Jigoku Shoujo

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.

Jigoku Shoujo is an anime who since the first episodes made me restless. Only in the last nine episodes the history is really good and show off all potential.
The first part of the anime (ep1~7) tell us closed histories, who honestly,are totally disposable and repetitives. Is only in the second part of the anime (ep8~16) who he show us a plot but he continues repetitive. Only in our third and last part the anime become nice, and finally develops our plot, even though this is a little confusing.
In my opinion you can start the anime in the 8º episode and after seeing him jump for ... the 17º episode.
How I already said the first part of the anime is very disappointing. The anime tells us seven different histories without any plot. The second and the third part (ep8~26) compansate this. In this part the anime show us all the plot, discussing about the valor of the life, selfishness and regrets. Beside it the anime show us news characters who made the history more interesting
In my opinion the 14º and 21º episodes are better than all others episodes of this anime. If all episodes were equal these two, and the plot start from the first episode, of course this anime would be better.
If you watched the anime until the end you saw a giant development of the plot and characters, even if the last part of the story is a little confusing.
Now let's talk about the situations of the characters. This is really absurd and unrealistic. The world of the history is like our world, but a lot of situations never can be see here.
The animation is like the script, don't help the anime be great. The sound don't help too, is little impactant.
The end of the anime don't answers a lot of quests about the history and let a mention for the nexts seasons.

For finish, if you don't like histories who make you angry and are repetitive don't watch this anime. The anime would be better but, the script don't help him. Because that I give 4 for Jigoku Shoujo.

Cliche Pattern ANIME HORROR

Is a horror anime that uses repetitive sinful stories to tell the same story over and over until Like a fixed story Such as giving the protagonist revenge by relying on a website Abyss daughter to take revenge on those who bully him. And it ends with the protagonist becoming Villain instead of the ending I'm bored with the process And presenting the issue of bullying alone Without talking about any other matter I don't like that some of the characters are not villains, but go to hell because of their irresponsible human self-indulgence. Even with the conditions he ultimately had to ... be sent to hell. But for me, I do not agree with the actions it affects other people. I think has a more novel way of presenting and interesting actions. It might make me like this a bit more, but For me now, I would say that it is bad.

This is my first review here, so I'll make it quick.

I've just finished watching the first 3 season's of Jigoku Shoujo. By only watching 2/3 episodes a day, I was able to go throw 75+ episodes of this show without having to drop it mid way.

I must say, I'm surprised that I was able to last this long, considering this was a huge disappointment for me.



Story : 2/10
- Basically, a girl known as the "Hell Girl" allows people to send someone they hate to hell. And apart from that, there is no main story. Every episode, apart from maybe a couple of ones, centers around ... new character's that were just introduced in the same episode. Only the main character and her gang appear on almost every episode, repeatedly for the same reason, addind nothing new to the show.


Art : 3/10
- I can't ask for something much better, considering this show is pretty old. But even then, it shouldn't be this bad.
You will find yourself viewing the same scene and the same animation on every single episode. Same character pose, same reactions, etc.


Sound : 4/10
- There is maybe one or two soundtracks that aren't really that bad, I can say that at least. Now for character's voices, I can't say the same.
Across every single episode, you will hear the same lines of text, with the same tone as well. It gets really, really boring, and I ended up skipping it plenty of times.


Character : 2/10
- Now, you have heard a lot of bad things till now,and you might be asking if at least the character's can same the show. But nop, they really can't. Every episode features a new set of character's that will be irrelevant to the rest of the show. Since those are just supporting character's, I'm not able to judge those. So I will mainly focus about the main character of the show, Enma Ai (Hell Girl).
She is the type of character that doesn't show any emotion at all. Add that to the repetitive dialogues and the same tone across every word, and you get a really boring character. It's a disappointment, considering she is the main character of her show and doesn't really get any development at all during it. And when asked a question, she just stays there with a dead look in complete silence, not even speaking at all. She is more of a doll or a machine rather than an "ex-human".


Overall: 3/10
- So what saves this show?
I've started watching because I found it interesting to see what reasons someone would have to send someone to hell. It could be anything from bullying and physical/mental pain, to something really poor like "meh I just don't like seeing his face". And considering that every episode featured new cases, there were more opportunities to create more scenarios.
But sadly, all the previous stated points didin't contributed in order to make this show a good experience.


And that finishes it. Overall I found this to be a pretty boring show, with nothing that really helps making it even watcheable for some people that just don't have the patience for it. I will advice you to see a couple of episodes if you are really interested to try it, and that would be enough for you to know the answer, since every episode is the same thing, over and over again.
This was my honest review on the show, and many will disagree with me on this one. But I just wanted to point it out anyway.

✪ Genre: contemporary fantasy/dark fantasy, drama, seinen


✔ Positive Aspects ✔

◧ Decent animation, with clear character designs, with colors of medium to low saturation and of medium to high vibrancy. Unfortunately, there was not much detail in facial expressions, body language, buildings, and landscapes.

◧ A very interesting concept for a series, bringing together supernatural elements from very different traditions: Greek mythology, Judeo-Christian eschatology, and Japanese folklore.


... ✘ Negative Aspects ✘

◧ Virtually nonexistent soundtrack - absolutely nothing stood out.

◧ Up until the 8th episode of the series, there was absolutely nothing even resembling a central plotline. Nonetheless, what eventually appeared was not so much of a plotline but 2 characters somewhat connected to the Hell Girl and her crew, but not something as enticing as it may sound. Essentially, every episode had (almost) the exact same plot: someone has a grievance, he/she communicates with the Hell Girl, the Hell Girl provides the said person with a straw doll who takes some time to think this decision through up until the point he/she eventually unties the knot.

◧ The character development was limited to the main characters of a respective episode, not really about our protagonists. Only the last 4 episodes of the series provided some biographical information, which was itself limited to the Hell Girl, not so much about her crew.


Overall: A giant waste of time.

'Hell Girl',this anime started pretty well but soon fell off with the same cliche content in each episode.At first the concept of vengeance and it's price felt really well written but my breaking point was Episode 10,the entire episode was really bad,they could've really showed us the meaning of reconciliation and trust in each other and sometimes that revenge is not the answer and the episode was heading in that very direction but at the end it didn't happen.
In my opinion they could've really showed this in a more noble and idealistic way rather than the same thing over and over.
... As for recommendation, I would recommend this anime if you want to experience the same plot with nothing new in each episode.If you're looking for a show with more fulfilling aspects and well written outcome at the end,then this is not for you.