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PTSD Radio #4
後遺症ラジオ 4
………ゴク…………ビチャ……ズル…ズズ…………っまほ……んじゃで………影………ぶばろ゛お゛お゛ぉ゛ぁ゛………目ッ……はァ…はァ………の灰……ジ…故………人形ガガガ………ォ断チ……ィマス…………ゴッ！…………多血………忌ミ……ピチャ………ガサガサガサガサ…………がっ…げ……げべべ………………コチラハＡＥＲＮ－ＢＢＣ、「後遺症ラジオ」デス。チューニングノ必要ハ……アリマセン。
163 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 9, 2016
About the author
Masaaki Nakayama
67 books247 followersMasaaki Nakayama (中山昌亮) is a horror manga artist, and author of the series Fuan no Tane (Seeds of Anxiety).
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December 17, 2022
I didn't like this collection at first, but now I'm completely enamoured. I honestly don't care if the events are explained or not; it's all in the atmosphere. I can gaze at the art for hours because I adore it so much. When you read it, you have the uneasy sensation that someone is watching you just as they are observing the story's protagonist.
October 5, 2021
What we find scary or creepy is completely subjective. Among ten people watching the same horror movie, some of them will be terrified and some of them will remain completely unfazed, no matter how objectively good or bad the movies is. For me, this collection of short stories rooted in Japanese folklore encompasses everything I find scary in horror manga. It has a kind of body horror mixed with eerie atmosphere which reminds me of Junji Ito, my favourite manga author, and to me it's just terrifying. I absolutely love these scary faces. I would recommend this to all Ito's fans.
February 12, 2021
I almost gave this one 2.5 stars like I did volume 3, but the old story about the two lost girls brought some more context to the plot again.
December 21, 2025
Now this is starting to make sense to me. I see running, I see more unhinged imagery. And hair—so much hair.
Some sequences from the first volumes were explained here, and everything started to fall into place. How these events were seemingly connected. I’m just curious how this would end.
Not as creepy or terrifying as the first and second volumes. This one is actually less scary. That scene with the girl opening her window because she thought someone was singing their heart out was quite funny to me. I knew some creepy, distorted face would appear, but it still made me laugh. Am I being desensitized? Oh no. And that guy who decided to brush off the creepy presence and convince himself it was just his eyes playing tricks on him was hilarious. Like, dude—you’re being hunted. Haha. Your eyes aren’t the problem.
What happened to Kiku & Tsubomi? I want to know.
Piece of advice: if you want to understand this series, you’d better read it in one go, or you’ll get lost in a maze of profound horror.
Some sequences from the first volumes were explained here, and everything started to fall into place. How these events were seemingly connected. I’m just curious how this would end.
Not as creepy or terrifying as the first and second volumes. This one is actually less scary. That scene with the girl opening her window because she thought someone was singing their heart out was quite funny to me. I knew some creepy, distorted face would appear, but it still made me laugh. Am I being desensitized? Oh no. And that guy who decided to brush off the creepy presence and convince himself it was just his eyes playing tricks on him was hilarious. Like, dude—you’re being hunted. Haha. Your eyes aren’t the problem.
What happened to Kiku & Tsubomi? I want to know.
Piece of advice: if you want to understand this series, you’d better read it in one go, or you’ll get lost in a maze of profound horror.
October 22, 2023
Jeeesus...
April 27, 2023
A series of vaguely connected horror vignettes revolving around paranoia, urban legends and irrational fears coming to life in unexpected ways.
PTSD Radio is a unique horror manga that manages to be oddly captivating despite being vague and full of unanswered questions. It relies on primal fears and urban superstitions. Stuff like thinking you see a face in the shadows if you stare at the crack of a slightly closed door for long enough. Thinking someone is standing behind you when you close your eyes in the shower. Feeling like someone is hovering over you staring directly into your closed eyes when you’re trying to sleep in the middle of the night by yourself. The type of stuff that irrational anxiety and sleep paralysis demons are made of.
The artwork of the horror scenes always pop up right in your face with some really unnerving portrayals of paranoia-inducing oddities. It happens quite frequently as well, as the chapters are extremely short and always end with a bizarre twist. I wouldn’t say anything in here is truly terrifying, but it’s constantly eerie, atmospheric and visually uncomfortable.
There’s not really a conclusive end to the saga, just a series of loosely connected strange body-horror tales that last about 3-6 pages each. It’s good for a quick read with a lot of visual peculiarity.
My rating: 3.5/5
PTSD Radio is a unique horror manga that manages to be oddly captivating despite being vague and full of unanswered questions. It relies on primal fears and urban superstitions. Stuff like thinking you see a face in the shadows if you stare at the crack of a slightly closed door for long enough. Thinking someone is standing behind you when you close your eyes in the shower. Feeling like someone is hovering over you staring directly into your closed eyes when you’re trying to sleep in the middle of the night by yourself. The type of stuff that irrational anxiety and sleep paralysis demons are made of.
The artwork of the horror scenes always pop up right in your face with some really unnerving portrayals of paranoia-inducing oddities. It happens quite frequently as well, as the chapters are extremely short and always end with a bizarre twist. I wouldn’t say anything in here is truly terrifying, but it’s constantly eerie, atmospheric and visually uncomfortable.
There’s not really a conclusive end to the saga, just a series of loosely connected strange body-horror tales that last about 3-6 pages each. It’s good for a quick read with a lot of visual peculiarity.
My rating: 3.5/5
July 13, 2025
Phew, Band 4 ist wieder VIEL besser als der vorherige Teil.
Zwar sind auch hier leider die Kurzgeschichten nicht mehr untereinander verbunden, wie das in Band 1 der Fall war, aber dafür haben wir Kurzgeschichten mit richtigen Monstern und unangenehmen Schatten etc. Es hat wieder deutlich mehr an Junji Ito oder Lovecraft erinnert, das Monsterdesign is ekelhaft-schön. Ich bin glücklich, dass es nicht so schlecht weiterging.
Zwar sind auch hier leider die Kurzgeschichten nicht mehr untereinander verbunden, wie das in Band 1 der Fall war, aber dafür haben wir Kurzgeschichten mit richtigen Monstern und unangenehmen Schatten etc. Es hat wieder deutlich mehr an Junji Ito oder Lovecraft erinnert, das Monsterdesign is ekelhaft-schön. Ich bin glücklich, dass es nicht so schlecht weiterging.
September 16, 2024
4.5 stars
The story about not drinking or looking at your phone while driving was only a few pages long but it managed to seriously creep me out! That jump scare when you turn the page was... really effective 😅
The story about not drinking or looking at your phone while driving was only a few pages long but it managed to seriously creep me out! That jump scare when you turn the page was... really effective 😅
December 21, 2024
Don’t you even try to breathe.
October 18, 2024
The guest who visited tomorrow
beckons the brightly shining darkness.
A single child and six mothers
drag the newborn grandmother by the leg
and sink their teeth into flesh covered in bone.
beckons the brightly shining darkness.
A single child and six mothers
drag the newborn grandmother by the leg
and sink their teeth into flesh covered in bone.
August 8, 2019
The plot is starting to pull itself together more. I'm not sure if I'm a big fan of all of the jumping around throughout the story. The art style is still creepy and intriguing.
February 28, 2023
Nice art. Wish there was some plot
August 15, 2026
I Know Your Tricks. You Know My Jump Scares. 👁️📻
By volume four, PTSD Radio and I know each other a little too well. A normal room. A shadow where no shadow should be. Someone looks through a window, under a table or over their shoulder and — surprise! — nightmare face. The first half becomes almost mechanical, with increasingly short fragments ending on variations of the same visual punchline. Effective once; considerably less so when you can hear the jump scare tuning in three pages early.
Luckily, Nakayama eventually remembers that his mythology is far more interesting than another distorted face.
The story of Kiku and her sister is the heart of the volume. Suddenly the deity haunting this series becomes something more complicated than a supernatural asshole with a hair fixation. Respect the ritual, remember the tradition, and it protects. Destroy its statues, erase the old customs and treat inherited sacred places as disposable — and eventually something remembers what you did.
That shift gives the entire series more weight. The curse stops feeling completely arbitrary and starts resembling the consequence of severing a community from its own memory. The later, longer stories benefit enormously from that context, while isolated oddities — including a wonderfully nasty little encounter with something emerging from a table — keep the anthology-radio feeling alive.
The artwork remains excellent: ugly in exactly the right places, full of impossible silhouettes, staring things and faces designed to make empty corners suddenly suspicious. But Nakayama badly needs another trick. More interconnected stories, folklore and recurring characters; fewer setups whose destination is simply FACE.
Verdict: 3.5 / 5. The jump scares are becoming predictable, but the lore finally compensates. Volume four is at its best when it stops saying “boo” and starts explaining why the darkness was there in the first place.
Try next:
• Higurashi When They Cry by Ryukishi07 — rural Japanese horror where ritual, local gods, inherited violence and buried community history slowly turn apparent madness into mythology.
• Fuan no Tane / Seeds of Anxiety by Masaaki Nakayama — the same author distilling everyday paranoia and fleeting supernatural encounters into even purer micro-horror.
• The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren, 2021 — village folklore, an uncanny presence wearing a familiar face and much stronger emotional continuity beneath the supernatural horror.
By volume four, PTSD Radio and I know each other a little too well. A normal room. A shadow where no shadow should be. Someone looks through a window, under a table or over their shoulder and — surprise! — nightmare face. The first half becomes almost mechanical, with increasingly short fragments ending on variations of the same visual punchline. Effective once; considerably less so when you can hear the jump scare tuning in three pages early.
Luckily, Nakayama eventually remembers that his mythology is far more interesting than another distorted face.
The story of Kiku and her sister is the heart of the volume. Suddenly the deity haunting this series becomes something more complicated than a supernatural asshole with a hair fixation. Respect the ritual, remember the tradition, and it protects. Destroy its statues, erase the old customs and treat inherited sacred places as disposable — and eventually something remembers what you did.
That shift gives the entire series more weight. The curse stops feeling completely arbitrary and starts resembling the consequence of severing a community from its own memory. The later, longer stories benefit enormously from that context, while isolated oddities — including a wonderfully nasty little encounter with something emerging from a table — keep the anthology-radio feeling alive.
The artwork remains excellent: ugly in exactly the right places, full of impossible silhouettes, staring things and faces designed to make empty corners suddenly suspicious. But Nakayama badly needs another trick. More interconnected stories, folklore and recurring characters; fewer setups whose destination is simply FACE.
Verdict: 3.5 / 5. The jump scares are becoming predictable, but the lore finally compensates. Volume four is at its best when it stops saying “boo” and starts explaining why the darkness was there in the first place.
Try next:
• Higurashi When They Cry by Ryukishi07 — rural Japanese horror where ritual, local gods, inherited violence and buried community history slowly turn apparent madness into mythology.
• Fuan no Tane / Seeds of Anxiety by Masaaki Nakayama — the same author distilling everyday paranoia and fleeting supernatural encounters into even purer micro-horror.
• The Summer Hikaru Died by Mokumokuren, 2021 — village folklore, an uncanny presence wearing a familiar face and much stronger emotional continuity beneath the supernatural horror.
October 4, 2023
This is kind of losing me a bit.. maybe would have enjoyed it if I binged it all in one sitting/night? I have to wait for the library copies to be available, but it’s still within a month, so not bad. However, because the stories are so short & semi connected yet also not is losing my interest. I would say this series is more of a short story segment of horror tales. Some are a bit reoccurring. Not sure if they’re connected in any way. One major one seems to be this little statue guy from ancient Japan all the way to modern. That’s the real story of why I’m here. It’s all the other little stories that get sprinkled in that I’m not caring about as much.
Some of this can get confusing, because I didn’t see anything continuing the hair pulling storyline in this one. I liked that story. The last volume or so brought these little guys that enter your body. More of that was in here. I’m not really sure what to make of this series. I saw someone mention to pay attention to the chapter radio frequencies. I’m not, so maybe that’s part of my loss of understanding.
I’m not hating this. I’m still enjoying it. It’s just not what I thought it would be. I was hyped up with those covers alone. I find the stories themselves to be too short to really be terrifying. It’s over before it even begins to start. Some of the illustrations are pretty creepy though. That’s always fun. These are quick reads & is interesting enough to go through, so I plan to continue with the series.
Some of this can get confusing, because I didn’t see anything continuing the hair pulling storyline in this one. I liked that story. The last volume or so brought these little guys that enter your body. More of that was in here. I’m not really sure what to make of this series. I saw someone mention to pay attention to the chapter radio frequencies. I’m not, so maybe that’s part of my loss of understanding.
I’m not hating this. I’m still enjoying it. It’s just not what I thought it would be. I was hyped up with those covers alone. I find the stories themselves to be too short to really be terrifying. It’s over before it even begins to start. Some of the illustrations are pretty creepy though. That’s always fun. These are quick reads & is interesting enough to go through, so I plan to continue with the series.
October 1, 2024
This series was a trip, i've never read anything like it. I will say, i much preferred the first 3 in the series. They were truly terrifying. Not sure if i just got used to the art style which made me less scared or if the actual plot lines were just less interesting. But nonetheless I had a great time.
Do I wish the series kept going? 100%. But, if we are believing the author at the end... I completely understand the reasoning for stepping away. Any right minded person would tbh.
Overall a fucking wild series that anyone looking for genuine thrills will love.
Do I wish the series kept going? 100%. But, if we are believing the author at the end... I completely understand the reasoning for stepping away. Any right minded person would tbh.
Overall a fucking wild series that anyone looking for genuine thrills will love.
September 29, 2023
Cerramos pequeños capítulos de Vol pasados, tenemos otras pequeñas historias de manifestación del demonio y por fin la historia de donde salió el dios Ogushima!! Dos niñas comenzaron todo y de ahí todo es historia. Rifo por ese pedazo de Lore increíble.
May 31, 2026
Another great volume, super creepy. Idk if jump scares is the right term when we’re talking about this kind of media because they don’t actually make me jump, but they do surprise me and they’re so well done in this manga.
June 14, 2018
Satisfyingly loops around to things we've seen and recontextualises them while dripping with horrifying imagery that is starting to make its own kind of sense.
October 9, 2020
Stuff is explained a bit more
October 25, 2021
At first I liked that the stories weren't straight forward but now it's kinda annoying.
February 12, 2023
Page 320 is burned into my brain oml.
I think the underlying theme for this one is pettiness. Putting all those cryptic messages at the ends of each chapter together reveals more to the stories.
I think the underlying theme for this one is pettiness. Putting all those cryptic messages at the ends of each chapter together reveals more to the stories.
November 2, 2023
3.5 stars
January 7, 2024
this was literally terrifying???
January 14, 2024
The stories are connecting more clearly in this one and there's a bit of backstory.
September 6, 2024
Honnkkkkk shoooooo
September 26, 2024
Starting to get a clearer plot and a bit more answers, definitely curious about how it all ties together in the end.
May 18, 2025
Whoah!
I am still loving the art style so much. I have no idea what’s going on half the time but I’m enjoying the creep factor!
I am still loving the art style so much. I have no idea what’s going on half the time but I’m enjoying the creep factor!
January 15, 2026
creepy
crawl
benevolent god turned vengeful
out of humanity's neglect and selfishness
who to be empathic for god or human
crawl
benevolent god turned vengeful
out of humanity's neglect and selfishness
who to be empathic for god or human
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