< Hell Girl

Hell Girl/YMMV


  • Angst: Yuzuki Mikage does some internal angsting midway through the series. This because she's being used as a Soul Jar by Ai Enma and she's unable to do anything about it. Oh, and she's going to be taking Ai's place soon. Neither of the two are at all pleasant things. What seperates this from annoying whining is that Yuzuki actually tries to defy Ai and is determined to change her fate. Doesn't work though.
  • Complete Monster: It's a series about people in such desperate situations that they're willing to give up their own immortal souls to damn their tormenters to hell. It's almost a given that there'll be plenty of these. And they're not always the "tormentor".
    • One very notable example appeared in an episode, where the character in question condemned a perfectly innocent nurse to Hell. His reasoning? because he could.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: Jigoku Rock, which plays whenever someone's being taken to Hell. And the remixes. And Mitsuganae gives us Jigoku Death Metal!
  • Epileptic Trees: Contrary to popular expectation derived from a Mythology Gag, Gilles de L'Enfer does not make an appearance in Mitsuganae. At all. The Other Wiki's article spent a good few months setting him up to return as the main villain, but then...
  • Family-Unfriendly Aesop :Plenty of them, including the lesson Enma Ai herself learns: Don't ever stick out your neck for anyone. You'll just wind up being condemned.
  • Fridge Horror: Occurs when you realize that even the most sympathetic of string pullers just did the mystical equivalent of hiring a hitman when they seal the deal with Hell Girl.
    • Even more so when you realize that those string pullers have at most a few decades before they experience the same horrible suffering as their tormentors for eternity. After the first century in Hell, chances are they will not think that deal was worth it.
  • Growing the Beard: Each series starts off with the Once an Episode someone going to hell thing, until the main story picks up midway through the series.
  • Les Yay: Early in the first episode of Mitsuganae, Ai Enma appears in front of Hone Onna, licks a moist cherry and smiles in a rather seductive manner. The two are probably not gay, but there's a lot of Les Yay subtext there.
    • Also in the first episode, when Ai Enma makes Yuzuki Mikage susceptible to her Demonic Possession. It involved a hug and a kiss, while naked, in a bathtub.
      • And she kisses Yuzuki again at the end of the season, to show her her past. Seeing as Ai showed her past to both Tsugumi and Hajime before without having to kiss them, one can only imagine why she decide to show it that way...
    • What about Honne-Onna's diehard fangirls? One was ready to send someone to hell because she tought he was dating her! And another actually sent the other girl to hell because she thought she got too close to Onna!
      • Also, when that student with a crush on Hone Onna is sent to hell, Ai & Co. stage a triathlon with Hone Onna's love as a prize. Though it is just an act, Ai acts as one of the competitors.
  • Magic A Is Magic A: A somewhat questionable case. In some episodes it seems to be implied that if the victim shows remorse, even after the string has been pulled, they may yet be saved. However, other episodes seem to indicate that people in this world are sent to hell not because they've done anything wrong, but because they're hated by another person (and could even be sent for no good reason at all). This can, however, be resolved by saying that Ai and her family were simply tormenting the victim before sending him or her to hell.
  • Motive Decay: In the first season, most people who called on Ai Enma did so because they really, really could not expect retribution. This premise is diluted as the plot demands in the next two seasons.
  • Moral Event Horizon: If someone is sent to hell, chances are that he or she crossed it. The townsfolk of a city in the eding of the second season are a MAJOR example; making contracts left and right for the most stupid reasons and blaming it all on a little boy, whose life become a living hell.
    • For this troper, Rina Endou is the trope's embodiment in this series: an Alpha Bitch who ruined - nearly irreparably - a classmate's life for her own gain, and even as she was descending into Hell expressed not whit one of remorse.
    • Ditto for Ayaka from episode 7 who does exactly the same to her completely innocent theater antagonist, because this girl was choosen instead of Ayaka herself. At first she only bullies her, but then orders some tugs to fill her up with some chemical which destroys her voice, possibly forever and wanted to send her step-mother to hell too, which was averted. Even when send down to hell towards the end of the episode, Ayaka did not feel any remorse towards anyone and openly stated she was never interested in theater and only learned it for her own gain. Her voyage to hell was not pretty, to say the least.
    • Ai nearly crosses[1] it too in the first season's finale by trying to manipulate Tsugumi into sending her dad to Hell and using Tsugumi's memories of her mother's death to do so. Fortunately, Tsugumi says no in the end, and Ai then stops doing so.
    • Whether or not the person sent to hell crossed the horizon, anyone who actually does send someone to hell crosses it pretty much de facto.
  • Narm: Some of the third season's getting sent to hell process falls into this territory.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Third season, when Yamawaro gets fungus-juice applied to his back, which then grows a patches of mushrooms on his back. May also be counted as Squick.
    • Some of the going-to-hell sequences (Episodes 1 and 17 of Futakomori come to mind) fit this to a T.
  • Paranoia Fuel: You could be sent to Hell for anything, at any given time. Seriously, you might not even remember doing anything bad, you could not have done anything bad at all, but somehow, someone is pissed off at you. And you'll be minding your own business one minute, and being boated off to Hell in the next...
  • What an Idiot!: The first and ninth episodes of the third season, especially.
    • In the first, a girl gets mad and tries to get rid of a teacher who is only doing his job and trying to help her succeed and stay out of trouble. He even takes away her mp3 player because she was listening to it instead of the lesson. If she had a single bit of sense, this girl would've just taken that as a lesson - save the music and doodling for when class is over. She eventually sends him to hell... and finds out that he was doodling in the notebook he always carried, rather than writing about her and her friends. The worst part is, the teacher didn't really throw away the mp3 player like he said he had - he had given it to one of the other students and told her to give it back to the owner. Lesson learned too late.
    • In the ninth, a wannabe fortune-teller gets a lucky streak and gets to be popular, then the Alpha Bitch who had previously poked fun at her started sucking up and told her to send some guy who was allegedly stalking her to hell. She tries several methods, worrying that her client would expose her as a fake, and then finally uses the Hell Correspondence site to send him to hell. She doesn't even wait for Ai to finish her speech and warn her of the consequences. The next morning, her client tells her that she lied about him and only wanted him dead because he was disgusting. The look of horror on her face is priceless. What's worse is, she never attempted to find out why her spirit-guide Gon-San was not cursing this man; if he did exist, and he was her 'protector' as she said, it's likely that he was trying to keep her from being used and from having the blood of an innocent on her hands.
    • If you think about it, this one applies to just about EVERYONE. Anyone who doesn't throw the doll away after Enma gives her warning is a stone cold idiot.
  • Woolseyism: The 7th episode of the dub has Caitlin Glass's character cussing for the entire episode.
  1. ↑ or possibly crosses it just from the attempt
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