Blue Period

## Blue Period *Blue Period* is a drama anime adapted from Tsubasa Yamaguchi's manga, produced by Seven Arcs for Netflix. It stands apart from most school anime by treating its subject — the pursuit of fine art — with genuine rigor and emotional honesty. Yatora Yaguchi is a high schooler who excels at everything through strategic effort, but privately feels hollow. When he stumbles into the art room and creates an impulsive painting of Shibuya at dawn, something shifts. He becomes consumed by painting — an obsession that leads him to attempt to enter the Tokyo University of the Arts (Tokyo Geidai), one of the most selective art schools in the world. *Blue Period* follows the grinding, euphoric, and often demoralizing process of an athlete-minded student throwing himself at an art form he came to late, in pursuit of something he can't fully articulate but can't abandon.