#血の轍

[celestialmega]

Chi no wadachi, 血の轍, Blood on the Tracks, a trail of blood by Shūzō Oshimi.

#manga screencap #manga #manga cap #mangacap #manga art #manga page #shūzō oshimi #Chi no wadachi #血の轍 #Blood on the Tracks #a trail of blood

[10431922]

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[memory-echo]

To Leave or not to Live

There’s been a lot of confusion over the latest chapters. After Seiko falls down the stairs, Seiichi takes it upon himself to take care of her. The question on the tip of everyone’s tongue is ‘why’. Why does he go through all the trouble of taking care of Seiko, given their history...?

If this is to be taken literally, this is as good as a DNR. It's not like she signs a document or anything, and it's not even like "she’s right in the head" to make this kind of decision for herself, but if you take this seriously, she's not very keen on living. Not surprising, since she was never very keen on living, anyway.

For context sake: the year before, Seiko told Seiichi all about her crappy childhood and he realized the truism that hurt people hurt people, and left. He continued to pay for her rent, but they didn't contact each other for over a year, and he started to live his life in a much more positive manner. All good, so far. Then she falls off the stairs and he's sucked back into the madness.

So, why is he taking care of his mother, after she told him that she didn’t want him to do anything? Does he think he can build a more positive relationship with her? 

I’ve read comments of people who think this line is menacing. It could easily go both ways: it could be “there's no way out for you, but don't worry, I won't let you die alone” or it could be “so, you want to die? I will force you to live, then”, but I don't think it's either of those.

Rather, both interpretations or possibilities are predicated on a lie. The fact is that Seiko just isn't there anymore; she's just a bag of bones. If Seiichi wants to start a new positive relationship, it's too late for that. If he wants some kind of revenge for what she did to him, she's not there to feel guilty or remorseful or anything, really, her brain isn't there at all. I don't know what he's trying to do, but whatever it is, he's just wasting his time and money.

I think this has nothing to do with revenge. When he hears about her accident, he imagines that it's karma for trying to kill his cousin. It has nothing to do with the fact that she abused him for 13 years. Also, what kind of revenge includes this? 

Wasting money on rent, spending resources on food and adult diapers doesn't seem like revenge to me. One could argue that it's the exact same situation as it was in the past: Seiko had complete power over her son and now the tables have turned. But you know what the difference is? Seiko used her husband's money to keep control over her son, she used his resources to show how dissatisfied she was about her life. There was no self-sacrifice, though, it wasn't her money, which makes it very Machiavellian of her to use her husband's resources to hurt him.

Seiichi is using his hard-gained salary (which I can't imagine is very high) to take care of a person he could easily abandon in her own apartment or smash her skull in while she was taking a bath... That would’ve been the end of all his problems!

Instead, he does this.

Changing diapers and imagining her as a toddler (that was an interesting imagery, by the way). Is he trying to correct the original wound that was inflicted onto her by her own parents?! Again, that's not going to work. For all we know she's too demented to even be aware that the person taking care of her is her son. Even if he gives her first class treatment, she doesn't know who he is. If there is some remnant of consciousness she said she didn't want to live, so...

In a way, he has been taking care of his mother his entire life since he was parentified by Ichiro. That was the problem in the first place, that he always felt responsible for his mother's misery, so this really isn't a change of pace for him. When he was a kid, he wasn't changing diapers, but he was lying to the police about the attempted murder, which, by the way, she seemed to have secretly wanted him to confess the truth, if you go by her expression...

In the end, the story repeats itself: she never loved him or wanted him, and all Seiichi ever wanted was his mother's love, which he’ll never get.

#押見修造 #Shūzō Oshimi #血の轍 #Chi No Wadachi #Blood On The Tracks #A Trail of Blood #manga #Seiichi Osabe #Seiko Osabe #SaveSeiichiKun

[weebookey]

"Blood on the Tracks" Volume 13 by Shuzou Oshimi [Textless]

#血の轍 #Chi no Wadachi #Manga Cover #Cleaned Manga #Seinen Manga #Shuzou Oshimi #Aku no Hana #Blood on The Tracks

[infantinplastic]

#blood on the tracks #chi no wadachi #血の轍 #manga #infantinplastic

[iphianasssa]

血の轍

Chi no wadachi

Cut the strings. Forget her. You're not her puppet. There's a whole universe inside of your head.

#chi no wadachi #血の轍 #traumacore #art #mangacap #seinen #manga panel #horror manga

[tamiyagantetsusai]

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[blackperiod]

Chi no wadachi (血の轍) by Shūzō Oshimi.

#manga #manga panel #manga cap #manga chapter #chi no wadachi #blood on the tracks #shuzo oshimi #manga aesthetic #monochrome #血の轍

[butts-and-stuff413]

The handshakes of Shuzo Oshimi

Added one more as I have since read blood on the tracks :''')

#straight poetry bruv #cropped sakurane out of the last one bc he is a bitch #Aku no hana #The flowers of evil #flowers of evil #Happiness #ハピネス #yukiko gosho #sawa nakamura #takao kasuga #nanako saeki #*my longest yeah boi ever* #i actually posted on Tumblr wow :') #Manga #Blood on the Tracks #血の轍 #shuzo oshimi #押見 修造

[obscuredseclusion]

#血の轍 #Blood on the tracks #Chi no wadachi #Manga #Shūzō Oshimi #Seinen #Psychological #Horror #Slice of life #Volume 14 #Cover

[animehouse-moe]

Blood On The Tracks - Shuzo Oshimi

⚠️Warning: there Will be spoilers briefly mentioned⚠️

This is my first Shuzo Oshimi work, evidently. So I hardly have a way to explain myself with this. I wish I could use the art, but without purpose or understanding they don't mean anything, and I hardly believe I'd be able to make the most of them. So let's get this started.

Blood On The Tracks is a psychological thriller, and to a degree horror, story about the abusive, toxic, and controlling relationship of a mother and her son. It's harrowing, it's disturbing, it's engaging, you'll flip page after page after page, faster and faster reading as quick as you can to get to the next moment to get to that big piece. And then bask in it.

So how's it any different from any other psychological series then? Well, I always struggle with that separation, but Oshimi has done an incredible job of making it easy. Dread. That ugly emotion hanging over you throughout the story, waiting for things to go wrong. It builds up and up and up... and then vanishes. A good psychological series will keep you on your toes, it will keep you guessing as to when something might happen, if something could happen. And Oshimi executes that perfectly. There's very few "terrible" moments in the manga, very few that really take that dread and turn it into something. More often than not the dread will build until the air's so thick you could cut it, and then it will. It'll reset, and go from the beginning.

Because that's what this is all about. A cycle. A circle, in which things go round and round and round. Guilt, that builds into fear, that builds into terror, that builds into nothing. Just to start again. It's.. exhilarating. It hangs on to that moment, waiting for the monster to appear from behind the open door, but you never see it. You can hear it, right outside of your vision, waiting, pacing around, but it won't show its face. It won't let that fear dissipate so easily.

Nor will it allow you to understand what's lurking in the shadows. What the shape of the monster is, what it looks like, what it is. You know what it's doing, but you don't know what that monster is, where it comes from. The mother, Seiko, is an enigma, a character who's purpose is to not be understood, and by extension, Seiichi is meant to be our vehicle for attempting to understand her.

It's incredible, it takes such a unique and impressive look at the dynamic and relationship that is entirely of Seiichi's perspective, not the reader's. Seiko's face twists and contorts, becoming both unrecognizable and nostalgic, shapeshifting into what Seiichi sees in his mother. And Seiichi's need for a sense of self is incredible. He's so starved for it, for a feeling of being a person, and searches desperately for that person to cling to, to prove that he is living and breathing. It's pathetic, he's crawling around in the darkness groping for the light, with his mother's hands covering his eyes.

For anyone that wants something thrilling, disturbing, discomforting, and overall serves to be confusing but nonetheless riveting, Blood On The Tracks is the answer. It will absolutely not fail to capture and trap readers between its pages as they dive headfirst into its story.

#Blood on the tracks #chi no wadachi #shuzo oshimi #psychological manga #血の轍 #押見修造 #manga recommendation #manga review #anime and manga #manga

[celestialmega]

Chi no wadachi, 血の轍, Blood on the Tracks, a trail of blood by Shūzō Oshimi.

#manga screencap #manga #manga cap #mangacap #manga art #manga page #shūzō oshimi #Chi no wadachi #血の轍 #Blood on the Tracks #a trail of blood

[10431922]

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[memory-echo]

My impressions on the finale of Chi no Wadachi

So, first things first: Fukiishi has superpowers is confirmed, right? I mean, seeing into the future is a super power, isn't it? 😂

I mean, she had already predicted the future when she warned him he would be crazy from being in close proximity with his mother, and that turned out to be true, so she's had the superpowers since she was 14.

I thought it was common sense back then, but now I'm thinking that she always knew more...

This panel killed me. It just killed me. Excuse me while I cry my eyes out. 😭😭😭

I don't know if it's intended to be a call-back or not, but coming from chapter 152, I tend to think it is… and it just kills me. 😢

Shūzō Oshimi is a big fan of visual echoes and silhouettes, isn't he? Wildly different states of mind = wildly different silhouettes.

Seiichi is a true hero who embodies the boundless strength of the human spirit. He was plunged into the depths of hell by the person he should've trusted the most, and through enduring countless hardships, he taught us that our true strength lies in finding out who we really are.

Seiichi's legacy will forever inspire us to be authentic and stand tall, no matter what challenges life throws our way. His journey will never be forgotten. 🫡

And credit to the author for keeping the promise. Both kids are alive and in relative peace. 🕊️

It would've been awesome if the kids could've lived together, but as the philosopher Jagger once said "you can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes you get what you need."

In closing: "Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life." 📚🤍 #FernandoPessoa

I guess what I'm trying to say is “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury”, and in that respect, Seiichi has succeeded as admirably as anyone who ever lived. Also, all the time in the world and all the books you can read - that's my idea of Heaven!

#押見修造 #Shūzō Oshimi #血の轍 #Chi No Wadachi #Blood On The Tracks #A Trail of Blood #Seiichi Osabe #Fukiishi Yuiko #SaveSeiichiKun #manga #finale #thoughts

[evasketchbook]

Sketch from my favorite horror manga series

#sketch #doodle #sketchbook #art #drawing #Blood on the tracks #血の轍 #Hepburn: Chi no Wadachi #Shūzō Oshimi #horror manga #chi no wadachi

[1panel1day]

#血の轍 #chi no wadachi #101 #manga cap #panel #manga panel