Review of Blue Period

This is my first time writing a review and to put it short, the reason is because I never felt the need for it. However, seeing how controversial this show is being, I felt compelled to give my own two cents. For starters, I agree, the art is terrible. It's just not good, especially considering it's a show about art. I just criticized a show about music endlessly because the soundtrack isn't good enough considering music is the whole theme of the show, then why am I giving such a high score for Blue Period? How is it so deserving of a 10? Short answer: theart doesn't matter. I've watched my fair share of bad animation and they CAN make or break an anime sometimes but this one is not one of those cases. The bad art pales in comparison to everything this show has to offer.

Another opinion I see very often: the manga is better and this is a bad adaption. Maybe it is, maybe the manga really is better. The thing is, being a bad or a normal adaption doesn't mean it's a bad anime. Just how being a breathtaking adaption doesn't mean it's a good anime. Taking examples of each one:

Noragami: it isn't a good adaptation, the source material is way better, the anime messed up several things including using fillers and changing how the story really went to make it fitting of an "end". The characters doesn't have an ounce of the depth they have in the manga. However, as an anime, in a vacuum, I really like it. Noragami wasn't a bad experience regardless of how different from the manga it may have been.

3-Gatsu no Lion: it's pretty much a copy, it's what I would call a normal adaptation. Whether you're reading the manga or the anime, it'll be literally the same. Barely anything changes between them, and it's as much of a good anime as it's an amazing manga.

Kimetsu no Yaiba: now this is what I would call a perfect adaptation. It adapted the source material and improved it. All the comedy timings improved, the art improved, it's just amazing. Is it necessarily a good anime? Not really. I may have given it a 10 because the production is so breathtaking you can't just look away, but the story and the characters itself are pretty bland.

All that is to say that being a good, a normal or a bad adaptation of the source material shouldn't be an indicative of it being a bad or a good show. Regardless of it being better or worse than the source material, the anime is a piece on its own and it should be treated and reviewed as such.

Now about soundtrack, I genuinely didn't feel anything wrong with it. Heck, I barely noticed it, and while not noticing the soundtrack means it wasn't good, it also means it wasn't missed at any time. Whether that's good or not, it's up to you.

Now to what really matters: the characters. I get it, the support cast really isn't outstanding in any way shape or form. Some of them don't have any personality, others barely get any development and most of them are just plot devices. With all that in mind, now I ask you: so what?

Something that Blue Period made me realize is that sometimes it's ok if one of the characters is the sun and all the others are only stars, stespstones to make the sun shine even brighter. This is exactly what happens in Blue Period. The supporting characters are exactly what the name say here: supporting characters. They're there to redirect all the shine, all the light so Yatora can shine even brighter, and boy, how he shines.

Yatora is the sun but he doesn't shine alone. Ryuuji was an exquisite character as well, the few episodes of his arc were outstanding. Yotasuke was also a very intriguing character throughout the show and Mori could even be considered an absent main character, always being the driving force behind Yatora.

Yatora's friendship with the other three deliquents was also a very sweet thing, despite Yatora "leaving them behind", they never once mocked him, on the contrary, they supported him through everything. As superficial as their friendship may seem, they were great friends. His teachers as well were very interesting characters, one of them very peculiar and subtle, the other doing everything on her power to improve her students' art.

They really lacked a better, or any, development but as opposed to other shows that also lacked this element, I didn't miss it. I never felt the need to get any arc for any of them because this is a show about Yatora, he is the star, he is the sun. This is about Yatora following his passion, about Yatora making art, it's Yatora's coming of age story and it was told marvelously.