Audience reviews
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Renee96
This second season of Hell Girl takes place where the first season left off. Ai is still working as Jigoku Shoujo.
The formula for the show is the same, yet a tad different after the first couple episodes.
This season is still somewhat of an anthology, but it focuses less on the victim being tormented and focuses more on Ai and her crew. You see how they investigate their client and targets by going undercover and working temp jobs. Ai even helps with going under cover and I laughed when I saw her as a postal worker asking payment for a package.
You learn more about Ai's crew and you see they're actually good people by seeing how they interact with others and how they react to certain situations. They're not sadistic ghouls that enjoy torturing the target, but more like spirits trying…
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I agree with some here if they say that the staff listened to the fans. for a couple of episodes it was alright but it won't take that long before you realize the changes.
for me here are what I thought are the improvements of this season that the previous.
-Ai is actually taking part of the revenge which is usually done by his comrades. and she is also taking part of observing the Client.
- we got to know more about Ai and her comrades more, though not that much but enough for us to understand them and realize that they have emotions.
-Slowly but surely they broke out their formula where it's a backstory then deal with the devil then revenge. we got to see some interesting revenge stories as well as what if (ex: what if your recipient for revenge has died?)
Yes some reasons for reven…
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Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori or Jigoku Shoujo Season 2 does some things better than its predecessor and some things worse but in the end I think Futakomori is a worthy successor to the first season. I am still not sure myself if season 1 or season 2 is better but maybe at the end of this review I can make up my mind.
Story: 8
I gave the first season an 8 for story and given that the general formula does not change in season 2 I see no reason not to also give Futakomori an 8. Once again an episodic format is used and once again it is largely done well. In fact I could almost liken a season of Jigoku Shoujo to a season of Walking Dead in that there are many good episodes, some meh episodes, and a few really great episodes. In retrospect I think season 1 had more great episodes than season 2 but…
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I was really becoming tedious by the time I watched this series. Having barely finished Season 1, I thought this series was getting really repetitive, but still, I decided to give it a chance... And I ain't regretting it for a lifetime! Seriously, the story development is simply amazing. It's the only series of Jigoku Shoujo that is actually worth in my opinion, because the changes in the characters' personalities are really surprising, besides non-superficial at all.
The plot takes long to develop, but when it does, you simply won't take your eyes off the series anymore. I don't remember in which episode it begins to get interesting because it's been a long time I've watched it, but I guess it's from 12 onwards. And you won't regret continuing if you reach there!
The first season, howev…
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Yami ni madoishi awarena kage ---Shade lost in darkness
hito wo kizutsuke otoshimete ---you hurt people
tsumi ni oboreshi gou no tama ---soul full of sins
ippen shinde miru? ---Would die once?
If you watched not dubbed version these words are probably got carved into your head. Enma Ai also known as Jigoku Shoujo is a girl keeping a huge hate herself deeply shut in her heart, mercilessly fulfills her duty. This time she continues to fulfill her duties of Jigoku Shoujo the same way, mercilessly, emotionlessly, decisively, washing people down into the hell.
Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori again follows the same pattern as prequel continuing episodic stories, but now stories are a little less straightforward and less predictable. Though you will still hear the phrase I put in the beginning many ti…
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So... this is what disappointemt tastes like. Like piss-soaked cardboard, if you ask me.
If you're already familiar with my earlier review of the first season of Hell Girl, you should already know, that I loved the first season. It had it's annoyances, yes, but overall, it was very good piece of work. So, with no doubt, I was generally excited to hear that there indeed was a second season for one of my favourite animes... with original japanese voices, what whatever! I looked it up, watched it... and afterwards, I was so disappointed, that I actually cried blood!
As for a short recap... in the first season of Hell Girl, the Hell Link was just about this urban myth about a website where you can in the stroke of midnight write down a name of the person that you wish being sented to Hell -…
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"Hey, did you hear about Hell Correspondence? They say if you submit someone's name there you can send that person to hell". These ever spreading rumors have given Enma Ai the chance to fill the pits of Hell with many a soul hardening her heart with every request sent to her.
The second season continues with more hatred and suffering as this well designed story advances revealing details about the main characters in an endless chain that mimics reality, it proves to us over and over again what hatred does to us, it turns us into something inhuman.
One of the various improvements made since the first season are the way episodes start and progress that way you don't have the feeling you've seen this before.Also something I have appreciated about this anime is that it slowly presents you ev…
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"Ima Nanji Ka Oshiete Yume To Itte Dakishimete" sounds familiar, right?
The new Hate Cycle has improved & is better, faster & stronger.
IT'S THE BEST SEASON OF JIGOKU SHOUJO.
it truly is
The scenarios in most episodes are more well thought of than the previous season and this where we see how Hell Girl really feels for the humans. The "Shibata needs to stop Hell Girl" Team is
not present anymore and it's actually new to me ( well kinda ) because no one tries to stop Hell Girl & no one was actually able to stop Hell Girl in this time around. Story - 9
As I said, the scenarios were more thought of than it's previous season and
once you watch an episode, it makes you want to watch more. Aside from the episodes being
better, the last arc of the show really made it have such a nice ending…
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While this is a continuation of the first Jigoku Shoujo, it is quite different.
For one, the main character from the last season isn't here (not really surprising), and the story is told predominantly from Jigoku Shoujo's point of view.
Two, the authors were obviously annoyed with the one-story-per-episode format from before, so... they kept it, and toyed and played with it (very successfully, I might add).
Three, this series is noticeably darker that the previous, and if the previous depressing stories mostly ended in happy endings (of sorts), then these ones don't always follow that rule.
This is pretty much everything you need to know about Futakomori
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So, you people thirsty for a second round of Ai Enma action want to know if it's worth it, right? Well, the answer is: maybe. Read below and find out.
*I'm going to make a lot of references/comparisons to the first season (which I've also reviewed), so this review may not make a lot of sense if you haven't seen it. (Watching Futakomori without watching season one would be pretty stupid anyway.)
Story: 9. This time around, we're treated to the refreshing perspective of Ai and her helpers--as opposed to only the viewpoint of the victim resorting to desperate measures. The tradeoff here, though, is that we lose basically all of the mystery and intrigue present in the first season. Ai appearances are much more frequent, and there's really no more excitement when she shows up behind people. W…
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The second season of Hell Girl is a great improvement over the first season. While it is still marred with the repetitious developments with the victim and tormentor at a number of points, many of the character stories that Ai and her companions become entangled in are a bit more grey in their developments this time around. Characters among both victim and tormentor in many episodes for this season do come off as flawed this time around where the victim doesn't always come as righteous in their justifications of wanting to banish their tormentor and the tormentor does come off as having redeemable traits that do not make them off as a shallow baddie like many of the foes you would come across from the first season. Ai's three companions even get their backgrounds explored in this season as…
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The Second Season of Jigoku Shoujo has a few different names: Futakomori, Two Cages, Two Mirrors and my favorite Jigoku Shoujo 2: Electric Boogaloo. Ok I’m kidding on that last one, though Ai sending people to hell via break dancing would be entertaining .Regardless of what it is called it’s still the much improved second season of Jigoku Shoujo, so let’s dive right in.
The stories are the first big improvement, dropping the first season’s clear cut black and white morality for a more realistic grey morality. Gone is the pure innocent victim who is tortured by the big bad tormenter. Now both the victim and the receiver of the revenge usually have blood on their hands so to speak. As a result they stories feel somewhat more believable, though they do occasionally throw in someone who is ju…
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“Hell still lingers around”
The Story...
After Enma Ai knowing her past, the Hell Hotline still give services to people who have grudges growing in their hearts. As she continues working as the Hell Girl, there are lot more tales to see along the way.
It is a continuation of the preceding series which still focuses on taking revenge, giving chances, second thoughts, and bringing entertainment on its mystery, supernatural, and horror with better drama on it. As the story moves along, there are a lot of changes and slightly improvement happened, as making the short tales pleasing by putting better depth on it, which becomes entertaining to watch than before. Although there aren’t quite changes on what method they use on fulfilling someone’s desires, they put more emphasis on the tale tha…
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Before we get to my actual review, I would like the viewers to understand that I AM NOT A SUMMARIZER. If you want to know what's the plot, read the SUMMARY, and don't mark me down for not saying anything about the story. I tell you what elements are impacting in the story and what my opinion is. ANYWAYS...
The Second season of Jigoku Shoujo lived up to it's expectations and once again, delivered that supernatural and eerie feel that we love it for. Enma Ai's return to the business was gracefully reinstated after the ending of the first season and was even more "scary." Plus the new mini-stories were fantastic and didn't have that repeating feeling that occurred in the first season. The anime really fixed all its errors from the previous season. BUT of course there was a new problem that o…
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Title: Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori
Anime: Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori continues to be directed by Takahiro Omori and produced by Studio Deen. It is twenty-six episodes long and ran from October 7th, 2006 to April 6th, 2007. Futakomori has yet to be licensed Stateside.
Story: There is a rumor that if there's someone giving you absolute hell and you want to get revenge on them, there's a website that you can access only at midnight, known as Hell Correspondence. Once the name is submitted, Ai Enma (aka Jigoku Shoujo/Hell Girl) will appear to the client and give them a straw doll with a red string wrapped around its neck. If the client wishes to take revenge, then all they have to do is pull the string and Ai and her helpers will ferry the person to hell. However, there is a small catch to all th…
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The following review is for both seasons of Hell Girl, because they are really part of the same story;
Ok, so we've all read the Lord of the Rings.We all know the trick to it: as soon as a description passage starts, skip 5 pages and continue reading.Same is true for this anime: if you're not prepared, you'd be in serious danger of dropping it, because both seasons , at least for their first halves are so awfully repetitive: Person hates somebody, person contacts Hell Girl, Hell Girl sends said somebody to hell, black mark appears on the contractor's chest in order to remind them that they're due to hell as well, after they die.Wash, rinse, repeat ( i'm not 100% sure, but I think one or two episodes of the second season were direct remakes of episodes of the first season).For god's sake,…
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Story (7.7) - Well, this aspect is like the first season of this anime. Each episode has an own story, and theres almost no sequence till the last episodes. However, in this season the episodes are much less formulatic, i mean, in this one they give us new situations and the end is not always the same, i mean, there are some that dont seal the contract for several reasons, by other words there are more diferrences between the episodes..i gave 7.2 to the first season, and i gave +0.5 pts since it got slighty better.
Art (8.3) - Art is good, the design is nice, the characters look good..not so different from the first season. I also like some details that make the graphics look better, so an 8 fits well here.
Sound (7.3) - Nothing special, just enough to make it quite enjoyable.
Character…
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Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori, being the direct sequel to Jigoku Shoujo, offers more of the same but does everything much better.
The story centers around a website called Jigoku Tsuushin (Hotline to Hell), which can only be visited at midnight. If you type in a person that you hate's name and your hate is fierce enough, the red-eyed, black-clad Enma Ai will appear before you and offer you a straw doll. If you pull off the red string attached to the doll, your antagonist will be sent immediately to hell (after being punished for his/her sins if she/he has any). However, by doing this, you automatically condemn you own soul, and when you die, you will be going to a hot place as well.
The first and second series are similar in many ways; the first 10-15 episodes are strongly episodic and intro…
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The Story - It's actually pretty, well, not clear. Actually, Jigoku Shoujo's story line is about a girl who sends people to hell. Actually, The story plot only applies at episode 18 + or so. I'll give it a 9, though.
The Art -Are you kidding? The graphic rocks! It actually made it 3d like, kinda like the Haruhi Suzumiya graphics. It actually is believable, ah. I wish the Hell Girl exist. :<. Anyways, I'll give it a 10.
Sound -The Sound is fantastic. Indigo Dye actually got Ai's emotion coming and going. The Opening song is pretty good, too. 10.
Character -It clears all Ai's assistant's erm, past. So it's pretty good. And to think for 26 okay, 42 PEOPLE's situation! Whoa. 10 points for that.
Enjoyment -It's really enjoyable. I mean, it's really scary, it's enjoyable. I really love the e…
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Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori is the sequel Jigoku Shoujo. Its basically where the previous story left off. Enma Ai continuing her work as Jigoku Shoujo. The same job she has had for the past 400 years. This time around, it appears that the staff has listened to the fans of this show and pretty much made a brand new show. It still follows the same formula as part one, plot, retribution, and conculsion, but this time around they seem to mix it up alot more often this time around. Some episodes they progress it normally, in other ep\'s they tarintino it and start from the middle or at the end and work from there. For a show like this its just what the doctor ordered. Each ep doesnt feel like you just watched the same ep over and over again. Even the stories are alot more contraversial this time a…
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