Don't forget to put on your trusty tinfoil hat. You wouldn't want government electromagnetic waves reprogramming your subconscious with propaganda.>>89904152LAST
>>289904152LAST THREADLAST CHAPTER >>290010709
BLEACHED
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>>290045889stealth enter
>>290046002I KNEW IT
>>290046058Thanks OPI sure hope that's not the same guy they fetched not long beforearr rooks the same
the plot twist for this part was actually pretty interesting, although it has nothing to do with the main story, just like all other sub arcs
>>290045849shit I was waiting all day for this
>>290046058the dialogue in this chapter was really clunky. Also I can't remember if that thing with the soviets about the cola is referencing pepsi or coke.
>>290046459You know the grand conspiracy of Billy Bat is just an excuse to tell period piece character drama
>>290045920>Lyndon Johnson I have nothing nice to say about that bastard.
>>290046049why is there a black deputy if they're in a straight up sundown town
>>290045936Can a character be a racist stereotype and unfathomably based at the same time?
>>290045976Oh fuck, I know where this is going.>>290045982>>290045984>>290045989OH FUCK.>>290046002>>290046011>>290046020NOOOOOOOO I KNEW IT!
>>290045889It don't get any betta' than this.
>>290045936Abe (black variant)
>>290045946Who got Billy Bat's heart, I wonder?
>>290046058Thx mate.
>>290045963So Golden Cola is a stand-in for Pepsi then
>>290045849Oh thank GOD. It's only a day late and I'm already getting withdrawals.
>>290046058oof
>>290045889The unity of black and white is under way, I see.
>>290045889Now I hate niggers but even I think Diane is a woman worth marrying.
>>290046002OH SON OF A BITCH
>>290046058DOUBLE SON OF A BITCH
>>290045849I know it's a long way off but I hope someone does a daily of 20CB, Master Keaton and Asadora when this is done.Urasawa is my favourite mangaka and it's real fun reading this with you guys.I'm always stunned at the diversity in his characters. Different faces, different eyes, noses, mouths, chins, body types. Hell, they even have different ear shapes.
>>290046862>>290045936Perhaps Shinzo learned from Lincoln
>>290046871It's not the poodle girl?
>>290045936LMAO, that is a top tier fakeout.
>>290045955Oh, I ain't getting good vibes from this guy at all.
>>290045936>southern cornbread>LOAVES
>>290045968Man, I miss the black hitchhiker already. This guy feels like a straight up serial killer.
>>290045976>bonfirehttps://youtu.be/zEtgRBjEZp0Of fuck, I got a BAD feeling about this.
>>290045982>>290045984No no nononononononoNO!
>>290045989FUCK, it's exactly what it looks like.
>>290046002>>290046011FUUUUUUUCK!
>>290046020Of course it's some inbred looking mutant behind those rags. Damn these fuckers to hell.
>>290046058Thanks OP.>>290046400Second that. The murder itself is already bad, but to introduce such a likable character only to kill him off immediately would be such a bummer.
>>290046058Oh shit
>>290048199Whether you're a racist serial killer or black Abe Shinzo, Golden Cola is the drink for you
>>290046058Thanks OP
>>290046058yup, that's about what I was expecting
>>290045879>>290045889Oh cool, these two are back
>>290046002FUCKING DAMN ITHE WAS ONE OF THE GOOD ONES
>>290046058Fuak
>>290049487Kek.
>>290046058Thank you for posting!
>>290046058Shit
>>290046603Sounds like Monster
>>290045879>>290045889Aw ain't that sweet.>>290046002>>290046011AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>290048196My man...
>>290046058so why did the white hitchhiker invite the guy to a lynching anyways?
>>290057679Probably to let him know his wife is next.
>>290057679The crisp, refreshing taste of Golden Cola really hits the spot after a lynching.
Bump
>>290057679billy's orders
>>290057679I'm guessing he'd get both of them to come, and that way they immediately have another black person to kill
>>290047193Why? I read this manga years ago, why are you acting like this just came out?
>>290060906These threads are too fun to start reading ahead now.
Anyone read any duck comics?
>>290061329Wouldn't an interracial couple be a prime target?
What bothers me is the logistics. I don't see how they could have dropped the guy off on the side of the road, only to find him being lynched outside town that same evening. It makes narrative sense, so whatever, but it's lame.
>>290064698I'm pretty sure they're not the same guyBut who knows, maybe Billy is behind this
>>290061329Could be that the guy thought "these are outsiders just passing through so it'll be real easy to mess around with them."
>>290064698I don't THINK they're the same guyI hope
>>290064872Oh, damn, i think you're right. I guess if he intended them to be the same he would have left the hat on.
I've become disarrayed. Why is it that I'm trying to justify his murder? I think, "he deserved it because he's a nigger". But there's no evidence to suggest he actually deserved to be burned to death. Is this the power of propaganda? Commie slop? I was really enjoying the manga up to this chapter yet now I'm considering dropping it
>>290061329Anon those people are fucking serial killers. If they could find a defenseless victim (i.e. an entire group jumping a single back man in the middle of the night) they're taking the opportunity.
>>290065750I think you should drop it.
>>290061329They were a mixed race couple. That tends to set the KKK off a lot more than existing while black.
>you know remember the time the KKK sided wth the nigger because the Jew was too obviously the real killer
>>290066599oh boy, I hope our Japanese author hasn't read Uncle Tom's Cabin, before. Sure would be terrible if he were to reference that book right now
OVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>290046058quite good chap. good shit
>>290066626ok nevermind, I was getting worried over nothing
>>290066457>a cop? Being corrupt? Say it ain't so!
This must be the work of fucking bat
>>290066729Oh fuck
>>290066670I get the feeling this woman doesn't have much of a sense of self-preservation
>>290066729lmao this guy has the worst luck ever
>>290066757look at this fucking guy
>>290066412>you know rememberI will not stand for this bastardization of English spelling.
>>290066743>"I know this guy who's okay with Blacks and Whites">Takes him to the guy who led him to the lynching I shouldn't feel like laughing at this but fuckThis guys luck is horrible
>>290066771Sankyu
>>290067412>Sometimes they would string up a negro with dubious claims>sometimes
>>290066633Don't Tony him, getting the fuck out of there is the only reasonable option!
>>290066729No good deed goes unpunished, I guess.
>>290046058Urasawa really is great at drawing caricatures, you can tell this guy is racist just by looking at him.
>>290066771It's so funny how this guy stumbles onto a southern town and the book immediately shifts into a horror manga.
>>290046573Pepsi. Oh man that shit is LEGENDARYThey couldn't legally exchange money for it so in the end Pepsi ended up having one of the largest navies in the world off the back of old soviet boats they wanted to get rid of
>>290045868Oh, looks like I'm finally caught up to the storytime threads here. So, I don't want to be that guy, but something that strikes me about the writing in Billy Bat is a pretty heavy handed message about race and prejudice. Either about anti-japanese/asian or with this inter-racial couple. And it hasn't been a one off thing. It's fairly consistent sprinkled in throughout the story up to this point. It's a shame because it is irritatingly blatant in an otherwise pretty good manga.
>>290065750yeah? this is fucking 3K during cold warwhat do you expect?
>>290068072Bro we are literally sixty years removed from that eraIt is still in living memory, that shit will be with us for at least another century
>>290066633Madame you're carrying a baby right now, have some sense of crisis
>>290068108I just mean this AND the earlier stuff at the WW2/post-WW2 era of the story where it also put focus on racist white soldiers who were stationed in Japan. There had to be at least 3 - 4 instances of that alone, as a conservative estimate not even counting these detours with the inter racial couple where it is even more of a constant drumbeat. And it's more about how it is treated. It's heavy-handed and not very nuanced.
>>290066729I would trust him with his smiley face :)
>>290066771Thanks OPI do not feel lost today but it's fucking horrible
>>290068072>>290068254I'm racist but I don't have a problem with it. At least, compared to how I usually see this shit in western art, I can't complain about it. It's written well enough for me to care the characters first instead of the messaging, which is how it should be done.Plus, Urasawa has always been like this, for better or worse. Remember the Neo-Nazi plotline in Monster?
>>290068072I don't know what you expected. The whole manga revolves around a rubberhose cartoon, which are pretty intrinsically tied to those kinds of themes once you start focusing on the real life context behind them. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the most celebrated Live-Action/animation hybrids of all time, and it's literally just a stealth "Chinatown" sequel. A huge portion of the film is tackling discrimination, with the cartoons being stand ins for various minority groups. Like, it's not even particularly subtle about that, either.
>>290066729>>290066771Oh man the absolute despair here is like a fine wine.
>>290068330>Urasawa has always been like this, for better or worse. Remember the Neo-Nazi plotline in Monster?Yeah, I remember that. But, I don't remember any instances in either Pluto or 20th Century Boys. And even in Monster, it didn't seem to have quite the thematic focus as it does here. Anyway, I'm not saying it's completely damning or anything extreme. It is just becoming a bit off putting and is weighing an otherwise good story down a bit as it continues to return to the ham-fisted racial messaging.
>>290065750>But there's no evidence to suggest he actually deserved to be burned to deathHe probably raped someone, which was the most common justification for lynchings anyway.
>>290065750>>290068734were you idiots reading? he was openly advocating for civil rights, that's why he got murdered.
>>290068714>But, I don't remember any instances in either Pluto or 20th Century Boys.Anon, Pluto is an Astro Boy adaptation, which was already heavily steeped in Civil Rights themes. That subtext is all over the book.
>>290066616Sheriff didn't know one of his own men in small town 1960s south was already married? I mean of course that doesn't mean you cant also have a girlfriend sure, but...
>>290069285Your first mistake was assuming racists could read.
>>290064698I think it's a different person, the KKK guy knew about the bonfire before returning to town, so it must've been a preplanned event
>>290069285>>290070433Assuming they are not the same person, duh.
>>290066412Shhh, don't tell them of the organization that sprung from that.
>>290066503Spooky stuff.
>>290066616>He'd treat you just like us negroes>Look of absolute horror
>>290066771Owari da...Thank you.
>>290067749The true MONSTER™ is people!
>>290068072why are americans like this
>>290071553Scary
>>290049487Sir, are you a man mad enough to work in our Golden Cola (c) ad department?
>>290066771Thanks OP
>>290066457Really glaring how this was written by a Japanese person right here
>>290065750Damn, are we seeing a retard gain a brain cell here?
>>290066682>No stay here where there are literally KKK spooks running just outside the windowThis is some horror movie logic right here
>>290071865Their souls are weighed down by gravity (because they're fat)
>>290067459It's like a black comedy
Question: did they use nigger in the RAW or was it just kokujin?
>>290046573I think the intent was to make it sound like an advertisement, in places.
>>290070578I don't know. It should be a different person, but i'm not sure that it will be. The hitchhiker's hat looks like the mechanic's, and the wife went to look for him there, and we learn he was reading MLK's stuff, which the hitchhiker clearly had, so. It makes no sense logistically for it to be the same man, but it really seems like that's what's implied. >>290068714>it didn't seem to have quite the thematic focus as it does hereThat made it worse. It felt compulsive, or like his default when he needed to stall for time, which is just sad to think about. It naturally killed the pacing, and never went anywhere. Even apart from the messaging, there were serious structural issues, and even as a self contained story it sucked. Martin was cool, but his story could have been done with the Secret Police just as well, and the overall work been better off for it.
>>290069690 He probably just thinks every black peron looks the same and calling someone's wife a girlfriends is a way to degrade their relationship, like they can't be mature enough to understand marriage. Or maybe he was just playing koi
>>290066432>well, I don't know about you BIIIIIIIG CITY FOLK. But down here we do things a little differently
>>290066633Running away is the correct choice in his situation.
>>290066646A KKK MEMBER JUST FLEW OVER MY HOUSE
>>290078295Yeeer so ryghte.
>>290067412>these upstanding citizens had their reasons to execute justice as much vigilante might it have been, mkay?
>>290066633This is just wrong historically, when he was a VP candidate Johnson had a horrible relationship with the civil rights movement and personally blocked the civil rights act of 1957. He didn't do anything to support the movement until after his term started and he found it politically advantageous.
>>290067412>no matter how many blacks we murder, whites keep getting killed in this neighborhood>maybe we have a non-black serial killer in our midst and we should investigate instead of chimping out on the nearest black fella >Mmmmmm no.
>>290045879funfact they are driving the 1959 ford thunderbird
>>290066616beautiful 1954 chevy
>>290057679Trolling.
>>290066715>>290066695this is where the research gets a bit finicky, that police car has the front of a 1957 chevy while the back of a 55 chevy but I still admire the background details drawn in this manga to really capture the era
>>290080707that's just typical historical manga stuff
>>290066757>>290081047and it becomes a 1957 bel air rear, the bat must be behind this
>>290080860>>290080977what happened to beautiful car design like this?
>>290081140I think they're bad at not killing people when you crash and being aerodynamically efficient.
>>290081285Surely you could design something similar and still have crumple zones and other modern safety features.
>>290081365Safety features don't fix that it gets 10 mpg
>>290081140the chinese and I'm only partially joking
>>290081140china is bringing them back, funny how some foreign countries shows more respect for USA culture than USA themselveshttps://supercarblondie.com/fugu-motors-1950s-american-cars-byd-evs/
>>290081285Then just don't crash, duh.
>>290067749The writing is weak but the dread is real.
>>290081383That's what hybrid/electric/hydrogen motors are for
>>290081285Solid steel frames, nothing safer than thatWill kill everything but the people in the car
>>290081285How hard can it be to be both safe, aerodynamic and not look liek a chrome bar of soap?>>290081395What did they do?>>290081402...long live president Winnie the Pooh!
Ejoy
>>290083279IT'S ALWAYS THE FUCKING BAT
>>290083279that fucking bat
>>290083279I was neutral on the clan but once I learnt they killed a true fan of Billy Bat I turned against them
>>290083473Brother you're getting your ass whooped.
>>290083553>Brother you're getting your ass whooped.But he's doing it for justice, so maybe it'll work out in the end for him
They fucking got OP again
>>290083708op was busy lynching the guy
>>290081140people complaining about worthless shit like "I don't get enough gas mileage" and "the hood will cave in if you flip over" that kinda nonsense
>>290083855WAIT WHAT
>>290083855How inbred do you have to be to have an identical cousin? Goddamn.
>IMGa FOURTH OP shows up
>>290083877waow
OVA
>>290083877My two morally righteous heroes
>>290083877This feels like a bit of a cop-out but the sheriff's line in that fifth panel is so fucking funny I'm okay with it
>>290083877Honestly? Based.
>>290083877>5th panelKekHe's not lying for some reason, is he?
>>290083877What a tweest! I want to joke about how this is more immersion breaking than everything else in the manga so far but Urasawa delivers a fun rollercoaster of a human story so I'll let it slide.>>290083319>>290083473All of the large scale supernatural conspiracy stuff is fun but it's these smaller human moments of courage that really shine. No Billy Bat schizo voices. He's just a guy inspired by his favorite comic to do the right thing. Makes me think of the ending.
>>290083065>And yellow peoplewait a gosh darn minute, King didn't say this
>>290083877>>290083951A Real American Hero
>>290084307It's the bat I tell you! He's changed the speech! The bat is pro japanese!
>>290083095 Black guy get's burnt alive, white guy most affected
>>290083877>I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at breaking the lawa real sheriff he is
>>290083187>start the investigation after 48 hours have passedChrist, he's not even hiding being a corrupt POS. That's plenty of time to hide any and all evidence.
>>290083279I really shouldn't be surprised at this point, but this fucking manga manages to get me every time.
>>290083877Boy his cousin sure just be NIGGARDLY!
>>290084996It's my constitutional right to be racist
>>290081870>the conservation of momentum of bodies within a system in motion
>>290083219He seems really confident that he can get the ear of the vice president.
>>290083279The Billy Bat to civil rights pipeline.
>>290085333Well, he is rich. Or from a rich family, at least.
>>290085333you used to be able to just walk up and shake hands with the president out on a stroll
>>290083907Wow, I was really expecting Tony to die here. The pregnant wife is a huge death flag.
>>290083095First panel looks like that fish that smelled Spongebob's stench and recoiled.
>>290083243It's that woman's intuition or something.
>>290083553It means he is winning.
>>290045849That's not a bat, it's a fucking gun
>>290083877A true JUSTICE man!
>>290083907Tony just won a lifetime avoidance from sleeping on the couch.Thx OP2.
>>290083855https://youtu.be/ZZLE1WnqYC0
>>290083877Weirdest fucking twist in the book so far, and that's saying A LOT.
>>290083907Thanks OP. The fucking curveballs this manga manages to throw are just next level.
>>290045849Don't want to sound like an ass but it's probably better to write what chapter you're dumping with it's first page. It makes it a lot more manuevrable.
>>290083877A bit "twist for the sake of twist" but they did kinda hint at it by him even being willing to have a black deputy
AAAAHHHHH! I fucking love this manga. No matter how batshit crazy it gets or how many twists upon twists it pulls, it’s all written and drawn earnestly, and it takes its shit seriously.
>>290083877KINO!
>>290083951We're reaching Jojo levels of golden out of context panels.
>>290083877Pro racist has a standard
>>290085333He's Tony Cola, can you really tell Mr. Cola to go fuck himself?
Damn. Did the previous OP get lynched?
>>290087819Which one of them?
>>290087819
>>290087969But was it black, or white?
>>290083279GOD FUCKING DAMNIT YOU FUCKING BAT!!!!!
>>290083855h-how he does it? he always manage to get me with this manga. good shit
>>290083206Even this man knows it but somehow the mother doesn't care
>>290083877kek. shonenslop wish to be this corny and based at the same time
>>290083279THAT FUCKING BAT it's surely a black one this time
>>290087819We are 3 Gawain's
>>290083855THE WHATI can't tell if he's telling truth or trying to put the blame on "someone else"
>>290083855He almost looks hurt to me.>Curt, why?
>>290083907Thanks OPI'm scare to read spoiler now
>>290083877>>290083907>Billy Bat smashes the Klan
>>290083855>>290083877https://youtu.be/KnsiZOJjfUg
>>290084451tbf witnessing it with your own eyes has to fuck you up a lot more than just hearing about it
>>290087410Someone could make a collage of the dumbest/best quotes out of context.Actually, I might do that
>>290083243What, did you smell her hormones or something?
>>290083347This looks bad
>>290083553He is bleeding, making him the victor.
>>290083877Oh, he wasn't just trying to get out of it? Okay, wow.
>>290083877How upstanding
>>290083877>murder is a crime and crime is for niggers
Fuck you bat
>>290089306It's going to be funny once we get to the Hitler and Einstein parts.
>>290081402I'd buy that for a dollar!
>>290081402speaking of china they are recreating shells of overpriced classic cars too, you can finally afford an AE86https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBBZrjwqWZc
>>290083065Anon, how did you get into an Urasawa manga? Lucky
>>290083243Oh that's why
>>290083877>Golden Cola Serial Killer not so smug after his scooby doo scheme is unmasked
>>290091943You're the black one.
>>290066489You could make a horror movie screen-by-screen out of this. Maybe that is how the mangaka writes in the first place.
>>290066616This is such a good story about prejudice.
If you want more racist buster stuff, try Red: Living on the Edge featuring Native American Conan the Barbarian.
>>290092260Yeah, it's called Get Out.
>>290083279OH SON OF A BITCH
>>290083319dammit billy you're gonna get him killed
>>290083855woah
>>290091943Racism in /a/ only gets deleted when it gets reported
>>290092933>Hey kid, wanna be a hero to your countr- your board?
Are we doing 1 or 2 chapters a day now?
>>290092353I tried to like Red but at some point Blue just got way too hilariously OP for me.
>>290083877>>290090528kek
>>290088025I think that's the same question as "are zebras black with white strips or white with black strips?"
>>2900930591, probably
>>290085740 The are such guns known as BAT (Battalion, Anti-Tank)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120_mm_BAT_recoilless_rifle
>>290095595So that's how Oswald did it
>>290083907What a chapterThanks OP
>>290095725>Oswald did it
>>290092933>only gets deleted when it gets reportedRather than just racism, this is literally the only way to make the mods go outside their ERP sessions in IRC to actually do their job.
>>290096247Yeah? That's how Oswal, all on his own, killed the bat
>>290096345>ERP sessions in IRC to actually do their job. Erotic role playing session in I Recall Correctly?
>>290097051Do you seriously don't know what IRC is?
>>290097377 Nope
>>290083877Most based racist in manga.
>>290083877Hes just like me fr fr
>>290083877HERO
>>290093059wait, do you want the chapter now? Okch 42
>>290101787Now that's the face of a winning man.
>>290101830America's favorite hero is back
>>290101876>Jeez LouiseI don't remember the last time I've heard someone say it.
>>290101915Honestly he should be going with a Rum and Golden Cola instead to appeal to Oswald's communist/Soviet/Cuban sympathies
>kurusu appears>op diespoetry
>>290101915KARATE CHOP!!!
>>290101733Ow my fucking neck, I'm getting tonal whiplash
>>290083855>>290083877>craft the most suspenseful southern thriller horror set in the in just two chapters>resolve it with a silly cousin twist in two pagesUrasawa doesn't miss often, but boy when he does is it a riot
>>290101810plot twist: this isn't a Coca Cola stand-in and will instead be brought under by them.
>>290102010>kurusu hates generalsyou really don't need 24/7 threads, black billy is right
>>290101984Man I wish I could get my new guns by mail instead of having to use a local FFL to receive and process it, would make life a bit easier.
>>290102081He's an easy man.
>>290102098The photo!
>>290102248how did he shoot?
done
>>290102344Look at him go!
>>290102344There goes our hero!
>>290102344Watch him as he goes.
>>290102323with impeccable skill.
>>290102098>>290102265
>>290102312>>290102344That's our boy! A real American Hero. Big smiles through thick and thin.
>>290102725what a funny fellow
>>290102010>>290102029>>290102152>>290102178Guess he's General Edwin Walker. Also, adjusted for inflation, that's a pretty alright price for a rifle and revolver. I've gotten a few guns for roughly the adjusted for inflation price in the last year or so.
Kurusu is a bad human
>oh yeah by the way my OC was a marine who was stationed in japan and then defected to the commies and then came back and then shot the presidentdeviantart-tier shit
>>290102804>you used to be able to mail order a rifle under an assumed name no questions askedWe used to be a country man, a real contry.
>>290102178Guess he's not that good of a shot
>>290101763He fell down a flight of stairs.
>>290101984>timing
I still have no opinion on whether Oswald was a scapegoat.
>>290102344That's our hero, no doubt about it!Oswald will only lose his right to be the hero of this story once he's lost the will to fight!
>>290104736He was a hero
>>290104736yes. there were at least three different covert orgs who had Kennedy in thier sights that day, there was no way he was getting out alive. For a seasoned agent to simply kill the prime suspect is serious funny business. any police officer in the country would be roasted alive for offing a suspect, and this was before the age of glock policing too.
>>290102344He looks so happy with himself
>>290104736I choose to believe it was the secret service agent in the car behind him by accident. It's the funniest explanation so it must be true.
>>290102021selling out is winning
>>290101936My mother watches Footloose once a year, so I hear it whenever they sing
>>290101915>quit my job>that's our guy!what did he mean by this
>>290103068reality is often times stranger than fiction
>>290104736Maybe JFK's head just did that on its own?
Seeing these threads just reminded me the official English version started releasing this year. I should really remember to grab a copy.
>>290104736all my knowledge of oswald and jfk assassination come from 11/22/63 the Stephen king book (and the miniseries, which i saw more recently than i read the book so it's kinda fresher in my mind)and billy bat
>>290107661people said it was never going to happen because it disparages disney, which always seemed like a dumb reason but what do i know about publishing
>>290102098He's such a rube I kinda feel bad for him.
>>290101984I can tell he's very easy to manipulate
>>290102248>No one noticeHOW
>>290102344Thanks OPDo you feel like a Hero now?
>>290109176You could get away with a lot of shit back in the day, high trust low surveillance and all that
>>290109176He's some sort of wizard with a rifle. But he's kind of a lousy shot
