Akatsuki no Yona
Upon her sixteenth birthday, the cheerful Princess Yona intended to tell her doting father of her love for Su-Won, but her life was turned upside down after witnessing the man she loves cruelly assassinating her father. Heartbroken by this painful betrayal, Princess Yona fled the palace with her loyal servant Hak. Now, she will take up the sword and the bow on a quest to gain new allies and protect her beloved people.- Synopsis taking from Funimation.
I don't post in months and then I make two posts in one day but I really wanted to post more about Yona of the Dawn. Yona will pretty much definitely be my anime of the year unless something major happens from now onto the end of the 2015, which I doubt (technically the series started in 2014 but as it was unfinished until this year it still counts).
A lot of people prejudged Yona as a modern Fushigi Yuugi because they are both reverse harems and the fact that the female protagonist has to gain her reverse harem based on a prophecy but other than that I don't see much similarity between the two series (and I enjoy Fushigi Yuugi but it's more a guilty pleasure for me).
Yona on the other hand has way less melodrama and while there is some romance undertones it's definitely not the focus of the story. The romance is more in the background. Say it would be FY instead of the Tamahome/Miaka/Yui triangle the focus would be way more on the family/friendship aspect of Miaka and the Suzaku 7 that would be closer to what Yona of the Dawn is. There is strong bond between the main characters of Yona that reminds me of the bond of the Straw Hats in One Piece. The characters really love each other like family making me love them as well. Although there is an interesting aspect of free will vs destiny in why some of the other characters follow Yona.
Also Yona's personal growth is way more important to the story than it was Miaka's. If anything as a protagonist I would say Yona shares more in common with Youko and especially Shoukei from the 12 Kingdoms.
Although as I said in my previous post the anime of Yona of the Dawn is more or less an introduction: All the main characters of the story come together and Yona discovers her personal goal. It's only through the manga do you see Yona start to put that goal in action and while there is definitely the start of character development and relationship growth between the characters in the anime it gets even stronger as the story goes on in the manga (one of the main characters isn't even introduced until the very last episode of the anime).
The manga also develops side characters and even the " main villain" (if you can even call him that) is extremely complex.
If there is one flaw as a reverse harem the series does lack female characters. There are plenty in minor and supporting roles (and they are all well written) but the main characters besides Yona of course are all guys & they don't necessarily have to be (one of the guys is even mistaken for a girl at times) but then it is a reverse harem.
Also I don't know why but people associate "reverse harem" as something negative. For me it is just a descriptive term of one girl surrounded by a lot of guys (romance does not have to be a focus) and this is one of the best examples. Well Yona is more reverse harem epic fantasy adventure.
I don't post in months and then I make two posts in one day but I really wanted to post more about Yona of the Dawn. Yona will pretty much definitely be my anime of the year unless something major happens from now onto the end of the 2015, which I doubt (technically the series started in 2014 but as it was unfinished until this year it still counts).
A lot of people prejudged Yona as a modern Fushigi Yuugi because they are both reverse harems and the fact that the female protagonist has to gain her reverse harem based on a prophecy but other than that I don't see much similarity between the two series (and I enjoy Fushigi Yuugi but it's more a guilty pleasure for me).
Yona on the other hand has way less melodrama and while there is some romance undertones it's definitely not the focus of the story. The romance is more in the background. Say it would be FY instead of the Tamahome/Miaka/Yui triangle the focus would be way more on the family/friendship aspect of Miaka and the Suzaku 7 that would be closer to what Yona of the Dawn is. There is strong bond between the main characters of Yona that reminds me of the bond of the Straw Hats in One Piece. The characters really love each other like family making me love them as well. Although there is an interesting aspect of free will vs destiny in why some of the other characters follow Yona.
Also Yona's personal growth is way more important to the story than it was Miaka's. If anything as a protagonist I would say Yona shares more in common with Youko and especially Shoukei from the 12 Kingdoms.
Although as I said in my previous post the anime of Yona of the Dawn is more or less an introduction: All the main characters of the story come together and Yona discovers her personal goal. It's only through the manga do you see Yona start to put that goal in action and while there is definitely the start of character development and relationship growth between the characters in the anime it gets even stronger as the story goes on in the manga (one of the main characters isn't even introduced until the very last episode of the anime).
The manga also develops side characters and even the " main villain" (if you can even call him that) is extremely complex.
If there is one flaw as a reverse harem the series does lack female characters. There are plenty in minor and supporting roles (and they are all well written) but the main characters besides Yona of course are all guys & they don't necessarily have to be (one of the guys is even mistaken for a girl at times) but then it is a reverse harem.
Also I don't know why but people associate "reverse harem" as something negative. For me it is just a descriptive term of one girl surrounded by a lot of guys (romance does not have to be a focus) and this is one of the best examples. Well Yona is more reverse harem epic fantasy adventure.