Chi no Wadachi

Seiichi Osabe is an only child living a mundane life. Just like any middle schooler, he has friends, a crush on a girl, and loving parents. However, Seiichi's mother is extremely overprotective, which causes others to view him as a mama's boy.

Although he does not consider her behavior to be unusual, a certain incident starts to open his eyes to just how dangerous her affection is. As Seiichi tries to break free from her grasp, he learns that his life is not as normal as he thought.

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Chi no Wadachi has been published in English as Blood on the Tracks by Kodansha USA under the Vertical Comics imprint since February 25, 2020.

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Osabe, Seiichi

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Osabe, Seiko

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Fukiishi, Yuiko

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Osabe, Ichirou

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Mitsuishi, Shigeru

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Mitsuishi, Kanji

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Shigeru's Mother

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Nov 14, 2023

syunus

Recommended

It is really a masterpiece in terms of plot and visuals, it is one of the few manga I have read in my life, and I never thought that I would experience all the emotions so intensely in a manga, the only manga I cried in my life, ...

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Nov 12, 2023

Jronvo

Mixed Feelings

The art in this manga is amazing, the characters are unique but the story is where it starts to get interesting if you want to read a story of a complicated relationship between a mother and her child then this one's for you. Overall i enjoyed reading it can be quite interesting and funny and pretty tense all together. I have mixed feelings for this manga but i wouldn't say its bad nor good but i think that is its charm as a reader this can give you mix feelings all throughout the series but that feeling is what keeps you reading it ive seen ...

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May 30, 2022

pichuscute

Not Recommended

Preliminary (79/153 eps)

At a certain point in the story, I found myself wishing the main character would just die. Keep in mind that this is the character who is supposed to be a victim and is supposed to be someone we sympathize with. However, the author has written these characters so outright incorrectly that I was wishing for the MC's death instead. Let that sink in.

Blood on the Tracks is meant to be psychological horror. However, after the first 30 chapters or so, the jig is up and it instead just becomes an extreme dumpster fire of a drama. This is because the "antagonist" ends up being ... so psycho that it becomes easy to understand/expect what she will do next, destroying any fear the reader might've had and replacing it with frustration instead. Now, normally, in a drama, there'd be some sort of character development or relatabilty involved with its characters to make you care about them, but here the author instead chooses to throw that out the window as hard as he possibly can at every opportunity.

In particular, with the main character, who after getting "reset" (brainwashed, I guess?) after a certain point in the story, becomes entirely impossible to understand or relate to. Maybe this would have worked if the story started with him in this state, but the jarring way it's written just ends up making it feel like a cop out for story progression/decent writing. And what's worse is that not all that long after, the author chooses to backtrack on this anyway. Only after making you hate the main character as much as he possibly could first, of course.

One of my biggest gripes with the story is how it handles the Fukiishi character, the only character I found myself feeling anything positive toward at all, despite not getting much of a focus. The author ends up using her as an emotional torture porn punching bag, which entirely defeats the purpose of her character and also imo of the story's premise. What's worse is that the author decides to taint everything relating to her with these creepy sexual undertones that feel extremely out of place. This is not the first time I've encountered this with the author, but I thought after a decade or so he might have grown the fuck up. Unfortunately, this shit is still in here and it's honestly offensive. I don't know if the author is some fucked up sexual deviant or has something mentally wrong with him or what, but I'd appreciate it if he'd just get some fucking help and keep this crap out of manga that could have otherwise had some potential.

This manga also draws on for far too long. By chapter 75, I was just begging for it to end, but this is somehow still ongoing with almost double that amount now. I understand they want money (you see them gloat about sales numbers every damn chapter) and probably wanted to extend this shit for as long as they could, but it absolutely destroys the pacing and ends up making the lack of psychological horror after the intro very apparent.

Finally, the manga'a art, unlike what some people claim, is really hit or miss. Some of the early panels do legitimate incite some fear with how they are drawn, but after some time, this stops happening very often. Instead, you get strangely expressionless characters that simply do not communicate their emotions/motivations/etc. in any meaningful way. I still do not even slightly understand what the weird panels with people's mouths opening are supposed to mean, because I've never seen a real human do anything like what he is drawing. Probably because they don't. Now, with that said, the environments are generally fine and this is admittedly drawn way better than his old stuff, which I'd just consider bad art outright, but this is still very disappointing wasted potential overall.

In any case, it turns out the hype for this manga is as BS as I feared. I really had hopes that the author had gotten better over the years. Maybe he got more ambitious and maybe the art got less trashy, but the biggest problems with his works are still very much here. In fact, he might have doubled down on them. Steer clear of Blood on the Tracks and steer clear of all of this author's other manga as well.

If you'd like some psychological mangaka that are good, read manga by Inio Asano or Naoki Urasawa instead. Please don't give this trash or its author any more undeserved attention.

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