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I started reading this due to seeing praise in reddit about this (I'm not a Redditor) and I'm glad that I did. It hooks from the very start (I'm not a big fan of art) with an interesting premise similar to Bakuman. The manga is intricately made with an amazing story about Yatora, a delinquent with good grades, adored by his peers and seemingly a future at one of the top colleges/university. However, one day, he stumbles upon an artwork that interests him and he starts practicing sketching places outside of his window. Overtime, he finds his true passion through art and those who surround ... him. He makes a risky choice, applying for only the top public art school that nearly no one makes in on their first attempt, Geidai/Tokyo University of the Arts. He puts his all into practicing for the big exam and when the day comes, series of misfortune occur. On the first Geidai exam, Yatora's mirror breaks putting him in a terrible situation. With a sense of despair, Yatora creates new styles and techniques, using the broken mirror to represent the many sides that exist to him, improvising and passing the first exam. However, during the second exam nothing exactly unlucky occurs but an issue that arose due to Yatora's working style. The manga shows the problem with overworking yourself while trying to accomplish something with Yatora suffering from this with rashes and illnesses. With limited time Yatora attempts to do his best to finish his drawing of the model using different themes and mashing them together to create a deeper meaning inside his artwork. Even with this artwork not being his best, he passes the exam and gets into Geidai. Although Blue Period didn't get the anime adaption that truly showed what it was about along with another season, the manga drops many life lessons some being about the consequences of overworking yourself, following your own passion rather than the desires of others, depression, parental abuse, etc. Simply a beautiful story that I'm surprised has only an 8.6 rating.

Cons:
Some characters might be a bit shallow and it was a bit unrealistic for someone that had just started art not as long as others to be able to pass the Geidai exams that notoriously had a 20:1 ratio of admission with first years nearly never passing.