BLUE PERIOD MANGA VOLUME 13 [US PAPERBACK PRE-ORDER]

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...

Yatora studied hard and got good grades, but he wondered what part of his life expressed who he is...or even if he had a unique voice at all. Then he wandered into the art room one day, and a lone painting captured his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dove in headfirst--and he contiunes to learn how savage, unforgiving, and exhilirating creating art can be in this latest volume!