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gonna start this off by saying that i don't think they are all in love with her. shin-ah and zeno have never displayed any romantic attraction to her, at least as far as i remember, and ki-ja has a crush on her but it isn't treated seriously enough by the narrative to be called love imo. and then there's jae-ha, who is definitely attracted to yona and makes joking comments about stealing her away, but honestly, i can't see him seriously pursuing her, even if hak wasn't in the picture. they're drawn to her, yes, and she means a lot to them, but it's not like they all want to bang her. and the dragon's blood does have a lot to do with it, it's true! not just their individual dragons but yona's red dragon blood as well. the question of whether it's imposed upon them or if it's just a part of who they are is an interesting one and something that i also would like to see the series explore more (though i do want to point out that with ki-ja and shin-ah, it makes sense that there wouldn't be conflict about that, since ki-ja completely accepts his identity as the white dragon and shin-ah doesn't seem to care that much/put much thought into it. i'm not completely caught up with the manga, but from the spoilers i've seen i think zeno might deal with it more. we'll see!)

anyway! the only ones i'd say that are truly in love with yona are hak and soo-won. tae-jun has romantic feelings for her, but while they're not ki-ja level, they're not hak and soo-won level either. hak is pretty obviously the main love interest, and that's why his feelings for yona are the most developed, and while it's not guaranteed they'll end up together (he might die, yona might die, something else might happen), it is a certainty that they'll be in mutual love by the end. there isn't a "who will yona end up with?" feeling to the story because it isn't aiming for that! while the series does like to shiptease, the only real romantic developments have been between hak and yona and i don't believe that will change.

as for yona herself, personally i'm pretty fond of her! i love how her journey from sheltered, spoiled princess to leader capable of defending both herself and the helpless hasn't been an overnight thing. even after deciding to stop being helpless and ignorant, even after learning how to fight and defend herself, she still struggles with fear and inexperience, and every victory she's won and every bit of progress she's made has truly been earned, or at least i feel that way. i don't find her boring or generic at all; her story arc isn't the most unique thing, sure, but i find it to be better written than almost all others i've seen, and the dragon thing gives it a special twist.

i think we'll probably have to agree to disagree on this, but i felt it was worth sharing my viewpoint since it's so different from yours. i do think you're misunderstanding the series a bit and getting hung up on the harem part, because while akatsuki no yona is a reverse harem, it's first and foremost a story about yona herself and her emotional journey as a person, as well as her actual journey throughout kouka. even her romance with hak takes a backseat to her own character development, which is actually pretty rare in my experience, even for stories like this that are supposed to be all about a female character (since another anon brought it up, take fushigi yuugi as an example; i see a clear difference in how yona and miaka are handled by their respective narratives). so i don't think it should be written off as just another harem or judged primarily as a harem, since the series itself is not primarily a harem!

(sorry for the wall of text, i'm a natural tl;drer plus i've never gotten to talk about this series before so it just kind of happened...)

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