Blue Period volume 4 - Tsubasa Yamaguchi

 So we are back with the next volume of the painting manga Blue Period, and the exams are getting really close now.

So will Yatora stand up to the challenge and make it to both the entrance exams for TUA?

With only a month to go before the first exam, miss Ooba tells him he needs to get an edge and varry his compositions some more.  This puts him down a bit though, as Yatora's confidence takes a dip due to that and he needs to get his focus back together.  But he keeps his head up high, unlike Maki who feels being held back by her sister's achievements in the past, or her friend who even had to be hospitalised due to sleep deprevation and an eating disorder.

But with a week to go, Yatora starts developping a rash himself from the stress.  His friend Koi meets up with him, telling he decided to go to pastry school inspired by Yatora's decision to chase his dream.  But when the exams start, Yatora struggles with the assignment, draw a self-portrait, while Yuka just downright quits.

When the first exam is in full swing, Yatora's mirror is accidentally knocked over.  Seeing his reflection in the shattered pieces, he decides to make his portrait like that, to show the various aspects of his personality.  This makes him go into the assignment with confidence and fun, a feeling he had been missing lately.

Now with the first exam finished, he just has to wait a couple of days to see if he passed and can get into the second exam...

So that's already the first exam passed, I estimate the next book, volume 5, will take us around the end of the anime's first season.  And considering I'm having volume 12 on my way this month, a LOT will be discovered past the first season for sure!