Mercer’s Mange&Anime blog

  In this series of manga, Masahiko shows stories of people that have not had much experience in romantic relationships meeting their love. This is very different from Tezuka's manga. It is more related to people's life at the time than the world created by pure imagination. And you can clearly tell this was made for adults around age of 20 to 30 years old to read. The relationships and emotions was really specific for those people at the age are facing. And very specific for the society of Japan at the time.   At that time, Japan, especially Tokyo has developed in an extraordinary speed. Many young people were more open and wants to chase for the love of their life. And like always, there are people were too shy to confess their feelings and do some bold moves to chase their love. And this series of short manga were created between the meeting of open young people and shy people. 

    Phoenix is a series of manga created by 手塚治虫(Osamu Tezuka). The 12 volumes of this manga talk about bird of fire with the power of immortality witnesses the change of human beings and  universe. Unfortunately, Tezuka left the world before he can finish the last volume of the series. What's amazing about the Phoenix is  the stories goes though time and space.  There are human, god, buddhas, monsters, beasts, machines, animals and plants. Tezuka explored the driving force of life, not only for the Japanese nation, but also for the entire human race. Grand and deep thinking.  In the first volume Dawn, the people and animals did everything to survive after being trapped in the cave.  The jackals were digging in the caves in order to survive.  And the people tripped in the cave would feed the dead children to the jackals and eat the dead jackals to survive. And they ask their children to get married to each other in order to breed offspring and continuing life.  And