Anime fans I cannot for the absolutely live of me remember the last time that I made an anime post and well I thought that i'd put an end to that right now. By reviewing two episodes of a show that I haven't seen in years this is despite owning the first half of this show on both Blu-ray and DVD and so then join me as I review the episodes that will make you go off falling in love with an evil lord forever with the episodes in question being called simply just "Princess Yona" and "Torn Bonds" and the show itself being called simply just "Yona Of The Dawn" enjoy.
The basic plot of both of these episodes is that Princess Yona is a spoilt princess who after seeing her father die has to whatever it takes to bring his killer to justice no matter what it takes. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these episodes was in all honesty not that bad since these first two episodes do a fairly solid job of setting up the main conflict of the show in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in these episodes are co-writer Monica Rial as Yona , Christopher R. Sabat as Son Hak and Micah Solusod as Su-Won. Also starring in these episodes are Sean Hennigan as King Il , Lindsay Seidel as Min-su , John Burgmeier as Keishuk , Clifford Chapin as Yun , Ian Sinclair as Gija , Eric Vale as Sinha , Joel McDonald as Jae-ha , Power Rangers legend Johnny Yong Bosch as Yuhon and Josh Grelle as Jeno.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. With all of these episodes main cast members turning in some really good performances in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Doing the animation for these episodes are the legends and the greats that are currently over at Studio Pierrot. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good even tho you can quite clearly tell where there cheaped out on the animation which does harm the over all quality of the animation in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
These episodes do something that alot of media is very afraid to do and that's give us an actually strong female character. Since in these first two episodes we see Yona go from this character who is only interested in falling in love with her childhood best friend to someone who is willing to fight for whatever she believes in and we also get to see how her trusting nature can also be a curse as well as a blessing all of which serve to make her a rather strong female character in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Sadly tho it's not all good since there are some things in these first two episodes that I really didn't like the first of which being the fact that the overall threat of this show doesn't really feel all of that threatening which makes sense for the start of episode but it doesn't make sense for the second half of episode and all of episode two tho. The second thing that I didn't like is the character of Su-Won since he's not really given much of an actual personality and that does make it hard for me to connect with him as a character in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
The first episode does somewhat try to start a romance angle between Yona and Su-Won but as to be expected it doesn't really go anywhere. Which does make me wonder why the makers of this show even included this angle yes it might have been in the Manga but that doesn't mean that it has to make it into the anime adaptation since we all know where it's going to go just from looking at the above picture in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then these episodes have a grand total combined running time of roughly around forty fiver minutes. With each episode being around twenty two minuets each which is the bog standerd running time for any anime episode to last and to this shows credit it does make the most out of that running time I just wish that each episode lasted a little bit longer just so that they could further flesh out the characters and not have them seem freaking one dimensional in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
So now then there is some action in these episodes and that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these episodes and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. However that's also the issue because it wasn't that good either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall these first two episodes where a pair of really entertaining episodes and it really does shock me that not alot of anime fans talk about this show all that since from what I remember this show was a very entertaining show in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in these very episodes in this very review and that means that these very episodes ern a score of a 7 out of 10 for episode one and a 7.5 for episode two with them getting a combined score of a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Akatsuki No Yona and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the actual images that are actually from these actual freaking episodes being Google Images this is simply because Google Images actually has a wide varitity of images from these actual freaking episodes all of which are currently featured / up and on Google Images right now / as we speak and plus all of the images that are currently featured / up and on Google Images are all fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly freaking high in freaking definition.