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mythical-donut · 11 months

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Rant post about Mei-nyan

Occasionally I like to have a good rant. I was recently reminded of something in another post. And I just realized the whole Meinyan plot was part of why I lost interest in Akatsuki no Yona for a certain period of time. Now when it seems her character development arc is mostly over, I can retroactively wonder what the point of her was.

Let’s start the journey of Meinyan.

When Mei was first introduced as part of the Kai entourage I was initially very intrigued. I think her introduction and motives provided some interesting spice to the plot. She made some interesting points like why does Yona, who isn’t even of Hiryuu’s bloodline, get everything. Yona gets the dragons, the Hiryuu worship, the thunderbeast, and good health. While the ones of the 1st Dragon King’s bloodline gets a cursed illness and an early death. She provided a nice contrast to Soowon’s perspective and how he is coming to terms with the crimson illness curse and the Hiryuu stuff compared to her. She forced Soowon, who wouldn’t normally speak of it, to address some of his thoughts on it. She even gave perspective to Yona: “Am I privileged?”

That was all interesting because normally Soowon or Yona would not be talking about the reality of that kind of stuff. Though I did have to wonder why add another significant character of Hiryuu’s bloodline when we already had one.

So that was all good and all, but then it immediately went downhill when her reckless plan to ally with Soowon collapsed like a house of cards. Girl, did you seriously have no backup plan for this? You went in the middle of enemy territory and placed all your eggs in a basket on a guy you never even met before hoping he would ally with her in mutual purpose right off the bat.

And then when he said no, she is to instantly be put to death, because she knows the king’s illness. And she knew all that would happen if her gamble failed. Through Yona’s goodwill, she’s lucky enough to just get imprisoned with stay of execution instead of sliced up on the spot. She breaks out due to her powers of seduction and skills as a general (oh so she’s a concubine and a general too? Okay).

So what does she do instead of take the serendipitous opportunity to high-tail it out of the capital? She goes to wander around the enemy castle grounds to find her pet squirrel instead. I didn’t understand her priorities. Was this supposed to show us she has a soft heart because she would risk everything for a pet squirrel?

So naturally in her wandering among the bushes for her squirrel, she quickly gets spotted and taken down again. Through sheer luck gets found my Yun, treated, and sheltered all due to his good will. What another lucky break! But she still tries to get right back out there again to find her squirrel recklessly. No lessons learnt there!

In summary, Mei gets lucky break after lucky break through the goodwill of others rewarded by no discernible action of her own.

At this point I’m wondering what the point of her in the plot is anymore. Is she supposed to soften to the good people of Kouka and become a liaison for juicy intel on Kai? Well it turns out sort of, but she becomes more of a liability instead.

Here’s where things get even weirder for me. We switch over to South Kai and are offered a nice long awaited introduction of Chagol and some South Kai generals. Apparently Mei is some highly important concubine/ex-general to a lot of people. Due to…feelings I guess? Even as an ex-general we are never shown she’s of any notable political or military worth. It seems it’s just Chagol’s desire to take back what is his. Val has a thing for her too (and apparently even another general does too)

Meanwhile Mei is enjoying the hospitality of the capital in a night out with Yun and Lili and co. Why? I don’t know. Yun and them are taken with her too…for some reason I guess. Anyway she starts drunkenly rambling about Val, and here’s where I’m like, ‘Oh. So this is what it is’: We have a sub-romance plot in the making boys and girls. Val, a Kai general is gonna go turncoat for his true love to rescue her from the clutches of the dastardly Chagol. That’s what the point of her character in the plot mainly becomes.

Now disclaimer. I know this manga is technically a romance fantasy and some readers can rightfully find this little side romance cute and endearing. Just saying, for me it didn’t catch. Particularly due to how far away this is from the core plot and all the inconsistencies of her actions and other characters’ reactions to her. We are given chapters and chapters of this Mei subplot and I’m still wondering why I should care.

Anyway, Chagol sends a whole elite squad plus himself into the heart of the enemy capital to take back Mei. Burning Hiryuu castle at this point just seems like a side thing to do while he’s there, cause why the heck not?

So the final nail in the coffin of the Meinyan stuff for me was the recent events with rescuing her from the enemy camp. I just didn’t understand any of it. Yun wants to infiltrate the South Kai enemy camp just to rescue some woman he met like a week or two ago. Yun. The usually most cautious of the bunch would probably rush in there himself and do it. Oh Yona and them are going to take up the cause instead? Okay good. Everything is swell. Yona, of course liking her too, can’t let her suffer in the clutches of the evil Chagol. And of course everyone else in the HHB is down with it too. So Yona and her crew are going to risk everything just to rescue some damsel in distress they barely knew in the middle of war with many many lives at stake.

Soowon doesn’t get it (I don’t either) but decides to help. Long story short they end up in a sort of win-lose situation through no particular planning themselves. They just barged in and let the pieces fall where they may. Luckily Yona gains another unlikely Kai General ally by chance because…you guessed it. He’s also obsessed with Mei. Anyway they end up dealing a mortal wound to Chagol and another general, but get some Five Stars injured and lose 3 of the dragons.

So Mei is now their dedicated ally. How could she not be at this point? After everyone going far far -into the galaxy- out of the way to help this random chick. And here we are.

Here I am near the end of the rant. I don’t know what Mei is supposed to do for us now except for be another helpful from-Kai ally, which we already have enough of at this point. Suffer with Soowon from the crimson illness giving Yona yet another reason to do something about it? I don’t know.

I still wonder what the point of her existence was. I mean I get that certain events needed to happen. Like the burning of Hiryuu castle, stealing of the Chalice, having the dragons get taken, killing Chagol, gaining some Kai general allies. All very intriguing important plot events leading to something big. And Mei largely served as an agent to that. I just loathed the execution of it. We are shown all the characters who obsess over and lose all reason for her. But we aren’t shown why. To me she’s just a random chick with some attitude who blundered around and had all the characters (and the plot) fall over for her.

Perhaps she’s bound for some crucial role in the plot that only her and her alone can achieve and things will get good for her character there, but it doesn’t change my misgivings leading up to it.

Anyway end of rant. Curious what others think of her!

#akatsuki no yona #yona of the dawn #Mei-nyan #mei nyan #soo won #suwon #rant #yona #south Kai #Chagol #yun

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wrath-of-dawn · 1 year

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Hey hi hello I am in love.

Kusanagi posted this full pic of vol 40's art of her twitter

And somehow someone already got their hands on the double acrylic stand for the next hana to yume issue (orders open Jan 4 for Jan 20th release)

And I'm fucking dying they're do beautiful 😍

#akatsuki no yona #yona of the dawn #yona #hak #hakyona #hana to yume #thank you mizuho kusanagi for this wonderful series #mizuho kusanagi #vol. 40 #mei-nyan #val #cover art #acrylic stand #cant wait to add to my collection

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yonae · 9 months

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Akatsuki no Yona by Kusanagi Mizuho

#akatsuki no yona #yona of the red dawn #yona of the dawn #Akayona #Anyedit #Anisource #Anime #Shoujoedit #Shoujo-net #Shoujo #Shoujo manga #Manga #Animangahive #Yona #mei nyan

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iluvluvnutella · 1 year

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Akatsuki no Yona Volume 40 Front Cover ft. Yona and Meinyan

#akatsuki no yona #yona of the dawn #mizuho kusanagi #yotd #akayona #officia art #yona #princess yona #meinyan #mei nyan

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hinata-ryo · 11 months

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#akatsuki no yona #my art #mei nyan #val

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choujinx · 8 months

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AKATSUKI NO YONA (2009-?) by kusanagi mizuho

#akatsuki no yona #yona of the dawn #mei nyan #val (any)#hoh (any)#akayonaedit #shoujoedit #anisource #animangahive #mangaedit #mangacaps #*nikki #words

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lilium-dragomir · 9 months

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#Manga #Akatsuki no Yona #Yona of the Dawn #Mei Nyan

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garnetsidus · 16 days

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ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ梅 ❞ ༊*·˚ㅤㅤэй, дядька, почему ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤты смотришь на нас свысока?

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ‹ㅤㅤ26. 09. 23.ㅤㅤ›ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ ㅤㅤㅤ ㅤakatsuki no yona 💮 mei nyan

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#akatsuki no yona #akayona #yona of the dawn #mei nyan #aesthetic akatsuki no yona #manga aesthetic #aesthetic #photoshop #anime photoshop #manga #pink #kusanagi mizuho

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sayrielle · 8 months

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found a cute pose on pinterest and couldn't resist drawing Mei in it!

#my art #my ocs #mei park #spider-nyan

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aivic-bleps · 1 year

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You don’t need to wait until the afterlife, Mei Nyan, do it now. If anyone deserves to kill Chagol it’s her.

#i swear if its not her who kills him i will riot #mei nyan #yona of the dawn #akatsuki no yona #chagol #any 238 #any spoilers #yotd spoilers #my posts.

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nicandragon · 1 year

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I caught up with the akayona manga the other day after years of lagging on updates and I LOVE Mei-Nyan so I. Had to redraw her. Even if it meant completely bullshitting her color palette

#can't wait to be proven wrong #i love her to pieces tho by god #akatsuki no yona #mei nyan #my art

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aivicart · 2 years

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