| Blood on the Tracks | |
&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Blood_on_the_Tracks_vol1.jpg) First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Seiichi (as a baby) and Seiko Osabe | |
| 血の轍 (Chi no Wadachi) | |
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| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Shūzō Oshimi |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
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| Imprint | Big Comics Superior |
| Magazine | Big Comic Superior |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | February 24, 2017 – September 8, 2023 |
| Volumes | 17 |
Blood on the Tracks (Japanese: 血の轍, Hepburn: Chi no Wadachi) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shūzō Oshimi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Superior from February 2017 to September 2023, with its chapters collected into 17 tankōbon volumes. The story follows a middle school student, Seiichi Osabe, and his relationship with his overprotective mother, who after a certain event, begins to show a darker and horrifying side towards her son.
The series is licensed in English in North America by Vertical, who started releasing the volumes in print in February 2020; it is also digitally published by Kodansha USA since August of the same year.
By May 2023, Blood on the Tracks had over 2.3 million copies in circulation.
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