![]() ![]() ![]() These interviews are often also the source of the artwork created by the characters in the manga: rather than draw it herself, she uses a stockpile of other people’s paintings and drawings that she continually adds to as she interviews new people. Yamaguchi conducts a lot of interviews with art school students and alumni as background research. An editor at Monthly Afternoon took an interest, which (some years later) led to her adaptation of Shinkai Makoto’s She and Her Cat in 2016, and then Blue Period the following year. For her graduation project she put together a little collection of various manga pieces she’d done as a student, which she then submitted to publishers. She says she dutifully submitted paintings at first, but in her second year she decided to lean into her longtime passion for manga and focus on working within that medium, despite majoring in oil painting. ![]() Unlike the characters in Blue Period, however, instead of paintings or sculptures for her assignments, she was submitting manga. Blue Period fans will not be surprised to learn that its creator Yamaguchi Tsubasa went to art school, for both high school (the now-defunct Metropolitan Art High School) and university (Tokyo University of Arts, the school that Yatora aims for in the manga). ![]()
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