Mastodawn

Brutally efficient, ‘A Trail of Blood’ is a great title of realistic psychological horror centered on the relation between a mom and her son.
Make sure you can handle the subject first because you will be shaken.

https://mangaispolitical.noblogs.org/post/2025/10/15/review-chi-no-wadachi/

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Manga is political Oct 15

Review: Chi no Wadachi

Chi no Wadachi (Blood on the Tracks, A Trail of Blood, 血の轍), 2017-2023, Oshimi, Shuuzou, Big Comic Superior Warning for realistic family trauma and abuse. STORY: 8 Meet Seiichi Osabe, a boy on the path to teenage-hood: new experiences, more freedom, new feelings, independence! Except that.. Seiichi has a mother, Seiko, who is taking a place that is too large in his life. Way too large. The story deals with psychological horror in a family context, and, the delivery is very powerful. […]

https://mangaispolitical.noblogs.org/post/2025/10/15/review-chi-no-wadachi/

Shrink4Men Jan 24, 2023

In my work, adult children of #narcissist, #borderline and #histrionic mothers (#ACON) who go #NoContact or #LowContact often have a harder time than clients who’ve done the same with #toxic fathers.

Ending ties with an #AbusiveMom begets a, “but she’s your mother...” social and familial #GuiltTrip and other #ShamingTactics.

Whereas clients who end or limit contact with similarly abusive dads are lauded as brave and as making the healthy choice.

Explains a lot, doesn’t it? (Think family court).

#AbuseHasNoGender #NPD #BPD #HPD