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Overall this anime started really good and caught my interest immediately. The time period seems to be around 1860 and it brings back this old medieval feeling which I myself love where there's no firearms or magic involved but however there is over-natural involved but it does quite fit the style of anime and I do not hope that there will be fireballs flying around in this anime as it just doesn't fit in.

The first op is just wonderful as it comes to music. The instrumental music is just so gorgeous and there is no lyrics to it and it speaks to me that ... this is the typical cultural music of japan and I love it! However the opening spoils way too much. When you play the first episode of Akatsuki no Yona, you see the main character (Yona) and her little fighting squad which is just a spoiler that shows you the characters who will appear later in the anime and doesn't do anything else than that. As an example what I would prefer better was a proper introduction of Yona and makes people see that wildfire in her eyes which would confuse the watchers after the op as you see her as a princess.

The art is quite default when it comes to the surroundings but the characters are pretty well made as they capture most of their emotions in their eyes and as they add the comical touch to it with small ball eyes, a colorful background and thick black contours.

Something that felt very charming was the story. After the first episode was completed, it was impossible to stop there. The story-line is clear and the objective of the anime is quite obvious but I love it. The anime is somehow resembling as a game where Yona, the hero of the story must seek out power to accomplish her goal. Very heroic which is also a huge cliché. Yona is indeed a character who starts out very weak but as the story goes on, she becomes strong and wants to help those that she keeps close.

I like when there's a hero like that and she doesn't take to much spotlight neither which just makes it even better. But something that is bugging me is that the story goes too fast. I can see in front of me, sitting here in my chair watching the 200 episode of Akatsuki no Yona since you can create something so big out of these characters and this story but the writers just decides to rush things down.

Hak for example is the bodyguard of Yona and they have been friends since childhood and now he is the one protecting her from all the trouble happening in the world, one of the characters that has a kind of slow character development but there's a lot of potential and stuff to work with like for an example if Hak would turn mad and depressed for (just and example, it does not happen in the anime) Son Mundok getting executed which results in Hak leaving Yona and the others and taking the anime on a feel trip.

But one thing is happening after another which is way too fast and it just gets you closer and closer to the end of it which makes less room for more character development or making us viewers to bond with the characters making us more attached to them. You need to find a balance between going too fast and going too slow and right now, the anime is tipping over at going too fast which lowers my overall rating quite a bit. However the anime is really well done and it's so interesting, it made me think that this would turn out to be huge as there is SO much potential in it so I give it 7/10