Comics · Japan

Phoenix

Osamu Tezuka1954

Pyropunk

Myth and religion
Fire and heat
Identity

Tezuka's life work: a cycle of stories across past and future, all circling the firebird whose blood grants eternal life. Rebirth through fire as cosmology.

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