Phoenix

Rated T for Teen

  Osamu Tezuka's goal was to help people psychologically to understand death. The tale of Phoenix is how mankind survives between fierce wars, and is somehow helped by the fiery creature, bird of the cosmos. The first book starts in the lifetime of samurais, when the great empires start rising. The second book goes forward to the farthest future, where man is applied to recreate itself, by beginning the whole evolutionary process over again. Every other manga of the series gets closer and closer to the present. Vol.12 is about the time we are in now. In about all the books, the idea is that the phoenix has to guide a small civilization, or a supreme empire, and hepl them through their unique adventures.