B.B. (manga)

ビービー (Bī Bī)
B.B
Shōnen Sunday featuring B.B.
Genre	Action
Manga
Written by	Osamu Ishiwata
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	1985 – 1991
Volumes	31
Original video animation
Directed by	Osamu Dezaki
Music by	Yuuki Nakajima
Studio	Magic Bus
Released	April 25, 1990 – April 25, 1991
Episodes	3
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B.B. (ビービー, Bī Bī) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Ishiwata. The manga ran in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1985 issue 24 to 1991 issue 9.^[1] The title stands for "Burning Blood" and Ishiwata's subsequent serial LOVe was a continuation of this series. In 1989, B.B. won the Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.^[2]

Plot[]

One night after leaving a club where he was playing trumpet Ryō Takagi is jumped by a motorcycle gang. The scuffle spills out into the streets and causes a traffic accident. Ryō eventually gives up his musical career and joins the world of underground boxing as he struggles to overcome his "burning blood" and the anger that easily overtakes him.

Characters[]

Ryo Takagi - Kazuhiko Inoue
Jin Moriyama - Show Hayami
Minoru "Sorry" Satou - Toshihiko Seki
Koyuki Matsuhara - Noriko Hidaka
Kouichi Wakabayashi - Hideyuki Hori
Su-chan - Yūko Mizutani
Makoto "Ottosei" Otobe - Tesshō Genda
Gentarou Takagi - Masaru Ikeda
Fox Fire Head - Akio Ōtsuka

Game[]

It was adapted into a pachinko game by okamura under the title cr B.B. It was released on 1 April 2000.

References[]

^ "B・B（Burning Blood）". WebSunday (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on November 10, 2018. Retrieved November 10, 2018.
^ 小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on November 10, 2018. Retrieved November 10, 2018.

External links[]

B.B. at Websunday.net (in Japanese)
B.B (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

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1981	Touch Dokkiri Doctor Futari Daka Musashi no Ken
1982	Gu Gu Ganmo
1983	Honō no Tenkōsei
1984	Sprinter
1985	Mai, the Psychic Girl B.B. To-y Kyūkyoku Chōjin R
1986	Ryū
1987	Rough Mermaid Saga Magic Kaito Ranma ½
1988	Yaiba Kenji Patlabor
1989	Spriggan

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