Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix saga
For a time now I felt a little out of the loop when it came to the anime fandom. It was quite some time since I have bought or gotten much interest into an anime titles. I just never knew what was good and worth my time to watch. I don't think Naturo and Bleach are gonna be what I am looking for, so I have been avoiding watching those series. Luckily I recently came across a pretty cool anime podcast, Anime World Order. The three hosts of this podcast are very knowledgeable and like to do reviews of older or obscure anime titles. All three are Osamu Tezuka fans and the often review his titles. (you know the guy who made Astro Boy)One of them being the Phoenix series.
The version I bought was the 13 episode TV series that was done in 2004. There were many different adaptations and a manga as well but they are much older and a lot of them have never been released in the states. The 2004 version is a great release! The box set is very high quality and it comes in very nice looking packaging.
The animation for this series is very good. You can tell for a TV series that it had quite a large budget. There are about four different self containing story lines with in the series. The art style changes a bit depending on what story line is taking place. They all still retain Tezuka's art style though. Each storyline has a lot of tragic things that happen to the characters. Sometime I would think to myself, "man that's fucked up"! I wont say much about this cause I don't want to spoil anything.
I am trying to buy more of Tezuka's stuff. I want to support his work so that more of it will be released in America. I think we need to support the "father of manga" and other artists like him. I think Naturo and Death Note are doing just fine and wont be hurt by deflecting some of the attention from them.
I am recommending this series to any and everyone! I think if you like anime, old school or new, that you will like this series. I do not think you can buy in stores any more but it is available online. Please buy this one...do not download...that does not help the series get recognition when you do that. The full box set is really cheap to buy!!! It is $20 on DeepDiscount.com and $22 on Rightstuf.com. So for that price for a full TV series....how can you go wrong????
So if I convinced any of you to try this series out please let me know what you thought about it.
The version I bought was the 13 episode TV series that was done in 2004. There were many different adaptations and a manga as well but they are much older and a lot of them have never been released in the states. The 2004 version is a great release! The box set is very high quality and it comes in very nice looking packaging.
The animation for this series is very good. You can tell for a TV series that it had quite a large budget. There are about four different self containing story lines with in the series. The art style changes a bit depending on what story line is taking place. They all still retain Tezuka's art style though. Each storyline has a lot of tragic things that happen to the characters. Sometime I would think to myself, "man that's fucked up"! I wont say much about this cause I don't want to spoil anything.
I am trying to buy more of Tezuka's stuff. I want to support his work so that more of it will be released in America. I think we need to support the "father of manga" and other artists like him. I think Naturo and Death Note are doing just fine and wont be hurt by deflecting some of the attention from them.
I am recommending this series to any and everyone! I think if you like anime, old school or new, that you will like this series. I do not think you can buy in stores any more but it is available online. Please buy this one...do not download...that does not help the series get recognition when you do that. The full box set is really cheap to buy!!! It is $20 on DeepDiscount.com and $22 on Rightstuf.com. So for that price for a full TV series....how can you go wrong????
So if I convinced any of you to try this series out please let me know what you thought about it.
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