How 'Blue Period' Broke My Art Block - Anime Review
Yaguchi voiced by Hiromu Mineta
For weeks, I’ve been struggling to pick up a pen and paper and choose something to watch as I’ve regularly been doing before, and ‘Blue Period’ immediately solved both of my problems. Just yesterday, I logged into Netflix and searched for an anime I intended to watch, but happened to click on this show and read its description. Right away, I’d forgotten my initial watch, clicked play, and found myself having zero regrets.
'Blue Period' wallpaper from wall.alphacoders.com
PASSION
It’s amusing how much a single drop of passion can bring life into someone’s soul and how it can completely guide or turn the trajectory of our lives. Yaguchi, a popular high-schooler, is suddenly sucked into the world of art when he spots a painting in which he finds inspiration.
At that moment, for the first time in my life, I had a real talk with others.
Episode 1 of Netflix’s ‘Blue Period’
At most times, passion hits us just like that. A single movie can trigger one to obtain the desire to be a screenwriter, but it may take several more for that person to begin typing another world away, just like how it took time for Yaguchi to realize the beauty found in art before completely diving into it. But nonetheless, it is that one movie or painting which changed our ways of viewing and living the world immensely, whether we become aware of it or not.
Art conveys things that cannot be conveyed by words. I realized that there are many interesting things and ideas in this world. When seeing it, you get to know it. When drawing it, you get to understand it.
Episode 2 of Netflix's 'Blue Period'
‘Blue Period’ managed me to recollect the love I had for art and how many of the same emotions Yaguchi has had once been felt by myself as well.
Official Netflix poster for 'Blue Period'
JOURNEY
Once Yaguchi stepped into the art room and saw Mori’s painting, he was already starting a journey he may have not known yet. Like most journeys in the process of learning other skills, art is all just the same, filled with a mix of crave-ful anxiety and excitement.
That guy is what you’d call a genius, right? I never thought I was talented.
Episode 3 of ‘Blue Period’
Unlike regular classes starting from kindergarten to college graduation, entering a class specified in your chosen skill to learn may either put you at an advantaged or disadvantaged start because peers in these communities and the time they started their passion for art varies. Some may have been pursuing their love for art since they were three, and others may have just found theirs out yesterday.
Hence, Yaguchi adapted the create, reflect, learn, and create again cycle, and inevitably succeeded in reaching his dreams.
Yaguchi and his prep class members
PASSION & JOURNEY
Never once have I watched an anime where I was intrigued to read the manga instead, and I feel as though this makes the show far better and succeeds in its goal to have the audience explore the world of ‘Blue Period’ even further. Though the animation was nothing groundbreaking but rather simple and pleasing, I loved ‘Blue Period’ for its accurate description of passion and the long journey it takes you on.
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by Isobelle Cruz, 11/06/2022
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