manga: Akatsuki no Yona Vol 1-8

[meganbmoore]

Akatsuki no Yona is an ongiong (not-yet-licensed in the US, manga series with a currently-airing anime adaptation. There are currently 14 volumes of the manga, but only the first 8 currently have scanslations.

Set in a fantasy version of ancient Korea, AnY is about Yona, a pamper and shelter princess who is in love with her cousin, Soo-Won. Her

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[egelantier]

anime is giving me a horrendous cognitive dissonance whiplash, because it's like 50% adorable ot3 flashbacks and 50% BETRAYAL AND GORE, and i'm like, anime, get a grip. but i think i like it, and i really appreciate that hak was understanding and respectful about yona's reaction to trauma, and didn't try to shame or harry her. and the scene with leeches was very well done.

an actual conversation:
alina
akatsuki no yona, if you want to check it out
3 eps so far, i'm in the middle of second
friend
I will let you scout the terrain
alina
lol the boy is crossdressing to draw the guards away
friend
yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees gooooooooooooood
alina
and is wounded by aaaaaaaaaaaarrows
...amend this to killed by arrows
alina
this escalated quicky -_-

[meganbmoore]

I think the cognitive whiplash is a bit worse in the anime because we ALSO have the flashforwards.

And very much agreed about Hak's coping/caretaking skills, and he largely maintains this throughout what I've read. (I say largely because there are a few moments where it seems to hit him that the main reason he squashed his own feelings for Yona is somewhat gone now and he starts showing a bit of aggression, but then he gets over it.)

I very ,very much hope that there's a scene of adult!Hak flopping in the snow, and getting properly attacked by snowballs again.