Episode 11 Rating: 3/5 complacent clouds This episode fell a little short for me. Most of the time the episode focused on Ki-Ja’s settling into the group dynamic and most of the episode time was spent wandering around the forest … Continue reading
Rating: 3.5/5 complacent clouds My rating of this episode stems from the fact that they really didn’t do anything new with the character introductions. I know that Akatsuki no Yona has been following our typical archetypal plot structure and character … Continue reading
Rating: 4.2/5 curiously excited clouds Really great episode this week. I loved it not only for the Yona and Hak moments but for all the introspective dialogue and moments it offered. Often times in adventure fantasy styled series we forget … Continue reading
“There is strength in words. Sometimes, they become words of power…” Rating: 3/5 complacent clouds Wow episode eight dragged out quite a bit with Iksu and Yun’s back story, their current drama and Yun’s decision to leave or not to … Continue reading
“The red dragon will return at dawn…” Rating: 4/5 curiously excited clouds Every week whilst I watch the new episode of Akatsuki no Yona, my first impression of the plot that develops is how typically kingdom-adventure-quest archetypal it is in … Continue reading
“Long, long ago when the big red sun was eaten up, and the world was stained black…” Rating: 4.2/2 curiously excited clouds I am really enjoying Akatsuki no Yona a lot more than I thought I would. As an anime-viewer … Continue reading
Why do all the most troublesome (kickass) princesses have red hair? It makes them so much harder to stay undercover or sneak off undetected… Rating: 4/5 curiously excited clouds Yona’s few days with the Wind Tribe show her the ups … Continue reading
Rating: 4/5 curiously excited clouds Princess Yona finally starts to return back to normal after her initial episode of shellshock. Hak takes her to his home, Fuuga, where the Wind Tribe resides. Due to the distance between Fuuga and the … Continue reading
As a reviewer, I always love getting back stories and flashbacks of characters’ pasts because they help us flush out character personalities and interpersonal relationships in the present story. Episode 3 depicts Yona and Hak’s long journey into the forest. … Continue reading
So they rearranged things in episode two and it explained exactly what I wanted it to explain. We kind of backtracked a bit because technically at the end of episode one, Yona was already dragged outside to be executed but … Continue reading
