Life keeps ending the same way across centuries. A man drinks the Phoenix's blood. He becomes a monster. Tezuka isn't interested in whether you survive, only in what you're willing to become to try. Each arc repeats this until the lesson stops being about immortality and starts being about the weight of choosing to live at all. The show's structure, past bleeding into future, stories looping back on themselves, isn't a gimmick. It's the point. You don't watch Phoenix looking for hope. You watch it learning to live without needing it.

Across centuries, the Phoenix appears. A legendary bird whose blood is said to grant eternal life, it is hunted by many who hope to kill it and drink it, yet it always returns, reborn from its own ashes. The stories reach from prehistoric times into the distant future, and in every era people fight one another and fear death. The Phoenix stands as witness and chronicler to humanity's endless struggle for power, justice and freedom. Each tale carries a lesson: life is the start of an eternity, a cycle that never ends. This 13-episode TV anthology blends adventure, drama, science fiction and the supernatural across five arcs: Dawn, Resurrection, Transformation, The Sun and Future.