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| Space Firebird 2772 |
Loosely based on futuristic sections of Tezuka's sprawling 'Phoenix' series of manga,
Space Firebird 2772 is a similarly lengthy saga infusing Buddhist, Shinto and Zen concepts with sci-fi pondering.
In a potent non-Western view on life and the cosmos, the story follows the test-tube spawn Godoh - a ruthlessly trained space fighter who eventually develops human feeling by instinct rather than programmed design.
This 'loner' figure appears consistently in Tezuka's work, shaped less through heroic actions than personal maturation.
