History Characters / HellGirlHellGirlAndCo

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* PeekABangs: His hair covers the part of his face where his left eye would be.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: She has been the Hell Girl for at least four centuries.

* {{Keigo}}: He has a rather polite speech pattern.

* {{Sucksessor}}: After being built up as Ai's successor, she doesn't even last one client before demonstrating to be irresponsible, impulsive, and overall ill-suited for the role.

* MrFansevice: Far less so than Honne Onna, but the show plays up his good looks and once showed him wearing nothing but a speedo. He also cuddled up against a naked man in one episode, complimenting his pretty appearance.

* SuperOCD: When she returns to the twilight realm after fully reincarnating in ''Mitsuganae'', she is slightly uncomfortable about the placement of her computer, citing its position is slightly off the desk from where it was previously.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Hangs around with Ai’s group, but it’s clear they have little patience with her. [[spoiler: Even Yamawaro loses his patience with her.]]

* KillEmAll: Ai killed everyone in the village except Sentaro, who only escaped her wrath by virtue of eloping at the time.

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Near the end of the first season, she attempts to goad Tsugumi into sending Hajime to Hell.]]
* YouAreAlreadyDead: Ai has a variation of this phrase when confronting clients that are about to pull the string [[HoistByHisOwnPetard but were themselves consigned to Hell in the process,]] explaining the contract is now void and they are effectively already dead.
* YouCantFightFate: Ai is a strong believer in the series' central themes of fate and destiny, being a cynic believing she is simply a cog in a natural order and that, regardless of what she does in her power, she could never change humanity for the better as darkness is inherent in the heart of man. However, it's implied that after her parent's souls are saved, she does not ascend to the afterlife in order to remain and guide the lost souls of girls like Yuzuki, for what little good she feels she can do.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Hangs around with Ai’s group, but it’s clear they have little patience with her. Even Yamawaro loses his patience with her.
* {{Jerkass}}: Not a very pleasant person like her companions.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Usually. The targets are usually an AssholeVictim, but occasionally they have to KickTheDog. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Not that they like it though.]] They have to also take their clients to Hell once their lives are over to fulfill their end of the bargain.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Usually. The targets are usually an AssholeVictim, but occasionally they have to KickTheDog. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Not that they like it though.]]

* KnifeNut: She is a very skilled knife thrower.

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| '''Hell Girl & Co''' [[Characters/HellGirlAiEnma (Ai Enma)]] | [[Characters/HellGirlMajorSupportingCast Major Supporting Cast]] | [[Characters/HellGirlHellCorrespondence The Hell Correspondence]] [[Characters/HellGirlOtherMedia (Other Media)]] | -]]]]]

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[[folder:Yuzuki Mikage]]
!!Yuzuki Mikage
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SatomiSato

The main protagonist of the third season, ''Mitsuganae.'' Yuzuki was a seemingly normal middle-school girl whose life was upturned by Ai Enma possessing her, giving her {{Seer}} abilities similar to Tsugumi Shibata. As it turns out, Yuzuki was DeadAllAlong and living a temporary fantasy as a lost spirit. With the Lord of Hell eyeing her as a replacement for Ai after the latter fulfilled her obligations, Ai hopes to guide Yuzuki in both accepting her fate and her duties.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Yuzuki ascends to Heaven after Ai sacrifices her freedom for her.
* AxCrazy: When Norihisa adamantly refuses to invoke the contract against Azusa despite Yuzuki's goading, she descends into a murderous rage, heading off to murder the woman herself. When Ai pleads with her to stop, she attacks her and feels she's not bound by any rules. Her eyes flickering colors erratically during this crisis even emphasize her escalating insanity. Undone as she has another heart-to-heart with Ai and ascends to Heaven.
* BodyHorror: When Ai was temporarily using Yuzuki as a vessel, any time she emerged for a client, it was as though she was a butterfly reincarnating from a cocoon - with Yuzuki being that cocoon.
* BreakTheCutie: Her whole story from her actual life to her illusionary one [[TraumaCongaLine is one misfortune to the next.]]
* CallBack: A fairly obscure one in the final episode. Yuzuki's kimono has a [[UnmovingPlaid flower pattern]] that was displayed on Ai's kimono at the beginning of ''Futakomori's'' credits.
* CastingAShadow: Like Ai, she can hurl globs of shadow energy.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Her father - a bus driver - died in an accident while on duty and she and her mother wound up as pariahs because it was ruled that the accident was his fault. They were eventually driven out of town and took refuge in a shrine, where Yuzuki's mother succumbed to an illness. Yuzuki eventually returned to their apartment and died alone, consumed by grief.
* DeadAllAlong: The twist of the third season is that Yuzuki is not a normal girl, but a ghost who has been chosen to replace Ai as the Hell Girl.
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: [[DoNotTauntCthulhu Subverted.]] She outright defies the Lord of Hell and attacks him, but had it not been for Ai and her companions, she would have been doomed.
* DyingAlone: In life, she died all alone curled up with her stuffed bear.
* FailureHero: Much like Tsugumi, she can tell when Ai is about to make a contract but is unable to do anything about it or save anyone.
* FreudianTrio: As a Hell Girl, she is the Id to Ai's Superego and Michiru's Ego, being impulsive, wrathful, and most irresponsible and defiant to authority.
* InvisibleParents: She talks to them over the phone from time to time, but they're never seen. The reason they're never seen is that, in reality, they're just as dead as she is.
* {{Irony}}: On two counts. Her first client is Norihisa Takasugi, Akie's father, who wants to exact his grudge against Yuzuki's ArchEnemy Azusa Mayama; Wanyuudo even lampshades the irony. Second, Yuzuki attempts to send Azusa to Hell herself after Norihisa refuses to do so, being stripped of her occupation and barely avoiding damnation for it. Had she accepted Norihisa's decision, her next client would have been Haruko, his maid that invokes the contract against Azusa right through Ai after Yuzuki passes on to Heaven.
* KickTheDog: When Ai tries to reason with her as she starts to go off the rails as Hell Girl, she blasts her aside with magic.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: Over at least a decade since broadcasting, merchandising for the Hell Girl franchise since doesn't even bother to hide the big reveal of Yuzuki being the second Hell Girl.
* TheMirrorShowsYourTrueSelf: Played with. Ai is shown where Yuzuki's reflection should be, revealing her presence and connection to Yuzuki.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: As a Hell Girl, she has these. Foreshadowed previously when Akie died and her eyes flickered red from the grief.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveSupernaturalPowers: After becoming Hell Girl, she tries to banish Azusa to avenge Akie, gleefully citing she is no longer bound by rules or morality.
* SoulJar: For Ai for the first half of ''Mitsuganae''. They still have a supernatural connection after they are separated.
* {{Sucksessor}}: After being built up as Ai's successor, she doesn't even last one client before demonstrating to be irresponsible, impulsive, and overall ill-suited for the role.
* SupportingProtagonist: In ''Mioyosuga.'' She has a major route, but it is largely to set up the rest. And, of course, by the end [[ForegoneConclusion she has no bearing on changing the plot.]]
* TomatoInTheMirror: Gradually, all traces of her existence disappear and Tsugumi and the members of the Hell Correspondence are the only ones who can recognize her. It's then that Yuzuki discovers that her human life up to that point was an illusion and she's already dead.
* TwoFirstNames: Her surname Mikage can also be used as a legitimate given name.
* YouCantFightFate: She tries so hard to stop people from using the Hell Correspondence, but fails every time. She also couldn't avoid becoming the next Hell Girl, no matter how much she resisted.

[[folder:Michiru Sagae]]
!!Michiru Sagae
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->'''Voiced by:''' Misaki Watada

The underlying protagonist of ''Yoi no Togi.'' Originally an amnesiac revenant drawn to Ai Enma, it's revealed she is another candidate to replace Ai as Hell Girl. Unlike Yuzuki before her, she does responsibly succeed Ai and takes up her job in a more compassionate manner.
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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The townsfolk started to ostracize the Sagaes after several kids drowned in a pond when they tried to drown Michiru and everyone acted like it was Michiru's fault.
* AntiHero: What separates her from Ai and Yuzuki is although she does take up the role of Hell Girl, she is neither completely unmoving nor irresponsible. She may not refuse her clients out of personal feelings per rules - but does offer them words of compassionate wisdom to turn their lives around before it's too late; she fails and expresses disappointment with her client Yui, but is implied to have gotten through her would-be client Satoshi.
* BrokenBird: Michiru was a genuinely sweet and happy young girl, until her father angered the landowner and it all went downhill from that moment.
* ColorContrast: Michiru's clothes, eyes, and hair are green in contrast to Ai's RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver, signifying Michiru's opposition to the Hell Correspondence. And she gets a green kimono as a newly-minted Hell Girl, which is still fitting since she is still far kinder and more personable with clients than Ai is.
* TheConscience: She tries to be this, telling Ai that what she's doing is wrong and once telling one of Ai's clients that she doesn't need the Hell Correspondence. As Hell Girl, she is far more compassionate than Ai and Yuzuki despite outwardly maintaining a grim disposition.
* DarkMessiah: An interpretation of her take on Hell Girl. She will avenge grievances but expresses genuine sorrow and disappointment at the condemnation of innocent lives. From her position as an emissary of Hell, she also attempts to encourage mortals off the path of revenge, unlike Ai who didn't even bother after being so jaded by humanity over the centuries. As if to further emphasize her messianic nature, even after becoming Hell Girl she preaches of Heaven as though she were a fallen agent of God - and her banishment sequence [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/hell-girl/images/c/cd/Michiru_Season_4_Kimono.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20171123190019 ends with her]] on a CrucifiedHeroShot.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Michiru had a good life and loving family until her father angered the landowner by being held in higher regard than the landowner himself. When the landowner's son tried to drown Michiru in a pond but drowned himself, Michiru is blamed for the incident, and her whole family was shunned. It wasn't enough for the villagers though, so they locked Michiru in a shed with no food or water for over ten days. When Michiru's parents finally found her, the villagers murdered Michiru's father in front of her and then set fire to the shed to kill Michiru and her mother for good. Even worse, she's now just as damned as Ai is for taking revenge.
* DyingDeclarationOfHate: With her dying breath, Michiru cursed the villagers that killed her and her parents and burned the entire village to the ground.
* FlowerMotifs: She's associated with roses. Her kimono as Hell Girl is covered in large red roses and small blue roses, and when she spirits her first victim to hell, she's accompanied by a flurry of red rose petals while the red roses on her kimono glow.
* {{Foil}}: To both Yuzuki and Ai
** Like Yuzuki, she opposes the Hell Correspondence and her fate to be the next Hell Girl, eventually resigning to both when it's simply inevitable. Unlike Yuzuki, however, she actually handles her duties (and responsibly) despite still being morally opposed to her occupation.
** Unlike Ai, who has long been numbed to fate and humanity's latent darkness, Michiru maintains a level of compassion in her occupation while also performing her duties.
* FreudianTrio: Ego to Ai's Superego and Yuzuki's Id, striking a balance between idealism and cynicism to be the only well-rounded Hell Girl.
* GhostAmnesia: She initially has no memories of her human life or how she died.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Michiru may be the kindest Hell Girl, but it's demonstrated that she is willing to ''brutally'' punish the wicked just like Ai, as we see with [[AssholeVictim Kazuomi Kogure.]]
* IdentityAmnesia: She doesn't start to remember her life or [[NameAmnesia even her name]] until episode five.
* KillItWithFire: Michiru's neighbors lock her family in a shed and set it on fire, hoping to get rid of them for good. It ends VERY BADLY for them as Michiru, with her dying breath, uses said fire to kill every single one of them and then the entire town.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Like the other Hell Girls, her eye color becomes blood red when she takes up the role.
* SuperiorSuccessor: Despite being centuries behind Ai in experience, Michiru demonstrates a more compassionate outlook on being Hell Girl, making her start off as far more hopeful for the role and universe than Yuzuki.
* TheyDiedBecauseOfYou: She got blamed for the death of the landowner's son, even though he drowned himself while attempting to drown Michiru.
* TraumaCongaLine: First, she's blamed for the accidental death of three bullies who tried to kill her. Then, she disappears without a trace for days and no one in the village would help her parents search for her. When her parents finally find her, exhausted but alive, they get locked in the same place as her and the place is set on fire, killing them all.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Cute and lovable human girl, who even said that she will keep always smiling because smiles make people happy. It all crashes down after she is blamed for the death of three bullies who died while trying to drown Michiru in the pond.
* VengefulGhost: Averted. Like Ai, she cursed the people who killed her and her parents with her dying breath. Unlike Ai, she took her revenge then and there. As a ghost, she's just as sweet as she was in life, though [[TheFerryMan her new job]] keeps her from showing it.

!!!Companions
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Over the centuries, Ai has recruited a number of colorful {{Youkai}} companions to assist in her duties.

* AchillesHeel: In their straw doll forms, they are rendered completely immobile and powerless. If a client decides to misuse them, such as locking them away as blackmail leverage, it's usually up to Ai to come and take them back.
* AffablyEvil: They have a fairly even-minded opinion of humankind, and happily support their co-workers, students, and friends in their many cover jobs. Sometimes, it's enough to almost make you forget what their real job is.
* {{Anti Villain}}s: Aside from Kikuri, they're actually decent people tied to a terrible occupation.
* ClarkKenting: They don't put on any disguise to infiltrate into their clients' lives (e.g. pretending to be a classmate/teacher/etc.), even when they pose as a number of different roles at the same time. Justified, since they are able to prevent mortals from recognizing them. It becomes a plot point in the third season when Yuzuki recognizes them.
* ColorCodedCharacters: The minions' straw doll forms are different colors: black for Wanyuudo, red for Hone Onna, blue for Ichimoku Ren and yellow for Yamawaro.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: A variety of standards applying to everyone [[TokenEvilTeammate but Kikuri]], given they're not necessarily evil. It should be noted a large part of why they undertake the task of blending into human society is to understand their client on a personal level and encourage them to make the choice they feel is right for them, rather than goading them into simply sending their grudge to Hell. In the case of their client Michirou Itou, they even save his life when he attempts a suicidal attack on the house of the already deceased Kazuhito Kameoka, imploring him to turn his life around and not throw it away for something so meaningless.
** They are ''never'' happy when an innocent gets sent to Hell, but have no choice in the matter. Additionally, while their job is to send people to Hell, they are contemptuous of deliberate human cruelty; for example, they're disgusted that Aya Kuroda stole the money Mayumi Hashimoto was entrusted with and forced her into CompensatedDating to make it back, writing off her behavior as "kid stuff"; and for another example, they are extremely angry when telling off Yuki for how she treated her sister Yumi.
** In line with the aforementioned case, if someone that isn't evil is being sent to Hell, they [[DependingOnTheWriter often]] skip over punishing them, and the person in question simply wakes up on the boat ride.
** In one instance where Ichimoku Ren attempts to prevent a child from sending her own mother to Hell because the mother is already Hellbound due to a previous covenant with Ai, only succeeding when the mother chooses to commit suicide in order to spare her from doing so.
** Hone before she assumed her doll form, directly expressed a particular amount of disgust and anger at a girl claiming to be a fortune teller, who sent an innocent man to Hell after being bullied into it by a popular girl in her school to avoid being an outcast.
** Wanyuudo, Ren, and Hone Onna are absolutely horrified when Ai is bracing to send Tsugumi to Hell per Shogo Mizorogi's request, considering their unique bond with her and the nature of Mizorogi's artificially induced hatred.
* HiddenHeartOfGold: Despite their efficiency and cruelty in sending people to Hell, they can be kind-hearted and sympathetic to the turmoil of others. Not often, this may include gentle nudges to use Hell Correspondence if they believe it would save the person from further suffering.
* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Ai's minions are often shown with different jobs as they observe a prospective client and the corresponding target before the string is pulled.
* NotSoStoic: Inverted. They are not allowed to have their emotions interfere with their job, but act normally around each other. This doesn't always take, however, as even Ai sometimes sheds tears or cracks through the strain of her job.
* {{Punch Clock Villain}}s: Very much so. Ai ferries people to hell because that's where her parents will go if she doesn't. Her assistants stay with her out of [[UndyingLoyalty loyalty]]. They treat the Hell Correspondence as their job and will generally not hurt anyone unless they're the target of their client's revenge.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Ai is at least 400 years old. Her first three companions came from various periods of feudal Japan.
** Technically speaking, Ren was 100 years old exactly when he was 'born'. Except, replace "born" with "transformed from a katana".
* SleepModeSize: Their straw doll forms are basically this when someone's not using them to sell their soul for revenge.
* StealthHiBye: They can go between the sunset realm and the world of the living by just vanishing and will often disappear when some random object or person moves in front of them.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Ren and Hone are most commonly seen as a pair.
* TrueCompanions: Ren outright says that their little group is like family to him. In season 3, Yuzuki asks Ai who Ren, Hone Onna, and Wanyuudo are to her. Ai says they're her companions.
* UndyingLoyalty: All of Ai's minions except for Kikuri are deeply loyal to her for their own reasons. For Wanyuudo, it's because Ai saved him from running on and on until he wound up in hell. For Hone Onna, it's because Ai helped her regain her humanity. In the case of Ichimoku Ren and Yamawaro, it's because she saved them from a lonely existence. She also acts as an older sister of sorts to Kikuri.
* {{Villain Protagonist}}s: Their job is to carry out revenge on others' behalf and ferry people to hell. [[AntiVillain That doesn't mean they are evil, though.]]
* VillainsOutShopping: Including Ai, despite being immortal {{Youkai}} with a malevolent day job, they have lives just like normal humans. When off the clock, they can be seen lounging around in the twilight realm doing anything from playing games to getting massages. Ai even allows her assistants to vacation in the mortal plane, and this is a focal point of [[ADayInTheLimelight one of Hone Onna's episodes.]]
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: They can do this to varying degrees.

[[folder:Wanyuudo]]
!!Wanyuudo
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakayukiSugo (Japanese), Creator/RBruceElliott (English), Guillermo Martínez (Latin American Spanish)
->'''Portrayed by:''' Hisahiro Ogura (2006 series), Akaji Maro (2019 film)
Ai's first assistant. He was originally a tsukumogami (付喪神)[[note]] a spirit that can come into existence in objects of all types after an object itself has been in existence for a hundred years. [[/note]] in the form of a wheel, which transformed into a {{Youkai}} after its carriage was destroyed. In his demonic form, he appears as a flaming wheel with a human face and can serve as transport for Ai to reach her client's grudges.

* AdaptationalJerkass: His cheerfulness and affability is omitted in the 2019 film for a stone-cold, dead serious demeanor.
* AdaptationalUgliness: Wanyuudo has the human appearance of an old man, but he looks handsome for his age. His 2019 film counterpart, however, has a borderline NightmareFace 24/7 and is much, much more withered-looking.
* BerserkButton: Thoughtless and unjust crimes, such as a father allowing his daughter to be raped and tortured for calling him out on his abuse. In such instances, he's actually ready to intervene to save lives.
* TheBigGuy: He is the most powerful of Ai's assistants, possessing SuperStrength and the ability to control hellfire.
%% * BigOlEyebrows: Larger than anyone else's, at least.
* TheCynic: He has a very cynical view of humanity from his own experiences and time with Ai, lamenting how humans seem to always be rotten to the core throughout the ages. However, there are instances where the genuine kindness of some humbles him and has him remember there are decent people out there for all the bad.
* CoolOldGuy: Usually appears as an affable old man while investigating the human world, but he is still a demon who is strong enough to bare-handedly stop a moving truck.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The 45th episode is mostly focused on how he came to be, and his first meeting with Ai Enma.
* TheDragon: He is even more loyal to Ai than the rest of her assistants, possessing a certain understanding of her and the universe they've yet to grasp. As shown during their first meeting and reminiscing during their revisit of the Hanae inn, the affection is mutual and runs deep.
* EyesAlwaysShut: In his human form, though we do see them open during a flashback of how he met Ai.
* EvilSmellsBad: PlayedWith. He's not exactly evil nor does he smell horrendous enough to bother others, but Hone notes he still unpleasantly smells along the lines of charcoal and corpses.
* HairTriggerTemper: Averted. Ironically, despite his true nature, he never gets visibly angry. Even in his demonic form, acting angry was to scare people and he was still a calm being behind the bluster.
* NotSoStoic: When Ren risks banishing himself to Hell to openly intervene in a client's unjust case, Wanyuudo begins panicking and fearing for his life, begging him to stop and even hurling fire at him to discourage him in vain. This illustrates just how much he cares for his co-workers, whom he views as a surrogate family.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: While Hone Onna's name while she was alive is known, Wanyuudo is only known by his nickname since he is a tsukumogami.
* PlayingWithFire: He can appear as a giant fiery wheel with his face as a hubcap. In his human form, he can throw fireballs.
* RamenSlurp: He has a funny moment of this when eating where client Shuuichi Yagisawa was working part-time.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: He wears a red scarf in the way that evokes the straw dolls' strings and even though he never starts the fights he gets into, he always finishes them.
* SkintoneSclerae: Shown to have these in a flashback.
* SuperStrength: ''Futakomori'' shows him stopping a speeding truck. In the opening, he's also seen lifting a boulder larger than him.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He can transform into a giant fiery wheel. During banishments, he can transform into any object with wheels, which includes modern cars.
* WasOnceAMan: Inverted. Before getting turned into a yokai, he was the left wheel of a carriage during the Heian Period. After the carriage was destroyed and burned, he became a fiery wheel monster.
* {{Youkai}}: In Japanese folklore, Wanyuudo is a demonic flaming ox-cart wheel bearing the tormented face of a man.

[[folder:Ren Ichimoku]]
!!Ichimokuren
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MasayaMatsukaze (Japanese), Creator/ToddHaberkorn (English), Ricardo Sorondo (Latin American Spanish)
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Kazuki Katô (2006 series), Raiku (2019 film)

Ai's second assistant. Like Wanyuudo, he was originally a tsukumogami (付喪神) in the form of a katana misused for centuries before becoming a {{Youkai}}.

* AdaptationalJerkass: In both the 2006 drama and 2019 movie; in the former, he is more violent while in the latter he is not the NiceGuy he is from the anime and is more stoic.
* AdaptationalSuperpowerChange: The 2019 movie changed the way his EyeSpy powers work. Instead of projecting his left eye onto whatever surface he wants, the movie has him eject his right eye through a scar that runs down that side of his body and then move it into position along the nearby walls and then bring it back when he's done.
* AdaptationalUgliness: He still has the {{Bishonen}} looks consistent across media, but underneath his parting hair is a hideous scar from where he derives his powers (see above).
* BerserkButton: Some of the worst memories he had as a sword were being used to strike down innocent women or being used as leverage for rape. As a result, domestic violence hits him hard, to where he looks after one of his client's safety in his free time long after her grievance was avenged.
* BigBrotherInstinct: He can have this dynamic with Yamawaro or with some of the clients that may be kids, where he may even try to nudge them against pulling the string at his peril.
* ColorCodedEyes: A shade of yellow-green, which is striking amongst the regular Japanese populace. His large eye is also this color.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The client profiles of the 43rd episode have a particular history with Ren. His past is also given focus throughout most of the story.
* EyeSpy: He can project his eye anywhere he wants, and this makes a very useful tool for investigative efforts. He can also hear and speak through it when using it this way.
* FacelessEye: He can spy on people by projecting an eye onto any surface or simply appearing as a giant eye.
* ItAmusedMe: He initially claimed this is why he let Ai take him along for her adventures. However...
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: As Ai all but states, it's clear this is his truest desire after centuries of being misused for violence and going from one owner to the next.
* TheHeart: He is the most compassionate and personable of Ai's group. Hone even notes if he weren't around, things would be much more frigid with just Wanyuudo to keep her company.
* HotTeacher: He has occasionally taken the guise of a teacher and earned the admiration of many young women.
* LouisCypher: Ren Ishimoto.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In the case of Nene Chiwaki, he cannot abide by her sending her mother to Hell, nor can he stand for the latter committing suicide. Against the laws of his duties, he irrationally rushes to save them both, and would have been banished to Hell if he didn't fail to save the latter.
* PeekABangs: His hair covers the part of his face where his left eye would be.
* PrettyBoy: Has an appearance of a handsome young man, and has occasionally used seduction to get information from female clients.
* SympatheticSentientWeapon: As a tsukumogami, he was a sword that became sentient after one hundred years. Because he was still an inanimate object, he was ForcedToWatch as people used him as a weapon of both war and murder. He had been left behind after a battle and was stuck there until Ai found him.
* VillainTeleportation: He can use his eye for this rather than just teleporting like the others.
* TheWallsHaveEyes: He normally spies on people from walls and ceilings.
* {{Youkai}}: A tsukumogami of an old sword that gained sentience, though the name and the eye may be a reference to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokumokuren Mokumokuren]].

[[folder:Hone Onna]]
!!Hone Onna, Tsuyu, "Anne Sone"
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakakoHonda (Japanese), Jennifer Seman (English), Mercedes Prato (Latin American Spanish)
-->'''Portrayed by:''' Aya Sugimoto (2006 series), Manami Hahsimoto (2019 film)

The last of Ai's original trio of companions. Originally a prostitute named Tsuyu, she was betrayed multiple times in life before being murdered. Tsuyu's corpse swept across a bank full of bones and souls of other women who were killed in similar ways in the past and thrown into the same river. The souls merged with Tsuyu and transformed into the {{Youkai}} that is Hone Onna.

* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She's tall, dark-haired, beautiful, graceful, and aloof.
* BerserkButton: '''Betrayal'''. It's to a point Hone Onna is almost always the tormentor of grudges involving treachery. Best emphasized in the request of Ran Henmi, a woman who was betrayed by both her lover and a con artist that murdered her.
** On a much more lighthearted and downplayed note, she is irritated whenever Kikuri calls her old or a hag.
* CoolBigSis: She has this dynamic with younger female clients, especially ones she has a commonality connection with like Ran. Averted [[SitcomArchNemesis with Kikuri,]] however.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: She was originally a young woman named Tsuyu, who was sold into prostitution by her lover to pay off his debts. When she tried to plot an escape for her fellow prostitute Kiyo, she betrayed her and had her killed. When her corpse was thrown into the river filled with bones, the spirits fused with her body, becoming Hone Onna.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Episodes 36 and 47 feature Hone Onna at the center stage, the former being about her vacation road trips with a bumbling film director, the latter focused on her tragic origins and confrontation with a ghost from the past.
* DemBones: Being based on the mythical youkai of the same name, she can make any part of her skeleton visible.
* DemonOfHumanOrigin: Unlike Ai's other assistants who are youkai created from objects, Hone Onna is a human who turned into a youkai after death.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Hair black like the night and skin pale like a ghost. A look fitting for a {{Youkai}} made from a legion of vengeful souls and skeletal remains.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: She has many female students fawning over her and vying with each other for her attention when she takes on the role of a teacher or consultant.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: In her backstory, she was sold to a brothel by her lover. Despite her misfortune, Tsuyu was kind to her fellow prostitutes.
* HospitalHottie: She has worn a nurse outfit more than once.
* HotTeacher: Any time she takes on the profile of a teacher.
* IconicOutfit: While in the world of the living, she usually wears a business suit that is the same shade of red as her straw doll form. Ai wears it during one of ''Futakomori'''s Hell Banishments.
* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: On her default outfit.
* KnifeNut: She is a very skilled knife thrower.
* LouisCypher: Anna Sone.
* MsFanservice: She is the source of most eye candy in the show, being flirty and wearing the most provocative costumes and rarely showing her skeletal face.
* MeaningfulName: Tsuyu, the name she had back when she was human, is based on Otsuyu, the name of the Hone Onna of a popular Japanese tale named Botan Doro.
* NightmareFace: Whenever she shows her skeletal visage, it sends humans packing and running.
* ThePowerOfHate: It was the hatred of other betrayed women that made her into Hone Onna.
* RavenHairIvorySkin: While a {{youkai}}, Hone Onna looks like a very beautiful woman with long black hair and pale skin.
* ReflectionlessUselessEyes: Her eyes creepily never reflect any light, making her stand out among her demonic peers.
* SitcomArchNemesis: She has this dynamic with Kikuri, with the latter specifically annoying her to no end. Hone doesn't particularly like her at all, often deriding her as a brat.
* UnkemptBeauty: Notably with her loosened kimono and slightly disheveled hairstyle.
* {{Youkai}}: Hone Onna is a living female skeleton that creates an illusion to look like a beautiful woman so she can seduce men and drain their life force by having sex with them. Luckily, the Hone Onna of Ai's group is harmless compared to the myth and she's simply an attractive woman who can make her skin transparent to scare the people getting dragged to hell by Ai.

[[folder:Kikuri]]
!!Kikuri
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KanakoSakai

A mysterious little girl introduced in the second season. Originally a curious spirit that Ai's assistants took notice of, she takes her into her group but Kikuri seems to do what she mostly pleases. Sometimes she may assist, but more often than not she'll just cause trouble without actually interfering with Ai's duties.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: As Kikuri is a vessel for the Lord of Hell to monitor and test Ai, a fact she's unaware of, it's left vague as to how many of her cruelest actions, especially those in Lovely Hills, are of her own volition.
* AmbiguousSituation: What exactly she is isn't ever made clear. While she is a vessel for the Lord of Hell, it's uncertain if she was a human before or just a demon created solely for that purpose.
* BigBadWannabe: Entirely PlayedForLaughs. Kikuri genuinely believes and boasts she is destined to be Hell Girl after Ai retires, but it's never taken seriously by anyone - nor is it true.
* BrattyHalfPint: She's a complete brat, annoying practically everyone. Yamawaro and Ai can keep her in check, though.
* ClothFu: She can extend impossibly long ribbons out of her clothing to grab onto things. She even uses them to swing across a suspension bridge at one point.
* ClingyJealousGirl: When Yamawaro starts pining for Michiru, Kikuri spends most of her screen-time pouting over him being a "two-timer" and hurling jealous insults toward him.
* CreepyChild: She is a child-like demon that acts like a go-lucky brat even in the direst circumstances.
* CreepyDoll: Averted. Starting from ''Mitsuganae'', she possesses a wind-up doll to maintain a physical form but is no creepier because of it. Her having to be wound up again is a running joke.
* DemonicPossession: Whenever the Lord of Hell speaks through her.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Her wide forehead conceals a massive eye from which the Lord of Hell can commune.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She will never actually interfere with Ai's duties, and when it feels like she's really going to cross a certain line, she relents such as when Ai asks her to stop bothering her grandmother.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: As seen in rare moments, she does genuinely love Ai despite often showing her no respect.
* ExoticEyeDesigns: Downplayed. She has large purple eyes with white lines in the irises to indicate that she has a deeper connection to Hell than the other assistants. It's the same pattern that the jellyfish floating over Hell's gate has and the spider can possess both at will.
* FlowerMotifs: She's represented by red camellias, found in her hair and kimono.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Going both ways with plain dog kicking. In ''Futakomori'', she cures Kihachi Kusumi's innocent daughter of her coma after he's set to be imprisoned for mass murder, condemning both to fates worse than death.
* KidsAreCruel: She would sometimes go out of her way to make people who made contracts with Ai regret it while they were alive. Case in point: a man who stole money for his wife's medical care banished the person blackmailing him over it, so she made the wife forget him.
* LaughablyEvil: She is the meanest of the group - yet at the same time the funniest in her zanier nature and antics.
* MarkOfTheSupernatural: A lot of attention is drawn to her purple eyes in ''Futakomori'' to play up her eerie, supernatural nature.
* MeaningfulName: It's a reference to Kikuri-hime, the Shinto goddess in charge of communicating with Yomi, the land of the dead.
* NoodleIncident: After the events of Lovely Hills, Kikuri somehow lost the ability to materialize physically in the mortal plane, forcing her to occupy a doll that needs to be wound up every so often for her to move.
* RunningGag: In the third season, Kikuri has a wind-up key on her back, which needs to be re-wound repeatedly.
* SitcomArchNemesis: She has this dynamic with Hone Onna, with Kikuri often bothering her, calling her old and making her fairly unhappy. It's entirely PlayedForLaughs.
* SixthRanger: Kikuri is unable to take a straw doll form, unlike Ai's other companions. And while she does partake in her client requests and is generally always by her side, her loyalty to her is nowhere near as strong owed to her true nature.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[ShipSinking Yamawaro leaves Kikuri's side for Michiru,]] but when one spends all their time bossing someone around, hurling insults, and even physically abusing them, it's understandable he would instead be enamored by Michiru's kind personality.
* TenderTears: She weeps tears when witnessing Ai's selfless act of sacrifice for Takuma at the end of the second season.
* TookALevelInKindness: She's much less bad in ''Mitsuganae'', being funnier and genuinely having joined Ai's group of companions.
* TokenEvilTeammate: While the other assistants and Ai herself aren't exactly bad people, Kikuri is never a kind girl and is much more sinister and mischievous
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Weiners.
* {{Troll}}: She loves bothering everyone around her in childish ways.
* UnwittingPawn: While she has her own individuality, she doesn't know her role as a vessel for the Lord of Hell. Whenever he stops possessing her, she doesn't know what happened and the other assistants aren't inclined to tell her.

[[folder:Yamawaro]]
!!Yamawaro
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HekiruShiina

An assistant introduced in ''Mitsuganae'', having already joined before the story. He is a forest-born {{Youkai}} that initially appeared as a mass of mushrooms to humans before gaining a proper human form.

* AbusiveParents: Definitely not Fujiko Ashiya, but her husband, Risaburo, used Yamawaro in horrific alchemic experiments to cultivate an ElixirOfLife.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: Even with Kikuri around, he's clearly the least enlightened of the {{Youkai}} assistants, being very much like a naive newcomer.
* BlowYouAway: He has certain control over wind, which makes sense given his earthly origins.
* {{Foil}}: To Kikuri, who is physically the closest to his age. The two would often play together when they're not working, but where Kikuri is bratty and immature, Yamawaro is very polite and stoic.
* ADayInTheLimelight: The 68th episode is all about him, from the client to his origins to his meeting with Ai.
* TheDragon: When Ai retires from being Hell Girl, he leaves her side with her blessings to become this to Michiru.
* ElixirOfLife: The fungi that he is made of can produce an elixir that restores one's youth.
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: His truest desire, and why he eventually follows Ai's group.
* IntriguedByHumanity: Shown to be this in his backstory. It's what caused him to approach Hikaru's parents and start to live a normal life. He eventually starts working for Ai for much the same reason.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: He gets down on all fours and thanks Ai for everything before joining Michiru's side.
* {{Keigo}}: He has a rather polite speech pattern.
* MushroomMan: Before he met people, he was a mass of mushrooms with a human face. One of the people he lived with cultivated the fungus for an elixir of life, so he still has fungus inside his body despite appearing human.
* YesMan: To Kikuri, to the point he always refers to her as ''hime-sama.'' It's PlayedForLaughs as a running gag in how he caters to her every whim on demand.
* {{Youkai}}: In Japanese folklore, Yamawaro are {{Cyclops}} acting like the equivalent of {{Kappa}} that reside in mountains instead of rivers. They are said to be short creatures resembling little boys, but their traditional portrayal isn't anywhere near as cute as the Yamawaro of Ai's group.
* ShipTease: He spends most of his screen-time with Kikuri and he's so subservient to her that even in-universe it's implied he has feelings for her. But, alas...
** ShipSinking: In ''Yoi no Togi'', he leaves her to join Michiru. While it isn't made too apparent due to his polite disposition, it's evident from the scene Kikuri kicks him that he's grown fed up with her abuse.

!!!Related Characters
[[folder:Ai's "Grandmother"]]
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Eriko Matsushima (Japanese), Juli Erickson (English), Mariana Gamboa (Latin American Spanish)

A kindly old woman hidden behind a sliding door who only speaks to Ai. All that is seen of her is the silhouette of an old woman with a spinning wheel.

* AdaptedOut: She never appears in the 2019 movie since Ai's hut never appears.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: She seldom talks to someone other than Ai. Notable instances are when she gets Hajime to stop Ai from giving Tsugumi the straw doll, pleads with [[{{Troll}} Kikuri]] to stop poking at her wheel, and when she thanks Ai's assistants for all they've done for her when she seemingly dies for good.
* RiddleForTheAges: What she is and her relation to Ai is entirely up to one's imagination.
* SheWhoMustNotBeSeen: The audience never gets to see her true appearance. The only character who actually does see her freaks out, suggesting that this is a good thing. In the live-action series, she opens the sliding door at one point and nobody is visible behind it.

[[folder:The Spider]]
!!The Lord of Hell
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HidekatsuShibata (Japanese), Creator/JohnSwasey (English)
A bizarre-looking spider that hangs around the hut in Ai's sunset realm. It is actually this series' equivalent of {{Satan}} himself, the spider merely being his preferred form.

* AnthropomorphicPersonification: It is implied by Tsugumi in ''Mitsuganae'' that he is the personification of humanity's innate darkness and, more specifically, its desire for violence. The Hell Correspondence is suggested to have been put in place to satisfy these desires, and that should it hypothetically be abolished, it would not make any difference as humans will find conventional ways to hurt each other.
* BigBad: Having created and enforcing the Hell Correspondence, Hell Girl, and overseeing a systematic cycle of ruination, he is this for the entire series.
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: He is the master of Hell himself.
* DemonicPossession: He is able to possess Kikuri and communicate through her
* TheDreaded: Ai's companions always pipe down the small talk when his presence is made known.
* EyelessFace: He doesn't have eyes on his head like normal spiders and instead has eyes on his abdomen.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: Three on his back.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: In his first meeting with Ai, he appears as a spider, then possesses the jellyfish floating over the gates of hell, suggesting that they are [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith avatars]] of a [[PhysicalGod far more]] [[GodOfEvil powerful being]].
* ManipulativeBastard: It is all but stated that by the end of ''Yoi no Togi'' and the implied existence of a benevolent God and Heaven that he has been deceiving all his followers to maintain the cycle of hatred that plagues humanity.
* NobleDemon: Despite being a soul-collecting AnthropomorphicPersonification of evil, he does abide by strict rules and upholds his bargains, such as eventually freeing Ai from service.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: His color motif.
* SatanicArchetype: Subverted. He rules over Hell and makes deals for people's souls, but is a lawful being in that there are strict rules about who may be sent to Hell and may just be doing his job.
* SuddenlyVoiced: At the end of season one, where he [[spoiler: speaks to Ai about her own grudge and revenge]].

[[folder:God (spoilers)]]
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Towards the end of ''Yoi no Togi'', vague allusions to an enigmatic benevolent God subtly working behind the scenes are made apparent, as evident by the presence of chimes and unusual circumstances that nearly led to Michiru being saved before being corrupted into a Hell Girl. Although it is implied God is not successful in saving humans relative to the Lord of Hell, its presence and the possibility of Heaven being real does lend some hopefulness to the grim world of ''Hell Girl'' in that salvation may be real for those that have done no wrong.

[[folder:Mutsumi Village]]
!!Mutsumi Village
Ai was born in the early 1600s in the small Japanese town known as Mutsumi Village. She was chosen by the village elders to become the latest in a long line of child sacrifices meant to appease the mountain god and secure a bountiful harvest. The ritual was known as the "Seven Sending", every seven years, a seven-year-old girl was offered up to the mountain. Ai's parents defied the will of the village elders and secretly arranged for Sentaro to keep Ai alive in the woods, bringing her food, clothes and keeping her company. Unfortunately, when this ruse was discovered, she and her parents were murdered. Ai subsequently destroyed the entire village as a vengeful spirit while Sentaro fled for parts unknown.

* NiceHat: A fedora, in contrast to his casual Japanese attire.

* TraumaCongaLine: First, she's blamed for the accidental death of three bullies who tried to kill her. Then, she disappears without a trace for days and no one in the village would help her parents search for her. When her parents finally find her, exhausted but alive, they get locked in the same place as her and the place is set on fire, killing them all.]]

A bizarre-looking spider that hangs around the hut in Ai's sunset realm. It is actually this series' equivalent of {{Satan}} himself, being the spider merely being his skin.

** ShipSinking: In ''Yoi no Togi'', he leaves her to join Michiru. While it isn't made too apparent due to his kindness, it's evident from the scene Kikuri kicks him that he's grown fed up with her abuse.

A bizarre-looking spider that hangs around the hut in Ai's sunset realm.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: [[spoiler:He gets so little screentime that whether he actually is evil or not for what he makes Ai do is up to interpretation.]]
* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: [[spoiler:He is the Lord of Hell himself.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:He is able to possess Kikuri and is presumably able to see through her eyes.]]
* EverybodyHatesHades: [[spoiler:He is the Lord of Hell.]]

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: [[spoiler:In his first meeting with Ai, he appears as a spider, then possesses the jellyfish floating over the gates of hell, suggesting that they are [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith avatars]] of a [[PhysicalGod far more]] [[GodOfEvil powerful being]].]]
* IronicHell: Considers [[spoiler:making Ai the Hell Girl]] a form of this.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver
* SatanicArchetype: [[spoiler:Subverted. He rules over Hell and make deals for people's souls, but is a lawful being in that there are strict rules about who may be sent to Hell and may just be doing his job.]]

[[folder:God (spoiler)]]