Barbara the Bat

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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-existent; the manga shorts found on the official website demonstrate that she is terrible at the game [1].

Barbara also makes a cameo appearance in English Training, one of the Brain Training games in Japan. [2]