num_pages: 208
description: 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.
language: English
title: Phoenix, Vol. 9: Strange Beings/Life
titlecomplete: Phoenix, Vol. 9: Strange Beings/Life
genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels, Manga, Japan, Comics, Japanese Literature, Historical Fiction, Comics Manga, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 245
series: Phoenix
publisher: VIZ Media LLC