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PTSD Radio #2
PTSD Radio, Vol. 2
…gragh……lau…gh……pu...ll…pull……gu…shi……ma……..here…la…ss? ….ww….Oww………the dream……Who……are......Agh…ah…Aaa…aAH!.....geh…?... Grblrrblbrr…rgh……SHICK……AaaAHhh……ha…ir?.......No….eye…look……days… …..th…….this is AERN-BBC, PTSD Radio. No tuning nec…essary.
162 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 9, 2014
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Masaaki Nakayama
50 books231 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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October 8, 2023
3.5 Stars
I love the disturbing artwork that continues to remind me of Junji Ito. I like this one, but the vignettes are quite short and not always entirely satisfying.
I love the disturbing artwork that continues to remind me of Junji Ito. I like this one, but the vignettes are quite short and not always entirely satisfying.
December 16, 2022
The tale is really tough to connect; in my opinion, various eras are represented. We had some exposure in this specific book, but I'm still completely baffled. I think it's about hair? Or crows? Or that weird penis looking god?
August 12, 2021
This has Junji Ito vibes and I LOVE IT
November 2, 2025
Interesting but its not scary tbh, if anything its mysterious
December 29, 2023
Still not as good as Fuan no Tane, but the story is coming together.
December 21, 2024
Yup, stress, panic-inducing it is.
I find the “radio” interesting. It has the same feel when reading this non-sequential series. Confused at first, trying to grasp at straws and connect the dots, just like when you’re tuning or adjusting your radio, going back and forth to match the frequency you want to receive and make everything clear.
I find the “radio” interesting. It has the same feel when reading this non-sequential series. Confused at first, trying to grasp at straws and connect the dots, just like when you’re tuning or adjusting your radio, going back and forth to match the frequency you want to receive and make everything clear.
January 29, 2025
Ein wenig schwächer als der erste Band - auch hier wird in mehreren Ebenen eine Horrorgeschichte, diesmal Hauptthema Haare, erzählt.
Mir gefällt es immer noch - die Stories, die in Kurzgeschichten erzählt werden, sind unangenehm, während die Kapitelcover eine eigene Story erzählen, die aber in der Hauptgeschichte auch wichtig wird.
Das ist nicht für jeden etwas - ich find diese Art und Weise aber wirklich spannend.
Mir gefällt es immer noch - die Stories, die in Kurzgeschichten erzählt werden, sind unangenehm, während die Kapitelcover eine eigene Story erzählen, die aber in der Hauptgeschichte auch wichtig wird.
Das ist nicht für jeden etwas - ich find diese Art und Weise aber wirklich spannend.
October 14, 2023
2.5 ⭐️. I like the disturbing art work, but it’s not really that memorable. The story is coming together now after the confusion of volume 1. I gave these books low ratings because although I can’t stop reading it’s just like… ok.. I just expected more from this controversial manga where the writer had to stop because he was experiencing things in real life. Maybe it’ll keep getting better as I progress.
December 26, 2017
We're starting to get a few more clues...and I'm beginning to make some conjectures about where it's going, which was pretty much impossible last issue...but what is this? No more volumes available in comixology? noooooooo
February 7, 2023
These page turning jump scares are immaculate.
February 17, 2024
Without a doubt, one of the most unique horror manga I've ever read. The story is told through a series of non-chronological vignettes, skipping around from one tale to another and then back again - like changing the channels of a radio station until you find the song you're looking for.
To those finding the story confusing - you can use the index in the front to figure out what station # goes to what story, and read them in order... Although I prefer the disjointed way it's written. It adds to the creepiness factor and feels like solving an ancient mystery.
To those finding the story confusing - you can use the index in the front to figure out what station # goes to what story, and read them in order... Although I prefer the disjointed way it's written. It adds to the creepiness factor and feels like solving an ancient mystery.
October 20, 2023
This is still hard to follow and we have each story being told in short snippets, but it is more coherent than the first volume. It's just creepy and interesting enough to make the reader want to continue with the series!
January 15, 2025
Artwork is great, storytelling is meh so far
October 21, 2025
3.5/5☆
October 23, 2020
These read insanely fast, and the first volume was disorienting, so I had not planned on reading anymore.
But I got like five volumes in a humble bundle and decided to check more out.
Like the first volume, the stories seem disjointed and it is hard to tell who is who, BUT you see reoccurring imagery that threads some of it together. The artwork is wonderfully creepy at times, and I’m hoping it all weaves together in a later volume. So far though, it has great atmosphere and artwork and sub-par storytelling.
But I got like five volumes in a humble bundle and decided to check more out.
Like the first volume, the stories seem disjointed and it is hard to tell who is who, BUT you see reoccurring imagery that threads some of it together. The artwork is wonderfully creepy at times, and I’m hoping it all weaves together in a later volume. So far though, it has great atmosphere and artwork and sub-par storytelling.
February 6, 2021
3.5
I still have no clue where this story is going honestly but I love the art.
I still have no clue where this story is going honestly but I love the art.
September 3, 2024
Still have no idea what is going on...
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
December 21, 2025
Teeth. A head full of teeth. Ominous faces, warped images, and crows—a murder of crows.
This second volume is creepy. I don’t know how many times I flinched because of the the graphic imagery in each sequence. Like, imagine falling asleep only to be woken up by a strange presence. You open your eyes and bam—a hollow face of a woman staring back at you! Get this damn book away from me! Haha.
I feel like I am starting to get the Ogushi curse—how it haunts both people and places. I’m a bit confused about the origin of the curse, but this series is really starting to grow on me.
If you are a fan of Junji Ito like me, give this one a chance.
PS. That exploding head was something else!
This second volume is creepy. I don’t know how many times I flinched because of the the graphic imagery in each sequence. Like, imagine falling asleep only to be woken up by a strange presence. You open your eyes and bam—a hollow face of a woman staring back at you! Get this damn book away from me! Haha.
I feel like I am starting to get the Ogushi curse—how it haunts both people and places. I’m a bit confused about the origin of the curse, but this series is really starting to grow on me.
If you are a fan of Junji Ito like me, give this one a chance.
PS. That exploding head was something else!
October 22, 2023
Still creppy! Also. This made a bit more sense somehow.
November 4, 2024
The art and creep factor remain as great as in part one, but the plot becomes too convoluted for my taste. I was no longer able to tell the different characters apart because of how many there were.
November 6, 2024
Do not stare into the asker's eyes.
August 7, 2019
I can see why this volume has a higher rating then the first one. However, the plot to this still hasn't really reveiled itself. It just seems to be a collection of ghost stories that happen within a town. Even so, I am not sure in what time period these occur in. Some seem to be in the Edo period, while others seem to be more modern day. Even with all of these creepy stories it doesn't seem like any of the characters have a goal. I just feel like I am reading a collection of short stories. I hope that there is an actual plot soon, otherwise I feel like I am just looking at creepy little stories.
October 27, 2022
Art is really chilling in several parts, but I really felt nothing because everything is so disjointed and at times a vignette will be like 3 pages. Things pick up slightly towards the end connecting a few things, but while I believe you don't need to tell-all when it comes to horror PTSD Radio REALLY suffers by giving really nothing more than "hair 🫣🫣🫣".
Seriously, the art is really good, but it can't stand on its own entirely. The story never lingers long enough for any sense of building dread, I was just frustrated and confused.
Seriously, the art is really good, but it can't stand on its own entirely. The story never lingers long enough for any sense of building dread, I was just frustrated and confused.
April 6, 2023
In the time between reading the first volume and this one, I discovered that the author had put the series on hiatus because whenever he's worked on it, he usually gets a a random freak illness or medical emergency, and it finally got bad enough that it scared him off working on the series for a while. So that makes this series a little spookier to read, but I still feel like the story needs to be made more concrete, and this one wasn't really doing that for me still.
February 9, 2021
3.5 stars
I like how things start to link more! This is still definitely more atmosphere than plot. Some very creepy illustrations, short snippets, not many answers.
I like how things start to link more! This is still definitely more atmosphere than plot. Some very creepy illustrations, short snippets, not many answers.
February 7, 2024
*3.5 ⭐
Another solid volume, but not quite there yet with the horror elements. It would probably be more scary if I read it at night instead of broad daylight 🌚
Another solid volume, but not quite there yet with the horror elements. It would probably be more scary if I read it at night instead of broad daylight 🌚
July 18, 2025
Thought “PTSD Radio Vol. 2” would repeat Vol. 1’s scratchy late-night jump-cuts; turns out Nakayama has tuned the dial and caught a single, sustained frequency of dread.
The premise still crackles: stray radio waves of terror hitch a ride on human hair, on crow feathers, on a stone monument that rises from a burial mound looking unmistakably like a cracked marble phallus—glans, ridges, everything. What changes is the signal strength. Where Vol. 1 scattered micro-stories like static, Vol. 2 lingers, letting one vignette bleed into the next until Edo-period samurai, modern office workers and a lonely cyclist realize they share a common tinnitus: PTSD-FM in the back of the skull.
Black pages whisper white text—“DO NOT STARE INTO THE ASKER’S EYES”—like legal IDs between pirate broadcasts. The art drills closer than ever: follicles rendered hair by hair; a severed top-knot sucked into a sliding door’s painted mouth; an eyeless girl whose fringe hangs like vertical stitching across her own face. Panels feel tactile, as though you could pluck the strands—then remember in this universe hair is an antenna and flinch.
Classic kaidan DNA shows through the noise. The haunted wig of Okiku, the Jizō statue that walks at night, the Edo rumor of doors that eat people: Nakayama samples them all, loops them under a modern drone of predictive anxiety. Free will? Irrelevant. Fear moves through the population like FM waves, each scalp a relay point, each haircut a new broadcast tower. By the final chapter you no longer ask why the monument looks like a buried god’s erection; you ask what happens when its shadow finally reaches your own doorstep.
The book stumbles when characters pause to spell out the curse—exposition feels like listening to a DJ read Wikipedia—but the slow-burn structure pays off. Fewer one-page stingers, more connective tissue; suddenly the series feels less anthology, more creeping epic.
Verdict: 4/5. Vol. 1 was a mixtape; Vol. 2 is the concept album. Keep reading if you like your horror to seep, not jump.
Craving further broadcasts on the same wavelength?
• Fuan no Tane (Nakayama’s prototype) - replays urban legends in thirty-second bursts.
• Junji Ito’s Uzumaki spirals dread through the body like radio interference.
• Mieruko-chan by Tomoki Izumi - lets ghosts flicker at the edge of vision and dares its heroine not to tune in.
The premise still crackles: stray radio waves of terror hitch a ride on human hair, on crow feathers, on a stone monument that rises from a burial mound looking unmistakably like a cracked marble phallus—glans, ridges, everything. What changes is the signal strength. Where Vol. 1 scattered micro-stories like static, Vol. 2 lingers, letting one vignette bleed into the next until Edo-period samurai, modern office workers and a lonely cyclist realize they share a common tinnitus: PTSD-FM in the back of the skull.
Black pages whisper white text—“DO NOT STARE INTO THE ASKER’S EYES”—like legal IDs between pirate broadcasts. The art drills closer than ever: follicles rendered hair by hair; a severed top-knot sucked into a sliding door’s painted mouth; an eyeless girl whose fringe hangs like vertical stitching across her own face. Panels feel tactile, as though you could pluck the strands—then remember in this universe hair is an antenna and flinch.
Classic kaidan DNA shows through the noise. The haunted wig of Okiku, the Jizō statue that walks at night, the Edo rumor of doors that eat people: Nakayama samples them all, loops them under a modern drone of predictive anxiety. Free will? Irrelevant. Fear moves through the population like FM waves, each scalp a relay point, each haircut a new broadcast tower. By the final chapter you no longer ask why the monument looks like a buried god’s erection; you ask what happens when its shadow finally reaches your own doorstep.
The book stumbles when characters pause to spell out the curse—exposition feels like listening to a DJ read Wikipedia—but the slow-burn structure pays off. Fewer one-page stingers, more connective tissue; suddenly the series feels less anthology, more creeping epic.
Verdict: 4/5. Vol. 1 was a mixtape; Vol. 2 is the concept album. Keep reading if you like your horror to seep, not jump.
Craving further broadcasts on the same wavelength?
• Fuan no Tane (Nakayama’s prototype) - replays urban legends in thirty-second bursts.
• Junji Ito’s Uzumaki spirals dread through the body like radio interference.
• Mieruko-chan by Tomoki Izumi - lets ghosts flicker at the edge of vision and dares its heroine not to tune in.
January 30, 2023
wHaat...theeee...f..rra...cK
Like the first volume this book is not only a fast read but the stories are broken up and jumbled like a jigsaw (or perhaps a distorted radio signal mixing with another station.) While the artwork is rather dark and often interesting I find myself less interested in trying to figure out the plot as to the snapshots of what fate holds in store for those within the pages. Set at different times, places, and at times how the various stories seem to mix we are hinted at various bits of each tale but to really figure out what is going on might indeed be traumatic for some readers. Indeed parts of the story within connect directly to stories in the first volume so I am curious to see what the third volume and others beyond it will have to tell as well though I neither really love or hate the series myself.
Like the first volume this book is not only a fast read but the stories are broken up and jumbled like a jigsaw (or perhaps a distorted radio signal mixing with another station.) While the artwork is rather dark and often interesting I find myself less interested in trying to figure out the plot as to the snapshots of what fate holds in store for those within the pages. Set at different times, places, and at times how the various stories seem to mix we are hinted at various bits of each tale but to really figure out what is going on might indeed be traumatic for some readers. Indeed parts of the story within connect directly to stories in the first volume so I am curious to see what the third volume and others beyond it will have to tell as well though I neither really love or hate the series myself.
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