Yona of the Dawn catch-up

[ehyde]

I just spent the past two days catching up on the past two years of Akatsuki no Yona/Yona of the Dawn, which was my main fandom before MDZS showed up and ate my life. For reference, I have 55 MDZS fics on my ao3, and 52 AnY fics--but my Yona fics include a multichapter ficlet collection, which I've stopped doing now.

The current arc's main villain, Cha-gol, feels more like a final boss than any other villains so far. I mean, (highlight for spoilers) he burned Hiryuu Castle! And stole something that made Zeno very worried! And like. His whole deal with Mei Nyan. Who is turning out to be not nearly as delightfully unhinged as she was at her first appearance, alas.

That said I still assume that fate and/or the dragon gods are going to be the actual final boss, especially since Zeno confirmed that Yona's presence won't have any effect on the dragons' short lifespans.

For a while there, one of the translation teams kept inserting Soo-won hate in the margins of their translations. I'm glad someone else took over, but also, it's just funny because after four years of being a Jin Guangyao fan I find it very difficult to find anything objectionable about Soo-won.

Comments

[schneefink]

I have fond memories of Yona of the Dawn; I stopped following it years ago but I do want to reread it/catch up one day. If you keep following it, I would appreciate a heads-up when the current arc is finished as that would probably be a good time for that :)

after four years of being a Jin Guangyao fan I find it very difficult to find anything objectionable about Soo-won.
Understandable xD

[foxinthestars]

Ah, yes, I met you through Yona of the Dawn (and also later got into MDZS although not super-deep? yet?). I haven't been keeping up since the Xing arc, except to peek in once and be like "that's a creative decision you made? Um, okay I guess." I do have a wistful notion of writing another fic for it to finish out my "ghosts of the founders" suite, but if I did I would probably ignore whatever canon has been doing.