Awakening to the Joy of Painting
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 25, 2021
Life and priorities change for listless high schooler Yatora when he sees his classmate's painting and discovers an appreciation and talent for art.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 25, 2021
Life and priorities change for listless high schooler Yatora when he sees his classmate's painting and discovers an appreciation and talent for art.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Oct 2, 2021
Yatora enters the art club. Over summer break he takes part in special training to improve his skills after switching his college choice to art school.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 9, 2021
Yatora joins Yuka for extra lessons at Tokyo Art Institute. He has an artistic breakthrough when visiting a museum with his strange new classmates.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 16, 2021
TAI's night students join the intimidating afternoon classes to gear up for the next competition as the stress of art exams weigh on Yatora's friends.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 23, 2021
As exams near, Oba intensifies training. Yatora struggles to articulate abstract concepts, so Saeki encourages him to use a larger canvas for fun.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 30, 2021
Yatora experiments with various tools to find a secret weapon that will boost his art while exam stress begins to wear on the students' health.
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 6, 2021
Oba tells Yatora his weakness, which sends him spiraling. But a heart-to-heart with a close friend reignites his confidence as the first exam begins!
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 13, 2021
The first exam subject is "self-portrait." A mishap gives Yatora the hint he needs; Oba takes the class to a museum before exam results are announced.
Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 20, 2021
Three move on to the second exam, including Yatora, who must master "color." Yatora worries after Yuka gets a seedy job and refuses to go to art school.
Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Nov 27, 2021
Yuka and Yatora head to Odawara and bare their souls and bodies, hoping to overcome their personal challenges with art and their surrounding fears.
Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 4, 2021
After drawing his own body, Yatora is ready for the second exam: a nude model. But when his health declines from stress, Oba offers a secret weapon.
Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 11, 2021
The second exam is in full swing. Yatora struggles with illness and an unclear theme when sudden inspiration delivers answers and a final secret weapon.