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… Recently, disturbing news regarding Masaaki Nakayama, a horror manga author known for his manga Fuan no Tane (2013), has been circulating online. According to many social media posts, he has stopped working in his most recent work to “stay alive”. Dramatic as it sounds, even some relatively reliable sources have been echoing this information as gospel truth.

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.What was the genesis of this project, the initial vision? Did you always plan to embed a larger mythos within the story? From what they say, his latest manga PTSD Radio is so abhorrent that it has started to affect his health. Reports of Nakayama suffering Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) all of the sudden during its production are often mentioned to confirm this alleged curse. The fact that PTSD Radio is apparently on hiatus since its sixth volume seems to corroborate the author’s reticence to keep working on this manga. PTSD Radio” หรือชื่อไทย “วิทยุหลังความตาย” ผลงานมังงะสุดขนลุกจากปลายปากกาของ “มาซากิ นากายามะ” ซึ่งขึ้นชื่อเรื่องความหลอนจนเหมือนกับเรื่องที่เกิดขึ้นจริง เพราะเรื่องราวในมังงะชุดนี้ ได้แรงบันดาลใจมาจากประสบการณ์จริงของผู้แต่งนั่นเอง โดยตีพิมพ์ครั้งแรกในปี 2010 และหยุดการอัปเดตไปเมื่อปี 2018

Anime Senpai ได้ลงบทความเปิดเผยสาเหตุที่ PTSD Radio ไม่ได้เขียนต่อนั้น มาจากเรื่องน่ากลัวที่เกิดขึ้นจากตัวนักเขียนเอง 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'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. 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.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.