Category: Finished Series: Mystery/Suspense

This episode was so cool. It starts out as a regular jigoku-shoujo story. A girl with a talent for acting gets surpressed by her famous adoptive mother. We see her acces the website and call Emna Ai. The same ritual, blah blah. But somehow the pacing is a bit too fast, and a few questions are left unanswered. Then, however, we get to see that the girl is actually an enormous SOB, and the mother is the one with the good intentions. When she gets her role taken away from her by an unknown girl, she decides to take revenge upon her, calls a couple of guys and they do something horrible to the girl that took her part. After that, it really gets awesome. I won’t tell what happens, but I was extremely amused by the sudden plot twist. The creators carried it out perfectly.

I also think I’ve figured out the power of Jigoku Shoujo: the element of surprise. The creators build a certain premisse and overall repetiveness up, maintain it, and suddenly break it at just the right time. This has an awesome effect.

Holy goodness… the story in this episode is so friggin’ sad. It’s still the usual concept that we know of Jigoku Shoujo though, but this one has been executed very well. We have a girl, whose mother accidentally saw the popular-wife-of-important-person cheating on her husband. Since then, her mother has been tormented by that woman. As her mother suffers, she suffers as well. The creators really succeeding in telling us that the mother was suffering. It was so sad when looking her husband hit her because his job is in danger because of her. I give two thumbs up for this one.

It’s also nice to see that the girl and Emna actually have a conversation, apart from the usual "Here is a doll with a red string bla bla, pull the string blabla, you’ll go to hell as well etc." I also liked the new preparation scene, and I noticed that the recycled cells took shorter than before. Also the annoying grandmother was no nuisance this time.

Okay, this is what I’ve been waiting for. Emna and the three others are finally playing an active role, other then just carrying out the revenge, and furthermore the story in this episode is awesome. We have this president of a huge succesful company, with a high school girl employed who’s supposed to be her distant family. Everyone believes that girl is aweful with computers, while the president is wonderful with them, but it’s just the opposite. The president is nowhere with computers, while the girl is a computer nerd. So far so good? Well, it also appears that the president is using the girl to hack into other companies and administration to her own advantage. The girl can’t do anything because of blackmail. We also see that the president is someone who’ll do literally everything for a succesful life, including summoning Jigoku Shoujo for her own selfish gains, and killing multiple persons.

This really turned into a great episode. They finally showed a bad guy (or girl) with multiple perspective, instead of the blocky ones they normally show. Emna finally gets to do something other then just riding in a boat or lying in the water. But I could still see the normal pacing I’m used of Jigoku Shoujo.

I’m having some speculations here. If I am right, then this anime will have a first season of slightly normal cases, and once the second season starts, then the cases will turn more extravagant by the minute. I’ll be very interested when that happens.

The individual stories are interesting to watch, and although the first two episodes were a lot better then this one, I had an interesting time watching this.

I’m just afraid that Jigoku Shoujo was put into this for just the hell of it. Her actions are becoming a bit repetitive, which is such a pity, as she has a wonderful character. I’m really anticipating an episode that breaks this pattern. But as this show has 26 episodes, there is still lots of hope.

Oh god, I so want the soundtrack of this. Anyway, what we have here, is a website. If you enter it at exactly 0:00 hours, it’ll appear. On that website, you can enter a person’s name, who will get sent to hell. Ideal for revenges. The only negative part is that you will also get sent to hell, after you die.

When I read this, I really liked this premisse, and so I was looking forward to seeing the anime. I wasn’t disappointed. Emma Ai, or Jigoku Shoujo (meaning Hell Girl) fits her role perfectly, and her friends also seem very interesting. Also the stories that this anime tells every episode are awesomely done.

This episode also was very interesting. Not as good as the previous ones, but still worth all the efford watching it. The scene at the funeral has also been executed awesomely. I liked the main character struggling between the truth and his team.

The only downfall to this is that the part at which Jigoku Shoujo takes her revenge becomes a bit repetitive after you seen it for a couple of times. It’s also a pity that all the bad guys so far were really bad guys, either obsessed, but they didn’t care a bit about their victims. I’d love to see an episode in which the bad guy is half good, and the good guy is half bad, or a variation of this.