🌄 暁のヨナ series: Informal book club

[Kroki]

Natively link: https://learnnatively.com/book/5f1d17df85/

Now that the manga tankobon release is almost over (apparently, it’ll be 48 volumes and not 47) it’s time to (re)-read the series!

We will be running the entire thing within this thread - feel free to add links to your posts in a format you’d prefer. If you will be making separate posts for a specific arc, maybe mention the chapters or volumes that the posts cover.

Name	Home post / start of chain / specific story arc post
暁のルナ	Home post
Pashmina	Home post
Kroki	Home post

Discussion Guidelines

• Spoilers should always be hidden using spoiler blur.
• When discussing a specific section, please mention where you are in the book, ideally by chapter, so people reading different versions have a clear point of reference.
• Feel free to read ahead if it’s exciting, but please refrain from spoiling ahead of the appropriate week.
• If you have a question about grammar, vocab, cultural things, etc - ask! That’s a welcome part of the discussion too, and other readers will be happy to help.

Will you be joining us?

• Yes
• No
• Maybe
• I’m just here for the discussion

How will you be reading?

• Physical
• Digital

[Kroki]

Soooo… how do we want this? A thread per volume, maybe?
It’s informal, but do we want some semblence of a schedule for starters?

[暁のルナ]

Coincidentally I just started rereading this!

It’s a joy rereading this!! (It was my first JP manga). A lot of the art is so beautiful and emotive, and revisiting the early style is really fun. Also it’s really interesting seeing how certain things many chapters later are already being set up (I’ll say no more)

Btw for those who aren’t aware, the story is loosely based on the Korean 3 Kingdoms period, and the names are all Korean, though the fashion & architecture have a lot of Chinese influence as well

Really looking forward to everyone’s thoughts & impressions. If it feels kinda slow at first, give it a few chapters

第1話

She’s so harsh

Oh right it’s all handwriting

Her hair really is a mess

Ok that’s really sweet tho

I wonder what’s up with Iru being so adamantly opposed to Soo-won. Seems pretty messed up…

WELL THAT ESCALATED QUICKLY!!

第2話

Oh… Given Soo-won’s reveal, I guess that escalated quite slowly! I love the use of flashbacks in this, and how seamlessly they’re interwoven. I love how we learned so much about the political state in this chapter

Hak and Min-Soo . The loyalty and caring both of them show - and Hak’s physical prowess and protectiveness is really touching

I’m curious to know just what’s been going on that led to all this

I love the portrayal of both Yona & Hak’s disbelief. Especially Yona, you can really feel just how much her world has been shattered

第3話

That’s what he’s annoyed about?!

Taejun is so infuriating!! And the whole “but we can’t get directly involved” stuff. And Hak amazingly coming to the rescue once again

Seems some stuff is up with the Fire Tribe

第4話

As much as people complained about 2 flashback chapters in a row, I really enjoyed this one! Both for its levity and for how much it twists the knife in, once you’re back to the present.

In general I love these Yona, Hak, Soo-won flashbacks (this won’t be the last by far)

第5話

This is one of my favorite chapters in the whole manga, and it’s probably what got me hooked on the manga in the first place. I absolutely love the rawness of how broken Yona is, and how Hak copes with it, and the whole thing with the hair piece from Soo-won… plus the way the barriers are just totally broken down between Yona & Hak, and the fragility of the whole situation - you can really feel all of it.

It’s interesting to see how they’re handling being fugitives, and I can’t wait to read the continuation in the next volume.

[Kroki]

Hey Luna!

I seem to have trouble loading your pics (both from pc and mobile), do they look ok to you?
And I guess this is the answer to the format: we can just add the chapter number and stay in one thread instead of multiple threads?

[clam0618]

I’ll join. I haven’t read the manga but I enjoyed the anime many years ago when it came out. One thread per volume would work I think.

[暁のルナ]

Ah sry there happens to be a speed run club at WK forums for vol 1-5 & I was copying from there. I’ll try to fix them when it’s not 2:30AM

As for organization… Up to you if you want to create 48 separate threads or not, but I know with マリア様がみてる we stuck with one thread & that worked well.

Personally I’ll keep all my thoughts in the comment above, but post when I update it too

[Kroki]

With 48 threads my main worry is lost interest in the middle or just silent threads. I have been scrolling through the local cemetery of the book clubs and they look sad.

@暁のルナ

I’ll keep all my thoughts in the comment above

Ohh, like a home post?

[暁のルナ]

Yeah, I think single thread is best.

And yeah it’s like my own home post. If others do the same, we could make a table of contents with links to everyone’s. You’d have to make the original post a wiki for that

Not saying everyone should do it like that, just an idea.

[Pashmina]

Thanks for making the book club! I would propose as emoji ?

I would also prefer having one thread. The wiki idea looks interesting. You could still post individually and link them to your personal home post.

[Kroki]

@Pashmina

I would propose as emoji ?

Oh, that’s a lovely one!

I was stuck on red colour for this one, but none looked good. Updated!

@Pashmina

You could still post individually and link them to your personal home post.

And that’d solve it for people who don’t like editing longggg posts. Sounds good to me.

What do you think, @clam0618 ? Would you be comfortable with a single thread for the series & home posts or a chain of answering your messages for tracking?

[seanblue]

If there are well-defined story arcs, you could have one thread per arc.

[暁のルナ]

There are, tho the listing I found (https://akatsukinoyona.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Arcs) didn’t get all the way to the end yet. It’s also alphabetical, tho I could make a chronological version if people want to do the arcs division.

Personally I like the idea of a monothread with home posts better. Much less confusing to search for one thread than 17+. But that’s just .me

[NihongoLearner19]

Hyped for this! I’m personally reading arc by arc, so I’d be fine with either that or keeping it to a monothread with home posts.

[shitsurei]

Well I was planning to read the 5 free books this week and then call it good (the full set of 神様はじめました on my shelf and most of ダンダダン in my Bookwalker have been calling to me recently), but maybe I’ll read through some more ヨナ… This is actually my first read through of the series. I mostly only know that people really like it (especially our own @暁のルナ ).

I started vol 2 last night.. if we’re doing home post type things I’ll grab my comments from over on WK, but it was mostly just reactions to other people’s comments, iirc..

[cloverff]

Count me as interested! I’m really bad at keeping caught up on book clubs but I’ll pop in with my comments as I read the volumes.

[Kroki]

Updated the top post with the following and turned it into a wiki:

@Kroki

We will be running the entire thing within this thread - feel free to add links to your posts in a format you’d prefer. If you will be making separate posts for a specific arc, maybe mention the chapters or volumes that the posts cover.

Name	Home post / start of chain / specific story arc post
暁のルナ	Home post

P.S.: @暁のルナ - I have used your post as example, but of course feel free to edit it and desribe it in your words/emoji/etc.

[clam0618]

Yeah, I’m fine if that’s the way people want to do it

[Pashmina]

Reserving this spot for making this my home post

[NihongoLearner19]

I’ll make this my home post then! It probably won’t see much immediate use, since I need to purchase the rest of the series (volumes 25-48 iirc). Hopefully I can make that happen in the summertime.

[暁のルナ]

@Kroki

I seem to have trouble loading your pics (both from pc and mobile), do they look ok to you?

I fixed the pics finally and also added my thoughts for ch 4-5. Not sure how soon I’ll have a chance to get to vol 2. May not be till the weekend, but I’m looking forward to it!