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Yona of the Dawn (TV).

Max, I really despise every post you make with the utmost intensity.

. the idea of Chinese-mythology inspired stories of royal dynasties and wars for ascension are nearly beaten to death, so the show does not get points for originality; the success of such project depends on how well it is executed;

. this specific story about a reverse harem with the dragons has been done few times already; it looks like it gets redone nearly every decade;

an airhead female lead with no character, always victim of circumstances, a damsel in distress that, of course, stumbles in the series at least once;

the spoiler[evil] prince tells that his childhood friends never knew real him, but it makes no sense since they were literally children when they have met and became friends; in such early age children are not capable of building anywhere convincing pretence persona as depicted in this show in the flashbacks, they are real in that age;

the princess is a sociopath as she is shown thinking about her failed love instead of her spoiler[father that was just killed] in the front of her eyes;

main characters are made to be really dim, make absurd, suicidal decisions, maniacal in always trying to kill each other (more on that below). They all are either meant to be locked up to a mental institution, or to prison.

the way this show is done indicates that it should have been 12 episodes, not 24: it drags too long, too much of petty cutesy talks and pointless scenes that do not move the story forward;

irritating "flashforwards", overly long and almost useless flashbacks to the childhood of the main heroes;

it is not believable that the court has allowed two sexually mature youth to be around the princess; in reality, only females or castrates would be allowed near her;

. the spoiler[evil] prince all of sudden was able to gather impossible number of spoiler[conspirators against the king] within his court and its guards, that it does not seem believable at all, considering how peaceful and kind the image of the king was in court (not to be confused with king's image among commoners);

annoyingly unbelievable deus ex machina plot vehicles such as huge fire starting accidentally in the front of people just because of a fallen candle (never happened in the castles as such fires get quickly extinguished if people are around);

dramatic reveals and explanations to the vanquished enemy, instead of immediately killing him as it would happen in real life;

during the fleeing from the castle scene a young lad gets show by an arrow, but does not fall even for a second, which is ridiculous since the impact that an arrow makes on the body is very significant (even if the wound is not mortal);

the evil prince drops the hunt for the fugitive princess and her guard because "they are outside of the castle, they can not do anything" -- it is ridiculously absurd as royals always were dangerous be they inside or outside castle since they would gather support form neighbouring countries, ask their armies for help, use mercenaries to get to their throne back, promising good rewards to those who help them. It is literally impossible to imagine that an usurper would ever use such argument as the cited one to stop the hunt;

the fugitives lose their minds and became suicidal as they decide to go to the bodyguards' home-town -- one of the places where the pursuers definitely target;

the good lad character is presented as pertaining to the low class, but it turns out he is not as he is revered as a leader of the Wind clan;

the villagers of the Wind clan are all of sudden unaware that the princess has uniquely rare red hair;

the idea that merchants sell water (let alone in quantities that would be enough for a whole tribe to live) is ridiculous, and yet this is what is offered as an excuse why the Wind tribe did nothing after its river was dammed by Fire tribe;

Fire tribe attacked the merchants, and it has become known to Wind tribe. Nothing was said about the merchandise, so it should have been intact -- at least things like medicine. Yet instead of the medicine from those merchants, the tribe sends lad to some forest to buy the medicine there;

while pretending to behave in a noble manner, the main lad apparently still wants the princess get killed as he ask the elder to keep her in the tribe, where she would be definitely found and killed by the new royal guards;

even when the princess wants to leave the tribe, the main lad still wants to kill her, persuading her to stay;

the elder gave a grandiose farewell speech to the princess about how Wind tribe would do anything to protect her while her very reason for leaving is that the tribe is not able to protect neither her, nor itself;

after leaving the tribe with the main lad, the princess went suicidal again as she did not cover her uniquely red hair to be easily spotted and reported to the government.

main lads' fighting technique is all of sudden comparing to lighting, even though it is nothing similar, makes no sense;

the Fire tribe lad pursued the pair to capture the princess, and yet his troops are shooting arrows at them, wanting to kill her;

arrow pierces the main lad, but he pulls it off, what is due to the form of arrowhead impossible to do without taking out a huge chunk of the body and causing deadly bleeding;

the princess apparently is not too much against if the main lad would die since she finds time to perform a dramatic stare at a Fire tribe lad pose right at the time when the main lad barely hangs over cliff;

the main lad, who is, among other things, a great archer, teachers the princess that a good archer is able to aim at targets with his/her eyes closed, which is ridiculous nonsense;

the princess practices archery during the nights, which is absurd as you can not aim properly in the darkness. Even if you are busy travelling, there are always breaks when you could practice. Besides, travellers are dead-tired by evening, so there is just no way the princess would wander in the woods during the nights anyway; her pals would not be able, too (in the anime they are shown to spying on her, counting how many arrows she shoots every night);

the idea that the super power White Dragon mutant should be protected by regular people that possess no power is absurd;

the White Dragon mutant wonders when and for what purpose he will use his power, but those musings are nonsensical, considering the fact that for countless generations such powers were not used for anything at all, and it would be the first thing that people of the tribe would learn since being very little. It is impossible to imagine that the mutant would think about such things in an adult age, unless he is insane;

the White Dragon mutant says that his right arm is ten times stronger than normal one would be as an explanation why he is able to carry the wounded main lad, but it makes no sense since other parts of his body are regular, and carrying heavy weights depends on the strength of shoulders, spine, buttocks, legs that are not super powerful at all;

apparently, the group of travellers want to kill the wounded main lad: instead of making a basic stretchers, they had the White Dragon mutant carrying the lad over his shoulder, which in such situations makes death due to the blood loss very quick;

the travellers have made another attempt to get rid of the princess, when they went away from her in the maze-cave, leaving the suicidal princess entering unknown part of the cave. If they would care for her, the more so considering her mental diffecency, they would always have her in the middle of the group, never in the back or in the front of it;

during the talk with a pirate leader woman the princess and her pals have a collective amnesia attack so they forgot to say that she is not completely useless since she has practiced archery. Then the pirate woman, given the amount of information she had, reasonably states that the princess would be useless in the fight, despite hating the bad city boss, which is not enough. Then she has got that the princess still wants to fight, the pirate woman also has an amnesia of what she has said just now, and gives the princess a dangerous task to "prove" her "resolve", even though has nothing to do with the fighting skills. This all is completely ridiculous though since no one bans the princess from fighting the bad city lord, she does not have to go through the stupid test by a sea criminal. She and her mutant pals could handle the bad guy on their own, so this whole plot is makes no sense, absurd. By the way, the woman pirate brazenly lies to the princess, saying that her man that usually gets the wonderful medicine is injured, hence the pirates can not have it. She has a Green Dragon to jump around and get the medicine: no one else is needed. Whole drama about is absolutely fake, including the annoying heroic speeches the princess makes and the other platitudes;

the woman pirate claims that she and her team has attacked the evil city lord for years, but she is lying since a single ship would have been long destroyed if that would be the case;

a small squirrel is shown to betray its master and switch to be attacked to the princess, which is unlikely;

Green Dragon is shown to jump to distances like a kilometer, what would require a force many orders of magnitude bigger than that of human. And yet White Dragon's arm is only ten times stronger than human; makes no sense;

when Greed Dragon lands onto a roof after his giant jump, he somehow does not destroy it, which is not believable, considering his weight and speed;

he princess continues with the short-sighted nonsense that her father followed, putting the kingdom into demise, by affirmatively asked the pirate woman that, surely, saving women from being sold is a priority over defeating the evil city lord;

the pirate woman talks about winning without kills, which is absurd;

the princess and her pals want her to get killed since they "forget" that her uniquely red hair are known, recognizable;

the princess tells other slave trade prisoners that she and her pals will try to save them, but it is suicidal since slave traders usually have a person among the captives who informs them about what happens in exchange for a promise to sell her to a better, kinder owners;

whole scheme of the princess and the lad getting on board of a shipt that transfers captives females is unnecessary since it would be perfectly enough to have Green Dragon mutant just watching on which ship exactly they will board, and then describe the specifics of the ships to Blue Dragon who would identify it from a long distance. No need to carry out this risky operation with the fireworks;

he princess is shown in pain after harming her leg, and yet she is depicting walking straight right after that, what would be impossible. This means she is faking it for now reason due to probably her mental illness;

the princess is shown stealing the gunpowder from a lad right in the front of the slave traders that all of sudden have frozen;

instead of shooting at the evil city lord right away, the princess holds a dramatic pause;

the new killer-king meets the princess, but instead of killing her as he has tried many times before, he all of sudden decides to spare her life, which makes all of his previous actions and crimes basically useless;

the princess loses her mind again as she runs crying to the pirate woman whom she only knew for few days;

. the show has a couple of strong melodies, which is a rare thing nowadays;

the voice for the youngest lad, Yun, is chosen properly: even though he is voiced by an actress, not by an actor, the voice fits the age and character, unlike most of the cases when actresses do not sound boyish at all.

MaxSouth wrote:

the travellers have made another attempt to get rid of the princess, when they went away from her in the maze-cave, leaving the suicidal princess entering unknown part of the cave. If they would care for her, the more so considering her mental diffecency, they would always have her in the middle of the group, never in the back or in the front of it;

What? They were not trying to get rid of her, they simply got separated, and she is not dumb or worth being called mental deficient.

and try and not be a prick in calling everyone mentally handicapped or ill.