I don't get what you commenters like about this series so much. It's very repetitive and the ghosts don't really scare me; I don't understand why anyone in the main friend group are friends; and the wholesome scenes feel really cheesy ("scary looking guy is actually kind to cats").
Only in volume 3 does there start being any real development, and it's through a very trope-y way (though I guess it subverts it). Then it starts getting really involved, and I'm not sure if I want to continue because usually it doesn't work so well when a SoL suddenly decides to have plot.
I just read
Delinquent Exorcist Reina, which I really enjoyed, and saw a lot of comparisons to this. It's not really horror in the same way, since Reina isn't powerless – it's a lot more like an action story the way Reina main-characters her way through various challenges – but there are still a lot of characters.
I don't want to double-post so also,
He mentions things like seeing black holes in the sky eating up the sun. There was some previous discussion in this thread about schizophrenia.
Another interesting interview:
Also, it seems that ignoring hallucinations really is a way to deal with it; it can't physically hurt you. I have heard, in tulpamancy (basically, the practice of making imaginary friends) ignoring your "tulpa" will make them fade. There was this one story on 4chan of someone messing up and creating a blind, deaf, constantly screaming tulpa of Pinkie Pie, which may be of interest to people:
It's unclear what anon's fate ultimately was.