Blue Period Vol. 01

(W/A/CA) Tsubasa Yamaguchi. Winner of the 2020 Manga Taisho Grand Prize! A manga about the struggles and rewards of a life dedicated to art. The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling... 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!