Blue Period (2021)
Synopsis
Bored with life, popular high schooler Yatora Yaguchi jumps into the beautiful yet unrelenting world of art after finding inspiration in a painting.
First Air Date: 2021-10-02
Last Air Date: 2021-12-18
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 12
Networks: MBS, TBS, CBC, HBC
Top Cast
- Hiromu Mineta as Yatora Yaguchi (voice)
- Yumiri Hanamori as Ryuji Ayukawa (voice)
- Daiki Yamashita as Yotasuke Takahashi (voice)
- Kengo Kawanishi as Haruka Hashida (voice)
- Yume Miyamoto as Maki Kuwana (voice)
- Mayu Aoyagi as Maru Mori (voice)
- Fumi Hirano as Masako Saeki (voice)
- Masaya Fukunishi as Sumida (voice)
- Shinichiro Kamio as Koigakubo (voice)
- Tatsumaru Tachibana as Utashima (voice)
Seasons
Season 1 (2021)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Awakening to the Joy of Painting
Life and priorities change for listless high schooler Yatora when he sees his classmate's painting and discovers an appreciation and talent for art.
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Ep. 2: He's Not Tanned At All
Yatora enters the art club. Over summer break he takes part in special training to improve his skills after switching his college choice to art school.
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Ep. 3: Prep School Debut of the Dead
Yatora joins Yuka for extra lessons at Tokyo Art Institute. He has an artistic breakthrough when visiting a museum with his strange new classmates.
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Ep. 4: Where Are We Headed?
TAI's night students join the intimidating afternoon classes to gear up for the next competition as the stress of art exams weigh on Yatora's friends.
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Ep. 5: Helpless Even If I Know What To Do
As exams near, Oba intensifies training. Yatora struggles to articulate abstract concepts, so Saeki encourages him to use a larger canvas for fun.
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Ep. 6: Serious Mental Breakdown
Yatora experiments with various tools to find a secret weapon that will boost his art while exam stress begins to wear on the students' health.
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Ep. 7: The Start of the First Exam
Oba tells Yatora his weakness, which sends him spiraling. But a heart-to-heart with a close friend reignites his confidence as the first exam begins!
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Ep. 8: Brain-Racking
The first exam subject is "self-portrait." A mishap gives Yatora the hint he needs; Oba takes the class to a museum before exam results are announced.
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Ep. 9: Wandering Knife
Three move on to the second exam, including Yatora, who must master "color." Yatora worries after Yuka gets a seedy job and refuses to go to art school.
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Ep. 10: Our Color Blue
Yuka and Yatora head to Odawara and bare their souls and bodies, hoping to overcome their personal challenges with art and their surrounding fears.
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Ep. 11: The Start of the Second Exam
After drawing his own body, Yatora is ready for the second exam: a nude model. But when his health declines from stress, Oba offers a secret weapon.
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Ep. 12: When I Started to be Dyed in Color
The second exam is in full swing. Yatora struggles with illness and an unclear theme when sudden inspiration delivers answers and a final secret weapon.
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