Billy Bat
| Manga | |
|---|---|
| title | Billy Bat |
| Original title | ビ リ ー バ ッ ト |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Naoki Urasawa , Takashi Nagasaki |
| publishing company | Kodansha |
| magazine | Weekly Morning |
| First publication | October 16, 2008 - August 18, 2016 |
| expenditure | 20th |
Billy Bat ( Japanese ビ リ ー バ ッ ト ) is a manga series by the Japanese artists Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki , which has been released in Japan since 2008.
content
The Japanese-American comic artist Kevin Yamagata ( 山 縣 金 持 , Yamagata Kinji) drew a comic in 1949 with the hero "Billy Bat", a humanized bat. But when he realizes that he has already seen this figure in Japan, he travels there to ask the actual author for permission to use Billy Bat. When he arrived in Japan, he soon learned that there was a long story behind the character and was soon drawn into it himself.
publication
The manga has been published in individual chapters in Weekly Morning magazine published by Kodansha in Japan since October 2008 . The publication paused several times. At the end of July 2016 it was announced that the manga will be completed on August 18, 2016 in issue 38/2016 if the publication continues as planned. The chapters were published in 20 anthologies.
From October 2012 to May 2018, Carlsen Manga published a German translation in 20 volumes. Planeta DeAgostini publishes a Spanish translation, Pika Édition a French, GP Manga an Italian and Sharp Point Press licensed the series for Taiwan.
reception
The anthologies each sold over 90,000 times in Japan, sometimes almost 150,000 times. Volume 20 then sold 113,000 times in the first three weeks after first publication. In 2014, the series won the Max and Moritz Prize in the “Best International Comic” category. The laudation praises the “ wealth of characters and plotter narration” , the “ graphic variety” and the “ simple level of technical excellence”. " " Despite With a variety of parallel narrative strands and wonderfully contrasting styles, the story-murder Kennedy, working through times and cultures, from the Samurai to the Japanese post-war cities to the civil rights movement in the southern United States. "Diversified spheres of action" manage the " To keep the tension" series. The Japanese view of American history is another fascinating aspect, as it is rarely offered to the western reader.
Web links
- Carlsen Verlag for German publication
- Entry at Anime News Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Billy Bat Manga to End in 3 More Chapters. Anime News Network , July 27, 2016, accessed July 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, May 21-27. Anime News Network, May 30, 2012, accessed September 26, 2012 .
- ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, February 27-March 4. Anime News Network, April 24, 2012, accessed September 26, 2012 .
- ↑ Japanese Comic Ranking, October 3-9. In: Anime News Network. October 12, 2016, accessed October 11, 2018 .
- ↑ International Comic Salon Erlangen 2014 - Winner. Archived from the original ; Retrieved June 25, 2014 .