It's a little complicated! I like a lot of bat traits and I enjoy bats ecologically (it's so interesting whenever anything evolves flight capabilities, and it's really interesting mammals managed to do it in their own way), but anatomically, I find them kind of unpleasant to dwell on....?

I do have strong feelings about flight (I have a lot of dreams I'm flying, I guess..) and, among all the various ways it evolved, bats probably have my least favorite method ... the compromises to the mobility of the body overall kind of destroy the aspects of mammals I cherish so much. The very things that make them uniquely intriguing-- like the backwards-facing legs of dangling fellas, or the permanently-tense fingers, the taut tense wing membranes... are the very things that make them pretty unpleasant to project into, and not really attractive. Genitals also look kind of like cartoon graffiti penis, unfortunate. And the mating doesn't ... look like much ... now does it ....

I've drawn bats plenty of times, even of my own accord, but I wouldn't say they're really my fav.
Among those that I like the best, I like more terrestrially mobile bats the best, and for some reason I do really vibe footage of bats scrabbling around on the ground or hop-bouncing. One must imagine the flightless bat what is becoming more of a long-armed mouse... that would be the dream. I'm more interested in predatory bats than fruit/nectar-eating, so I lean microbats! I like the wild adaptations towards insect-eating and the overlap with insectivorous birds like nightjars. I like a lot of bug-eating nocturnal things in general (:

I do ENJOY how absurd vampire bat anatomy is to accommodate their bonkers diet, and the on-the-brink lifestyle I can only compare to like, hummingbirds or some voles. I like that they mouth-feed each other blood and are more or less constantly pissing. It's unbelievable that a mammal species really evolved to rely on blood as a foodsource, and it's very inspiring (from a worldbuilding perspective) how they've janked up the digestive system to BE so particular. It's a testament to... something!!! I think about their whacky digestive system in ways when conceptualizing Gold Cloud.

Volg reminds me a lot more of a pterosaur actually, which have my favorite evolved form of flight. The big pointy head even reminds me of them!!! While Kurome.... I dunno! I don't think they are batlike in more than a cartoony silly way, and they avoid all the things about real bats that I'm not very into. It's not very meaningfully batlike to me... even Hempuku Jincho kinda avoids the central things about bats I'm not into aesthetically....!

Oh yeah... I also think bats are just one of those animals that, like birds or cetaceans, I feel just Cannot make a good anthro/furry. The anatomy and proportions are just so specialized that you lose everything when tacking on human traits...