Blue Period - The Dichotomy between Talent and Hard Work
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Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s manga Blue Period is a story that touched me from its first volume, it’s a visual journey of the triumphs and challenges many artists have to battle through. But it’s the painstakingly, realistic portrayal of hard-work being mistaken for talent, that really hits the nail on the head for *why* artists sometimes feel their hard efforts are disregarded.
Blue Period is a must-read for artists, whether you’re even into manga or not! It’s also beneficial for non-artistic audiences too. It showcases the thoughts and feelings some non-artistic people have regarding “naturally talented“ creatives, and does so in a way that I hope opens the eyes of people who previously had this mindset.
I really hope you guys enjoy the video, I had a blast making it, and may or may not have cried re-reading the manga for research (like the baby I am)
The anime for this manga is coming out this autumn, so keep an eye out for that too! The PV dropped only a few days ago, it looks so good!
Also, I never got chance to mention it in the video, but if you enjoy Blue Period, I would 100% recommended the autobiographical manga Blank Canvas by Akiko Higashimura for another artistic based manga from her own eyes.
👉 If you want to buy the manga, the links below are affiliate links which means if you buy something through the link (no extra cost to you!) I’ll receive a small commission and put it towards the channel.
1️⃣ Blue Period Volume 1 -
2️⃣ Blue Period Volume 2 -
3️⃣ Blue Period Volume 3 -
🟦 CREDITS 🟦
Manga: Blue Period
Author: Tsubasa Yamaguchi
Translations: Ajani Oloye ()
Editing: Haruko Hashimoto ()
Lettering: Lys Blakeslee ()
Cover designs: Matthew Akuginow
MAJOR BIG thank you to Nies for his lovely help and work on this video!
(Credited at Christopher Nies)
You can find him on twitter: ,
In particular, most of the amazing manga animation he did for me are in the “Summary of the story“ section of the video :) Thanks again!
And also Joe over at Beyond Ghibli () for helping with the first-ish section of the script! Thank you, man!
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🟦 TIMESTAMPS 🟦
00:00 What is talent?
6:47 Undermining the artistic craft
11:22 Stigma of the arts
15:25 Summary of the story
16:24 Outro
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