{"rewrite":{"id":"r_0bfbf82c898e2479554b5a4e","clusterId":"c_8b9ec702bb4225ddfa07529c","slug":"billy-bat-wins-best-manga-at-the-harvey-awards","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Billy Bat Wins Best Manga At The Harvey Awards","summary":"The Harvey Awards announced this year's winners on Friday at New York Comic Con, and Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki's Billy Bat, released by Abrams ComicArts' Kana imprint and translated by Kristi Iwashiro, took Best Manga. The category's other nominees were He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid, Land, Miss Ruki, My Gorilla Family, and My Life in 24 Frames per Second. Spider-Noir won Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel.","whyItMatters":"The Harvey Awards are voted on by comics professionals rather than by fans or a publisher bloc, so Billy Bat's win is the North American comics industry's own verdict on a two-creator manga that arrived through Abrams ComicArts' Kana line.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eBilly Bat is the work of two creators: Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki. The Kana imprint of Abrams ComicArts released it in North America, with Kristi Iwashiro translating. The award was given at New York Comic Con.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel category, the nominees included Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle - Akaza Sairai, My Hero Academia - Final Season, the One Piece: Into the Grand Line live-action season, and the Korean animated film Your Letter. Spider-Noir won that category.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBilly Bat by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki (Abrams ComicArts\u0026#39; Kana imprint, translated by Kristi Iwashiro)\u003c/strong\u003e: won Best Manga\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid by Yoshiharu Tsuge (Drawn \u0026amp; Quarterly, translated by Ryan Holmberg)\u003c/strong\u003e: nominated for Best Manga\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLand by Kazumi Yamashita (Yen Press, translated by Kevin Gifford)\u003c/strong\u003e: nominated for Best Manga\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMiss Ruki by Fumiko Takano (New York Review Comics, translated by Alexa Frank)\u003c/strong\u003e: nominated for Best Manga\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMy Gorilla Family by Ichiro Iijima (Living the Line, translated by Ryan Holmberg)\u003c/strong\u003e: nominated for Best Manga\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMy Life in 24 Frames per Second by Rintaro (Kana/Abrams ComicArts, translated by Montana Kane)\u003c/strong\u003e: nominated for Best Manga\u003c/li\u003e\u003c/ul\u003e","blueskyPost":"Billy Bat's Best Manga win rewards a series that Urasawa and Nagasaki ended without an anime adaptation. Harvey voters read it as a comic; the manga industry still treats print as the default path.","twitterPost":"Billy Bat won Best Manga at the Harvey Awards after ending with no anime adaptation. Harvey voters read Urasawa and Nagasaki's series as a comic, not an IP pipeline.","threadsPost":"Billy Bat won Best Manga at the Harvey Awards, a win for Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki's series that ended without an anime adaptation. The Harveys keep recognizing manga as a print medium at a time when the industry frames adaptation as the highest form of validation.","newsletterBlurb":"The Harvey Awards named Billy Bat the year's Best Manga on Friday at New York Comic Con. The Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki series is published by Abrams ComicArts' Kana imprint, translated by Kristi Iwashiro, and beat five other nominees in the category. Spider-Noir won Best Adaptation from Comic Book/Graphic Novel, where several anime and live-action adaptations were nominated.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime News Network\",\"url\":\"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-09/billy-bat-manga-wins-harvey-award/.242681\",\"title\":\"Billy Bat Manga Wins Harvey Award\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4490,"outputTokens":927,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1791605227,"createdAt":"2026-10-10T04:01:15.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-10T04:06:08.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-10T04:06:08.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_8b9ec702bb4225ddfa07529c","canonicalTitle":"News\nBilly Bat Manga Wins Harvey Award","representativeArticleId":"a_12426e6613206059f9b21bef","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[\"Billy Bat\",\"Land\",\"My Gorilla Family\",\"Miss Ruki\"],\"work_titles\":[],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[],\"type\":\"news\",\"domain\":\"manga\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-10T02:51:40.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-10T02:51:40.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-10T04:06:08.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Anime News Network","url":"https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2026-10-09/billy-bat-manga-wins-harvey-award/.242681","title":"News\nBilly Bat Manga Wins Harvey Award"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":["Billy Bat","Land","My Gorilla Family","Miss Ruki"],"work_titles":[],"studios":[],"people":[],"type":"news","domain":"manga","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}