The Yona Podcast

Battle shenanigans! Soo-won is back, baby, and he's ready to fight. ...next week. This week we're still mostly setting things up. But it's fun!

Also discussed: horrifying bug stories, Bachelor in Paradise-inspired character moments, and discovering Evan thinks of arcs vastly different than I do.

As always, please come find us on twitter, tumblr, or gmail. See you next week!

Blanket disclaimer: we discuss sexual misconduct and sexual assault in media a few times throughout this episode so please skip this week if you're sensitive to those sorts of discussions.

This is a short episode this week even though we cover three chapters. Sorry, it's a ton of set-up. And a little pay-off, which is fun! Also fun? How cool the gang is at the seedy bar they're lying low in. They're like if Aragorn was actually five freaks, a gremlin princess, and a harried fifteen-year-old boy.

Next week: a battle.

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What team? Wildcats! Just kidding, there are no wildcats, but the threat of them pushes Hak and Yona to share a tent together in some delightful tropiness.

We also get into why Hak is such a good character (he's sad and refusing to deal with it, aka my kryptonite) and how to kill tropical centipedes.

Speaking of centipedes, you all might have heard that Tonga was devastated by a tsunami last week. That was my home for two years and it's an issue that's very personal to me. These episodes are recorded a few weeks in advance so I just want to say that I'm not ignoring the situation in Tonga, I'm currently waiting to hear official news of how people around the world can best help the country. For now, I'm simply bringing attention to it (not that I need to, I'm sure).

Please find us on twitter, tumblr, or gmail, and we'll see you all next week!

Evan and I decided to take a little break over the holidays, so this week and next will be extra episodes that won't cover the manga.

For this episode, I was visiting my oldest friend (I think Evan and I have mentioned Kerrigan as our third best friend we grew up with) and asked her and her fiancé to be on the podcast. Apparently this was David's first podcast, but he listens to a lot of them so he handled it like a pro. They were honestly such a treat to have.

Anime isn't really their thing and shojo definitely isn't their thing, but they let me force them to watch the first episode of the anime anyway and we ended up having a blast. Please enjoy us talking about how weird they found Soo-Won, childhood classics, the difficulty of a Japanese-style omelette, and the importance of banter in a relationship.

(Also if you're wondering why we cracked up at OTP, it's because we had to explain what an OTP was to David like an hour before. (Also if you're a child listening who hasn't heard the term because it fell out of favor, OTP means One True Pairing, or the couple you want to end up together.))

We are in a new arc, everyone! Yona and the boys have left the Water Tribe and are back in Earth Tribe territory (until they're in Kai). Meanwhile, Soo-Won is plotting. Against Kai. But this time he's the aggressor.

Also: Would You Rather, FMK, and a character ranking. Here is the character ranker we used. Also, I have no idea if it'll be fun to listen to so if you get bored we make random comments from 34:23-39:56 (where we give our official rankings).

As always, we're on twitter, tumblr, or gmail. Or we will just see you again next week!