Blue Period 3

Winner of the 2020 Manga Taisho Grand Prize! A manga about the strugglesand rewards of a life dedicated to art. Popular guy Yatora realizes he's justgoing through the motions to make other people happy and finds himself in anew passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your pastexpectations is dangerous as well as thrilling...Yatora studies hard and gets good grades, and he parties hard, staying out latedrinking and watching soccer with his friends. He checks all the boxes he needs to bethe perfect high school student. But it all starts to feel empty, and he begins towonder what part of his life expresses who he is...or even if he has a unique voice atall. Then he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye,awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, hedives in headfirst-and he's about to learn how savage, unforgiving, and exhiliratingcreating art can be!