Sofie’s Reviews > Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 2 > Status Update

love that the main trio are all reborn in a sense at this point in the narrative
hak and yona are literally presumed dead but have also sacrificed parts of themselves in order to survive and protect each other. hak gave up his identity as part of the wind tribe, and yona cut her hair off
and now su-won, after learning that he has now lost everything in pursuit of his goal, baptizes himself before becoming king

“if you die i’ll never forgive you” so let’s die together okay cool cool cool
i’m so sensitive about ships that fall to their potential deaths together like this has vanoé written ALLLLL over it

yona comes out swinging a fucking sword at these soldiers and the first thing one of them says is “calm down” like ??????????? the social commentary is strong and i love it

i want this page spread framed!!!!!!!!!! what a perfect moment of reclamation of power and killing off her old, weaker self
i LOVE this entire sequence cause tae-jun grabbing her by the hair is the ultimate symbol of how he sees her as this weak little girl who would never cut off a part of herself that is attached to her aesthetic beauty. but no! he’s fucking wrong! she’s a bad bitch and he should be scared!

this manga is so good at building up to and executing grand moments of cathartic courageousness AND ITS ONLY VOLUME 2. i can’t even imagine how many more badass yona moments there are to come

i forget if this is a reveal that i’d already gotten at some point on my first read but i’m gonna put this prediction here anyway: i wonder if yu-hon expelled the priests from the palace because they foresaw that he’d be a bad king and advised the previous king to name il as his successor instead

HE IS SO WHIPPED PLS AJXNDNXKDKKDKD he was acting all apathetic and playing up the gross womanizer facade (which yona just raises an eyebrow at like “are you kidding me dude be so fr”) but as soon as she says that she WANTS HIM????? he’s quite literally on the ground. hak you loverboy

in hak's flashback from volume 1, he's 15 and refuses to call mun-deok "grandpa". but then in yona's flashback, when hak is 9-ish, he calls him "grandpa" naturally. and now in present day when he's 18, he starts to say "grandpa" but corrects himself to use the more proper title in front of the tribe. LOVE this attention to detail and i'm interested to track it further as we get more flashbacks

this is fucking DEVASTATING wow i haven’t been this tortured by a tragic polycule since meljayvik
but really though. why couldn’t su-won have just married yona?????????? did he HAVE to avenge his father that badly??????? it wasn’t enough to become king the right way and be a better ruler than il???? did he somehow know that il didn’t approve of him? i’m still curious as to why that was…..

the way i CHEERED when i first saw this moment in the anime!!!!!!! i never get tired of the trope of badass girl cutting her hair because she realizes it puts her at a combat disadvantage, and this is a particularly striking instance of that imo. she is SICK of getting yanked around and treated like the damsel in distress. yona how i adore you