With the two cour series for Akatsuki no Yona now complete, leave it to Marvelous Entertainment to bring out a new promo for it to remind fans of what’s now finished. The new 75 second promo highlights some of the fun sequences from the series while also higlhighting the staff and cast and doing a little promotion for the upcoming home video release and the music side of things. With a lot more material to go in the manga, fans are definitely hopeful that they can get another season out of it two cour in length.
VAP only recently set the Japanese home video release plans for, not long before the finale. The show is set to get an eight volume release on DVD and Blu-ray beginning on May 27th, 2015 with the DVDs priced at 6,800 yen each while the Blu-ray’s are at 7,800 yen each. The placeholder artwork for the first volume has been revealed below.
The first volume, scheduled for the May 27th release date, will have three episodes on it and come with two discs. The first press edition includes the radio drama CD and a special booklet along with lottery ticket application material for an upcoming event. On disc extras include a look at the Hana to Yume event from September of last year which featured several of the actors, an original gallery of artwork, and a commentary for the first episode.
The series ran for two cour 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 was 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.
FUNimation has been simulcasting the show on their service and have also been dubbing the show along the way for the second cour as part of their Broadcast Dubs initiative while also going back to work on the first cour.
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.