Trace

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Synopsis

One day, monsters, known as "Troubles," appeared and began indiscriminately attacking people. Sometimes they took the form of humans, and sometimes they simply looked like horrific monsters. However, at the same time, human beings known as "Traces" also began to appear. Despite being human, they had superhuman powers. Though they often fight the Troubles, many humans see them as just another threat. Kamiyama Yu was born as a Trace, and he so terrified his parents with his power that they sent him away. Growing up alone and apathetic, Yu began hunting Troubles to train himself. One day, he was outmatched and nearly killed, and he ended up being taken in by a human girl, Akane, and her father. Yu didn't tell them he was a Trace, and let them believe instead that he was an ordinary human orphan. Now, for the first time, he has the opportunity to live with people who care for him, people who see him as a human and not a monster. Will he be able to protect his new family, and keep them from finding out what he is? (Source: MangaHelpers)

Publication notes

Trace is a re-telling of the original Korean webtoon of the same title, drawn in standard manga format by Amematsu.

Published

Mar 12, 2011 to May 12, 2012

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Main characters

Jin Morrienoah35 fan favorites
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A Trace who has the ability to shoot bullets out of his fingers. Each one can shoot out a different kind of bullet. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Yun Seong Kim29 fan favorites
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A salaryman in his 30s with a wife and a daughter. Kim Yoon Seong was a man with a perfect life: a job, a loving wife, and a daughter. All this changes when one day he turns into a Trace with powerful legs. Being a law-abiding citizen, he decides to legally register as a trace, rather than hide his identity. Note: Tsukishiro Kai (月城カイ) is the name used in an alternate Japanese version/rewrite. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Mi Ri Cha9 fan favorites
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Teenage trace with incredible strength and a always positive personality. She is the number one trouble maker. Note: Ichijou Milly (一条ミリ) is the name used in an alternate Japanese version/rewrite. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Ghang Gwon Sa2 fan favorites
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Sa Ghang Gwon is a Trace with the ability to manipulate ice. His powers had been with him since his birth, and because he could not control them, Ghang Gwon accidentally attacked his own parents. With no cure or solution to Traces, his parents abandoned him on a street next to an old beggar woman Trace who could conjure fire. He wandered around for an indeterminable amount of time, living his life as a scavenger and losing his emotions. He engaged in battle with his first Trouble, but after realizing he could not defeat it, he encased himself in ice until it disappeared. He passed out in a park, where he was founf by Han Tae Eun. She took him home and asked her father if she could keep him. Afterward Tae Eun called Ghang Gwon her possession. Her family, consisting of only her and her father, adopted him, but Ghang Gwon, fearing that they would abandon him like his parents, hid from them his identity as a Trace. Over the years, he continued to battle Troubles, honing his skills. Whenever he is injured, though, he lets Tae Eun believe that he was bullied by his classmates. (Source: Wikia) Note: Kamiyama Yuu (神山ユウ) is the name used in an alternate Japanese version/rewrite. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Tae Eun Han2 fan favorites
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Hot-blooded and fiery, Han Tae Eun is well known in her school as a formidable fighter, more inclined to her fists than talking things through. She yells often, especially at Sa Ghang Gwon when he aggravates her. As a child her mother was killed by a Trouble in a park, and Tae Eun repeatedly visited the same spot her mother died, until she found a barely-conscious Sa Ghang Gwon lying there. She took him home and adopted him as her possession. At some point in time, she discovered he was a Trace and labored to protect his identity, unbeknownst to him. When Sa Ghang Gwon is taken away by the government, Han Tae Eun declares that she will become a Trace and be like him. She repeatedly battles Troubles at the expense of her own life, but then she awakens as a Trace. Her arms turn a sparkling red and shoot sparks, granting her inhuman strength and abilities. It seems that she needs to repeatedly punch hard objects like the ground to activate one of her arms, but if she strikes her fists together, the other arm will ignite. Tae Eun is easily angered and irritable but also fiercely protective of Sa Ghang Gwon. She protects him specifically to prevent him from fighting back, so that he won't accidentally reveal his identity as a Trace. She seemed to resent that he was a Trace while she wasn't and accused Ghang Gwon of the same feelings, since he tried to hide his true identity from her. She's stubborn, believing that if she fought Troubles, she would become a Trace. After she becomes one, she goes about fighting Troubles, in the same way Ghang Gwon did (dressed with a face mask). Tae Eun seems to hold romantic feelings for Ghang Gwon, getting jealous when he carries Se Yeon and tells Tae Eun to run while escaping a Trouble. (Source: Wikia) Note: Kiritani Akane (桐谷アカネ) is the name used in an alternate Japanese version/rewrite. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Dong Su Gang1 fan favorites
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Gang is a gambler with the trace ability to see through objects. Note: Kanda Taku (菅田タク) is the name used in an alternate Japanese version/rewrite. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Jee Hyun Ryu0 fan favorites
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Note: Tachibana Miyuki (橘ミユキ) is the name used in an alternate Japanese version/rewrite. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .
Do Gyun Kim0 fan favorites
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Note: Asakura Ryuuji (朝倉リュウジ) is the name used in an alternate Japanese version/rewrite. No voice actors have been added to this character. Help improve our database by searching for a voice actor, and adding this character to their roles .