I didn't know what to expect, but a quarter of the way through the book and I'm already recommending it to my friends and coworkers. Wtf?! My skin is crawling after reading this. It was so bizarre and unsettling, the only thing that came out of my mouth after reading this was, "what in the f**k!" Author of the horror manga PTSD Radio had to quit writing his manga due to creepy incidents that started happening to him related to his manga 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.

Ogushi appears represented in shadowy arms grabbing people, rooting them to the spot before taking them...elsewhere. The manga relies on some jumpscares, nightmare faces, and fear of what comes next to keep readers hooked. PTSD Radio is a horror manga anthology surrounding an ancient legend of a being known as Ogushi, or "the God of Hair." Similar to Juji Ito's Uzumaki or Shiver, PTSD Radio focuses on an unexpected source of horror: human hair. Unlike the previous work, Fuan no Tane, many of the stories intertwine at different points. One must then wonder exactly where all of this comes from, and Volumes 5 and 6 of the manga include short extras explaining Nakayama's inspiration for it. The story goes that PTSD Radio's creator rented a building as an office space eight years prior to volume 5s release. One day, he heard scratching around the ceiling and attic. I loved this horror manga. Dare I make the comparison, but this manga reminded me quite of a bit of Junji Ito work in terms of artwork and themes.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. Oct 25 Yearning Teens, Frustrated Romance, Pretty Skies — Is There Anything Else to Makoto Shinkai? Ghostly Goals: A girl keeps waking up in the middle of the night, seeing a vague, inhuman mouth panting at her side, exhaling a foul-smelling breath. Despite this, the presence also pulls her from crossing a dangerous road, leaving her confused as to what it is and what it wants. Later, it drags her to the family kitchen just in time to see a fire start and for her father to douse the flames. Then she realizes the mysterious ghost is a dog - the late pet of the former owner. She makes sure his grave will be left untouched and thanks him for the help, now sure it's nothing but helpful. What's It About? There exists an entity lurking in the shadows. It will grasp victims by their hair and pull them down, down to their death. You can see it out of the corner of your eye, its grasping hands from the streets below or shadows cast on the street. It's unknown whether its a god, a curse, or a psychosis. NAKAYAMA: I hadn't heard the expression “jump scare” [an English expression that has no perfect Japanese equivalent] before. You're right that surprising or frightening the audience is a major element of this kind of work, but sheer terror isn't the only thing I'm going for. I think the biggest thing is to shake readers emotionally, but only ever so slightly. That slight disturbance grows within each reader in its own unique way; that's what's important. What that seed grows into—the direction it takes, how widely it spreads, how deep it goes, how deep it is, its color and smell—are outside of my control, and that's the real key to transmitting a creative work.

NAKAYAMA: I'm very much interested in folk traditions and the beliefs of Japan's minorities, including mountain worship, as well as Buddhism, Shinto, and the like, but Ogushi-sama wasn't based on any specific real-world belief system. Enter Masaaki Nakayama. Nakayama is no newcomer to horror comics, but his work was previously unavailable to English readers. He started his career in 1990 after his entry "Ridatsu" won the runner-up prize in a contest by Kodansha's Afternoon manga magazine in 1988. Another story, "SHUTTERED ROOM," took second place in the 20th annual Tetsuya Chiba Award's general category. He didn't focus solely on horror comics, but his apt eye for short, startling tales came to the forefront with his 2002 manga Fuan no Tane ( Seeds of Anxiety). The series, featuring an unsettling face with sideways features, inspired a live-action film by Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night's Toshikazu Nagae starring Anna Ishibana and Kenta Suga.Last, the dialogue. Spectacular. Organic. Not a single mistranslation or grammatical error, no misprints...this is S-tier production for a cult manga/web comic I never heard of and boy did it deserve it. NAKAYAMA: When I was a kid, my uncle on my father's side got me and a bunch of my cousins together at my grandma's house to tell scary stories, and that's where my interest started. As a matter of fact, though, I'm quite the scaredy-cat! I can't bring myself to watch horror movies or TV horror series. I won't go into haunted houses, and I'm too scared by other horror manga to read anything but my own work! Maybe it's because I'm so readily scared that I'm so full of frightening ideas—it might be exactly what enables me to create these stories. This one was a fun one to read at night! It was creepy and the artwork made up for it. I love how unique the story is and the concept behind this book (each radio frequencies refering to each events taking place at different locations).

These stories may seem random, but they all begin making sense once the hair totem and Ogushi myth begin to take shape. Long story short, a town in Japan had a shrine to Ogushi that was paid tribute to with human hair. A curse seemed to befall the town after World War II, wherein a Japanese soldier failed to bring one of his deceased comrades' hair to the shrine. 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.Story: even though story is not finished yet i can understand some small parts. It's about old japanese rituals and one town which is affected by them. I still dont understand it completely but mystery is best thing about this manga. One more intresting thing is that on the last panel of every chapter face is starting to form slowly while you going through them. NAKAYAMA: There's no particular message. The commingling of past and present simply shows that wills can be connected across time and space.