Akatsuki no Yona is doing pretty well out there this season and it’s going to get another push this weekend as Marvelous will be screening a new promotional video for it at the Animate Girls Festival. Ahead of that, the official site has posted up a new key visual for the series, giving us a very different look at Yona here with her hair cut short rather than the long style she has now. With the show set for two seasons, more marketing and promotion will certainly go on for it in order to keep folks interested and attempts to draw in new viewers as well.
FUNimation simulcasts the series on Tuesdays at 11am ET here.
The series will run for two seasons over the course of half a year. The manga began in 2009 in Hana to Yume and is still ongoing with over eleven volumes so far. The anime adaptation is being produced by Studio Pierrot with scripts by Shinichi Inotsume. The cast includes Chiwa Saito as Yona, Tomoaki Maeno as Hak Son, Junko Minagawa as Yoon, Masakazu Morita as Ki-Ja, Nobuhiko Okamoto as Shin-Ah, Junichi Suwabe as Jae-Ha, Hiro Shimono as Zeno and Yuusuke Kobayashi as Soo-won.
Plot concept: Akatsuki no Yona centers around the princess of the Kingdom of Kouka, Yona. Despite her father’s disapproval, she’s in love with and plans to marry her cousin, Soo-won. However, her world gets turned upside down on her 16th birthday, and she is forced to flee from the palace. Now, with her friend and bodyguard Hak, Yona must set out on a journey to find out and fulfill her destiny.
