Netflix’s ‘Blue Period,’ based on Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s manga, is a wholly Shounen TV anime. The novel becomes a coming-of-age tale showing the protagonist’s inner conflict and his family’s financial troubles up close.
While Yaguchi is well-liked and does well in school, his life lacks direction and purpose. The story centres around Yaguchi. When he comes upon art, he sees the puzzle piece that had been missing from his life all along.
Episode 1 of ‘Blue Period,’ which is currently airing on Netflix, ends with a bang. WARNING: This section contains plot spoilers.
Episode 1 of Blue Period Review
We meet Yatra and his companions Utashima, Sumida, and Koigakubo in the first episode, titled ‘Awakening to the Joy of Painting.’ Besides watching soccer, they also have meals, drink alcohol, and use tobacco.
Yatra appears to be a highly outgoing person who spends little time learning. As a result, when he achieves high exam scores, his peers believe he is gifted. In actuality, he assures them, he’s a dedicated worker who puts in long hours.
However, he appears uninterested in everything. Yatra is lost in his thoughts. He engages in various activities, such as studying and socializing with his peers, because they all fit into a larger pattern.
A picture created by one of Yatora’s seniors is discovered while visiting the art class to retrieve a pack of cigarettes he had unintentionally left behind.
It has a tremendous effect on him. He makes friends with art club member Ryuuji Ayukawa. The two of them have a tense beginning, but their romance begins to blossom as they get to know one another.
In the last moments of Blue Period Episode 1, Yatra makes a career decision.
Yatra intends to pursue a career in the arts shortly. His family’s financial situation, on the other hand, does not permit him to attend a private school.
As a result, the only option left for him is a public school. Sadly, there is only one school that offers a painting degree: Tokyo University of the Arts. This school has Japan’s lowest acceptance rate.
The choice hasn’t come easily to him. Having come from a working-class background, he initially had severe doubts about pursuing an artistic profession.
Because it’s based on reality, the starving artist is a common literary and cinematic cliche. Only a tiny percentage of artists achieve some level of fame or fortune after their careers. He even wonders if he has the talent to make it as an artist.
Yatra’s art teacher, Masako Saeki, assures him that his concern about financial stability is neither unique nor troublesome by relating stories about Picasso and how commercially minded the brilliant painter was.
Senior artist Maru Mori, whose work he admired, teaches him the importance of experience and wisdom above pure skill. All of this, as well as Yatora’s personal experience while painting his Shibuya vision, forces him to make a choice.
Yatra is filled with excitement as he brings the blue Shibuya to the drawing paper to convey his inner views. That painting has also helped him feel closer to his buddies than he has in the past.
For the first time, he believes he can communicate with them. Upon approaching Saeki with his plan, she encourages him while clearly outlining the difficulties he will face in achieving his goal, as any good teacher would. His eyes are opened when she tells him that from this point on, it’s going to be a battle.
What matters, however, is that Yatra has made this decision and is willing to risk it all. When someone works hard at something they enjoy, they are unstoppable, as Saeki explains to him.