Blue Period - The Dichotomy between Talent and Hard Work

#challenge#coins Go to in motion&utm_id=Maggie and turn your artwork into challenge coins - available for both independent artists and multinational brands! Tsubasa Yamaguchi’s manga Blue Period is a story that touched me from its first volume, it’s a visual journey of the triumphs and challenges many artists have to battle through. But it’s the painstakingly, realistic portrayal of hard-work being mistaken for talent, that really hits the nail on the head for *why* artists sometimes feel their hard efforts are disregarded. Blue Period is a must-read for artists, whether you’re even into manga or not! It’s also beneficial for non-artistic audiences too. It showcases the thoughts and feelings some non-artistic people have regarding “naturally talented“ creatives, and does so in a way that I hope opens the eyes of people who previously had this mindset. I really hope you guys enjoy the video, I had a blast making it, and may or may not have cried re-reading the manga for research (like the baby I am) The anime for this manga is coming out this autumn, so keep an eye out for that too! The PV dropped only a few days ago, it looks so good! Also, I never got chance to mention it in the video, but if you enjoy Blue Period, I would 100% recommended the autobiographical manga Blank Canvas by Akiko Higashimura for another artistic based manga from her own eyes. 👉 If you want to buy the manga, the links below are affiliate links which means if you buy something through the link (no extra cost to you!) I’ll receive a small commission and put it towards the channel. 1️⃣ Blue Period Volume 1 - 2️⃣ Blue Period Volume 2 - 3️⃣ Blue Period Volume 3 - 🟦 CREDITS 🟦 Manga: Blue Period Author: Tsubasa Yamaguchi Translations: Ajani Oloye () Editing: Haruko Hashimoto () Lettering: Lys Blakeslee () Cover designs: Matthew Akuginow MAJOR BIG thank you to Nies for his lovely help and work on this video! (Credited at Christopher Nies) You can find him on twitter: , In particular, most of the amazing manga animation he did for me are in the “Summary of the story“ section of the video :) Thanks again! And also Joe over at Beyond Ghibli () for helping with the first-ish section of the script! Thank you, man! 🟦 OTHER 🟦 Find me on twitter: For a great majority of the music in this video, I used the beautiful soundtracks from Jonny Easton - Wings (Link: ​) - Memories (Link: ) - Old Soul (Link: ) Check out his channel Link: Music: Jonny Easton 🟦 CONTRIBUTE SUBTITLES/CAPTIONS 🟦 🟦 TIMESTAMPS 🟦 00:00 What is talent? 6:47 Undermining the artistic craft 11:22 Stigma of the arts 15:25 Summary of the story 16:24 Outro