Blue Period

Yatora Yaguchi has good grades, friends, and an impressive ability to behave exactly as people expect, yet very little in his life feels truly his. That changes when painting gives him a kind of honest satisfaction he has never experienced, and despite starting years behind other students he decides to aim for Tokyo University of the Arts. Enthusiasm cannot replace experience. He faces exhausting technical practice, expensive materials, gifted rivals, and artistic questions with no single correct answer. Each new piece forces Yatora to expose feelings he usually hides with ease. Art becomes both the future he chooses and a mirror that refuses to let him avoid himself.