B.B | |
Ja Kanji: | ビービー |
Ja Romaji: | Bī Bī |
Genre: | Action |
Type: | manga |
Author: | Osamu Ishiwata |
Publisher: | Shogakukan |
Demographic: | Shōnen |
Magazine: | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
Imprint: | Shōnen Sunday Comics |
First: | May 29, 1985 |
Last: | February 20, 1991 |
Volumes: | 31 |
Type: | ova |
Director: | Osamu Dezaki |
Music: | Yuuki Nakajima |
Studio: | Magic Bus |
First: | April 25, 1990 |
Last: | April 25, 1991 |
Episodes: | 3 |
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]
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.
It was adapted into a pachinko game by okamura under the title cr B.B. It was released on 1 April 2000.