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A horror manga by Masaaki Nakayama (author of ''Manga/FuanNoTane''), that consists of short, eerie ghost stories. Unlike ''Fuan No Tane'', the stories here aren't completely unrelated and many intertwine at different points. A recurring theme is the probably-malevolent "God of Hair" and the people who worship it.

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!!Tropes appearing in ''Kouishou Radio'':
* AnachronicOrder: The chapters take place at different times, but many of them intersect.
* BaldWomen: Usually a bad omen in this manga.
* BodyHorror
* CreepyCrows: A vengeful flock of crows follows the protagonist of one chapter. [[spoiler: But they aren't really crows...]]
* CreepyDoll: One story involves a group of kids finding one.
* DemonicDummy: A straw dummy that might be possessed by the God of Hair (or might be one of its forms) appears.
* EldritchAbomination: What the "God of Hair" possibly is.
* LaserGuidedKarma: A member of a group of school bullies ends up mysteriously comatose after threatening to cut the hair of a weird new kid. [[spoiler: Turns out he's not the first one.]]
* LivingShadow: Some manifestations of spirits, if they aren't made out of hair.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's suggested that part of the horror began in WWII. A Japanese soldier asked a friend to, should he die in combat, cut off a lock of his hair and take it back home for his family's traditional funerary ceremonies. However, the friend failed this obligation, and instead stopped at a local barbershop and grabbed some of the cut hair, which he presented to the family. The real problem started when the lock of hair was stolen from the container, used in a ''Ushi no toki mairi'' - a traditional Japanese curse ritual, and offered to "the hair god".
* NightmareFace
* NoEnding: Much like [[Manga/FuanNoTane the author's other work]], many of the chapters just end with no resolution. [[spoiler:Subverted later, as many chapters are revisited later, adding context and filling in the overarching story of the reason behind the nightmarish events.]]
* NothingIsScarier
* PrehensileHair: A recurring trait of the ghosts in the stories.
* RoomFullOfCrazy
* SurrealHorror
* TraumaticHaircut: Done to a young girl in a rural village, though apparently as some kind of safety precaution by her family. Also threatened towards a strange transfer student by a gang of bullies.
* YourHeadASplode: If the initial curse wasn't bad enough, when "the hair god" statue was being moved, an impatient worker smashed its statue with a mallet, deforming it, grotesquely inflating his head until it popped like a balloon, and remotely killing the overseeing priest by blowing everything above his jaw.

* YourHeadASplode: If the initial curse wasn't bad enough, when "the hair god" statue was being moved, an impatient worker smashed its statue with a mallet, deforming the statue, grotesquely inflating his head until it popped like a balloon, and remotely killing the overseeing priest by blowing everything above his jaw.

* TraumaticHaircut: Done to a young girl in a rural village, though apparently as some kind of safety precaution by her family. Also threatened towards a strange transfer student by a gang of bullies.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's suggested that part of the horror began in WWII. A Japanese soldier asked a friend to, should he die in combat, cut off a lock of his hair and take it back home for his family's traditional funerary ceremonies. However, the friend failed this obligation, and instead stopped at a local barbershop and grabbed some of the cut hair, which he presented to the family.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's suggested that part of the horror began in WWII. A Japanese soldier asked a friend that, should he die in combat, to cut off a lock of his hair and take it back home for his family's traditional funerary ceremonies. However, the friend failed this obligation, and instead stopped at a local barbershop and grabbed some of the cut hair, which he presented to the family.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's suggested that part of the horror began in WWII. A Japanese soldier asked a friend that, should he die in combat, to grab a lock of his hair and take it back home for his family's traditional funerary ceremonies. However, the friend failed this obligation, and instead stopped at a local barbershop and grabbed some of the cut hair, which he presented to the family.

* NoEnding: Much like [[Manga/FuanNoTane the author's other work]], many of the chapters just end with no resolution.

* NoEnding: Much like [[FuanNoTane the author's other work]], many of the chapters just end with no resolution.

A horror manga by Masaaki Nakayama (author of Manga/FuanNoTane), that consists of short, eerie ghost stories. Unlike FuanNoTane, the stories here aren't completely unrelated and many intertwine at different points. A recurring theme is the probably-malevolent "God of Hair" and the people who worship it.

* BodyHorror:

* NightmareFace:

* NothingIsScarier:

* RoomFullOfCrazy:
* SurrealHorror:

* AnachronisticOrder: The chapters take place at different times, but many of them intersect.

* CreepyCorvids: A vengeful flock of crows in one chapter. [[spoiler: But they aren't really crows...]]

A horror manga by Masaaki Nakayama (author of Manga/FuanNoTane), that consists of short, eerie ghost stories.

* LaserGuidedKarma: In one chapter, a member of a group of school bullies is taken aback when their victim punches his shadow on the ground. [[spoiler: Then it turns out the shadow's head was smashed and he can't move from that spot...]]