Blood on the Tracks - Recommendations

• Vol: 13; Ch: 147
• 2007 - 2013

Punpun is a relatively normal elementary school student; he goes to lessons, does his homework and gets on well with his classmates. Unfortunately, it’s everyone else around him that’s bonkers! With a crowd of crazy teachers playing hide and seek or having extreme reactions to even the tiniest situation at school, his father kept at bay on domestic violence charges, and only his unemployed layabout uncle to look up to Punpun’s life is anything but simple. However, despite the mayhem surrounding him, Punpun still continues to quietly live on, contemplating his dreams, experiencing the joy and terror of falling in love, and trying to deal with his anxieties about sex, religion, and growing up.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 93
• 2014 - 2016

Jin has lived a tough life. One of his oldest memories is waking up in the hospital, having received an artificial heart valve, and a glass eye. And as a student, he's relentlessly bullied for his disabilities. But Jin's school life is nothing compared to his home life, where he's raised by his father, a serial killer who targets young women and forces the boy to act as his accomplice. Can Jin do anything to stop his father's reign of terror without becoming the next victim?

• Vol: 16+; Ch: 172+
• 2020 - ?

Reiji’s life is as miserable as the small town he can’t escape. The most interesting thing that’s ever happened there is a double suicide down by the river. Does Reiji have any power over his fate, or will he too fall into the abyss? Reiji’s mother is checked out, he’s stuck caring for his grandmother with dementia, and his childhood friend treats him like a lackey. Then beautiful, big-city pop star Nagi miraculously shows up working the counter at the local convenience store. Reiji is starstruck. When she offers him the ultimate way out of his claustrophobic existence, will he succumb to temptation...?

• Ch: 74
• 2016 - 2018

Yoseob, normally very quiet and composed, is in the police station convicted of stabbing 8 civilians with a knife. Everyone's wondering whether he actually committed the crime. Does he, a mere high-schooler, really have any reason to have done such a horrifying act? Does his obsessive love for his older brother, Jaeha, have something to do with it?

• Ch: 50
• 2022 - 2023

After 6 years of living alone, a trip abroad leaves Hayoung penniless, and she's forced to move back in with her mother. After their long time apart, the two begin to get re-acquainted. But as some not-so-minor issues start to crop up, Hayoung begins to remember why she left.

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 8+
• 2019 - ?

Nazuna Nonohara, a porn actresses with androphobia. This manga revolves around Nazuna's past, and the tragedy that she experienced.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 5
• 1998 - 1999

Rio Sakaki was raised by an unsympathetic father and a stepmother whose dream of a normal, happy life drove her to harass the poor girl and have her institutionalized. As a result, Rio developed suicidal tendencies and an aloof, distant personality that drove all potential friends away. But things change for the girl when she meets the studious, yet just as troubled Sahoko one day, and in time, Rio's icy exterior begins to melt. Together, the two girls quickly become fast friends and try to carve out their own happiness in a world that has neglected them.

• Ch: 48
• 2020

To save one, she'll kill the other. A miraculous, 1-in-200,000 chance birth of conjoined twins. The probability of their survival? Less than 5%. Born with just one heart between the two of them, the Kang sisters face a sinister fate: for one to survive, the other must die. Their mother faces a horrible choice. How would you decide?

• Vol: 11; Ch: 57
• 2009 - 2014

Takao Kasuga is a lonely boy who spends his days immersed in books to escape his frustration with life. His only source of joy is the beautiful Saeki, who he secretly admires from afar. However, Takao's obsession goes too far one day when, in a moment of emotional folly, he steals the girl's gym clothes and takes them home with him. Worse, his terrible deed is spotted by Sawa Nakamura, a mysterious outcast who sits behind him in class who threatens to reveal the boy's secret unless he promises to engage in a contract with her. At first it seems Sawa just wants some companionship, but soon it becomes clear that this "contract" involves more than mere afternoon chats. In fact, Takao is about to discover just how dangerous his bond with Sawa is and how it threatens to tear everything - his life, his love, and even his sanity - apart. 

• Vol: 9+; Ch: 70+
• 2021 - ?

"My wife made a rule for our home: 'Don't talk to Dad.'" "Isn't that domestic violence? Weren't you sending me an SOS for help?" Reitarou Shinotani has been long ignored by his wife and daughter, left all alone, and forced to do nothing but eat and sleep in a small, dark, cramped room in the house. What fate awaits him, as he aims to revitalize his family...?