Billy bat . Naoki Urasawa Lets start with an assumption it is not the typical manga we are talking about a work that takes its time to turn the classic narrative into something that only the Master Urasawa can create. The story tells the story of a Mangaka named Kevin Yamagata that in 1949 unintentionally discovers that his masterpiece is actually already present in Japan thinking the plagiarism the latter heads home to find the real author although the plot may seem weak from here on will occur events that will change inexorably not only Kelvin but humanity itself. We are talking about a subtle and precise work of parallelism we will discover the existence of a being that controls humanity from time immemorial or the bat not coincidentally the protagonist of the work of our mangaka nothing comes from chance and everything is already written with these premises the work will take place in the various key points of history but always leaving the decision to man. The bat in fact is the protagonist of the work of Kelvin which is chosen as the bearer of a lineage already steeped in human history from Jesus Christ to Kennefy to the moon landing to the power of a scroll instead able to erase humanity from existence is always targeted by that part of humanity that follows the thought of Black. In fact as said before the work is based on constant parallels white bat or black bat? Right or wrong? Darkness or Light? Whatever the result the choice is always left to us as an epilogue that in history humanity has never been able to do the right thing. This work can be defined as a symbol in no uncertain terms it succeeds in representing a century of history by characterizing each protagonist to be the bearer and resolver of something everything is done by the bat to lead you to choose this is the base from where urasawa brings out the psyche of each character whether evil or not. To emphasize also a stoic line with parody from Walt Dinsey to Mickey Mouse himself ascended to gods one earthly and one totally dreamlike. The work takes its time even exaggerating in some cases we have constant time jumps that serve to turn the gears of the story always towards specific key points if we take for example Devive or Kuritsu in the emotional sphere of goodman or Smith and Zofuu with regard to Yamagata their lives are told as a fundamental step for the growth of those who in the end will actually decide with their strength to save the world but not always in a fluid way. With this work urasawa gives us a real historical/realistic manifesto but managing to give a new imprint that flows into the supernatural and leaves the reader deeply impressed I personally have had the opportunity to identify with the concept he wanted to convey. Finally we have mysteri not specifically resolved or not deepened by the author that I would have liked to see the phenomenon of timelines and parallel worlds the influence of the dopplegeger in the events of Dallas and the same Administrator who pulls the strings left to glimpse as a god but at the same time something definitely omniscient just think that reveals every historical disaster already in the Edo period in the events of the village of Nii. In conclusion a work that opened my mind and decided to do this kind of work on the whole cosmology of Urasawa. Honorable mention for the speech between the Fuhler and Albert Einstein in a park in Autumn crowning the work between good and evil light and darkness. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator free version