Intro 2 min:

Speak about the title, the impact it has on me and what anime is going to be talked
about

People will say there's that one 12 episode anime that impacted them or at the very
least left an unforgettable impession on them that they cherish. Anime is vast and
seemly endless, there's new animes released in mass every season of the year
creating an ocean of animes that aside from the popular ones only afforded to air
one season usually 12 episodes, but as out of sight they may seem even they garner
attention and sometimes even praise to those who watched them and the anime that
this applies to for me is without a doubt Blue Period. Growing up watching anime
the staples of the medium were of course shounen and they made a large part of what
I watched strictly. I never wanted to watch any other genre other than that,
naively thinking that everything else was boring and uninteresting until I stumbled
upon a seinen drama that was about art, something I valued a lot and the anime did
not follow the action packed formula that I was so akin to but it still managed to
be an something I'll never forget for as long as I live.

Start 1 min:

What the anime is about

Blue Period is about Yatora Yaguchi, he's a highschooler labelled to most as a

delinquent even though he has very good grades. The reason he has such good grades
is because Yaguchi is fake down to the core, he studies so much soley to please his
parents who work very hard to give him a promising future, he smokes even though he
doesn't like smoking much to fit in with his friends who are labled just like him
and they gather together aimlessly having fun everyday whenever they get the chance
like normal highschoolers. But this bothers Yaguchi who feels he has no ambitions
or identity of he's own going day by day living a life not of his own until. His
attention is pulled towards the art club and he finds a large of an angle, beatiful
and elegant sucking him into a world he's never known existed, it's over he's life
has swifted for good, for tries harder in art class this time than his friends, and
paints the blue atmosphere of the morning in Shibuya hanging out with his friends.
Yaguchi is praised by not just his teacher but also friends for his work making him
feel something soley of his own desire, so he decides to join the art club and
throw away his academic drive to go to Tokyo University of Arts

Mid 1 min:

My relation to the anime

This is where the real story begins, Yaguchi is not from a wealthy family so
deciding to do art is something hard to confront to his parents as this is the only
time he's ever any shown interest towards it and now deep within highschool. To
make things worse since he's parents can't afford a private school so he's only
option is Tokyo University which has the the lowest acceptance rate of 0.5% for new
graduates and yet he still pursues it. That part really touched me because I unlike
Yaguchi I have always shown interest in art ever since I was a kid and ever since I
was a kid I always asked myself how would I make a living off this talent of mine
and I think most artists have also asked themselves this aswell. It made me think
that being good at art is just a talent I was born with and that I shouldn't take
it to heart as a career path instead make it as a neat hobby but again that isn't
the case for Yaguchi who through out his journey encounters those like me who
decided to pursue art and he feels outclassed on every corner. But invoking what I
always found special in shounen animes I watched Yaguchi soldiers through by pure
hard work and dedication making him no different in my eyes to the MCs in those
animes, and even in cram class he's known for working harder than everyone else
which is nothing less of inspiring.

Inter 2 min:

Talk about the main character and briefly explain the side characters when it comes
to their relation to him. Show the differences of either the main character or the
whole story compared to any other anime.

But as much Yaguchi is known for being the grinder everyone else isn't lazy they
just don't have a chip on their shoulder to improve quickly nor do they have to for
others. They're geniuses in the eyes of Yaguchi and they carry the most common
trait known for geniuses they all feel like weirdos to him whether it's an extreme
personality or an overly passive personality they all make Yaguchi alienated which
is interesting but is completely the case. As Yaguchi grows in this environment
with them they also point out how weird he is aswell. A person who is so good at
acting as someone else in a field where a person's individuallity must shine
through, how he only cries or shows genuine emotion when it comes to something he
just adopted into his life, he too is seen as a genius in their eyes and that's
what makes Blue Period so special. In other animes this divide within characters is
whats made front and center but Blue Period subverts it and makes everyone what
they should be teenagers trying their hardest to pursue their ambitions which makes
them so relatable and human. Add to that the anime goes out of it's way to
realisticly showcase the things done in art sometimes sacrificing entertainment it
comes off as a passion project.

Outer 2min:

Why these differences are there in this world, describing the tasks on how they
shape everyone here. Including the shows technical achievements and those who did
them.

Considering the Author was also a real student of the Tokyo University of Arts they
understand this world perfectly and don't need tropes to engage us to what happens
to the characters in this show. For instance with Yaguchi to first painting he saw
was painted by someone he admires a lot and she tells him in every art she makes
she hopes to pray for the success of those who see it which is why she chose to
paint an angel. Yaguchi through out the anime struggles with individuallity, what
does he wish to portray with his art but we are not forever dwelling on what he has
to figure out instead he learns from others who also have their own issues. Until
finally he figures himself out and how do we see this as the audience, through
looking at the art of course and does the art in this do it's job. You can tell
wheter it was the author or the animators that they really cared about the art or
the animation which is something else also I've gotten into is amazing and I found
myself being jealous and wanting to draw my own work multiple times over. The
editing and pacing of the show makes it a soothing watch that I remember on my
first viewing was a fresh breathe of air from any other anime I was watching at the
time while also keeping the tension of Yaguchi's main task of getting into TUA.

Outro 4min:
The last opstacles the main character faces and what he is able to accomplish at
the end in comparison to others. The messages it manages to convey through all it
and the lessons I took from it. Lastly it's fate and how it connects back to the
title

Finally the entrance exam begins as Yaguchi has to go multiple days having to
making appealing enough art for him to recognised as worthy to enter compared to
the hoarde of other people taking the exam with him. It's a tense moment in time
for him, many months of trial and error, trial and error and some more trial and
then error all for this exam but it didn't come without a cost. He's had an ichty
rash on his on his arm for a while now which seems to grow worse and worse. On the
stairs to the exam he has a intense fever out of no where but the signs of it
coming were there it just that he ignored them. He can barely see, he can barely
think and most definately he can't paint anything cause he can barely stand, time
is against him while everyone else is laser focused on completeing their work and
yet he perseveres day in and day out. At the 11th hour Yaguchi figures out what
he's been lacking this entire time and what he needs to pass to extremely hard test
in front of him, he's individuallity, who he is under all the masks he wears. Pair
that up with all the immense work he's put into art what he's art teacher said to
him was bound to happen no matter what. The results come out and he's passed, some
of those who were with him on this journey didn't make it meaning they have to
retake the exam again next year but he's passed and it wraps this incredible show
the best way possible but Yaguchi knows he's just getting started, time to focus on
university and what type of art he can make there and beyond. Unfortunately till
now Blue Period hasn't gotten a second season and most likely will probably never
get one, it's fallen to the fate most animes fall into, getting dropped into the
ever growing ocean of content this medium has but the manga seems to be still going
and I have also enjoyed what has been going on there too. In the end Blue Period is
an anime for people with a niche, if you aren't into art I can see you not liking
it at all even if you do like art I can see you not enjoying or relating much to
this but I do and that's what the anime promotes more than anything individuallity.
If art was the same or made by the same person there'd be no intrique or excitement
from it, media such as anime is an art too that anyone can make clearly shown by
how much anime there is out which is why when someone says they really like
something obsecure or unpopular that at the very least it shouldn't be completely
dismiss. You like it sure, I don't, but you like it, whatever then. There's a
possibility that the 12 episode animes that other people like me like I probably
wouldn't see it the same way but if they are able to tell me why they like it so
much I'd at least get where they're coming from. I'm an art kid who felt like he
was seen through the screen when watching this anime, I wish to be like Yaguchi
whilst also putting in my own spin to it whether as hobby or possiblely as a future
career path which is why Blue is that one 12 episode anime to me and why I'll never
forget it for as long as I live.