Blue Period 1

Blue Period 1

Tsubasa Yamaguchi

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224 pages | Trade Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Manga Taisho Grand Prize! A manga about the struggles and rewards of a life dedicated to art. Popular guy Yatora realizes he’s just going through the motions to make other people happy and finds himself in a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling…

STILL LIFE

Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It’s an effortless performance, and, ultimately…a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst—and he’s about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be…


Series Overview: Yatora studies hard and gets good grades, and he parties hard, staying out late drinking and watching soccer with his friends. He checks all the boxes he needs to be the perfect high school student. But it all starts to feel empty, and he begins to wonder what part of his life expresses who he is…or even if he has a unique voice at all. Then he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst—and he’s about to learn how savage, unforgiving, and exhilirating creating art can be!

 

Staff pick by Adriana:

Blue Period presents us with a realistic insight into what it's like to pursue arts as a career and means of living, highlighting the joys of and passion for creating, the thrill of inspiration and how it manifests in each individual artist, as well as the very real and often overlooked struggles that come with the field. It is a wonderful introduction into the world of art for newcomers, and an absolute feast of nostalgia and inspiration for artists.

 


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