I read Phoenix Dawn the first of the volumes, and I was very
interested in it. I have always had a liking for manga and anime, but I
couldn’t read some just because of the pure tropes that were consistent in
other manga’s.
The basic premise of all of the volumes is to somehow gain
immortality, and it comes from the phoenix. Sounds like a pretty typical epic
story with lots of obstacles and interesting characters on the way. The time frame that comes with each volume
jumps further into the future, for example the first book Dawn starts out in
pre Japan that is historically accurate, to the future, which is usually
fiction. This play with the past and future allows for a lot of creativity and
realism being combined, for something to relate too.
I started to realize after I had read half of the first
volume that the when I was reading summaries of the other volumes it seemed to
have a reoccurring themes. It was all essentially trying to tell the reader
something.
Artwork for the story was all right, a little out dated but
sometimes I can really enjoy that classic manga look.
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