Through its Instagram page, the store MangaYo reveals to his followers that a beautiful variant of the first volume of Blue Period, highly regarded manga series by Tsubasa Yamaguchi dedicated to art and winner of the title “Best Manga” to the Kodansha Award 2020, will be offered for sale exclusively on the own site.
Born in collaboration with J-POP, Italian publisher of the manga, this variant will open its reservations today, 10 October, at 15:00 in the afternoon. It is therefore advisable to all interested parties to put some reminders in order not to miss it!
The ever-increasing popularity of this manga has made it possible to produce an anime adaptation, currently airing in Japan and available for us Westerners on the streaming platform. Netflix.
New to the series? Below you can find an interesting introduction to the work:
Yatora is a high school student who is as intelligent as he is apathetic and devoid of stimuli. His days pass between sports on TV, evenings with friends and a school career that proceeds smoothly, being naturally brought with the studio: nothing seems to really interest him, until he experiments with painting.
After a task carried out during the art hour, Yatora feels that she has truly and finally expressed her talent. So he decides for the first time to really commit to something: after finishing high school, he takes a more difficult path than the university, which would welcome him with open arms, aiming for admission to a prestigious art academy. You will discover that the commitment and the will to apply oneself are not enough to create a work that you conquer, but that you need to be willing to open up and communicate to the viewer through the canvas. But above all that it is not at all easy to take blows and get up again.
«With Blue Period (Blue Period) it is customary to indicate the works produced by Picasso with essentially monochromatic tones of blue and blue-green, only occasionally“ excited ”by other colors. Yaguchi, the protagonist of this intriguing manga lives in this way, without particular emotions, a monochromatic life where he succeeds in everything, but he doesn’t like anything. ” Writes Jacopo Costa Buranelli, literary director of the J-POP Manga label. «The story narrated and drawn by the author Tsubasa Yamaguchi is a journey into the discovery of the artistic feeling, of that spark that arises in the heart in front of one’s inspiration. I think it’s a real manga about creativity itself, it is no coincidence that the Musashino Academy of Fine Arts is mentioned where crazy artists such as Kazuo Kamimura, Baron Yoshimoto, Ryu Murakami and Tetsuo Araki have studied. “
Source: MangaYo