Blue Spring

Taiyō Matsumoto’s Blue Spring is a stark, lyrical slice-of-life series from Viz Media, originally published as a single 2004 volume. It follows a group of disaffected high school students in Japan, capturing their restless energy and quiet desperation through Matsumoto’s signature loose, expressive artwork. This standalone work matters as a concentrated example of Matsumoto’s early storytelling, distilling his raw, observational style into a compact portrait of youth on the brink of adulthood.