Short Synopsis: A woman whose father was struck by a car calls Jigoku Tsuushin.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10 (Awesome)
OMG! OMG! OMG!
At times like these, I just have to resort to pure and utterly biased fanboyism. Enma Ai is back in action, baby! This episode was so beyond all expectations that I could have had of this third season. Since episode 13 of the second season wasn’t that impressive, I didn’t expect anything from this series, and what an important episode it turned out to be! Something’s telling me that the storyline for the third season is going to be even bigger than that of the second one!
After the previous episode, I actually made a prediction for this series: that the second half of the third season would focus on fleshing out Yuzuki’s classmates, just like it did in the second season with Ai’s dolls. Then this episode comes, and not only REVIVES AI, but also actually SENDS ONE OF THOSE CLASSMATES OF HER TO HELL! On top of that, it already starts to give some new hints about what hell in this series really, at this early stage of the series.
This is really why I fell in love with Jigoku Shoujo: it may seem like a very strange series with a revenge for EVERY FREAKING EPISODE, but then it actually develops, and show that there’s much more behind the revenges of the week. And at the same time, a lot of the revenges just remain entertaining in lots of different ways.
