This Manga Changed Everything. (But Nobody Talks About It.)

[@Gaurav_suranje]

The Narration, The editing, The Background music Damn....!!!! everything is so perfect, I always look forward to your videos

[@Sets.]

This video is like the Phoenix itself reviving my interest in classic manga from the ashes of my Netflix queue.

[@likecnsnnts]

I'm so early the bots aren't here yet.

[@WrottJackson]

Sounds like something a bot would say…

[@Stand-user-01]

Sound like something a bot would fr for ngl no cap super sigma

[@taurusstudios5497]

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.

[@Vibxeno_YT]

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

[@orelgamliel1124]

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 💪🏼

[@keks137]

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

[@Ash_Wen-li]

We wouldn't have manga as we know it without Osamu Tezuka. Him, Shotaro Ishinomori and Go Nagai are foundational

[@VoidZer9]

Peak has returned.. i always fuckin lovvvve how you Narrate the topic you choose. I love it.

[@Fellow_struggler]

Nice vid, I'm looking forward to these every week

[@modernadmiral]

There is not enough content on KZbin about this series. This is a fantastic video. Its one of my favorite mangas and is the pinnacle of my collection.

[@bacon4life314]

Keep going Masked Man🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@docbaker3333]

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.

[@inzonia4403]

Oooh so thats why there's a huge Phoenix statue in Kyoto manga museum

[@chriscyborg2187]

Well that was unexpected! Good start to New year

[@CrypticBlazekeeper69]

Haven't heard of this manga unfortunately since I started reading manga just in 2024.But W video as always mask

[@moderatecanuck]

There is an anime out there, you should check it

[@SamTheGumMan117]

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

[@hideyoshi3690]

THE GOAT FINALLY BACK!!!!

[@SquidyPapa]

The goat is back

[@tuumef1799]

Tezuka had some of the most amazing ideas and works. Thanks for covering this.

[@Grifffffith]

Love all your music choices, especially Chrono Trigger.

[@newdivide9882]

1:08 Blinded by Light, my beloved. I used to just let battles sit for a while to listen to this theme longer

[@epyckujo3552]

The panelling in this manga is also very epic!

[@phycosaber179]

4:54 the chronotrigger ost is like nectar to my ears

[@Leo-rf5bn]

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.

[@phycosaber179]

@Leo-rf5bn happens to me too I completed it last month that's why I remember it

[@c0nsoomer924]

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.

[@asyl1m293]

yeah had heard of this thank you for video, hope you have a good new year with your videos

[@MegamanStarforce2010]

never realized it was this crazy dark the whole time

[@Esko354]

You got a like just for the Final Fantasy 13 Battle theme

[@ImReallyJustMalone]

THE MASKED MAN DROPPED 🎉🎉🎉

[@FatBirdboi]

IN here!!!! Oh god he returned!!!

[@topcat59]

Great vid bro.😺

[@johnbrockiii]

Those localizers should be arrested for using Papyrus.

[@dmar.gar5689]

Great video

[@malachiblood13]

Disney released a trailer for the anime a few years ago. Hope they release it soon

[@H3roHunter]

This type of a manga in 1954 damn Tezuka is truly the godfather of manga 🐐

[@souljawitch22]

when are you gonna talk about freesia?

[@zenzen5563]

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

[@hyperionsama]

I remember reading this a few years ago. Crazy manga

[@phoenixtempleeviltruth8074]

Chrono Trigger music is the perfect choice

[@MegamanStarforce2010]

i remember it specifically from astro boy omega factor!

[@imad7522]

bro damn ! I enjoyed every single panel of your manga . why didn't you do the second chapter ?

[@1nsomni-7]

man you gotta read The ravages of time

[@Lord-qq3ti]

That is truly a masterpiece.

[@1nsomni-7]

@Lord-qq3ti for real

[@Lunre-d4d]

Have a good day everyone

[@gintuner4371]

“Nobody talks about it” is a stretch and a half xD its one of the most revered classics

[@Ash_Wen-li]

I can't speak for other countries but for most fans in the Anglosphere, Dragonball is the oldest manga they are aware of

[@gintuner4371]

@ 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.

[@gintuner4371]

@@Ash_Wen-li i dont think you can speak for “most of the anglosphere” either.

[@Ash_Wen-li]

​​​@@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.

[@gintuner4371]

​@@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".

[@JUANITAOkoruwa]

hey man could you do a review of Iyagatteru Kimi ga Suki

[@raptorskilltor4554]

Also the super computer concept reminds me of fallout and most likely kamen rider and cyborg009 manga

[@raptorskilltor4554]

I’m pretty sure this manga unofficially influenced berserk

[@superavigaming8709]

Vendingmachine Lives Matter!!!

[@manofculture2592]

it's possibly you'll do video about Act-age, Sakamoto Days, Green green greens?

[@deathbrawlstars6324]

tezuka really thought of every plotline humanly possible in the damn 1940s also we need a video on ashita no joe

[@Ash_Wen-li]

He made one before. He liked it but didn't love it. Maybe his opinion has changed

[@Justanormalperson777]

He did no like it though

[@deathbrawlstars6324]

@@Justanormalperson777 thnx

[@deathbrawlstars6324]

@@Ash_Wen-li thnx

[@Sammy.Bunting]

Day 173 of asking for an updated top 100 anime/manga list

[@loganlabach4227]

Is there some phoenix love I hear heck ya!

[@iShadowBEAST]

Can you tell me who made you avatar in the video

[@Ryan-tn5ix]

Thanks

[@ShubhThapar]

Please make a comedy or romance manga recommendation vedos

[@levpuvlishin9330]

Yeah, new video)

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

Very nice

[@ShaggyZoinks]

OH NO IM LATE!!! NOOOOO!!!!!!

[@HipHopStrider]

yeah bro very late!!

[@finn6770]

When is bro gonna make an mha and jjk vid now that both have ended.

[@toshinronin]

no one cares move on

[@anaveragegamer359]

Unico: Awakening check this out its a pluto like remakes of the og osamu tekuza story

[@protolanhan9824]

This is the manga where a guy from Korean kingdom of Baekje becomes accepted as a Japanese citizen and gets reincarnated as a fully Japanese man in the future. That along with a lot of racist caricatures of non-Japanese aligned characters & imperialist/nationalist type subtext makes this stink. I'll sit this one out.

[@eow4317]

I’m so bots the early aren’t here yet

[@BeyaRodriguez]

Oh wow, I came here early.

[@saicharan.durusetti]

i like this

[@OraNui]

That FFXIII music threw me off

[@Justanormalperson777]

The seinen community will start be an elitist

[@painkration]

I'm not a bot

[@patchedphoenix]

cool video, panels look ai upscaled though, personally not a fan of that

[@GraceIsMe88]

👋

[@fatzillla451]

Anti spiral

[@CheemsBased]

Phoenix is so fucking good man. I think that was the Tezuka series that made me realize that that mf isn’t human 😭

[@Musashi-n2d]

First🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@trevoruys7195]

First View!!!!!!

[@abhinaypeter3066]

First