Blue Period Vol. 9

Yatora Yaguchi is a second-year high school student who excels academically but is utterly bored with life and feels an inner emptiness. However, all that changes when he discovers the joy of painting. After becoming deeply enthralled by a painting he sees at his school’s art club, he decides to try his hand at the art form, thus opening a whole new colorful world of expression. He soon joins the art club and decides to pursue art for a living, but not all agree with his unique life choice and many obstacles stand in his way to achieving his newfound dream.
In Vol. 9, Yaguchi’s first year at Tokyo University of the Arts continues to be agonizing, and he is pushed around by all sorts of eccentric instructors and professors. Not to mention, the lectures and assignments are tough, and the critique he gets from his fellow students is harsh. Will he really be able to make it in the demanding world of art?
Notice: This book is written in Japanese.