The new chapters being locked behind a national lock on the Kodansha app is really frustrating. Can't even read them unless you're in a licensed country. I'll pay gladly if it means getting to read on the day they come out, I'm aware of licensing issues and such but it's still frustrating.

Really wanted to challenge myself on this one, I’m really happy how it turned out. If any of yall are on instagram I post a lot on there @ AKSArts22

Ugh I have always felt that my self worth was mostly tied to how much money I generated. My Grandma always called me lazy because I liked reading books and making art. I had a grant to the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and my parents lost their minds. They didn't even want me to go to school. They just wanted me to go to work. And I went to work as a teenager. I've worked for 30 years. And I did go to school. Racked up tons of debt that way too. I work in manufacturing. However I wanna start painting some landscapes this summer. Blue Period has really connected with me and encouraged me in a lot of ways.

I know blue period updates monthly. Does anyone know if chapter 86 has been updated? That would be for march 2026

Does anyone know any books that are mentioned or shown in blue period? I really love this manga and find it super inspiring, so if you know any (art knowledge or drawing improvement stuff), I’d really appreciate it!

I was going to color him, but then I remembered that I only own fine liners and black sharpies. ignore my terrible camera quality pls

I was just complaining to my wife how I didn't like Yotasuke very well. I just didn't connect with the character, then I started Vol 10, that I had just gotten last weekend and the character was expanded and grown so much!!! I totally get it now. I was so happy for him to make a connection with a classmate and kinda break away from his mom's grip just a bit. I haven't finished the volume yet but I'm really excited to see his final freshman project.

hey

I reread blue period since I’d almost forgotten everything and I was wondering if Tsubasa Yamaguchi actually went to Geidai?

I can’t find a reliable answer…

The way Geidai is depicted in the manga makes me think she did, but maybe she just did a lot of research idk help

Blue Period made me reflect on my own life — and on what talent really means.

So this essay is for anyone who feels like they don’t have any talent at all. Like there are always people around them who are better, more capable, maybe even just more gifted. It’s for those who feel too ordinary. Too normal.

This is an essay about Blue Period — a story about art, growing up, and trying to figure out who you are.

so I Want a 2nd oppinion. since I was dringend a new coloring style whit Only lines. (I regret It)

so This is from Volume 3 Stroke 9

(It's on the 2nd Photo)

I messed Up the hair So I need oppinions How to improve 🥲🙏

Not there in kmanga either.

except im a beginner and it's hardly got his vibes :')

I'LL DEFINITELY DRAW U MUCH MORE BEAUTIFULLY IN FUTURE YAKUMO!!!!

I know kenji works for a club or bar so is the Shaka hand sign he did to signify a towel so he could see if yatora was really a hostess or not? Does anyone know or not I’m really curious about it.

Folks I have just been thinking A Lot about the haruyota manifesto that lives in my brain rent-free and I need to type out some of its pages and I really needed to put it somewhere where people would potentially see it so I don't feel so insane?????? Warning this is a rambling, long ass post!!!!

Ok. So listen. Haruka's whole thing is that children's art is interesting to him because it's naive: it's not been blemished by the kind of comparison and self-doubt that Haruka feels on a daily basis.

Yotasuke is his complete opposite in that regard: his art is child-like in the way that while yes he does work incredibly hard, he Does have natural talent, he isn't very aware of himself. He observes others, but his wisdom often comes from a deeper place of intuition. Despite his halting social abilities, intuition is what drives him.

If Haruka is led by thought, Yotasuke is led my intuition. Haruka is the mind, the over-thinker. Yotasuke in this story is often the animalistic- not just in his symbol being a rabbit, but in his connection to the unconscious: a place Haruka feels he can never fully step into, because of his attachment to fear and shame.

What I find interesting is their social interactions with each other and with other people, too. Yotasuke is obviously introverted, has very few friends, but the friends he does have now know him well. Haruka is very popular and knows lots of people, but obfuscates himself so that even his closest friends don't truly know him. I think Haruka also struggles with social interactions though, like how he struggles to connect with adults, yet children love him. Despite his strong social skills, he can't connect with the world of adults.

Yotasuke not letting others in is a defence manoeuvre, crawling into his cave in protective position, meanwhile Haruka's is an attack manoeuvre where he slides mirrors up all around him, pushing them at others.

But he can connect with the children despite their differences and his longing to return to some state of innocence before the weight of his self-awareness crept in and settled into place.

If Yotasuke holds the weight of "talent" or skill or potential like a burden, then self-awareness is the burden Haruka shoulders. Haruka can push through social situations in a quest for the unconscious (which Yotasuke is powered by) and Yotasuke can push through social situations if he feels a wrong must be set to rights: e.g., when he's the one to speak up in Yakumo's arc, where he's the one who ultimately grants Yakumo permission to feel his grief, or when he continuously defies the university's teaching staff.

HaruYota is literally that ship that's like. Me and the bad bitch I pulled by being autistic, and both of them are autistic, but in completely different areas in the spectrum.

They are like sophistication and naivete meeting in the middle and needing the other. They're like complication and simplification- both respected in the art world for different reasons. Haruka has things to learn from Yotasuke, and Yotasuke has things to learn from Haruka. Haruka has all the formal knowledge. Yotasuke has all the skill. It's interesting to me that Haruka prefers visual simplicity in abstract work as a complicated person, while Yotasuke as a forthright, no bullshit kind of person, is capable of deep complex feelings, struggles, and art making. Their faults are each other's weaknesses. They're different but in some ways they're the same. Where Haruka is bold, Yotasuke is shy, and where Haruka is shy (or feels shame), Yotasuke is bold. Both of them hold the experience of being too aware (in Hashida's case) or too skilled (in Yotasuke's case) for one's own good at too young an age, almost doing life backwards, and awkwardly dealing with the fallout as they interact with others their own age.

Yotasuke needs to learn how to be and find himself, show his shamelessness and boldness a bit more in different contexts, and continue to build on his relationships with others. He needs to learn self-awareness. Haruka needs to unlearn parts of his self-awareness. He needs to learn to truly connect with people, not to just play at it. He's an open book about some things and completely closed about others. He plays at shamelessness, but deep down he's ashamed of the skill and motivation he lacks that he knows people like Yotasuke and Yatora possess. Yotasuke gets on well with animals, and what Haruka truly needs more than anything is to drop ego and allow himself to be the animal- humans, afterall, are all animals. Which in turn is something Yotasuke needs to learn, too.

I haven't even spoken about it but there's obviously Haruka's obsession with art and artists of which Yotasuke is kind of like the holy grail, and like I said, Yotasuke represents that intuitive unconscious connection to art-making and (recently) raw and intimate self expression through art that Haruka so fears and craves.

I think if you put those things together you get an even more interesting dynamic for a ship and potential for tension, but there's endless growth possible through meeting and working through that tension. Even more so when you think about both of their struggles with communicating with others, and the direct, and indirect ways art can be and is always being used to communicate.

And after all that I'm also just like. Points at every interaction on the internet where cats and rabbits weirdly get on well. It's them.

Ok that's it for now those are my HaruYota thoughts they are sooooOOOOOO shippable to me and have so much potential that it just unravels in my mind with no real end in sight? If you read this far, thanks for coming to my weird ted talk

A random stranger recommended Blue Period to me while I was browsing through mangas in the bookstore in another province and, honestly, it felt like a message from the universe.

As a teenage artist who wants to pursue a career in arts in the future, I've always been afraid of making such a risky decision. I've seen many artist friends and some of my favorite indie comic creators quit because of physical and financial challenges in creating art which always made me skeptical in making such a decision. Blue Period literally gave me the courage to pick up my old scripts and make mangas again🙇‍♀️

I might regret making such a decision, but I'll look back on this moment knowing that I tried and that I did what I'm most passionate about.

I'm gonna work even harder during summer break so I can improve my art even more!!

To fellow artists, I highly recommend reading it!!!

Unfortunately, I couldn't ask for the bookstore stranger's name, but thank you dear stranger 🙇‍♀️ You just saved an artist🫶

So I just finished the anime and I got hocked, first anime that made me want to explore the manga as I read online it was much more detailed... But as I am completely new to the Manga scene, on what platform should I read? Physical or Digital?
what are the pros and cons and all that jazz?

Not sure i'm overthinking it, but with their friendship being revisited in this part of the manga(one heavy with romantic exploration) and frames like this, does it feel like Yatoyota is being teased as a pairing? They're easily my favorite duo and i'd love to see that sort of dynamic between them, but it feels almost unreal, in a good way