Tsubasa Yamaguchi

Ahh, this volume explores the wholesomeness and purity of kids making art. Yatora's new part-time job involves him helping out with the kids' community art class. This series loves to overthink and over-analyze everything.

We see with the kiddies in art class the moment when art either takes a back seat for "serious pursuits" like focusing on education, career, or parental expectations. Or, when the love of creating art, follows you to adulthood.

It also shows how much parental approval or lack thereof can significantly alter a child's creations.

I'm glad to see Yatora get to see art without so much technical thinking and judgment behind it. His art teachers can be so harsh, sometimes. Making art shouldn't feel like a chore, and I think that's what he has been missing.

Also, with Hashida ... the experience with Sae will either endear him to teaching or the pain of making an impact on a student's life just for them to leave or drop art will deter him.… (mais)

“… It’s like … I became an adult without actually growing up.”

Yotasuke is still so aggy, socially stunted, but emotionally vulnerable. But I get him in a way. Art isn’t the only thing to him, and it’s annoying for him when people think that's all he does or wants to talk about. In this volume, we see another side of him, and he *GASP* makes a friend.

Because this manga loves to be so deep it can’t sleep, Yatora (read: we ask) asks do you have to love art to do it? If you just have a natural talent for art, is that enough? If you love art, should it be your career? All probing questions most artists have asked themselves.

Still, enjoying this series! This volume was very emotional. The majority of the art professors still make me want to fight them. They come off as so rude and pretentious all the time. But Yatora be eating it up, so who I am to stand in the way?… (mais)