Anime First Episode Reaction: Blue Period
Feb. 19th, 2023 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennariaBLUE PERIOD - available on Netflix (subbed)
Amount watched: 1 episode of 12
Official description: Bored with life, popular high schooler Yatora Yaguchi jumps into the beautiful yet unrelenting world of art after finding inspiration in a painting.
Weeb rating: 2 or 3 out of 10. Yatora is in a Japanese high school (which has different expectations from American high schools), and all the discussions about university are very much Japanese-style rather than American-style.
Ass rating: 2 or 3 out of 10 - there's artistic nudes in the first episode, IIRC, and per the episode summaries available on Netflix, there will be nude models later.
Shit rating: So far, 1 out of 10. More discussion below.
Violence rating: 1 out of 10 - verbal violence rather than physical.
Crack rating: 1 out of 10 - the closest it comes to crack is that a bunch of delinquents can properly appreciate art, which is the kind of thing I want to see rather than the kind I don't.
Actual opinion: Allow me a tangent for a moment: one of my all-time favorite anime is HIKARU NO GO, because it takes a lot of the beats of a traditional sport anime and applies them to, well, the game of Go, which at the time was considered an old fogey's game. In the process, old tropes felt new again.
BLUE PERIOD feels like it's doing something similar. Art is not a sport! But the beats are there: Yatora discovering this shiny new thing at which he appears to have some talent, and which gives him an opportunity that he wouldn't have otherwise. Even better, the anime so far threads the needle of giving us art that, when the characters tell us it's good, we agree.
Amount watched: 1 episode of 12
Official description: Bored with life, popular high schooler Yatora Yaguchi jumps into the beautiful yet unrelenting world of art after finding inspiration in a painting.
Weeb rating: 2 or 3 out of 10. Yatora is in a Japanese high school (which has different expectations from American high schools), and all the discussions about university are very much Japanese-style rather than American-style.
Ass rating: 2 or 3 out of 10 - there's artistic nudes in the first episode, IIRC, and per the episode summaries available on Netflix, there will be nude models later.
Shit rating: So far, 1 out of 10. More discussion below.
Violence rating: 1 out of 10 - verbal violence rather than physical.
Crack rating: 1 out of 10 - the closest it comes to crack is that a bunch of delinquents can properly appreciate art, which is the kind of thing I want to see rather than the kind I don't.
Actual opinion: Allow me a tangent for a moment: one of my all-time favorite anime is HIKARU NO GO, because it takes a lot of the beats of a traditional sport anime and applies them to, well, the game of Go, which at the time was considered an old fogey's game. In the process, old tropes felt new again.
BLUE PERIOD feels like it's doing something similar. Art is not a sport! But the beats are there: Yatora discovering this shiny new thing at which he appears to have some talent, and which gives him an opportunity that he wouldn't have otherwise. Even better, the anime so far threads the needle of giving us art that, when the characters tell us it's good, we agree.