Name: Blue Period 8
ISBN: 9781636991900

Tsubasa Yamaguchi

CITYSCAPE After a disappointing first assignment, Yatora is encouraged by Maki and is determined to move forward. His next assignment is a scenery of Tokyo. As he takes on new materials and methods, he also becomes exposed to new ways of seeing the city he thought he knew so well. Can Yatora finally evolve beyond the “exam art” that got him into art school…?

Blue Period 8

ブルーピリオド 8

マンガ大賞受賞・講談社漫画賞総合部門受賞の超話題のスポ根美術漫画!!

a friend recommended this as a low-stakes story and it really is such an easy but still intriguing and engaging read. the thing that originally made me reluctant to pick it up - the depiction of life in a creative discipline - surprisingly ended up being one of my favourite elements.

i am an architecture graduate, i have been through multiple long days working at the studio, experimenting and mulling over ideas, multiple crits and presentations. i did not necessarily enjoy it. however, i was pleasantly surprised at how similar the environment represented in blue period is - nearly charming without romanticising - and how well i understood the woes of the characters.

on a grander scale, i enjoy how sympathetic the story is to its characters. it says it's okay to stumble; it says it is important to work hard but also to persevere. it also acknowledges the value in experience, in taking one's time in reaching their goals; and that sometimes you may put in a lot of work and still not succeed and that this is also okay, just keep on moving (a life lesson i, personally, learned from beyoncé).

overall, a wonderful and wholesome series.

Zahra

deva

kiko

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... 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!

Blue Period 8

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