Blue Period manga on hiatus until Spring 2024

The most recent edition of Afternoon announced that the manga Blue Period in Yamaguchi Tsubasa will go on hiatus until spring 2024. The cause of the hiatus has not been revealed.

Blue Period began publication in Kodansha’s Monthly Afternoon in June 2017.

Synopsis of Blue Period

Yatora is a perfect high school student with good grades and many friends. It’s an effortless performance and ultimately… a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting catches his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he’s never known. Compelled and consumed, he dives in head first – and is about to learn how wild and unforgiving art can be!

The animation for the anime adaptation was handed over to the studio Seven Arcs Pictures (Basilisk: The Ouka Ninja Scrolls), the chief director is Koji Masunari (Kamichu!, Kokoro Toshokan, Saber Marionette R), directed by Katsuya Asano (Yu☆Gi☆Oh! VRAINS), the argument is Reiko Yoshida (Arte, Girls und Panzer, High School Fleet, K-On!) and the character design is by Tomoyuki Shitaya (Bakuman, Hatsukoi Limited, Kiss x Sis, Oshi ga Budoukan Ittekuretara Shinu).