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

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Oct 25 Yearning Teens, Frustrated Romance, Pretty Skies — Is There Anything Else to Makoto Shinkai?

plaguing all the other entries in the book, and bluntly drops the supposition "Could it be that all 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. This was not a good idea though. It seemed that whatever was haunting him did not want him to talk about it, because the disgrace around him increased. For this reason, he put on hold the publication of further extra chapters involving his old office but not PTSD Radio itself. Is PTSD Radio still on hiatus?

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Now as for the rumors, this is what really happened with Masaaki Nakayama. According to the extra chapters included in volumes 5 and 6 of PTSD Radio, he indeed started to experience strange occurrences. However, the source of them is not the manga itself, but the office he used as a studio for its production. 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. 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.

Demonic Dummy: A straw dummy that might be possessed by the God of Hair (or might be one of its forms) appears. 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. Prehensile Hair: Hair and its manipulation is a recurring element of the ghosts in the stories, based on the long-forgotten rituals related to the worship of the God of Hair. As mentioned before, PTSD Radio was never on hiatus due to the alleged supernatural tragedies suffered by the author. Nevertheless, the manga was paused at some point after volume 6. The cause of this happening is quite boring in comparison to the rumors. PTSD Radio was published in Nemesis, a bimonthly manga magazine that has been discontinued since 2018. Due to this, now Nakayama’s serialization has been transferred to another digital publication, Comic Days. This change probably stalled a bit the publication of new chapters, but as of December 2022, Nakayama is working on new chapters for PTSD Radio. Funnily enough, he is aware of the rumors about his work, and he believes this is a result of misinformation and limited research.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.