Audience reviews
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highfeel
Nothing was making me to expect much from Jigoku Shoujo as there is not so many good horror anime, being relatively old, like 11 years (now it is 2016)
I had a thought that there is no point in reviewing this anime as all the ideas were mentioned like hundred times,
but after checking a bunch of reviews I found out the lack of some important ideas featured in this anime.
In this review I am not urging everyone to watch it saying "it is a must watch series", however this anime really impressed me. It is a sad story and it may remind you of the worst time in your life, but it is teaching very important moral "revenging you dig two graves, one for your enemy and another for yourself"
So the main idea of this anime in most episodes is hate driving people mad, mad enough to agree on a contrac…
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--This is a review of the ENTIRE THREE SEASONS of Jigoku Shoujo--
After discussing the apparent absence of „real“ horror in anime in general in one of my clubs, I decided to look up a few so called horror series and finally stumbled across Jigoku Shoujo. This series definitely has a lot to offer on the supernatural/mystery sector with its 72 episodes distributed over three seasons airing between 2005 and 2009, but would it also offer the horror I was searching for?
In a nutshell, this series is about a mysterious girl named Ai Enma who, over the course of the whole series, fulfills people´s wishes to send another person they have a grudge against to hell with the help of her three henchmen. It is a very episodic show where every episode follows the same routines and patterns. We learn ab…
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Hell Girl is one of those animes that you want to keep watching over and over again. I love everything about this horror post-21st century anime, with its stunning animation style, fantastic storytelling, supernatural atmosphere.
Now it's time to rate:
Story- The story is basically where a person has been suffering from torment from an acquaintance and access a site called Hell Correspondence and submits a request to get his or her revenge. Ai Emma appears and gives the person a doll with a string around its neck. When you pulled the string, Ai and her companions appear and pull out a freaky illusion and sent the antagonist to Hell. I give the story a delicious 10/10.
Art- I love the animation. It captures the aspect of the series. 10/10.
Sound- The sound is tranquil and eerie--I love…
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Story
Jigoku Shoujo is the latest in a long and celebrated tradition of "horror/suspense" titles that don't really have either horror or suspense. The anime tend to go for sheer style over things like character development or logic and generally end with gruesome deaths tinged in irony. In the case of some of the shorter works, the formula tends to work: Vampire Princess Miyu, Pet Shop of Horrors, and even the more recent and slightly longerRequiem from the Darkness are all fairly worthwhile titles despite having basically zero character development or coherent storyline.
Unfortunately, this is where Jigoku Shoujo falls short: length. With so many episodes to fill, the show quickly dead-ends into the same exact formula. Just as a magic trick gets less impressive the more times you see it,…
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Having filled Japan with rumors that aren't taken seriously at first Jigoku Shoujo is an avenger.
Sometimes reality hits you in the face when you thought it was sweet, and you end up in tears.
Fear, Hatred, Anger and revenge, this is an unbreakable chain that represents the dark side of humanity and it is Jigoku Shoujo who weilds that chain.
This anime has a great story augmented by the episodic chain that reveals smaller stories evolving around the suffering or others. I have enjoyed it from the start because of its supernatural elements that aren't just thrown up your eyes but instead they slowly come into play. Each time a new character is revealed along with it's sad story it proves that good people are suffering and that will make you say to your screen while watching this anime:"Pul…
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The most stupid I've ever watched. Basically, it's all about a damn insolent girl with her subordinates going around and scare people by creating hallucinations, trying to get them to concede their faults.
The whole series is awfully repetitive. And the arrogant appearance of that pathetic hell girl makes me sick. That pipsqueak acts so pretentiously as if she's absolute right to do anything to anyone as she pleases and to judge or set moral standards. She's blatantly domineering, and sadistic. None of these characteristics would turn me off so much without the combination with the arrogance and pretension.
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Bring out your inner sadist with the new and improved, Hell Girl! Available in three designer colors: red, blood-of-your-enemies red, and YOUR-blood red!
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Anyways, I was serious: This series will probably bring out your inner sadist. Read below and find out.
Story: 8. The premise is quite interesting and different. However, I don't appreciate the episodic nature used for 90% of the episodes. The only REAL story occurs in the last 3, where you actually learn about Ai herself. Until then, the episodes are predictable and formulaic: Person gets wronged, person goes to Internet to contact the Hell Correspondence, person receives doll, person angsts over whether or not to pull the thread, eventually does, then the evildoer is sent to hell. They switch it up a bit in between, but for the m…
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Horror is a genre that strives to invoke fear and dread in people. Many a scare tactic and dark twist have been concocted to achieve this goal. Unfortunately, there are many times when the genre is so focused on scaring its audience that it chooses shock value over humanity. Thankfully, this is not the case with Hell Girl. Though often cold and unforgiving, Hell Girl has a humanistic core, and because of that it is all the more effective as a horror. After all, the most terrifying thing is not some big bad boogieman, but rather the flaws of humanity itself.
Rumor has it, there is a website that can only be accessed at midnight. The Hell Corespondents... All you have to do is type in the name of a person you hate, and the Hell Girl will make that person disappear from your life; forever to…
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Fleeting thrills, occasional chills, definite cringes. That's what I would succinctly wrap up Hell Girl as. The main crux of the issue is this; Hell Girl is a morally and intellectually lazy at best, disingenuous at worst, show, that manages to stay partially afloat with a couple good lead characters and some occasionally deviously twisted stories.
Let me get out of the way that the art, voice acting, and sounds are all wonderful. Distinct and atmospheric, they often times accentuate the best parts of the show.
However, Hell Girl suffers perhaps most greatly from being very formulaic and repetitive. Most episodes boil down thusly: we have, "Persona A" and "Person B."
Person A is wronged by person B.
Person A gets Hell Girl and her cronies to kill and send Person B to hell immediately…
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“Delivery service to hell“
The Story...
It might be a little odd & quite unique in a way that people are getting sent to hell. A story which revolves to a creepy and a psychological way as the main character Enma Ai fulfills someone’s desire to make revenge on someone. As Enma Ai being the Hell Girl and the ones responsible in doing such hideous actions, it brings such mystery to the story as in each episode there are different tales to tell with different personalities to view. The main attraction here would be the procedure of how the person is getting sent to hell, little by little, knowing the reasons behind it. With the development of the story, there are minor arcs & major arc to consider, as minor arcs fills up and strengthen the background of the story while the major arc follows…
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Jigoku Shoujo is one of those animes where you have to wait for the wonderful treat at the end. As many people have stated and I'm sure any viewer will notice after a few episodes is that this series is VERY repetitive. I would say that there is a reason for it in giving viewers a small taste of the hell Ai has endured for many years.
The music is wonderful, animation is stunning, and the characters are a real treat. Some of Ai's team it was easy to guess where in Japanese mythology they came from and one of them was a really tough one. Don't worry you'll get your answers... by watching ^_^
So if you have the patience this is a very good anime.
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The rest is up to you.
This anime was one I happened to stumble upon when I was looking for something to watch. I was looking for a horror-ish anime, and then I remembered reading a review for Jigoku Shoujo. So I figured that it couldn't hurt to check it out.
I was captivated by the simple plot that grew and progressed as the story developed. But it moved to slowly sometimes and then forced a lot on you as you moved towards the end. I also though that the side characters leading the story were a little weak or sometimes down right obnoxious.
There are sound cues in it that remind you of the event or begin to symbolize events all together.
Suprising the lead characters were well designed and had more personality then I would have expected. The dialogue was was either dark and humorles…
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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...
Jigoku Shoujo, or Hell Girl, is an anime that gets the viewers into thinking about their morals, an idea similar to Death Note, but not like the concept of controlling fate. Rather, this anime has you searching for why one would wish ill-will against another, and whether or not you would send somebody to hell if you were in their position. Basically this anime embellishes on it's supernatural feel and does that very well. I had chills in some scenes were glimpses of Hell were portrayed.…
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If you have not tried Jigoku Shoujo or as it is known in America, UK and Australia "Hell Girl", then all I can say is that you're missing out. Hell Girl is a very unique anime , each episode of the series focuses on another character going through a tough time before they turn to the legendary girl everyone is whispering about. Of course there's a price and even that doesn't stop the protagonist. The story's weakness is that it's very repetitve which doesn't rock everyone's boat as most of the time the protagonist will pull the string off the doll. However, the story gets more intense when a detective and his daughter is involved to try to stop people contacting Hell Girl. There are surprises in this series, times when the audience is fooled that the ending might be a happy one. The art is…
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Title: Jigoku Shoujo
Manga, Live-Action Drama, Anime: Jigoku Shoujo was adapted into a manga after it finished its original TV run, with art and story done by Miyuki Eto. It began running in Kodansha's Nakayoshi magazine in the October 2005 issue, is still running, and has, for the most part, had an original story line and plot changes, though some episodes from the anime do get their own manga chapters. Del Rey has licensed it Stateside, and the third volume is due on August 5th, while it stand at six collected volumes in Japan currently.
A live-action spinoff consisting of twelve half-hour episodes began running on TV on November 4th, 2006, and finished its run on January 27th, 2007. There's not a lot about it, so I don't know how similar or dissimilar it is to the original anime. It w…
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Ok....To start of my first review, i'll be brief and frank. I expected much more from Jigoku Shoujo. Sure, the series was ok but it could have been better.
Let's go into more detail...
The concept of the story was unique, i'll admit that. My only problem was HALF the series was VERY repetative. Half of the total number of episodes focused ONLY on random people asking Ai Enma for their vengance to be granted. Half the series went something like this: a.) Random person wants someone sent to hell. b.) They ask Ai Enma for help. c.) Random person gets their revenge. It wasn't until someone actually tried to stop Ai Enma did the story get more interesting.
The series was also suppossed to be scary or frightening to some degree. Personally, I didn't find it to be any of these. It lacked the i…
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Story (7.2) - The story is not bad, the problem is the first episodes are more like the same.. someone wants revenge, accessed a special site, placed the nome of the person to be sent to hell, then after that someone meets Enma ai, gets a black doll, and end up pulling the string that seals the contract between Enma and the someone who wants revenge (the someone who finishes the contract will also go to hell, but only when they die in rl.)
Basically, the story is like this for about 9-11 episodes, at that point i was about to drop this series bcz each episode was basically the same but with another different story.
That´s when two new characters appear, Hajime and Tsugumi, who will try to stop the revenges. I wont tell u more, i u want to know then watch it ;).
But if we take off the…
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5 WORDS OR LESS REVIEW : Not really scary but nice
I was expecting something more dark and creepy, sort of like xxxHOLiC or maybe even Death Note, but that wasn’t the case. I can’t say it’s better than I expected, but it was enough to entertain me.
For the first episodes, I thought it was too formulaic. The episode would start presenting the background of that episode’s petitioner (the one who seeks revenge), who are usually teenage girls, by the way. We see what’s making that person ask for revenge from the Hell Girl, or Enma Ai. Finally, that person finally asks for help from Enma Ai through the Jigoku Tsushin (Hell Correspondence) site, and shortly after, Enma Ai appears, hands the straw doll over to the petitioner and explains her deal. At first the peti…
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Its obviously a very sensitive subject. Personally i think nothing in RL could be any worse than hell, but that doesnt seem to be the case in this show. Considering how many users complete the contract, it almost gets out of hand . Getting cursed to hell because some lady kills your puppies? Thats a little extreme. But for the most part, most of the stories are pretty cruel and unusal "train wreck" stories that range anything from grade school bullies to betrayal to medical malpractice. Considering the main theme of the story being revenge, they could easily make 100 episodes out of thin air. That is also the problem of this show, the theme starts to get repetitive after about the 7th show. Its the same formula again and again: Tragic story --> Hell request --> Retribution. But just when y…
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Jigoku Shoujo takes place in modern Japan where the internet has filled the lives of many people in this bustling world of technology and sins. This anime portrays the cruelty of the human race, and shows that there are many people in this world that suffer terribly and that, indefinitely, most people wish those that are making their lives miserable would just die and go to hell. And, of course, Jigoku Shoujo, or Hell Girl, is there to exact their revenge.
The storyline is wonderful. The anime itself is mainly episodic, and each episode focuses mainly on one person, and the suffering they're experiencing due to one person. As you read more into the character's lives, and just how badly they're treated, you, yourself, will want to see that red string pulled, just so that person can suffer…
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