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PTSD Radio #5
後遺症ラジオ 5 [Kouishou Radio 5]
おい……ケコリルテテラロル……おい……カッ………すー…はぁー……ボト………痛っ！…………パチン…………ォォォォォ………パキ…ぺキ…メキ………カサカサ…コソ……ーーー♪ー♪ーー……ボタ…ボタ…………ミダナ…………死にます…………ドンッ…ドンッ…ドンッ………ドォーン…ドォーン……ルスバンデンワニツナギマス…………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。
160 pages, Paperback
First published June 9, 2016
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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 24, 2023
Whether they were true or not, his description of the horrifying real-life instances left me speechless.
October 5, 2021
This volume has some chapters depicting true horror stories happening to the author. Just like he says in the manga, some of us will end up liking them more than the actual stories, some of us less. I am one of the latter, so I enjoyed this volume less than the previous ones. I still feel sorry for the author though, that sounds horrifying. Hope he's okay now.
May 31, 2021
Tiene momentos terroríficos... la historia supuestamente real de los sucesos que le ocurrieron al autor ayuda a darle más morbo a la historia.
January 2, 2025
I don't believe in any of this but it for sure builds the mood.
September 16, 2024
4.5 stars
October 22, 2023
3.5/5
The creepiest part: the real story about the author. Brr.
The creepiest part: the real story about the author. Brr.
February 11, 2024
That ending with real-life stories creeped me outtt
February 3, 2023
Masaaki Nakayama, this is your life.
While this volume was cut short so we can see some of the unfortunate events that happened to the mangaka Masaaki Nakayama and his crew as they created this series I found the randomness to be less interesting then a potentially real life portrayal of a possible haunting (whether you believe in ghosts, demons, monsters, or nothing at all do not let me tell you to believe otherwise) than the usual chaotic and creepy imagery the manga is normally known for.
As mentioned in volume 3 (I didn't bother to review 4 thanks to it being much the same as usual and no insight struck me there) it appears that Masaaki Nakayama gave up after the next volume of the series and it seems this is the volume explaining the beginning of his problems in the building he rented to create manga with his crew. Now whether the story is actually real (coincidence or not) or just a way for the mangaka to bow out from an incredibly difficult and random collection of stories (while also promoting what is made already due to be being cursed) is not provable without serious investigation which honestly I have little interest in looking into myself. What I do know is these covers are neat, the parts of stories are often gruesome, and at least for now after next volume there is no more series making the urge to figure out any meaning in the randomness less exciting.
While this volume was cut short so we can see some of the unfortunate events that happened to the mangaka Masaaki Nakayama and his crew as they created this series I found the randomness to be less interesting then a potentially real life portrayal of a possible haunting (whether you believe in ghosts, demons, monsters, or nothing at all do not let me tell you to believe otherwise) than the usual chaotic and creepy imagery the manga is normally known for.
As mentioned in volume 3 (I didn't bother to review 4 thanks to it being much the same as usual and no insight struck me there) it appears that Masaaki Nakayama gave up after the next volume of the series and it seems this is the volume explaining the beginning of his problems in the building he rented to create manga with his crew. Now whether the story is actually real (coincidence or not) or just a way for the mangaka to bow out from an incredibly difficult and random collection of stories (while also promoting what is made already due to be being cursed) is not provable without serious investigation which honestly I have little interest in looking into myself. What I do know is these covers are neat, the parts of stories are often gruesome, and at least for now after next volume there is no more series making the urge to figure out any meaning in the randomness less exciting.
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
January 11, 2021
This volume is not quite as good as the previous ones, though it's still creepy. The stories jump around even more than the others, and the tie between them with regards to the hair god feels much less prevalent, with a few exceptions. The stories here also leave less of an impact. Not because they're short, but because nothing actually happens to the characters. Mostly, something is just looking at them, which, although somewhat creepy, is rather repetitive and thus starts to feel less dangerous.
About a quarter of the book is about the author, and a horrifying experience he had with his health that MAY have been caused by supernatural forces. It's probably the most interesting part of this volume.
All in all, it's still a good manga, and I will continue to read the series.
About a quarter of the book is about the author, and a horrifying experience he had with his health that MAY have been caused by supernatural forces. It's probably the most interesting part of this volume.
All in all, it's still a good manga, and I will continue to read the series.
December 21, 2025
It’s funny how these characters straight up ignore the creepy faces right in front of them. I guess seeing these things is pretty much normal in Japan. The power of denial is strong here.
Running is not an option. Morbid curiosity outweighs everything, even survival. But what really creeped me out is that some of the things depicted in this book actually happened to the author. Now that’s real horror.
Hands down the best volume in the series.
Running is not an option. Morbid curiosity outweighs everything, even survival. But what really creeped me out is that some of the things depicted in this book actually happened to the author. Now that’s real horror.
Hands down the best volume in the series.
August 25, 2023
I am thissss close to passing out reading this omg
December 8, 2025
this dude really hates hair huh
December 21, 2024
Damn, sensei’s true story is so creepy. I hope he’s living his best life now.
August 8, 2019
Honestly I had more fun reading about what happened to the author than I did about the story. I think I'm just not a fan of all of this jumping around. The author even did it in his own personal story. I understand hiding certain parts of a story to review later to the reader. Even so, I am having a hard time keeping up when time jumps all over the place and so do the characters. It seems like there is a new character almost every chapter. It makes it hard for me to invest into the story when the characters are as flimsy as the time frame.
However, the author is a fantastic illustrator. I find the images very interesting. I also find some of the ideas to be unique. Those two things, and the authors own true horror story, is the only thing really keeping me coming back.
However, the author is a fantastic illustrator. I find the images very interesting. I also find some of the ideas to be unique. Those two things, and the authors own true horror story, is the only thing really keeping me coming back.
February 12, 2021
This one was a shorter book with extra material at the end about the mangaka's hospital stay and some eerie things that happened to him.
The story itself had a lot of different people getting nightly visitors, which leads me to believe the whole city is in big trouble.
The story itself had a lot of different people getting nightly visitors, which leads me to believe the whole city is in big trouble.
January 31, 2022
3.5/5
I really enjoyed the "real" story experienced by the author. It's better than the manga stories lol.
I really enjoyed the "real" story experienced by the author. It's better than the manga stories lol.
August 15, 2026
The Ghosts I Don’t Believe In. The Missing Assistants? Different Story. 📻👻
PTSD Radio, Vol. 5 commits a slightly infuriating crime: after volume four finally started explaining Ogushi-sama, this one reveals practically nothing. No major new mythology, no turning point, no satisfying card placed on the table. Five volumes in, I expected the dots to start connecting. Instead, Nakayama gives me fragments, uneasy anecdotes and — most interestingly — himself.
Oddly enough, that almost works.
The fictional stories change rhythm here. Rather than repeatedly building toward the familiar distorted-face jump scare, they feel more like scraps of inexplicable incidents: something seen, something heard, something fundamentally wrong, then silence. That vagueness fits surprisingly well with the volume’s strangest addition — Nakayama’s supposedly autobiographical horror stories about illness, disturbing experiences around his workplace and assistants who apparently vanished from his working life.
I do not believe for a second that supernatural forces were responsible. Optical illusions happen. Stress distorts perception. Old buildings smell. Coincidences become patterns very quickly once you are frightened enough. I can completely believe Nakayama experienced events that felt uncanny without believing his studio was actually cursed.
The assistants, however, bothered me far more than any ghost.
If people really stopped showing up, stopped responding and left behind unanswered messages, then my first question is not “which spirit did this?” but “did anyone call the police?” That mundane uncertainty is considerably creepier than the paranormal framing.
And apparently I am not alone in being skeptical. A Reddit discussion around Nakayama’s story splits almost perfectly down the middle: some readers treat it as a genuinely disturbing account of an artist becoming increasingly frightened by events around him, while others call it an exaggerated autobiographical retelling, a marketing gimmick, or even a neat horror-story wrapper around an already troubled production. One comparison to Hideshi Hino’s Lullabies from Hell feels particularly apt: something can contain real personal material while still being deliberately shaped into legend.
That ambiguity actually improves this volume for me. Whether Nakayama believed every connection, exaggerated them, or simply understood that his own anxiety made excellent horror, the autobiographical chapters mirror the manga itself: disconnected transmissions that may or may not belong to the same signal.
I only wish the actual Ogushi-sama story had moved with them.
Verdict: 3.5 / 5. Almost no progress on the mystery I actually wanted solved, but the shift from fictional jump scares toward uncertain autobiography gives PTSD Radio a new and unexpectedly effective frequency. I do not believe in the curse. I do believe that not knowing where reality stopped and storytelling began is the best horror this volume has.
Try next:
• Fuan no Tane / Seeds of Anxiety by Masaaki Nakayama — the same author reducing horror to unexplained fragments, strange sightings and everyday paranoia.
• Higurashi When They Cry by Ryukishi07 — local gods, apparently supernatural events and a mystery where conflicting explanations are part of the fun.
• Noroi: The Curse, dir. Kōji Shiraishi, 2005 — mock-documentary horror built around scattered testimony, dubious evidence and the increasingly uncomfortable question of what, if anything, really happened.
PTSD Radio, Vol. 5 commits a slightly infuriating crime: after volume four finally started explaining Ogushi-sama, this one reveals practically nothing. No major new mythology, no turning point, no satisfying card placed on the table. Five volumes in, I expected the dots to start connecting. Instead, Nakayama gives me fragments, uneasy anecdotes and — most interestingly — himself.
Oddly enough, that almost works.
The fictional stories change rhythm here. Rather than repeatedly building toward the familiar distorted-face jump scare, they feel more like scraps of inexplicable incidents: something seen, something heard, something fundamentally wrong, then silence. That vagueness fits surprisingly well with the volume’s strangest addition — Nakayama’s supposedly autobiographical horror stories about illness, disturbing experiences around his workplace and assistants who apparently vanished from his working life.
I do not believe for a second that supernatural forces were responsible. Optical illusions happen. Stress distorts perception. Old buildings smell. Coincidences become patterns very quickly once you are frightened enough. I can completely believe Nakayama experienced events that felt uncanny without believing his studio was actually cursed.
The assistants, however, bothered me far more than any ghost.
If people really stopped showing up, stopped responding and left behind unanswered messages, then my first question is not “which spirit did this?” but “did anyone call the police?” That mundane uncertainty is considerably creepier than the paranormal framing.
And apparently I am not alone in being skeptical. A Reddit discussion around Nakayama’s story splits almost perfectly down the middle: some readers treat it as a genuinely disturbing account of an artist becoming increasingly frightened by events around him, while others call it an exaggerated autobiographical retelling, a marketing gimmick, or even a neat horror-story wrapper around an already troubled production. One comparison to Hideshi Hino’s Lullabies from Hell feels particularly apt: something can contain real personal material while still being deliberately shaped into legend.
That ambiguity actually improves this volume for me. Whether Nakayama believed every connection, exaggerated them, or simply understood that his own anxiety made excellent horror, the autobiographical chapters mirror the manga itself: disconnected transmissions that may or may not belong to the same signal.
I only wish the actual Ogushi-sama story had moved with them.
Verdict: 3.5 / 5. Almost no progress on the mystery I actually wanted solved, but the shift from fictional jump scares toward uncertain autobiography gives PTSD Radio a new and unexpectedly effective frequency. I do not believe in the curse. I do believe that not knowing where reality stopped and storytelling began is the best horror this volume has.
Try next:
• Fuan no Tane / Seeds of Anxiety by Masaaki Nakayama — the same author reducing horror to unexplained fragments, strange sightings and everyday paranoia.
• Higurashi When They Cry by Ryukishi07 — local gods, apparently supernatural events and a mystery where conflicting explanations are part of the fun.
• Noroi: The Curse, dir. Kōji Shiraishi, 2005 — mock-documentary horror built around scattered testimony, dubious evidence and the increasingly uncomfortable question of what, if anything, really happened.
November 10, 2025
Der erste Part des Mangas war wieder extrem gut - diesmal waren die Gruselgeschichten teilweise wirklich sehr kurz, 3 Seiten lang z.B., aber wieder creepy und unangenehm. Das Thema war gemischt, aber hatte einiges mit Schattenmenschen und Deformationen zu tun.
Der zweite Teil des Mangas war dann aber für mich persönlich ziemlich öde - es ist ein Special des Autors, der offenbar einige Monate im Krankenhaus lag wegen einer Krankheit und in der Zeit diese Story als Entschuldigung geschrieben hat. Da geht es um eine angebliche gruselige Begebenheit in seinem Mangastudio - fand ich persönlich ziemlich langweilig, daher auch diesmal nicht soviele Sterne.
Der zweite Teil des Mangas war dann aber für mich persönlich ziemlich öde - es ist ein Special des Autors, der offenbar einige Monate im Krankenhaus lag wegen einer Krankheit und in der Zeit diese Story als Entschuldigung geschrieben hat. Da geht es um eine angebliche gruselige Begebenheit in seinem Mangastudio - fand ich persönlich ziemlich langweilig, daher auch diesmal nicht soviele Sterne.
May 19, 2026
I was always interested in Japan's ghosts and her workshiphed entities. I liked the short stories and how sometimes they connect with others characters or after so many time has passed but some could not be free of the curse.
Reading the volumes I understand that the ghost or criatures that follow the characters usually do not cause them harm but is with them for their rest of their lives or until another person starts to follow too.
I do believe that everything happened with the author and his subordinates. As he said before, nothing like had happened before with him. So, the place that he rented was probably cursed. Why did he stay there for 6 years?? I mean.. maybe in the beginning he did not believe it but after 2 or 3 years, it is a different story.
Reading the volumes I understand that the ghost or criatures that follow the characters usually do not cause them harm but is with them for their rest of their lives or until another person starts to follow too.
I do believe that everything happened with the author and his subordinates. As he said before, nothing like had happened before with him. So, the place that he rented was probably cursed. Why did he stay there for 6 years?? I mean.. maybe in the beginning he did not believe it but after 2 or 3 years, it is a different story.
May 31, 2026
I don’t know if the true stories are actually true and this author was really experiencing some paranormal shit, but they were interesting enough. Not super engaging, though. I don’t think they added much value for me, so that’s what brings the rating down a little cause getting to that part kind of brought me down from the high of the PTSD radio stories. I do hope he’s okay now if they indeed were true.
3.5 stars
3.5 stars
September 29, 2023
Aquí entendemos porque el autor dejó de escribir este manga. Si está muy creepy lo que le pasó y aunque no da miedo como el manga, si te deja muy sacado de onda. El hecho que algo sucedió cuando limpiaba y no lo quiere contar por miedo, me tiene intrigado y espantado. Por otro lado la historia principal solo son otras manifestaciones creepys de la deidad con buenos jump scares.
October 4, 2023
This one went on track to being more interesting again. Even though we didn’t get as much I still liked this one better than the last volume. This volume is a bit special though. It includes some short [true] stories by the author about his real life experiences while working on some projects. Whether you’re a skeptic of them or not, they are pretty entertaining.
April 20, 2026
Easily the best so far. Left me with chills as we are given insight to the mangaka's life behind the scenes and how writing PTSD Radio has brought real life consequence to him and his assistants. I do hope we find out even more in the final vol 6, seeing as he stopped creating anything for the series because of what was creeping into his ever day.
June 15, 2024
Well, that was certainly an unexpected turn of events. 0.o
I feel like it's a marketing strategy/just part of the story because if it were true, I feel like he would want to stop all his horror projects and not just this one.
It does add an interesting layer to the series though!
I feel like it's a marketing strategy/just part of the story because if it were true, I feel like he would want to stop all his horror projects and not just this one.
It does add an interesting layer to the series though!
May 18, 2025
This one was a bit shorter but included some “real life” horrors which was interesting. I wasn’t brave enough to read the ending that may or may not be contagious. (Iykyk) I just can’t get over how crazy creepy these stories are and the art alongside them.
September 26, 2025
That was some scary shit bruhhh 😭 did the author just pass his curse to everyone? If it's really true story, holy shit. Go to a shrine or a church, a mosque or a temple or whatever man. You need to get cleanse.
June 14, 2018
Shorter than the previous volumes but the space is made up by what the author says are true horror stories from his own life. He has a real skill for making haunting work.
October 10, 2020
It's creepy wtf. Is the author lieing about the ghost stuff in his life to sell manga or is it real? I'm scared 😂😭
October 21, 2020
Is there a plot here? More like a collection of weird sort formulaic stories with nothing really connecting them
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