Blue Period

Bored with life, popular high schooler Yatora Yaguchi jumps into the beautiful yet unrelenting world of art after finding inspiration in a painting.

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1. Awakening to the Joy of Painting

Air Date: 2021-10-02

Life and priorities change for listless high schooler Yatora when he sees his classmate's painting and discovers an appreciation and talent for art.

2. He's Not Tanned At All

Air Date: 2021-10-09

Yatora enters the art club. Over summer break he takes part in special training to improve his skills after switching his college choice to art school.

3. Prep School Debut of the Dead

Air Date: 2021-10-16

Yatora joins Yuka for extra lessons at Tokyo Art Institute. He has an artistic breakthrough when visiting a museum with his strange new classmates.

4. Where Are We Headed?

Air Date: 2021-10-23

TAI's night students join the intimidating afternoon classes to gear up for the next competition as the stress of art exams weigh on Yatora's friends.

5. Helpless Even If I Know What To Do

Air Date: 2021-10-30

As exams near, Oba intensifies training. Yatora struggles to articulate abstract concepts, so Saeki encourages him to use a larger canvas for fun.

6. Serious Mental Breakdown

Air Date: 2021-11-06

Yatora experiments with various tools to find a secret weapon that will boost his art while exam stress begins to wear on the students' health.

7. The Start of the First Exam

Air Date: 2021-11-13

Oba tells Yatora his weakness, which sends him spiraling. But a heart-to-heart with a close friend reignites his confidence as the first exam begins!

8. Brain-Racking

Air Date: 2021-11-20

The first exam subject is "self-portrait." A mishap gives Yatora the hint he needs; Oba takes the class to a museum before exam results are announced.

9. Wandering Knife

Air Date: 2021-11-27

Three move on to the second exam, including Yatora, who must master "color." Yatora worries after Yuka gets a seedy job and refuses to go to art school.

10. Our Color Blue

Air Date: 2021-12-04

Yuka and Yatora head to Odawara and bare their souls and bodies, hoping to overcome their personal challenges with art and their surrounding fears.

11. The Start of the Second Exam

Air Date: 2021-12-11

After drawing his own body, Yatora is ready for the second exam: a nude model. But when his health declines from stress, Oba offers a secret weapon.

12. When I Started to be Dyed in Color

Air Date: 2021-12-18

The second exam is in full swing. Yatora struggles with illness and an unclear theme when sudden inspiration delivers answers and a final secret weapon.

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