Blood on the Tracks #6

Shuzo Oshimi's deeply unsettling psychological manga continues with this sixth volume, and the cover says everything about its atmosphere: a young boy at the center presses his hands to his face in visible distress, surrounded on all sides by a dense crowd of faces — some curious, some oblivious, one laughing — rendered in Oshimi's remarkably naturalistic watercolor style. That suffocating sense of being lost and exposed within an indifferent crowd is exactly what makes *Blood on the Tracks* one of 2021's most emotionally arresting manga series.