Blood on the Tracks

血の轍

Middle schooler Seiichi Osabe lives a quiet, comfortable life under the constant care of his mother Seiko, whose attention he never questions. On a family hike, Seiichi watches Seiko deliberately shove his cousin Shigeru off a cliff, then turn to him with a calm smile — leaving the boy comatose and Seiichi the only witness. From that moment her doting affection curdles into something suffocating, and Seiichi must live each day inside the quiet horror of a mother whose love he can no longer trust.