Phoenix

Queen Himiko undertakes a mad quest to find the legendary Phoenix so she can drink its blood and restore her youth.

Many innocent villagers die at the hands of Queen Himiko's troops who follow her orders to search for the Phoenix.

A couple survives the slaughter orchestrated by Queen Himiko's troops and wind up trapped in a cave.

The surviving couple depends on one of their eventual offspring to reach an exit and escape.

In an age of robotics, technology and science, the young Leon dies in a car accident, but doctors work to save him.

Leon returns to life thanks to scientific surgery, but his now mostly-artificial brain makes him see living things as distorted clay figures while also depicting machines and robots as beautiful.

A samurai's daughter's hatred for her father leads her to murder the nun who tries to cure his fatal disease, and as punishment from the Phoenix, gets reincarnated as the nun 30 years before and must live her life of healing the sick and wounded.

A young Korean soldier from the Baekje Kingdom has his head replaced with that of a wolf by Tang Dynasty soldiers, following the Korean forces' retreat.

The wolf-headed soldier escapes to Japan where he becomes the feudal lord Inugami, but gets caught in the middle of the Jinshin War.

The wolf-headed Inugami gets drawn into a greater battle between supernatural forces, with time-traveling threats as well.

The wolf-headed Inugami time-travels to a bleak future world ruled by a theocracy that claims to have captured the Phoenix.

After the world's devastation by nuclear war, Earth only has one survivor, Masato, who lives on thanks to the infusion of immortality by the Phoenix; he patiently waits for over a billion years for life to return to Earth.

The world has become super-modernized, but humanity has reached its peak and is showing decline.