(W) Tsubasa Yamaguchi (A/CA)
Tsubasa Yamaguchi
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 studies hard and gets
good grades, and he parties hard, staying out late drinking and
watching soccer with his friends. He checks all the boxes he needs
to be the perfect high school student. But it all starts to feel
empty, and he begins to wonder what part of his life expresses who
he is...or even if he has a unique voice at all. Then he wanders
into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye,
awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and
consumed, he dives in headfirst-and he's about to learn how savage,
unforgiving, and exhilirating creating art can
be!
