So basic premise is a princess - Yona - on her 16th birthday witnesses her cousin/childhood friend/crush - Soo-Won - kill her father/the king and so runs away into the night with her other childhood friend and loyal bodyguard - Hak. From there she decides what to do and chooses to seek out the legendary four dragons and also picks up a genius pretty boy along the way to ensuing adventures!

Now imma tell ya’ll right now that this is my absolute favourite manga out there and even the anime isn’t half-bad and is a good way to jump into the manga. There’s adventure and mystical/fantasy/magic elements that get introduced piece by piece in a way that you can’t know how it’ll all work together. Mizuho Kusanagi is quite masterful in how she has constructed this story, built up this world and the mythology surrounding it, but still manages to make things flow, even after several years of serialisation. Often stories can get lost through time.

It’s also supposed to be shoujo, but it really doesn't read like a typical shoujo books. That said, the romance element of the series has been one of the most well constructed build-ups I've read in a series. There's no rush, and the relationship is one of mutual trust and appreciation, but also utter dumbassery because both main leads are idiot fools in love. Like only the best love stories are...

The mangaka is so clever in how she develops characters and treats basically every main “villain” or “antagonist” as grey because there’s always a backstory. Particularly the main antagonist - Soo-Won. And also the way she develops the relationships between the main cast - the Happy Hungry Bunch (inside joke) - is a gradual building of trust and love through various sweet and VERY PAINFUL storylines, while making it witty, charming and exciting to behold. I could go on but this is just an amazing series and Kusanagi-sensei knows how to rile up a crowd.

Really good, definitely give it a read. At this time, it's ongoing and a really good point in the story (ch 191-ish??) to binge-up to, so we can all experience the wild ride!