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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- This series really makes me sad... .-. no one even gets happier or relieved if they took revenge...there's just emptiness...and to send your own mother to hell? sure it's a really hard time...but..hmm it doesn't seem right...even i can understand some of those feelings somehow (not especially on this episode though)...lost in despair almost anything could happen... |
| Dude, this episode sucked. And am I just as crazy as that mother or was a little bit of "like mother like daughter" present at the end with, "Everyone's already here!" business? I mean that kinda scared me when Emi said that. Anyway I know that my mother would act the same way if something happened to me. |
| Holy fishpaste, that family is a bunch of crazy fools. First the mother, then her daughter? Loool, it's so sad I just had to laugh. It was a pretty intense episode. Everything, even the surroundings were heavy. Inteeeense. |
| the mom was messed up!!! in the end y would she think her son is in hell... wouldnt she hope hes in heven... |
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| this episode was pretty crazy. i really think the mother should have been put in an INSTITUTION, and not sent to hell. she obviously had a problem, but the saddest part is it could have been fixed. i don't think the girl went the way of her mother at the end, but was just lonely and probably regretful. she sends her own mother to hell and now her dad is probably going insane looking for her. so, essentially, she's killed her father too, emotionally. |
| Hey, that was a cool episode! one of the best in the both seasons. it's an important subject of parents who smother kids with their love i hate seeing insane mothers like this, and it should be right decision to put her into hell, but she understands nothing.. so the only profit is that she disappeared and hereby stopped annoying others. |
| Mindfuck to the last seconds of the episode... |
| lightness vs. darkness Nani mo kamo wo hoshigatteita Mayoeru mono no chikai Mada miru sekai o tsukuridasu koto Kuchi hateteiku |
| The only things that I didn't like about this episode was that there was no torture scene and she didn't freak out about going to Hell. I know its weird but those are my favorite parts, also the girl didn't get tortured enough to send her mother to Hell she could have just sent her parents to crazy institution, and she could have lived in foster home. |
| Real Hell is inside a person-Ai Enma (Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae) Do you know where hell is? Inside your head-Chrona (Soul Eater)  |
| It was a crazy episode, I'm really respecting the people who write all those story's, I couldn't have enough ideas for 2 seasons :O It was a sad episode, a bit creepy ending but good... but the story's in the second season are a bit less intense then in the first season, which is not a bad thing cauz now they concentrate a bit more on the the helpers and it's a bit "lighter" too watch, sometimes I thought the episodes from season 1 weren't that enjoyable to watch cauz it was too dark? |
| Haha, some people laughed at this? I just found it way too depressing. ^^; And because my family is insane, ironically, a few days ago, as dinner discussion, we were talking about what would happen if one of our siblings died. And my mother said, "Well, I'd just about give up, then; there's something wrong when a mother loses her child. Life should just not work out that way." And my brother and I went, "WELL, HEY, WHAT ABOUT US? We'd still be around!!" She never gave a real, clear answer. Scarily enough, I can imagine this happening to parents when they lose a beloved child. It's not like I can relate to it since I have no child of my own, but I can imagine an obsession so deep it runs as insanity. And your mind just gets fogged up without thinking about how it affects people around you. It's kind of like when a new baby is born into a family, and the older child feels neglected since the focus suddenly lies on the new baby. But touching back with the episode, I don't think sending her to hell was the right thing to do. Clearly the whole family needed some kind of therapeutic help, especially the mother. Her ways affected the son and then ultimately her husband and her daughter, and by the end they'd all lost it. I like Jigoku Shoujo this time around... I think there are some more blurred lines into who really deserves to go to hell and who doesn't. It kind of makes you think about it more, especially with some more characters emphasizing that it's either not worth the price or just a really bad thing to do and the guilt and thoughts they have behind it. I think the first season was more cut-and-dry, because I remember really enjoying seeing most of the people getting what they deserved. Then again, there was Hajime and Tsugumi to point out these things to other people rather than having the people realize it themselves... ...Aw. And now I miss 'em. |
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| Oh joy! Everyone is crazy now wheeeeeee -_- lol uhh this episode was quite depressing, but seriously sending her to hell was stupid, couldn't she just send her to a Mental Institution? Geez but i can see this happening in real life as well -.-' - Now i need to watch some comedy show to wash this down xD |
| What a horrible mother. |
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.~ |
Aaron_Lee_72 said: This is one of those episodes where I had to laugh... You send your own mother to hell and condemn yourself to hell for taking revenge on her, thats one way to solve family issues. The reason for all this in this particular episode does seem to be pretty weak to me, and a number of these revenges in this series (1st and 2nd season) are weak to condemn your own soul to hell. yeh i agree.. i would hate a mother like that but why not just live on your own? weird people. |
| in the end, the entire family was dysfunctional, albeit a little different in Emi's case where she was normal until Tatsuya's passing. i also feel absolutely no sympathy for the Mother, who is obviously over-obsessive of and controlling to the breaking point for Tatsuya. if i were to feel sorry for anyone, it would be the father, of whom had the most patience and understanding, that is until he was so depressed about his wife that he felt he needed to remove himself by means of alcohol this episode threw logic out the door and ushered in insanity... |
| That was one very messed up family. This episode was really sad and somewhat freaky. It does make you wonder, though, about these situations in real life (minus the Hell Hotline of course). |
Lolli-Loli said: That was one very messed up family. This episode was really sad and somewhat freaky. It does make you wonder, though, about these situations in real life (minus the Hell Hotline of course). actually there is a real hell hotline just google it!! but then again maybe you shouldnt anyway this episode was weird but still a subject i guess thay had to touch on |
| Crazy story, the girl is now all alone... hope she'll find happiness somewhere else! |
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| I feel bad for the girl, she has no mental support of any type. Even if the family brought the mother to counselor for help, it will be no good, because she won't be listening. If I was in the father's shoe, I would divorce the hag and live with my daughter. I never had a crazy obsesses mother like this, so I can't comment on "why would someone send their mother to hell" topic. Logically, it would be best to send her away. The last scene with the girl, she was eating with pictures, I hope it does not mean she is mental. Hoping she makes it through life. and for the other poster's, you guys really need to put your shoes into the average Japanese family life. You guys can't compare your own lifestyle/culture to theirs. You guys have it to good. |
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| logic.. this episode has none brb wanting your mom dead b/c she's overprotective and annoying even though she gave birth to you, raised you and provide everything for you brb hell girl agrees that she deserves to die for talking to much brb sister snapped, gone full retard and pull the string for no reason brb dad gone full retard as a beta faggot as well brb wtf is this shit |
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| Sending someone to hell, no matter how bad the things he/she has done, was never right in the first place. Really. First, her brother. Then, her mother. Lastly, her father committed suicide. Who wouldn't lose her sanity with that? But compared to her mother, there's still some hope left for her. |
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| mother got on my nerves towards the end, i know i can't put myself in that kinda situation and I guess some people just can't deal with the loss of a son/daughter, but sending her to hell was stupid, like someone already said, get her help and put her in a hospital. |
| Another sad ending i'm loving this karma for pulling the string. |
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| I don't know how some people find this laughable. This was one of the most depressing episodes in this anime for me. It was sad to see how the daughter tried so hard to make it all work in the family and the parents were too weak, so she had all the pressure on herself. And it was really heartbreaking that last scene where the daughter ate the dinner all by herself and made the table like the whole family was still there... |
| I get the mom's feelings, she needed someone to blame for the death of her son but she got too obsessive and stepped over the line. In the end the entire family had to pay for her sins. What a tragedy. |
disco said: this episode was pretty crazy. i really think the mother should have been put in an INSTITUTION, and not sent to hell. she obviously had a problem, but the saddest part is it could have been fixed. my thoughts exactly. why put her in a mental institution when you can just send her to hell?.. =_= |
| if we die we'll meet again in valhalla... |
| stupid reason to send some1 in Hell, instead of sending her hell she sold have called authority's to take her a way in nut house :), that what i wold have done :) her mother is lucky in 1 way, she was nuts at the time she was sent to hell, if ur nuts & in ur own world u wont feel the agony of Hell |
| i wonder if she even knew it was her mom who would be dead and she got nuts to after all her family disrepair. Sugram22 said: i wonder about that i don´t think living in your own world would be crazy enough to not feel agony in hell.stupid reason to send some1 in Hell, instead of sending her hell she sold have called authority's to take her a way in nut house :), that what i wold have done :) her mother is lucky in 1 way, she was nuts at the time she was sent to hell, if ur nuts & in ur own world u wont feel the agony of Hell |
| "When a flat-chested loli hugs you, she holds you closer to her heart" "--I am a single bullet. It has no heart. Therefore, it does not think. It just flies straight towards its target."  |
xhilla said: disco said: this episode was pretty crazy. i really think the mother should have been put in an INSTITUTION, and not sent to hell. she obviously had a problem, but the saddest part is it could have been fixed. my thoughts exactly. why put her in a mental institution when you can just send her to hell?.. =_= Exactly. The mother obviously had mental problems. Though to be fair, I think in Japan, mental illness is an even bigger stigma than in the West. Even if you have a mother who ignores you and favors your sibling over you, sending her to hell isn't going to do anything. You still won't have a loving mother. A kid sending their own parent to hell is the WORST. It's not like her mother was beating and raping her kids. It's just tragic that both of her kids hated her enough to send her to hell. They could have just endured her for a few more years and then cut ties with her. But no, they would rather send her to hell and then go to hell themselves as well. This was a good example of a dysfunctional family. The mother was obsessive and smothering and the father totally enabled the mother. He was at fault as well for the family's problems. |
| So I guess that after the mother disappeared, the father became obsessed with looking for her. So that leaves the girl with a dead brother, a mother who is in hell and a father that's just as crazy as his wife. Fucked up. o____O |
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| OK, the street has a line in the middle of the road no? How can it be the road's fault that these people crash? They should not be driving that fast and be on different sides of the road... -.- I hate favoritism with children and that woman is insane. >.> It's even sadder that she thinks her son would be in hell. Does she love her and not think very highly of him at the same time??? Aw, damn. That girl went crazy too. o_o wait what happened to the father? Did he die too or something? |
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| I don't get this episode. For the first time in Jigoku Shoujo I find an episode illogic and very, very weak. Why the hell would you want to send your mother to hell for? Because she lost a son? she just lost it, did you expect her to laugh or jump? she knew she was way too apprehensive when he was alive, so she should have known that she would lost her mind for something like that. Leave time do its work, geez! |
| What terrible parents. A mom who completely ignores one child and pampers the other and a father who just abandons his daughter to look for his wife who already completely lost her marbles. Looks like that girl was beginning to lose her sanity at the end there. Guess the entire family was crazy except for maybe Tatsuya. Decent episode. Nothing groundbreaking. |
FunnyRatmanOct 10, 2014 10:48 PM
Zelgadis94 said: The best reason I can come up with is that she couldn't stand her parents anymoreI don't get this episode. For the first time in Jigoku Shoujo I find an episode illogic and very, very weak. Why the hell would you want to send your mother to hell for? Because she lost a son? she just lost it, did you expect her to laugh or jump? she knew she was way too apprehensive when he was alive, so she should have known that she would lost her mind for something like that. Leave time do its work, geez! |
| I thought this was a pretty good episode, personally. Think of it this way. Your brother is dead, your mother is so obsessed with him that she goes out and "borrows" money (who knows where it actually came from since the mother gave no confirmation on if it was actually borrowed) to continue a protest (in the form of a book) that nobody else believes should have lasted this long, and your father has completely given up on everything and is just drunk, sitting on a couch, claiming that everything is pointless and he's given up. This after your mother absolutely going nuts over the loss of your brother to begin with, and completely ignoring that she even has a family, further added on to by her always preferring your brother and never commending you despite any effort put in. Then, your last-ditch attempt at calm, making food, ends up being dropped and spills out everywhere. Really, I think when Emi saw that broken and spilled out meal, she realized it to be like her family, in a sense. Broken. So she just snapped from it. By the end, it's pretty evident that she lost her mind from trying to keep her family together, and failing miserably. That's why she sent her mother to Hell, as she was hoping at least her father would go along with her "good family" ideal, but in the end, he went off to search for his (dead) wife, and Emi was left alone with her pictures of her family to make everything ideal... |
| for someone who doesn't enjoy playing sports or tcg I sure like the anime series for them |
| Every single one of these stories so far are pretty much dead end. Revenge is a spiral of madness. I hope people who watch this will learn to forgive, forget, ignore, fight back, and contact authorities/seek (medical) help. |
| What a shitty excuse of a mother. |
Oh, pitiful shadow cloaked in darkness. Thy actions cause men pain and suffering. Thy hollow soul drowns in thy sins. How would you like to see what death is like? -Enma Ai |
| Mindfuck...It was a crazy episode.. |
| seriously she send her mother to hell....even if my mom tried to kill me ,I won't ....and whats with the last scene ,if the girl wanted an empty family she should had ran away or something instead of killing everyone......hmph...well what can I say....I miss the last season. WHY would her brother wanted to send his mother to hell even after getting enough attention unlike the sister............. |
| Loll! This poor excuse of a mother is insane!! Like wow, then she ends up losing her mind in the end, such a pity |
| Another flipping innocent case. All mom did was grieve for her son... maybe in a crazy way... maybe neglecting her family in the process but she didn't deserve to go to hell for that. Sigh, I want to be glad the girl lost her mind at the end but I'm not, the whole dang episode was depressing and messed up. |
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| I felt so bad for everyone in this episode. I wonder how the mum would have felt if she knew her son wanted to send her to hell. I think this family needs Jermery Kyle. |
| and the whole family goes to hell one way or another that girl should have took the money and started over away from this crazy family instead of treading the crazy road herself |
If you are going to disagree with me, don't bother talking to me. I will seriously hurt you! |
| Why are some people here think this episode is laughable? It's kinda disturbing and depressing IMO. |
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| That episode was creepy as hell (girl)) |
| "The future is always blank. Only your willpower can leave footsteps there." "Ruling over death means ruling over life. Death is the climax of life. To have the best death, you must honor life." |
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