Short Synopsis: A loser who works part time at a swimming pool “tries” to access Jigoku Tsuushin.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 9/10 (Uhm… yeah…)
The best episode of Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae yet. This episode was awesome, but god… it is SO for the wrong reasons. This episode featured the single biggest idiot we’ve seen on Jigoku thus far, and his stupidity really reached epic levels in this episode. This guy is really the typical case of an emo teenager.
To give you a bit of an indication… he’s hiding a poster of a cute girl in swimsuit behind a picture of “the scream”. Every time someone pisses him off, he adds a sticker somewhere on this girl’s body, starting from her feet. The person that reaches “goal” (come on, it’s easy to guess where “that” is) first is the one he’s going to send to hell. In the end, when three people are about to reach the “goal” he chickens out and wants to savour the moment. And indeed: soon his mind becomes distracted by something entirely different and he completely forgets his plans with Jigoku Tsuushin in his enthusiasm.
And to think that in the end, he managed to find himself a date in a way that actually makes sense: simply asking the girl he likes! Dear harem leads: you can learn A LOT from this little idiot, remember that. And to think that in the end, he was the one to end up in hell because one of the girls he looked up to turned out to be even more emo than he was.
I also loved the little self-parody by Studio Deen, as the Magazine that was crazy enough to publish the work of this idiot. Also, I absolutely loved the “Tatanic” with “Hiroshi Watanahe” as the lead character. Could that be the creators’ way of saying “… yeah thanks.”?
But the real icing on the cake was the single best punishment scene that Jigoku Shoujo has shown us up till now aside from the one that took up the entire action. I mean… seeing the guy getting tortured in LIVE ACTION cardboard cut-outs! Brilliant!
On a more serious note, during the last episode I started to wonder what the second half of Mitsuganae would be focusing on. Of course, I should have known: it’s going to flesh out and develop Yuzuki’s classmates. This episode already made a small start with the shy girl in glasses, and this would also mean that there’s a very good chance of Tsugumi returning.
“Every time someone in his life, he adds a sticker somewhere on this girl’s body, starting from her feet.”
shouldn’t it be “Every time someone in his life wrongs him in any way” or something similar? it’s like half a sentence there…=)
Ack, sorry about that. Typed a bit too fast there. ^^;
“Dear harem leads: you can A LOT from this little idiot, remember that.”
I think this sentence is missing a verb. Love your posts, btw
not really a loser. the guy is a genius in drawing manga, comparable to bakuman’s eiji nizuma. also just as crazy. it’s just sad that he rescued an ingrate bitch.