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Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 Publisher: VIZ Media Publication Date: September 20, 2022 ISBN: 9781974734641 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Friendship, Grief, Art, VIZ Media
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In volume 2, Yatora attends a summer prep academy to help hone his skills for the TUA (Tokyo University of the Arts). The classes focus on oil paintings, which is one part of the lengthy admissions process to get into the university. The instructor, Ooba-sensei, doesn’t pull any punches when letting Yatora know that his art is lacking in composition, originality, and expression. She urges him to study composition, and to look at art to figure out what he likes. Yatora goes to a couple of museums with some classmates and finds a few pieces he likes. He also practices with tons of different art pieces and enrages his classmates with his lack of understanding of composition, but by the end of the volume, he's done a lot of hard work and improved moderately in these important aspects of creating art.
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Sara's Rating: 9/10 Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 Publisher: Kodansha Publication Date: June 28, 2022 ISBN: 9781646514663 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 9/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, School Life, Art, Romance, Friendship, Kodansha 
Yatora Yaguchi is a second-year high school student who hangs out with the “delinquents,” but he works really hard to get good grades despite his appearance. Everyone in Yatora's class is starting to figure out what college and profession they want to go into, but Yatora isn’t sure what he wants to do once he graduates. None of his hard work makes him feel alive, and he has no particular passions or hobbies. After seeing a beautiful painting in his art class, he decides to actually put some effort into his art assignment to paint “your favorite scene”. He finds immense satisfaction in painting and the praise he receives even though he didn’t finish it. He starts to earnestly learn art in the hopes of making it into Tokyo University of the Arts, a highly competitive, but only public, university dedicated to Art.
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Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 Publisher: Little, Brown Ink Publication Date: March 16, 2021 ISBN: 9780759555457 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Graphic Fiction, Art, Friendship |
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