Kouishou Radio
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At first glance I thought that this manga will be just bunch of short horror stories with no plot what so ever but after reading it i realized that every story is connected in some way or another.

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.

Art: I can't say ... many things about it, it's just amazing and really well done with a lot of details.

I think this is one of the best manga you could read if you like horror.

And remember, DO NOT OPEN old sealed boxes.

Gonna place all the cards on the table. I don't think I can continue reading this manga. Not because it's bad, far from it. Simply holding this manga feels like... a curse. It's like I'm not supposed to be reading it. Every page has a friggin' jumpscare, and every time I turn the page, I shiver in fear hoping the next page isn't gonna be another jumpscare. Of all the horror manga I've read, this has gotta be the only one that genuinely made me afraid of reading it. Sure, Junji Ito's stories are scary, but they're also mezmerizing to the point that you want ... to see more of it despite being unnerving. I am a hero had this interesting set of pages that flow as if you're watching a jumpscare unfold. But this manga... The very act of turning the page requires a lot of courage. I'm not lying when I say ptsd radio has the scariest pages you will ever see, and you need balls of steel to actually finish the entire thing. Seriously, I can't recommend it to anyone who can't handle scary stuff. And I'm not joking, the pages will keep you up at night. Heck, if even the author had to stop drawing this manga because he thought it was cursed, that should be an indication that you shouldn't pick up this manga unless you're fully prepared for what you're about to read.

negative: The idea that there are many short stories intertwined in one universe is interesting, but it's not done well. The chapters are 3-5 pages long which doesn't allow you to connect with characters. It does start tying things together at the end, but I still don't care because I don't know much about the characters. It's like a failed attempt at Uzumaki by Junji Ito.

Positive: The art.

WARNING: do not read the last personal chapters in volume 5. The author retells his struggles with a curse which spreads by him telling people about it... which he stupidly does in these chapters.

It's been a while since I saw a good horror story. You know, something that would actually make me feel uneasy. At some point I got bored of pretty much the same looking jump scares, or agregiosu body horror. What was shocking and intriguing at first, with time, became dull and repetitive. I wanted to see a horror story that would be not only thrilling to experience, but also original and unique enough to not make me automatically think about the horrors I saw or read in the past. "PTSD Radio" has met my expectations.

I can easily call this manga as a breath of fresh ... air among horror stories, not only when we are talking about mangas. It mixes elements such as traditional Japanese folklore, mystery, rituals of the past, curses, unexpected encounters of supernatural entities. It might not sound special at all, but "PTSD Radio" perfectly combines all these various elements into one, making readers mesmerized by the story with each new thing appearing in it. Sometimes using well-known elements in a fine way might lead to creating an original work of art, and in my opinion this is the case of "PTSD Radio".

When I started reading this manga, after completing few chapters I thought it'd be just a pack of many short stories about certain themes. Collection of spooky tales, but without any relation to each other. I was wrong. The more chapters I read, the more I saw how they were connected with each other not only with themes present in them, but also with their plots. I'm a fan of such concepts used in literature, so it was a huge plus to me. Even the numbering of chapters, while feeling random and messy at first glance, starts making more sense once you read more chapters and pay attention to small, subtle details.

Some people might find the fact that the stories start to follow a certain pattern as a con, making them feel predictable. Of course, it's up for everyone to decide whether that kind of format is entertaining for them or not. As for me, in the vast majority of them it wasn't a problem at all. However, for the sake of this review, I felt it was worth of mentioning this aspect.

As for the art, it is great. Characters are drawn in a very nice way, the backgrounds are beautiful, and all scary, mysterious creatures have decent looking designs. I like how detailed are facial expressions. It is important for that kind of comics to have this particular element polished as well as it is possible.

"Kouishou Radio" by Masaaki Nakayama is definitely worthy of recommending, especially if you like good horrors, capable of having you on the edge of your seat.

PTSD Radio – Spoiler Free – Mixed Feelings

TLDR
Overall: 4/10

Disclaimer: due to the nature of this work – a collection of short stories –, my normal parameters of Story, Art, Characters and Enjoyment with a weighted average won’t be applied. Instead, a global overview will be offered.

PTSD Radio is but an excuse to draw creepy panels, as it lacks much of anything of horror.
PTSD Radio is a one-of-a-kind manga by Masaaki Nakayama. It is a compilation of short stories that are weakly connected by a common thread. The story, in general, is not coherent and does not make much sense as a whole, even though there ... are some attempts to connect the dispersed dots. The stories are incredibly short – mostly being 5-10 pages long – making any short story lacking in development in all senses. They look like ideas for certain panels rather than stories.
Designed as a horror manga, it features many elements of the genre, such as creepy panels that play with the uncanny valley effect, jumpscares, and an eerie atmosphere. However, it is extremely lacking in all other aspects: it is not scary, the jumpscares are foreseeable, and everything looks like a failed attempt to emulate Junji Ito’s Uzumaki.
One of the good things about the manga is the art, though. The art is of great quality and is the saving grace in all this. There are eerie panels – but not scary – that are truly memorable. There are also ideas in some stories that are worth developing for their horror value.
PTSD Radio simply doesn’t have characters. There are entities that participate in the story, more like figurines, but there aren’t any individual characters per se – entities with personalities, a name, and a sense of morals (or lack thereof) that play a genuine specific role in a story.
The author also claims that strange things started to happen to him when he began the serialisation of the manga, which helped to add another dimension of horror to the manga. Blurring the line between fiction and reality was also the great trump card in PTSD Radio, as some – I repeat, some – of the things that supposedly happened to the author are way scarier than the actual stories of the manga.
At six volumes and 97 chapters at the time of the review, it is nevertheless a quick read since there isn’t a lot of dialogue, and most of the stories are but visual experiences. It cannot, however, be recommended: aside from the visuals, PTSD Radio isn’t scary and does not add to the overall horror genre. For this reason, it deserves a mixed feelings stamp dangerously close to a not recommended.

This is something special.
Horror stories are usually bland since the meat of the experience is the asmosphere, so it's always nice when you see works that break the mold when it comes to storytelling.

PTSD Radio does it by a non linear narrative, with many small stories that have really creepy payoffs and build a bigger puzzle in the background.

Sadly it's on hiatus, but even under those circumstances, it finds an intersting way to abruptly stop the story (for now).

The formula can get a little repetitive and it can definitely break if you don't find the illustrations unnerving, but with it's fast pace it's an easy ... recommendation to make.

Not too good. The arts really great in this manga, the creepy imagery is very nightmarish. Besides all the monsters, the backgrounds and people are attractive. A big problem is with the story.
This is a collection of short horror stories, but many are intertwined and some characters return. The longer chapters are stronger (a good example is chapter 93, which is probably the longest chapter and is both a subversion of expectations and heartwarming.
However, most of the chapters are pretty expendable. A good example is chapter 97. Only two pages, and the plot is “this random person is doing math homework and suddenly a ... scary thing appears in front of her.” The amount of short chapters that are pretty much just “person sees scary monster ” will probably reduce motivation to continue reading this manga.
Too many chapters are extremely short, which isn’t a good thing. Most of them also don’t have a satisfying conclusion, and maybe that makes it more creepy for some people, but it feels more lazy.
There should’ve been more of these disgusting little alien-bug things. From what’s been shown so far, they enter a humans body, then proceed to stay inside them and multiply, likely causing great pain to the human. Examples like this is way more horrifying than, say, seeing a random girl on the street with a creepy face.
It’s enjoyable, however. despite being hit-or-miss, it’ll probably still frighten you. And the best chapters are peak examples of horror manga.

Out of all the easily accessible horror manga in English, this seems to be the only one that can actually give you "that feeling" when reading it. This is more common in the first few books, and the later half of the series (if we count where it is on hiatus as the end) being a bit more of a standard formulation of the scary concepts flirted with in the first books. The first half of the series as such is much better. Overall, enjoyable to read and a superior horror experience to Junji, Umezz, Hino, etc. Those are sometimes more stylistically interesting as a ... subject but almost never "scary". I do wish that we saw the "main narrative" continued or concluded in any real sense. By omnibus 3, it is basically fully dropped. The art is really superb at times too.

Overall recommended, though I don't know how re-readable it is.

I thought to leave a review since I've seen only one so far. I have read 6 volumes so far and have mixed opinion on the manga.
Pros: shattered storyline works well - short stories entangling each other and gradually connecting to main plot which is about curse, atmosphere is dark and tense sometimes, art is done nicely.
Cons: too many short stories go like this - a character thinks something is watching him, shrugs it off and it ends with a shadow smiling, even if plot progresses the shadow moves to new place and same thing happens again; many creatures which are supposed to be ... scary are hilarious, main plot is progressing at too slow pace that numerous short stories are ruining the enjoyment.
If you binge read/watch horror the manga is still worthy a try to see if it fits your taste or not. Even though some parts are alright, I felt most of things became too repetitive that I got bored.