Raya and the Last Dragon sees Raya face off with Namaari, a girl from a neighboring village Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...

“It’s about the characters. It’s about Raya versus Namaari. It’s almost two sides of the same coin. The decision to complicate Namaari as a character — and develop her unique ...

Raya and Namaari look like the 20-something grown women that they probably are. Even more remarkable is the detail in the faces of the two rivals and Sisu in her human form — yeah, she does that ...

Namaari and Raya used to be friends until the fight over the Dragon Gem ripped them apart. Now they're bitter enemies, and their emotional dynamic is fierce and complicated in ways that ...

As the Raya and the Last Dragon story goes, Raya and Namaari are princesses from different regions of Kumandra who befriend each other as kids briefly while their parents get to business.

They encounter various obstacles, including Namaari (Gemma Chan), Raya’s dangerous arch enemy from the Fang clan. “Raya” shares a lot of its best aspects with fellow Disney cartoon “Moana ...

Unfortunately for Raya, Namaari’s chumminess is part of a ruse to get that precious rock: in this factionalized, dog-eat-dog world, even the kids are con artists. Turns out the stone is the only ...