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火の鳥 [Hi no Tori] #6
火之鳥 復刻版 6
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 one story being reincarnated in another. The 12 stories over 3000 pages.
422 pages, Paperback
First published December 10, 1992
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手塚治虫
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Osamu Tezuka
手塚 治虫（てづか おさむ、本名：手塚 治（読み同じ）、1928年 （昭和3年）11月3日 - 1989年（平成元年）2月9日）は、日本の漫画家、アニメーター、アニメーション監督。 大阪帝国大学附属医学専門部を卒業、医師免許取得、のち医学博士（奈良県立医科大学・1961年）。血液型A型。戦後日本においてストーリー漫画の第一人者として、漫画の草分け的存在として活躍した。兵庫県宝塚市出身（出生は 大阪府豊能郡豊中町、現在の豊中市）、同市名誉市民。
手塚 治虫（てづか おさむ、本名：手塚 治（読み同じ）、1928年 （昭和3年）11月3日 - 1989年（平成元年）2月9日）は、日本の漫画家、アニメーター、アニメーション監督。 大阪帝国大学附属医学専門部を卒業、医師免許取得、のち医学博士（奈良県立医科大学・1961年）。血液型A型。戦後日本においてストーリー漫画の第一人者として、漫画の草分け的存在として活躍した。兵庫県宝塚市出身（出生は 大阪府豊能郡豊中町、現在の豊中市）、同市名誉市民。
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March 21, 2021
Me siguen gustando más otros arcos anteriores de Fénix, pero Nostalgia también es bueno. Se tratan temas trascendentales y el desarrollo durante cientos de años es apabullante.
May 15, 2023
Another outstanding volume from this relatively neglected series. Certainly a book that deserves more than its current 300 ratings on Goodreads!
Each of the volumes of Phoenix are self-contained but pretty large epics. This one is almost 400 pages and concerns the founding of an entire planet from just two humans. Japan, and Earth, is getting overpopulated so lots of people are leaving to go start colonies on other planets. For reasons explained later, our two characters buy a planet and decide to colonize it all by themselves. The planet is called Eden 17 and the first few chapters are quite influenced by Genesis - filtered through the unique mind of Tezuka.
The main character is the woman Romy. She lives through multiple generations on Eden 17 by going into a sleeping chamber for 20 years at a time. She's considered the Queen of Eden 17 but only spends a few days outside of the chamber. Later she gets homesick and goes on a covert journey to rediscover Earth. Along the way we meet lots of different alien characters and explore numerous odd worlds.
Each of the volumes of Phoenix are self-contained but pretty large epics. This one is almost 400 pages and concerns the founding of an entire planet from just two humans. Japan, and Earth, is getting overpopulated so lots of people are leaving to go start colonies on other planets. For reasons explained later, our two characters buy a planet and decide to colonize it all by themselves. The planet is called Eden 17 and the first few chapters are quite influenced by Genesis - filtered through the unique mind of Tezuka.
The main character is the woman Romy. She lives through multiple generations on Eden 17 by going into a sleeping chamber for 20 years at a time. She's considered the Queen of Eden 17 but only spends a few days outside of the chamber. Later she gets homesick and goes on a covert journey to rediscover Earth. Along the way we meet lots of different alien characters and explore numerous odd worlds.
March 21, 2025
Still a nice story.
This one was a bit less interesting.
This one was a bit less interesting.
June 16, 2011
Incest! Cannibalism! Aliens called moopies? A spacecraft made out of... a big old rock? Really? How could this possibly be a decent book. Well, it is decent, and even great. And beautiful. Because Tezuka is a genius.
It takes a few too many turns, some of the implausible jumps are big enough to make one shrug and care a bit less about the outcome of the story, the Phoenix isn't a really big player, but the musing on the nature of civilizations, their slow rises and speedy downfalls are always much appreciated. And the fever dream images of some of the planets visited were worth any amount of implausible twists.
All that said, I spent a good extra half-hour in the bathtub, unable to stop reading. So. Yeah. Hopefully this love affair will never end, O.T.
It takes a few too many turns, some of the implausible jumps are big enough to make one shrug and care a bit less about the outcome of the story, the Phoenix isn't a really big player, but the musing on the nature of civilizations, their slow rises and speedy downfalls are always much appreciated. And the fever dream images of some of the planets visited were worth any amount of implausible twists.
All that said, I spent a good extra half-hour in the bathtub, unable to stop reading. So. Yeah. Hopefully this love affair will never end, O.T.
March 22, 2015
I feel like it's rare that I should give a Tezuka anything less than a four or five. Honestly, I was going to give this a two, but there was a redeeming scene towards the end that changed my mind. Still, I would certainly say that this is not the best of the Phoenix series. And I would even go so far as to say that it dragged on a bit too long, and was a bit slow and dry. Not terrible, but not that great, either.
November 28, 2021
This one was rather odd overall. I'm not sure if there was a cohesive theme and it starts out with some rather taboo/unsavory practices being used to survive. There is an explanation of the Phoenix herself and what her part is in the Cosmic scheme of things, though.
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December 31, 2019這集從人物名字及劇情看來是仿舊約聖經故事，但感覺又像日本神話與聖經的合體，妙哉。
October 3, 2025
1. 故乡是让人想起就无法入眠的土地。
June 18, 2012
For me,"Phoenix, Vol. 6: Nostalgia" fluctuates between 'I don't like it' and 'It's okay.'
The first 130 pages kill the book for me.
The remainder of the 418 page book is okay. After 131 years of mostly being in stasis she wants to see Earth again even if it for just one day. The book shows the adventures that she and her grandson Yom have as they try to find Earth. This part of the book looks like Dante's "Divine Comedy" in which the hero passes from weird scene to weird scene as he travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. In "Nostalgia" the travelers are moving from planet to planet.
During the travels they pick up Makimura, a space ferry Captain who has lost his ship. This character was the murder victim in "Phoenix, Vol. 3: Yamoto/Space" in the story "Space". It is fun to see this character again. This section of the book to its end is the strongest part of the volume, bit it is not able to over come the bad feeling created by the introduction. Also, it is only the strongest section of the book, but it is never one of the stronger parts of the series "Phoenix".
The first 130 pages kill the book for me.
The remainder of the 418 page book is okay. After 131 years of mostly being in stasis she wants to see Earth again even if it for just one day. The book shows the adventures that she and her grandson Yom have as they try to find Earth. This part of the book looks like Dante's "Divine Comedy" in which the hero passes from weird scene to weird scene as he travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise. In "Nostalgia" the travelers are moving from planet to planet.
During the travels they pick up Makimura, a space ferry Captain who has lost his ship. This character was the murder victim in "Phoenix, Vol. 3: Yamoto/Space" in the story "Space". It is fun to see this character again. This section of the book to its end is the strongest part of the volume, bit it is not able to over come the bad feeling created by the introduction. Also, it is only the strongest section of the book, but it is never one of the stronger parts of the series "Phoenix".
June 13, 2013
Bộ manga này có lẽ cũng không dành cho con nít, mặc dù nó được xếp vào loại Shōnen. Hi no tori là bộ manga tâm huyết nhất của ông Tezuka - mangaka thuộc loại thượng thừa, cha đẻ của nền manga hiện đại Nhật. Hi no tori dịch là "chim lửa", bản tiếng Anh dịch là "Phoenix" (phượng hoàng lửa), một con chim thần thoại, đóng vai trò là nối kết xuyên thời đại từ quá khứ tới tương lai, đó là khoảng thời gian mà bộ truyện trải dài. Hi no tori có giá trị như một bộ manga đầy triết lý nhân sinh: luân hồi, lòng tham, tội ác, nỗi bất an, khát vọng, sự sống, tình yêu, trí tuệ nhân tạo (có tình yêu giữa người và robot),... và có cả nostalgia.
Tập Nostalgia đặt trong bối cảnh tương lai, kể về những con người rời bỏ Trái Đất tìm đường lên vũ trụ. Câu chuyện là một thiên anh hùng ca về sự trỗi dậy và sụp đổ của một nền văn minh trên tinh cầu Eden; về chuyến kiếm tìm xuyên vũ trụ của những con người ấy về hành tinh quê hương. Đó là một câu chuyện bi tráng về Con Người vĩ đại nhưng không thoát khỏi tình cảm nostalgia của mình.
Hoàng tử bé xuất hiện trong tác phẩm này với vai trò là quyển sách người phi công vũ trụ đọc lúc nhỏ. Khi nhân vật nữ chính về đến quê hương, chỉ để sống 1 ngày, rồi chết, anh phi công vũ trụ đã vừa đẩy quan tài của cô, vừa kể lại những dòng cuối của Hoàng tử bé, khi mà chú hoàng tử từ biệt anh phi công Saint-Exupéry để "trở về" quê hương của mình, nơi mà chú bảo: "Đường xa lắm! Tôi không mang nổi thân xác này, nặng lắm!". Tezuka đã lồng ghép Saint-Exupéry một cách vô cùng tài tình, đem tới một xúc cảm mãnh liệt.
Tôi đọc Nostalgia trước khi đọc chính thức Hoàng tử bé qua bản dịch của Bùi Giáng. Thú thực mà nói, chính Tezuka là người truyền tải cho tôi nỗi buồn mang tính nostalgia vĩ đại xuyên vũ trụ của Exupéry.
Tập Nostalgia đặt trong bối cảnh tương lai, kể về những con người rời bỏ Trái Đất tìm đường lên vũ trụ. Câu chuyện là một thiên anh hùng ca về sự trỗi dậy và sụp đổ của một nền văn minh trên tinh cầu Eden; về chuyến kiếm tìm xuyên vũ trụ của những con người ấy về hành tinh quê hương. Đó là một câu chuyện bi tráng về Con Người vĩ đại nhưng không thoát khỏi tình cảm nostalgia của mình.
Hoàng tử bé xuất hiện trong tác phẩm này với vai trò là quyển sách người phi công vũ trụ đọc lúc nhỏ. Khi nhân vật nữ chính về đến quê hương, chỉ để sống 1 ngày, rồi chết, anh phi công vũ trụ đã vừa đẩy quan tài của cô, vừa kể lại những dòng cuối của Hoàng tử bé, khi mà chú hoàng tử từ biệt anh phi công Saint-Exupéry để "trở về" quê hương của mình, nơi mà chú bảo: "Đường xa lắm! Tôi không mang nổi thân xác này, nặng lắm!". Tezuka đã lồng ghép Saint-Exupéry một cách vô cùng tài tình, đem tới một xúc cảm mãnh liệt.
Tôi đọc Nostalgia trước khi đọc chính thức Hoàng tử bé qua bản dịch của Bùi Giáng. Thú thực mà nói, chính Tezuka là người truyền tải cho tôi nỗi buồn mang tính nostalgia vĩ đại xuyên vũ trụ của Exupéry.
December 27, 2012
A another epic in the phoenix saga, focused upon a settler who is trapped on a planet and forced to freeze herself in time and revive herself in hopes of spawning new life on a desert planet, and then her attempt to return home to earth and the corrupting results caused by a evil space merchant.
May 23, 2008
It made me want to read the rest.
October 5, 2008
The most weird story from Tezuka sensei I've read so far. But also very imaginative and, of course, masterfully written and drawn.
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July 31, 2011rather incredible in parts, but rewarding when one does not grudge Tezuka his license to gloss over the "however?"
April 9, 2012
Thought it was a bit long.
March 23, 2014
Buen libro de Tezuka
Aborda topicos fuertes como el canibalismo y el incesto. El materialismo el vicio y la decadencia.
Aborda topicos fuertes como el canibalismo y el incesto. El materialismo el vicio y la decadencia.
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