2014-10-08, 04:41 | Link #43 |
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Pretty solid first episode. It's good to see that they're not skimping on the action scenes. It was pretty obvious the Tamahome look-alike was going to be the main love interest though.
Also, is having distinctive red hair a new fad in historical Shoujo manga nowadays? I think the last 3-4 I've checked out have had the main character have red hair that nobody else has. |
2014-10-08, 04:48 | Link #44 |
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The cultural elements are pretty cool. Hiryuu castle is obviously a Japanese setting. All the names are Korean, yona is wearing a hanbok. But it looks like Hak's clothes is Japanese while her father's is Chinese
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Interesting thing to notice, I think the geography is bae on the Korean 3 kingdom period. And the Yona's kingdom is base on Goguryeo, hence a powerful empire in the north ala China, and two smaller kingdoms in the south, Baekjae and Silla. I am happy to see something like to see this and hoping it will be amazing.
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2014-10-08, 22:21 | Link #47 |
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Much as I commend the effort made into this anime, I'm sitting on the fence on this one. The transitions from comedy to serious feel awkward for me. I will give a few more episodes to see if this is for me or not.
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2014-10-09, 01:11 | Link #49 |
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Ah, Hak...you're the reason I watch this anime and read the manga...
I wonder if the King knew about something; that's why he didn't want Yona to be with Soo-won? Although he says it's to protect Soo-won from danger if he gets involved with the Royal family...but I wonder if that's merely an excuse; that the King is actually suspicious of Soo-won. Each time Soo-won appears, the King didn't seem too happy. As people have already mentioned, the transition of certain scenes were awkward, especially the last with Hak drinking to suddenly appearing out of nowhere to save Yona. (Had I not read the manga, I would have suspected the drink to be drugged. ) The awkward transition may be because they were trying to cover a lot of background to set up the story in the first episode. I just hope it gets better later. But overall a good first episode, nice animation. I was really surprised that the OP was solely instrumental. I don't think I've ever seen an anime with an instrumental OP before. And the OP sure is full of spoilers, surprised about that as well. Edit: The one thing about Yona that did bug me in ep 1 was: she saw Soo-won kill her father and yet she'd still call out his name when she was about to get killed (under his order, as it seemed). It's ironic that Hak was the one who appeared to save her. I hope she will open her eyes soon and not continue to be blinded by foolish "love" - it will get annoying real fast if the heroine continues to waver despite the unforgivable crime he committed before her eyes.
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2014-10-09, 05:59 | Link #50 |
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ah another "stripped" princess anime in this season
well, this is a decent "shoujo" thing anime... and I don't think this is going to be like another Fushigi Yuugi though... Maybe only the romance stuff |
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So, anyone taking bets on Soo-won's motivation? I'm thinking that the earlier mentions of being surrounded by larger countries ("being pushed around by" I think was the gist of it?), the king being all "lets hope this peace continues" speech at the ceremony, combined with his inflexible pacifism (not even touching a bow for recreational purposes?), might suggest that Soo-won didn't have time to marry Yona and wait for the king to die, if the larger countries are stirring. Or the king did lots of violence before Yona was born? Maybe he even got the throne at Soo-won's father's expense or something. I just got the feeling that Soo-won aside, not everything is well with the Kingdom of Kouka. |
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2014-10-09, 14:34 | Link #56 |
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For me it was Twelve Kingdoms and Victorian Romance Emma (mainly because of Ryo Kunihiko was involved in those series as well) and then I came up with Marimite and Monster. Didn't think of Cowboy Bebop.
Still let's not gang up on PreSage here, instrumental openings hasn't happened in a while.
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2014-10-09, 20:23 | Link #58 |
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Hard to say what is up with Soo-won's motivations at this early stage. Even the positive moments we saw from him likely were just calculated to marry Yona post-assassination. Have her worried about intruders and thus it's easy to blame that when things happen. If she doesn't see anything, easy marriage.
I don't know. Could just be plain ambition. Although there was enough people ready not only to turn on the King but kill their Princess. So must have been something to sell to these people as reasons why this has to happen. Maybe some promise to become an expansive power that isn't just afraid of invasions, but can conquer themselves. Maybe the guy was always a jerk.
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...wait...I didn't know you can get something lower than an F? Wow, I'm good. *cough* ...back on topic...If Soo-won's goal was to take over the throne because he believed that the King's pacifism will destroy the country then why did he also need to kill Yona? If he truly loved her, he would find another way, wouldn't he? Although he did say that he thought she was sleeping...but then he could have come to kill her in her sleep after he murdered her father. But another interesting thing was why did his henchman try to capture Yona earlier? Right now his actions toward Yona are very contradicting.
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