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Billy Bat

ビリーバット

manga
Finished
2008
Drama
Mystery
Supernatural

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The facts

Status: Finished
Chapters: 165
Volumes: 20
First released: 2008
Country: Japan
Format: manga
Author: Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki
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What it is about

It’s 1949 Los Angeles, and Kevin Yamagata, a Japanese American comic book author, is drawing his bestselling character, Billy Bat: a quick-witted detective who is, unsurprisingly, a cartoon bat. Everything is going well for Kevin until he discovers an unfortunate truth: He may have unintentionally plagiarized his beloved character from a drawing he once saw in Japan. Devastated by the news, Kevin returns to war-torn Japan to find the drawing’s original artist . . . but the character’s origins turn out to be far older and more perplexing than he had ever imagined. (Source: Kana) Note: Won the Max und Moritz Prize for "Best international Comic" in 2014.