Billy Bat and Cocoon Lead This Week's Reader's Corner
The column highlights two manga set in the 1940s-Billy Bat finally available in English after eighteen years, and cocoon offering a stark historical fiction take on the Battle of Okinawa.
Reporting from 1 sources: Beneath the Tangles.
Beneath the Tangles' June 16th Reader's Corner features reviews of several new manga releases, headlined by the long-awaited English release of Naoki Urasawa's Billy Bat and the one-volume historical manga cocoon about the Himeyuri schoolgirls during the Battle of Okinawa.
Beneath the Tangles' latest Reader's Corner covers a slate of new manga releases, with the spotlight falling on two titles set in the 1940s: Naoki Urasawa's Billy Bat, now legally available in English for the first time, and the one-volume historical manga cocoon, which depicts the Himeyuri schoolgirls' experience during the Battle of Okinawa. The column also reviews other recent volumes including Divine Incursions Vol. 2, Double the Trouble, Twice as Nice Vol. 3, Everyone's Darling Has a Secret Vol. 4, and Shadows House Vol. 11.
- Billy Bat (Vol. 1): Long-awaited English release of Naoki Urasawa's mystery thriller set in post-war Japan
- cocoon: One-volume historical fiction about the Himeyuri students during the Battle of Okinawa
- Divine Incursions (Vol. 2)
- Double the Trouble, Twice as Nice (Vol. 3)
- Everyone's Darling Has a Secret (Vol. 4)
- Shadows House (Vol. 11)
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