Bonus Episode 4 - Pilot Watch with Newcomers

Explicit content warning

01/10/22 • 53 min

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.))

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.

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Chapters 58-59

As we say goodbye to Tae-Jun (for now?), we say hello to a new guest! Colleen of Colleen's Manga Recs joins us this week as our first guest to be completely caught up with the series (as of chapter 218). We chat about favorite dragons, what shonen series Yona most resembles, and, bizarrely, Mormons. Thanks, Stephanie Meyer. I swear our tangents get more incomprehensible with guests.

TW: incest and hints at some other dark themes, so if you want to skip all that please go from 43:51-52:19.

You can find Colleen on twitter (@manga_nostalgic), instagram (@colleencarneyphoto), and tiktok (@colleencarneyphoto).

As always, you can find us on twitter (@theyonapod), gmail ([email protected]), and tumblr (theyonapodcast.tumblr.com).

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Bonus Episode 5 - Smut or Angst

Another short bonus for the holidays. This time we're playing a genius game katerina_sings posted about on twitter called Smut or Angst. The basic premise is that the player has to guess from a fic title if the story will be smutty or angsty. We also took a quiz on what shojo romance trope we were. All links below:

Try to be Living As Your Vice

Hanahaki

This Love It Is a Burning Sun

Waiting for the End

Would I Become Her

A Heart-Shaped Box (I'm finally committing; this is my favorite HakYona fic.)

Greedy

When the Red Summer Poppies Bloom

The Consequences of an Action

Cling to the Feeling

Experience

In the Throes of You