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NeoStrayCat
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C'mon, not one person isn't gonna reply how good the Yona manga is yet?
Well, I've yet to read the entire volume, but I know its going to be good as it gets along, and yes, have already seen part of the Anime adaptation to know where this is going though. |
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sailorsweeper
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You answered your own question with the last part NeoStrayCatt since most people would be picking up the manga have seen seen the anime
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NeoStrayCat
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Yeah, I guess so, but that's a given, I presume.
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Cutiebunny
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I never thought Su Won was 'dippy'. He may act as if he's not a threat, but by the end of the first volume, the fact that he masterminded the entire assassination plot means that he's anything but an idiot. Future volumes will further elaborate on this point, but yes, by the end of volume one, he's a force to be reckoned with.
Anyways, for those of you who haven't seen the anime and are just getting into this story with this volume, I recommend the storyline some time to develop. At first, I thought Yona was just another damsel in distress-type story, but Yona's character develop really starts in the second volume. spoiler[She eventually does become pretty badarse herself volumes later as she is able to take the lives of others to protect those she cares for. She also comes to the realization that her father was not such a 'good' king as she believed him to be.] |
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whiskeyii
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Ha ha, honestly, I just don't have much to add. I'm glad the manga's got additional stuff that wasn't in the anime, and the fact that Yona gave me nostalgic memories of the still-on-my-to-read-list Basara (my school's library collection was incomplete) was about all the persuasion I needed to give the anime a chance, let alone the manga, which with luck will get published long enough to go far beyond the anime's ending point into deliciously intricate political intrigue mixed with high-paced action sequences. So I'm basically just going to hoard this series till it passes the anime and then binge-read it. 
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Agent355
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^Basara is amazing! It's available digitally now, but if you want to read its softcover release, may I suggest inter-library loans? For example, my local library still has every volume but one, iirc. Its how I read Planetes years before it was reprinted.
Thanks for another great review! Yay, Yona! I'm curious about why the first volume was discounted on Amazon to $4.99 for weeks after its debut. It made the NYTimes manga bestsellers list, but I'm concerned it only made it because of the price break...I hope its because the anime is popular enough to sustain the manga long-term, and even better, to make Viz reconsider their stance on more action-oriented shojo manga. It seems to me that they might've been so unhappy with the sales of titles like Basara, Red River, and From Far Away that it put them off the genre for *years.* I wonder if the manga will go into more detail on why the people in Yona's country perceived her father as a bad king [i]because[/b] of his pacifism. That was not clearly explained in the anime at all. Also, I'm glad the manga goes more into Su Won's spoiler[motivations. I never saw him as a sociopath, and I'm not even sure *he* was the mastermind behind the coup. It's possible there are powerful political factions trying to use him, and they, along with whatever factors stem from the demise of his late father, were able to convince him to go through with it. I suspect that there will be a power struggle in the future between Su Won and those factions...which is all speculation I have based on the anime.] |
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geishageek
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A ton of Viz manga stays cheap after release on Amazon. It is very rare that I pay full price for Viz manga; most shojo titles ship for about $5 and change, while shonen around $4 and change. Simon and Schuster allows Amazon to discount the titles and so they do, for which I am not going to complain. 
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Aylinn
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Not directly, but it is made clear that the country had some serious problems. In fact so serious that it is highly arguable that the country would have lasted, had Su-won not staged his coup.
Based on what happens later in the manga it is highly unlikely that he was not the mastermind behind the coup. |
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