+ Great! I couldn't put it down! + Not as good as the other Phoenix series but a good read!
Karma is the best volume of the series, but this one is also excellent. The interweaving of past and future by having the character in one era dream about the character in the other is very well done and sets up part two nicely.
The book stands on its own as a story, but it will have more ...
Dr. Tezuka's life work--'Phoenix'--is a somewhat uneven assortment of often brilliant story telling and images. This should be expected since his work on this epic (can we use any other term, given the storyline spans all of human history?) starts in the late 60's and continues until the end of ...
Osamu Tezuka’s vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his eight-volume epic of Siddhartha’s life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject by contextualizing the Buddha’s ideas; the emphasis is on movement, action, emotion, and conflict as the prince Siddhartha runs away from home, travels across ...
To be fair, this was written BEFORE the rest of the Phoenix series, so it kept me from being too disappointed when I read it. I rated it four stars to be fair, since this was some of his earlier works. I'm just sad that Tezuka died before he could write more.
+ Great Pace and Direction for a Tezuka Work + Lesser Tezuka, but still pretty darn good
This is the first of the recent run of Vertical translations of vintage Tezuka to be in the original manga format. Personally I have been awaiting Dororo in English for close to four decades. I love that tag line [volume title?] on the back - NOBODY IS BORN WHOLE. The front cover is growing on me. ...
In a classic manga from the Cold War era, the cyborgs must put aside their search for a kidnapped scientist to rescue Dr. Dolphin, the inventor of a machine that causes insanity, while their enemy, the Black Ghost, awaits his chance.
Considered by many the peak of Osamu Tezuka's artistic achievement and called his "life work" by the author, PHOENIX is made up 12 complex stories linked by the presence of the mythical bird, an immortal guarden of the universal life force. Read in order, the separate stories jump across time, alternating between a distant future and a distant past, converging on the present, with characters from ...
+ marvelous book + Great story, some oddities in editing
This is a very special manga and a piece of literature. First of all, for those who have never read a Tezuka manga, you'd be distracted by the inferiority of the artwork by today's standard. By if you can ignore that, you'll find the storyline is one of the greatest achievements in literary ...
Dororo is Tezuka's classic thriller manga featuring a youth who has been robbed of 48 body parts by devils, and his epic struggle against a host of demons to get them back. Daigo Kagemitsu, who works for a samurai general in Japan's Warring States period, promises to offer body parts of his unborn baby to 48 devils in exchange for complete domination of the country. Knowing the child to be ...
Phoenix Volume 9 is as good as the other volumes he wrote/drew. I am a big fan of his and have read every single book he's made. I really love his artwork and the storylines are excellent.
As stated in the description, there are 2 stories in this volume. One is about cloning which was real ...
Black Jack is a mysterious and charismatic young genius surgeon who travels the world performing amazing and impossible medical feats. Though a trained physician, he refuses to accept a medical license due to his hatred and mistrust of the medical community's hypocrisy and corruption. This leads Black Jack to occasional run-ins with the authorities, as well as from gangsters and criminals who ...
This was my first Manga I read. Since I loved the show so much I had to get it. At first I was skeptical, I was not sure if it would live up to my expectations. Well, It did! I love it way better than the show. I recommend watching the show, it helped me to watch the show first, that way I could ...
Great books to have on your shelf and keep forever
+ Buddha - Historical manga + good series on the Buddha's life from a fresh point of view
I am by no means a manga expert, which is probably just the kind of person this book would appeal to. This series was written in the seventies and is now reintroduced to the English-speaking public with a new translation. This is an example of exactly the kind of story that lends itsself so well to ...
I have no clue as to why the first reviewer has to give the book a single star when the review needs to reflect the literature and NOT the failure of the delivery service.
That is neither here nor there. Every single Tezuka book in the Phoenix series deserves at least 4 stars. Nostalgia is no ...
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