Ever just wanted someone who wronged you to just disappear? Well Hell Girl will “exact your revenge” with only one cost, the string puller and the victim of your straw doll, shall go to hell.
Hell Girl is a young girl who will come to you if you enter someones name into the Hotline to Hell website. Except, the only time that the Hotline to Hell is accessible is at midnight every night, and only those with true hatred can access it, otherwise the site just times out. The Hotline to Hell and Hell Girl idea is considered just an urban legend, and no one believes it is real until they use it for themselves.
Hell Girl
4 Stars
Ai Enma and her band of three take you on a series of straw doll deaths, allowing you to see what she does, and also to and show you more cases of when Hotline to Hell has been used. These cases finally lead up to the following of one character. The “Devil Child,” also known as Takuma Kurebayashi, is followed for the rest of the series. Takuma is first is visited by Kikuri, a purple eyed girl who is with Hell Girl, in episode fourteen. Throughout the series you hardly know anything of Hell Girl or the other four, but towards the end it flashes back to their pasts and how they met. Wanyuudou was originally an aid to a princess, and he died along side her in a stage coach accident. After he died he continued to haunt the road where the accident occurred as a flaming wheel. Hone-Onna was once a geisha who was betrayed by her friend Kiyo. Ren Ichimoku is known to be an artifact spirit, meaning he was once a katana. Slowly you find out who Ai Enma was, and Kikuri stays a secret until the very last episode.
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Ai Enma, once an ordinary girl, is to wander the world doing the bidding of others. She is forced to carry on the sins of others by taking people to Hell.
Takuma and Ai Enma have lived similar lives. Everyone in Takuma’s town are blaming him for the murders and disappearances. Which coincidentally are caused by Ai Enma and everyone accessing the Hotline to Hell. Ai Enma is forced to carry out each request unless the person declines the contract, eventually she disobeys her ‘master’ which leads to her death by yet another angry mob.
Ai Enma always explains with each customer that, “If you truly wish to eliminate your antagonist you must until that red string. If you remove the string, you shall officially enter into a contract with me. The one you see revenge upon shall be taken immediately to Hell. However, if I deliver your revenge, I must have you make restitution to me. When one person is cursed, two graves are dug. If you accept the contract, thy soul shall fall into the pit of Hell. But that is only after you die.”
This series was pretty decent, but it was not exactly as much of a horror as I heard it was. In the beginning the series started out a little strange, with no real characters, but once you started to identify with Takuma it was easier to get into. I enjoyed the idea of the series, having a Hotline to Hell is neat, but anyone could send literally anyone to Hell in an instant. To me, a world like that would be a little scary, it would be hard to trust anyone. Especially when you see family sending other family members off to Hell, or supposed best friends sending the other to Hell. It seems like a rather frightening dog-eat-dog situation.