PTSD Radio 1 (Vol. 1-2): Omnibus (PTSD Radio 2-in-1)

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Some people might find the fact that the stories start to follow a certain pattern as a con, making them feel predictable. Of course, it's up for everyone to decide whether that kind of format is entertaining for them or not. As for me, in the vast majority of them it wasn't a problem at all. However, for the sake of this review, I felt it was worth of mentioning this aspect. NAKAYAMA: This is embarrassing, but I don't, not entirely. I see part of the chronology, and I try to fill in the gaps until I start to get a better sense of what's going on. Then I do that over and over. Like Junji Ito's Uzumaki, PTSD Radio takes something everyday and weaves it into a series of chilling, cryptic, twisted, repellant, and alluring manga stories that become more than what they first seem.

NAKAYAMA: No, not to speak of. My feeling is that if someone encountering one of those apparitions was able to give it a name, it would suggest they had the mental or psychological bandwidth left to do so – but I don't think they do, or would. I simply speak on behalf of the characters, so I don't know anything they don't know. Protagonist Journey to Villain: It's shown that in the distant past, the God of Hair was a benevolent force that helped villagers as long as its rituals were properly observed. However, its power was badly abused by several prominent people to kill off their rivals and have a largely innocent but compulsively loyal woman pay for the crime. Having its main totem smashed likely didn't help either. Laser-Guided Karma: A member of a group of school bullies ends up mysteriously comatose after threatening to cut the hair of a weird new kid. Turns out he's not the first one.NAKAYAMA: Hmm… I'm no exorcist, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think if you run into a being like that, the best thing to do is not to take it too seriously. Most of them are just figments of your imagination. Most of them…probably… The various eerie things that appear in PTSD Radio aren't given names in the story, but do you have names that you personally use for them? Carried into modern Japan from a forgotten past, the being known as Ogushi haunts and tortures humans of all kinds. Little is know about Ogushi's curse, except that it resides in an unexpected place: human hair. PTSD Radio ( Kouishou Rajio or After Effects Radio Network) is a horror manga by Masaaki Nakayama (author of Fuan no Tane), that consists of short, eerie ghost stories. Unlike Fuan No Tane, the stories here aren't completely unrelated and many intertwine at different points. A recurring theme is the probably-malevolent "God of Hair" and the people who worship it.

the stories we've shared are connected in some way?" directly within its dialogue. But it still mostly Surreal Horror: Horrible things happen to people for no discernible reason they can understand... the problem is, those horrors often turn out to have their own logic, which doesn't mesh with human understanding. Room Full of Crazy: One of the weird boy's victims obsessively writes invitations to the God of Hair into the walls and floors of his room. plaguing all the other entries in the book, and bluntly drops the supposition "Could it be that all Explosive Breeder: The Body Horror things multiply copiously inside human bodies, and exit in a rush via any available orifices.Traumatic Haircut: Done to a young girl in a rural village, though apparently as some kind of ritualistic safety precaution by her family, to stop the "god of hair" from taking it, and threatened towards a strange transfer student by a gang of bullies. Later on, there are indicia that it's a very old tradition, that has something to do with the ultimate source of whatever's happening. NAKAYAMA: When I was a kid, my uncle on my father's side got me and a bunch of my cousins together at my grandma's house to tell scary stories, and that's where my interest started. As a matter of fact, though, I'm quite the scaredy-cat! I can't bring myself to watch horror movies or TV horror series. I won't go into haunted houses, and I'm too scared by other horror manga to read anything but my own work! Maybe it's because I'm so readily scared that I'm so full of frightening ideas—it might be exactly what enables me to create these stories. NAKAYAMA: There's no particular message. The commingling of past and present simply shows that wills can be connected across time and space. PTSD Radio volumes 1-6 are currently available in print as three omnibus volumes from Kodansha Comics. You can read our review of the digital version here and in the Fall 2022 Manga Guide.

What's It About? There exists an entity lurking in the shadows. It will grasp victims by their hair and pull them down, down to their death. You can see it out of the corner of your eye, its grasping hands from the streets below or shadows cast on the street. It's unknown whether its a god, a curse, or a psychosis. PTSD Radio จะได้รับการตีพิมพ์ต่อเนื่อง อาจารย์นากายามะได้เช่าบ้านหลังหนึ่งพร้อมจ้างทีมงานไว้สำหรับวาดผลงานเรื่องนี้ หลังจากที่เริ่มทำงานกันไปได้สักระยะ ทั้งตัวอาจารย์และทีมงานก็ได้พบกับเหตุการณ์แปลก ๆ มากมาย ไม่ว่าจะเป็นรอยข่วนบนเพดาน, กลิ่นเหม็นจากของเสีย, ไฟฟ้าที่ติด ๆ ดับ ๆ และการพบเห็นเงาประหลาดในอาคาร ยิ่งเวลาผ่านไป เหตุการณ์ก็เริ่มหนักข้อขึ้นเรื่อย ๆ จนทีมงานบางคนทนไม่ไหวขอลาออกกันไป บางคนก็มีอาการป่วย PTSD Radio has story and art by Masaaki Nakayama, with English translation by Adam Hirsch and lettering by Pekka Luhtala. Kodansha Comics released the first volume digitally in 2017 and will release its first and second volume as physical omnibus version for the first time on October 18. Like Junji Ito’s Uzumaki, PTSD Radio takes something everyday and weaves it into a series of chilling, cryptic, twisted, repellant, and alluring manga stories that become more than what they first seem. Carried into modern Japan from a forgotten past, the being known as Ogushi haunts and tortures humans of all kinds. Little is know about Ogushi’s curse, except that it resides in an unexpected place: human hair.Anime Senpai ได้ลงบทความเปิดเผยสาเหตุที่ PTSD Radio ไม่ได้เขียนต่อนั้น มาจากเรื่องน่ากลัวที่เกิดขึ้นจากตัวนักเขียนเอง PTSD Radio จะหยุดการสานต่อไปแบบไม่เป็นทางการ แต่อาจารย์นากายามะ ก็ยังปล่อยผลงานอื่น ๆ อย่าง Fuan no Tane หรือ "เมล็ดพันธุ์แห่งความวิตก" ออกมาให้อ่านกันอยู่ ซึ่งนั่นสามารถอธิบายได้ว่าสุขภาพของอาจารย์ยังคงแข็งแรงพอที่จะสร้างผลงานมังงะต่อไปได้ แต่ก็ยังไม่มีอะไรอธิบายได้ว่าเรื่องหลอน ๆ ในสตูดิโอเก่าและอาการป่วยนั้น เป็นแค่เรื่องบังเอิญหรือเพราะมังงะเรื่องนี้กันแน่