Manga demographics do not reflect what “should” or “shouldn’t” read based on your identity, but simply how different series are marketed. Marketing is often tied to different kinds of content like fight scenes or battles, romance, and more.

Blue period follows a perfect highschool student named Yatora Yaguchi finding his passion for art, and pursuing this in his goal to get into a prestigious art college. He meets new people, discovers more about himself, and fulfills his life in the process.

A former child-hood bully, Shoya reconnects with the deaf girl he tormented years prior, Shoko. Currently both characters are suffering from depression, but still form a bond in this story about friendship, coming of age, and personal growth.

This completed coming-of-age is about a highschool boy who stumbles across the diary of his classmate Sakura Yamauchi. This diary contains her biggest secret– she is dying from a pancreatic disease. He sets out to befriends her before her passing, in this bittersweet tale of romance and mortality.