Chi no wadachi (血の轍, Blood on the tracks) is a manga written and drawn by Shūzō Oshimi (押見 修造, born in Kiryū on 19 March 1981). Published in Japan initially in chapters in the bi-weekly seinen magazine Big Comic Superior between 24 February 2017 and 8 September 2023, for a total of 153 chapters, the…
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