Hell Girl
A supernatural system lets people send enemies to Hell.
Hell Girl (Japanese: 地獄少女, Hepburn: Jigoku Shōjo), also known as Jigoku Shōjo: Girl from Hell, is a Japanese anime series conceptualized by Hiroshi Watanabe and produced by multiple companies including SKY Perfect Well Think, Tokyo MX, and Studio Deen. The series focuses on a supernatural system that allows people to take revenge by sending others to Hell via the services of the mysterious title character Ai Enma and her assistants. It explores themes of revenge, injustice, hatred, and human emotions.
- field
- Anime series
- nationality
- Japanese
- known_for
- Supernatural revenge system via Hell Correspondence website
- first_aired
- October 2005
- last_aired
- September 2017
- number_of_seasons
- 4
Lore & Background
The series follows a format where a person suffering torment accesses the Hell Correspondence website and submits a request. Ai Enma, the Hell Girl, appears with a straw doll; pulling its red string sends the target to Hell, but the requester also goes to Hell after death. Starting with the eighth episode, former journalist Hajime Shibata and his daughter Tsugumi investigate the rumors, with Tsugumi able to see Enma. The second season introduces Kikuri, a girl from Hell, and centers on Takuma Kurebayashi, blamed for disappearances caused by townsfolk using the website. The third season follows Enma's possession of schoolgirl Yuzuki Mikage, and the fourth introduces Michiru, whom Ai helps realize her fate as a successor.
Reader's Guide
Hell Girl is significant as a long-running anime series that aired four seasons from 2005 to 2017, exploring moral dilemmas around revenge and justice. Its unique premise—a website that allows users to send people to Hell at the cost of their own soul—resonated with audiences, leading to adaptations in manga, live-action television, film, and video games. The series was broadcast across Japan on stations like Kids Station, Animax, and Tokyo MX, and licensed internationally by Funimation and Sentai Filmworks. Its legacy includes influencing discussions on the ethics of vengeance and the nature of human emotions, with each season introducing new characters and expanding the lore of the Hell Correspondence system.
Did You Know?
- The Hell Correspondence website can only be accessed at midnight by someone harboring a desire for revenge.
- A black crest-shaped mark appears on the client's chest as a permanent reminder of their decision to send someone to Hell.
- The fourth season, Hell Girl: The Fourth Twilight, includes six rebroadcast episodes from previous seasons.
- A live-action film adaptation was released on November 15, 2019.
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