Overview: So we got half a season of new material and then half a season of re-run episodes, however it had been so long since I'd watched Hell Girl that fact escaped me as I hadn't really read anything about this series until someone pointed it out. Makes you wonder why they actually bothered. Review: … Continue reading Hell Girl Fourth Twilight Series Review: Half a Series Review?
Review: This episode of hell Girl has the novelty of not really involving a curse. Certainly the main character wanted to curse someone but it turns out that wasn't needed (for a number of reasons). It gave us a bit of variation from the usual routine. Still, they were playing heavily on dramatic irony this … Continue reading Hell Girl: Fourth Twilight Episode 10 – Don’t Trust Rumours
Review: This episode again starts with all the side characters playing around and then reminiscing on a previous case of revenge. In this case it involved suburban housewives (or I guess they were living in some kind of company compound) pretty much playing petty politics with the Queen of the area making life hell for … Continue reading Hell Girl Fourth Twilight Episode 8: Delivering Vengeance
Review: This episode starts very strangely but quickly falls into the usual pattern of meet horrible person doing horrible things leading to tragic results, and someone deciding that some sort of justice is needed. And it is hard to argue with our would be curser this week. The guy is a jerk. He killed a … Continue reading Hell Girl: Fourth Twilight Episode 7: Who’s Fault?
Review: This week is kind of interesting because there's the normal human revenge story going on (although it is actually an interesting story in its own right) but behind that there is the more interesting story of the spirit of the girl becoming a Hell Girl and accepting that fate. That said, there's still quite … Continue reading Hell Girl: Fourth Twilight Episode 6: Another Hell Girl Appears
Review Episode 2: The main problem with this episode is that even though it starts with someone turning down the contract, you kind of know by the end someone is going to hell (this is the fourth season afterall). So all of the steps in the middle just seem to be stretching content as we … Continue reading Hell Girl: Fourth Twilight Episodes 2 + 3: Blow Out The Candle Already
Overview: "Jigoku Tsushin," a website that only accessible exactly at midnight. If you post a hopeless grudge there, Hell Girl will appear and drag your hated foe into Hell. The rumor sounded like an urban myth, yet it spread among the young people and turned out to be true. The girl's name is Ai Enma. … Continue reading Hell Girl: Fourth Twilight Episode 1: People Never Learn