Barbara the Bat is the main character in the game
Daigasso! Band
Brothers for the
Nintendo DS; she is an
anthropomorphic
bat and is the owner of
GB
Music—"GB" stands for "
Great Barbara", but it is also
a nod to the original name of the game: "
Game Boy Music".
As owner of the only music store in
Waru Waru Town
open to midnight, she sells music and instruments with the help of
her little brother,
Ting Tin the Bat, and an
infantile skeletal creature named
Pockin' the
Death. Although Barbara is a bat, she is unusual in that
she doesn't have any wings, while her brother and Pockin' both
do.
In the back of GB Music is a recording studio, and Barbara
also acts as a small-time manager, looking for an up-and-coming act
to manage and bring to fame; in the game, she'll sign up the player
when they complete the beginner mode. Although she is a large music
fan, her own musical career is as dead as a dodo, as her musical
abilities are non-existant; the
manga shorts found on the official website demonstrate
that she is terrible at the game
[546].
External links
Nintendo's official Band
Brothers site (Japanese).