The Manga That Changed Everything. (But Nobody Talks About It.)
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Manga changed forever in 1954. Osamu Tezuka the godfather of manga mostly known for Astro Boy, but it was his other work Phoenix that opened the doors for what manga could do with a story.
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Phoenix was undeniably Tezuka's magnum opus. Even in his sickbed he was constantly working on it, if only he'd been allowed to finish it. It would have been hailed the greatest manga of all time period.
The Narration, The editing, The Background music Damn....!!!!
everything is so perfect,
I always look forward to your videos
It’s crazy that this story feels like it could’ve been created today. Truly timeless that a story 70 years ago can still inspire today
Phoenix was a manga I read a long time ago randomly, that I didnt know at the time was created by Osamu Tezuka, it was the first manga I ever read of his, and got me really hooked on his other manga too, love this manga but made question a lot of things in my life haha, Great Video
We wouldn't have manga as we know it without Osamu Tezuka. Him, Shotaro Ishinomori and Go Nagai are foundational
Mitsuteru Yokoyama : hey what about me
This video is like the Phoenix itself reviving my interest in classic manga from the ashes of my Netflix queue.
Phoenix is a manga everyone should check out and try at least once, plus this is a generational video from you, Mask really well done
0:22 you should have said "and The Rose of Versailles, which also had a massive impact on Berserk" in your intro
to those who don't know, after the black swordsman arc, Miura's writing style was drastically changed when he read Rose of Versailles and some other shojos, and without that the story and guts as a character would have probably always stayed as two dimensional as they were in that first arc
I don’t know if this video will blow up or do well but this is really one of my favorite videos of yours. Just so so good, you should be real proud of this one 💪🏼
Peak has returned.. i always fuckin lovvvve how you Narrate the topic you choose. I love it.
Oooh so thats why there's a huge Phoenix statue in Kyoto manga museum
I'm so early the bots aren't here yet.
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fun fact! this video actually popped up just as i was finally getting around to reading phoenix, and i'm now back after having finished reading it all. what a beautiful piece of work, and what a tragedy that we'll never get to see what tezuka planned for its ending.
There is not enough content on UA-cam about this series. This is a fantastic video. Its one of my favorite mangas and is the pinnacle of my collection.
Plus your narration and editing with your style are always something to be longed for man
Nice. As someone relatively new to anime and manga, videos like this are a gem for me. Also, nice use of Chrono trigger soundtrack
I thought I was an avid manga reader who knew my fair share of obscure manga but I've never heard of Phoenix until now! What a fantasic legacy Tezuka left. Thanks for sharing.
Love all your music choices, especially Chrono Trigger.
Haven't heard of this manga unfortunately since I started reading manga just in 2024.But W video as always mask
There is an anime out there, you should check it
Keep going Masked Man🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Loved this vid, came from the Ah Lex stream
Awesome video and great hommage! Love your work man 👍
Nice vid, I'm looking forward to these every week
Im sorry I had to stop the video and go read this asap! What a great breakdown
As a big Tezuka fan, almost all of his manga have aged better than fine wine.
Metropolis, Black Jack, MW, Adolf, and so many more - all are incredible stories with incredibly deep messages - but there is a reason Phoenix is considered to be his masterpiece.
He was truly a genius and a workaholic. Him being gone still makes me feel sad, even though he passed away fice years before I was even born.
But I'm happy we have the privilege of reading the stories he has left behind.
Shit.. im so lucky to find this great channel. Keep the good work man just keep going
0:35 We can't forget that in the 1964, Ishinomori created his greatest work he dedicated a great part of his life. Cyborg 009, the work that defined the way of the japanese superhero.
11:09 GUYS I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO FIND THAT SONG IN THE BACKGROUND BECAUSE I SWEAR I HEARD IT BEFORE AND I EVEN HAD IT ON REPEAT ONCE PLEASE HELP
I remember watching the Pheonix OVA when I was around 15 to 16 years old. and My goodness it was a Roller coaster. It was a lot so I couldn't understand it but it was full of heart beauty and deeply fascinated me. Thanks for this analysis man it really means a lot to me.
Tezuka had some of the most amazing ideas and works. Thanks for covering this.
fun fact Carl Barks aka the Duck Man who drew the old donald duck comics is what inspaired Tezuka to draw the manga we have today 😃 .. And others that was by Tezuka well they're growing so ever more 😊 ..
After finished Phoenix the feeling I had is that Tezuka never had a proper ending in mind for the manga and it was basically a project he wanted to keep doing until his death
Bruh I thought this was some unknown underrated youtube channel before realising that this was none other than masked man 😂 Great video!
Dang man. The weird thing is that Future was the first manga I ever read. It feels like since then my life has cycled back to the start, and everything before now was just in preparation. Thank you for reminding me of that.
For my readings in the graphic novel class I was assigned to read (for our only example of manga in that class) Volume 3 of Phoenix. Its such a beautiful, alchemical story.
Just found this. Instant sub fantastic analysis and I'm definitely reading this.
Well that was unexpected! Good start to New year
Tezuka wouldn't do Phoenix and many of his more adult-oriented works if the gekiga movement wasn't as sucessful as it was in the early 60's. Gekiga, which can be roughly translated as dramatic pictures, is a counterculture movement that had a lot of its seminal works being published in the magazine Garo (1964-2002), and it was after the success of this magazine, which was filled with more adult and more experimental work, that Tezuka created his own magazine called COM (1966-1971). COM saw a lot of big cats like Tezuka, Leiji Matsumoto, Fujiko Fujio, and others, doing more adult and experimental work. The Phoenix chapters DAWN up until A ROBE OF FEATHERS were published in this magazine. The original Phoenix from 1954 was heavily reworked to become the first DAWN chapter that was published in 1967 (this is the version featured in your video). Anyway, my point is that there would never be Phoenix, there would never be MW, Ayako, Dororo and a bunch of other Tezuka works, if Gekiga never existed, if Garo wasn't a success (another example: Shigeru Mizuki's GeGeGe no Kitaro saw it's first stories published there, the yokai craze from it's sucess influenced Dororo 100%). While I do enjoy Tezuka's work A LOT, he always tried to keep up with what's cool with the kids and what not to stay relevant. Hence his prolific catalogue.
Cool that you made this video tho! Tezuka was an amazing artist. As were his assistants. You should def watch the Man-ben episode where Naoki Urusawa talks with former Tezuka assistants about their work with him. It's an amazing episode.
I know about the Phoenix due to a Famicom game based on one of the volumes, the third one I think. It features a main character with a gigantic nose who can place blocks wherever to progress. Never played it, but the game seems pretty interesting. Shame it didn't make it onto the NES.
4:54 the chronotrigger ost is like nectar to my ears
OMG It was Chrono Trigger. My dumbass spent 30mins trying to think where it was from. GOATED OST. My brain may forget but my heart wont.
@Leo-rf5bn happens to me too I completed it last month that's why I remember it
@@phycosaber179 i need to replay that game.
@@Leo-rf5bn have fun
yeah had heard of this thank you for video, hope you have a good new year with your videos
I think that's not just "Phoenix". But all of Tezuka's works are not being talked enough. Like I hear people said that he the godfather of manga and anime a thousand times, but never have I heard someone talk about his manga and dive deep into story like " Black Jack", "Kimba" or "Budda", ....
*P/s: sorry for my bad english btw
I read these manga as a kid it traumatised me when one of the protagonist committed mass genocide on bird aliens and he suffered a fate worse than death. Tezuka also has another work where i found it online, is a not safe for work but is hilarious where at the end of the episode where all men in Tokyo asking a loser who is a protagonists "who to make women hates them"
Honestly, I only discovered this series by accident. I was looking up the video game Space Firebird (a pre-Radar Scope shooter by Nintendo), and ended up finding a surviving dub of Phoenix 2772 on UA-cam. I can't say the dub was well-done, but it was indeed a dub. The animation is great, but I question why it needed musical moments.
THE MASKED MAN DROPPED 🎉🎉🎉
THE GOAT FINALLY BACK!!!!
You got a like just for the Final Fantasy 13 Battle theme
This ist the last push i needed to read Phoenix
It's crazy how important this Mangaka is/was and people don't even realize it.
Reminds me of the Lorax xD
Princess mononoke
The goat is back
The panelling in this manga is also very epic!
1:08 Blinded by Light, my beloved. I used to just let battles sit for a while to listen to this theme longer
never realized it was this crazy dark the whole time
“Nobody talks about it” is a stretch and a half xD its one of the most revered classics
I can't speak for other countries but for most fans in the Anglosphere, Dragonball is the oldest manga they are aware of
@ i dont believe you know manga manga readers. Plenty of people know tezuka’s works, and series such as devilman, akira, and even the nausicaa manga, all older than DB. You just only know shonen manga people, thats all.
@@Ash_Wen-li i dont think you can speak for “most of the anglosphere” either.
@@gintuner4371Well I'm talking about causal manga readers which make up the vast majority. Not manga fans that truly dive into the medium
Just look at how many people talk about any random shounen instead of Tezuka
Trust me if Masked Man put up a community poll asking about whether people have heard of Pheonix a majority would vote no.
@@Ash_Wen-li Masked man's community is full of shonen obsessed weebs, of course most of them wouldn't know tezuka. But you act like manga fans are all 30 years and younger, when it's simply not the case. We are talking about Tezuka, mate, the most important mangaka of all time. Of course we fucking know Phoenix and Astro Boy, i just think ya'll are extremely casual or super new manga fans to say "nobody talks about x".
Great video
Yo. love the video ♥️♥️♥️
IN here!!!! Oh god he returned!!!
Disney released a trailer for the anime a few years ago. Hope they release it soon
Great vid bro.😺
I would not recommend reading the phoenix in chronological order as that defeats the original artistic intent.
Though all self contained of these works are also connected. The phoenix alternates between past and future parts which are both travelling in parallel yet opposite directions. The past moves forward in time while the future moves backwards in time. The intent behind this was each work was meant to meet in the middle In contemporary japan. And so these works together would become be a comment on the circle of life.
Although not finished it would be a disservice to not read it as intended. This is not to mention works which directly flow onto each other. For example , the ending of phoenix space leads into the beginning of phoenix karma. Though separated by thousands of years , the comic action of a future character effects the past. Continue that idea of time being a circle.
bro damn ! I enjoyed every single panel of your manga . why didn't you do the second chapter ?
This type of a manga in 1954 damn Tezuka is truly the godfather of manga 🐐
it's possibly you'll do video about Act-age, Sakamoto Days, Green green greens?
tezuka really thought of every plotline humanly possible in the damn 1940s
also we need a video on ashita no joe
He made one before. He liked it but didn't love it. Maybe his opinion has changed
He did no like it though
@@Justanormalperson777 thnx
@@Ash_Wen-li thnx
I remember reading this a few years ago. Crazy manga
4:40 *insert Snapecube clip here*
Those localizers should be arrested for using Papyrus.
hey man could you do a review of Iyagatteru Kimi ga Suki
He nailed us as a Berserk fan.
Thanks
Day 178 of asking for an updated top 100 anime/manga list
Unico: Awakening
check this out
its a pluto like remakes of the og osamu tekuza story
i remember it specifically from astro boy omega factor!
Based on the title, I thought this might have been about a certain doctor... this is a pleasant surprise though.
Day 175 of asking for an updated top 100 anime/manga list
Very nice
man you gotta read The ravages of time
That is truly a masterpiece.
@Lord-qq3ti for real
Day 173 of asking for an updated top 100 anime/manga list
Also the super computer concept reminds me of fallout and most likely kamen rider and cyborg009 manga
Day 174 of asking for an updated top 100 anime/manga list
Chrono Trigger music is the perfect choice
Is there some phoenix love I hear heck ya!
I think this guy did a thing about the Buddha also
8:56 Yeah that didn't age well.
Have a good day everyone
when are you gonna talk about freesia?
Yeah, new video)
Please make a comedy or romance manga recommendation vedos
Did you say 700 series?
When is bro gonna make an mha and jjk vid now that both have ended.
no one cares move on
Both of those series don't need videos man everyone knows about them
Can you tell me who made you avatar in the video
I’m pretty sure this manga unofficially influenced berserk
OH NO IM LATE!!! NOOOOO!!!!!!
yeah bro very late!!
Are you going to continue streaming majora mask?
He better!
Where does he stream?
@@lihamdeka5525 on this channel in the live section
i like this
Two really underrated great manga that are both old
Old Boy
Yes the movie is blah blah blah.
The manga is way different and
IMHO way better but that's because I actually enjoy it's slow burn chill pacing.
Old Man
Sean Connery time traveling knight magician lolwtfbbq???
It's great
You should read MW
Oh wow, I came here early.
fucking love the retro aesthetic, the art is so crisp and yum and the chiptunes slap. god
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