Akatsuki no Yona
| Yona of the Dawn | |
Cover of the first volume, featuring the main protagonist, Yona
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暁のヨナ (Akatsuki no Yona) |
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| Genre | Action, Fantasy, Romance, Adventure, Reverse Harem |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Mizuho Kusanagi |
| Published by | Hakusensha |
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| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | Hana to Yume |
| Original run | August 4, 2009 – present |
| Volumes | 22 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Kazuhiro Yoneda |
| Written by | Shinichi Inotsume |
| Music by | Ryo Kunihiko |
| Studio | Pierrot |
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| Original network | AT-X, Tokyo MX, SUN, TVA, RKK, BS11 |
| Original run | October 7, 2014 – March 24, 2015 |
| Episodes | 24 + 3 OVA |
Yona of the Dawn (Japanese: 暁のヨナ Hepburn: Akatsuki no Yona?) is a Japanese manga series by Mizuho Kusanagi, serialized in Hakusensha's shōjo manga magazine Hana to Yume from August 2009. It has been collected in twenty-two tankōbon volumes. An anime television series adaptation by Pierrot aired between October 7, 2014 and March 24, 2015, featuring the voice cast from the drama CD adaptation, along with new cast members.
The story follows the redemption of Yona, the sole princess to the kingdom of Kouka. Yona lives the carefree life of a princess in Hiryuu castle, being sheltered by her pacifistic father, King Il, and protected by her bodyguard and childhood friend Son Hak. During a party being held for her sixteenth birthday, her other childhood friend and love interest Soo-won comes to pay tribute to her. Intending to tell her father that she cannot forget her love for Soo-won, she visits King Il's chambers and witnesses him being killed by Soo-won, who reveals that he will now properly rule Kouka. Hak intervenes and saves Yona and they escape from the castle to Hak's birthplace, the Village of Wind. Under the suggestion of Hak's grandfather Son Mundok, Yona and Hak search for an oracle named Ik-su. Ik-su tells them the legend of the first king of Kouka, Hiryuu, and the four dragons who unified the kingdom. Yona and Hak, joined by Ik-su's assistant Yun, begin a journey to find the descendants of the legendary Four Dragons in order to survive and save the Kingdom of Kouka.
Mizuho Kusanagi launched the series in Hakusensha's Hana to Yume manga magazine on August 4, 2009. The series has been collected into 22 bound volumes. On October 9, 2015, North American manga publisher Viz Media announced at their New York Comic Con panel that they have licensed the manga and will begin releasing it in summer 2016. The series went on hiatus starting with 2016's eleventh issue, on April 25, 2016, due to the earthquakes in Kumamoto, where Kusanagi lives. It resumed in the twelfth issue on May 20, 2016.
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