Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix Deluxe Hardcover Collection 2 FOC April 5, 2027

The defining masterpiece of modern manga—the series that "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka considered his life's work—is finally available in English once again, in a beautiful, cloth-bound hardcover featuring fully restored art and new introductions. Vol. 2 includes some of the most celebrated stories in the entire series—"Yamato," "Space," and "Karma"—presented in a large size with silkscreen-printed and gold foil–stamped covers and including color pages recovered from the original serialization and other material never before presented in any English edition: over 700 pages of manga and bonus material.From the premiere of Astro Boy on television in 1963 to the release of Buddha, Princess Knight, Dororo, Black Jack, and many other English editions of manga in the 21st century, Americans have become familiar with the vast breadth of Osamu Tezuka's stunning career, over which he produced more than 150,000 pages of comics. Yet the most conspicuous omission from Tezuka's English catalog has long been the series he considered his magnum opus, one he worked on and reworked from the 1950s until his death in 1989: Phoenix. Known as Hi no tori ("firebird") in Japanese, this meta-series—inspired by Tezuka's omnivorous appetite for Asian folklore, American science fiction, Russian ballet and animation, and anything he he found fascinating from around the world—leaps through extremes of time a