PTSD Radio 1 (Vol. 1-2): Omnibus (PTSD Radio 2-in-1)

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PTSD Radio จะได้รับการตีพิมพ์ต่อเนื่อง อาจารย์นากายามะได้เช่าบ้านหลังหนึ่งพร้อมจ้างทีมงานไว้สำหรับวาดผลงานเรื่องนี้ หลังจากที่เริ่มทำงานกันไปได้สักระยะ ทั้งตัวอาจารย์และทีมงานก็ได้พบกับเหตุการณ์แปลก ๆ มากมาย ไม่ว่าจะเป็นรอยข่วนบนเพดาน, กลิ่นเหม็นจากของเสีย, ไฟฟ้าที่ติด ๆ ดับ ๆ และการพบเห็นเงาประหลาดในอาคาร ยิ่งเวลาผ่านไป เหตุการณ์ก็เริ่มหนักข้อขึ้นเรื่อย ๆ จนทีมงานบางคนทนไม่ไหวขอลาออกกันไป บางคนก็มีอาการป่วย 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. PTSD Radio volumes 1-6 are currently available in print as three omnibus volumes from Kodansha Comics. You can read our review of the digital version here and in the Fall 2022 Manga Guide.

This was not a good idea though. It seemed that whatever was haunting him did not want him to talk about it, because the disgrace around him increased. For this reason, he put on hold the publication of further extra chapters involving his old office but not PTSD Radio itself. Is PTSD Radio still on hiatus?

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NAKAYAMA: There's no particular message. The commingling of past and present simply shows that wills can be connected across time and space. NAKAYAMA: Hmm… I'm no exorcist, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think if you run into a being like that, the best thing to do is not to take it too seriously. Most of them are just figments of your imagination. Most of them…probably… Prehensile Hair: Hair and its manipulation is a recurring element of the ghosts in the stories, based on the long-forgotten rituals related to the worship of the God of Hair.

Nightmare Face: Deformed faces, with various numbers of eyes, mouths and rows of teeth, are prominent in the ghosts and monsters featured in the stories. 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.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. Creepy Doll: One story involves a group of kids finding a large sealed doll covered in hair... and whatever was bound to it is furious at being exorcized. For the most part, there is no real resolution or narrative rigidity; typically the protagonists will remark, either in narration or in dialogue, on a figure evident only to them, and the story will conclude on the revelation or the assertion of this phenomenon as real, stopping right before any explicit confrontation to make it clear that there is no real chance for them, no playing field even resembling level. Ogushi can't be accurately described as an active organizing or orchestrating force; the deity may serve as a starting point or a framework, but author Masaaki Nakayama's tendency is to treat it as almost extra-narrative: to be remarked on, but perpetually out of reach.

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. What first got you interested in the horror genre? What was the first work of horror that truly made you feel scared? The various eerie things that appear in PTSD Radio aren't given names in the story, but do you have names that you personally use for them? Protagonist Journey to Villain: It's shown that in the distant past, the God of Hair was a benevolent force that helped villagers as long as its rituals were properly observed. However, its power was badly abused by several prominent people to kill off their rivals and have a largely innocent but compulsively loyal woman pay for the crime. Having its main totem smashed likely didn't help either.What was the genesis of this project, the initial vision? Did you always plan to embed a larger mythos within the story? Cursed Item: A table, from which a ghost inexplicably emerges at night. When it is turned over to a monastery for inspection, the head priest immediately has it incinerated, and shows the owners several nails that had been imbedded in the wood. As he explains, it's likely the wood came from a tree used for ushi no toki mairi, turning it into a source of impurity and corruption. Creating viral stories around a piece of media to pump up the audience’s interest is not an uncommon practice. Despite what people might think, this is not the case with PTSD Radio. As a result of careless reporting, readers are more interested in the supposed phenomena surrounding the manga than its content, which is a real shame. It does not really matter if Nakayama experienced the effects of a curse or not because he never intended for this to be the focal point of his work. While it is a disturbing tale that can parallel the likes of Ju-On, PTSD Radio is a real source of horror that you cannot miss if you are into this kind of manga. ITP / Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura) ที่ร่างกายประตุ้นภูมิคุ้มกันจนไปทำลายเกล็ดเลือด นั่นจึงเป็นสาเหตุที่ทำให้ “PTSD Radio” ต้องหยุดการอัปเดตแบบไม่มีกำหนด โดยในมังงะตอนสุดท้ายก่อนที่จะหยุดไป ก็ได้มีการอธิบายเรื่องราวที่คุยกับหมอลงไปด้วย NAKAYAMA: No, not to speak of. My feeling is that if someone encountering one of those apparitions was able to give it a name, it would suggest they had the mental or psychological bandwidth left to do so – but I don't think they do, or would. I simply speak on behalf of the characters, so I don't know anything they don't know.

Shortly after settling in his new studio, he suffered from Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP). Curiously, this happened right after talking with his team about what happened in the previous office. After recovering and trying to make sense of everything, he decided to tell his experience through these extra chapters.

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Traumatic Haircut: Done to a young girl in a rural village, though apparently as some kind of ritualistic safety precaution by her family, to stop the "god of hair" from taking it, and threatened towards a strange transfer student by a gang of bullies. Later on, there are indicia that it's a very old tradition, that has something to do with the ultimate source of whatever's happening. 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. the stories we've shared are connected in some way?" directly within its dialogue. But it still mostly