pág.08

Que feio.
Ficar jorrando tolices em leito de morte.
Kuih
GUOE GUOH!!
O que aconteceu com a história sobre como você estava indo viajar ao passado e matando minha família?
Ugu... GUO...
O "Billy Bat" de Chuck Culkin que você ama tanto,
é uma imitação do meu "Billy Bat" que meu discípulo Kevin Yamagata desenhou!!
É, agora?
E o "Billy Bat" de Kevin Yamagata é uma imitação do meu "Komori Kozo"!!
Oh? Por favor, continue.
E o meu "Komori Kozo" é uma imitação do meu mestre!!

pág.09

Seu mestre...?
Sim... Quase 50 anos atrás, o meu mestre me disse isso.
Zofuu, quando você for abordado por perigo de vida...
Eu irei matá-los!!
Cissy e Gary.
Cissy e Gary...
Esses são os nomes dos personagens amados e inimigos que aparecem em "Billy Bat". O que têm eles?
Não!!

pág.10

Esses são os nomes dos seus pais.
Eu estou certo, não estou?
Saia jorrando jargão aleatório.
Guih
GUHO GEEH!!
Parece que o que meu mestre me disse realmente era verdade.

pág.11

Meu mestre era um homem temível. Ele iria cometer um assassinato sem pestanejar!!
Agora, ele está aparecendo nas proximidades de seus pais!!
Perto de Cissie e Gary antes de você nascer!!
O que você está dizendo?!!
GUE GUOOO!!
GISHIH

pág.12

E...?
Por que vocês dois de repente se tornaram tão próximos?
Eh... Ah... Bem...
Is... Isso é porque você é um grande fã de Kevin Yamagata, pai...
Certo?
Sim...

pág.13

Hmm...
Nesse caso, por que o Sr. Kevin se juntou a nós para a nossa visita ao túmulo?
Ah... Aah, s... sim, eu acho que é meio estranho.
Haha...
É uma pesquisa para um novo trabalho.
É... é isso, ele está fazendo pesquisa!!
Sr. Kevin está apenas indo para a Península de Kii para fazer pesquisa!!
Nós três não estamos muito familiarizados com o Japão, então eu pensei que iríamos ficar mais tranquilizados se fôssemos juntos.
Hmm...
E mesmo que ele chame de pesquisa, eu estou um pouco interessada nisso por mim mesma.
Seria possível se pudéssemos parar por este lugar chamado aldeia koumori antes de visitar o local do túmulo...?

pág.14

ZUZU...
Pode ser que vocês dois estejam...?
Hã?
Ah... Não é nada.
Entre vocês dois, tem...
algum tipo de segredo...
Não. Pai, sobre o que você está falando?!
D... Deixa pra lá... Eu apenas pensei...
Que vocês dois fossem capazes de ouvir a voz dele, também...

pág.15

Ah... Não, não é nada, realmente...
Tudo bem, vamos juntos. Vai ser um prazer.
É um prazer para mim também. Desculpe por perguntar tanto de você.
Ok, então vamos sair amanhã...!!
Sim.
Eu levarei ele lá fora.
Pisha...
Pai... Ele pode ter percebido alguma coisa.
Bem, eu certamente acho que é estranho, de repente ele disse algo assim,
Mas, agora eu preciso do seu poder.
Poder...?
Apenas por ser capaz de ouvir a voz do morcego...

pág.16

De qualquer forma, temos que nos apressar... Algo está acontecendo com o meu mestre...
Entendi.
Se eu puder ajudar, eu vou fazer tudo que puder.
Obrigado.
Para ser perfeitamente honesta, eu estou...
aliviada...
Ser a única capaz de ver e falar com o morcego,
me fez pensar que era louca.
E quando aquilo aconteceu com a única pessoa que poderia falar com ele, Sr. Oswald...

pág.17

Ei, o que você acha que o morcego é...?
Nós vamos descobrir isso.
KOTO...
Mmmmmmm.
O que esses dois estão pensando...?
Bem, de qualquer maneira, eu irei viajar com o autor do meu quadrinho favorito, Billy Bat...

pág.18

Talvez seja o destino?
Não responde afinal, não é?
Mesmo que você tenha sido o meu navegador de táxi e tudo mais...
Recentemente você foi muito frio, não é mesmo?
Professor Einstein...
Então, se os meus pais morrerem...

pág.19

Eu desapareceria, também?
Você está se referindo a mundos paralelos... mundos de dimensões diferentes?
dimensões diferentes...?
Sim. Como em um mundo que você existe e um mundo que você não existe.
Em tal caso, a simples escolha de você virar à esquerda ou virar à direita na rua é o suficiente para criar um mundo diferente.
O número de mundos paralelos são infinitos.
Então não há nada a temer.
Mesmo que meus pais sejam mortos por você,
Eu só vou desaparecer neste mundo. Eu ainda vou existir em outros mundos, certo?

pág.20

Professor, nós realmente precisamos ir.
O que eu vou dizer a seguir é de extrema importância. Por favor, ouça atentamente.
Como você disse, nos mundos paralelos, há um número infinito de universos.
Se há um universo onde você, eu e esta Terra naturalmente não existem,
há também um universo onde em um planeta semelhante estamos vivendo de maneira similar.
Que história magnífica.
Só de imaginar faz meu coração bater.
Eu gostaria de desenhar um mangá sobre isso.
Universos infinitos e infinitas Terras...

pág.21

E um número infinito de minha existência.
Não, isso não.
?
O único que existe é você.
O mesmo vale para a terra, o único que existe é o presente.

pág.22

Você pode pesquisar todos os universos, e neles não existem quaisquer outras terras.

pág.23

O q... O que aconteceu com os outros...?
Eles foram todos destruídos.
Agora, a única terra é esta aqui.
De... De quem você ouviu isso?
Que história...

pág.24

Ele disse que todas as terras infinitas nos universos infinitos, todas desapareceram deixando apenas uma remanescente?!
"Billy Bat" Capítulo 71 / Fim.

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/41344 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 138 by kewl0210 2015-05-23T04:07:13+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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So wait, it's already September 11th? Did they say what day it was somewhere before?

[Billy Bat 138 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Maggie: Hey!
Hey, Mom, hold on!!
He's Kevin Goodman!
Let's at least get an autograph!
Jackie: I told him what I had to tell him.
My job's done now.
Mag: Huuuh? Oh, come on!!
Yama: Ah well. We're just the straw he grabbed at.
Mag: Huh?
Side: Timmy's a liar?! What's Billy's intending by telling them that?! Was the terrorism of New York a work of fiction?!

Page 2:
Yama: We're just helpin' out the bat.
It's up ta those people now.
Mag: Hah......

Page 3:
Kevin: He's a liar...
Timmy Sanada is a liar.....
Title: Chapter 138 The Truth of the Liar (5/8)

Page 4:
Kevin: ........
Should I believe Timmy........
Or should I believe that woman.........?
SFX: BUBUUUUU BUBUUUUU

Page 5:
SFX: BUBUUUUU
Guy: You doing okay? You've been hanging up on that phone every time it goes off.
Kevin: It's my manager and editor.
It's a deadline at my job and they're searching desperately for me.
Guy: What? I thought it was an ex-girlfriend or something.
Deadline, eh? You a writer?
Kevin: Y... Yeah.
Something like that.
SFX: BUBUUU BUBUUU
Kevin: Yes. Hello?
Guy: Oh, is it a woman this time?
Kevin: Phil? Is that you?

Page 6:
Guy: Phil...... A man, huh?
Kevin: Why didn't you pick up any of the times I called you?
Huh? What was that?
Are you about to do a live show? It's so loud I can't hear you!
No.... Like I told you in the email, I want you to come to the world trade center at 8AM.
Huh?
Are you drunk? Geez, why're you still doing weird crap like this at your age......
Hey, Phil!!
I can't hear you! I have no idea what you're......
SFX: TSUUUU
Kevin: Huuuu...
Guy: I feel bad for you, getting pulled around by that cell phone.
Me, I'd never pick up a phone in the middle of a yankee game.

Page 7:
Kevin: Ah......
That's right, TV......!!
Guy: Heh?
Kevin: Please take what I'm about to say seriously.
Very soon, something terrible will happen in New York.
That's about to be broadcast!!
Change the channel!!
Guy: No way, kid. The Yankees!!
Kevin: Please!!
I just need to see the very last minute of the 'Billy Bat Hour'!!
Guy: Billy Bat Hour?
Heheh. Even I watch Billy a lot.

Page 8:
Guy: My pop would watch boxing and we'd fight over the channel a lot.....
Kevin: Please, hurry!!
Guy: Don't panic.
Girl: Billy!
Billy: Woah, woa~~~~h!
Falling in love with me'll make your father sad.
Girl: Billy.....
Narration: Disappearing alone into the mist, what adventures will Billy face next week......?
Guy: Same timeslot as always, e~~h?
Kevin: It's next...... It's starting......
Billy: We have an announcemeeeent!

Page 9:
Kevin: When this goes out, all of New York's gonna be in an uproar......
But I really don't care. It's being broadcast so there will be an uproar...... ["will" in italics.]
......?!
Audrey: You feeling all right, everyone out there in TV land?
I'm Audrey Culkin of Chuck Culkin Enterprises.

Page 10:
Audrey: We at Culkin Enterprises now have a special announcement for all the Billy Bat fans out there.
Kevin: What... is this......?
Audrey: The author of Billy Bat you all love.....
Kevin Goodman is retiring.
Kevin: ........
Audrey: And in his place, the one who will be bringing life to Billy is...

Page 11:
Audrey: The greatest artist of the 21st century,
Timmy Sanada!!
We are inviting all of you to a Billy Bat adventure more thrilling and dramatic than any before.
Guy: Whe~~~w! What a woman that president of the Billy company is.
Someone: Kids fashion is coming to the Culkin store!!
Guy: That's all, right? I'm gonna change it back to the Yankees.

Page 12:
Kevin: Ah...... Hello, is Audrey there?
Huh?! She isn't?!
Devivie's looking for me?
I don't care! This isn't the time for that!!
Timmy?!
SFX: GACHA
Kevin: I cannot come to the phone right now. If you have a message......
Kevin: ......
Timmy, it's me, Kevin. Call me right away!!
Okay?! As soon as you get this!!

Page 13:
Guy: ..........
Kevin: Wh...... What the hell......?!
What's going on......?

Page 14:
Guy: That'll be 2 dollars 50 cents for the new Billy Bat on sale today.
That'll be 2.50 for Billy Bat.
Kevin: .........
Editor: "Do not get close to New York City".
You want us to print this?
Kevin: Yes. I want it clearly visible on the back cover.

Page 15:
Guy: That's 2.50 for the new Billy Bat.

Page 16:
Kevin: It's not here.....!!
It's not anywhere.....!!
SFX: BUBUUUU BUBUUUU
Hello?
Audrey!!
What's going on here?!!
Would you explain last night's TV episode to me......?!! And this morning's new Billy comic......!!
Why would you do something like this without asking me......?!!

Page 17:
Audrey: I never gave the go-ahead as the executive producer to replace the TV spot last night. That's all.
As for the matter of your retirement, I just did precisely what you wanted.
You also wanted Timmy to be the only attributed author because Timmy is the one drawing it.
The reason we replaced the back cover of the newest Billy comic
was because Timmy didn't like that public announcement.
If even one copyright holder says no, then we can't run it even if you want to.
You understand that, don't you?
......So your contract has now ended.
If you're dissatisfied, then maybe you should get a lawyer.

Page 18:
Audrey: Those 20 years or so were fun. Thank you.

Page 19:
Jackie: That person can't see the bat.
Audrey: The greatest artist of the 21st century, Timmy Sanada!!
Jackie: He said that person is a big liar!

Page 20:
SFX: KAH
Kevin: Because it was a lie.
That warning about "staying away from New York".
That's why he didn't want to run it, huh......?

Page 21:
Kevin: So all that Timmy was saying about New York......
wasn't something he heard from the bat......?
It was just a fictional story he made up as a cartoonist?
Bit I......

Page 22:
Kevin: I had that image in my head of "something happening to two towers" for many years.
Was that just some cartoonist's daydream......?
Or was it...........
the bat talking to me......?
Phil: Yo.
Kevin: !?

Page 23:
Phil: What'd ya call us out here at the crack 'a dawn for?
Kevin: Phil!!
You came!!
Phil: Yeah. I came straight here after a night of live performances.
Kevin: Sorry for being abrupt, but I have a favor to ask.
Phil: Let me just say this first, we won't do a thing for the sorta fee they give college bands anymore.
Kevin: Yeah, the pay'll be great.
Guys: Ooh!

Page 24:
Kevin: I want to you to blast the words "Get away from the World Trade Center" at a high volume.
Side: On this day, September 11th 2001, Kevin was in that spot...... Next time, a sudden development!!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 138 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/41262 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 137 by kewl0210 2015-04-26T08:18:00+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Okay, DONE! It's 4AM but I finished and I'm caught up, woohoo. I was told the next scanlation should get done pretty soon.

[Billy Bat 137 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
SFX: GATATA...
Kurusu: Are you listening?
Do exactly as I say.
SFX: GATA GATA
Kurusu: Protect the mangaka just as I've told you.
If you don't.........
I'll have to go to the mood.
Side: The man that protected Kevin Yamagata and longed forever for his new work. Is he also a person that can see the bat?!

Page 2:
Smith: What's......
on the moon......?
Kurusu: I doubt you'd believe it, but......
it's something a bat told me.
Even if I told you about these things you wouldn't understand any of it......
Smith: I understand.
I can understand that, too.

Page 3:
Smith: I also.........
Title: Chapter 137 The Day He Met the Bat (4/8)

Page 4:
Devivie: How are you feeling?
Smith: Ah...... Much better today.
And while I do feel much better,
that doesn't change the fact that the end is coming soon.
Devivie: ..........
Smith: Kevin Yamagata......
Looks like in the end I never got to see him again......

Page 5:
Devivie: Right now he's around Peru and going further and further South................
He might be going close to the South pole.
Smith: I wanted to read it............
The new Billy Bat work he's going to draw.......
Devivie: Specifically the 'Volume of the Pharaoh's Curse', right?
Smith: Yeah......
I wanted to see where the sad love of the dancer girl Lionette went......
Devive: Because that heart-pounding adventure
is unfinished, right?

Page 6:
Smith: I've been living always looking forward to seeing that continuation......
That's the sort of thing life is............
But the end has come far too quick.
Devivie: Please don't say that......
Smith: Perhaps it's the bat that's coming from the other side..........
Devivie: !!
Smith: Back then, I was sure he was coming for me......
Devivie: Do you mean you met the bat.........?
Smith: Yes, I did.........
Devivie: ..........

Page 7:
Smith: It was at a New Orleans hotel...... On a landing on an emergency staircase......
HAA
HAA
HAA
SFX: PAN
SFX: BASA BASAH BASA BASA BASA BASA BASAH

Page 8:
Billy: Yo!
SFX: BASASAH
Billy: I've got a favor to ask ya.
If you listen, I guarantee that peace will visit you.
Protect Kevin.
Smith: Kevin Yamagata? He already went to Dallas to protect the president......
Billy: AAaaaah, not him.

Page 9:
Billy: ......And actually, Kevin Yamagata didn't go to protect the president.
Smith: Huh?
Billy: Kevin went to protect Kevin.
And so I need you..........
to help that Kevin.
Okay? Make sure ya remember.
It's Kevin Goodman!!

Page 10:
Smith: But what could an old dodderer like me do............?
Kevin: !!
SFX: KAH
Smith: I've finally found you, Kevin Goodman.
Kevin: !!
Smith: My name is Smith.
I was able to save his life once, but......

Page 11:
Smith: Then I just taught him skills so he could live on his own......
And then I waited for you to appear......
Devivie: For me to appear......?
Smith: The bat said......
that someone like you would appear............
Devi: The bat asid......
Smith: Yes......
There will come a day when the bat whispers to you, too......
Devi: To me......?!

Page 12:
Smith: That will be...... an important time.
Make sure you listen to what the bat says.
Devi: I understand.
Smith: If you do that...... eventually......
they will reach this land......
This land I finally managed to reach after so much struggling......

Page 13:
Devi: There will someday come a time when the bat whispers to you.....
Mr. Smith......... You were right.
The bat appeared for me, too.
And I must convey something important......

Page 14:
Devivie: I must go to New York......
to meet Kevin Goodman as soon as possible......

Page 15:
Jackie: When I was a girl, I met a person a lot like you.
That person was a cartoonist, too......
and he was also the kind of person that would burden himself with all the world's unhappiness.
After all, he was able to talk with the bat
and then after a certain point, he wasn't able to talk with Billy Bat anymore.

Page 16:
Maggie: ?
Jackie: Isn't that right?
You can't talk with Billy Bat anymore.
Isn't that true?
Kevin: Y...... Yeah.
Jackie: And do you know what Billy would do at times like that?
He'd use me.

Page 17:
Maggie: Huh?
Jackie: And later, people like Yamashita-kun.
Maggie: HUH?!
Jackie: He'd use people like us that have nothing to do with all this.
It's a pretty messed up story,
so I kinda doubt you'd believe it, but......
Kevin: No......
I understand....... what you're talking about.
Jackie: So like I said, I have nothing to do with this. So no matter what I say to you next,

Page 18:
Jackie: I'm just delivering the bat's message,
and I don't even know what it means......
But
I hope you'll be all right.
The cartoonist I met a long time ago that's a lot like you
had some pretty awful stuff happening to him.
I don't want something awful like that happening again.
I'm really......
fed up with that sorta thing.

Page 19:
Kevin: I...... I got it.
Thanks for being concerned for me.....
Jackie: Huuuuu
You've got a successor, right?
Kevin: Ah......
Yes......
Jackie: That person can't see it.
Kevin: What did you just say.........?

Page 20:
Jackie: That person can't see the bat.
He's just pretending to see him.
Kevin: What're you talking about?! That's crazy...............
Jackie: I'm not saying this!
That's what the bat says!!

Page 21:
Jackie: He said that person is a big liar!
That's all he told me to tell you!!
I don't wanna be involved with this anymore. So long......!!
Maggie: Ah..... Mom.
Yama: What about your hamburger......?

Page 22:
Kevin: Timmy is......
a big liar......
SFX: BUH BUH BUH BUH
SFX: BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH

Page 23:
Timmy: What's some line I can use to say this simply?
'This still isn't the sorta situation for a man to struggle and fly yet.'
That's no good. That's a line Kevin Yamagata came up with, isn't it?
He'd say that's plagiarism.
Isn't there some other good line?
Yeah. Something a little more stylish would be good.
'Whether I'm in the dark or blindfolded, I can still kiss you.'
Yeah, that's really got style, Billy.

Page 24:
Timmy: It's really fun to talk with you.
It really is, Billy.
Side: The one Timmy is talking to...... Is that his imagination......? Is it a lie.......? Or is it real?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" 137 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/41261 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 136 by kewl0210 2015-04-26T06:16:41+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Oookay. Uh, I've gotta do 137 now too because that came out in the time it took to finish the first 3.

[Billy Bat 136 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Jackie: Ha~~~h. Why didn't we think of this from the beginning?
Maggie: Glad we asked that nerd at Billy Land.
Jackie: Those people are amazing.
Just by saying I wanted to meet Kevin Goodman and wanted to know how...
Maggie: Yeah. And he said then we wanna head to this address in Beverly Hills where he lives.
Why do they know all that?
But anyhow, what do we to to actually see him?
Jackie: Yeaaaah.
Yama: Leave tha' ta me.
Maggie: Huh?
Side: "A drowning person grasps at straws" and a "strong telephone that sometimes connects". Given a task by the bat, they are on their way. Have they been entrusted with the future of the earth?!

Page 2:
Yama: Would'ya come out pleeeeease?!!
Title: Chapter 136 Coming and Going (3/8)
SFX: PINPOOOHN PINPOOOHN

Page 3:
SFX: PINPOOHN PINPOOHN
Someone: Do you have an appointment?
Yamashita: Aaaah, I'm real sorry!! I'm from Japan, name's Yamashita.
Jackie: UWAH!
Yamashita: I'm Yamashita! I used ta run Billy Land Kishuu up till a little while agoooo!!
Jackie: Out of the way!!
Excuse me, we really want to see Mr. Goodman...
SFX: GACHAH
Jackie: U...... Um, excuse me!!
Maggie: It's no good. They think we're totally suspicious.

Page 4:
Jackie: The hung up on us because you had to be so brash right from the get-go, Yamashita-kun!!
Yama: I really am a former president!! Why's a former president gettin' turned away at tha gate?!!
Maggie: 'Cause you're a president that got fired.
Hm?
Jackie: ?
Maggie: Hey, by any chance, is that Kevin Goodman?
Jackie: Huh?
SFX: GIH

Page 5:
Jackie: No, no. He looks nothing like him.
Ah...... But maybe we could try asking him.
Um...... Excuse me.

Page 6:
Guy: Mr. Timmy, where did you go off to?
Kevin: Ah...... Just a quick trip to the bookstore.
Guy: We can't have you going out without telling anyone.
Timmy: I'm fine.
Maggie: Um, excuse me.........
SFX: GASHAN
Maggie: Uh......

Page 7:
Maggie: What's wrong, Mom?
Jackie: That person......
Maggie: He said his name was Timmy, so you do you think he could be the Timmy Sanada that's co-writer of this comic......?
Yama: OWAH!
BOth: !!
SFX: BASAH
Maggie: What?
Jackie: Why the sudden start?
Yama: It's tha bat!!

Page 8:
Maggie: Bat?
Jackie: What happened, Yamashita-kun?!!
Yama: It's not that mansion we're supposed ta be goin' to, it's over there!!
Maggie: Huh?
Yama: 'Urry up! If we don' run after it, it'll get away!!
Maggie: Heeey! We were gonna go shopping on Rodeo Drive after this......
Jackie: It's not the time for that right now, Maggie, Hurry!!
Maggie: Hey, uhh... Ok I'm just gonna say it.
There's no bat anywhere around here.

Page 9:
Guy: "Do not get close to New York city".
You want us to print this?
Kevin: Yes.
I want it clearly visible on the back cover.

Page 10:
Guy: Ah....... Okay, Kevin.
I suppose a gimmick like that is one way of selling magazines.
Kevin: It's no gimmick.
I'm serious.
Guy: .........
Kevin: This prediction is different from the previous ones. It's special. Basically I have to tell as many people about it as I can.
Guy: But.........
Kevin: You're not gonna tell me that you're gonna exert your authority as editor and not run it, are you?
Editor: O...... Of course not.......
But even if I'm okay with it, I'm not sure if President Audrey or Timmy will sign off on it......
Kevin: We'll be okay with Timmy.
And Audrey should be okay with it since we'll sell better if the prediction is correct.
Editor: Oookay......
Kevin: All right, I'll leave you to take care of it. I recorded a warning for the TV show, too. Now all that's left is......

Page 11:
Kevin: to fly to New York and drum up support on-site.
Editor: Um...... Kevin......
What do you plan to do if your prediction is incorrect?
Kevin: I'll take full responsibility.
And of course, Billy will end there.
Editor: Huh......?
Kevin: Though I would actually like to be wrong......
Editor: Th...... Then Billy will......

Page 12:
Devivie: Hey.
Any suspicion on me must be about cleared by now, right?
I'm not the culprit, I'm a victim.

Page 13:
Devivie: Hey, are you a detective?
I absolutely must use a phone, for my work.
Would you mind lending me your cell phone?
.........

Page 14:
[And no text]

Page 15:
Detectiv: !!

Page 16:
[Nothin here]

Page 17:
Devivie: Ku......

Page 18:
Devivie: Hello? This is Devivie.
I'd like to talk with Kevin Goodman. It's extremely urgent.
Huh......?
Kevin went to New York?
I understand. I'll try calling his cell phone.
Huh? He's on a plane right now so I can't connect to him?
Ku......
New York, huh......?

Page 19:
Maggie: So we ended up......
just going back to New York again......
We went to LA, did nothing, then went back to New York.
My whole vacation day got wasted.
Jackie: We didn't really have a choice. We're not playing around here.
Maggie: Hey, mom.
You've been acting weird ever since that guy showed up.
Jackie: Yeah........
I guess that's true.
Maggie: Now, I don't get this whole thing about warnings from bats and all that,
but this kinda sounds like a cult.

Page 20:
Jackie: Yeah.....
Maggie: I know you're saying he's an old acquaintance, but we're just being dragged all over the place. Not a single good thing has happened.
Jackie: I guess so......
I've never actually been happy to hear the bat's voice......
Maggie: Right?!
Jackie: Okay. I'll go with what you're saying. I'm done with this.
The only time I was happy to hear the bat's voice
was when Dad used him as a navigator in his car.
Maggie: Huh? What're you talking about?
Jackie: Well, your deceased grandpa used to be a taxi driver, right?
He told me how the bat would tell him where to go and how much it helped him.
Maggie: Hold on, what?
So even Grandpa could hear the bat's voice?

Page 21:
Jackie: Yeah...... Maybe you'll be able to hear it eventually, too.
Maggie: No, no, no, plea~~~~~se no!!
Yama: Bad news. They sold the last one 'a their famous avocado burgers ta the guy there bafore me.
Dang, I can't believe we lost track 'a tha bat at a place like thi~~~s!
Jackie: Um, Yamashita-kun, about this whole bat thing. I think I'm going to......
Yama: Ah.
There 'e is. Tha's the guy that god tha last avocado burger.

Page 22:
[Oh, there he is.]

Page 23:
Jackie: Kevin Goodman.
You're Kevin Goodman, aren't you?

Page 24:
Kevin: Uh...... Yeah.
If you've got a pen, I'll give you an autograph......
Jackie: Not that!! I'm not here for an autograph. Um...
I don't really care about this, but I was told I really have to convey this to you.
Kevin: Huh?
Jackie: Yamashita-kun has been saying these things about the world drowning. But that really has nothing to do with me.
Abyhow, once I tell you this, my job's done.
Okay? So please listen closely to this.
I'm going to tell you
the crazy thing the bat told me!!
Side: By the guidance of the bat, they've finally met. What are Billy's shocking words that are about to be revealed?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 136 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/41254 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 135 by kewl0210 2015-04-21T02:35:31+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Ok, let's see if I can finish these.

[Billy Bat 135 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Someone: One-two! One-Two!!
Get more into the rhythm!
Yeah! Now more light on your feet!!
Those are the steps!!
Nice!! Have some more fun with it!
And now, the finish!!
More spinning!!
Faster!!
Side: The rhythm that the children of the world danced to. Billy Bat [Music note]

Page 2:
Someone: More, more!!
And land it!!
That's it, smile!
Smile......
And the spotlight fades......
The next moment, in households all across America......

Page 3:
Disney: enormous applause is erupting......
Title: Chapter 135 Spotlight (2/8)

Page 4:
Disney: The TV show the 'Billy Bat Hour"......
The ending theme broadcast in the very first episode......
It was at that moment that I grabbed hold......
of every heart in America......
I......
became the greatest media mogul in the world......
In the 20th century.....
after I survived the earlier war......
I got my hands on Billy Bat......

Page 5:
Disney: "Go to America and spread this image"......
That is what Fuehrer Hitler told me........................
Whether it was during the tensions at the start of the cold war......
or during the sadness of the Kennedy assassination......
if you turned on the TV, you would find......
Billy smiling at you......

Page 6:
Disney: Bringing everyone feelings of joy.....
Making everyone happy......
Is that was the Fuehrer wanted.........?
Is that what I want......?

Page 7:
Narration: 2001-----
Kevin: So this is where you were.
Chuck: Yup.
Kevin: Where's Mr. Devivie?
Chuck: Now that you mention it, I haven't seen him around.
Kevin: I've got something to talk about,
but it looked like you were thinking about something, so maybe later......

Page 8:
Chuck: Naw...... I don't mind.
I was just thinking about that man a little......
Kevin: That man......
The fake Chuck Culkin......?
Chuck: After pulling all-nighters to finish off manuscripts, I would come here and collapse to a lot to relax.
Whenever that happened he would always come over and say this.
"You're a genius."
He'd say how readers all over the world loved the Billy I drew.
So I would hole myself up in the studio again and run my pen across the paper.

Page 9:
Kevin: He wasn't wrong.
If it weren't for you Billy, Billy wouldn't have become the worldwide hit he is.
Chuck: Even though it was a fake......
One time I asked him.
Who are you, really?
Disney: Who......?
Chuck: I'm fine as long as I can draw comics.
I don't really like meeting people in the outside world. You're doing all the annoying stuff for me.

Page 10:
Chuck: I really don't mind at all that you're using my name and pretending to be me.
But.....
I don't know who you are.
Disney: I'm Chuck Culkin.
Chuck: That's my name......
Disney: We'll sell more that way.
Chuck: Huh?
Disney: You want Billy Bat to sell, right?
Chuck: Y...... Yes.

Page 11:
Disney: Me being Chuck Culkin will sell more.
Someone once told me
to spread Billy Bat across this country.
Kevin: And you guys really made that a reality......
Chuck: Yeah..... But......
Who was that someone......?

Page 12:
Kevin: ......
Chuck: ......So, what did you want to talk about......?
Kevin: Oh yeah...... Did you see Timmy's newest manuscript?
Chuck: The galley proof is right here.
Looks like we're finally getting to the core of things.
The head of the group has just given his orders to his subordinates.
His subordinates are going to pilot an airplane to do a kamikaze attack......
Kevin: To the "two towers" in New York.

Page 13:
Chuck: Did you hear anything back from the CIA or the FBI after you gave them that information?
Kevin: Not a thing.
Chuck: Is this comic's prediction really going to come true?
Kevin: Most likely.
Chuck: You think that once this comic is published, there'll be a big public uproar?
Kevin: I think the CIA and the FBI would have the same kind of reaction.
......So, here's what I wanted to say.
I'm thinking about appearing on TV.

Page 14:
Kevin: On the 'Billy Bat Hour' TVB show the media mogul Chuck Culkin created.......
I'll bring attention to the danger New York is in.
Chuck: I see.........
If it's on a show like 'The Billy Bat Hour', then it should have plenty of persuasive power.
Kevin: The fake Chuck said, right?
That he'd spread Billy Bat across this country......?
Chuck: Yes.
Kevin: Maybe it was for times like this.

Page 15:
Doctor: Your wound is progressing well.
Devivie: It should get a little easier with the pain stopped.
Nurse: Yes?
Devivie: A cell phone... [Handwritten and hard to read/narrow]
Lend me......
a cell phone.........

Page 16:
Nurse: ......
Guy: Umm...... It's Henry, isn't it......?
Devivie: Henry Charles Devivie.........
Doctor: Yes. Mr. Devivie, you didn't have any identification on you.
We think you probably just got mixed up in a drug store robbery,
but the police still suspect you.
It seems you were hit by a bullet shot by the store owner, but they say say there's still a possibility you were part of the group doing the robbery.

Page 17:
Devivie: Please. A phone......
Doctor: Without us knowing whether you're an assailant or a victim, we can't lend you a phone.
Devivie: I need......
to let Kevin know......
Nurse: Mr. Devivie, it's all right. How about you get a little rest?
Devivie: Please!
I need to let him know, fast..........
The message from the bat......

Page 18:
Kevin: Anyhow, I don't want any cuts.
I want everything I'm about to say in front of the camera to go out unedited.
Guy: Well, this being the long-awaited first appearance of the Billy Bat author Kevin Goodman on the show, there's no way we could cut any of it out.
So you'll be standing there?
Guy: We can shoot it on a blue screen so you can do a fun collaboration with Billy......
Kevin: I don't want that either!

Page 19:
Guy: Huh......? But......
Kevin: I'm okay without any weird decorations. I'll just use that wall or something......
Is the lighting reaching me?
Guy: But if you're somewhere like that......
Kevin: Please, do what I'm saying.
Guy: Y...... Yes, sir.
Three cameras!! And handycam!!
Okay, 10 seconds until the real deal!!

Page 20:
Guy: 5 seconds. 4, 3, 2.......
Kevin: Good evening, people of America.
I am Kevin Goodman.

Page 21:
Kevin: As you all know, I am an author of "Billy Bat".
Once this video is broadcast I expect many of you will have already read it, but......
there is a shocking dramatic turn of events in the newest 'Billy Bat'.
What's written in here is really going to happen.
Guys: ?
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA ZAWA ZAWA
Kevin: Please, take what I'm about to say next very seriously.

Page 22:
Kevin: Very soon in New York......
Disney: Billy......
My Billy Bat..............

Page 23:
Chuck: The Fuehrer knew............
your hidden power......
If you can bring happiness to the entire world, then......
next, with your power......

Page 24:
Chuck: bring unhappiness to the entire world for me......
Side: The man that dedicated his life to the ambition entrusted to him from the Fuehrer. Before he died, his desire took on a major, major change?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 135 / End
Appearing next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/41246 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 134 by kewl0210 2015-04-20T01:46:26+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Okay. Manga Bandit's raw provider FINALLY came through and I got the raws for the first 3 chapters of this 8-chapter series. I'll try to get the other two done sometime soon so I don't fall any more behind. Still no idea if the series can end this volume.

[Billy Bat 134 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 0 (Cover):
Red Text: September 2001, NY----
Goodbye World

Page 1:
Side Text: Former assassin, Devivie. The man that identifies the "simpletons", the moment he determine's Timmy's authenticity, is struck by a mysteriousbullet!!

Page 2:
Billy: You.
Hey, it's me!
SFX: BASA BASA
SFX: BASA BASA BASA BASA

Page 3:
Billy: Hey, haven't seen you in a while. How long's it been?
SFX: BASA BASA BASA BASA BASA BASA BASA BASA
Title: Chapter 134 The Person I Wanted to Meet (1/8)

Page 4:
Billy: Yeah, it was back in the year of the Tokyo Olympics.
2020...... No, wait, 1964? Kyakyakya!!
Devivie: I've finally been able to meet you......
Now I no longer have any......
Billy: Hey, hey!
Devivie: regrets......
Billy: Hold on a sec, dangit!!
Hold on a......

Page 5:
SFX: ZAAAAA
Guy: First...... could you state your name?
Kevin: KEvin.
Kevin Goodman.
Guy: Occupation?
Kevin: You know, don't you?

Page 6:
Guy: Well, of course...... Just as a formality.
Kevin: I guess there's still a lot of red tape, even if you are the CIA.
Are you recording me on camera from up there?
And one over there, too, huh?
Well, I guess you've gotta have a record of it.
What I'm about to talk about is pretty important.
Guy: A-hem...... And......?
Kevin: Ah...... My occupation is cartoonist.
Have you ever read Billy Bat?
If you're a reader, it'll take less time to explain.

Page 7:
Guy: Of course we're readers.
Actually, we're quite the fans.
Kevin: Okay, then this should be easy.
Did you read the edition of Billy Bat in 1988?
Guy: 1988............
Oh, the story about the wall coming down? Yeah, that was an emotional one.
It was almost like it was predicting the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Kevin: Yeah!!
Okay, if you know that, then it should be even easier.
So right now, you know how Billy Bat has two authors, right?
Guy: Yeah. You and, uh......
That author called Timmy Sanada are both credited......
What's that about?

Page 8:
Kevin: Well, I'd be here forever if I went into detail,
but basically we're working on it together.
So, what I want to say......
neither me or Timmy are prophets.
Guy: I see.
Kevin: But sometimes, we just write things inadvertently.
Guy: What, exactly?
Kevin: I hope you guys'll listen to this seriously.

Page 9:
Kevin: Something horrible is gonna happen to the New York World Trade Center.
Guy: Something horrible?
Kevin: Yeah. Like maybe...... for example......
someone would use a plane or something......
Guy: Where did you get this information from?
Kevin: Uh...... Like I said, it's just stuff I sometimes just draw inadvertently!!

Page 10:
Morehouse: When did this happen?
Guy: Sir?
More: I'm asking you, when did this man come to the CIA?
SMith: 3 days ago, sir.
More: So slow...
Smith: Sir?
More: I'm saying that it takes far too much time for these matters to reach me.

Page 11:
Smith: Yes, sir. My deepest apologies.
More: How many people have seen this video?
Smith: Ah...... Well, only a few people besides those two......
More: Just a few......?
Get me the names of everyone that's seen this by the end of the day.
Smith: Y...... Yes, sir.
More: Well, no matter how many more times I watch this, it'll be the same.
These CIA men do not seem inclined to believe what this cartoonist is saying.
Smith: But if you consider the two keywords we've submitted, "9-11" and "Two Towers" together......

Page 12:
More: I'm thinking about how much information like this the CIA receives on a daily basis.
Smith: Yes, sir......
More: If they dealt with every single one, they wouldn't be able to get any work Smith: So that even if the CIA accepted this information, the World Trade Center won't do something like increase their security......
More: That sort of thing doesn't matter......
Smith: Sir......?
More: You still don't seem to understand.
I don't care where, or what kind of disaster is going to occur.
All I want to know is whether their prediction is correct or not.

Page 13:
More: And whether that matches the contents of this scroll.
When that is scientifically proven, then time itself will be our......
SFX: PIII PIII
More: What is it?
Someone: The surveillance cameras in the park
have found people who have been registered for facial recognition.....
More: ..........

Page 14:
Guy: It was a response from a considerably old database,
SFX: KAH KAH
Guy: so it's possible it could be a malfunction..........
Here it is. It's these two.

Page 15:
More: Asians?
Guy: Most likely Japanese.
More: Japanese......?
Guy: That old database I mentioned, it's from 1964......
It's based on photos Japanese police took for on-site verification.
They're from an incident that took place somewhere called Koumori Village in Wakayama......

Page 16:
More: People related to the Koumori Village incident......?
Guy: Aaahh, that's right.
I knew I'd seen this man somewhere before......
That's Yamashita, a guy who was the president of Billy Land Kishuu just until a few days ago.
Guy: The President of a Japanese Billy Land is connected with the Koumori Village Incident......?
More: Just what is all this......?

Page 17:
More: Restrain them.
Smith: Yes, sir.
They're in a park, so we can't be too forceful, but......
More: If they resist,
kill them.
Smith: Sir......?
More: I don't care if anyone that knows about what happened in Koumori Village is disposed of.
Yamashita: HAAAH! I guess the home of it all would be really well made, e~~~h?!!

Page 18:
Yamashita: Still, everything's in English as far as I can see. And it's all so refined----.
Jackie: Um, Yamashita-kun.
You've been dismissed from that Japanese Billy Land, so does that sorta stuff really matter anymore?
And anyhow, we need to find the office.
Yama: Oh, yeah.
I don' even see any office-lookin' place around here. This place's so well-made.
That's the country 'a dreams all right. I've gotta follow they're example----.
Jakcie: Yamashita-kun, didn't you tell me that coming here would be the quickest way to find Kevin Goodman?!!

Page 20:
Yamashita: Yep. This is the headquarters, after all.
Jackie: Aaaah! I was in such a panic I didn't really think it through.
There's no way we'd find Kevin Goodman by coming to a place like this!!
What do we do?
I've gotta let him know what Billy Bat told me as soon as possible......!!
SFX: KAH KAH KAH
Maggie: Hey, check it out.
Jackie: Huh?

Page 21:
Maggie: What do you think? Cute, ri~~~ght? [Heart]
Jackie: Maggie, where did you go off to?
Maggie: Just some shopping. Here, I bought ones for you guys, too.
Jakcie: Huh? What even is this?
Yama: Haaah! The wings move? So well-maaaade!
Maggie: Look guys! They're crazy popular!
Yama: Yer right. Everybody's got 'em on.

Page 22:
SFX: KAH KAH KAH
More: What? You lost sight of them?!!
Find them!! We must destroy all information relating to Koumori Village!!

Page 23:
Guy: Sir......?
Are you awake?

Page 22:
Nurse: Sir......?
I'm just going to call the doctor, okay?
Doctor: So you've come to?
Can you see me?
Can you hear me?
Do you know your name?
You collapsed without any identification on you.........

Page 24:
Devivie: I need to tell Kevin.
Doctor: Sir?
Devivie: I need to tell him what I heard from the bat..........
Side Text: The man that chased after those that drew the bat and killed them with a cool head has finally been given a "duty". What words has he heard?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 134 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/40880 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 133 by kewl0210 2015-01-11T05:42:36+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Ok, for some reason MB's raw provider took a really long to get this last chapter of this 8-chapter series. But there we have it, all done. Starts up again in April. Maybe the series will end this time? Who knows, I sure as hell don't at this point.

[Billy Bat 133 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
SFX: KAH KAH KAH
Side: The former assassin Devivie who buried many "real" works in the darkness...... His "Special day" now begins......?!
Devivie: Ever since those days, I always did it this way.
I woke up at 5:30 AM...... 6AM is too late, it has to be 5:30 AM exactly.
And after a walk in the park............

Page 2:
Devivie: I would enter a cafe............
I would find the innermost seat
and sit down facing a wall.
Though if the innermost seat is not open, the day ends there......
Guy: What will you have?
Devivie: I only have one order......
Strong black coffee.

Page 3:
Devivie: A 1st cup......
A 2nd cup......
Guy: Yes, sir?
Devivie: One more, please.

Page 4:
Devivie: Once I've finished drinking the 3rd cup of black coffee, the preparations are complete.
Title: Chapter 133 A Certain Procedure (8/8)

Page 5:
Culkin: You're the only one who hasn't cast their vote yet
regarding whether Timmy's a real Billy Bat artist or not......
Kevin has made it abundantly clear he thinks Timmy's the real thing.
And I've finally cast my vote that way as well.
His plot he's calculated so elaborately...... His expert technique......
Such satisfying scenarios......

Page 6:
Culkin: And these charming character portrayals!!
Devivie: As a cartoonist, you assess him as perfect, yes?
Chuck: Yes. If I were to attach any faults to this,
then that would be......
purely due to jealousy.
Devivie: So that's why you think Timmy is real?
Chuck: Yes.
All that's left is for you to tell us your view.
Devivie: As a work of art, I agree with you completely............
His comic is perfect. However......
Chuck: However?

Page 7:
Devivie: Such an evaluation is meaningless in my search for a real Billy Bat artist.
Chuck: Hoh...... Then how have you judged if one is real or fake?
Devivie: It's that when I look at the work,
whether I want to kill the author or not.
Chuck: .........
Devivie: For many years, that was how I did it.
After following a certain procedure.
Chuck: A certain procedure......?

Page 8:
Devivie: Yes. You could call it a bit of a ritual............
SFX: CHARA
Devivie: After drinking the 3rd cup, I get up from my seat and leave money without receiving change.
Then I leave the cafe.....
and walk around the city for a while.

Page 9:
Timmy: I'm not actually asleep or anything.
Kevin: That's a good chair, isn't it?
Timmy: Yeah......
Even if I hit a roadblock, I feel like I'll get some ideas if I do this.

Page 10:
Kevin: So even you hit roadblocks sometimes?
Timmy: Yeah, sometimes.
I feel like I'm hopelessly wandering a dead-end street.
Kevin: ..........
Hey, Timmy,
I think it's okay to not draw the way Billy Bat tells you to 100% of the time.
If there's something you wanna draw, just draw it how you want.
The stuff he says is pretty crazy.
It was the same for my predecessor, Kevin Yamagata.
He received Billy Bat's words in 1963............

Page 11:
Kevin: He went all the way to Dallas, not really knowing what was gonna happen there............
And Kennedy was killed in front of his eyes.
But if you wanna talk about what Kevin Yamagata was able to do then......
I had just happened to be there as a child and he saved me from a stray bullet at least.
So from that, it kinda feels like
Kennedy died in my place.

Page 12:
Kevin: So basically, to some degree what Billy Bat says is sloppy.
If you just write how you feel, that'll become Billy's story.
Timmy: Really.........?
Kevin: ?
Timmy: Billy can say sloppy things......?
Kevin: What do you mean?
Timmy: Billy never says sloppy things.

Page 13:
TImmy: There's nothing Billy says that has no meaning.
BUH BUH BUH BUH
BUH BUH BUH BUH
BUH BUH BUH
BUH BUH BUH
Ah, I get it......
Kevin: ?

Page 14:
Girl: Hey, Mom.
How long's this guy gonna stay here?
Yama: Nn?!!
This is great!!
Yer real good, Jackie-han. I didn' think I'd be able ta eat such tasty nitsuke when I came to New York.
Jackie: Ha~~~~ Thank you very much~~~
SFX: TON TON TON
Girl: Hey, Mom.
Yama: So good!
Girl: I did say you should be looking for a new partner, but don't tell me this guy......
SFX: TON TON

Page 15:
Jackie: Don't kid around!!
This is just a person I owe my life to!!
Girl: Just a person you owe your life to......?
Yama: Speakin' 'a which, this time yer turn do some savin', yer gonna be the savior of the world, Jackie-han!!
Jackie: HA~~~ I really hate when people talk like that!!
Stuff like the world being in danger or the end of the world!!
Yama: But I toldja,
the world's drownin'.
Jackie: Yes, yes. But still, I'm the "grasping at straw" it's grasping at.
Yama: Oh!!
SFX: BASASAH
Yama: Hey, listen ta what the bat has ta say this time!
Jackie: Huh?
SFX: BASA BASAH
Jackie: I get it.
It happened before when I was cutting onions, too......

Page 16:
SFX: TON TON TON TON
Jackie: Aahhh, no, I don't wanna.
GUSU
Huh?
Girl: What's wrong, Mom?
Jackie: Huh?
No way, really?!
Girl: Wh...... What is it? What's wrong, Mom?!!

Page 17:
SFX: KAH KAH KAH
Devivie: And then I stop by a book stand.
I often line up when a popular 'Billy Bat' is going on sale.
Guy: Here ya go. Billy Bat, 2 bucks 50.
Devivie: If it's sold out, that day ends there, but......

Page 18:
Guy: Here ya go. It's the last issue of Billy Bat we have. 2.50.
Devivie: Of course, I pay for it myself.
And I start reading it as I walk.
Like a child that can't wait to read what happens next.

Page 19:
Devivie: When I do that, I reach my conclusion.
Timmy Sanada...... He, the new Billy Bat artist is......
I see......

Page 20:
SFX: PAN

Page 21:
SFX: FAHN FAHN FAHN FAHN FAHN FAHN
Kevin: What's wrong?
Timmy: I see......

Page 22:
Kevin: See what?
Timmy: The place that group is targetting.
Kevin: Oh, you mean where the leader is going to attack?
So...... Where is it?
Timmy: I think it's New York.

Page 23:
Kevin: New......
York......
Right: A sudden change in the state of affairs!! And finally, that tragedy......?! The 2001 Arc resumes in April!! We hope you're looking forward to it!!
Bottom: 'Billy Bat' 133 / End
This series will appear again in April!! It's being drawn now!!
Bottom Right: Special Report
The newest volume which will compile the chapters in the issues up to this one, volume 16, is set to come up in March!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/40752 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 132 by kewl0210 2014-12-09T05:52:16+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Ok! Just one more to go.

[Billy Bat 132 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Kevin: The LA City National Plaza......
The Seattle Westin...............
The Philadelphia Commerce Square............
And here......
Side: Timmy's comic, Billy's words, Kevin's prediction. Do they all suggest the end of America and the world?!

Page 2:
Title: Chapter 132 Fantasy's Demise [7/8]
Kevin: The New York World Trade Center......

Page 3:
Devivie: We've visited several "twin towers", but......
have any images come to mind?
Kevin: Nope.........
Not a bit.

Page 4:
Kevin: What came to my mind was
foremost the idea that someone was going to target "two towers".
Devivie: And those towers you drew were towers with a medieval design.
Kevin: Yeah. Prototypical fantasy.
And now I'm worrying about how the fantasy image that appeared in my mind
could actually happen in reality.
Devivie: You were the one who said he wanted to take a tour around twin towers.
Kevin: ..........
I'm not a prophet.
Devivie: You just want to draw interesting manga.

Page 5:
Devivie: It's a favorite phrase of yours.
Though it may be true that you are no longer a prophet.
Seeing as Billy has stopped talking to you.
Kevin: You're saying I'm not a prophet anymore?
I was never a prophet in the first damn place!
I've drawn tons of manga up to this point,
and the vast majority of them haven't come true!
Because they're just manga!

Page 6:
Kevin: I've already handed my sketches and notes to Timmy.
Timmy said that it's America that's gonna be attacked.
So then what's Timmy going to draw next......?
Devivie: Do you think Timmy can do that..........?

Page 7:
Kevin: Let's have lunch. There's a good burger place near here.
There are a lot of tourists and businessmen here.
These skyscrapers are a symbol of America......
If something happened here,
the fantasy that this country is peaceful would end.
And everything would become real.

Page 8:
Devivie: So are you going to quit being a cartoonist that draws fantasy?
Kevin: C'mon, let's go. They'll sell out of avocado burgers.
Morehouse: "Two towers", "9-11"......

Page 9:
Morehouse: Report those two items to National Security.
Smith: Is...... that all?
Morehouse: This is all our predictions have produced.
Do you disagree?
Smith: No, sir......
It's just......
That is all we can confirm regarding the scroll we were instructed to do a research analysis on.
Smith: But do you think they'll be satisfied with only this......?
Morehouse: I cannot take responsibility for anything further.

Page 10:
Smith: But we know a bit more than that......
Morehouse: I told you, I cannot take responsibility.
Smith: Yes, sir......
Consider the big picture.
Even if there is a prediction of it, whatever will happen will happen.
Smith: Yes, sir......
More: If one can prevent something that has been predicted from occurring,
then it is true that that thing never happened in the first place.

Page 12:
More: Correctly predicting something that actually happens
is why it is a prophecy.
Smith: Y...... Yes, sir......
More: That is why I cannot take responsibility for anything more.

Page 13:
Kevin: Aaaah, they're already out of the avocado burger......
Devivie: I really don't mind a normal hamburger.
Kevin: No...... If they're sold out here, there's another one two blocks that way.
Devivie: Um, I really don't mind......
Kevin: Let's go!!
Yamashita: Hm?
This avocado burger is crazy good!!
Dang, wha's in this?!!
Iforgethername: ..........

Page 13:
Girl: Mom, who is this guy?
Jackie: Hmmm... Well, I could tell you, but it'll take a while~~~
The short version is, he's a sorta superhero I owe my life to, I guess...............
SFX: GAH GAH
Yamashita-kun!!

Page 14:
Girl: Superhero? This guy......?
SFX: HAGU HAGU
Jackie: Yeah...... And he really supported us back then...............
SFX: GAH GAH
Jackie: Kevin-san......

Page 15:
Jackie: Please get better, soon......
Let's go to Basque, Spain together......
C'mon............
Yamashita: Ya shouldn' cry.
Cryin' won'
make Kevin-sensei better.
Wouldn' askin' this bat ta do somethin' be way more useful?
Jackie: Ah! That mascot!!
It fell around Zofuu-sensei's retreat. It's important, right?

Page 16:
Try askin' this guy ta heal Kevin-sensei.
Jackie: Please, Billy. Would you save Kevin?
Billy: Sure.
Jackie: !!
Billy: That's a cinch fer me. Easy peasey.
Yama: Just leave it ta me.
Jackie: What crappy ventriloquism!!
And that was in Kansai dialect!!

Page 17:
Yama: You laughed! I saw that! Hohhohho!
Jackie: Hahhahhah! Cut it out! Quit it with that ventriloquism!!
Nurse: Quiet!!
Yama: !!
Yama: Gehuuuuu!
Dang I'm stu~~~~ffed!
Girl: This guy supported you......?
Jackie: Uh...... Well, yeah......
Hey, Yamashita-kun, there's something I wanna ask you.
Yama: Heh?
Jackie: How'd you know where I lived in New York?

Page 18:
Yama: I didn'! I was spooked, too!!
I was visiting Zofuu-sensei's grave and this bat showed up!
Jackie: Bat.........!!
Yama: And it just zooooomed straight ta Kansai Airport!
Jackie: AAAAAAAH!!
Girl: Hm?
Jackie: Could you please not talk about that in front of my daughter?!
Girl: What're you guys talking about? I know a bit of Japanese,
but I can't understand that guy's Japanese all that well.
Jackie: Ah...... Right, Japanese.
And in Kansai dialect...... Right...... He~~~~~w.
Anyhow, yeah, I figured as much......
this is the bat's work.
Yama: Yup.

Page 19:
Jackie: But why's he coming back after all this time.........
Yama: Jackie, has anythin' happened to ya?
Jackie: ..........
Yama: Somethin' is happenin', ain't it?
Jackie: I've had this sorta ringing in my ears lately......
Yama: It's the bat's voice, right?
Girl: Mom, are you oka~~~y?
Jackie: Ha~~~~......
Yama: Jackie-han.
Listin' closely.
I think it's straw.

Page 20:
Jackie: Straw?
Yama: Straw, like 'A drowning man will catch at a straw'.
T/N: In Japanese, the phrase here is a proverb similar to the English phrase "grasping at straws".
Jackie: I don't know what you're talking about..... I haven't spoken Japanese in a while, and you're saying proverbs......
Yama: Like if somebody's drowning, they'll grab on tight ta straws or whatever's around they'll think'll help 'em!!
Jackie: Huh?
Yama: Right now, there's no good life net like Zofuu-sensei and Kevin-sensei!!
So at a time like this, he's clingin' ta straws like us!!
Jackie: Who is?

Page 21:
Yama: The bat.
Jackie: The bat's drowning?
Yama: It's tha Earth that's drownin'!!
Ah...

Page 22:
Yama: I'm real sorry!!
Girl: Hey, mom, is everything okay?
Kachie: Uh, yeah......
Yama: Anyhow, Zofuu-sensei told me this a long time ago............
Zofuu: Yamashita-kun, the fate of many different things ride on you.
Yamashita: M...... Many different things, like what......? [This line is from fucking 2011 but I found what I wrote.]
Zofuu: Like the future of the world.
Jackie: The future of the world......
Yama: Yeah.
Tha's what Zofuu-sensei told me.

Page 23:
Jackie: Now that you mention it, a while ago I also...
The world's gonna end, right?!!
Billy: No, it's the opposite.
I want you to stop it from ending!
Jackie: .........!!
Girl: What's wrong, mom?
Jackie: Uh...... Nothing......
Yama: Ooh!!

Page 24:
Jackie: Hih!!
Billy: Hurry, go!!
SFX: BASA BASA
Billy: Go meet Kevin Goodman, hurry!
SFX: BASA BASA
Yama: Jackie-han!
Can ya hear somethin'?!
Jackie: Yamashita-kun......
Yama: Yeah?
Jackie: I'm begging you, please tell me you're doing ventriloquism!!
Billy: GO!!
Yamashita: I ain't doin' any ventriloquism!!
Billy: Hurry, go!!
Jackie: HIIH!!
SFX: BASA BASA BASA
Side: Can this oddball duo stop the end of the world... no, stop the drowning?! Will Billy's voice reach Kevin?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 132 / End
Next issue is the 8-chapter climax!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/40716 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 131 by kewl0210 2014-12-01T03:16:29+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Ok, there's 6 of 8. I'm kinda pretty sure it's not ending this volume either at this point. But uhh... so there's an old face we haven't seen in a while.

[Billy Bat 131 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Side: Welcome to the place of dreams and adventure, Billy Land Kishuu!! No matter what it is, Billy will... make your wish come true!!
Sign: Kishuu
T/N: Kishuu is an area in Kii Province.
Somebody: It's been 30 years since the grand opening in 1970!!
And look how far this country of dreams that brings joy and emotion to kids and adults alike,
Billy Land Kishuu has come......
A change of management!! To now welcome our new CEO, Mr. Kenneth Bourne.....
we have held a press conference!!

Page 2:
Bourne: To Chuck Culkin Enterprises, Billy Land Kishuu is our greatest bastion in Asia!!
Now, more than ever, we will be looking to make the most out of every attraction and live up to everyone's expectations.
......On that note, our goal for next year is to increase 180% of last year.
You can expect lots more fun moving forward from Billy Land Kishuu!! On to the next topic of news......
Guys: A new CEO......
President......

Page 3:
Sign: President's Office
Bourne: Allow me to thank you for your many years of hard work and accomplishments.
Guy: Ah..... A~~~~...
Um~~~ Err......
Sign: Path of Sincerity

Page 4:
Yamashita: I get what you're saying......
But, er~~~~......
Title: Chapter 131 Destination [6/8]

Page 5:
Guy: I'm kinda sorry~~~ you guys.
Guys: What're ya talkin' about, President?
Yeah, this is the least we could do after all your years of being CEO.
Yama: I toldja, I ain't President anymore.
Guys: Still, it's awful they could do that to somebody with as many accomplishments as President Yamashita.
Yeah, just dismissing him like that?!!

Page 6:
Guys: And on top 'a that, they're making him clear out of his company-owned house by the end 'a the day!!
He's a demon, that new CEO!!
Yama: Well, what can ya do?
A company's a living thing. Unless it gets some new blood, it dies.
Guy: That makes it sound like a vampire!!
Who do those jerks think is the whole reason Billy Land Kishuu got this big?!!
Yama: Wha's that?
Sign: Bat Kid's Cave Exploration
Nametag: Yamashita
Yama: Ooh, that takes me back.
'Bat Kid's Cave Exploration'.
That Billy Land Kishuu original attraction that you suggested......

Page 7:
Yama: We're not gonna trick any kids!!
Sign: New Attraction
Bat Kid's
Cave Exploration
Yama: And we're gonna make it a haunted house that even adults can enjoy!!
Guy: You got to where you are by working up from part-time, what do you know?
We're talkin' about how Billy Land Kishuu is in the red right now.
Don'cha know it'd cost a pretty penny ta fund somethin' like that!!
Yama: I'm sayin' I know what I'm talkin' about because I got here from part time!!
Guys: .....!!
Yama: I know because of the time I spent nearby attractions and seeing customers' reactions!!
Why do you guys think we're in the red righ' now, huh?!

Page 8:
Yama: Because every onna these attractions is cheap and crappy!!
If you thought things like that could fool kids, you're way wrong!!
In the coming era, even kids will enjoy the real thing!!
Real things that cost money!!
People: KYAAAAAA!!
KYAAAAAAAA!!
SFX: BASA BASA BASA BASA BASA BASA
Guys: Geez, what a line......
People: KYAAAA!!
Guys: Turned out just like 'e said it would.
Pretty impressive fer a guy that rose up from part-time.

Page 9:
Yama: Okay, everybodyyyy! Please go in in an orderly fashion~~~!!
..........
Guy: President.
Yama: Hm......?
Guy: I put yer insurance cards, pension book, passport,
and all yer other important stuff in this bag.
Yama: Ooh, thanks. You guys're a great help.
You guys've done such great service to me in every little thing.
Guys: Preside~~~~nt!

Page 10:
Guys: Preside~~~~~nt!!
Yama: Hey now, guys, don' cry.
Guy: Okay, I'm bringing the luggage on head.
Yama: Okay, thanks.
I'm gonna stop over 'ere fer a bit.

Page 11:
Sign: The Grave of Karama Zoufuu.
Yama: Sensei......
Somehow or other, things ended up like this......
Whenever there're hard times, I remember yer voice and give it my all, Zofuu-sensei.
Like when you'd say 'And you call yourself my disciple?!!'............

Page 12:
Yama: Or 'Don't get all mopey over somethin' like that!!'.
But, I'm sorry.
I'm...... a hopeless good-for-nothin'.
I'm really sorry......

Page 13:
Yama: Wha's this......?!!
This wasn' here when I came by a month ago......
Hey!!
Guy: Ah?
Yama: Did ya see anybody draw a scratchy-lookin' drawing onto this gravestone?!
Guy: Wazzat?
Yama: On the gravestooone...
Guy: Yeah, there was a guy loiterin' around there 'round 10 days ago!!

Page 14:
Yama: Huh......?
Wh...... What sorta guy was 'e?
Guy: Wazzat?
Yama: I'm askin' ya what sorta guy was......
Huh......?
SFX: BASASAH
Yama: A bat!! In the middle 'a the day, like this............?
W......Wait, bat!!
Waaait!!
Guy: I asked the guy 'Who are ya'.
And he said 'I'm a mangaka'.

Page 15:
Yama: Wait, ba~~~~t!!
HII
HAA
Nuo?!!
T...... Taxi!!
Buha!!
Guy: Where to?
Yama: I dunno!
Guy: You dunno?
Yama: Just follow that thing!!
Guy: That thing?!

Page 16:
Guy: Sir, where are we going, really?
Yama: Never mind, just follow it!'
Guy: But sir, if we keep this way......
Yama: BUHAH!!

Page 17:
Yama: Where? Where'd it go?!
Fuwa!!
HII
HAA
Ah!!
SFX: FUH
Yama: It disappeared......

Page 18:
Yama: NW70!!
NW70!!
Miss, could I get on that plane?
Woman: Sir?
Yama: NW70!! Gimme a ticket ta that!!
Woman: Um, sir~~~
I'm afraid Northwest Airlines flight 70 is already booked full.
Yama: Please, can't you do anythi~~~ng?!!
Woman: Huh?
Um, one seat just opened up.....
Yama: Really?!!
Woman: Though only in first class, sir......

Page 19:
Yama: Anything's fine! C'mon, let me on!!
I'll pay with this!!
Woman: B-Black.....
Yama: I've got my passport, too!!
SFX: GOUN GOUN GOUN GOUN
Yama: Geez, what'm I doin',
gettin' on somethin' like this......
!!

Page 20:
Yama: Fer real?!!
Where......
Where're ya takin' me?!!
JFK..........?

Page 21:
Yama: JFK International Airport......
That's the name 'a that president that died in such a sad way......
Now that I think of it, there was a guy named JFK that showed up once 'n a while in Zoufuu-sensei's manga......
Aw man, I'm reaaaally bushed from the jet lag.
Huh?
Aw no, did I lose it?!
Guy: Pardon?
Yama: Ooh, there it is!!
Okay, okay, let's go, sanbiki!!
T/N: "Let's Go Sanbiki" is the name of a comedy trio that started in 1968. So he's using sort-of-English in this scene, followed by the word "sanbiki".

Page 22:
Yama: HAA
HII
HAA
HII
I can' take it anymore......
ZEE
HAA
ZEE
HAA
I can't make it another step.
Would you let up already?!!
I don't wanna die on the roadside in New York......
HII
IHH
Heh?

Page 23:
SFX: FUH
Yama: It...... It disappeared!!
That room?!!
One, two, three......
The sixth floor!!
Hold on, I'm comin' in, too!!
Hii!
Hii!!
SFX: DAN DAN
Yama: Hold up, moron! I'm comin' right noooow!!
SFX: ZEE ZEE HII HII

Page 24:
Yama: That window should be on the other end 'a here!!
Who the hell's callin' me?!!
Come on ou......
SFX: GIH
Both: Ah...
Side: This is..... NOT a coincidence!! What does the bat intend by bringing together these two that searched for the "time scroll"?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 131 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/40698 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 130 by kewl0210 2014-11-26T04:18:02+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Ok, I managed to get this done among all the... other stuff. Whew, this chapter was tricky. A lot more... vagueness. Really this series is excellent in that area.

[Billy Bat 130 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Side: Lines, lines, lines!! Adults and children alike have been awaiting the new 'Billy Bat' comic!! But who is the author?!

Page 2:
Woman: Dear, when exactly are you going to start cleaning the yard?!!
Dad: Y...... Yeah.
Kid: Daddyyyyy hurry u~~~p!
Hurry, I wanna read Billy Bat!!
Woman: Honestly~~~

Page 3:
Chuck: I'll bet you're happy, eh?
When the first comic I wrote was printed
I was over the moon, too......
Timmy: Mr. Chuck......
And this author name.....
I was supposed to be a ghost writer, but......
Chuck: Kevin stuck up for you to the bitter end.

Page 4:
Tim: Kevin Goodman& Timmy Sanada......
Title: Chapter 130 Joint Work [5/8]

Page 5:
SFX: CHIIIIN
SFX: UIIIIIN
SFX: KAH KAH
Guy: Quite an impressive facility you have here, Mr. Morehouse.

Page 6:
Morehouse: I merely inherited it as the previous owner had it.
He was trying to run away from his fears by building an immense stronghold deep underground.
Guy: His fears...... eh?
More: Though in the end, that fear crushed him and he killed himself, it seems.
Guy: I bought it.
SFX: BASAH

Page 7:
Guy: It looks like yet another Billy Bat artist has appeared.
More: Kevin Goodman & Timmy Sadana......
They're both credited as authors, but......
Guy: Even on the streets they're arguing which one is the real author.
But someone that's followed Billy Bat all this time can tell.
This isn't Goodman's style.
This has a clear new feel to it.
So you're saying this Timmy Sanada man is drawing it?
Guy: Most likely.
More: How are people receiving it?
Guy: Well, the 'Billy Bat' series itself has been stopped for a year and a half now.

Page 8:
Guy: But even considering that, there's been an incredible reaction.
There's a bit of an uproar over the new Billy Bat out in the world.
More: Is it interesting?
Guy: Why don't you read it and see?

Page 9:
More: I see......
Guy: What do you think?
More: Well, the drama has only just started so I see the complete picture yet,
but this man appearing in the villain role......
This is clearly modeled after that man.
Guy: That man......?
More: One who sees America, the American people, and anyone who follows them as enemies.
That middle-eastern man.

Page 10:
Guy: Hm...... Then is the cartoonist that drew that a real prophet?
More: I don't know that.
But what I can say is if this man is a government official or someone well acquainted with international relations, everyone is being marked.
The artist may just be gathering information for what he draws, however.
Guy: Which means......
we do not need to dispose of him immediately?
More: We should cautiously investigate whether or not he is an opponent we should erase.
Guy: Cautiously......?
That doesn't sound like you, Mr. Morehouse.
Kevin Goodman's security has gotten stricter.
And since some time ago he has stopped drawing 'Billy Bat' so we had not disposed of him, but......

Page 11:
Guy: we disposed of all of the other artists involved in drawing 'Billy Bat' quite easily, didn't we?
More: By a request from the government side.
Guy: I see.
I didn't think they were the sort of people to keep acting on Culkin's last request forever.
I suppose the government people have their eye on this scroll, yes?
Morehouse: ..........
Guy: I believe I heard an urban legend along the lines of that the man who could solve the mysteries of this scroll........
could rule the world.

Page 12:
More: For now, I just want to know the identity of this Timmy Sanada man.
Figure out who he is.
Guy: Understood, sir.
More: Also......
it is in your best interests not to stick your neck out where it doesn't belong.
You should know better than anyone what happened to people like that.......
Guy: ..........
U...... Understood.......
!!

Page 13:
More: What is it.
Jeff: I just had an idea.
I said before that that number might be information about some location, right?
That it was recorded on the scroll to tell us that!!
More: Yes. I listened to you going on forever about that a few days ago.
Jeff: That's separate from what the "simpletons" are always saying
about watching out for the white and black bats.
Guy: Oh, I've heard about that.
Jeff: Why do you know about that stuff?!!
Guy: Ah...... Never mind.
I shouldn't stick my neck out where it doesn't belong......
Jeff: Why is it that number...... that location information was so important it was written on the scroll like that?

Page 14:
Guy: I don't want to find out anything I shouldn't so I'll take my leave......
Jeff: What if that's where you meet the bat that's not black or white, the real, true bat?!
More: The real......
Guy: true......
Jeff: A bat that's neither black nor white.

Page 15:
Tim: Mr. Kevin!!
HAA
HAA
My name......
My name is on the work!!
I heard that was because of you......
Kevin: Of course.
Though really, you're the only one that wrote it so really we only need your name on there.

Page 16:
Kevin: But that stubborn woman said that she wouldn't publish it if my name weren't on there.
So I took that as a compromise.
But soon, my name will disappear and only your name, the name of the real author, will be left.
Audrey: Who's stubborn?!
Guys: !!
Audrey: This week's issue sold out in a flash! If you lollygag too long it'll be the deadline for the next one!
Tim: O...... Okay.
Audrey: If we can keep this up, we can resume the production on the Billy Bat movie that's been put on hold for so long.
SFX: KAH KAH

Page 17:
Audrey: Soon you won't be able to play around like an amateur and have fun drawing just when you feel like it.
Do be sure to bear that in mind.
Kevin: Stubborn people's attitudes totally change when money's involved.
SFX: GOHON
SFX: KAH KAH KAH
Kevin: Well, despite all that, she does have an eye for quality.
It was also her that discovered me......
She's several times better than her dad, Chuck Culkin.

Page 18:
Tim: There's one thing I'd like to ask.
The person that drew Billy Bat before you, Kevin-san, was that Mr. Chuck, yes?
Kevin: Yeah, that old man is Chuck.
Tim: Then who was the Chuck Culkin that did the 'Billy Bat Hour' on TV?
Kevin: Her dad, the founder of Culkin Enterprises.
And.......
a fraud.
Tim: And the name Chuck Culkin......?
Kevin: He took that old man's name for himself.
Tim: Then the person that did the 'Billy Bat Hour' on TV......

Page 19:
Tim: Who was he?
Kevin: Nobody knows.
One day he suddenly appeared in front of Chuck,
he stole Chuck's master, Kevin Yamagata's, Billy Bat......
he made Chuck draw it
and started calling himself Chuck Culkin.

Page 20:
Kevin: Then he constructed the Culkin Enterprises empire
and created the dream country called Billy Land.
Billy Bat...... it spread through America... and all over the world......
and that earned him a huge fortune.

Page 21:
Kevin: Well, he may have just been an exemplary businessman.
Tim: I...... was always poor......
A place like this was a dream within a dream.
But I didn't start drawing Billy Bat so I could get a life like this.
Mr. Kevin, you were born into a rich family, too......
but I think you'd understand what I'm talking about.

Page 22:
Tim: I just drew because I wanted to draw Billy Bat.
Is it okay if I donate my royalties?
The world is going to be heading in a bad direction.
I want to use these royalties on children don't have enough to eat or drink.

Page 23:
Tim: I'm not like Chuck Culkin...... that man.
Culkin Enterprises will become a shelter for the future!!
I'm gonna go do the manuscript for next issue!!

Page 24:
Audrey: What do you think?
Is he really a prophet?
Kevin: He said this,
"The world is going to be heading......"
" in a bad direction......"
Side: The world is heading in a bad direction...... What is Timmy's true motive?! And what will Kevin do?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 130 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/40676 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 129 by kewl0210 2014-11-18T04:46:30+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Ok, I got this one done tonight, too. So there, caught up with that yet again. Hopefully with the 2nd half, I won't get caught having to do 2 a week again.

[Billy Bat 129 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Billy: Yo.
A-hem.
Side: Welcome to the Billy Bat room. Welcome to the Billy Bat room. Welcome......

Page 2:
Billy: Welcome to the Billy Bat room.
Title: Chapter 129 America's Enemy [4/8]

Page 3:
Billy: ......
Hey, is anybody listenin'?!

Page 4:
Billy: Aaaah, geez!!
Heeey, ya hear meeee?!!
No good.
HEEEEY!!

Page 5:
Billy: Darn!!
Hey, anybody in theeere?!!
Man, I give up........
I seriously give up......

Page 6:
Jackie: Okaaay, gather around everyooone!
This is a model of the ship 'the Santa Maria' used by Columbus to discover the new world.
But what I'd like all of you to know
is that Columbus never knew that what he discovered was a 'new Continent' even to his death.
He always assumed that what he had reached was India.
So......
one could say that he didn't "discover" the 'new world' at all......
Billy: Yo.

Page 7:
Jackie: Yes, what is it? Please raise your hand if you have a question?
Billy: It's me! Mee!!
Jackie: Um, who was that? Please raise your hand.
Billy: The Vikings landed in the Americas before Columbus did.
Jackie: That's right!! Good one. Viking nails were found in Newfoundland.
Ones from before the age of Columbus..........
Guys: ?
Jackie: Someone here's been really studying, who was that?
BIlly: Later, Oswald protected your life.
Jackie: Huh?
Billy: Was the Golden Cola Oswald gave you in the school book repository tasty?

Page 8:
Jackie: Y...... You again?!!
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA ZAWA ZAWA
Billy: Take a break from that museum. Hurry up and go meet him like i told you to!
Jackie: Aaah! Shut up! Shut up!
Shut up! Shut up!!
Billy: Kevin. Not Yamagata,
Goodman. Go see Kevin Goodman.
Hey, do you hear me?
Hey!!
Dang.
I got cut off.

Page 9:
Billy: Geez...... I can't believe she's the only one I can get a connection with......
Looks like there's nothing I can do......
At this rate......
somethin' big's gonna happen to the Earth.
At times like this, my only choice is to rely on the scroll, but......
Now that scroll is at Morehouse's place......
Maybe I can get somebody ta go steal it............
But......
For the proper "simpleton"......

Page 10:
Billy: I guess there's really only one door that I've got an inkling for......
I'm kinda sensing a presence that I think can hear me on the other side......
Hey!
If you can hear me, respond!
The Earth's in trouble!
Respond!

Page 11:
SFX: SHA SHA SHA
SFX: KARI KARI KARI KARI

Page 12:
Audrey: I see. I guess I should've expected that you weren't recommending him as your successor for nothing.
This boy really is incredible.
Kevin: Ain't he?
Timmy Sanada's gonna be the next Billy Bat artist.
A new era of Billy Bat is gonna start.
Then I'll publicly retire.
Audrey: No can do.
Kevin: Why?
Audrey: Because the readers want to read your Billy Bat.

Page 13:
Audrey: The 'Billy Bat' of the prophet Kevin Goodman.
Kevin: That's just something you said on your own!!
Audrey: Culkin Enterprises will announce it purely as a Kevin Goodman authored 'Billy Bat'.
Kevin: Hey,
what're you saying?
Audrey: You're the one who said he didn't want to draw anymore, yes?
So we'll have Timmy be your ghost writer.
Kevin: Wh.....
What did you say......?

Page 14:
Kevin: Then it's the same thing as what your dad did, isn't it?!!
Audrey: Yes.
I hated my father.
But now that I'm in the same position as him, for the first time......
I understand how great he was.

Page 15:
Audrey: I couldn't stand this smug face,
but every week children couldn't wait to see it on TV.
He never once let his over 10,000 employees or their family go hungry
and one after another he would supply dream-like entertainment. And finally, he got people all over the world......

Page 16:
Audrey: to love America.
What do you think? That's something even Kennedy couldn't do.
Kevin: ..........
Audrey: Well then, we must go right away to seeTimmy.
Kevin: Huh?
Audrey: To tell him. That he'll be drawing BIlly as a ghost writer.
If he's not happy about that......

Page 17:
Audrey: I'll forbid him from drawing Billy at all.
Kevin: H......
Hey, hold on a second!
Audrey: I have the authorship rights to Billy, you know.
Kevin: ..........

Page 18:
timmy: Ghost...... writer,
huh......?
Kevin: Turn it down.
That's not the job you accept.
Audrey: This is just while we're gauging your abilities.
If your Billy gets established as really good and popular, we'll publish your name as the author.
We have to think about sales.
If we suddenly have a newcomer that no one's heard of as the author, the customers will leave.
Kevin: Don't take anything somebody like her says at face value.

Page 19:
Tim: I want to draw Billy.
Kevin: Hey!
Audrey: Would anyone whose ideas for Billy have all dried up, please be quiet?
Kevin: .........
Audrey: Then you'll draw without putting your name on it?
Chuck: Stop!!
What you drew
is yours.

Page 20:
Chuck: I know that better than anybody.
You shouldn't draw for other people.
Draw for yourself.
Tim: For myself...............
Then..........
whether it's somebody else's name or not, I'm gonna draw now.

Page 21:
Kevin: Huh......?
Tim: I want to do something for others.
I've thought that ever since I was a kid.
I want to make a world with no hunger.
I want to make a world where anyone can always drink delicious water.
If I can't do something that big yet, then as my first step towards it
at the very least......
I want to draw an entertaining comic and make people happy.
And......
if I don't draw now...............
If I don't draw now............
the story of in my head...............

Page 22:
Tim: might explode.
Kevin: The story will...............
Chuck: explode......?
Audrey: Is that because it's a prophecy?
You want to get the story out there before it becomes reality?
Kevin: What're you talking about?!!

Page 23:
Audrey: You said the same thing before.
Kevin: ..........
Audrey: That's it, isn't it?
That's what I want. Your real predictions.
The Billy your drawing now is really interesting.
This one with two countries fighting......
I heard it from Kevin. One of the countries
is America, right?

Page 24:
Audrey: So what happens? What comes next in the story?
If this prediction is correct, the sales will be unfathomable.
Kevin: Stop.
Audrey: Who is going to attack America, the country the whole world loves?
Side: Can Timmy hear Billy's voice......?! And with the America beloved the world over, can it even now still be hated?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 129 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/40675 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 128 by kewl0210 2014-11-18T02:37:52+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Ok, we got the scanlations for 126-127 done now. Go check those out. I just got the raws for this and 129 so I'm gonna do that next.

[Billy Bat 128 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Timmy: So this is the desk......
where Billy Bat is born...............
Side: The young man named Timmy which Kevin is pushing to be his successor. Devivie is hesitant. Is Timmy real or fake?!

Page 2:
Tim: U...... Um......
Kevin: Yeah...... you can sit there.
Tim: UWAA..........

Page 3:
Timmy: I feel like I..........
can draw so much right now.......
Title: Chapter 128 Heart of Justice [3/8]

Page 4:
SFX: KARI KARI KARI KARI
SFX: KARI KARI KARI KARI
SFX: KARI KARI KARI KARI
Kevin: It's been 3 days now. He's been drawing almost totally non-stop......
What do you think?

Page 5:
Devivie: It's undeniable that he's an excellent cartoonist.
The first condition for being a good cartoonist is to create a large volume of interesting works without taking a break...... Right, Chuck?
Chuck: I drew a lot without taking breaks.
But......
Those were fake.
Kevin: How do you tell the difference?
Devivie: ?
Kev: Telling fake and real Billy Bat drawings apart was your job, isn't it?

Page 6:
Devivie: Yes.
And to dispose of the real ones when I find them.
Chuck: ..........
Kevin: If you'd go that far, then you must've had lots of conclusive evidence, right?
Devivie: That's right.
Kev: So what set them apart?
Devivie: I could pretty much tell if I read the comics.
Kevin: Yeah, what about them?
Devivie: It's temperament......
That temperament would be apparent in the works.
Kevin: Temperament............ What do you mean?

Page 7:
Devivie: The real Billy Bat artists
have a heart of justice.
No matter how bad a person they were originally,
when they are drawing Billy Bat, then justice dwells in their hearts.
Chuck: And you killed all those people who had just hearts?!!
Because of you, all of the real Billy Bat artists were......!!
HAA
HAA
Kevin: Chuck, calm down......

Page 8:
Chuck: ......So, which is Timmy.
Devivie: He's an exceptionally rare case......
No, perhaps it's because I've gotten too old as a comic reader........................
I can't read the temperament from his works at all......
SFX: KARI KARI KARI
Kevin: Yo.

Page 9:
Tim: Ah...... Sorry!!
I've been hogging your workspace this whole time......
Kevin: No, it's fine.
Is it that easy to draw when you're at that desk......?
Tim: Yes.
When I sit here, I can draw one after another......
Kevin: I understand. It was the same for me.
But if you keep at it that much, it won't be good for your health. Would you go with me somewhere for a bit?
Tim: Go? Where?
Kevin: To a place that's full of memories for you.
Would you show me around the town you grew up in?
Tim: Huh......?
Kevin: What's wrong? Don't wanna go?

Page 10:
Tim: There's nothing there.
Kevin: Is that so?
I think it'll have way more of you etched into it than any resume. C'mon, let's go.
Tim: ..........Uh...... Um...
My mother died when I was in my first year of college.
She was a third-generation Japanese-American.
We were poor, but she raised me with the utmost care.
Kevin: What about your dad?

Page 11:
Kevin: Father......
I've never met him even once, but......
Kevin: But......?
SFX: BAM
Tim: Mom used to say all the time "Dad was really happy you were born."
She said that Dad would hold me in his arms here and he would be so happy......

Page 12:
Tim: She said I was bless to be born......
SFX: BAM
Tim: It's always had really bad crime, though......
Kevin: That's for sure. Though like you said, there's not much graffiti now.
Tim: Past here is where me and my mom lived.

Page 13:
Tim: It's not one bit nostalgic. Let's go.
Kevin: Hey, where did your graffiti use to be?
Tim: There's nothing left there now.
.........!!

Page 14:
Kevin: These are......
H..... Hey!
SFX: ZAH
Tim: Wait right there.
Kevin: ..........

Page 15:
Tim: HAA
HAA
HAA
Kevin: That's.....
SFX: GAPAN
SFX: BECHA
Kevin: Timmy......

Page 16:
Kevin: Okay, I'll help......!!
SFX: BABAH BAH ZAH
Tim: Hehe.
Kevin: ......?
SFX: ZAZAH
Kevin: Ooh!!

Page 17:
SFX: BAH
SFX: BABAH
Kevin: I can do that, too..........
SFX: ZAZAH
SFX: ZAH
Guys: HAA
HAA
HAA

Page 18:
Kevin: HAA
HAA
Tim: HAA
HAA
Both: HAHHAHHAH!!
Guy: Hey!

Page 19:
Nazis: The fuck're you doin' to out swastikas?
Erase 'em.
I said get ridda those piece 'a shit bats!!
Kevin: What.........?
Tim: No!!
Kevin: !!

Page 20:
Guy: Naa?
Tim: This is the place I've done graffiti!!
Kevin: Timmy......
Tim: I'm not letting people like you do anything to my Billy Ba.......................
Kevin: Timmy!!

Page 21:
Kevin: You......
Tim: UOOO!!
Kevin: !!
Guys: Wait!!
Timmy.
Timmy, it's been a while!!
Kevin: Mull......?

Page 22:
Mull: Yeah, it's Mull! What, didja ferget your number-one fan?!!
Kevin: Huh.....?
Mull: Ooh!!
It's been a long time since I saw yer Billy Bat!
Kevin: Fan.........?
Mull: Yeah, damn straight!
I was a big fan of the pirated version of 'Billy Bat' he draws.
I'd look forward to every last issue.

Page 23:
Mull: But he went off ta college er somethin' so he left this town.
So that was the end of the Billy Bat I always looked forward to.
Did you guys ferget what I said about all the awesome Billy Bat drawings there used ta be in this town?!!
Guys: HIH......!!
Kevin: You wanna read more?
Do you want to read the continuation
of Timmy's Billy Bat?
Mull: 'A course!

Page 24:
Kevin: You'll be able to read it to your heart's content.
Starting now, Timmy's Billy Bat is gonna be the official Billy Bat.
Side: The next Billy Bat artist has been born. With time moving towards ruin, will Timmy's comics be able to stop it?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 128 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/40629 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 127 by kewl0210 2014-11-05T06:12:09+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

Only for use by Manga Bandits

I got the raws for 2 chapters at once somehow or other. And somehow I managed to get them both done despite them being wordy as hell. I like this turn of events though. Maybe... MAYBE the loose ends will finally get tied up?!??>SEDGSDF?

[Billy Bat 127 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Kevin: Who are you......?
Kid: Please make me your apprentice.
Side: The boy that once surprised Kevin long ago 10 years later has come to fulfill his promise......!!

Page 2:
Kevin: Where's your house?
Kid: San Pedro Street......
SFX: BUON...
Kevin: Which is it?
Oo......

Page 3:
Kevin: Did you draw these?
Can you see him, too?

Page 4:
Kevin: Can you see him, too?
You're......
Timmy..........

Page 5:
Title: Chapter 127 Conditions for Genuine [2/8]

Page 6:
Chuck: You must be surprised. After 10 years, that boy appeared with a manuscript......?
Kevin: Are those wall drawings what you always draw?

Page 7:
Tim: No...... They've really cracked down on graffiti recently......
so I'm drawing exclusively on paper now.
Chuck: Timothy Charles Sanada...... Enrolled in the department of television in the school of humanities at UCLA.
Tim: Yes.
Right now I'm focusing on CG art.
Chuck: But your manuscript wasn't drawn with a computer, it was drawn by hand, wasn't it?
Timmy: Ah...... Yes.
I couldn't keep up with what was in my head using CG, so I drew it by hand.
Chuck: Hoh.
Kevin: I only got a quick look over your manga so far,

Page 8:
Kevin: but it's brilliant.
Timmy: Really?
Kevin: Back then I told you to focus more on the story rather than just the artwork and make it a completed piece,
but I never expected you'd bring in something this polished.
Tim: Thank you so much. I can't express how that feels coming from you, Mr. Kevin......
Devivie: Before that, I am the chairman of the judging committee.
We will give you a critique only after I see it.
Kevin: Take a look.
I'm sure you'll be able to tell how incredible it is.

Page 9:
Devivie: Excuse me.
Kevin: Are you still living where you were back then?
Tim: No.
After my mother died, I moved closer to college...... though it's still a really cheap place.
Kevin: Do you have any other relatives?
Tim: No. I only managed to go to college because I got lucky with a scholarship.
SFX: GATAN
Devivie: Could I have a word?
Kevin: What'd ya think? Great, huh?

Page 10:
Kevin: Really surprised, weren't you?
Chuck: Kevin seems to have really taken a liking to you.
Tim: Yes. It's such an honor.
Kevin: So what'd you think of his Billy Bat?

Page 11:
Devivie: I'll speak candidly,
he clears all of the conditions for being genuine.
Kevin: I know, right? That kid's the real deal, ain't he?
Devivie: However......
It may be a bit too cute.
Chuck: Yes, I know what you mean.
Though that Billy I drew as cute as I could was a total fake.
Devivie: Yes. So my feelings as to whether I can definitively say this is genuine or fake are......
Kevin: What're you talking about? I can tell!!

Page 12:
Kevin: This is real!!
That kid can see him!!
Right?
Chuck: Setting aside whether he can see him or not,
in the comic which he brought in to show us......
Kevin, don't you think the part you came to a standstill at is drawn there?
Kevin: That's right.
There's only a glimpse of it drawn in here, but this terrorist group............

Page 13:
Kevin: with this character that looks like the boss of the terrorist organization, some great drama could flow out of this.

Page 14:
Sign: New York
SFX: TON TON TON TON TON TON
SFX: TON TON TON
SFX: TON TON TON TON TON TON TON TON
Billy: Yo, can you hear me, Jackie?
I asked if ya could hear me.
SFX: TON TON TON TON TON TON TON TON TON
Billy: You remembered the numbers like I told ya, right? I'll say 'em one more time.
SFX: TON TON TON TON TON TON
Billy: 42.95939399
218842420010911
-1.0790359824
03531120010911
SFX: TON TON TON TON TON

Page 15:
Billy: So, how 'bout it? Got it memorized? Say somethin'. Hey. Jackie......
Jackie: SHUT UUUUUP!!
Enough already!!
If you don't stop it with that crazy stuff, I'm not letting you off easy!!
Billy: Don't be so cold hearted. We know each other, don't we?
Jackie: Don't talk like you're my friend!!
I haven't heard a thing from you in 30 years, you've got nothing to do with me anymore!
Billy: Haven't heard a thing............? Oh, yeah.
Right now, you're the only one I can count on.
Jackie: Huh?

Page 16:
Billy: To put it simply, you're the only radio I've got that isn't broken.
Jackie: Again with the nonsense......
Billy: You're the only one that can get reception.
Jackie: ..........?
Billy: You're the only one I'm talking to.
Yeah. Basically you and I are talking on a telephone made from a string and two tin cans.
And the sorta string that looks like it could snap pretty easily.......
Jackie: A~~~h, geez! I'm sick of your metaphors!!
Billy: Anyhow, I've got somebody I want ya ta go see.
Jackie: Go see......?
Billy: It's gonna be the same as in '63. Back then I'd lost my signal with a cartoonist so I needed you to lend me a hand.
Jackie: See someone......?
You mean Kevin Yamagata......?

Page 17:
Billy: No, it's the other Kevin.
Kevin Goodman.
Jackie: Kevin Goodman......?
The one who's drawing 'Billy Bat' now......?
What do you want me to do when I meet him?
Tell him something?
Hey!
C'mon, where'd you go?!
Why do you always cut out right at the critical moment?!!

Page 18:
Maggie: Hey, mom, what's going on with breakfast?
Jackie: Uuuuuuu
Maggie: You've got a ton of onions cut up in the kitchens. You're not telling me to go to school after eating that for breakfast, are you?
Jackie: Uuuuuuu
Maggie: This ain't good.
Hey, Mom, don't mine me, you go ahead and find a good partner, okay?
Jackie: Uuuuuu

Page 19:
Jackie: This isn't the time to be looking for a partner.....
I've gotta go see him............
Kevin Goodman............
Osama: Our plan is steadily coming to fruition!!
First, what we must gain is the skills to fly airplanes!!
The day where that country descends into hell is soon apon us!!
Guys: Yes, sir!!

Page 20:
SFX: BUH BUH BUH
SFX: BUH BUH BUH BUH BUH
Kevin: Who're you talking to?
Tim: !!
Ah...... It-It's nothing...... Um......
I've always sorta talked to myself like that when I've draw comics ever since I was a kid.

Page 21:
Kevin: We've all judged your manuscript together.
Tim: Okay.
Kevin: They seem to all have their opinions, but the final decision rests with me.
For now, I want you to try drawing a few Billy Bat stories.
Tim: Thank you so much!!
Billy... The Billy Bat I've admired so much, I'm gonna get to draw him......
I...... I can't think of a greater honor!!

Page 22:
Kevin: Billy Bat is fun to draw, but at the same time there's no job that's as much trouble.
I'm pretty sure I know that better than anyone.
Though I think you'll clear this with flying colors.
Tim: No...... I'm still really far from having that kind of ability...........
Kevin: I think this organization's leader in particular is really good.
I'm jealous of your ability to draw a character like this.
By the way, what's the plan for the 'that country' this leader is planning to attack?
Tim: It's America.

Page 23:
Kevin: America's going to be attacked?
Tim: Yes.
Kevin: I didn't even think of that......
Tim: Do you think that's not good?
Kevin: Ah...... No......
Did he tell you that?

Page 24:
Kevin: Did Billy say that?
Side: Billy has left Kevin, but he can see him?! Is he the next "chosen one"?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 127 / End
Running next issue, too! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/40628 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 126 by kewl0210 2014-11-05T04:37:57+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

Only for use by Manga Bandits

Billy Bat, Billy Bat. Billy Billy Bat...
We're back! AGAIN! How many years have I been doing this now, goddammit? Uh... ok so 8 chapters again. Is this gonna be the last volume or what? Is this the last successor? They're running out of history, you can say that much for sure. I said "is it gonna end" every chapter in the last 3 years though. I sure as hell don't know what's gonna happen.

[Billy Bat 126 Translation by Kewl0210]
Cover:
[Uh, it's just the title and stuff so I don't really have anything to translate here.]

Page 1:
Side: nnneeaoowww... We're in the middle of a flying lesson!! What are these "two towers" standing in their path?!
Guys: Be careful not to lose stall out.
Got it.
Can I get a little closer?
It's fine. Go ahead.
Oh. Man, these sure are some impressive towers!!

Page 2:
Guys: Tower's this tall are really worth knocking down.
Huh?
What did you say?
It was nothing. I was just talking to myself.
These towers are symbols of freedom.
I see. Symbols of freedom.....
When those symbols fall
let's see what happens to "freedom".

Page 3:
Chuck: ..........
SFX: KAH KAH
Chuch: Hey.
I would've done the coloring for you if you'd asked.
Or do you think my coloring style is too old fashioned?

Page 4:
Kevin: It's not like that......
I just couldn't get a good grip on the image, so I tried coloring it.
Chuck: Hm. Well, I think it's fine.
This villain will make for a pretty good character.
Kevin: There's not gonna be such a simplistic villain
in this drama.
Title: Chapter 126 The Next Artist [1/8]

Page 5:
Chuck: I see...... But I think something this simplistic may be good.
Narration: January 2001----
Chuck: Anyhow, the recent Billy Bat story has been getting too complicated.
Kevin: ..........
Chuck: You're drawing to opposing countries, but the king of the seemingly just country is actually evil.
And the people of the country everyone thought was the evil country are incredibly pure.
So I think drawing it from a neutral standpoint is good, but it's hard to understand.
I thought more of a rewarding good and punishing evil story would be good, but......
maybe I'm too old fashioned?
Kevin: No......
It's just that we've had the series on hold for a year and a half......

Page 6:
Chuck: Well, there's no need to rush.
You've come quite a ways. It's fine if you don't want to publish anything unless it meets your standards.
And besides, the comic filling the hole you left, "Chameleon Ninja Karma" is a hit.
They've already green-lit a plan for a 2nd animated movie, isn't that right?
It's not just filling a hole now, it's a fully fledged hit on its own.
Kevin: So maybe I am still worth something even if I can't draw Billy Bat anymore.
Chuck: That's what I'm saying. 'Ninja Karma' is a masterpiece.
Kevin: If I don't draw Billy, there's no point to it all.

Page 7:
Kevin: You should know that better than anyone.
How're the auditions of the successor for a new Billy Bat work going?
Chuck: We've gotten an incredible number of applicants.
Kevin: Anything stand out?
Chuck: The impartial judging is going on as we speak.
Anyhow, the media is in a real frenzy right now.
Kevin: That's good, isn't it? If word spreads, we'll get more applicants.

Page 8:
Chuck: No, not that kind of frenzy.
'Kevin Goodman has finally thrown in the towel'.
'He's going to hand Billy Bat off to someone else without getting it under control first.'
Kevin: Well that's what's actually happening, so I can't blame them.
Chuck: Kevin......
Apparently Audrey is going on TV right now to address that.
Kevin: She can address it however she wants.
Chuck: She's blown a gasket over you putting out a public appeal for a successor without her approval.
Kevin: She's always upset when things don't go exactly her way.
Same as her dad.

Page 9:
Kevin: We're not slaves.
And I think you know that on a deeper level than anyone.
Chuck: Yes......
Kevin: ...So, where're the Billy Bat author applications being evaluated?

Page 10:
Kevin: These are all application works......?

Page 11:
Devivie: These are the ones I've read..........
and these are the ones I have yet to read.
And those boxes over there.........
are ones which are so out of the question I don't even have to read them and are thus being disposed of.
Kevin: .........
......So, how many Billy Bats have caught your eye in all these so far?
Devivie: Zero.

Page 12:
Kevin: But there're so many of 'em.
Devivie: My regret over what I did 40 years ago has been reinforced.
How I disposed of all the world's Billy Bat artists......
Chuck: That's enough of that sort of talk......
Now it's the other way around and you're trying to stop an organization that's trying to dispose of Billy Bat artists.
Kevin: But their way of doing things is pretty messed up.....
Devivie: Yes.
Even though we've gathered all of these manuscripts, there's not one person......

Page 13:
Devivie: Then perhaps there is not a single real Billy Bat artist remaining in this world...............
Kevin: No.
Billy told me......
Billy: You rewrote too much.
It's at the point where there's nothing I can do anymore.
Kevin: That was our last conversation before Billy Bat went silent.

Page 14:
Kevin: No matter how much I try to talk to him, Billy Bat......
doesn't say anything back.
SFX: SHA SHA SHA

Page 15:
Chuck: I wonder what's going on with him......
Kevin: Him...?
Chuck: The other Kevin......
Devivie: Him......
He is most likely traveling the world while his life is being targeted as well.
At one point he was staying at the Yucatan Peninsula,
and then he may have suddenly visited a place called the Tomb of Jesus Christ in Aomori Japan...

Page 16:
Devivie: The letter from Argentina was the last one I received.
It said that Atlantis may exist at the South Pole......
Chuck: Oh.
The program is starting.
SFX: PIH
Guy: It's the Larry Campbell Show! [Music note]
SFX: CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP
Guy: Hey everybody in TV land, we've invited a beautiful guest here today.
This beauty possesses a shrewdness you'd never imagine.

Page 17:
Guy: She grew the great legacy her father left her into an even grander business.
And now she's the queen of America's business world!!
Allow me to introduce...
Audrey Culkin!!
SFX: CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP
Larry: Is is all right if I ask you about everything from the future of the show-biz world to your private life, Audrey?
Audrey: Go easy on my, Larry.
SFX: CLAP CLAP HAH HAH HAH HAH CLAP CLAP

Page 18:
Larry: Your father was also a host of a TV show,
but you've stayed behind the scenes, haven't you? Despite being so easy on the eyes.
Audrey: My father is the very image of the Culkin Enterprises everyone loves,
I could never destroy that.
My father projected a powerful charisma to the outside world,
but at home he was an ordinary father that loved me, his only daughter, from the bottom of his heart.
Kevin: Why's she saying all that stuff she doesn't really think......
Larry: Congratulations on the massive success of the animated movie 'Chameleon Ninja Karma'.
There's one thing I'd like to ask on that subject,
and that is what is going to be happening next with 'Billy Bat'?
After all, Kevin Goodman is the author of both 'Ninja Karma' and 'Billy Bat'.

Page 19:
Larry: And there's this public appeal for a new author to take over 'Billy Bat'.
Does this mean that Kevin Goodman is going to be stepping down from 'Billy Bat' to focus on 'Ninja Karma'?
Audrey: No.
Kevin: will continue to draw 'Billy Bat'.
..........
Audrey: I seems the public appeal was misunderstood.
That's something of a contest for drawing something that looks just like 'Billy Bat'.
Kevin is the only one that can draw Billy.
After all, he......

Page 20:
becomes a prophet when he draws Billy Bat.
Kevin: Wha......
Larry: Oh my, so Kevin Goodman was a prophet after all, was he?
And with that juicy bit of information, we've reached the half point in our program!! Next is the musical guest......
Kevin: What bullshit was that?!! I can't let her keep saying that stuff!!
Chuck: Leave her be, Kevin!! She's just saying that to increase sales!!
Wah!!

Page 21:
Guy: Going out, sir?
Kevin: To SCB TV, step on it!!
That woman......
Using me as an advertisement!!
I've gotta find a successor as soon as possible!
And because she had to go and say something like that out in public......
Billy Bat really won't talk to anyone again!!

Page 22:
Kevin: Hurry!! C'mon, go!!
Driver: Y...... Yes, sir. I'll get moving right away.
!!
Kevin: Hold on, stop!!

Page 23:
SFX: BAM
Kevin: You're......

Page 24:
Tim: U......Um, sorry I took so long......
I finished my manuscript. Um...... I'm......
Timmy.
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 126 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!
Side: He's the "Billy Bat artist boy" from the slum. Has he come to fulfill the promise he made with Kevin long ago......?!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/40152 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 125 by kewl0210 2014-07-26T06:29:52+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

Only for use by Mangabandits

Ok. There we have it, this group of 8's all done. I'm hoping Mangabandits gets through them relatively quickly, I think they are. Uh... so the series continues in October. I guess I'll be back at this for another 2 months then. Who knows, maybe the story will end this time? I have no clue.

[Billy Bat 125 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Somebody: Hm......? Where do you think this is?
Maybe Europe...... This is...... East, I think.
It's Eastern Europe, right?
There's a church. I can see a church.
Mmmm. Well, despite there being a church here, this is.....
Side: The Billy Bat History Laboratory. In order to decipher the "scroll", Finny has gathered the wisdom of mankind......?!

Page 2:
Guy 1: It's a different religion..........
Guy 2: Yeah, this is a different religion than ours.....
Guy 1: Hold on a sec.....
Guy 2: Yeah?
Guy 1: Try looking at it a little more from an overhead view.
Guy 2: I see.
Guy 1: Now pull a bit back.
Guy 2: I see, I see.
Guy 1: Hm?
I can smell it.
SFX: SNIFF SNIFF
Guy 2: What kind of smell is it?

Page 3:
Finny: How long do you intend to let them do this?
Jeffrey: Shh! We're just getting to the good part.
Finny: There's no good part to this. Aren't they just doing that thing that they reported on CNN yesterday?
Title: Chapter 125 Must Not Touch [8/8]

Page 4:
Jeffrey: What're you talking about?
The Soviet Union's been promoting research on ESP since before the war..
And in the 70's, even America scouted around for soldiers that seemd to have ESP during the Vietnam War.
Understand, Mister Finny?
That sequence of numbers you had us research,
it's sure to be connected to a random number generator that made use of quantum mechanics.
In those devices, they have walls with a 1 in 2 chance of a particles passing through it or not.
It'll have a system where if the particles goes through, that's a "1" and if it doesn't that's a "0". So as a result, 0 and 1 have an equal probability.

Page 5:
Jeffrey: By the way, do you know about "quantum entanglement"?
It's the phenomenon of when two particles collide and no matter how far apart they go, they eternally affect each other.
......So in current mainstream supernatural research, they think that those particles may extend to affect human emotions.
A random number generator was used to create that data collection.
Actually, it's been reported that just before and after a major incident occurs in the world, random number generators show abnormal deviations.
In other words, the connection to people with ESP and the scroll is the connection between quantum entanglement and random number generators.
Finny: That was quite a scientist-like speech, but....
I know there's no other way of describing it.

Page 6:
Finny: The old me would probably have discarded this as a waste of time.
Jeffrey: It's certainly not a waste of time. Verifying one thing at a time like that is what science is all about.
Finny: I know. That is what we average people must do.
After all, we......
cannot become like those "simpletons".
Guy: Mister Finny, your spirit really has weakened quite a bit, too, hasn't it?
Finny: !!
It's you.........

Page 7:
Finny: Morehouse............
So you started again, didn't you?
More: Started what?
Finny: Disposing of the authors of fake Billy Bats all over the world. Isn't that right?

Page 8:
Morehouse: Where did you hear that? I wouldn't expect someone like you to be manipulated by such dubious information.
Finny: Only "simpletons" can see the bat.
Do not dispose of any more "simpletons".
More: Leaving them alone causes unsavory things to happen.
Such as the Kennedy assassination......
Incidentally, Mister Finny,
have you seen it?
Finny: Seen what?
More: The bat.

Page 9:
Finny: And what will you do once you learn that information?
More: Oh, nothing. Ever since the war was still going on
even before the OSS or CIA were formed
you've been assigned to this job.
As it were, you've been given the go-ahead from successive generations of presidents.
I've been wondering why it is only you have such a position.
Finny: I don't know, really.
But one thing I can say.
All those in power have interest in that bat.
More: Well, that's to be expected.
Finny: Why do you say that?
More: I mean, it can manipulate time, can't it?

Page 10:
Finny: And what happens when you do manipulate time?
You end up dead.
More: Is that the conclusion you came to after chasing the bat for all these years?
Finny: I'm still not sure if that's the conclusion yet, but either way, the road of research has been long and harsh.
The project at your place seems quite trying, too, isn't it?
Anyhow, the government has washed its hands of this organization.
Though fortunately, thanks to my ties with Culkin Enterprises, I have been able to make a smooth transition to the private sector.
It's all being done at his own expense.
More: Wonderful............
Mister Finny......

Page 11:
More: I would like you to vacate this research laboratory.
Finny: I told you, didn't I? Thanks to Culkin, we moved into the private sector.
More: Those are all mine.
This is the contract I made with Chuck Culkin when he was still alive.
Everything in this facility now belongs to me.

Page 12:
More: We'll immediately be going through the procedure of your vacating...
Finny: Leave.
More: That's how you killed Doctor Sinclair as well, isn't it?
Do you intend to be a grave keeper guarding a treasure?

Page 13:
Finny: No.
This is no treasure.
More: What's that.........?
Finny: It is something that humans must not touch.
SFX: GAKON

Page 14:
SFX: BASHUH
SFX: UIIIIN
SFX: KAH KAH
SFX: ROLL ROLL
SFX: GASA GASAH

Page 15:
SFX: GASASAH
Jeff: What're you doing?
Finny: Ah, Jeffrey, please give me a hand.
Grab all of the materials you can carry. We're getting out of here as soon as possible.
Jeff: I can't let you do that.
Finny: ?
Jeff: What do you think you're doing?

Page 16:
SFX: PAN PAN PAN [This is the top, big one. It's gunshots so it's important, even if it's not in a bubble.]
SFX: CHIN

Page 17:
Somebody: Let's go to "Billy Bat's Mystery World" next!!
I'm gonna get on fiiiirst!
Hey, slow down, you'll trip!!
Hey, is that Mystery World, too?

Page 18:
Guy: Hih......
S.....
Someoooone!!
Finny: Two...
Two towers...... disappear.....
What was the point......
of knowing...... that......?

Page 19:
Billy: This scroll sorta document......
I'll be holding onto it, 'kay?
See ya.

Page 20:
Guy: Someone, hurry!!
Hurry, we need an ambulaaaance!!
Somebody: KYA KYA KYA
Jackie: Huh?

Page 21:
Girl: What's wrong, Mom?
Jackie: N...... Nothing. N... Nothing at all...
Girl: Did we pass by an old boyfriend of yours or something?
Jackie: CLose!!
Girl: No way, seriously?
Jackie: No...... Well, a long time ago before this building was made, I had a date around here.
Girl: Heeeh. And? What happened with that boyfriend?
Jackie: No-thing!! He was an ass. I lent him some money and he never came back since then. So it was goodbye with that date.
Girl: You've really never had an eye for guys.
Jackie: Hey, what's with your tone, Maggie?
Girl: Even dad got into debt and ran out.
Jackie: That's different.....
Your dad liked people too much, so he took on other people's debts.
He ended up with no way out, so his only choice was to run.

Page 22:
Maggie: That's what I meant by you don't have an eye.
Jackie: Hey, it depends on your way of thinking.
There are always good times and bad......
Billy: KYA KYA KYA
Jackie: !!
No way.....
Again, after all this time......?
Maggie: What is it, Mom?
Billy: Jackie, it's been a while.
What I'm about to say is real important so make sure ya memorize it.

Page 23:
Jackie: It started again........
I'm normal. I'm normal. I'm normal.
Maggie: Mom, what's wrong?!!
Jackie: I'm normal......
Billy: 42.95939399218842...... -1.079035982403531......
Jackie: Huh?!
Maggie: Mom?!
Billy: I'll say it one more time.
42.9593939921884200109 -1.0790359824035311200109 [Right side cut off]
Jackie: There's no way I could remember something like that!!
Billy: It's 20010911. Make sure you remember that!! Otherwise............

Page 24:
Jackie: O...... Otherwise, what..........?
Side: 42.95939399218842...... -1.079035982403531......?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 125 / End
The newest volume which will contain up to this chapter will be volume 15 and will goes on sale in September!!
Insert: Next serialization will begin in October!!
The era is the year 2000..... To the moment where the way the world works suddenly changes......!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/40151 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 124 by kewl0210 2014-07-26T03:23:08+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

Only for use by Mangabandits

Ok, so Mangabandits is scanlating this manga. I just got the raw of 125 so I'll translate that soon, and that'll end this series of chapters. Doesn't look like the actual manga is gonna end this series, though. It DOES look like it's heading towards the end, however. For real this time. Not like the other 20 times I said it might end soon.

[Billy Bat 124 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Kevin: This is...... the real history............
Title: Chapter 124 Escape [7/8]
Side: On the moon, Kurusu wished to redo his life and human history ended..... or at least it was supposed to!!

Page 2:
Billy: Anyways......
Kevin: !!
Billy: that man went to the moon and made a wish on the moon bat picture,
then mankind ended.
And you just did whatever you wanted and rewrote it.
Kevin: Hold on a sec. So you're saying that man really existed
and really went to the moon?

Page 3:
Billy: You're talkin' about that now? You drew the friggin' fall of the Berlin Wall in a comic.
Kevin: I just drew an interesting comic that came to mind.
I'm no prophet!!
I'm just a cartoonist!!
Billy: Hey,
quit trying to distort it like that.
Kevin: ..........
Billy: You rescued the world from danger.
That was a good job. You really did somethin' big.
But......

Page 4:
Billy: You rewrote too much.
It's at the point where there's nothing i can do anymore.
For the rest, you've got to handle it on your own.
Kevin: H...... Handle it......?
What do I do?
Billy: Ya got me!
There's only thing I know right now.
Kevin: .........

Page 5:
Billy: That after the two towers fall......
things are gonna start to get crazy chaotic.....
Kevin: What......? What's that mean?
Hey!!
Hey, say somethi.....
..........

Page 6:
Kevin: A comic I drew when I was little.....
There's an assassin in front of the house.....
and I'm his target.....
Diane: There's been a strange car parked nearby the house a lot recently.
Kevin: ..........
And this is the method for escaping the house I drew back then.....

Page 7:
Diane: Hey, Kevin,
Kevin: !!
Diane: You can take it easy today, right? How about dinner......?
Kevin: Mom, call everyone back.
Diane: Huh?
Kevin: The security people and the help. Including the butler, Arnold.
Diane: O...... Okay, what about you?
Kevin: I've got to go.
Diane: Then I'll have Arnold drive you when he gets here.
Kevin: ......No.
I'll call a taxi.
Diane: Why would you go out of your for a taxi......?
Kevin: Because that's the sorta thing that's going on.

Page 8:
Kevin: At least, that's the sort of thing going on now.
But past here, it's like you said, mom.
We don't know what's gonna happen.
Women: young master, it's so good to see you again!
If I knew you were coming I never would've taken off.
Kevin: Miss Maureen, Miss Kate, you're both looking well.
I'll stay longer next time.

Page 9:
Kevin: I'm leaving mom to you, Arnold.
Arnold: She's in good hands.
Kevin: She's the sorta person that goes after suspicious people with a bat anyhow.
Diane: What're you whispering about?
You should take care of yourself before you start worrying about others.
Kevin: See ya, mom.
Diane: Take care.
You never know what's going to happen in life, but......
whichever path you take, you're the one that decides your destination.
Kevin: I know.
Whenever you're unsure of something, you always go for the words of Reverend King...... right?

Page 10:
Diane: Yes.
"I have a dream."
SFX: ZAA...

Page 11:
Guy: He's on the move.
He's passing me now.
Once he's somewhere where you won't be seen, dispose of him.
Guy: Roger.
SFX: ZAAH
Kevin: Driver,
are you from around here?

Page 12:
Guy: Yep. Born and bred. I know these roads like the back of my hand.
Kevin: Then could you step on it?
Guy: Well, we've got quite some time before the next plane.
Kevin: When I was a kid, I used to have this crazy idea in my head
that the car behind me was some bad guy that was after my life.
Guy: Hohoh. Well, if you're in my hands, we'll lose him in no time.
Kevin: Then please lose him.
Guy: Hahhahhah! By the way, there sure are a lot of patrol cares around here, ain't there?
Kevin: In that thing I pretended when I was a kid
the taxi driver was also their accomplice.

Page 13:
Kevin: The idea was he would stop in some place where there'd be nobody around to witness anything and the car behind me would catch up.
I don't know how much he was paid to do that, but...
in the end, the taxi driver would get killed, too.
Guy: ........
Kevin: I mean, makes sense, right? It's not like the guy in the car following me would just graciously hand over the money to somebody who's seen his face.
Even though I was just a kid, I think that's a really adult-ish idea to have.
Ah, that left curve up ahead.
Try speeding up a little.
Guy: ......!!

Page 14:
Kevin: It'd be best if you just went all the way to the airport.
You know there are police in front of the airport, right? If you can make it, maybe try stopping there.
SFX: GACHA
Guy: Ah.....
U..... Um...
Kevin: Okay, let's both be as careful as we can.
Guy: Ah......

Page 15:
SFX: GASA GASA
Kevin: Huuuu.....
SFX: GASASA...
Kevin: There's a swamp in the thicket over there, so I've gotta be careful.
Man, I can't believe that memory of being soaking wet became useful for me at this age.

Page 16:
Kevin: It's really drawn well.
......Okay, next is......
Hitchhiking......

Page 17:
Kevin: Woah......
It really came......
And cars don't come down this road that often......
It's just like in the comic......

Page 18:
Kevin: !?
SFX: SHUUUUU SHUUUUU
SFX: SHUUUUU SHUUUUU

Page 19:
SFX: SHUUUUU SHUUUUU...
SFX: GARYU RYU RYU
SFX: ZAA...
SFX: UIIIIIN

Page 20:
SFX: ZAA...
Devivie: That was naive.
Quite an amateur move, that was......
That car you tried to hitch a ride with
was also an enemy.

Page 21:
Devivie: My name is Devivie.
Please get in.
Kevin: O...... Okay.
SFX: GI... GISHI
Devivie: Why aren't you wary of me?

Page 22:
Kevin: I had drawn everything up until you came when I was a kid.....
It all went according to the comic.
Devivie: Wonderful..........
Kevin: What......?
Devivie: I was thinking that you look just like the glimpse I caught of you previously.
Kevin: You caught a glimpse of me?
Devivie: I saw a large number of bats swarming together and I saw you.
Kevin: ......?

Page 23:
Devivie: I was told to protect you.
Kevin: By the bats?
Devivie: By Mr. Smith.
Kevin: Smith......
Devivie: Now then, what shall we do from here?
Kevin: From here........
Yeah...... I've done it like this up till now.

Page 24:
Kevin: The problem is what to do past here.
There's a job I need to do.
Devivie: I'm looking forward to it.
Kevin: Yes...... to readers
drawing is a big job.
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 124 / End
Appearing next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!
Side: Past here is a "future" that even Billy cannot predict. What can Kevin do......?!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/40088 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 123 by kewl0210 2014-07-13T08:07:14+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Okay, this one's done. I'm STILL trying to figure out why the scanlations aren't done it looks like...

[Billy Bat 123 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Kevin: This man's true life............
His real history......
Side: What was the world Kurusu was... was supposed to want?!
Title: Chapter 123 Kiyoshi's Life [6/8]

Page 2:
[Look at little Kiyoshi go.]

Page 3:
Kids: Ooh!!
SFX: PARA PARA PARA PARA
Kids: WoaH! It really looks like he's moving!!
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIIIN
Kids: You drew that flippy manga all on your own?
I knew you were a genius at drawing, KiyoshI!

Page 4:
Kurusu: Hehe......
It's not a flippy manga, it's called an animation.
Kid: Ani......?
Kurusu: Haven't you heard of it?
Kiyayama Seitarou-sensei from Kitayama Movie Productions
and also Shimokawa Outen-sensei are making animated movies.
Kids: HAAH......
Kurusu: It's a kind of motion picture.
The era of animated movies is coming!!
Kids:HA~~~H. I'm not sure I get it, but that sounds pretty big.
You're too smart, Kiyoshi. I can barely understand what you're saying.

Page 5:
Kiyoshi: I'm baaaack!!
Mom: Welcome back, Kiyoshi!! Um.....
Dad: Oh, Kiyoshi, you're back! I was just about to pour a Calpis.
Kurusu: Waa! Calpis!!
Mom: Hey!! Wash your hands first!!
Kurusu: Okaaaay!
Huh? Were you about to say something, Mom?
Mom: Ah, well.........
Dad: Here, I poured it. Let's make a toast!
Kurusu: Did something good happen?

Page 6:
Mom: Well, Kiyoshi, your father has become chief clerk.
Kiyoshi: Chief clerk?!! So you're a big-shot at the factory now, huh?
Dad: Well, I dunno about big-shot, but I'm doing all right.
You're smart Kiyoshi, so you've gotta become even more of a big-shot.
Kiyoshi: But, Dad, I.....
I want to become an animator!!
Mom: Oh, this boy, he's using more of those difficult words...
Kiyoshi: It's not a difficult word! It's a kind of motion picture.....
Dad: It sounds good.
You're great at drawing, Kiyoshi!!
There's nothing better than having a dream!!

Page 7:
SFX: GOGOGOGOGOGO
SFX: GOOOOOO
Kurusu: Dad!!
Mom!!
Dad!!
Mooooon!!

Page 8:
Kurusu: HAA
HAA
HAA
DAAAAAD! MOOOOOM!!
UAAAAA!!
Dad: Kiyoshi!!

Page 9:
Dad: You're okay, Kiyoshiiii?!!
Kiyoshiiii!!
Kiyoshiii!!
Kurusu: Dad. The house...... The house.....
Dad: It's okay if the house is gone.
As long as we have our lives, we'll manage somehow.
As long as we're alive, we can build as many houses as we need!

Page 10:
Dad: I see.
A machine drawing technical skill diploma......
Well done, Kiyoshi.
Kurusu: I thought I could draw plans for a secret weapon for the army.
Dad: What an honorable choice.
You've graduated top of your class from the Tokyo industrial arts school...... and I heard you had the best grades out of the history of anyone who graduated, right?
Kurusu: Y......Yes. But
all of my friends have been dispatched to the war, and I'm the only one on the mainland facing a desk......
Dad: That's okay.

Page 11:
Dad: Going to the battlefield isn't the one way to serve one's country.
Live, Kiyoshi.
SFX: GOOOOOO

Page 12:
SFX: DOOOOO
Kurusu: Hold on, Mom!! Dad should definitely be fine at Tsukudajima!!
Mom: Kiyoshiiii!!
Kurusu: Dammit!! Ther've been over 100 air-raids, enough already!!
Like hell I'm gonna diiiie!!
Mom: Kiyoshi~~~~!!

Page 13:
Mom: Is Dad...... Okay?
GOHO
GOHO
Kurusu: Yeah...... He's fine.
Mom: Kiyoshi......

Page 14:
Mom: There's nothing left, is there......?
Kurusu: No......
As long as we have our lives, we'll manage somehow.
Mom.........
Mom: Huh......?
Kurusu: I'm.....
going to draw manga.

Page 15:
Bat: TOOH!
People call me
Silver Bat!!
Text: Silver Bat
SFX: SHA SHA
Guy: Whatever, just hurry up. You're keeping the printer waiting!!
Kurusu: The ones waiting the most aren't the printers!

Page 16:
Kurusu: They're the readers all over the country!!
Okay, fo all the fill-in inking and do the finishing touches!!
Guy: Yes, sir!!
Heeew! Anyhow, 'Silver Bat' sure is popular, isn't it?!!
Paper: Manga Award Winner
Guys: When you talk about Mangakas these days, you're talking about Karama, Tezuka, and Kurusu!!
Ah, Kurusu-sensei, please give me your autograaaaph!!
Woman: KYAAAA!!
SFX: ZAZAH
Women: KYAAA KYAAA
Kurusu: I'm already thinking about my next move.

Page 17:
Guys: Next move, you say......?
Kurusu: The production of the country's first TV anime!!
SFX: PAPAKAPAAAA
Kids: OooH! So cool!!
Silver Bat is moving!!
SFX: PAKKAPAA
Guy: A press conference is now being held about Silver Bat;s all-American launch!!

Page 18:
Somebody: This year's movie award for outstanding animation goes to......
Director Kurusu Kiyoshi for 'Silver Bat'!!
Mom: I'm doing very well today.
Kurusu: Yes...... That's good.
Mom: Sorry, I know you're busy, Kiyoshi......
Kurusu: What are you talking about, Mom......?

Page 19:
Mom: Thanks to you, I led a truly fun life.........
SFX: PIPIPI...
Kurusu: Yes, hello?
Ah, Shimane-san from Koudankan, huh? Hold on one moment, would you?
Have the manuscript done right away?
All right, understood. I'll be heading home in just a bit.
What a beautiful sunset.

Page 20:
Girl: Um.....
You're Kurusu Kiyoshi-sensei, aren't you? Would you mind signing this?
Kurusu: Yes, of course.
What's your name?
Girl: It's Yumiko.
It's the "yu" from "freedom" and the "mi" from "beautiful".
Kurusu: Huh?

Page 21:
Kurusu: Huh?
How.........
do I draw him again......?
Ah?
Ah...... Um......
I...... I'm sorry, I......

Page 22:
[Dang. I hate when that happens.]

Page 23:
Billy: Geez. This even happened ta you, eh......?
Oh, dang. It's this late already?
Okay, so long.
A bat can't fly over nothin', but...
SFX: FLAP FLAP
Scroll: Then, the lone bat flew.
He flew higher and higher, leaving the earth...

Page 24:
Kevin: And then......
SFX: KATAN
Kevin: This is his real life............
The real history......
Humanity was supposed to end......
And I......
I rewrote it.
Side: Human history will not continue forever...... No, it really ended. What as shock!!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 123 / End
Appearing next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/40042 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 122 by kewl0210 2014-07-01T03:25:52+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Ok, the scanlations should supposedly get done soon now.

[Billy Bat 122 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
SFX: FLAP FLAP
SFX: FLAP FLAP
SFX: FLAP FLAP FLAP FLAP
SFX: FLAP FLAP FLAP FLAP FLAP FLAP
Kevin: If I fail, it's all over.
Side: Why did that assassin appear before Smith in the first place?! And now, our story goes back......?!

Page 2:
[Dang. It was HIM.]

Page 3:
Devivie: WAAAAAAAAAAA!!
Title: Chapter 122 Redo (5/8)

Page 4:
SFX: GAH BAKIBAKIBAKI ZAZAA
Momochi: Eh......?
Oh shiiiiit!!
Somebody, come quiiiick!!
Someone's...... someone's falleeeeen!!
Box: 1964----

Page 5:
Momochi: Someooooone!!
Somebody: Hmph.
You're still breathing, huh?
Do ya want help?

Page 6:
Zoufuu: All right, I'll help ya.
SFX: GUH GUH
SFX: GUH GUH
SFX: GUH GUH

Page 7:
Zoufuu: So yer awake, eh? Ya better eat up or you won't get better.
Now say aaaaah.
Yamashita: Sensei, you're all right?!!
Zoufuu: What, ya think I'd drop dead that easily?!!
Yamashita: WA!!
Th...... Th...... This is that assassin foreigner!!

Page 8:
Yamashita: No way we can leave a guy like this alive, Senseeeeei!!
Zoufuu: Then go ahead 'n split his noggin open and end 'is life, Yamashita-kun.
Yama: Okay, got iiiit. How dare you do that to the Village Chief and the Village Elder~~~!!
Aw dang. I can't finish off somebody weak 'n defenseless like this. I'm an ally of justice, dangit~~~...

Page 9:
Zoufuu: Mm. Well said.
And good job protecting my manuscript.
Yama: Ah... This...?
I did just what you said, Sensei, and showed it to Kinji-san.
But....... But Kinji-san, he...........
Zoufuu: He was shot, correct......?
Yama: Yes. How did you know?
Zoufuu: I went to your house to deliver that secret code that would show the location of this mountain hut, Yamashita-kun.
Yama: Right, Sensei. It's a great code that only you and I would understand.
Paper: Go buy cigarettes.
Zoufuu: When I was doin' that, I heard the villagers talkin' to each other.
They said that the mangaka Kevin Yamagata was shot......

Page 10:
Yama: Kinji-san's condition has been Isshin Tasuke.
Zoufuu: I think you mean "isshin ittai".
T/N: Isshin Tasuke is a fictional character. "Isshin ittai" means "switching between doing favorably and unfavorable".
It looks like you weren't the only one after his life.
If you still are after his life, that is.
Yama: What're you crying fer?
Zoufuu: Ya read it, right?

Page 11:
Yama: Ah...... Yes. When he read "The Story of Your Mother" that Kinji-san wrote, he got all funny.
Zoufuu: "The Story of Your Mother", eh......?
Cissy......
It's just as I thought......
Kinji-kun reproduced Shishou's manga, eh......?
Manga: Waaan! Wan wan!
Help me, Mommy!
I don't know what to do!
Say this incantation. [This stuff's from chapter 90]
Cissy: Shishou wrote it for me before he left.
A story of the son I really want......

Page 12:
Devivie: Incantation?
Cissy: Billy Bat, Billy Bat. Billy, Billy Bat [Note]
Grant my wish, Billy Bat [Note]
Devivie: If I say those words,
will the things I did disappear?
That's amazing!! So they're magic words that can change the past?
Cissy: They can't change the past.
They'll correct the future. [All this is from chapter 90]
Zoufuu: Shishou......

Page 13:
Zoufuu: Your mother......
was a wonderful woman.
Devivie: I'll commit harakiri.........
Zoufuu: Don't you get it?!!
Cutting your belly won't bring back the people you killed!!
You damn fool!!

Page 14:
Devivie: Uu.......
Zoufuu: Okay? Listen up!!
Ya can't change the past, but ya can set things right in the future.
There's only one way for you ta redeem yerself.
Protect a certain man.
Yama: A certain man?
Zoufuu: Yamashita-kun, my manuscript.........
Yama: Y...... Yes, sir.

Page 15:
Zoufuu: This is the undersketch of a manga I drew recently.
A certain man goes to the moon
and he finds something incredible there.
A picture of a bat that grants wishes.
This man lived a life much like yours.
And like you, he wished to redo the past.
Devivie: What happened when he said he wanted to redo it......?
Zoufuu: This.

Page 16:
Billy: Oh, dang. It's this late already?
Okay, so long.
A bat can't fly over nothin', but...
SFX: FLAP FLAP
Scroll: Then, the lone bat flew.
He flew higher and higher, leaving the earth. And...
SFX: FLAP FLAP
Scroll: Then, the lone bat flew.
He flew higher and higher, leaving the earth. And...

Page 17:
[Not all that much here.]

Page 18:
Devivie: This is the Earth......
Zoufuu: That's right.
And I couldn't think of.............
a single good idea to avoid this!!
We mangaka a need to make a collective effort to think of something!
Me, my disciple Kevin Yamagata, and his disciple as well.
This ain't the time to be cutting bellies.
Protect my disciple.

Page 19:
Box: 1990----
Smith: So you risked your life to protect me, but......
haven't you got the wrong person?
Devivie: I also once performed a job that was called "extermination".
"Extermination"......
The job of disposing of the so-called fake Billy Bats.
SFX: ZAAAAAA...

Page 20:
Devivie: It's been over 20 years since I retired from it. I haven't done it since.
But suddenly, just one year ago.........
SFX: ZAAAAA
Devivie: The artist of a particularly good bootleg Billy Bat was killed.
The "extermination" had begun again.
Well, I had done it before so I knew better than anyone.
That person would not be the only one "exterminated".
Everyone connected with the production of the comic as well as their families......
would all be "exterminated".
Smith: You have my thanks.
So that's why you came to protect me first.
But the person you really should be protecting is......
Devivie: Yes...... I know.

Page 21:
Devivie: Kevin Goodman.
Kevin: I told you, I don't know how.
I've never known you to be so wimpy.

Page 22:
Billy: I told you, it's because you went and changed the outline.
Kevin: Well that's because you were urging me to do something and that's what I came up with.
Billy: I didn't say that.
Kevin: Oh, there it is again!
As soon as things get inconvenient for you, you always blame the other one.
Are you the black one or the white one?
Billy: Neither. I'm me.
Kevin: This is such a joke.
Billy: That's my line.

Page 23:
Billy: Hey, try drawing.
Kevin: What?
Billy: Try to draw what would've happened before you warped everything.
Kevin: I don' wanna.
Billy: That four-eyes assassin went to the moon.
He was sick of everything and made a wish to the bat drawing.
He said he wanted to redo his life.
So tell me, what happened then?

Page 24:
SFX: SHA SHASHA
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIN MIIIIIN
Side: What happened when that four-eyes assassin originally changed history?! The strory starts there......!!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 122 / End
Appearing next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/40000 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 121 by kewl0210 2014-06-23T22:37:06+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Well, we're half way through now and there still aren't any scanlations. I'm seriously annoyed at this point. I'm trying to contact those guys and get some idea of what's going on.

[Billy Bat 121 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Someone: Oh noooooo!!
The "Towers of Prosperity" are falliiiing!!
Crush him!!
Crush him!!
Crush the dictator!!
Dog: Food...
Water...
That island is our island!!
That island belongs to us!!
Side: Shrieks and anger. Is this the end of the world or just one page of history? This is Kevin's new piece...... or is it a prediction?

Page 2:
Dog: War will no longer occur.
If war were to occur...
it would be none other than an economic war...!!
People: We'll take back our land!!
Somebody: Water...
Food...
Crush him! Crush him!!
The people assembled on the Internet
will topple the dictatorship!!

Page 3:
Guy: Food...
Water...

Page 4:
Kevin: !!
HAA
HAA
HAA
Title: Chapter 121 Prediction of Ruin (4/8)

Page 5:
Guy: Hey, sir?
Do you think this'll win?
Kevin: Huh?
Guy: It's a lottery ticket.
If you win with the carry-over, you get 800 million right now!!
Take a look at these numbers.
I read about you in a magazine. That's you, right?
The prophet?

Page 6:
Kevin: If you don't keep your eyes on the road while you're driving
you're gonna die before you win that lottery.
SFX: PAH PAAAH KYAKYAH
Guy: Right, gotcha!!
Yeah, I should expect nothing less. You know what'll happen before it happens, after all.
I thought you looked like the guy in the lottery. You're headed ta Madeline Park, right?
That's what clinched it for me. That's where the Golden Cola President's estate is.
Kevin: Yeah......
Guy: Ya goin' ta check on yer Dad's business er somethin'?

Page 7:
KEvin: It's got nothing to do with them.
Guy: Man, the heir to the Golden Cola company, the top company in its industry,
is also a prophet? The world just ain't fair.
Kevin: Stop here.
Guy: Huh?
Kevin: We're almost at Madeline Park.
Kevin: I haven't been here in a while, so I'm gonna walk.
SFX: BAM
Kevin: I used to play around here a lot when I was a kid.

Page 8:
Kevin: There's a swamp past that thicket.
When I was a kid, I got stuck in it and almost died.
A real prophet should really be able to predict that much...

Page 9:
SFX: GACHA
Kevin: It's unlocked......?
SFX: BATAN

Page 10:
Kevin: !!
WAAAA, wait!
Mom!!
Diane: Kevin?

Page 11:
Diane: Honestly......
I almost hit my own son with a bat.
You snuck in without making a sound.
Kevin: The front door was unlocked. No matter how you put it, that's pretty careless.
Diane: You came in right when I was going into the garden to gather some mint.
Kevin: Ah......
Mint......?
I really didn't like this as a kid, didn't I......?
Diane: So you're finally at the age where you know how good mint tea is?

Page 12:
Kevin: Oh, apple pie!
Diane: Looks like your reaction to apple pie is just the same as from when you were a kid.
Kevin: Where's Dad?
Diane: In Japan for a business trip.
Kevin: Japan, huh......? I'd like to go there.
Tokyo?
Diane: I don't know, but he said he wanted to take a look at a water source.
He said that water sources are going to be vital to beverage makers.
Kevin: Speaking of which, where're the maids?
DIane: You dad's not here, to they're taking off.
Kevin: What about the security people?
Diane: Same. Taking off.
Kevin: C'mon now, that's careless.
Diane: Ah...... Now that you mention it..............

Page 13:
Diane: There's been a strange car parked nearby the house a lot recently.
Kevin: Huh? What'd you say?
That really sounds dangerous, don't you think?
Diane: And that's why I talked to them.
Kevin: Huh?
You approached that car and spoke to them?
Diane: Yes. But of course I was carrying a bat like you saw just now.
SFX: KON KON
Diane: The man in the car had a dumbfounded look on his face.
And I said this...

Page 14:
Diane: Next time, I'm calling the police. But for today, please have a Golden Cola and get going.
Kevin: ......And, what happened?
Diane: He drank it and left.
Kevin: HAAAAAH...... I know that you were called a woman warrior a long time ago.....
You're really as reckless as ever.
Diane: So what about you? It's been years since you've come by. What brought this on?
Kevin: Well.......
Sorry for not calling in so long......
Diane: Don't worry. No news is good news, they say.
But anyhow..........

Page 15:
Diane: I've been enjoying every issue of Billy Bat.
Kevin: Ah...... So you've been reading it? Thanks.
Diane: Of course.
Kevin: Um......
Are you mad?
Diane: About what?
Kevin: I mean, I quit university without even asking you............
Diane: I guess business administation......... isn't really what you're suited to.
Actually, even your dad never really wanted you to inherit Golden Cola.
Kevin: Ah...... is that right?
Diane: Your dad actually wanted to go to Europe and become a cartoonist.

Page 16:
Diane: He was such a big, big fan of Billy Bat.
He was actually a little too into it.
So he was actually really happy when you started drawing Billy Bat.
He said he was proud of you.
Kevin: I've......
been thinking of quitting......

Page 17:
Kevin: Both Billy Bat......
and drawing comics......
I'm......
no prophet......
I'm now drawing comics in order to convey these prophecies.........
I just want to draw an entertaining comic.

Page 18:
Diane: Well, that should be all right.
Though your dad may be a bit sad to hear it.
What are you going to do when you quit?
Kevin: I'm not really sure.....
I think I'd like to see the world.
There are some people that say that's the hobby of a rich heir, but that's not right.
I'll travel the world with the money I earned drawing Billy Bat......
......But,
I haven't thought of what I'm gonna do afterwards......
Diane: Not knowing what to do is what life is.

Page 19:
Diane: We don't know what's coming
and that's what makes it interesting.
Would you like another cup of mint tea?
Kevin: AH...... Sure......

Page 20:
Kevin: Man, it's been a long time since I've been in this room.
Diane: That's got all of the drawings you did as a child in it.
Ah...... that's probably a call from your dad.
Are you going to tell him yourself that you're quitting?
Kevin: Yeah.
SFX: GISHI...

Page 21:
SFX: GATAN

Page 22:
Billy: Yo.
What're ya doin', actin' all grown up and decidin' on your own to drop out?
Kevin: ..........
Billy: We used to talk just us two in this room all the time back in the old days, right?
Ya never went off ta play on yer own.

Page 23:
SFX: GAH
Billy: Wait!!
SFX: BASAH
Billy: First, humanity's already ended.
Kevin: What?
Billy: The final episode's already happened.
When that man went to the moon.
Because you decided on your own to change that,
everything's all jumbled up.

Page 24:
Billy: There's 10 more years.
In 10 years, the time of ruin will come.
And I don't know what to do anymore.
Side: Kevin has rewritten history. So now, chaos and despair for humanity that even Billy Bat cannot predict is beginning......?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 121 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/39979 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 120 by kewl0210 2014-06-18T01:13:46+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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The numbers end in 20010911 by the way. You guys knew this was coming, right? It's all coming to a head.

[Billy Bat 120 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Disney: Is everyone gathered in front of the TV?
As always, your host is
Chuck Culkin!!
All I ever want is to see the smiles of children.
Nothing more.
Side: No child doesn't know that man. A great man that brought a happy time and fun dreams to children every week......!!

Page 2:
Disney: I'm bringing everyone to a world of dreams and fantasy this week as well!
As always, your host has been the father of Billy Bat,
Chuck Culkin!!
Okay everyone, next week
we'll meet with the bat again!!

Page 3:
Disney: All I ever want is to see the smiles of...
As always, your host is Chuck Culkin!!
Here we gooooo!
Okay, see you again next week!!
Leave it to Billy!!
Okay, let's sing along with Billy!!
Children all over the world are awaiting Billy!
Everyone's friend, Billy Bat.

Page 4-5:
Title: Last Numbers (3/6)
SFX: KON KON

Page 6:
SFX: GI...
SFX: KAH
Disney: Is the door shut tight......?
Tight enough that not a single microorganism will be able to get through......?
Guy: Yes.
It's shut.
Disney: Okay...... Who are you again......?

Page 7:
Morehouse: Morehouse.
Charles: Ah...... That's right......
The star from Stanford U. The one from that crazy project......
My head isn't gone yet............
But...... once in a while I confuse the order things happen in......
Don't worry, though.
I found a good doctor in Mexico.
More: That's good to hear.
Disney: The reason I called you here............
is that I have one job I'd like you to undertake......
All of the Billy Bat artists besides the real one......
kill them......
That book over there......
is a book by a Singaporean comic artist.
Eliminate them all, starting with that one.
More: "If you draw a fake Billy Bat, then you'll be killed by Chuck Culkin Enterprises."
So that urban legend is true, is it?

Page 8:
Chuck: Up until '64......
Until then, I relied entirely on one man for that matter......
But in 64, I suddenly lost contact with that man......
He probably died.
Ever since then, the job's been unfilled.
More: And now, you're giving it to us?
Disney: That's because your project was followed by the bat ever since the war ended......
I don't think I need to explain at this point......
but if that project enters the 90's
then the budget will be reduced and closing doors won't be far off......

Page 9:
More: You've donated so much to it.......
I cannot turn down a request from you, no matter how absurd.
DIsney: And that's money the IRS has no knowledge of.
Guy: ......So then, to what extent should we eliminate?
Disney: Extent......?
More: Well, I mean to say that Kevin Goodman, the one currently drawing Billy Bat is a fake as well, yes?
Disney: Everyone besides me is a fake.
More: Isn't he your successor?

Page 10:
Disney: That is my will
as well as the will of the Fuhrer.
More: Fuhrer?
Disney: It's okay. Don't worry.
I'll be better soon......
I found a good doctor in Mexico............

Page 11:
Narration: 1990-----
Smith: Those guys are pros......
And you beat them in the blink of an eye, all on your own.....

Page 12:
Smith: Who are you:
Dev: I am the person who will protect you.
Smith: Why? Why would you put yourself in such danger to protect me......?
Ah...... What's your name......?
Dev: I am Devivie.
Please call me Henry.
Smith: Henry, the ones you just beat were a pretty troublesome lot.
I don't know who hired you or how much they're paying, but this won't do you any good.
Devivie: You see, I am a person that has once died.
Smith: Once...... died......?

Page 13:
Devivie: Yes...... And I was given life once again by the bat.
And through a new employer, I now understand for the first time.
My previous employer was terrible.
No, actually......
my whole life was terrible.

Page 14:
Smith: And who is your new employer?
Devivie: The one that protects the righteous bat.
Smith: The righteous bat?
Devivie: Yes.
He is now setting about on a new comic.
Smith: A comic......!! A new one......?!!
Devivie: The title is still pending, but....
It's called "The Billy Bat Version of World History".
It seems it is a story that will be a compilation on that grand a scale.

Page 15:
Smith: And where is that cartoonist now......?
Devivie: A safe place.
He is writing non-stop with intense focus.
At the latest, it has to be fully drawn by the end of the current century......
Smith: And what is that cartoonist's name?
Devivie: I believe it's a name you'll recognize.

Page 16:
Devivie: So, what do you think?
Smith: I'll really be able to read it......
I'll be able to read the continuation of Kevin Yamagata's magnum opus......

Page 17:
Devivie: Yes.

Page 18:
Guy: Gu...
GUGA...
Scientist: Jeffery is sleeping like a rock.
When I received word from him, I couldn't believe it myself.
Finny: But it's finally solved.

Page 19:
Scientist: Yes. The last riddle of this scroll......
This code-like number......
Using distributed computing, we applied the Japanese alphabet to an exhaustive search..........
I've also inspected Jeffrey's calculations. And no matter how many times I check them.....
I invariably end up at those numbers.

Page 20:
Scientist: Mister Finny.
As a scientist, I do not approve of uncertain remarks.
Nor do I like to say anything that sounds superstitious, but...
over my long experience as a scientist, I have developed something I would call intuition.
Mister Finny, these numbers are certainly not a code that indicated the location of some treasure.
I have an inkling that these numbers are not something that should only be known to use few in this cramped basement.
This is something that should be known to all of humanity......
Finny: What are you trying to say, Doctor Copland?

Page 21:
Copland: I can't find a good way to express it, but I'm concerned about the last numbers of those two rows.
The identical numbers they both end in......
FInny: I see. That is a remark that's rather uncharacteristic for a scientist.
Though I'm not actually sure if...... you are a scientist.
Copland: ......
Finny: That Star-whatever project at Stanford University you were part of......
you investigated supernatural phenomena and extrasensory perception, did you not?
And ever since the war ended, you've been doing research regarding the bat, haven't you?
Copland: What are you talking about?

Page 22:
Finny: Just that there's a possibility your are not a scientist......
but rather, a spy.
Cop: Really, I have no idea what you're going on about.........
Finny: Then why don't you take out that gun you're planning to shoot me with?
SFX: DOH

Page 23:
SFX: KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA
Finny: Jeffrey, which side are you on?
Jeff: Y...... Y......
your side, of course, Mister Finny.
Finny: Then hurry up and solve this.
Jeffrey: HIH......
Finny: What do these two sequences mean?
And why do the end in the same numbers?!!
Side: The secret last numbers of the scroll of time. Do those numbers indicate chaos for mankind?! The year is 1990.
Bottom: "Billy Bat" 120 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/39934 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 119 by kewl0210 2014-06-06T03:02:41+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Woo. Ok there's that all done. I had lots of fun copying those numbers down... I have no clue what's going to happen. But I think we're nearing the climax.

[Billy Bat 119 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Guy: All those who would like to go to the civic culture center, please gather in the lobby in 15 minutes.
Smith: Kevin.........
Yamagata..........
Smith2: You can't say you don't know who I mean.
Side: Smith is living a sequestered life in an old folks home. This person that has visited this old man that is active in the underworld... is an inhabitant of the underworld himself?!

Page 2:
Title: Chapter 119 Re-emergence (2/8)

Page 3:
Smith2: He's a cartoonist....... or perhaps I should say
he is the birth father of Billy Bat....... yes?
I expect you're well aware of this, but when you're in this line of work
you learn quite a bit that you soon wish you hadn't.
It was a real shock to me when I learned the truth.
Because ever since I was a child, when I heard the name Billy Bat I thought of Chuck Culkin.
Going to the amusement park Billy Land always made my heart leap......
And I was always glued to the TV when the Billy Bat Hour came on TV every week.

Page 4:
Smith2: So you can imagine my surprise when I learned he was a character created by someone else......
Well, to the world at large the artist was Chuck Culkin,
so when it changed to Kevin Goodman I couldn't help but investigate.
Speaking of which, Kevin Yamagata......
Kevin Goodman.........
They're both Kevins, aren't they?
Smith: I don't know anything past when he went to Dallas.
I heard that later he went to Japan.
Smith2: The year he went to Dallas was '63?

Page 5:
Smith2: I suppose he went to stop the Kennedy assassination then, correct?
Now, why is it that Kevin Yamagata knew of the plan to assassinate Kennedy?
Woman: Mr. Smith, are you going to the civic culture center?
Smith: Yes...... Please.
There is a Japanese comic expo going on at the civic culture center.
They may be an exhibit on the comic you're interested in as well.
But......
even Kennedy was abandoned by this country.

Page 6:
Smith: So it's naturally that somebody like me would get kicked out of an organization like the CIA
when I learned things I didn't need to know......
Woman: Okay, Mr. Smith, hold on.
Smith: Oh, sorry......
Eventually, you'll be abandoned as well.

Page 7:
[Yep. Well I haven't got a fuckin' clue.]

Page 8:
Guy: ......That is the inheritance that you will be receiving from Mr. Chuck Culkin.
There haven't been any problems regarding money.
His total of his assets come to approximately.....
47 billion dollars.
Audrey: I know this is a painful time where people all over the world are mourning the loss of the birth father of their beloved Billy Bat, but............
Beautiful.
Wonderful.

Page 9:
Audrey: Seeing as he left all of this just for his daughter,
he was awful as a man, but as a father he was quite decent, don't you think?
Guy: I should mention......
After this state of mourning to this king of comics ends, I fear that the value of Chuck Culkin Enterprises will take a violent plunge.
Audrey: I've taken that into consideration.
There should be no problems.
First, the world knows that the authorship of Billy Bat has changed from my father's hands to those of Kevin Goodman.
Kevin's Billy is a strong stock even now.
Also
I have a better head for management than my father had.
Man: That's very reassuring.

Page 10:
Audrey: Good. But there's one thing I'd like to ask.
Man: Yes?
Audrey: What is thiiis?
This contract for the perpetual rights of lease for the 24th level basement of Billy Land.
Man: Ah, that.
Audrey, as you know,
SFX: BASA
Guy: the theme park of Billy Land above ground is merely the tip of the iceberg of its total area.
Beyond that there is a vast underground facility only accessible to those authorized personnel.

Page 11:
Man: You will be inheriting all of that along with everything else, but there is one place......
only the 24th floor basement. Due to a separate contract with a certain organization, you are not the inheritor.
Audrey: A certain organization?
Man: Yes.
An organization called the "Billy Bat Institute of Historical Research".
Audrey: Billy Bat Institute of Historical Research?
Who's the representative of that company?
Guy: A man called Finny.

Page 12:
[I dunno what the hell's going on...]

Page 13:
SFX: PIH
SFX: CHIN
SFX: GAKON
SFX: PI
SFX: UIIIIIN
SFX: GOUN GOUN GOUUN
SFX: CHIN
SFX: GAKON

Page 14:
SFX: KAH
SFX: PIH
SFX: GAKOON
SFX: UIIIIN UIIIIN UIIIIN

Page 15:
SFX: BATAN
T/N: The scroll here is a long sequence of random numbers written in Japanese/Chinese kanji. 682526871483722415 7253829181799682 71483722415145925 831799682796224 2526871468259683 24158255826257152 82515156259483715 8382838272687144 22415262558291817 9682824817996828 14483726825227682 8179961781599253 782715268716837817 91596821817253829 6892383263829185 6622415464827632 379682625838949 799596821751768 838272696821751768 8382726968282481 42551781467149726
Guy: Mister Finny.
Finny: Come in.
Guy: Mister Finny, we finally......
SFX: WBBL...
Guy: Using distributed computing to do a brute-force attack, in other words an exhaustive search...
we found a clue to the numbers...... A Japanese style alphabet.
By applying "i ro ha ni ho he to"......
T/N: An old way of arranging the Japanese alphabet was to have the 47 hiragana of the time listed in a way starting with those 7 syllables, largely used until the Meiji era (late 1800's). It originally comes from a poem.

Page 16:
Finny: You don't mean......
Guy: We've finally found a sequence with some possibilities.....
SFX: FURA...
Finny: You found it?!!
After a quarter of a century, after we found this scroll
back in '64, you finally......!!

Page 17:
Guy: Here it is..........
Finny: Wh......
What is this......?!
What are these sequences of numbers......?!
And they both end in the same numbers......
What does this represent?!

Page 18:
SFX: GI...
Someone: Would all of those going to the civic culture center please board the buuuus!
We'll be departing momentarilyyy! Please board the buuuus!
Smith: Isn't the bus over there?
!!

Page 19:
Smith: Y...... You bastard. Wh...... What are you doing......?!!
Stop!!

Page 20:
Guy: Okay, let's go.
Should I use the truth serum?
No.....
At his age, a truth serum would be dangerous.
There's a chance he could go into cardiac arrest and die.
I doubt that man's going to give us info on Kevin Yamagata too easily, though.
Smith: ..........
Guy: I guess there's no choice..........

Page 21:
Guys: !?
Wh...... What was that......?
You......!!
AUGH!!
!!
UAAAAAA!!
Smith: .........
Guys: GYA......!!

Page 22:
Smith: ..........
SFX: GACHA
Smith: !!
SFX: GIH
Guy: Your had fell.

Page 23:
Devivie: Are you hurt?
I've come to save you.
My name is Devivie.
Side: With the scroll of time becoming clear, the spy and assassin from long ago appears again......?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 119 / End
Appearing next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/39900 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 118 by kewl0210 2014-06-01T07:26:01+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Apparently Mangaholic never released the last 2 chapters of this for some odd reason and they're going to release them with this one. I honestly have no clue why anyone would do that... Anyhow, we're hoping this series' scanlations can go a bit faster.

[Billy Bat 118 Translation by Kewl0210]
Cover:
Insert: The curtain rises on the end of the world!

Page 1:
Side: Billy's courage moves everyone. Even a wall that separates two countries!! I'm sure a bright future will arrive!!
Bily: Oww...
Hm. Hm, so that's how it is, eh? You guys take care of the rest.
Guys: Huh?!
But Billy, we can't break a wall like this with our strength!
Billy: If you go at it with serious intent to break it, it'll break.
That's the sorta thing this is.
Guys: O......
Okay!!
EEEI!!

Page 2:
Guys: O......
Ooh......
It broke!!
The wall brooooke!!
Now we're free!!
Guy: No, wait!!
The wall broke because of Billy!!
That's right! It's all thanks to Billy!
Billy!! Where's Billy?!!
Look for Billy!!
Billyyyy!!
Scroll: The wall was broken. but now a new wall has been formed. Billy, where are you going?

Page 3:
Narration: The Berlin Wall has finally fallen!!
Five months earlier, a manga predicted that the Berlin Wall would fall!!
"Billy Bat" predicted the wall's destruction!!
The second generation Billy Bat author, Kevin Goodman, predicts a conclusion to the Cold War!!
The author of Billy Bat is the heir to the Golden Cola company!!

Page 4:
Narration: Is Kevin Goodman, the new author of Billy Bat, a prophet?!!
Title: Chapter 118 Golden Boy [1/8]

Page 5:
Guys: What superb timing, isn't it?
Yes. Truly a generational shift.
A little more to the right!!
Okay, now lift it slowly!
All right, all right!!

Page 6:
Woman: The farewell party for Chuck Culkin, the father of Billy Bat whom passed away on the 8th of this month,
will be held here, the physical manifestation of of his dream, Billy Land LA.
The cause of his death has not been made public, but it does not seem to be anything out of the ordinary.
Normally, Billy Land is a place filled with the laughter of children, but today it is enveloped in sadness.

Page 7:
Narration: The year 1990-----
Audrey: What're you doing just sitting there?
Kevin: I don't want to go.
Audrey: Huh?

Page 8:
Kevin: Why the hell do I gotta go to that guy's farewell party?
Audrey: We don't really have a choice here.
Chuck: It wouldn't look good if you didn't go.
Kevin: Then you come with me.
Chuck: Huh?
Kevin: It's a great chance for you to announce to the world that you're the real Chuck Culkin, ain't it?
Chuck: That wouldn't be the smartest way to do it.
Kevin: Why?
Chuck: There's already a pretty big commotion about that man dying.
If we announce something like that now and everyone starts asking who the real author is...
the gossip magazines will have a field day.
Come on now, let's go.

Page 9:
Kevin: So I've gotta pretend I'm sad about this guy......
Chuck: So does everyone else.
Audrey: Yes...... Nobody close to that man is sad that he died.
Chuck: Your Billy is doing great right now.
We don't want any weird rumors getting in the way of that.
What's wrong?
Kevin: Nothing......
SFX: BAM

Page 10:
SFX: OONN
Audrey: Wanna read it?
You're a favorite of the times.
Kevin: The hell are they doing? Treating a person like they're a prophet......
Audrey: Ah? Are you not a prophet?
What?

Page 11:
Audrey: Don't mind me. If there's something you want to say, go ahead.
Kevin: I'm not a prophet!!
I'm just drawing a manga I think people'll like.
It's been 8 years since I started drawing BIlly......
I've just been having fun doing that.
Audrey: You should have more fun.
And he's dead now.
We're be going by my plan as the new president.
I'll let you draw more the way you want.
Kevin: .........
!!

Page 12:
Kevin: Hey, stop!
Guy: Yes, sir.
Audrey: What?
SFX: KIIJ
SFX: BAM
Kevin: Who are you......?

Page 13:
Kid: Please make me your apprentice.
Kevin: Hm?
Kid: Please make me your apprentice.
Kevin: Did you draw this yourself?

Page 14:
Audrey: Wh...... What?
Kevin: Where's your house?
Kid: San Pedro Street......
Audrey: San PEdro....... That's in Skid Row, isn't it?!!
Kevin: Could you stop over there?
Driver: Y...... Yes, sir.
Audrey: H... Hold on a minute.

Page 15:
SFX: BUON...
Kevin: Just sit here for a bit.
Audrey: Hey...... This isn't the sorta place you should be waiting!!
H...... Hold on!!
Kevin: Which is it?

Page 16:
Kevin: Oo......

Page 17:
Kevin: Did you draw these?
They're awesome. Like me when I was a kid.
I could probably go into retirement with a clear conscience with these.
I've been serialized for 8 years.
There are other things I want to do now.
You face looks like you don't understand what I'm saying.
Oh well. You just want to draw, right?

Page 18:
Kevin: Can you see him, too?
Ah, whatever......
Next, you need to not only think about the artwork, but a story, too.
Once you have a completed work, bring it to me.
I'll take a look at it any time.
That's the deal.

Page 19:
Kevin: Give it your all.
The trick is to keep drawing and never give up.
What's your name?
Timmy: Timmy!!
Kevin: Timmy, bring me a finished piece.
It's a promise.

Page 20:
Narration: Rose Wood Retirement Home-----
SFX: ZAH
SFX: ZAH ZAH
SFX: ZAH ZAH

Page 21:
Guy: Nice to meet you......
You're Mr. Smith...... aren't you?
Smith: Before you start asking people questions
the polite thing to do is to is to give your name and title.
Guy: Oh, excuse me.
I'd heard that made up stories won't work on you.

Page 22:
Guy: But unfortunately
all I can tell you is that I've come from a department like the CIA.
Smith: Hmph......
So...... What's your name?
Guy: My name is Smith.
Smith: Kuh.
Kukkkukku.......
GEHO GEHO GEHO
Let me tell you just one thing.
Guy: Yes?
Smith: You won't live a good life.

Page 23:
Guy: Thank you for those wise words.
However, that's not quite what I came here to ask about.
Smith: Well, sit down.
Guy: Excuse me.
Smith: So...... What is it you want to ask me?
Guy: Threats, deception, and torture won't work.
Therefore I am not sure how to get the information I need.
But you may possibly speak on the subject.
So I shall ask.

Page 24:
Guy: Where is Kevin?
And I do not mean Goodman.
Right now, where is Kevin Yamagata?
Side: Kevin Yamagata--- The other cartoonist that can talk to the bat. What is the goal of this mysterious man investigating whether he is alive or dead......?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 118 / End
Serialized next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/39451 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 117 by kewl0210 2014-02-12T03:36:02+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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OOooOKOKSADFDSFOOOOK. And so, this arc and series of 8 ends. WOO! Very interesting conclusion to this character and this part of the story. It looks like there's still more to come though. Dunno how much, but we'll see.
See you in May.

[Billy Bat 117 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Billy: Geez.
The hell're you doin'?
Ya haven't been drawin' fer a while now!!
Ya gotta hurry up er the world's gonna end!!
Insert: An encounter with Kurusu and the moon Billy. That tale is the world's demise......?! The series climax!!
Title: Chapter 117 Last Scene [8/8]

Page 2:
Kevin: Shut up!!
Quit whining like you've got nothing to do with it?!!
I'm the one who has to think here!!
Ever since I was a kid, I never hit a wall in writing a comic's story.
I've never had to deal with something like this. Man, I dunno what to do...!!
BIlly: ...Geez. I thought I could count on this Kevin,
but looks like he's another coward...
Kevin: Huh?
Billy: N-Nothing...
Anyhow, we've got no time. Lemme give you the skinny on what's going on.
That guy's finally got to the moon.

Page 3:
Billy: If you walk on the moon and reach that specific spot, then you can get any wish granted.
If he makes a wish there, the world's over.
That's the long short of it.
Kevin: Okay... And all of the earths in parallel dimensions have already ended.
There are no more substitute earths.
If he makes a wish to try to change the past, this earth will end, too...
And earth will disappear from all the universe...............
Billy: Yeah... That's the setup.
You're thinkin' now.
Kevin: .........
So what kinda setup is that place where you can get any wish granted, exactly?
BIlly: Like I've been sayin'...!!
It's the bat drawing on the moon!!

Page 4:
Billy: He was originally me.
A long long time ago, a giant meteorite hit the earth...
Yeah. And the force of that thing brought part of the earth along with me into space, and that made the moon.
And cause 'a that, part of me ended up all alone on the moon.
Meanwhile, while I've been having a hard time out here on earth with humanity moving forward.
It's really even more than I can handle.
Kevin: Well, that's one screwed up story...
Billy: You came up with it when you were a kid. Don't act like this is somebody else's problem.
Kevin: Did I really come up with it...?
I kinda think you made me draw it...
Billy: Anyhow,
the moon me's been all alone for a long time, and now he's finally got a visitor.
Uhauha. Sure, I'll gladly grant all yer wishes!!

Page 5:
Kevin: HA~~~~~...
How do I get it so the world doesn't end...?
BIlly: Coming up with that is your job.
Kevin: Maybe appealing to this guy's humanity...?
Naw. This guy's whole life...
is basically all about ending the world.

Page 6:
Billy: Yo.
So we finally meet, eh?

Page 7:
Billy: So, what do you wanna do?
Should we go with this drawing or...
go with this?
Kurusu: Either one is fine.
Billy: Hahah. That's because you've got no artistic talent anyhow.
If you were an utter "simpleton" that had artistic talent
you wouldn't have had to come all the way here. We could've met on earth.
Kurusu: On earth...?
Billy: Yeah, there's a cave like that.

Page 8:
Billy: Well, whatever.
Anyhow, I've been watching you from the moon. You've had a pretty awful life.
And on top of that, you haven't got much time left.
I know. So you wanna redo it, right?
There's a life you wanted to have, right?
Okay, okay, let's redo it.
All of history will be rewritten just like that!!

Page 9:
Kurusu: Can you really let me redo it?
Billy: Don't be stupid.
There ain't nothin' I can't do.
I'll make your life go the way you want!
And I'll make it so it's like none of this ever happened!!
Kids: YAAAAI YAAAI unpatriotic kid!
Red kiiiiid!!
Yoooou!!
YAAI YAAI!
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIN
GAH
MIIIN MIN MIN
MIIIN MIN MIN

Page 10:
Kurusu: I hate everyone.
I hate everyone.
I hate everyone!!
Guys: Someoooone!!
Lend us a haaand!!
The children, the children..........!!
We have to help the childreeen!!

Page 11:
SFX: GUSHA
Kurusu: Dad, I...
got revenge.

Page 12:
Kevin: UWAAAA, it's no good...!!
No matter how I search............
I have no way to save the world from this man.
He's a devil...
Devil...?

Page 13:
Kurusu: GEEEHO... GEHO GEHOH
GEEEHO GEEEEH
HAA
HAA
HAA
If... I do that, what will happen...?
Billy: Huh?
Kurusu: If I say I want to redo everything, what will happen?
Billy: Ah,
The earth will be kaput.
Kurusu: Kaput...?

Page 14:
Billy: The truth is, there aren't any spare earths left.
So that'll be the end of the earth.
But it's okay.
Just for you, I'll have something good happen to you just for a moment.
You won't have an awful life,
you'll be the you you wanted to be.
Kurusu: The me I...
wanted to be...?

Page 15:
Kurusu: I took many lives.
I toyed with many people's fates.
I wanted to hold the world's fate in these hands.
That's what I wanted!!
So if I make a wish now, the world will end?!!
Well that's exactly what I want!!
I'm the worst!! My life is shit!!
It's all your fault!!

Page 16:
Kurusu: Make the damn world end!!
Kevin: I see..........!!
This is it!!
SFX: KARI KARI KARI KAH KAH KARI KARI KARI

Page 17:
Dad: Strange, isn't it, Kiyoshi?
This world is really full of mysteries.
So you've gotta study hard.
Kurusu: Yeah.
Dad: Work very, very hard, study, and go to college.
Then maybe you can even go to the moon.
Kurusu: Really?
Shishou: Yeah, really.

Page 18:
Shishou: Everything depends on you.
Kurusu: Dad, I...
I got to the moon.
It may have not been the life you wanted, but...
Answer me one thing.
Why did you manipulate my life that way?
Billy: I didn' manipulate anythin'.
That's just how ya chose to interpret it.

Page 19:
Kurusu: Was my interpretation wrong?
Billy: Whether it was wrong or not
is for you to decide.

Page 20:
SFX: GI...
Chuck: Hey, how's it going? Are you done?
Kevin: Yeah...
The manuscript's on that table.
Whadda ya think?

Page 21:
Chuck: It's a good ending.
Kevin: No... it's not an ending.
I worked really hard to make sure it wasn't the final chapter.
Chuck: I see... If this man had made a wish, the world would've ended.
And it would've been Billy Bat's final chapter.
Kevin: Somehow, I managed to come up with a great idea for how to get out of it.
But in the end, he got out of it himself...
Chuck: No...
Kevin, you got him to realize it.
Kevin: .........
Chuck: But..........

Page 22:
Chuck: The man left alone on the moon...
How about something like this for the end...?
Looking at the blue earth from the moon and saying this...

Page 23:
Kurusu: I'm not making a wish anymore...
But I wanted Dad to see this...
To see how beautiful the earth is from the moon..........
Side: And now, the story will enter the 1990's... Serialization resumes in May!! Major developments will be abound!!!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 117 / End
Serialization resumes in May!! Major developments will be abound!!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/39426 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 116 by kewl0210 2014-02-07T05:30:53+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Ok, caught up again. Next week's the last one in this group of 8. And it should be another big one. I really don't think this series is gonna last much longer, but I've been wrong about that before. I don't think more than 2 more 8-chapter arcs though. Almost every loose end is tied up now. I still wanna know who that one guy, Shirasu Jirou from chapter 9 was. And the dang karate-chop man.
Well, we'll see.

[Billy Bat 116 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
SFX: GACHAN UIIIIN...
SFX: GI...
SFX: GEHO GEHOGEHOH...
GEEEEHOH..
Kurusu: This thing is quite something...
To worry about me and wait up like that...
HAA
HAA
HAA
I was never treated so kindly.......
even on Earth.
HAA
HAA
Side: Since dust became the Earth and the Earth formed the moon, it's been 4.5 billion years.

Page 2:
Kurusu: Ku... Kuhah
Kuhaha!!
SFX: GEEEEHO GEHO GEHOH... GEEEEH!!
Kurusu: Do you know how I was able to come to the moon so easily?
HAA
HAA
Somebody like me whose days are numbered wanting to go to the moon was a stroke of luck for the Soviet Union Army's space development division.
It's like a guinea pig willingly entering an experiment cage.
In Japan, we'd call that a "kamonegi".
I wonder what the Soviets would call that?
SFX: GEEEEHOH... GEHO GEHO EEEH...
T/N: "Kamonegi" is slang for a double stroke of luck. Literally it means "duck" "green onion".

Page 3:
SFX: GEEEHOH GEHO GEHOH...
Kurusu: But...
HAA
HAA
I'm no duck nor am I a guinea pig.
I am a man that holds the fate of the world in his hands.
Now...
SFX: ZA...

Page 4:
Title: Chapter 116
The Fate of the World
[7/8]
Kurusu: Is it much further...?
SFX: GACHAN UIIIIN

Page 5:
Disney: This crap...!!
I'll show them!!
Call Kevin Goodman here!!
I won't let him have his way with the Billy Bat Magazine I created any longer!!

Page 6:
Disney: If he won't come to me, I'll come to him!!
I'll teach him what happens when he draws a fake Billy without my permission!!
Audrey: What happens? Are you going to kill him, just like the urban legends say?
Disney: ..........
Audrey: Anyhow, you're really in no position to call other people fakes. Isn't that right, Daddy?
Disney: Audrey, be quiet.

Page 7:
Audrey: I won't be quiet.
Disney: .........
Audrey: I've known ever since I was a kid.
About how you don't draw Billy Bat and how you didn't create him.
You're not even really Chuck Culkin.
Disney: ..........
Audrey: Who are you?
Disney: Shit up.
Audrey: Are you even really my father...?
Disney: Shut up!!

Page 8:
Disney: I'm going to stop Kevin Goodman from drawing!!
Chuck: You can't stop him now!!
Disney: Out of the way!!
Chuck: There are lines forming all across America to read the Billy Bat he's drawing!!
The Kevin Goodman Billy Bat has been accepted by the world.
He can no longer be stopped.

Page 9:
Audrey: Where are you going?!
Chuck: Go ahead and try to raid the editorial department. That's as good as admitting that you're a fake.
Though I actually wouldn't mind that one bit.
Audrey: No.
While I'm not sure how many there are, you're going to sneak off to one of your lover's places, aren't you?
You seduce any aspiring actress you find.
My Mama was one of them...

Page 10:
Audrey: You might have lots of children just like me for all I know.
But I'm the only one who'll inherit your estate.
After all, I've got all the dirt on you.
SFX: KAH
SFX: KAH KAH
SFX: KAH KAH

Page 11:
Woman: What's wrong?
This is the first time I've seen you at such a loss.

Page 12:
Woman: You have nothing to worry about. You're just working too hard.
Hey, hey, forget all that,
how about me being the heroin in your next picture?
I suppose having a bit more of a chest would help, huh?
Why don't you give me the money for another surgery?
Ah... That reminds me,
I saw the new Billy Bat.

Page 13:
Woman: That was good!!
I don't reach comics and all that much, but I could still tell.
Way better than anything before!
It really reminded me about how much talent you've got.
GYAH!
Wh...
What was that for?!!
Let me know when you guys decide the schedule for the auditions!!

Page 14:
Disney: I have three choices...
I sell the whole company... I accept that kid as the new chief...............
Or I take the kid's life...

Page 15:
Someone: Are you okay?
SFX: KAH

Page 16:
Disney: !!
Woman: Chuck...?
Disney: Naomi...
Baby: UEEEN!
UEEEEEN!
Disney: It's so strange...

Page 17:
Disney: Meeting you here like this, at this place we used to go on so many dates...
Namoi: It sure is.
You used to say this a lot as we gazed at this view...
"Someday soon, you'll be among those glistening stars..."
Disney: .........
Naomi: But I never gained the right to be among those stars.

Page 18:
Naomi: I gained something more important.
Your child.
Disney: What's his name?
Naomi: Timmy.
Disney: Timmy...

Page 19:
Disney: It's quite something...
So your life has only just begun...
Yes, that's it, smile.
It looks like my life is already over...
Sorry to say this about someone like you that's only just been born...
but I've been wishing all of mankind could end along with me.
...Isn't that right, Fuehrer?

Page 20:
[Back to Kurusu's moon adventure.]

Page 21:
Kurusu: When I die............
I wish it would be the end of this world, too...
SFX: PIH

Page 22:
SFX: UIIIIN GACHA
SFX: GACHA UIIIIIN
Kurusu: Are you leaving me behind...?
SFX: GACHA UIIIIN
Kurusu: So I've finally been abandoned by you, too...?
SFX: GACHA PIIII'

Page 23:
[There he is.]

Page 24:
Billy: Yo!
Hurry up and say yer wish.
Kevin: Oh no!!
At this rate, the world's going to end...!!
Side: He made it. Just before the flame of that life goes out, will Billy be hearing his wish?! Next chapter, the series climax!! [Series as in this series of 8 chapters, guys.]
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 116 / End
Running next issue, too! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/39425 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 115 by kewl0210 2014-02-07T04:08:47+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Ok, I'm gonna try to finish the next one, too, and catch up. Just 2 chapters left in this series by the way. My prediction is the world just ends and that's it.

[Billy Bat 115 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Narration: Vienna, Austria
SFX: TATAN TATAN
Guy: Just as you feared, the rocket that the Soviets launched to the moon......
Side: Kurusu has reached the surface of the moon where the bat waits.......... Will mankind meet its end by way of one man's wish?!

Page 2:
Guy: had a man on board..........
Smith: Who went?
Guy: It was an Asian. Considering the place it was launched from, it's probably something like an Uzbekistanian of Korean descent.
I've got a photo.
Smith: !!

Page 3:
Guy: Come in, Ivan.
Come in, Ivan.
Title: Chapter 115
Come in, Ivan
[6/8]

Page 4:
Dmitri: This is Dmitri,
come in, Ivan.
SFX: GI...

Page 5:
Kurusu: Such pointless things............

Page 6:
Dmitri: Come in.
Come in, Ivan.
SFX: GEHOH GEHO GEHOH
SFX: GEEEEHOH GEHO GEHOH

Page 7:
Guy: Do you know this man?

Page 8:
Guy: Naw.
Anyhow, Smith-san, would you knock it off already?
I dunno what it is about the SHimoyama Incident you're investigating, but when people like you come snooping around like that, business is awful.
GOHON
Smith: Hey, you're Kurusu, aren't you? I'd like to talk with you a bit.
Which organization are you part of?

Page 9:
Kurusu: Someone much more powerful than any organizations you know.
Smith: Is it left or right?
Kurusu: I have no interest in left nor right.
Smith: Then what's your goal?
Is it money?
Kurusu: Money have no value.
Smith: I did a bit of investigating on you. I know you've come and gone from some pretty bad places.
And yet, you don't have any goal at all...?

Page 10:
Smith: It's like utter despair.
Well, you Japanese lost everything in the air-raids.
I guess I can't blame you...
I'm sure you want to turn back time, don't you?
Kurusu: No...
I can see the darkness clearly, so I'm fine.

Page 11:
Kurusu: The moon...
My goal is to become a key figure in history.
When my life ends, history will end as well.
Smith: Can you really do somethin' like that?
Kurusu: When the world ends one day
someone will be the last one.
Someday, someone will do it.

Page 12:
SFX: ZAH
Kurusu: HAA
HAA
HAA
SFX: GEHOH GEHOH
SFX: GEEEEHOH GEHOH GEEE!!
Kurusu: HAA HAA
Geez... HAA HAA...

Page 13:
Kurusu: HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
If only I had the talent to draw...
I wouldn't have to go through all the trouble of coming to a place like this...
That's why I protected that mangaka...
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
SFX: GEHOH GEHO GEHOH
SFX: PANN

Page 14:
Kevin: Smith-san!!
Where'd it come from......?
Smith: Run!
Hurry and get out of here!!
Kevin: I can't just leave you here!!
Smith: Forget what I said before......!!
With me like this, you've got no choice but to go!
Go to Dallas and stop the President from being assassinated!!

Page 15:
Smith: Hurry, go!!
And...
Hurry up and give me......
a new issue of "Billy Bat" to read......
Hurry!!
!!

Page 16:
Guy: GUHA!!
Smith: HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
SFX: PAN

Page 17:
Kurusu: Are you all right?
Would you like help?
SFX: GATATA GATATA

Page 18:
Kurusu: I'll bring you to the hospital, but your left eye is done for.
You want to get it back, don't you?
Do you want to turn back time?
Okay,
do exactly what I say.
Protect the mangaka just as I say
or else.........
I'll have to go to the moon.

Page 19:
Smith: What's...
on... the moon?
Kurusu: HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
I've got to call the unmanned probe................

Page 20:
SFX: PIH
Kurusu: It's so quiet.........
So this...
is true loneliness...?

Page 21:
Kurusu: When the world ends one day
someone will be the last one.
Someday, someone will do it.

Page 22:
SFX: GACHA
SFX: UIIIIIN
SFX: GACHA UIIIIN
SFX: GACHA UIIIIN

Page 23:
SFX: GACHA...
Kurusu: A device this excellent is really Soviet-made, is it?
Bring me.
SFX: PIH
Kurusu: To that place...
SFX: UIIIIN...
Smith: This guy is...

Page 24:
Smith: Is going to the moon...?
The world is going to end...!!
Side: The man that merely sought the bat, Kurusu. He lived alone and now he heads towards death on his own. In the end, will he take the bat and mankind with him...?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 115 / End
Running next issue, too!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/39373 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 114 by kewl0210 2014-01-30T05:16:52+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Ok, I had some time so I got this done. I dunno what's even happening.

[Billy Bat 114 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Billy: Fun time sure goes by in a flash, huh?!!
See you next week! Same time, same channel!!
Your host is the artist of hope and dreams, Chuck Culkin!!
Chuck: Okay, come meet me and the bat
again next week!!
Side: The super-popular variety program, the "Billy Bat Hour". Two fakes dance at the center of real entertainment!

Page 2:
Chuck: Okay, cuuuuuut!!
Title: Chapter 114
Ivan [5/8]

Page 3:
Disney: How was that?
Guy: A wonderful take!!
Disney: Still, I'm not sure how well this blue screen will turn out.
Guy: No, it looked just like Billy Bat was flying around you!
Disney: You could see Billy?
Guy: Yes.
Disney: No, you couldn't see him.
Guy: Huh?
Disney: Anyhow, we're entering the age of computer graphics.
In the name of Chuck Culkin Enterprises, go make some images that will stun the whole world.
Images that make it looks like Billy is jumping out at you.
Guys: Y... Yes sir!

Page 4:
Disney: What're you lot grinning about?
Guy: That's certain to make some splendid CG.
Disney: This is a matter for the movie department.
It's no business of people from the publishing department like you.
Guy: No, no. It takes both the wheels of the publishers and the movie makers to make Chuck Culkin Enterprises go.
Though it looks like we'll be stealing the show before that CG does.
Disney: The show...?
[All this stuff's in English]

Page 5:
Disney: .........?!
Wha......?!
What is this......?
[Still English]

Page 6:
Guys: He's a big hit,
your new-model Billy Bat.
Disney: N... New
model......?
Guys: Reporters have been crowding around the outside of the studio.
The whole country is raving about the new Billy.
We knew we could count on you, Chuck!!
You were waiting for the opportune time for this renewal, eh?
Chuc: Uh.......
Yeah......

Page 7:
Chuck: Sleeping?

Page 8:
Kevin: Naw, I'm not.
I do this when I can't come up with any good ideas.
I'm kinda half asleep
half awake...
When I do that, good ideas come to me...
Chuck: You're just like him in that way, too.
My master, Kevin Yamagata used to develop ideas like that a lot.

Page 9:
Chuck: ......So, do you think you're coming up with anything good?
Kevin: ..........
Chuck: Well, take your time on it.
I just finished up the drawing of the rocket taking off.
Kevin: A rocket took off...
Chuck: Ah, I don't really mind if you throw this picture out.
Kevin: No, it took off.
The rocket is flying higher and higher into space.
And that rocket...

Page 10:
Kevin: Has a wicket man riding in it.
Chuck: This guy, right?
Kevin: He mustn't go to the moon.
Chuck: Then...
how about we have there be a mistake when he's landing on the moon?
Kevin: He's not the sort of man to make mistakes.
Chuck: Hm...
I guess characterization is pretty important.

Page 11:
Audrey: What're you two cartoonists so down in the dumps about?
Hey, you're looking for story ideas, right?
How about you check out this news?
Chuck: News?
SFX: GACHAN
Guy: A time for a resumption of service has not yet been established.
Moving on to the next story,
why do you think all these people are lining up here?
If we head to the front
of this line in front of this book stand, we find...

Page 12:
Guy: Billy Bat!!
Kevin: !?
Woman: After a long hiatus from print, "Billy Bat" has finally resumed publication in Billy Bat Magazine.
And a renewed Billy character appears in it.
While the story is warm-hearted and aimed towards children just like it's always been, it's mysteriousness makes it something adults can enjoy as well.
As we've been watching, rumor of it has spread and now lines are forming all across America of people seeking to but the magazine.

Page 13:
Both: .........
Guy: This is no renewal.
They went back to the old character.
When I was all worn out after getting home from the war
this Billy always used to cheer me up.
Woman: And... while old fans approve of it... Small children are entranced with it as well.
Now, thanks to movies, tv programs, and the giant amusement parks, Billy Land, there is a sense that Billy is getting popular all over the world,
but now it looks like the umpteenth Billy Bat boom has begun!!
And in our next story...
Audrey: Whadda ya think?

Page 14:
Chuck: We did it!!
We won!
We did it..........
How about that?!!
TV: A soviet rocket has............
Audrey: And this is all thanks to whom? Just who was it that brought you two together?
Chuck: Audrey! Yes, this is your accomplishment, too!
How can we ever thank you?!!
TV: According to an announcement from NASA...
Audrey: Thank me? Oh, there's no need for that.

Page 15:
Audrey: I just wanted... to expose my daddy... Chuck Culkin.
When I was a kid, I asked him.
Daddy, are you Chuck Culkin?
And this is what he said,
yes, indeed I am.
Did you make Billy Bat, Daddy?
Yes, I sure did.
They were all lies!!
I want to find out who that man really is and...
Kevin: Shh! Quiet down.

Page 16:
TV: I repeat. Five days ago, the Soviet Union seems to have launched a rocket without any preliminary notice.
And one week before that, one more was launched...
Ah... we have just received a call from our reporter, McFee, in Moscow.
McFee!
GUy: Yes, this is McFee coming to you from Moscow.
This rocket launch is thought not be for military purposes.
However, it is not a man-made satellite.
According to relevant sources, it seems that unmanned probes that had been postponed for some time may have been launched...

Page 17:
Chuck: They went to...
the moon...?
Kevin: My imagination can't keep up!!
Audrey: Huh...? What's going on?
Kevin: Shit!! What do I do...

Page 18:
Billy: Somethin' crummy's happened.
Kevin: Something crummy...?
Billy: Yeah, it's really the pits.
If he goes to the moon, he'll find that guy.
Kevin: That guy...?
Billy: The other me.
Kevin: You're talking about the whole white and black thing, right?
Billy: Well, how do I say this...
You know how there are plusses and minuses with like actions and reactions? This is outside of that..........
Um~~~~... It's simple, but you humans are so much trouble...

Page 19:
Billy: Well, when it comes down to it, it's all me.
But the guy on the moon...
can wind it back.
Kevin: Wind it back...?
Billy: I told this to Einstein.
If it's rewound one more time
it'll be the end of this world.
Kevin: ..........

Page 20:
Kurusu: This is Ivan calling. This is Ivan calling. Respond, Dmitri.
Orbit is currently going smoothly.
I can confirm the signal of Lunokhod Number 3 and Number 4 which landed seven days ago.
Given the good strength of the signals, so I am detaching block D and beginning descent.
..........?
Dmitri... Dmitri, come in.

Page 21:
Dmitri: GA... GAAAA Ivan... This is Dmitri. [The "GAA GAAA is handwritten]
Due to... a magnetic storm....
ZAAAAAAAAAA... .......scrambled............ [The "ZAAA" part is handwritten]
SFX: ZAAAAAAA...
Dmitri: Ivan... The landing point is currently 1.5 kilometers northwest off from Lunokhod Number 3 and Number 4.
Kurusu: ..........
Ivan, respond!!
Ivan!!
Kurusu: This is Ivan.
Dmitri, do you know why my codename is Ivan, don't you?

Page 22:
Kurusu: It is for "Ivan the Fool",
as I am recklessly trying to land on the moon alone, isn't it?
I am switching to semi-automatic control.
Guy: Ivan!!
Wait, Ivan!!
Come in, Ivan!!
If your landing point is not level ground, you won't be able to make the return trip!!

Page 23:
Kurusu: Level ground? This will be an utterly rocky area.
Kuh!!

Page 24:
Kurusu: !!
Side: Ivan the Fool has taken a one-way ticket to the moon......! Will a meeting between the bat and Kurusu lead to the creation of a history that cannot be rewound?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 114 / End
Running next issue, too! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/39310 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 113 by kewl0210 2014-01-18T07:20:15+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Ok, I'm all caught up for a bit now. Also we're half way done through this group already somehow. MOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNN

[Billy Bat 113 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Guy: HAH
HAH
HAH
HAH
HAH
HAH
HAH
HAH
HAH
HAH
HAH
HAH
Insert: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, Moscau---
Side: Ever since that day in his youth, this man has been trying to get his hands on the "bat". He has little time left. And now, to the moon...

Page 2:
Kurusu: HAA
HAAA
HII
HII
HAA
GEHO GEHOH
GEHOH
GEEEEEHOH GEHOH GEHOH
GEEEEH!!
HAA HAA HAA
Title: Chapter 113
Too Late [4/8]

Page 3:
Phone: RRR
RRR
RRR
RRR
Kurusu: HAA
HAA
SFX: BATAN
SFX: PIH
Guy: Hey there, Mister Kurusu.
Kurusu: What do you want?
Guy: I don't want anything. I just called you up because I was worried.

Page 4:
Kurusu: Mr. Pears, I have a new magazine here with you on the cover.
I daresay you don't really look like the type of person that worries about others.
Pears: Hahhahhah.. I don't think anybody can look like a good person on the cover of an economics magazine.
Anyhow, your voice sounds awful
Kurusu: That's because of the awful training.
I had tons of G-forces put on my by a centrifuge.
Then I was placed into a pool to experience weightlessness...
Pears: You're seriously going?
Kurusu: If I weren't serious, I wouldn't have come to Moscow and gone through all of this.

Page 5:
Pears: And this is all because that drawing of the bat you ripped off the wall didn't say anything to you?
I honestly don't understand you...
Of course, seeing as my company has been secretly selling rockets to the soviet union, it doesn't really matter.
By the way, the kid that drew the pictures on those walls...
He's being kept at Chuck Culkin Enterprises at the moment,
is that okay?
Kurusu: So the fake Billy Bat and the real Billy Bat are together... are they?
Pears: Eh?
Kurusu: Nothing... Just talking to myself.

Page 6:
Pears: Well, it's about the right time for Billy Bat, isn't it?
It's been half a year since the newest release already, it seems.
There's even a theory going around the public that Culkin is dead.
Kurusu: Billy Bat............
I will no longer rely on the bats they draw.
I will go see for myself.
I'll go to the moon...

Page 7:
Disney: Death theory?
So Elvis might be alive, but Chuck Culkin is dead...... Is that right?
Guys: .........

Page 8:
Guys: We can no longer re-run old publications.
With that happening, sales of "Billy Bat Magazine" have been decreasing.
Is the newest manuscript ready yet?
Chuck: Ya can't do what ya can't do.
Guy: In that case, we must unfortunately we must drastically overhaul the face of the magazine.
Disney: Overhaul...?
Guy: We will end the serialization of Billy Bat.

Page 9:
Chuck: Hah!
"Billy Bat Magazine" without Billy Bat? That's absurd.
Guys: Therefore we will be reinventing it as a new magazine.
We will make the main work "Curtis the Stray Cat", a comic that has recently gotten popular.
Disney: Hey, Jimmy.
Jim: Yes, sir.
Disney: How many years has it been since you became editor-in-chief of "Billy Bat Magazine".

Page 10:
Jim: Six years.
Disney: And since you became editor-in-chief, "Billy Bat Magazine" has gotten extraordinarily good results.
And the current umpteenth boom for Billy Bat is largely because of your services.
Jim: Thank you very much.
Disney: So let me ask, who was it that selected you for the position of editor-in-chief?
Jim: ..........
Disney: And whose compant is "Billy Bat Magazine Co."?
Jim: ..........
Disney: No matter what resolution you try to hand down, the board of directors will vote it down.

Page 11:
Disney: "Billy Bat Magazine Co." is my company.
If you cut me out,
you'll be dismissed.
Get out.
Guy: What should we do...?
SFX: KAH

Page 12:
Jim: No matter what we do............
we have no choice but to continue rerunning old publications of "Billy Bat"...
Well, I suppose even Billy Bat is a candle flickering in the wind now..........
Guy: Hm?
Chuck: Um...
Uhh... I'm...

Page 13:
Chuck: I'm Chuck Culkin's chief assistant.
Jim: Ah. I'd like to say thanks for your constant efforts, but recently you haven't had much work, I suppose.
Chuck: Ah... Um...
SFX: KAH KAH
Chuck: Th... This is
a new work....
Guys: What?
Chuck: This is the new Billy Bat piece.

Page 14:
Guy: A new.... piece?
Chuck: Mister Culkin drew a new "Billy Bat" work.
Guy: Uh... But we just met him by the pool and...
Chuck: This is only his first one since his comeback, so even he's not to secure about it, I expect.
And there are only 16 pages, too, but...
Guys: Th... This is...

Page 15:
Chuck: It's a detective story. It's short, but it's well made.
Jim: But these drawings.........
Chuck: Yes. We've remodeled the characters as well.
That's also part of why Mister Culkin was so unwilling to hand the manuscript over.
Mister Culkin things these characters are great,
but he's not sure if everyone will be receptive to them..........
Jim: N... No, it's utterly fine!
It's a magnificent manuscript!!
I must go say something to Mister Culkin...
Chuck: There is really no need for that.

Page 16:
Chuck: Mister Culkin is quite nervous about finishing that new work.
You'd best print it before he changes his mind.
Guy: W... We understand.
Jim: We do hope you can keep this up for next time, too.
Chuck: HAAA....
SFX: KAH
SFX: ZAAAAAAAA

Page 17:
SFX: BATAN
Chuck: I finally did it.
I handed the Billy Bat you drew..................
over to the editors.

Page 18:
Chuck: That fraud. I bet he'll be surprised
when a Billy with a totally different design appears in print...
But now, a new era of Billy will begin.
Or no... rather, we'll return to the original Billy.
The bat that my master, Kevin Yamagata, drew.
And the Billy Bat that you, his successor... Kevin Goodman...
Am I being too loud...?
Kevin: No...

Page 19:
Chuck: I was surprised when you said the next Billy Bat you were starting on was story of "exploring the surface of the moon".
Kevin Yamagata also said he'd wanted to start a "Billy Goes to the Moon" volume, you see.
Those are some nice drawings. Looks like it's coming along pretty smoothly.
Kevin: An interfering man is going to the moon...
Chuck: Huh?
Kevin: The way this story is unfolding isn't good.

Page 20:
Chuck: What do you mean?
Kevin: I'm not entirely sure... but
that man going to the moon is really bad.
Chuck: I see.
Then you've got to come up with a way to stop that man from going to the moon.
Kevin: I don't think there's any way of stopping him now.
Chuck: That can't be.
You're the author. You can stop him just by thinking, can't you?
Kevin: I wish I could.
But the more I draw, the more it look like this man is going to the moon.
If I don't do something, as things stand...

Page 21:
Kevin: The final chapter
is gonna end up coming early.
Chuck: The final chapter...
will be early...?
Narr: Baikonur Cosmodrome---

Page 22:
SFX: KUSHA KUSHA
Kevin: What do I do....?
SFX: GOUN GOUN GOUN

Page 23:
SFX: GOUN GOUN GOUN GOUN GOUN
SFX: SHA SHA
SFX: BOKIH
Kevin: Is it already too late..........?

Page 24:
Side: Kurusu goes to the moon faster than Kevin can draw!! 380,000 kilometers away, no one can stop him...!!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 113 / End
Running next issue, to!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/39298 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 112 by kewl0210 2014-01-14T05:51:40+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Aaand I managed to get the 2nd one done too in the same day. All caught up. Now I've got REAL to go do.

[Billy Bat 112 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Narration: New York
1981-----
SFX: KAH KAH
SFX: KAH KAH KAH
Guy: Ngah
SFX: KAH
Guy: !!
Side: The Shimoyama Incident. The Kennedy Assasination. A man who holds the key to many of the dark secrets of history.--- And now, he is standing at a crossroads of life?!!

Page 2:
Kurusu: Open it.
Guy: Ah... Y-Yes, sir.
SFX: GACHA GACHA
SFX: GI...
Kurusu: You can leave now.
Let me alone today.
SFX: GON

Page 3:
SFX: KAH KAH
SFX: KAH KA
Kurusu: Hey...

Page 4:
Kurusu: I'm begging you, please...
talk to me.
Title: Chapter 112
The Bat's Guidepost [3/8]

Page 5:
Kurusu: Kanbei...?
Sign: Inner Kii Province Station
Guy: Huh?

Page 6
Kurusu: Have you seen this man?
Guy: Ah, oh, yes.
He went to Koumori Village.
Kurusu: Koumori Village..........
Guy: Ah... But there aren't going to be any more buses until morning.
Those people went by taxi...
Oh...?
You came by car, did you?
SFX: BUOOO

Page 7:
SFX: BUON
Guy: Did you see?
Kurusu: See what?
Guy: The movie they're showing in that theater.
Sign: Great Monster Gazura
Kurusu: Movie... I have no interest in man-made stories.
Guy: "Gazura", it's a monster movie, ya see.
Without thinking, I screamed when I saw that in the theater.
Kurusu: Is a monster costume that scary?
Guy: No, not that. It's something that was on the screen.
Kurusu: What...?
Guy: It's that bat drawing from the underpass.

Page 8:
SFX: KIKIIH
Kurusu: Was it on purpose?
Guy: N... No, it wasn't.
It's just that it happened to get in the shot when they filmed in that underpass.
Nobody even noticed it.
Kurusu: Many people would see that, wouldn't they?
That drawing belongs to me and me alone.
Guy: ...........
SFX: BUOON

Page 9:
Guy: What's with the holes?
There's no way we can get through this by car.
Kurusu: You, walk into the town.
SFX: BAM
Guy: What about you, Kurusu-san?
Kurusu: There is somewhere I'd like to go.

Page 10:
Guy: A place you gotta ago?
Kurusu: It's drawn in this book...
Karama Zofuu's work, "Bat Ninja Arts Book Volume 1".
There is a village where the ninja Kanbei hides...
Koumori Village.........
And...
SFX: ZAH ZAH

Page 11:
Guy: Policeman-san?
Pol: Oh, good morning.
Guy: Um, Policeman-san?
Pol: Policeman-"san"...?
Guy: What'd you do with it?
Pol: Do with what?
Guy: The scroll..........
Pol: Who are ya?
Yer not anybody from the village.
Where're ya from?!!
Ah...

Page 12:
Guy: I'm askin' the questions here.
Where. Is. The. Scrooooooll?
Kurusu: Here?
Koumori Village, the place where the ninja, Kanbei, hid himself...

Page 13:
Kurusu: And...
Jizo statues lined up in a row...
And a hut...

Page 14:
Kurusu: Everything is here...?
No...
It.......... was here?
Please, Bat.
Please talk to me...

Page 15:
Guy: Olympic faces [Music note]
And a totonto totonto... [Note]
Hm?
Found the cartoooonist!
Hey.

Page 16:
Guy: I'm, uh, looking for the scroll.
Do ya know where it is?
Don'cha remember? It's me, dude.
You've got a secret you don't want to get out, right?
Then hand over that scroll peacefully.
Kevin: Th...
The yakitori seller...
Guy: Okay, then. I won't say anything unpleasant.
Just hand over that scroll.

Page 17:
Kurusu: !?
!!

Page 18:
Kurusu: Kevin Yamagata!!
Those fools!!
Guys: GUH!!
KUHAH!!
Kurusu: My precious bat manga drawer I've kept swimming all these years...
Just when that level of ability had awakened in him...!!
!!

Page 19:
Kurusu: The CIA?!
Kuh!!

Page 20:
Kurusu: If you won't talk to me, then...

Page 21:
Kurusu: I have to go.
SFX: GOHO...
SFX: GOHOH GOHOH
SFX: GEHOH GEHOH GEHOH GEEEEEHOH GEHOHGEHOGEHOH
Kurusu: I don't have...
any time to spare.

Page 22:
Sign: Baikonur Cosmodrome
USSR-----
Guy: I'm glad you came all this way.
It is an honor to greet you as comrades...
Kurusu: Never mind the formalities, please let me see what the documents in question.

Page 23:
Guy: Eh?
Kurusu: The unmanned search vehicle you sent to the moon.
I want to see what it sent.
Guy: These are state secrets.
We are showing them to you because were were introduced to you as someone we could trust by Mr. Pears,
but if you were to divulge what is in these documents...
Kurusu: Enough introductions.
Let me see them.

Page 24:
Kurusu: What did I tell you? That search vehicle almost stepped on something vital.
Guy: ...........
Kurusu: I can no longer entrust this to you.
You must quickly bring me to the moon.
Side: The bat has not given any answers since then. In order to learn the answers of his own strange fate, will he really go to the moon?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 112 / End
Running in the next issue as well!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/39297 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 111 by kewl0210 2014-01-14T04:29:29+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Ok, I finished one other thing and I've gotta get these two chapters done now.

[Billy Bat 111 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Disney: Hm......
Looks like Mr. Assistant is hard at work drawing as always.
The author's been slacking off recently, but you've still been giving it your all.
Hm?
Side: Carrying the Fuhrer's secret, this man is dead set on staking out Kevin Yamagata's studio. But what are these movements within that studio?!

Page 2:
Disney: Oh?!
The cartoonist's got a suitcase. He going on a trip?
SFX: GIH
Disney: ..........

Page 3:
Disney: Ah!
That's the editor that comes to pick up manuscripts all the time.
Ummmm, excuse me, I know you must be busy and all...
Guy: ?
Disney: My son is a really big fan of that comic...... what's it called again?
Guy: Huh?
Dinsey: Ah, right, right, "Billy Bat".
See, my son told me that there are rumors that the cartoonist that draws it lives around here......
And you came from that way. Remember, I talked to you about half a year ago at a bar............
You said you were an editor at Marble Publishing......

Page 4:
Disney: So I was thinking, if you were the editor for BIlly Bat,
you could maybe get an autograph for my son from Mr. Kevin?
Guy: Kevin went to Japan.
Disney: Japan?
Why would he go to Japan? It' so far away......
Guy: That's what I wanna know!!
He was sayin' somethin' about the inspiration for Billy Bat being in Japan or something.
The guy's causing me loads of trouble!!
Disney: ..........?
So while he's gone, what about Billy Bat's serialization?

Page 5:
Guy: Like I said, I'd really like to know myself!!
SFX: BATAAN
Disney: Billy Bat's author went to Japan!!
Title: Chapter 111
The Truth of the Beginning
[2/8]

Page 6:
Sign: Tokyo
1949----
Sign: East Asian Industries
SFX: GI

Page 7:
Sign: Bar
Guy: Annoying job...?
Isn't your work always a bit of a pain, Mr. Kurusu?

Page 8:
Kurusu: It seems my target is the president.
Guy: President?
The president of the Japanese national railways, Shimoyama.
Guy: Shimoyama......?!
SFX: GATATAN GATAN GATATAN GATAN

Page 9:
SFX: GATAN GATAN GATAN GATAN
SFX: KANN KANN
SFX: KANN KANN
SFX: KAN KAN
SFX: KA...

Page 10:
Kurusu: ..........
Someone: It's now or never!
Kurusu: !!
Ku......
Bat: Yeah.
Your job's always a pain, right?
Kurusu: KUHA!!
SFX: KAH KAH KAH
Kurusu: There's no turning back now!

Page 11:
Kurusu: .........!!
Bat: C'mon, do it!
Kurusu: Again......

Page 12:
Kurusu: You, again......?
Billy: Forget about that......
I'm telling you somethin' good here.

Page 13:
Sign: Mitsukoshi
Sign: Mitsokoshi Underground Market
Subway Entrance
SFX: KANN KANN
SFX: KANN KANN

Page 14:
SFX: KANN KANN
Kurusu: Shimoyama-san?
Shi: I withdrew the money from the bank.
Here is a down payment for now. I don't suppose you could hand over that list to avoid the massive layoffs of national railway personnel?
Kurusu: Shimoyama-san.
You had best not take out money at a place like this.

Page 15:
Kurusu: I'll ask you at another location.
SFX: BASHIH BAKOH

Page 16:
Kurusu: Hey, that's quite enough.
SFX: GAH GAH
Kurusu: Who told you to go that far?
Honestly, I take my eyes off of you for one minute and this is what you do? Stand back.
Are you all right, Shimoyama-san?

Page 17:
Kurusu: Aaaah, looks like you've had a tough time.
SFX: GATATA...
Kurusu: Those two sure can act irrationally, can't they...?
Why, a few days ago they killed someone and left their body on the train tracks
in order to fool people into thinking it was a suicide.
It's okay. As long as I'm here, I won't let anything like that happen.
Anyhow, let's hurry and get this little chat over with.
Could you transfer the title deeds to me?

Page 18:
Kurusu: You understand, don't you?
The land certificates to the Japanese National Railways and the South Manchurian Railway.
I don't personally have any interest in such things.
I honestly don't have a care in the world regarding whether the national railways fall into America's possession or not.
It's just that they want that, so there's nothing I can do.
They... you understand, don't you?
If they just have those papers, they said they wouldn't mind limiting the firings of railway personnel to half.

Page 19:
Kurusu: However......
Even if you listen to these demands....
you'll still surely be killed.
Right now, the only one that can save you
is me.
So this is a rather personal conversation.
You are the president of the national railways.
I said this already, but you are the one that owns all of the land of the Japanese National Railways and South Manchurian Railway.
And so I have a request.

Page 20:
SFX: KUSHA KUSHA
Kurusu: Could you just give me the land in this vicinity?
Look, right over here. The land on the Kisei main line from Shima to Wakayama.
Nothing...? I'm just looking for a little something.
I got my hands on this a few days ago......
I went through quite a bit of trouble to obtain it......

Page 21:
Kurusu: Even if one looks inside, nothing happens.
I'm rather not artistically inclined. I haven't got the faintest idea what's wrong with it.
But the fact that this guy doesn't say anything
means it's a fake.
The cover has "manuscript" written on it, but......
the fellow I mentioned before was killed because of this fake, I'm afraid.
SFX: KUSHA
Kurusu: What I am searching for is the genuine article.

Page 22:
Kurusu: I am looking for the scroll in which the real bat is written.
And that is in this region.
I don't care if the tracks are laid out ineptly.
You're wondering where I heard about this from, right?
The bat told me.
You want the list of soviet spies inside the organization,
but I'm not interested in the right or the left.

Page 23:
Kurusu: All I have an interest in
is black or white.
If I find the real scroll, I'll understand everything.
The bat says some absurd things.
Apparently if I don't find it, I'll have to go a great distance.
To the moon.
Shimo: I...... know.
About that......
Kurusu: ......?
Shimo: There's a... legend in Kii Province...
That there is a bat on the moon...........
But they say that bat is...

Page 24:
Shimo: A demon that will... drive this world...
insane...
Just like you...
So... even if it kills me...
I will not...
hand that land over to you...
Side: A few hours later, President Shimoyama's corpse was found cut in two by a steam train. The whole country shook. "The Shimoyama Incident"--- Its principal offender was the bat?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 111 / End
Running in the next issue as well!! Look forward to it!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/39174 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 110 by kewl0210 2013-12-13T21:08:33+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Aaaand we're back. Schedule should be back to normal for the scanlators now. 109 got really delayed. 8 more issues of this. Maybe it'll actually end this time, who knows?

[Billy Bat 110 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Girl: Wait, Billy!!
I want to go with you!!
Billy: I don't love you anymore.
Girl: No!!
That can't be true, Billy!!
Billy: Lionette.
You and that archaologist should get away from this land as fast as possible.
Side: From the editorial department - "Kevin Yamagata and the editorial department are seeking letters from you, the fans. Let us here all of your impressions, criticisms, whatever you 'd like to tell us!!"

Page 2:
Lio: No, no!!
I'd rather die than leave you!!
Billy: You can't go with me.
You know that full well.
Lio: Billy.........
Billy: Don't cry. You'll spoil the vibrant beauty of your eyes and of that moon.
Guy: Okay, it's time.
BIlly: Right. Sorry I kept you waiting.

Page 3:
Guy: Come, Lionette. Let's go.
Lio: Billy...
Guy: Are you sure about this, Billy?
Billy: It's a gloomy night, dernit...
Guy: Sure is.
Paper: With the pharoah's curse still not lifted, he begins his next adventure. Just what is the secret of the Nazi's Fourth Reich? What is the meaning of the painting the fuhrer drew?!
Side: To our dear readers > Did you enjoy this issue of the the hugely popular artist, Kevin Yamagata's "Billy Bat and the Pharaoh's Curse"?
> What kind of adventure will Billy face next time?! What sort of foes?!! What unpredictable tricks?!! Beautiful clients?!! New love......?! I hope you're all looking forward to the next issue, everyone!! See you soon!!

Page 4:
Disney: Painting the fuhrer drew......?
Title: Chapter 110
Prologue
[1/8]

Page 5:
Guys: Talking to someone......?
Maybe he's just had some guests over.
Woman: No, there's only one person talking.
Guy: Then maybe he's just talking on the phone or something?
Woman: Oh, you two just don't get it, do you?!!
The he normally talks in a Kansas accent or something like that, but that was a foreigner speaking!!
Guys: Foreigner?
You didn't know that when he signed his lease?
Woman: He'd mentioned he was an ex-serviceman that had come back from a front in Europe.
Though there were no problems with his paperwork...... But anyhow, he's suspicious.

Page 6:
Guy: What is suspicious exactly?
Woman: I never see hide nor hair of him in the afternoons, and come night time I can hear him pacing around in his room!!
All night long!! And you can see this creepy silhouette through the curtains all night!
Sometimes he whispers a lot, too.
He's not talking to himself. There's definitely someone else he's talking with!

Page 7:
Guy: ......Misses Crawford, what exactly do you suggest is going on?
Craw: I'm trying to tell you that the man on the 4th floor of the next building over
is a Soviet spy!
Guy: Heh......
His lights are off right now, though.
Woman: That's because he caught onto the fact that you two were coming.
Guy: Heh...
Woman: Anyhow, there's one more suspicious person in my apartments.

Page 8:
Guy: Another one?
Woman: Yes. He's got the lights on in his room aaaaaall night, too.
Woman: When I meet him once in a while, he has vacant eyes, a pale face, and he's completely spaced out.....
Guys: Isn't that a lot more suspicious?
Woman: Though I know that one is a cartoonist.
Guys: Cartoonist?
Woman: Right above here.
He's actually just across from that Soviet spy's room.........

Page 9:
SFX: JIRIRIRIN
Kevin: Yes, who is it......?
Guys: Mr. Kevin Yamagata?
Kevin: P....li......?
Guys: I'm Chief Inspector Reynolds, and this is Officer Hoffman.
Excuse us!
Kevin: Wa... Wa... Wait...
Don't just barge into someone's work space!!
SFX: KAH KAH

Page 10:
Chuck: !!
SFX: KAH KAH
Guys: This really is the best position.
Kevin: Best position...?
Guy: We're going to have to use this room for a little while.
Kevin: What? Says who......
GUy: Don't worry. We've received permission from your landlord.
Kevin: Even if the landlord gives you permission, I...!!
Guy: Take a look at that room over there.
Kevin: Eh...?
Guy: The person living in that room is extremely suspicious.

Page 11:
Guy: He's supposedly a Soviet spy.
SFX: KATA...

Page 12:
Kevin: Even if you do stake him out from here, how can you figure out whether he's a spy or not anyway?
Guy: WOrk...?
Kevin: Ahhh! Hey, don't touch my manuscripts without permission!!
Guy: Oh?!
Hey, isn't this that "Billy Bat" comic?!
Kevin: Yes......
Guy: Ah... So you're the one who draws this...!!
Kevin: Well... Yes...
Guy: I always read it!!
Is this the end of the Billy Detective Series?
Kevin: Ah... Well, uh, thanks. It's probably better if you just read it in print.

Page 13:
Guy: Heh... This comic's really that popular...?
Kevin: Ahh, hey...!!
Guy: Hm?
Kevin: What? I haven't drawn anything that policemen should have anything to complain about.
Guy: No...
I've seen this before..........
Kevin: Eh?
Guy: This bat character..
Kevin: Wh... What are you talking about?
That's a character I thought up...
Guy: Ah... I remember now!! That's right. It was from the post I had just a little while ago...
Kevin: ?

Page 14:
Guy: I get it. You're translating it and redrawing it, right?
Kevin: What are you talking about?
This is an original creation I worked really hard to come up with!!
Guy: But it looks exactly the same.
Kevin: As what...?
Guy: As a Jap comic.
Kevin: A Japanese...?
Guy: I saw it. A comic exactly the same as this.
In Japan...
Kevin: .........
Chuck: Wh... What?
Excuse me, what are you talking about?!!
Are you saying Mr. Kevin ripped off another person's comic!!

Page 15:
Guy: No... I'm just saying
I definitely saw this in Japan. That's all.
Chuck: How could you say such a thing?!!
I've been at Mr. Kevin's side the whole time and saw him create Billy Bat!!
I saw him groaning day after day, putting his whole life into it
and drawing Billy non-stop!!
If you lay any more false accusations on him, I'll....
Kevin: Where did you see it?
Chuck: Huh...?
Guy: I believe it was on the black market.
A comic book mixed in with a lot of old books.

Page 16:
Kevin: A comic book...?
Chuck: Mr. Kevin...
There's no need to be concerned about any of this.
Billy is your creation.
Kevin: A comic book...
I never had time to look at any comic books when I was stationed in Japan...
Chuck: Mr. Kevin...
Kevin: Ugh...
Chuck: Are you all right?
Kevin: No... All of a sudden don't feel too good...

Page 17:
Kevin: Uh...
Chuck: Are you okay?
Maybe you should lie down for a bit?
Guy: Um...
We're gonna be using this place for a stakeout.

Page 18:
Guy: Good work. It's time to switch off.
Chuck: !
SFX: GIH
Guy: Okay.
Guy: Huh? That comic writer's taking a break?
Chuck: It's your fault. You told him that there was an identical comic to his in Japan.
Mr. Kevin ended up saying all these things about going to Japan after that.
Guy: It's nothing to be concerned about. Even if a Japanese made it, when we win the war, it'll belong to us.

Page 17:
Chuck: Mr. Kevin would always say...
"You can't steal other people's stuff"!! Like it was his catchphrase.
Guys: Hahhahhah.
What is it?
Chuck: Don't laugh!! That's so rude!
Guy: The weather's good today, and our little man's got his window open.
I saw inside for a second when the wind blew the curtain open.
Guy: What'd you see?
Guy: He's a maniac.
Chuck: A maniac...?

Page 18:
Guy: Just a Billy Bat maniac.
Guy: Huh?
SFX: BATAN
Disney: Seriously, you've gotta be kidding me.
I come all this way to America, and a comic with the bat as the protagonist is already getting popular?
I've gotta win over that cartoonist next door...
Man, what did he mean "Go to America and spread this picture"...?
Guy: Get moving!!

Page 19:
Disney: Ow!!
Ugh!!
Guy: We've put postcards in your bag!!
And this is a photo of the fuhrer!! Cherish it on your journey!!
Disney: Right...
Guy: And these paintings!!
They are immensely valuable!!

Page 20:
Chuck: What are these exactly...?
Guy: The Fuhrer's paintings! You should feel honored!!
The Fuhrer's final painting is in there, as well!!
Disney: Heh...
My Fuhrer...
I know you gave me those paintings...

Page 21:
Disney: But for something that was so hard to transport,
they're not really all that good.
I guess this's gotta be the last one he drew...
His last painting huh...?
Honestly...
kids and adults alike would get spooked by a painting like this.

Page 22:
Side: A painting resembling the drawing Kevin Goodman would draw over 30 years in the future. And Billy stands in the center?! Is this humanity's final hour?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 110 / End
This will be appearing for 8 issues in a row!! See you next issue!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/38836 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 109 by kewl0210 2013-10-09T07:24:18+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Well everyone, it's been a long time coming, but here it is. The "final chapter".

See you in December.

[Billy Bat 109 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Side: At that desk, Kevin drew a manga... but it's still not over. What shocking things does he still have to draw...?
Chuck: Amazing...
Drawing a complex mystery story in one burst like this...

Page 2:
Chuck: It's real...
You really are the real deal...
Keep drawing!!
I want to see what happens next!! What happens to this boy that gets cause in this big earthquake...?
Kevin: Shh.
Be quiet...
Chuck: Huh...?
Kevin: I'm at a really important part...
I've got a feeling something really important is going to come to mind soon.

Page 3:
Kevin: What is this...?
SFX: SASAH
Disney: I think that's enough now.
Chuck: !!
Title: 109 Final Chapter? [8/8]

Page 4:
Chuck That's more than enough for an assistant audition.
Chuck: Ah... No...
Ah, please wait!!
Disney: Bring him outside.
SFX: ZAH
Chuck: Ah... W-Wait!!
Please, just let him draw a little more!!
He just said he's at an important part!!
Guy: Out of the way!!

Page 5:
Kevin: Be quiet!!
Guy: Wha...?
SFX: SASAH
Chuck: WA!!
SFX: GUIH
Check: Stop! Let go of me!
SFX: DOTATA
Disney: What do you think you're doing?

Page 6:
Dis: I've been waiting forever for you to finish your new Billy Bat work, but it's not done at all!
And you let a youngster like that and draw all he wants?!!
Just what do you want?!!
Chuck: Let that boy draw.
Dis: Huh?!
Chuck: That boy is the successor.
Dis: What'd you say?
Chuck: Let that boy draw Billy Bat.
No, it's the Billy Bat that that boy's drawing

Page 7:
Chuck: that's the real Billy Bat!
Dis: Hey, Chuck.
Cool it down a bit.
You've been drawing Billy Bat constantly for thirty years.
You've gotta get get pretty tired from drawing that much.
Besides, your Billy Bat is beloved all over the world.
And you've kept answering that.

Page 8:
Dis: You've done well. Thanks to you, we've become incredibly famous
and received loved from all over the world.
But both that and this is the result of all the passion you've poured into Billy Bat.
Now then, the children, the Billy Bat fans all over the world are waiting...
Chuck: That's ending today, too.
From this day forward, the fake Billy Bat
will be gone from this world.

Page 9:
Chuck: I stole Billy Bat from Master.
My Billy is a fake I stole from Kevin Yamagata.
But...
that boy's Billy is the real thing, just like Kevin Yamagata's.
That boy's name is Kevin, too...
I'm giving everything back to Kevin.

Page 10:
Dis: We've always moved in the direction of progress,
haven't we?
That's why Chuck Culkin's Billy Bat has permeated the world,
isn't that right?
And now, after all this time, you want to go back to the Kevin Yamagata Billy Bat?!
Chuck: I know.
I know the urban legends are true...

Page 11:
Chuck: "If you draw a fake Billy, then someone from Chuck Culkin Enterprises will come to kill you."
Allegrini from Italy...
Johansson from Sweden...
Paulus from Indonesia...
They were all great Billy Bat artists.
Until they died under mysterious circumstances, that is.
Killing fakes is progress?!!
If you're going to do that, then what meaning does a Billy Bat that's permeated the whole world have?

Page 12:
No... The Billy that has to be spread is their Billy.
Private printings... Independently published versions... Their Billys that are only seen by a scant few people.
Especially Kevin Yamagata's Billy Bat. There's some reason they have to be spread all over the world!!
And the same goes for this boy's Billy!
Kevin: Let me go!!

Page 13:
Kevin: Lemme go!! Give me back that manuscript!!
Guy: He wouldn't stop, so we tore this off his desk.
Dis: Thanks for bringing him.
Chuck: Give that manuscript back to that boy.
Kevin: I'm at an important spot! Lemme write the rest!!
I've got to write it now...
Dis: Never mind that. Take him away.
Chuck: Let that boy do what he wants!!
Guy: Ku!!
Chuck: Hand it over!! People like you have no right to touch a cartoonist's manuscript!!

Page 14:
Guy: Let go!!
Chuck: Hand it oveeeer!!
Guy: Hmph!!
Ah...
Dis: !!
Chuck: HAA
HAA
Dis: Chuck...
Chuck: Hand over the manuscript.
HAA
HAA
HAA

Page 15:
Dis: What do you think you're doing, waving something like that around?
Come now, hand it over.
Chuck: Stay away!!
I at least know how to fire a gun!!
I've drawn then in comics tons of times!!
Dis: There's a big difference between drawing one and actually shooting one.
Your specialty is confided to drawing comics. I've been doing everything else.
Chuck: Shut up. Shut uuuup!! Don't make fun of meeee!!
Dis: Hey, give him the manuscript.

Page 16:
Chuck: What is this...?
Kevin: I don't...
really know what it is...
But... for some reason, that feels like it's the final chapter of Billy Bat.
Chuck: Final chapter...?
Guy: That's enough. Take him away.
Kevin: Ow...
Chuck: ..........

Page 17:
Kevin: Leggo!!
Let me draw!!
I have a feeling I'll understand if I just do a little more!!
There's just a little more and I'll know what the thing I have to draw is...
Chuck: Wait.
Let that boy go.
Dis: Ignore him. Just go. He's not the kind of person that can fire a gun.
Chuck: Let this boy draw the continuation of this.
Kevin: Ah...

Page 18:
Chuck: Everything will be fine if I'm gone, right?
Kevin: N... No...
Chuck: If I'm gone, then you'll have no choice but to let this boy keep drawing.

Page 19:
Dis: Wait.
Be rational.
Chuck: You're the one that erases people
that draw fake Billy Bats from the world...
In that case, I'm the one that really needs to be erased.
I'm the one that draws the fake Billy after all. ["I'm" in italics.]

Page 20:
Kevin: No!!
Don't do that!!
When I sat at your desk, all kinds of images came flying at me!!
That's because it's the desk that you drew Billy Bat at for thirty years!!
Your Billy is loved by tons of people.
You've done great work!
Chuck: Then let me ask this...
Do you like the Billy I draw?

Page 21:
Chuck: Fakes only disappear.
This way I can finally be at peace.
Kevin: No!!
Don't!!
Don't...
Chuck: Please draw out the final chapter.

Page 22:
Kevin: I'll draw it.
I'll do it, okay...
SFX: ZAH
SFX: ZAH
SFX: GA
Chuck: Huh...?
SFX: FLAP...

Page 23:
Kevin: But I need your help.
SFX: FLAP FLAP FLAP FLAP
Chuck: Bats...

Page 24:
Side: Is this Billy Bat's final chapter? One boy standing alone. What has happened to humanity?! The series will resume starting in the issue going on sale December 12th!!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 109 / End
For the resumption, this manga will have the cover and opening color pages!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/38809 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 108 by kewl0210 2013-10-04T03:12:56+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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I think at some point I was writing "Piers" or "Pierce" but it's supposed to be "Pears" apparently. I think I wrote "Pierce" once and then they romanized it as "Pears" and then I forgot and wrote it as "Pierce" somewhere else. It can be romanized that way just not here. Honestly though "Pears" is kinda not... good anyhow.

I think the "series climax" means this series of 8 chapters. The story isn't gonna reach it's climax the next chapter.

[Billy Bat 108 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
SIde: That day, the earth shook and the whole city was destroyed.

Page 2:
[Yep. Seems pretty destroy-y]

Page 3:
Title: Chapter 108 Depends on You [7/8]
Side: The boy lost to the bat's temptation and skipped school. September 1st, 1923 at 11:58 AM. Everything started there.

Page 4:
Billy: Stop!
Stop goin' ta school and stop goin' home.
Just spend all day on this open field tomorrow.
Kurusu: Kantou...
Great Earthquake...?
Billy: Stop goin' ta school
and stop goin' home.

Page 5:
Kurusu: ..........!!
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA

Page 6:
Kurus: The elementary school...
Guy: SOmeooooone!!
Give me a haaaaand!!
The children, the children are...!!
We need to help the childreeeen!!
Someone, the childreeeeen!!

Page 7:
Billy: Stop goin' home.
Guy: Anyoooooone!!
Guy: Hey, son, that place is dangerous!!
Hey, boy!! Don't go over...

Page 8:
SFX: GISHI
SFX: GATATA
SFX: GARA...
SFX: PAN PANN
Kurus: This is my house...?

Page 9:
Kurusu: Just before noon tomorrow
there is a Communist Party meeting at our house.
Guy: Really?
Kurusu: There is a Communist Party meeting at our house.

Page 10:
Kurusu: Dad...
Dad I...
got revenge.

Page 11:
[Things are all beat up.]

Page 12:
Dad: Work very, very hard, study, and go to college.
Then maybe you can even go to the moon.
Kurusu: Really?
Dad: Yeah, really.
Kurusu: Dad, I...

Page 13:
Guys: Hey, son!!
Are you all right, boy?!!
Pull yourself together, boy!!
What's your name?! Tell us what your name is!
Kurusu: Ki... Kiyoshi...
Guys: Ooh... Kiyoshi.
What Kiyoshi?!
Kurusu: Ku...
Kurusu Kiyoshi...

Page 14:
Kurusu: I see...
You say that using this
you can go to the moon, yes?

Page 15:
Narration: 1981---

Page 16:
Pears: Yes. My company developed it. It's an NPL-3 Model Extra-Large Rocket...
My company, the Pears Space Development Corporation, has great confidence in it.
And if we equip it with the Soviets' moon orbiter and lander, we can stand on the moon once again.
Kurusu: Why did the Soviets stop trying to develop rockets on their own and defer to you...?
Pears: They ran out of funding.
Kurusu: Hm.
I suppose that's a limitation of communism.
Is it difficult to pilot?

Page 17:
Pears: It's all done by remote control. There's no need for a pilot. [OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN]
Kurusu: Then the rest
all depends on me, does it...?
Pears: Huh?
Kurusu: A certain man told me that a long time ago.

Page 18:
Shishou: Listen closely, boy.
Everything depends on you.
There are black and white ones of these.
Kurusu: ..........
Shishou: If you become a bad guy

Page 19:
Shishou: it'll make as many of your evil schemes come true that you want.
How about that? The world will go the way you decide.
Any way you desire!!
But...
eventually, this guy will toss you into the depths of Hades.
Kurusu: ...........

Page 20:
Shishou: No, not just you, the whole world.
This whole world will be thrown into the depths of hell.
What is it, kid?
You're makin' eyes like you're thinkin' "Ain't this world already Hell?".
You're an interestin' kid.
I killed a tonna people with my own hands, thinkin' the same thing.
I know juuust how you feel.
Kurusu: ..........

Page 21:
Shishou: But I changed my ways.
And do you know what happened when I did...?
This guy...
started sayin' right things.

Page 22:
Shishou: Okay,
I've gotta go to America to do the right thing.
I'll teach you how to draw this when I get back from America.
Got that? It depends on you.
Whether to make this world go to hell or to set it right.

Page 23:
SFX: ZAH
Kurusu: Are you really going to come back from America?
Shishou: 'A course. Just wait fer me.
Kurusu: Okay.
Um... Is it okay for me to call you Shishou (master)?
Shishou: Do what you want.
It's all up to you.
Side: This boy lurking in a bottomless darkness was raised by that man. Together with the bat, will he send the world to hell?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 108 / End
Next issue, the can't-miss Series Climax!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/38774 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 107 by kewl0210 2013-09-27T02:01:00+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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What? Climax, already? Well maybe I was wrong maybe it is gonna end really soon. I kinda doubt it's gonna be in the next two chapters though.

[Billy Bat 107 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Kurusu: Huh?
Could you say that again?
I couldn't hear you that clearly.
Side: On the night he lost his father and was betrayed by his mother, graffiti talks to this boy. Just what is it telling him to do?!

Page 2:
Title: Chapter 107 Stop [6/8]

Page 3:
Kurusu: Kukuh.
Don't be silly.
You sure are weird.
Hey, is the one that's been talking to me this whole time
you?
Who... are you?
Huh?
Go? ...Where?

Page 4:
Kurusu: Ah...
Hold on...
!!
What's wrong with all these rats...?!!
SFX: SA SAH
Kurusu: Ah... Haha, okay, I get it...
These rats must have been scared of you, huh?
Wait!!

Page 5:
Kurusu: Hey.
Where are you?
C'mon, answer.
Why'd you bring me to a place like this...?
Huh...?
Here?

Page 6:
Kurusu: Something's in this house...?
SFX: GARAH
Kurusu: Wa!!
Woman: What?
Kurusu: Ah... Er...
Well...
Woman: Ah?
Kurusu: Ah... Um...
I just saw this drawing on the telephone pole next to the horse meat shop near Yoshiwara Oomon......

Page 7:
Kurusu: Um...
Could you please teach me how to draw that?
..........
Woman: Dear,
there's someone that wants to become a disciple.
Kurusu: B... Become a disciple...?
Someone (Zofuu): I'm busy getting ready to go to America.
Woman: It looks like he can't.
Kurusu: Ah...
O... Okay then.
Excuse me.

Page 8:
Shishou: Hey, boy, wait!!
Can you...
see this?

Page 9:
SFX: MIIIIIN MIN MIN MIN MIIIIIN [My god, do we need THIS many cicada sound effects?]
SFX: ZAH
SFX: ZAZAH
SFX: ZAZAZAH

Page 10:
Zofuu: Dang. I can't get it right.
!!
Kids: GYAHAHAHA
You're too slow, Musashi---!!
Gyahahahaha!
Kurusu: ......
I've gotta go to school again tomorrow...
They're gonna tease me more.
I don't wanna go.
I don't wanna go.
I don't wanna go.
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIN

Page 11:
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIN MIIIIIN
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIN MIIIIIN
Kurusu: I'm back...
..........
SFX: GATA...
Guy: Ah... I see.
Easy, huh?

Page 12:
Guy: It's okay, come here a second.
You just need to tell your husband's comrades that it's okay to use this house for a meeting.
Simple, see?
SFX: PISHAN

Page 13:
Billy: Stop!
Stop goin' ta school and stop goin' home.

Page 14:
Kurusu: HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
Billy: Yeah. Just spend all day on this open field tomorrow.
But before that...

Page 15:
Billy: I have a job for you.
Guy: What is it, kid?

Page 16:
Guy: You got something to say to me?
Kurusu: I have a message from my mom.
Guy: What is it?
Kurusu: Just before noon tomorrow
there is a Communist Party meeting at our house.
The Chairman of the Democratic Youth League is coming, too.
Guy: Really?
Kurusu: I have a message from my mom.
Just before noon tomorrow there is a Communist Party meeting at our house.
The Chairman of the Democratic Youth League is...

Page 17:
Guy: That's enough. Good job letting me know. Use this to go buy some candy if you want.
Guy 2: What's goin' on?
Guy: I just got some incredible news.
Apparently there's gonna be a meeting at that house before noon tomorrow.
Guy 2: Wha...?!!
Guy: And I heard Chairman Kawai is gonna come. So there's a good chance that Yamagishi, Kondou, and Hirasawa and those guys will be there, too.
Guy 2: Okay! We've gotta make arrangements right away!!
Guy: Right.

Page 18:
Woman: The sky sure has been an odd color today, hasn't it?
Kiyoshi, you're going back to school today, so don't be late.
Kurusu: Mom.
Are you coming back home at noon?
Mom: What are you talking about?
Of course I can't come home in the middle of my job at the factory.
Kurusu: That's good then.
Mom: Hurry and get going to school!!

Page 19:
People: The sky looks bright yellow, doesn't it?
It looks like it's evening.
SFX: ZA...
SFX: ZAZA

Page 20:
Guys: Are they all here?
I can't confirm it yet,
but they may already...
Check the back lane!!
According to the info, the meeting should have already started.
Should we go?
Okay, head in!!

Page 21:
Kurusu: Hey...
Is it really okay for me to be here and not at school?
SFX: ZA...
Kurusu: A~~~h, I still can't get it right at all.
Hm?
Huh... What?
I couldn't hear you that well.
Guy: This is the Special Higher Police!!

Page 22:
Guy: Do not resist!!
Stay where you are and...
?

Page 23:
Kurusu: Huh?
What...?
Kantou...?
Guy: Hm...?
SFX: KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA KATA
Guy: What...?
Kurusu: Kantou...
Great Earthquake...?

Page 24:
Box: September 1st 1923
11:58----
Side: A thunderous roar echoes and the ground shakes. Over 100,000 dead and 1,900,000 affected. Within it are that boy and the world that betrayed him.
T/N: The 1923 Great Kantou Earthquake was an earthquake was a magnitude 7.9 Earthquake that took place on the Kantou Plain of Honshu (The main island of Japan) at this time on this day.) It was the deadliest earthquake in Japanese history.
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 107 / End
Next issue, towards the series climax!!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/38735 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 106 by kewl0210 2013-09-20T04:38:31+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

Only for use by Mangaholics.

Who's up for flashbacks? MORE! It's just this guy and Finny that we still don't know anything about, I think.

[Billy Bat 106 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Chuck: .........
Kevin: Draw...?
Draw what?
Chuck: ..........?
Kevin: Please, tell me. What do you want me to draw?
Side: It's been 30 years since he stole Billy from his master. Chuck Culkin has named the young man who draws the same way and has the same name as his master as his successor.

Page 2:
Chuck: What...?
Who are you talking to?
Kevin: Billy.
Chuck: Billy?!
Kevin: Huh?!
SFX: ZAH SASAH SHAH
SFX: SHA SHA

Page 3:
SFX: SHA SHAH SHA
Chuck: What is this...?
Rabbit: AAA!!
!?
Kurusu: Ah, this is awful.

Page 4:
Kevin: Huh...?
You're telling me to draw this man...?
Both: ..........
Title: Chapter 106 Talking Thing [5/8]

Page 5:
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIIIIN
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIIIIN
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIIIIN

Page 6:
Kids: Ueh. Gross... There's lots of dead crucian carp and medaka fish.
OE~~~~~
Go scoop some up!
No wa~~~~y!
Hey.
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIIIIN
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIIIIN

Page 7:
Kids: Heeeeey! Heeeey!
Red kiiiiid!
Heeeey! You unpatriotic jerk!!
Why don't you eat some rotten carp!!
Red kiiiiid!!
Unpatriotic braaat!!
Ah...
Hey. who threw a rock?
Aw man, run!!

Page 8:
Kurusu: Uh...
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIIIIN
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIN MIN MIIIIN
Guy: He~~~~w. Sure is hot out there!!
SF: GARA...

Page 9:
Guy: Hey, there're a lot of rats running on those electric wires.
Even the rats are trying to escape the heat...
What's wrong?
Mom: He said he tripped.
Dad: Geez, be careful. We can't afford treatment for any broken bones.
Mom: Keep still, now.
Kurusu: Dad...
Dad: Mm... What?
Kurusu: What's red mean?

Page 10:
Dad: Kiyoshi, don't tell me somebody was teasing you about that?
Really?
Are you sure, Kiyoshi?
If somebody said that to you, you shouldn't be timid about it. Be straight with me.
Dad and all of us are working hard for everyone's sake.
We want to end government that's only for the rich, and for men and women to be equal.
And have a country where you can really say what you want and eat delicious food...
Mom: Dear.
This is still hard for Kiyoshi to understand.

Page 11:
Dad: Ahhahhah! Yeah, I guess so. Anyhow, let's have some grub!
Mom: Yes, yes.
Dad: Hew! Seriously though, it's damn hot!!
SFX: MIIIIIN MIN MIN MIIIIIN
Kurusu: I'm going oooout!!
SFX: GARA...

Page 12:
SFX: MIIIIIN MIN MIN MIN MIIIIIN
Mom: Hey, dear...
Dad: What is it? I'm tired.
Mom: I have something serious I want to talk about.
The Special Higher Police have been hanging around here for quite a while.
Really.
Do be careful.

Page 13:
Mom: What would we do if something happened?
SFX: MIIIIIN MIN MIN MIN MIIIIIN
Kids: Heeeey! Heeey! Red kiiiiid!!
Heeeey, unpatriotic bastaaard!!
SFX: GAH GAH
Kids: Reeeed! Reeeeed!!
Unpatriotiiiic!!
SFX: GAH GAH

Page 14:
Dad: O~~~H? What's this? Ol' Mr. Moon is red.
Kurusu: Yeah.
Dad: Strange, isn't it, Kiyoshi?
This world is really full of mysteries.
So you've gotta study hard.
Kurusu: Yeah.
Dad: Work very, very hard, study, and go to college.
Then maybe you can even go to the moon.
Kurusu: Really?
Dad: Yeah, really.

Page 15:
Somebody: It's terrible----!!
Seizou-san was... was----!!
Someone: Seizou-san......
How could this happen...
Those Special Higher Police guys had the gall to say "We were just talking to him and he had a heart attack"....
Look at his legs!!

Page 16:
Guy: It's plain as day that he was tortured and killed---!!
Mom: Deaaaar!!
Guy: Seizou-saaaan!!
Mom: Deaaaar!!
SFX: MIIIIIN MIN MIN MIN MIIIIIN

Page 17:
Guy: I'm sorry, Otomi-san. If we went to the funeral, we'd all be hauled off by the Special Higher Poloce...
Sorry, we won't be able to go to it.
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIN MIIIIIIN
SFX: MIIIIN MINMINMIN MIIIIN MIN MIN
Kurusu: ...........

Page 18:
Guy: My deepest sympathies.
To try not to lose heart.
I'll be here to help you if ever you need it.
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIN MIIIIIIN
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIN MIIIIIIN
Guy: What's that?
Geez, what a weird cumulonimbus cloud...

Page 19:
Guy: It's pitch black.
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN MIN MIIIIIIIN
Kurusu: I'm hoooome.
SFX: GARA...

Page 20:
Mom: Kiyo-chan, please go play outside.
SFX: PISHAN
SFX: MIIIIIN MIN MIN MIN MIIIIIIN
SFX: MIIIIIN MIN MIN MIN
SFX: KANA KANA KANA KANA KANA

Page 21:
Kurusu: I hate everyone:
SFX: KANA KANA KANA KANA KANA KANA
Kurusu: I hate everyone:
I hate everyone:

Page 22:
People: Oh, my. Don't be greedy, now!
Heheheheeee
You've been such a stranger lately. Do stop by!
Guy: Get outta here!
Woman: Meany----
Oh, a little boy.
Where are you from?
Wanna come play with us for a bit?
Would you like to drink from big sis's breasts?
Kurusu: AAAAA!!
Women: !!

Page 23:
Women: Ooh, scary!
What a strange boy!!
Kurusu: Shut up!
Shut up!
My ears are ringing...
Aaah...
Sign: Horse and Pig Meat
Kurusu: Shut up...
Stop...
SFX: GO...
Kurusu: Don't talk to me...!!

Page 24:
Kurusu: "Do it"...?
Who's there...?
Are you the one...
talking to me?
Side: The telephone pole near Yoshiwara Oomon. Written there is a bat doodle. In a fit of despair, what "words" have reached this young boy's ears...?!
Title: "Billy Bat" Chapter 106 / End
Next issue, what is the voice the boy heard...?!

https://mangahelpers.com/t/kewl0210/releases/38688 [English] [Translation] Billy Bat 105 by kewl0210 2013-09-11T03:10:45+00:00 kewl0210 admin@mangahelpers.com

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Okay, we're half way through. This chapter's cool, a callback to waaaay early on. And with no idea where it's gonna go.

[Billy Bat 105 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Someone: Miss Audrey!
SFX: POOOHN
POOOHN
Someone: Where have you gotten off to, Miss Audrey?
SFX: ZAZAH
Side: That old man lived deep, deep within the Culkin estate... in a hidden building. That old man was the leading cartoonist of this century.

Page 2:
SFX: GULP

Page 3:
Chuck: Do you like Billy?
Audrey: !!

Page 4:
Audrey: Who...
are you?
Who are you...
eh...?
So you went to see him, eh? I expected as much.
It's honestly all right, Kevin...

Page 5:
Audrey: Because when you learn this secret
you won't be able to sneak away.
Kevin: Who...
are you?

Page 6:
Title: Chapter 105 Real and Fake, New and Old [4/8]

Page 7:
Kevin: Ah... You're the chief assistant, right?
That guy... Chuck Culkin was talking before,
and he said the chief was kinda getting on in years.
Oh, uh... I'm not interested in becoming an assistant or anything.
He invited me, but I'm not thinking about taking your job, not at all...
Chuck: Try drawing it.
Kevin: Huh...?
Chuck: He sent you here so I could get a look at you skills, right? Try drawing him.
Kevin: Uh... I'm not actually...
Chuck: Feel free to use any pen and paper.

Page 8:
Kevin: ..........
SFX: SHA SHAH
Kevin: Here, I drew 'im.

Page 9:
Chuck: Could you try drawing him one more time?
Kevin: Huh...? Okay...
SFX: SHAH SHA SHAH
Chuck: One more.
Kevin: Yeah, sure.
Chuck: One more!!

Page 10:
Chuck: One more.
One more!!
One more!!
One more!!
Kevin: Huuuuuuuuuu...
!!

Page 11:
Chuck: How long have you been able to do drawings like these?!
Kevin: Uh, since I was a kid...
Chuck: How long have you been able to draw Billy like this?!
Kevin: Uh... Well I sorta always draw him this way...
Chuck: How is it you can draw this?!!
Kevin: Huh...?

Page 12:
Chuck: How is it you can draw like Master?
Kevin: Master...?
Chuck: Who are you?!
Kevin: I'm Kevin.
Kevin Goodman.
Chuck: Kevin...
You have the same name as my master.

Page 13:
Kevin: Master... You're saying master at drawing Billy Bat...
is named Kevin...
Kevin Yamagata?
Chuck: How do you know that name?
Kevin: I was named after Kevin Yamagata.

Page 14:
Chuck: I can't believe it...
Finally...
Finally...
You came to take it back!
AAa!!

Page 15:
Chuck: AAaaa!! [Letters gradually get smaller]
HAa
HIH
HAa
HIH
HAa
HIH
Kevin: Came to take it back...?
Chuck: I...
stole it...
I stole Billy Bat from Master!!

Page 16:
Chuck: That man cajoled me into it...
I stole Kevin Yamagata's Billy Bat!!
Kevin: That man...
You mean Chuck Culkin...?
Chuck: Chuck Culkin is my name.
Kevin: Huh? There're two Chuck Culkins?
Chuck: That man isn't Chuck Culkin!!
Kevin: Ah... Then...
Who is he?!

Page 17:
Chuck: Over thirty years ago, he just appeared at my studio one day.
And he kept praising me, saying how wonderful my drawings were.
And how the two of us...
would take hold of the world together...
Kevin: You really don't know who he is?
Chuck: He... saw the movie "The Great Escape" a while back and laughed.
And said that not one American made it out of that POW camp...
When I asked how he knew so much about it
he just laughed.
Kevin: ..........

Page 18:
Chuck: And when by Billy Bat started selling
He said that his homeland was now a communist country, so he couldn't make money like this there...
That's all I know about him...
But just like he said,
we really did grasp hold of the world...
I stole Master's artwork...
and I took hold of the world...

Page 19:
Kevin: You don't grab a hold of the world just by stealing it.
It's because you worked hard for thirty years...
Chuck: Yes,
I did work hard.
On that man's strategy
I worked myself to death.
But...
I know. I know that no matter how much I draw it, I can't live up to Master's Billy Bat.
I'd expect you're well aware of it.
I draw
and draw

Page 20:
Chuck: and draw...
and draw...
and draw...
but I can't draw a Billy Bat like Master's!!
Much less can I make those complex, magnificent, mysterious stories!!
So somehow, for thirty years
I've done nothing but lie and deceive...!!

Page 21:
Chuck: All rightyyy! And so we meet him again this week
Everyone's friend, Billy Bat.
Okay, let's go on an adventure together.
What sort of adventure could be waiting for us this time...?
I drew my style of bright and fun Billy Bat.
But...
I can't draw that smile anymore...
I can't even draw...
the fake Billy anymore...

Page 22:
Chuck: I'm no longer a cartoonist...
I guess this is punishment from above...
The only thing someone like me can do...
is hand this chair over to you.

Page 23:
Kevin: N... No.
I... I can't...
Chuck: I'm counting on you.
Kevin: Huh...?!
Chuck: Take up the helm.
Kevin: No... But...
Chuck: You'll support Chuck Culkin Entertainment.
Kevin: Wh... What...?
!!

Page 24:
Billy: C'mon, draw!
Side: Kevin was named as the successor by the real Chuck Culkin. Will Kevin end up drawing the fake Billy...?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 105 / End
Next issue, a surprising development...!!