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火の鳥 [Hi no Tori] #5
Phoenix, Vol. 5: Resurrection
Offers twelve separate stories linked by the presence of the mythical bird which cross time barriers from distant future to distant past.
200 pages, Paperback
First published December 10, 1992
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Osamu Tezuka
2,153 books1,291 followersDr. Osamu Tezuka (手塚治虫) was a Japanese manga artist, animator, producer and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. He is often credited as the "Father of Anime", and is often considered the Japanese equivalent to Walt Disney, who served as a major inspiration during his formative years. His prolific output, pioneering techniques, and innovative redefinitions of genres earned him such titles as "the father of manga" and "the God of Manga."
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May 9, 2023
Now we're back to a futuristic tale. I haven't read much Astro Boy, but this feels like an Astro Boy story told for adults. We have a character come back to life by a doctor using a lot of robotic parts, including part of his brain. It becomes a bit of a murder mystery as he figures out how he died. The reason he died has to do with him hunting and getting some blood of the Phoenix.
Because he's half-robot, he doesn't seem connected with humans at all and falls in love with a robot - a pretty standard looking robot that he sees as a beautiful woman.
So many twists and turns. The ending is fantastic. Close to a 5-star comic for me.
Because he's half-robot, he doesn't seem connected with humans at all and falls in love with a robot - a pretty standard looking robot that he sees as a beautiful woman.
So many twists and turns. The ending is fantastic. Close to a 5-star comic for me.
June 28, 2012
Vol. 5: "Resurrection" is one of the better of the tales from the science fiction future that appear in the "Phoenix" series.
The story is about a young man who has died in a flying car accident but has had 60% of his body, including a large part of his brain replaced by prosthesis so that he can live again.
The young man must recover his memories from before the accident. He solves a murder. And there is time for love.
"Resurrection" does a fine job of exploring science fiction themes and winding multiple story lines intersecting with our hero.
The story is about a young man who has died in a flying car accident but has had 60% of his body, including a large part of his brain replaced by prosthesis so that he can live again.
The young man must recover his memories from before the accident. He solves a murder. And there is time for love.
"Resurrection" does a fine job of exploring science fiction themes and winding multiple story lines intersecting with our hero.
October 30, 2018
Not my favorite volume but still great stuff. This was a solid sci fi story that raises intriguing questions about immortality, the soul and what makes us human. I didn't connect to this one as much as I have the previous volumes on an emotional level, perhaps due to the very minimal role of the Phoenix in this volume. Artwork was spectacular in this one.
September 11, 2020
Mr. Tezuka demonstrates great power of imagination in this work, and succeeds in getting me to feel for the protagonist.
I would have appreciated if the reading order was right to left - like the original Japanese work - instead of left to right.
I would have appreciated if the reading order was right to left - like the original Japanese work - instead of left to right.
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December 31, 2019手塚的機器人似乎沒有按照艾西莫夫三法則啊。
July 7, 2024
Top notch art work, as usual and innovative story line
October 7, 2025
1. 人的贪欲会导致人的异化。
2. 被夺走的终究要被拿回来。
3. 大大的宇宙里有小小的乡愁。
2. 被夺走的终究要被拿回来。
3. 大大的宇宙里有小小的乡愁。
May 30, 2011
Have been reading a lot of Tezuka lately (inspired by Urasawa's (really fucking great) Pluto) and the Phoenix books are by far my favorite. Humanism-- real and hurtful and vicious and tragic and (yet, somehow) life-affirming humanism-- at its very best (at least until he starts to maybe lose the obsessive dedication to the craft a bit starting with the Civil War books).
Out of all the volumes I've read so far (only part way through Nostalgia; not yet read Karma) this is absolutely the best. Maybe a bit more bleak than the rest, but-- craft-wise-- it stands out as his artwork and his writing simultaneously reach their peak.
EVERY SINGLE PAGE every single page could be issued as a print and I'd buy it/all of them.
In and out of context they COMPLETELY work.
Robita is one of my favorite characters in anything and would (hypothetically) make me lower my dignity enough to buy/import a toy (if one existed).
I MAY be overselling this.
Good, tho.
Out of all the volumes I've read so far (only part way through Nostalgia; not yet read Karma) this is absolutely the best. Maybe a bit more bleak than the rest, but-- craft-wise-- it stands out as his artwork and his writing simultaneously reach their peak.
EVERY SINGLE PAGE every single page could be issued as a print and I'd buy it/all of them.
In and out of context they COMPLETELY work.
Robita is one of my favorite characters in anything and would (hypothetically) make me lower my dignity enough to buy/import a toy (if one existed).
I MAY be overselling this.
Good, tho.
April 20, 2010
Un jour de l'an 2482, un jeune homme fit une chute mortelle, en tombant de son engin volant. Un accident des plus banals me direz-vous, dont personne ne parle, et immediatement oublie... mais, pas celui-ci! Puisqu'il marque le debut de notre histoire ! and so it began book 5.. another mindbending travel through realms of robots and humans. Where robots question what it means to be a robot and humans question if they are human.. and parts are exchanged and love between robots and humans becomes something of interest or something that should not be done.
March 22, 2015
This was a strange installment to the series, and until I was more than halfway through, it felt more like a plot line out of Black Jack, Vol. 1 than Phoenix. While I sort of dragged my way through much of this one, the ending was sweet, poignant, and sad. Classic Phoenix. This is what I had been looking for! Still, it happened too late in the story to earn more than 3 stars.
June 16, 2008
Dang, these are getting way awesome.
I thought this one sort of peaked about a quarter of the way in, but the rest of it was pretty excellent anyway. The pacing is only getting better, and who doesn't love a story about loving robots?
I know I do. Well, at least if it's from good old O.T.
I thought this one sort of peaked about a quarter of the way in, but the rest of it was pretty excellent anyway. The pacing is only getting better, and who doesn't love a story about loving robots?
I know I do. Well, at least if it's from good old O.T.
July 8, 2008
These are so good. I love what he's doing with this series- the stories address complex questions of immortality and the soul. Each one is different, but they're all connected, and also sort of connected to all of his other work. I guess Phoenix is Tezuka's Dark Tower? Man I love this guy.
August 11, 2008
This is probably my least favourite in Phoenix series so far. The story of a man who with half of his body and brain artificial is just weird and the design of robots painfully outdated. But it is still a very very good manga. It's just not so awesome as Karma or Space stories.
December 27, 2012
Another Sci-fi masterpiece from one of Tezuka best collection of stories focused upon a boy who is revived from death with artificial parts, and the moral dilemma's and problems this causes as a result.
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July 31, 2011Rather disappointing, but probably only because I read this almost immediately after the excellent Phoenix - Future.
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