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

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For the most part, there is no real resolution or narrative rigidity; typically the protagonists will remark, either in narration or in dialogue, on a figure evident only to them, and the story will conclude on the revelation or the assertion of this phenomenon as real, stopping right before any explicit confrontation to make it clear that there is no real chance for them, no playing field even resembling level. Ogushi can't be accurately described as an active organizing or orchestrating force; the deity may serve as a starting point or a framework, but author Masaaki Nakayama's tendency is to treat it as almost extra-narrative: to be remarked on, but perpetually out of reach. The plot isn’t linear and shows different people and perspectives at different times, but the stories all sort of intertwine at some point. They’re all connected by the God of Hair.

Author of the horror manga PTSD Radio had to quit writing his manga due to creepy incidents that started happening to him related to his manga This is a weird, sort of disjointed manga of short stories featuring different people in a city or town, that’s affected by a curse or an evil after an idol/totem was destroyed. plaguing all the other entries in the book, and bluntly drops the supposition "Could it be that all

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I loved the story ideas surrounding body horror and dark imagery. The hair and the dark shadows have stayed particularly vivid in my mind. Anime Senpai ได้ลงบทความเปิดเผยสาเหตุที่ PTSD Radio ไม่ได้เขียนต่อนั้น มาจากเรื่องน่ากลัวที่เกิดขึ้นจากตัวนักเขียนเอง The impact, then, is double-edged. The brief propulsions of narrative, moving around and coming as they go without any resolution, carry a haunting effect in their saying, this is how the world is, everywhere, all the time; it can happen to anyone, and it does happen to everyone, and the world around you will not notice or care. On the other hand, its selection and prompt discarding of protagonists does not allow the author, or at least does not compel him, to develop his characters outside of their relationship to the overall plot, prompting the reader to ask if they should, in any sense beyond the aesthetic, care or be engaged in any active way.

Until anyone hears anything from Nakayama, PTSD Radio ends with the extra creepy bit of a mysterious ghostly voice breaking the fourth wall in a jumpscare to not talk about the story. It does well to let sleeping dogs lie sometimes, after all. Especially if someone starts hallucinating. Enter Masaaki Nakayama. Nakayama is no newcomer to horror comics, but his work was previously unavailable to English readers. He started his career in 1990 after his entry "Ridatsu" won the runner-up prize in a contest by Kodansha's Afternoon manga magazine in 1988. Another story, "SHUTTERED ROOM," took second place in the 20th annual Tetsuya Chiba Award's general category. He didn't focus solely on horror comics, but his apt eye for short, startling tales came to the forefront with his 2002 manga Fuan no Tane ( Seeds of Anxiety). The series, featuring an unsettling face with sideways features, inspired a live-action film by Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night's Toshikazu Nagae starring Anna Ishibana and Kenta Suga. 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.Written in a series of short fragments, the narrative has a broken, disjointed style that worked well to create an unsettling story. From a storytelling perspective, the narrative could be a little too fragmented but I could give up that for a creepy atmosphere.

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.

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This one was a fun one to read at night! It was creepy and the artwork made up for it. I love how unique the story is and the concept behind this book (each radio frequencies refering to each events taking place at different locations). Demonic Dummy: A straw dummy that might be possessed by the God of Hair (or might be one of its forms) appears. This included Nakayama himself, as one side of his face suddenly swelled up like a balloon and his temperature dropped...yet when he rewrote his idea to say no more, he suddenly felt fine. Cursed Item: A table, from which a ghost inexplicably emerges at night. When it is turned over to a monastery for inspection, the head priest immediately has it incinerated, and shows the owners several nails that had been imbedded in the wood. As he explains, it's likely the wood came from a tree used for ushi no toki mairi, turning it into a source of impurity and corruption. What first got you interested in the horror genre? What was the first work of horror that truly made you feel scared?