Tags: Manga.
Phoenix (火の鳥 Hi no Tori bird of fire) is a manga series by Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka considered Phoenix his life’s work; it consists of 12 books each of which tells a separate self-contained story and takes place in a different era. The plots go back and forth from the remote future (science fiction) to prehistoric times. Several of the stories have been adapted into anime series and OVAs and even a live-action movie.