後遺症ラジオ 6 [Kouishou Radio 6]

PTSD Radio #6

by Masaaki Nakayama, 中山昌亮

…わしっ…逆ｻ…諸事情により単行本収録が…ｶﾁｶﾁｯ…見送られてきた…ｽﾞｽﾞｽﾞﾙ…ﾋｷ…ｽ…ヤバいエピソードに加え…ﾊｧ…ﾊｧ…ｷﾞｷﾞ…ｷﾞｯ……作者自身が体験した…ｶﾘ…ｶﾘｶﾘｶﾘ…ｶﾞﾁｬｯ…ヤバすぎる[実話怪談]の後日談を…ﾁﾞ…ﾁﾞﾁﾞｯ…すっ…お蔵出し収録…ｷﾞｷﾞｷﾞｷﾞ…ｺﾝ…な…話す…な……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。

Genres: Manga, Horror, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Comics Manga, Comics, Paranormal

208 pages, Paperback

First published June 8, 2018

About the author

Masaaki Nakayama (中山昌亮) is a horror manga artist, and author of the series Fuan no Tane (Seeds of Anxiety).

Reviews

[☾❀Apple✩ Blossom⋆｡˚ · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[daph pink ♡ · Rating 3 out of 5]

A true PTSD i guess. I hope the author is fine now.

[Keiko, the manga enthusiast ♒︎ · Rating 4 out of 5]

The dog arc is wholesome but the rest of the stories weaved together are wtf. The true story at the end? Don’t even talk to me about it.

[sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

the dog one is really cute

[Javier Muñoz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bueno... pues hasta aquí hemos llegado, de momento...

Aunque el manga no ha terminado, de momento esto es lo que hay publicado, si el autor publica más de esto lo leeré en cuanto me entere... El autor utiliza algunos trucos un poco baratos para darle veracidad a esta historia de... ¿Yokais?, ¿dioses ancestrales japoneses con ansia de venganza?. Con el paso de los tomos nos vamos enterando un poco de la relación entre los distintos microrrelatos, aunque los saltos narrativos espaciales y temporales que da el autor nos desorientan bastante, al final los elementos comunes nos ayudan a seguir el hilo de los acontecimientos.

El caso es que hay momentos verdaderamente escalofriantes (de esos que te hacen pensarte dos veces el pasar por un pasillo oscuro y que te preocupe lo que te ha parecido ver por el rabillo del ojo), los tomos se devoran y resultan bastante adictivos, han caído cinco (algo más de 800 páginas) en media tarde.

[Tony · Rating 4 out of 5]

Getting a little too familiar but Nakayama is still great at the page turn and there’s a google street view scare that I haven’t seen anyone do before.

[Doc · Rating 4 out of 5]

The end to trauma?

Well regardless of saying there will be a 7th volume in this book since it was created in 2019 (the English version not the Japanese one) and if the stories told by Masaaki Nakayama are true (once again I am not saying I believe he is cursed but there are many strange things in the world not understood) then I am pretty sure this volume is really the end of the series.

Personally I was initially drawn to the series by the disturbing but colorful covers and profoundly confused by the seemingly random spooky imagery often enjoying much more linear stories like those by Junji Ito but regardless of the randomness I still enjoyed the series as I began to realize certain strings (or perhaps hairs) were tying multiple segments together weaving a much larger tapestry of terror. Honestly if I tried pulling something like this off even with notes about what goes where I would probably be so stressed out I would accidentally mess up the story and look for an easy way out like say...turn the unofficial ending into a Blair Witch type story to hype up what I had then work on "safer" stories to keep myself fed in case sales do not work out.

All in all this was a weird series with a capital W but for those that want to continue the story for yourselves and have time to do so I will wish you luck and inspiration. May Ogushi-sama pull you in the right direction and never sever you from good fortune. :)

[Michael Sorbello · Rating 4 out of 5]

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

[Soliloquail · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastically gripping body horror manga. My chest hurts from palpitations because this legit got me scurred 😭

Interesting albeit disjointed story, but the whole frequency-connecting-vignettes concept is refreshing. I suppose to have a better grasp of any actual continuity between the various storyline one has to cross-check and reread according to the frequencies, but I’m too scared shitless to do that right now lol. It’s a slow buildup of plot overall, for 6 volumes the main focus is on the atmospheric quality of the manga, how he builds paranoia and the unsettling feeling throughout the work.

The artwork is fantastic and creeps the heck out of you. Lots of jump scares (I didn’t realise this was possible for a piece of 2D work) and super creepy single panels. But is this it though has the mangaka abandoned this series? That would be a pity because the story/plot itself is far from developed.

Personally I’d say this is the creepiest manga I’ve ever read.

[Quentin Wallace · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a very odd series. The art was good, that wasn't an issue. And for the most part, the stories were good as well. However, they were told in small installments and all out of order. I would like to have seen these stories all collected with the stories "together" rather than small pieces scattered throughout. At times, I also got confused as to whether the smaller stories fit in with any of the larger narratives.

On the plus side, this reminded me of Junji Ito, my favorite horror manga creator, but the stories were too random to quite equal that type of quality.

The real life stuff the author talked about was the creepiest part of the series.

Overall not bad for random creepiness, but when it was over it did feel unsatisfying.

[millie]

idk kinda let down now that i’ve read all that’s out … perhaps i had too high of expectations but everyone else seems to enjoy it even after the hype ! don’t get me wrong the art is very interesting and well done but the story overall seems lacking and its starting to feel like the same snippets are being cycled through … i think maybe i also don’t love vignettes or like story collections where it’s not one cohesive narrative so that might have a lot to do with it

[STEPH · Rating 3 out of 5]

OMG. Those eyes!

The dog chapter made me sad, and I teared up a little. The only wholesome thing in this series.

Not the end. The author is on an indefinite hiatus because he’s been suffering mentally from the stories he’s been creating. I guess his personal experiences are much more terrifying than the story itself.

One thing’s for sure: I still didn’t fully get the main story, even up to the most recent volume, which is quite sad. But I enjoyed it nonetheless.

[Lenn ♡ | anatomyofabooknerd (IG) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was so creepy, especially the part where weird stuff started happening to the author while working on this series.

I find the illustrations very unsettling. Also, the thought of seeing weird things, faces, and creatures such as the ones illustrated in this manga series is so damn creepy. Some of the images stayed in my mind that it kept me up at night sometimes lol

[Jess · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hands down the scariest manga series I've ever read 😅

[Kayson Fakhar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok, so this is what I think about the whole volume because it could easily be one book. Yeah, each book takes literally 30 minutes and they're really confusing because of the parallel stories that are shuffled throughout the whole volume. I didn't like the salami-slicing here, again the whole volume could be one good and thick enough book. Besides that, the structure is strange but repetitive, you usually start with a one-page teaser of something sinister followed by a full-page depiction of the "thing". This rarely goes beyond the third page so there's no feeling of flow, it's just pieces of microstories!

BUT, the visuals are superb! in fact, I'd give up easily after the third book if it wasn't for the visuals. So, I recommend it if you don't mind these annoying disruption.

[Andy · Rating 3 out of 5]

overall series rating: 3.5 stars. Has some mind-bending, nightmarish, horrifying panels and depictions of ghosts/monsters; but it also has a LOT of duds and uninteresting/unfinished stories. It's a shame that the author decided to stop drawing this series - I would totally be down for another volume or two.

[Leila · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 At this point you realize the formula for many of the vignettes but I still really enjoyed it. You can tell me the same story of some dude seeing a ghost every night in some part of his apartment a million times and as long as the imagery is good (which it is) I do not care. Sucks that this is the last volume :/

[William Dalphin · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you're at Volume SIX of PTSD Radio, you kind of know what you're in for already. Five to six pages of someone experiencing something terrifying, usually in the form of something human-looking but with abnormal facial features. Half the time, the person narrates the story and it starts like this: "Every night, something looks in my room from the window," and then ends with "I don't know how much more of this I can take." along with a close-up of the freakishly-faced creature. Occasionally, the stories return to the mysterious tale of the little devil-shaped statue in the village that seems to be the focal point of everything else, despite how seemingly unconnected it all is.

Let's be honest, if you're like me, you read PTSD Radio for the creepy artwork, not for the novelty story-telling (zilch) or the hope that a true plot will ever begin to unfold (nope). And Volume SIX, just likes Volumes FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, and ONE is definitely full of some creepy visuals. Will I get Volume SEVEN, if/when that comes out? Of course I will. Because I like creepy artwork. But I'll never make the mistake of thinking that a central story will ever be revealed, or that the mini-plots themselves will tarry far from their well-honed formula.

[Alejandro Yrigoyen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hasta aquí llegamos :( . El autor sigue vivo, pero oficialmente dejó de escribir el manga hasta nuevo aviso (esto en 2019 creo). Y lo que le pasó en su estudio, se lo llevará a la tumba porque cada vez que quiere contarlo le pasa algo. Si está de miedo lo que les pasó en el estudio a todos. La historia principal avanza un poco más y se siente que va para la resolución. Por alguna razón se siente más ligero y hay un capítulo muy "bonito", tal vez el autor quiere hacer las paces con la deidad que habia en su estudio. O simplemente dibujar algo bonito para variar y relajar su mente. Bueno,,,,, lo amé. Si sale el 7, ahi estaré

[Woraphol Thawornwaranon · Rating 5 out of 5]

มังงะสยองที่แต่ละตอนยาวไม่กี่หน้าและไม่ต่อเนื่องกัน ถึงอย่างนั้นก็ (เหมือนจะ) เชื่อมโยงกันแบบคลุมเครือด้วยตำนานโบราณเกี่ยวกับเทพแห่งเส้นผม ทุกๆ เรื่องเริ่มขึ้นมาแบบไม่มีเหตุผล ไม่มีการปูที่มาที่ไป หลอก และจบโดยไม่ให้คำอธิบาย สำหรับนี่รู้สึกว่าน่ากลัวกว่างานของจุนจิ อิโตอีก เพราะงานภาพมันสะอาดมากๆ แต่ก็หลอนมากๆ อย่างภาพหนึ่งที่ติดตามากคือภาพนี้

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[The Artisan Geek · Rating 3 out of 5]

私は本当に後遺症ラジオが大好きです。その本を読んで楽しんだ！でも、たくさん話は同じと思います。筋は動きがないと思います。

I really love PTSD Radio. I enjoyed reading it! However, a lot of the stories are the same. There's no movement in the story.

Lol. That's all I could manage saying in Japanese, either way I really hope that the next edition has more of a story line to it.

[Glitch · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this series but the ending (or the lack of an ending) kinda killed it for me.

I would say these books were definitely still worth the read though!

They had some good spooks and I really loved the creepy art!

I'll definitely be checking out more from this author/artist in the future! :)

[Pauline · Rating 5 out of 5]

If the events the author talked about were truly happening while he was working on the series then I completely understand why he stopped and really hope he’s doing better now.

As for the content material, some volumes were weaker than others but overall it was pretty great. And got quite spooky by the end.

[Lilly S · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hm. I don’t have much to say about this one…it’s still weird but somehow seems tamed down.
Will there be anymore volumes? I keep seeing that this is an ongoing series but this was published in 2018 and there hasn’t been anything since. I am also curious about the author because he seems to have gone through quite a bit of his own horrors while producing this series…

[Aidan Rice · Rating 1 out of 5]

Man I had such high hopes I really love horror and everyone I asked about this told me it’s disgusting and horrifying and it just wasn’t either. The first volume was good then after that it was just so bland.

[Saba · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall I'd give this series a 3 star. Even though the plot was non linear, it did give me some chills from time to time. I hope the author continues the story because it is yet to be completed. All I understood was that the Ogushi sama curse follows generation after generation and tortures people.

[Tomas Rincon · Rating 5 out of 5]

voy en el 10 y no seas mamon
update: ya me lo acabé y solo quiero decir que Masaaki Nakayama sabía lo que hacía y lo hizo cabron. me acabe todos los capítulos en 2 dias y de verdad que me obsesione y me clavé muchísimo. Maestrazo del terror

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5

[Mal Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would give this a 3.5. This is a series that took me a while to get into more. It is starting to catch my interest more. Especially since some parts of the plot/story are starting to connect.

[Philip · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had assumed this was the final volume, as it’s been a couple of years since it was published, and no move volumes have come out (in English, al least).
But no, it’s not done yet.