Brazilian publisher JBC is releasing the manga in a 6-volume version and I was trying to understand how would that fit in the 16-volume version so I could properly check what I’ve read here on MAL. After several hours of research I got from Tezuka Productions’ page a japanese ebook seller with the 16-volume version and after the lame automatic translation from my browser I crossed data with the TezukaInEnglish’s page and I think I could properly break down the puzzle.
I also got the disjointing for VIZ Media edition (11-volumes) so maybe I can help other people.
From Wikipedia and TezukaInEnglish.com we have 12 arcs from this manga, being them:
Dawn, Future, Yamato, Space (aka Universe), Karma (aka Hō-ō which means Firebird), Resurrection, Robe of Feathers, Nostalgia, Civil War (aka Turbulent Times), Life, Strange Beings and Sun. They got split in 16 volumes originally:
From the “original” 16-volumes version I got this:
- Dawn Pt. 1
- Dawn Pt. 2
- Future
- Yamato / Space
- Karma Pt. 1
- Karma Pt. 2
- Resurrection Pt. 1
- Resurrection Pt. 2 / Robe of Feathers
- Nostalgia Pt. 1
- Nostalgia Pt. 2
- Civil War Pt. 1
- Civil War Pt. 2
- Life / Strange Beings
- Sun Pt. 1
- Sun Pt. 2
- Sun Pt. 3
Completing the 19 chapters from the 16 volumes version.
VIZ Media printed the manga in a 11-volumes version plus an extra:
- Dawn Pt. 1 / Dawn Pt. 2
- Future
- Yamato / Space
- Karma Pt. 1 / Karma Pt. 2
- Resurrection Pt. 1 / Resurrection Pt. 2
- Nostalgia Pt. 1 / Nostalgia Pt. 2
- Civil War Pt. 1
- Civil War Pt. 2 / Robe of Feathers
- Strange Beings / Life
- Sun Pt. 1
- Sun Pt. 2
Idk how they split the 3 parts from Sun but they are probably there, they also released a 12th volume named Early Works with 6 episodes from Egypt, 8 from Greece and 4 from Rome that were released in Shojo Club between May-56 and December-57 not accounted for this 1967 version).
And now from Editora JBC in brazilian portuguese 6-volumes version:
We only have 2 volumes released by today (Nov 10th, 2024), so I will speculate the other 4 now and will come here after every new release to adjust, if necessary, so the data will be correct. (red italic will be used to represent the speculation)
- Dawn Pt. 1 / Dawn Pt. 2 / Future
- Yamato / Space / Karma Pt. 1 / Karma Pt. 2
- Resurrection Pt. 1 / Resurrection Pt. 2 / Robe of Feathers
- Nostalgia Pt. 1 / Nostalgia Pt. 2 / Life
- Civil War Pt. 1 / Civil War Pt. 2 / Strange Beings
- Sun Pt. 1 / Sun Pt. 2 / Sun Pt. 3
Table for an easier comparison:
Vol. # | 16-volumes | 11-volumes + extra | 6-volumes |
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1 | Dawn Pt. 1 | Dawn Pt. 1 / Dawn Pt. 2 | Dawn Pt. 1 / Dawn Pt. 2 / Future | 2 | Dawn Pt. 2 | Future | Yamato / Space / Karma Pt. 1 / Karma Pt. 2 | 3 | Future | Yamato / Space | Resurrection Pt. 1 / Resurrection Pt. 2 / Robe of Feathers | 4 | Yamato / Space | Karma Pt. 1 / Karma Pt. 2 | Nostalgia Pt. 1 / Nostalgia Pt. 2 / Life | 5 | Karma Pt. 1 | Resurrection Pt. 1 / Resurrection Pt. 2 | Civil War Pt. 1 / Civil War Pt. 2 / Strange Beings | 6 | Karma Pt. 2 | Nostalgia Pt. 1 / Nostalgia Pt. 2 | Sun Pt. 1 / Sun Pt. 2 / Sun Pt. 3 | 7 | Resurrection Pt. 1 | Civil War Pt. 1 | | 8 | Resurrection Pt. 2 / Robe of Feathers | Civil War Pt. 2 / Robe of Feathers | | 9 | Nostalgia Pt. 1 | Strange Beings / Life | | 10 | Nostalgia Pt. 2 | Sun Pt. 1 | | 11 | Civil War Pt. 1 | Sun Pt. 2 | | 12 | Civil War Pt. 2 | Early Works | | 13 | Life / Strange Beings | | | 14 | Sun Pt. 1 | | | 15 | Sun Pt. 2 | | | 16 | Sun Pt. 3 | | |
Hope this can help people with the same doubt as I had.
Sources:
https://tezuka.co.jp/business/manga/index.html - used to get the ebook seller store
https://ebookjapan.yahoo.co.jp/books/616045/A002486444/ - ebook seller first volume
https://tezukainenglish.com/wp/?page_id=747 - used to get te corresponding chapters from the original books
https://www.viz.com/read/phoenix/section/84679/more - VIZ Media official Phoenix page
https://editorajbc.com.br/mangas/colecao/fenix/ - Editora JBC official Fênix page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(manga) - first search page
https://osamu-tezuka.fandom.com/wiki/Phoenix_(Manga) - second search page and Early Works data |