Blue Period 5 -- Tsubasa Yamaguchi, Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Manga Taisho Grand Prize! A manga about the struggles and rewards of a life dedicated to art. Popular guy Yatora realizes he's just going through the motions to make other people happy and finds himself in a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling...

SELF-PORTRAIT

Yatora makes the best of a bad situation during TUA's first exam, and he must surpass these efforts for the second. But after all he's gone through, Yatora is feeling a little out of sorts. To get back on track, he'll have to step out of the studio and into new lighting... With the help of an old friend, Yatora bares his soul and some skin to take on his latest challenge: the nude self-portrait.

Author: Tsubasa Yamaguchi
Publisher: Kodansha Comics
Published: 11/30/2021
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781646511273

About the Author
Tsubasa Yamaguchi is the author of the hit manga adaptation of Makoto Shinkai's short film She and Her Cat, published in English by Vertical Comics, and the art student drama Blue Period from Kodansha Comics.