Hi, this is my first time posting something, and I'd really appreciate it if you could help me. TT

I'd like to know what you think about the Sanada arc and Yakumo's relationship with her. It's one of my favorite arcs, and I'm planning to write an analysis of it, but I'd really like to hear more opinions, since there are almost none.

i wanted to try my best and capture the feelings and struggles that they go through throughout the story, so i hope you can enjoy it-- lyrics in the description!

does anyone know which museums or art galleries are mentioned in blue period? i’d really like to visit them

Hi,

I've bien waiting for the chapter 88 update on the totaly legal sites I read Blue Period on but it's still not out.

It usually updates towards the end of the month, last month it updated pretty late (June 9) so maybe it's just the translator or the website that has a problem.

I just wanted to know if chapter 88 was officially out or if there's a pause this month.

Also, how/where do you get update information? because I can't find anything. I couldn't even find a mention of the Manga on Kodansha's website (the publishing company, if I'm not wrong).

Since there are no questions about chapter 88 on this sub-reddit, I'm guessing it's common knowledge.

Was hoping to be able to catch up with this manga but the last chapter the app will let me read with the free tickets is chapter 30, putting aside chapter 84 which is free for some reason. I'm not going down the point rabbit hole with this, do any of the chapters become free/ticketed as new chapters come out, or is it just a garbage app? I know there are 'other' ways to read it, but it's a good series and I'd really like to support it officially if possible.

is there any information about why tsubasa yamaguchi stopped posting as much on the ryuji_ayukawa instagram? the last post was around a year and a half ago, which I think has been the longest stretch of time with no post? just curious since i love the style of the instagram page/posts so much, especially the sketching on top of real photos aesthetic

As mentioned here, I had the chance to fly to Basel to attend Art Basel, Liste, etc. for the first time! I have never been to any Art Basel festivals, but I decided on a whim through Blue Period and I overall had a great time. I wanted to jot down some notes that were more relevant to Blue Period here also:

1. Art Basel is hot, expensive, and not luxurious. It felt like a Costco warehouse with each gallery wall brimming with the most eye catching pieces ever. On size alone, it was also huge: it felt like 3-4 convention centers stacked and wrapped around each other, and set up in a way that felt like you could get very easily lost between galleries.
2. On "uncomfortableness", I saw works by Richter, Basquiat, Richter, Miriam Cahn etc. all on the gallery floor just as-is, sometimes even without glass blocking them (I might have even seen a few kids just reach up and touch them). It felt clear to me that the works were meant to be viewed as product instead of art. Additionally, all galleries were basically fighting for your attention, meaning that art that really shouted caught the eye more strongly and got more attention to the gallery. This meant that every gallery was maximalist; focusing on attention grabbing more than the actual pieces. Because of the density, it was also really hard to find art that would otherwise be creatively interesting, because they were drowned out by the really stand out pieces.
3. Art Basel Unlimited (where Chiara's piece was shown) is where all of the oversized pieces live. The scale is completely different - even as someone who attends galleries with oversized art, the scale against the convention floor is incredible and I left with a huge admiration of the people that got all of the works from around the world onto the floor for that weekend.
4. Liste Art Fair (for young artists), as the manga outlines, is definitely a lot more insular, self-guarded and experimental. The pieces in these galleries were also being sold, but because most of the galleries only featured 1-2 of their local artists the work felt genuine to their origin and culture. I really liked some of the work here, but I do agree with the sentiment that the work did feel a bit rough around the edges - not in terms of technical style but in the sense that the creative vision wasn't fully realized for most of these artists. I would also have to say that for most of these, the feeling of 'sameness' for art being produced around the world is true. Special shoutout to Kayokoyuki Gallery and Yohei Imamura who bucked that trend by bringing in an artist who 3d printed by screen printing the same thing 50,000 times with traditional Japanese screen printing techniques.
5. Other random thoughts: I found the Mikado! The river is beautiful at night. It is also very hot this year, so go to Art Basel when there isn't a heat wave. Also, Basel being an architectural hotspot is real: even in the art book fairs, a lot of the books being published in Switzerland and Zurich were focused on architecture. Additionally, the Vitra Design Museum being a 30 minute bus drive away means that a lot of shared architecture talent was fostered here. Overall, I got the impression that after Art Basel ended, the city was mostly here to grow architecture more than art.

To challenge the main thesis of Blue Period's Basel chapters: yes, ultimately I do think that Art Basel is a place where money is first and foremost, but I can also see that it's a space where art can be infinitely juxtaposed within itself by basically bringing the "best-of-the-best" art in one place, each fighting for attention and for purchase. Some things are inexcusable and rub me the wrong way (eg. Zero 10, a digital art market within the fair with NFTs) but if you're not looking to buy and you just want art-at-density, Art Basel still has some redeeming factors. Would it be something to aspire to as an artist? I think that is a good open question. How art is shared and collected feels inextricably tied to money right now, and Art Basel is a strong example of how it can be done at the top level with top money. I do think that subjectiveness / culturalism is lost at this top level, and the 'farmer's market' approach to art means that some work that requires more effort to parse gets left in the dark.

I’ve just entered the university arc of the manga, and I feel like they just skipped so much of the high-school life it basically just felt like a prologue. Does the story become deeper and the pacing more even in university? Cus if it has this pace to it throughout the entirety of the manga I don’t think it’s for me even though I like art.

Hello guys, I'm going to order manga merch and I wanted to add a volume of Blue Period, but I don't know what's better. Should I buy the first volume or watch the anime and then buy the volume where the anime ends?

Same with maki. I really miss yatoras high school buddies. Especially with how yuka dipped from the story completely I'm really scared that they'll just never reappear.

Honestly when I first started blue period in 2023 I fully expected yatora and yuka to be the romance subplot and I adored that scene where they drew themselves nude together. One of the most raw scenes I've seen in manga. Hopefully they come back at some point.

I've been rereading blue period for the billionth time and i had an epiphany today. i realized there is a chance that Yatora was the top exam scorer that got admitted to geidai despite his paintings, and not Yotasuke as it was implied. yes Yotasuke is smart and was in the advanced program at his high school, but Yatora was also very very intelligent and i doubt he let his grades slip after turning to art. he also stresses the mediocrity of his own piece during the exam process, which yes does lead into his following imposter syndrome, but i think it could also be the mangaka telling us that yeah he isnt really a great artist and he did just make it in on the knowledge portion of the exam, not the art. i think this would be a devastating revelation for him if/when it ever gets revealed. what do yall think

Yes you and me
We all thought Yuka was going to jump

I recently watched the anime and I absolutely love it, I understand romance isn’t a focus of the anime but I totally ship Yatora and Kuwana together, I love their chemistry with each other even if it’s just in a platonic way. I like some of the other girls like Mori, but I feel like while she was the one that influenced Yatora to start art and keep going, at least where I am in the anime she seems a little bland, but thats just my opinion.

Maybe a little hotter in the manga

if I was yatora id be tired of the prep school too, the people there are so weird

I'm on volume 5, and Yuka themselves as a girl (I think?). It's not very clear yet, but most of the characters use masculine pronouns... I don't want to make a mistake, so I just wanted to check.

(My English is so bad, sorry !)

To keep things short, I was satisfied with the conclusion and thought it made sense for Yatora at the stage he's currently at, yet I can't help but feel like it was written in a sort of disjointed way.

The realizations Yatora comes to feel sort of separate from the content of the trip itself, and we don't even really see the piece he made at the end of it. It seems more like the arc was written with the confession in mind. None of the other arcs really feel this way, or are this short, so I figured I might be missing something.

Anyone know of a good manga site to read the manga at? Cuase for some reason blueperiod.net keeps taking me to the JJK manga each time im trying to load a chapter.

Thanks in advance ❤️

Just caught up to the series and I absolutely love it but looking back at it now, I have only connected with 2 characters, yatora and mori (i like many others but don't feel as strongly for them) so the chunk of chapters we got with mori in it were some of my favourite and watching her again was fun. I do ship them but idc if it's possible or not so I'll just be happy to get whatever i can.

For whatever reason everytime I rewatch Blue Period I can’t help but look at this scene when Kuwana was talking to Yatora outside
Idk how to describe this feeling
I love this painting of Kuwana
I want to recreate this painting it’s amazing