Anime · BS11
Yona of the Dawn
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Chiwa Saito
Yona (voice)
24 eps
Tomoaki Maeno
Hak Son (voice)
24 eps
Yusuke Kobayashi
Su-Won (voice)
24 eps
Junko Minagawa
Yun (voice)
18 eps
Susumu Akagi
Il / Emperor Il (voice)
4 eps
Kazutomi Yamamoto
Min-Soo (voice)
2 eps
Hiroyuki Yoshino
Kye-Sook / Keishuk (voice)
5 eps
Kazuhiro Nakaya
Han Joo-Doh (voice)
4 eps
Hisao Egawa
Yu-Hon (voice)
2 eps
Masakazu Morita
Kija / White Dragon (voice)
15 eps
Junichi Suwabe
Jae-Ha / Green Dragon (voice)
9 eps
Ayahi Takagaki
Hak Son (Childhood) (voice)
1 eps
Katsuhiko Sasaki
Son Mundok / Son Mun-Deok (voice)
5 eps
Takahiro Sakurai
Kan Tae-Jun (voice)
5 eps
Nobuhiko Okamoto
Shin-Ah / Blue Dragon (voice)
15 eps
KENN
Tae-Woo (voice)
4 eps
Cocoro Kikuchi
Tae-Yeon (voice)
2 eps
Nobuo Tobita
Kang Soo-Jin (voice)
2 eps
Masaki Aizawa
Lee Geun-Tae (voice)
3 eps
Akira Ishida
An Joon-Gi (voice)
1 eps
Nozomi Yamamoto
Pukkyu (Blue) (voice)
18 eps
Jun'ichi Kanemaru
Ik-Soo (voice)
5 eps
Shouto Kashii
Soldier (voice)
1 eps
Toru Okawa
King Hiryuu (voice)
2 eps
Eiichiro Tokumoto
Benefits (voice)
20 eps
Shuusaku Shirakawa
Tatsu (voice)
18 eps
Hideyuki Hori
Four Dragons (voice)
4 eps
Eri Saita
Old Woman (voice)
1 eps
Junichi Yanagita
Ryo (voice)
20 eps
Hiroyuki Endo
Maya (voice)
17 eps
Daichi Hayashi
Garrison (voice)
2 eps
Hisako Kyoda
Old Woman (voice)
1 eps
Haruka Chisuga
Girl (voice)
6 eps
Sanae Kobayashi
Seiryu / Shin-Ah (Childhood)
2 eps
Rikako Yamaguchi
Medical Officer (voice)
8 eps
Mitsuru Miyamoto
Former Seiryu Ao (voice)
2 eps
Nobuaki Kanemitsu
Rowen (voice)
5 eps
Haruo Satou
Elder (voice)
2 eps
Anna Mugiho
Wind Tribe Member (voice)
3 eps
Takahiro Mizushima
Choruran / Chul-Rang (voice)
2 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Yona of the Dawn actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Yona of the Dawn reads strongest on Spectacle, Bingeability and World Building.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Currently, Hiryuu Palace has no one else next in line for the throne other than the fifteen year old princess, Yona, who had been raised with care. Finally, the night of her sixteenth birthday arrives. She expects it to be a wonderful day spent with her peace-loving father, her servant and friend Hak, and her cousin Soo-won, who she had feelings for... However... That night, Yona goes to visit her father to tell him how she really feels, because he opposes to her getting married to Soo-won. However, when she gets to her room, she encounters a shocking truth.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 24 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20154 episodes
The first episode adapts two bonus chapters from Mizuho Kusanagi's 12th manga volume, titled "On That Back" and "Kija." "On That Back" follows an incident at a hot spring hotel, and "Kija" depicts the past of the Hakuryuu Kija. The second two episodes adapt the rest of the Zeno Arc and were bundled with the 21st and 22nd volumes of the manga.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
201424 episodes
8.0IMDbBest episode · S01E04 The Wind Clan
- Poster unavailableYona of the Dawn (Sequel)
Season 2 · Unannounced
Yona of the Dawn (Sequel)
0 episodes
Anime sequel for Akatsuki no Yona.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E03
The Yellow Dragon's (Zeno's) Past, Part 2: The Red Star Rises
- Directed by Masato Miyoshi
- Written by Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
S00E02
The Yellow Dragon's (Zeno's) Past, Part 1: The Starting Dragon
- Directed by Yoko Kanamori
- Written by Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
S00E01
On That Back
- Directed by Yoko Kanamori
- Written by Shin'ichi Inotsume
S01E24
From Now On
- Directed by Kazuhiro Yoneda
- Written by Shin'ichi Inotsume
S01E23
Morning of Promise
- Directed by Yoshinori Odaka
- Written by Tadashi Morishita
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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Michiyuki Honma
Executive producer
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Toshirō Sakai
Executive producer
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Haruki Nakayama
Executive producer
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Tadashi Morishita
Writer
Shinsuke Onishi
Writer
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Seiko Takagi
Writer
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Shin'ichi Inotsume
Writer
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Natsuko Takahashi
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Michiyuki HonmaExecutive Producer
- Shiro IshiharaProducer
- Masashi MatsuiProducer
- Yoshito DannoProducer
- Shinichiro KitazawaProducer
- Toshirō SakaiExecutive Producer
Writing
- Tadashi MorishitaWriter
- Shinsuke OnishiWriter
- Seiko TakagiWriter
- Shin'ichi InotsumeWriter
- Natsuko TakahashiWriter
Direction
- Yusuke MaruyamaDirector
- Yoshinori OdakaDirector
- Seimei KidokoroDirector
- Ken AndoDirector
- Yoko KanamoriDirector
- Fumiya KitajouDirector
Cinematography
- Toru FukushiDirector of Photography
Music
- Ryo KunihikoOriginal Music Composer
Where to watch
Streaming
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