yona never really has her clear moment of regaining self-sufficiency. or - the moment where she's done whining about her bishie prince actually being a calculative cunt who killed her father and wanting revenge/taking her kingdom back. i hoped this would happen in this show but it sorta did not.
yona finds some agency veeery late in the plot and it's soley about -being able to fight physically-, which is from her pov the most unstrategic way to get her power back, so i somehow don't care. she doesn't become strategically smart, she's not coming up with a war plan to take back her kingdom or any of this. the only plot device introduced for this goal are 4 new incredibly powerful and incredibly bishounen "dragon" servant boys who are all in love with her.
i know that yona is described to be more of a feeler and that her "strength" is about influencing people and making them believe and follow her but having a -ridiculously- large following of bishie boys doing your bidding is just not cool to watch (not even just saying this about a female protagonist - just any main character would be lame for this).
i think the animation is pretty but lackluster in many scenes, having weird "slide show" aspects especially in the openings. i think direction is also a huge part of the issue, the pacing seems a little off. i haven't read the manga but I can imagine that it would've been more inviting (maybe yonas character motives would've been more understandable too since manga allows a bit more of psychological narrative writing).
sooo, if you have other things to watch, don't watch this. probably read the manga idk
