Tsubasa Yamaguchi

成績優秀、世渡り上手。将来有望な高校男子がなぜか絵を描く喜びに目覚めた!? 美大を目指して青春を燃やすスポ根受験物語が開幕!

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A manga about the struggles and rewards of a life dedicated to art. The studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling... Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It's an effortless performance, and, ultimately...a dull one. But 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, he dives in headfirst -- and he's about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be!

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If what you see is blue, then let it be blue, whether it's an apple or a rabbit.

I'm interested in people. History. Culture. This scenery. And art. I like all of those things because I can feel people in them.

Even when we look at the same scenery, we can't feel the same things. There's no need to feel the same things. But even if he doesn't say anything--just seeing Yotasuke-kun's eyes steeped in blue makes me happy. 

I wanted to tell him that I was just like him. That art is all I have.

Maybe the truth is--it didn't have to be art; for me. 

That's why I like you, Yotasuke-kun. It's also why I hate you so much it makes my blood boil. 

I have no choice but to keep creating. Even if there's no one waiting at the end. 

Kelsey Munson

Listen I am an art teacher so I may have a bias when reviewing a manga centered around art, but this was pretty good and brought back fun memories of how wildly stress-inducing having your art critiqued and picked apart by your professors is. Good times.

nienke

5/5 stars 

I absolutely love the art of this manga!

I have read a couple of manga that are focused on art, but this one tops them all. The 'art talk' are worked out thoroughly and the writer makes the 'art talks' easy to understand to people that don't understand the term that much.

Just a wonderful manga :D

Audrey Lord

One of the best manga i have read in a long while

Abdullah

i loved this. i picked it up on a whim and ahhh everything was so good, and it was relatable. the characters are so interesting. yatora's struggle with what he wants to do is very relatable. it feels like reading an experience and it's good! highly recommend.

anne

4.75
really good! the art is very pretty and i loved seeing yatoras progress with his attitude towards art and his skills in it. i like all the characters too and im excited to read more of them

Stef

"Art is language without words"


This book wrap-up basic study art in simple and easy to understand for beginner or someone not really knowing about art class. Beside giving information about art in general, this book also talking how to discovering your passion and progressing toward it little by little. I love how the characters developing step by step and the relation with others. Beside the theme about Art, the book not having connection with picasso and some profession artist it's the best point.

 
  "Art is interesting because you can't understand everything just from reading a book. Our senses lead the way, and logic will follow."

while, naturally, the general coming of age, identity and finding yourself through your passions themes are much more central to the narrative, it is a great joy for me that those are explored through yatora's (and his peers') relationship with art in particular. yamaguchi is not only knowledgeable about art theory and techniques but also finds the way they speak of it is a language on its own speaks to me, personally. their love and passion for art is evident in the first volume alone and i am excited to be taken on this journey.

Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It’s an effortless performance, and, ultimately…a dull one. But 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, he dives in headfirst — and he’s about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be!

Sunny Under Blue Skies

Reading about people finding their passions in life and being determinated to follow their dreams never fail to make me cry. Art is so beautiful and complex and even a single line has a lot of thought into it. Really heartwarming and touching story <3

Anna Leigh

Thank you Netgalley and the Publisher for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is such a cute coming of age story! This kinda felt like an art lesson in manga form and although it was a little info dumpy, I really enjoyed it!

I loved the art style and really like how this story is heading. I honestly didn't expect to like it this much! 100% going to continue with the series!

Kai Hatcher

This manga is definitely putting a stop to the months long art block I’ve been going through. It’s especially helpful that it’s a really good resource for techniques hahaha while being entertaining. Among all of the sports mangas and even music manga, this type of art manga is longggggg overdue and it’s very exciting that we’ve finally got it

Ethel

A manga full of hope and of art

Key words: manga, art, educational, fiction, contemporary, teenager, young adult

As you can see, I classified this manga as educational. This is because, in my opinion, it teaches you about the basics of art (drawing and painting) through the story. I found that really interesting and I learnt some things thanks to it. My main problem with this manga is that it focuses too much on art and not at all on the characters. We know from the summary that Yatora is considered a delinquent as well as a popular guy in his high school but we never follow him through his day for example, just a little bit at the beginning. It is also the case for all the other characters, we only see them in art class and don’t know anything about their background. In other words, there is a lack of development for the characters. Apart from this, I found the drawings really pretty, totally my style and I enjoyed it a lot. It was really nice to look at it. Moreover, the plot is promising. Yatora is following is passion and is doing everything he can to succeed. I think it’s an important mindset and that’s why I would recommend it to teenagers; to make them believe in their dreams.

3.5/5

Thank you Netgalley for this eArc in exchange of my honest opinion.

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