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Jigoku Shojo
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Animation - 8.3 |
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Sound - 8.5 |
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Story - 6.8 |
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Character - 6.8 |
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Value - 6.4 |
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Enjoyment - 6.5 |
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Average - 7.2 |
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| Average |
9.2 |
| Animation |
9 |
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8 |
| Story |
10 |
| Character |
10 |
| Value |
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| Enjoyment |
9 |
| The anime was great! The animation was really nicely done, and the storyline really made me think, and although it was repetitive sometimes, it was a very nice anime, and I really do recommend it!
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snowdrop |
(2007-10-27 06:02:33) 2007-08-03 22:33:25 |
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| Average |
6.2 |
| Animation |
7 |
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7 |
| Story |
6 |
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6 |
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| Isn't it nice to send someone you hate to hell? I am sure everyone, at one point or other, had cursed or wished to send people to hell.
This anime is just about that. If you have a serious grudge, you can access a certain website at the stroke of midnight. Just enter a name, and the Hell Girl will visit and give you a voodoo doll where you will have to untie the string to do the deed.
If this is reality, there won't be any lawyers, judge or courts and the population will be half. Everyone will be in constant fear.
Anyway, with this kind of plot, the anime will be super repetitive. And true enough, it is. You will know what is going to happen, the ending and the back story of the Hell Girl without the use of crystal ball.
Even said so, I still watched it to the end, because....
1. It's on free to air tv channel
2. There's nothing to watch at that hour. (midnight - nice timing)
3. Witch Hunter Robin was the next show.
4. Revenge is sweet.
Like what the previous reviewer said, this is not the show to sit through from the beginning to end in one shot. You will be bored to hell.
It's more enjoyable to watch one or two episodes per week.
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| Average |
7.0 |
| Animation |
7 |
| Sound |
9 |
| Story |
6 |
| Character |
7 |
| Value |
6 |
| Enjoyment |
7 |
| Considering I am a guy who believes in marathons, Jigoku Shoujo was a unique case. It took me over 5 months to finish this - almost as long as it would have taken me if I were living in Japan and seeing it on air. With this statement on the table you can guess at least two things about this series - it is not a series to be taken in marathons. It will end up boring the living daylights out of you. The second thing is that despite the need to be taken slow - it is worth continuing and finishing. It may not be spectacular, it may not be legendary, it wouldn't have blown anyone away but it still is a title worth checking out to the end.
The synopsis is simple - you call a girl (Enma Ai) who will send your tormentor to hell. You fall into hell once you die as payment. This is the theme for the entire series. The next thing which would be coming to your mind is "They made 26 stand-alone episodes using this concept? If it doesn't get monotonous, I'll eat my hat!" Don't worry, you wont have to eat it. :p The series is extremely monotonous in its execution, episodes begin by showing a person who is being tormented and wishing for relief. In the end he seeks Enma Ai - the Jigoku Shoujo for help. The rest of the episode shows how the person is slowly pushed over the edge to commit the act - sending the tormentor to hell and sealing the tormented's eventual fate. It was obvious that this technique could not be used for the entire run so the creators brought in two characters that would get more and more involved as the series progressed.
Does that help in making the series better? Initially their appearance was like a breath of fresh air in a plot which was beginning to feel like my fifth grade social studies text book. But with the theme of revenge remaining the same - the journalist Shibata and his daughter Tsugumi end up being acting as spectators to most incidents. This becomes increasingly frustrating as they keep failing in trying to convince other people not to commit such acts. And so the series ends up failing yet again. So what are the merits of the series?
The merits are some episodes which have nice twists in them. What happens if a person who is going to send a person to hell is sent to hell himself? What happens if the act of revenge in not justified? What about the person who is now going to die years after sending a person to hell? What happens if the tormented fakes the entire process? It is such episodes that shine, entertaining the viewer in the 22 minute run. The remaining episodes are OK and provide moderate entertainment as long as originality is not an issue. There are often scenes throughout the anime which portray the regular characters less than what they really are. Some 'things' which are shown but hint having much more significance. And of course there is the history of Enma and Shibata - the two main characters. These two characters make the series, Enma acts enigmatic to the very end and is enshrouded in an air of mystery. Shibata on the other hand while looks like any other character also has some tricks hidden up his sleeve. Both of them are memorable and wonderful characters. The episodic characters on the other hand are not that great - I hardly remember any character save a few (only from those episodes which were truly great).
And then suddenly an overarching story is thrown in. The elements mentioned earlier are used to create a story in the last 5 episodes of the series. Do they work? Do the characters and does the plot have enough energy to carry the newly found plot ahead convincingly? Fortunately for the viewer, the plot works very well. The history of both characters get entwined to create good level of suspense. While it is not like the suspense that is found in series like Monster or ES - the level is good enough for a viewer to prod on the series to reach the end. And the end is well worth the perseverance. So do I recommend the series? Well not exactly - like said earlier, this is a series in which it is up to the viewer's willpower to prod ahead. There are certain series which make you start the next episode (Bleach, FMA etc). In Jigoku Shoujo's case it is you who will have to start...
And hence this gets a mixed recommendation from me. While the end does justify the entire series, it is a bit too long. The same series would have been much more entertaining if the makers had decided to shorten it to 13 episodes instead of the usual 26. Not only the monotony drawback would have gone down by a huge margin, but the series would have become much more satisfying. Jigoku Shoujo is hardly a series which would get mainstream attention. An episodic storyline would not allow this to happen. But it still remain much better than the trite shonen and harem series which crop up on Japanese TV every 6 months like termite infestations. Now that I have seen this, I would like to see the sequel of this - Futakamori. It is said to have a much more engrossing storyline and much better execution. However, I don't think that I will be watching it anytime soon. Most probably I'll start watching it by the end of this year. Until then the words - "Would you like to die, just this once?" will keep ringing in my ears.
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| Average |
4.2 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Story |
1 |
| Character |
1 |
| Value |
0 |
| Enjoyment |
3 |
| *based on first 4 episodes*
So far there is no plot at all. All we see are the different victims asking for help from the hell girl. Then she takes the bad guys to hell with her with the promise to collect the souls of the victims we they die.
Why it sucks so much that I gave it 1 for story and character: The victims are retarded. Yes they most certainly are. Ep1-a girl loses the class fund raiser money. Everyone can tell who stole it and is blackmailing her. And she lets herself get bully. She wasn't even under contract and those bullying girls weren't the yakuza. So the stupid victim promised her soul to hell for something she could have solved on her own if she would have used her brains. Ep2-It's okay; she couldn't have really done anything on her own. Ep3-This boy let himself get framed for his friend's murder. 1st off no one has any proof. Even the dead boys own mother said her son claims it wasn't his fault. Who cares what everyone thinks? The police certainly has nothing on him. He may or may not have been able to do anything about the real culprit but he wasn't really that badly off until his stupidity screw him over. Ep4-OMG, she sold her soul for a dog! Yes it was the only family she had left but it died a natural death. Yes, the vet was partly responsible and she should have reported him to the vet licensing agency.
If you don't mind watching stories and characters like that, go ahead. I've had enough. Maybe if there was something more of a central storyline then I could have kept watching.
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andy |
(2007-05-12 12:45:24) 2007-02-28 15:26:46 |
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| Average |
7.3 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
10 |
| Story |
6 |
| Character |
7 |
| Value |
5 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
| The way the series is paced episode by episode, is both a weakness and a strength. There is not a single episode in Jigoku Shojo that ends in a cliff hanger. In other words, with every episode, the major conflict will be resolved and you'll have some closure at the end of the episode.
A problem here is that some of the episodes just aren't interesting. The formula is rather unchanging for the first few episodes, but later on, they try to throw a few wrenches in to spice things up. The villain/victim will often not be who you expect at the beginning of the episode. The episode may mislead you with music (i.e. playing creepy music when a character appears to make you think that this character is a victimizer) , or it may just throw in a character who puts on a great poker face. Also, a reporter determined to interfere with Hell Girl becomes a persistent character around 1/3 of the way through, and his involvement naturally changes the formulas of the episodes.
The problem isn't that the formula is too repetitive, because there are quite a few really interesting episodes. The biggest problem is for some episodes, the characters and scenario just won't appeal to you. I found myself trudging through a couple of episodes, half spaced out.
The story of the persistent characters, the reporter, his daughter, and Hell Girl herself, will be elaborated upon at some point. As expected, the most interesting and well crafted episodes are the ones that really bring out these characters.
This brings me to the characters of Jigoku Shojo. The characters of Jigoku Shojo are mostly subplot characters that you'll never see again after their episode. It's hard to really familiarize the viewer with 2 or 3 characters in one episode, so most of the characters are very black and white and emotionally simple. In essence, mostly plot and drama devices. What Jigoku Shojo has going for it is that in its concept, the desire for revenge must be in every episode. Bar a few characters that I really liked, i found that this desire for revenge is really what keeps these subplot characters somewhat interesting.
The series does a great job of emphasizing the build up of hatred in the characters who have contacted Hell Girl. It's usually very thrilling and dramatic. Generally, the final straw that sparks these characters to pull the string and send their antagonist to hell is the highlight of the episode.
The subplot characters are hit or miss, but the persistent characters are quite interesting. None of the persistent characters get much development. You will get to know the reporter and his daughter pretty quickly in terms of personality, but rarely will you get a scene that actually focuses on their issues. The subplot characters seem to eat up most of the screen time. In the case of Hell Girl, the viewer will have no more than an inkling of an understanding of her personality as she averages what...2 lines per episode outside of the stuff she always has to say?
The thing is, the series never relies on prying into the persistent characters. There's enough focus on the subplot characters to keep the development of the persistent characters on the down low. As i said before though, you will see that their stories will be the highlight of the series, but they'll unfold similarly as any one of the subplots. It will be given an episode or two, but it will barely be foreshadowed before hand.
Jigoku Shojo on a whole is hit or miss, but a few good qualities stand out beyond that. The music and scene direction are consistently good. I find myself drawn in towards the climax of every episode even when the characters left me bored for the bulk of it. It's also not too terrible at jerking a few tears out of you. The series does always involve death, tragedy, and vengeance after all.
The re-watch value of Jigoku Shojo isn't too great though. It's very plot/subplot focused, so there's not much to see beyond the first time through.
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Ridian |
(2006-12-07 20:10:10) 2006-12-07 20:05:05 |
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| Average |
6.8 |
| Animation |
7 |
| Sound |
9 |
| Story |
5 |
| Character |
7 |
| Value |
6 |
| Enjoyment |
7 |
| I have a hard sell today. Here we have a series that is almost universally maligned for its repetitive presentation and formulaic story, mostly panned by many hardcore anime fans, and yet I still feel obligated to prove that Jigoku Shojo is vastly underrated. Even against the word of a reviewer I respect, I'd like to say that Jigoku Shojo is well worth the time a potential viewer would invest.
The series basically uses its first half to demonstrate the uses of the Jigoku Tsuushin, an Internet hotline established specifically for sending despicable people to Hell. They drop their name into the site at midnight and the mysterious Hell Girl presents them with a doll; from there it's a matter of whether or not to pull the string around its neck and send their antagonist to Hell. The price? Upon death, Hell Girl's charge is banished to purgatory as well. For thirteen episodes we watch as various nice characters endure periods of extreme emotional duress, contact Hell Girl, get the straw doll, think about their decision for a little bit, are pushed over the edge by one final heinous act, pull the string, and feel apprehensive for the rest of their lives. Really, there's no variation to this formula.
Frankly it could be worse. Each string-pulling deliberation is a self-contained short story, all of them very dark and generally quite interesting. There are a few flops (the baseball, bakery and Hell Boy episodes are just awful), but on the whole the mysteries are well-written. There are some surprisingly deep characters and moral dilemmas contained within as well, especially in the later episodes.
Better yet, at about eight episodes in, the anime starts adding twinges of variation to the formula. A journalist named Shibata and his daughter Tsugumi join us for the rest of the series, and they're great main characters. They have a lot of personality, but not in a completely overt way like most anime characters; the characterization is surprisingly nuanced. We even get a few glimpses into the life of Enma Ai, the Hell Girl, and her demonic cohorts. For a character you never even see, her grandmother is extremely interesting, and the little posse that helps her send the doomed to their fiery fate give the job a surprising amount of life. Characters aside, the episodic stories start to pose new questions: what happens when a more unsavory character gets the doll? What if someone else pulls the string, or pulls it on accident?
The big problem is that, ultimately, it's still the same outcome, and if you don't like the initial formula then the anime will never impress you. The doll process plays a part in every episode except three. One of them is actually my favorite in the series, which may or may not say something.
That aside, the series fit me like a glove; I could understand it not quite working out for some viewers, but if people were to give it a chance past the fifth episode then it would really flourish. It grabbed me right away with what I felt was its strongest asset: its aesthetic sensibility. For an anime that has become very popular in Japan, Jigoku Shojo is extremely stylized, with ear-grabbing music and a vivid, interesting animation style. The design is dark and mature, blissfully devoid of obnoxious anime conventions.
It's a shame that Jigoku Shojo suffers from a glacial pace that turns so many interested viewers away. If the writers had gotten Shibata or Tsugumi in a little faster, or added SOME sort of variation to the admittedly-tired doll formula, then Jigoku Shojo could have become huge. Unfortunately, despite its Eastern success, it's pretty neglected on American shores. I find it difficult to believe that Americans don't like formula, what with the success of tired sitcom after tired sitcom, but many viewers who see the series' length and realize that it's pretty samey would be understandably intimidated.
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Trax |
(2006-11-09 06:33:20) 2006-10-22 17:14:57 |
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| Average |
5.3 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Story |
5 |
| Character |
5 |
| Value |
3 |
| Enjoyment |
3 |
| When I started watching this, it seemed promising. Hell Girl, some sort of supernatural being, exacting revenge on behalf of people who have been wronged by sending their antagonist to hell. However, this is a double edged sword since it also condemns to hell whoever makes use of this service, after they lived out their life.
Unfortunately, it failed to live up to its potential due to being way too episodic and repetitive, and lacking any real development (both character and story wise) most of the time. Because alot of episodes don't really add anything and are repititions of the same theme quite a bit of episodes might aswell be skipped. In my opinion the following episodes could be considered key episodes or have some other factor that at least makes them more interesting (give or take an episode): 1, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. As this listing shows, it gets pretty good towards the end especially on the last few episodes where the previous episodic nature is finally abandoned. Still, a fair number of episodes don't have any real point and almost caused me to stop watching this anime at several stages, which is reflected in my ratings.
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Zierlyn |
(2006-10-05 00:38:51) 2006-10-05 00:33:24 |
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| Average |
4.3 |
| Animation |
7 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Story |
5 |
| Character |
5 |
| Value |
1 |
| Enjoyment |
1 |
| From the very first episode I was intrigued by the basic principle of the story. The Hotline to Hell accessible only at midnight, and the Hell Girl. At the concept of people being backed into corners with nowhere else to turn than to send their antagonist to hell at the cost of condemning their own souls to hell...
But the show just did not live up to the potential of the concept. People were condemning their own eternal soul to never-ending pain and suffering because of entirely trivial matters. I suppose that was the point the writers were trying to get accross, the weakness of humanity.. but what are we supposed to feel towards these people? Sympathy? Pity? It was their choice and they made it, the watcher is made to feel nothing towards them and throughout the majority (episodes 1-22) of the series it's just one shot stories about different people who summon the Jigoku Shoujo.
Sure, Shibata and his daughter Tsugumi were a common connecting thread, but that thread very soon became the only thing that still kept me watching the series.
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| Average |
7.7 |
| Animation |
9 |
| Sound |
9 |
| Story |
5 |
| Character |
8 |
| Value |
7 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
| This anime has a a very good concept, but you will get bored with it. This anime is not something you can see the whole episode direct, instead just watch from time to time. The main problem is that though each episode has a very good story on why people need to do it, it fails on a whole perspective. The jigoku part may seem nice at first, but then it gets lame very quickly, especially when almost all the episodes have the almost similar ending.
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JackW |
2006-09-03 09:24:34 |
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| Average |
7.2 |
| Animation |
6 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Story |
7 |
| Character |
7 |
| Value |
7 |
| Enjoyment |
8 |
| Not by any means as bad a show as some of the reviews here would suggest. Not by any means a timeless classic, either. As a horror story, it basically fails, since it's consistently unable to generate a sense of suspense or shock: maybe the Psycho-esque 'Women of the Island' episode comes closest. However, as a commentary on the darker side of human nature, and on the nature of hatred and revenge, it has some success.
Gets better as it goes along and begins to shift focus from episodic stories to characters who have some background and development (more under 'story' below).
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| Average |
9.2 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
9 |
| Story |
10 |
| Character |
10 |
| Value |
9 |
| Enjoyment |
9 |
| I have just finished watching the whole series and some of the reviews here that gave bad critique doesn't seem fully justified, especially for those that haven't watched the series in full.
The direction of the anime started as a story/episode style which was acceptably necessary to understand the role of the jigoku shoujo. But if you pay attention, the real story and morals they try to get across also begins fairly early on. And towards the end, I felt there was great meaning to everything that was done in the series and nothing that can be called filler or useless reptition. The gradual unfolding of Enma Ai's background was magnificently done.
The pace suits this story very well for topics of hell and indamnation of others should be carefully directed, and thats how it turned out.
Not exactly a gift from heaven, but stellar nontheless.
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| Average |
5.6 |
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8 |
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8 |
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4 |
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4 |
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| Based on 13 episodes.
At first, I thought, "Wow, what an awesome idea. If something substantial happened with Jigoku Shojo's storyline as a whole." Sadly, this turns out to be a poorly executed commentary on the brutalities of society. Essentially it is a commentary saying what type of people in society should go to hell for the abuse they put onto bystanders, without admitting their wrong-doing.
In each episode, there is basically a story introducing some setting. Then we are introduced to the victim and the bully. We are also shown the situation that these two are in. Finally, the victim snaps and visits the site where they heard about from some occult rumors. This request at midnight is monitored by Jigoku Shojo (who uses a very old mac, heh) and blah blah blah, the same covenant between the two, blah blah, you'll go to hell too, blah, semi-happy ending, "Life is all better now that that 'evil' person is gone."
I had a lot of hope and expectations from this series after watching the first 2-3 episodes. I wanted to know more about the four characters who are in this weird hobby/job position, and to find out exactly who and what they are. However, this series relies heavily on whether or not the victim's story is interesting. As a result, each episode's intensity and pleasant vary a lot. Starting from episode 8, we have a tabloids-type reporter who starts doing research into this Jigoku Shojo phenomenon. However, the same pacing persists...
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Anjin-san |
(2006-06-10 06:34:51) 2006-06-10 06:33:50 |
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| Average |
5.8 |
| Animation |
9 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Story |
4 |
| Character |
6 |
| Value |
4 |
| Enjoyment |
4 |
| Now, I'm not entirely sure that most of the rest of the reviewers watched the same Jigoku Shoujo that I did, but let me start anyways.
Animation is pretty well done, the art and backgrounds are as in many cases very well done and the character design is pleasing to the eye. Jigoku Shoujo herself is mysterious looking and very pretty in a gothic loli kind of way.
Sound is good, the OP and ED are well executed and worth getting the OST to listen to.
Story is where I find it lacking. There is just too much repetition. I mean, how many times are we going to see some poor sod getting tortured and dragged off to Hell? This is were the whole show was brought down for me. I don't appreciate being stuck watching the same thing happen over and over again for half of the show. Instead, they could have cut the show down to half the amount of episodes and most likely ended up with a better end product. Alternatively, one could skip a bunch of the episodes and not miss out on any of the storyline.
Characters are mostly OK, though the only person I felt for was the innocent nurse who got sent to hell for no fault of her own. And also the one twin that was tortured (in the circus episode).
This could have been a very enjoyable show, but I was dismayed at the amount of fillers (I'll just call them that) we had to endure to get to the end. I see there is a second season planned, I'm somewhat ambigous to wheter I would want to watch it. If it is anything like the first season, I'm not sure I'd like to give it a shot.
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akai-chou |
(2006-09-09 07:18:20) 2006-06-01 07:59:03 |
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| Average |
9.5 |
| Animation |
10 |
| Sound |
10 |
| Story |
9 |
| Character |
9 |
| Value |
10 |
| Enjoyment |
9 |
| I`ve just finished watching jigoku shojo and i have to say ... that it was excellent!
Animation is beautiful, the music is very atmospheric and the character are very well written.
The only problem, especially in the first half of the series, was the large amount of repetition; but that`s fine with me.
Because if you have the patience to watch this anime until the end you will definitely love it!
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| Average |
9.0 |
| Animation |
10 |
| Sound |
10 |
| Story |
7 |
| Character |
9 |
| Value |
10 |
| Enjoyment |
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| "Have you heard of Jigoku Shojo?"
"If you enter the name of someone you hate,
They'll be taken to hell..."
"That's just a urban legend isn't it?"
Jigoku Shoujo is an excellent anime.
Each ep is sort of like a different story, but there a few things that are constant in almost every episode.
I want to stress though that this show is not the same in every episode, although the early eps may seem like it, this show is about far more than innocence or the victimized getting supernatural revenge on the "guilty."
It's about the real nature of people and the fabric of modern society. It questions the nature of right and wrong itself, and does much more than blur the line between them.
Click the link below for more specific information.
[Note: This review is based on eps 1-18, as I do not yet have access to 19-26, I will update this review if the content of the remaining eps sufficiently change my view on the series.]
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| Average |
6.3 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Story |
7 |
| Character |
5 |
| Value |
6 |
| Enjoyment |
5 |
| Repetition, repetition, repetition... the series has a good and fresh idea and good points to make, but do we really need to be reminded about how the deal is made, word to word, in each episode?
Well, maybe this doesn't bug me as much as the fact that they still haven't told much about the sidekicks. Maybe every japanese schoolgirl knows what a bone woman is, and this dude that can send his left eye to spy around, though. I don't. But anyway, I watch this quite happily when I've got nothing better to do XD
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| Average |
8.3 |
| Animation |
8 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Story |
9 |
| Character |
8 |
| Value |
8 |
| Enjoyment |
9 |
| in addition to the previous reviews i must add that the anime isn't as monotonous as the first 6 episodes make it out to be. it starts to focus away from the routine by episode 7. this may make the average anime viewer tire of it quickly but take heart, it does change it's pace. of course having the evil doer die every episode "payoff" was tedious. i sneaked a peek into episode 11 (after watching the first 7) and surprises abound. it's still a good watch if u can stomach the bore of the early episodes.
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| Average |
8.3 |
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9 |
| Sound |
9 |
| Story |
8 |
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8 |
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8 |
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8 |
| This is like a crossup between Hellraiser and Petshop of Horrors.... think about it... those ppl who assist hell girl.... they are like the Cenobites in hellraiser to Pinhead haha.... and the way she makes deals with ppl is like that guy from Petshop of Horrors.... All I know is.... no matter how mad i was at someone i wouldn't damn my own soul just to get back at them LOL... pretty good series check it out
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Goronta |
(2006-05-25 02:32:30) 2006-03-09 03:00:30 |
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| Average |
9.0 |
| Animation |
9 |
| Sound |
9 |
| Story |
9 |
| Character |
9 |
| Value |
9 |
| Enjoyment |
9 |
| This review has been updated... I previously posted when Episode 12 had been released. I have just completed episode 26, and have increased my previous rating to an average of 9s across the board.
Please see the individual catagories for an explanation for the increased score
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| Average |
5.0 |
| Animation |
9 |
| Sound |
8 |
| Story |
7 |
| Character |
2 |
| Value |
2 |
| Enjoyment |
2 |
| The first episode makes this anime pretty interesting, makes you wonder about the Jigoku Shojo.
However, watching several more episodes, it all is the same thing as the first episode, someone is hurt, so they call for the jigoku shojo and she comes and sends the target straight to hell. End of story.
This anime LACKS challenge! There is none to challenge the Jigoku Shojo..
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