Blue Period 9 (Afternoon KC)

[Machine Translation] Winner of the Manga Grand Prize and the Kodansha Manga Award in the general category, this is a very popular sport roots art manga! Yaguchi Yatora is an oil painting major in the painting department of Tokyo University of the Arts. In his second year of high school, Yaguchi Yatora awakens to the joy of drawing and begins a new life. The lectures, assignments, and critiques he receives with his newly met friends are ...... severe. It is a hardship. The wall of "art school painting" haunts Yaguchi even after he finishes "exam painting". The "What's the point of doing that in painting? Will the days of being depressed and losing motivation help Hachitaro grow or will it ...... help him? Hachitora's first year at the University of the Arts continues, as he is pushed around by his instructors and professors, all of whom have their own unique personalities, and in mid-summer, the production of the "Mikoshi" (portable shrine), a specialty of the Geidai Festival, begins. Will the first "team play" be a relief for Hachitora, who has his hands full with his own problems? The latest edition of "Geidai-hen," a manga about entrance exams to art universities that has won two Manga Taisho awards and the Kodansha Manga Award, is already here!

マンガ大賞受賞・講談社漫画賞総合部門受賞の超話題のスポ根美術漫画！！東京藝術大学美術学部絵画科油画専攻。高2で絵を描くことの楽しさに目覚めた矢口八虎（やぐちやとら）の新しい生活が始まった。新しく出会った仲間たちと受ける講義、課題、講評は……厳しい。つらみ。「受験絵画」が終わっても今度は「美大絵画」の壁が八虎を悩ませる。「それ絵画でやる意味ある？」　凹んでモチベーションすら無くす日々は八虎を成長させるのか、それとも……。くせ者ぞろいの講師、教授陣に振り回され、八虎苦悩の藝大1年生時代は続き、そして盛夏、藝大祭名物・「神輿（みこし）」製作が始まる。自分の悩みで手一杯の八虎にとって、初めての「チームプレイ」は救いとなるか！マンガ大賞、講談社漫画賞と2冠の超話題の美大受験漫画「藝大編」、早くも最新刊登場！