Naoki Urasawa’s Thriller Manga Billy Bat Finally Gets an English Release

Naoki Urasawa is simply a large unit successful the satellite of manga, having created specified hits arsenic Pluto, Monster, and 20th Century Boys. But 1 of Urasawa's much acclaimed creations, Billy Bat, has ne'er seen an English-language release. At least, not until now.

With Billy Bat Vol. 1 present successful stores, IGN tin exclusively debut a preview of this manga graphic novel. Get a person look successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Billy Bat was created by Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki. The bid is being released successful the US by Kana, a manga-centric imprint of Abrams ComicArts. Here's the authoritative summary of the series:

“Finally bringing Urasawa and Nagasaki's Billy Bat to English readers has been a imagination task for the Kana team,” said Kana Editor Kristiina Korpus successful a statement. “We can't hold to spot however fans respond to the announcement and the eventual release. It's been a agelong clip coming for English-speaking fans! Everyone astatine Kana has been truthful excited to yet bring this unmatched manga to English and we're each thrilled to yet beryllium capable to stock it.”

Billy Bat Vol. 1 is disposable successful stores now, with plans for Kana to yet merchandise each 20 volumes successful the series. You tin bid a transcript connected Amazon.

In different Naoki Urasawa news, Netflix precocious released an anime adaptation of Pluto. IGN's Just Lunning gave the bid a 9 retired of 10, writing, "Pluto is simply a masterful character-driven play astir the fallout of warfare and what it means to beryllium human. The series’ cardinal whodunnit falls a small flat, but it much than makes up for it with impeccable affectional arcs. Although the bid took implicit six years to make, it was worthy the wait."

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