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** The modern plotline describes how the jerkish and irresponsible brats not only refused to fasten their seatbelt but were hanging half outside the car window while ''mid-travelling'', which brought some very obvious consequences for them when the car crashed into the side of the road because one of the kids threw an empty soda can in front of the driver which got stuck under the break pedal. The grieving families of the kids shun the family, one mother even going as far as writing the only surviving child's name into the Hell Correspondence site... but she thankfully doesn't pull the string.
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** The modern plotline describes how the jerkish and irresponsible brats not only refused to fasten their seatbelt but were hanging half outside the car window while ''mid-travelling'', [[TooDumbToLive which brought some very obvious consequences for them them]] when the car crashed into the side of the road because one of the kids threw an empty soda can in front of the driver which got stuck under the break pedal. The grieving families of the kids shun the family, one mother even going as far as writing the only surviving child's name into the Hell Correspondence site... but she thankfully doesn't pull the string.
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* Episode 12 of Season one begins with a hikikomori, Sawai Akane, who wants to send her teacher to Hell because he kept on trying to get her to go back to school instead of understanding her like her online chat-friend. She eventually does go back to school, though her classmates are whispering behind her back that she should have stayed home, and even writes a happy message to her net-friend... [[spoiler:who turns out to be the same teacher. He didn't know who she was, and fortunately, she believes him and they make up.]] She admits to the teacher that she wrote his name into the Hell Correspondence, and he says he actually WANTS to go to Hell, because his life is so boring and mundane and he can't put up with it anymore. She is hesitant, but eventually, she does do it. On the way to Hell, Enma Ai gives the teacher a WhatTheHellHero, explaining what'll happen to Akane just because of the teacher's ennui and selfishness. He of course [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone repents]] and Akane can be heard asking the teacher to wait for her down there. (To add another layer of tragedy, their meeting is unlikely, because Hell IS a vast place after all, as Ai herself says in the very next episode.) After the teacher is taken to Hell, Ai asks her grandmother if it's alright for someone to actually wish to go to Hell like it was Heaven...
* In Episode 13: ''Purgatory Girl'', we come across an elderly man by the name of Fukumoto, who, by all means, was a pretty decent guy in his youth, had a rather nice occupation writing and illustrating stories, and very much loved his wife but that all changed when [[spoiler: his friend and colleague, Okuchi, raped his wife, the incident leading to her suicide.]] The incident sent him so far over the edge that he decided to use the Hell Correspondence and took his revenge, leaving him regretful ever since. He then goes on to tell how he tried his hardest to take his mind off of what was to come and he's just so resigned. Typically, Ai doesn't display emotions, no matter how one would slice it but, in this case, once could say that she does, as, through the paintings, she ''cries'' for Fukumoto.
* In Episode 13: ''Purgatory Girl'', we come across an elderly man by the name of Fukumoto, who, by all means, was a pretty decent guy in his youth, had a rather nice occupation writing and illustrating stories, and very much loved his wife but that all changed when [[spoiler: his friend and colleague, Okuchi, raped his wife, the incident leading to her suicide.]] The incident sent him so far over the edge that he decided to use the Hell Correspondence and took his revenge, leaving him regretful ever since. He then goes on to tell how he tried his hardest to take his mind off of what was to come and he's just so resigned. Typically, Ai doesn't display emotions, no matter how one would slice it but, in this case, once could say that she does, as, through the paintings, she ''cries'' for Fukumoto.
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* Episode 12 of Season one begins with a hikikomori, Sawai Akane, who wants to send her teacher to Hell because he kept on trying to get her to go back to school instead of understanding her like her online chat-friend. She eventually does go back to school, though her classmates are whispering behind her back that she should have stayed home, and even writes a happy message to her net-friend... [[spoiler:who who turns out to be the same teacher. He didn't know who she was, and fortunately, she believes him and they make up.]] She admits to the teacher that she wrote his name into the Hell Correspondence, and he says he actually WANTS to go to Hell, because his life is so boring and mundane and he can't put up with it anymore. She is hesitant, but eventually, she does do it. On the way to Hell, Enma Ai gives the teacher a WhatTheHellHero, explaining what'll happen to Akane just because of the teacher's ennui and selfishness. He of course [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone repents]] and Akane can be heard asking the teacher to wait for her down there. (To add another layer of tragedy, their meeting is unlikely, because Hell IS a vast place after all, as Ai herself says in the very next episode.) After the teacher is taken to Hell, Ai asks her grandmother if it's alright for someone to actually wish to go to Hell like it was Heaven...
* In Episode 13: ''Purgatory Girl'', we come across an elderly man by the name of Fukumoto, who, by all means, was a pretty decent guy in his youth, had a rather nice occupation writing and illustrating stories, and very much loved his wife but that all changed when[[spoiler: his friend and colleague, Okuchi, raped his wife, the incident leading to her suicide.]] suicide. The incident sent him so far over the edge that he decided to use the Hell Correspondence and took his revenge, leaving him regretful ever since. He then goes on to tell how he tried his hardest to take his mind off of what was to come and he's just so resigned. Typically, Ai doesn't display emotions, no matter how one would slice it but, in this case, once could say that she does, as, through the paintings, she ''cries'' for Fukumoto.
* In Episode 13: ''Purgatory Girl'', we come across an elderly man by the name of Fukumoto, who, by all means, was a pretty decent guy in his youth, had a rather nice occupation writing and illustrating stories, and very much loved his wife but that all changed when
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* Episode 17, features an ill girl named Nina, who was abandoned to die in a sanatorium. Her memories and her desperate longing for her father who never came back for her [[spoiler:turned her doll into a youkai, who, even after her master's death, continues to wait for her "father"'s return. In the end, Ai helps the doll discover the truth, and as her memories return and her illusions fade, the doll disintegrates in Tsugumi's arms.]]
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* Episode 17, features an ill girl named Nina, who was abandoned to die in a sanatorium. Her memories and her desperate longing for her father who never came back for her [[spoiler:turned turned her doll into a youkai, who, even after her master's death, continues to wait for her "father"'s return. In the end, Ai helps the doll discover the truth, and as her memories return and her illusions fade, the doll disintegrates in Tsugumi's arms.]]
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* Episode 23 of Season 1 is particularly infamous among fans for its ending. [[spoiler:The kindly young nurse is sent to hell by some random drug addict on the street, who she'd never seen in her life, and who did it ''just because he could.'' Even Ai's assistants are shaken by this, and Ai herself can't even hold back her tears as she has no choice but to cart her to Hell. What's worse, they mention this has happened ''a lot''.]]
* The end of the Season 1 finale is part Tear-Jerker, part Heartwarming. To sum up: [[spoiler: Tsugumi refuses to send Hajime to hell, despite Ai's attempts to manipulate her with twisted memories of her mother's death. She then proceeds to tell Hajime how happy she was to be with him and go places and do things together, like eating dinner or even watching TV - how she's happy just to have him, even though her mother is gone.]]
-->[[spoiler: "I miss Mommy. I'll always miss her. But Hajime...Daddy...I'm okay because I have ''you''."]]
** This exchange becomes even more of a Tear Jerker come Season 3, [[spoiler: where we learn from the now-adult Tsugumi that she and her father have drifted apart and lost touch, and that he basically became tired of trying to convince people not to condemn themselves to Hell.]]
* The end of the Season 1 finale is part Tear-Jerker, part Heartwarming. To sum up: [[spoiler: Tsugumi refuses to send Hajime to hell, despite Ai's attempts to manipulate her with twisted memories of her mother's death. She then proceeds to tell Hajime how happy she was to be with him and go places and do things together, like eating dinner or even watching TV - how she's happy just to have him, even though her mother is gone.]]
-->[[spoiler: "I miss Mommy. I'll always miss her. But Hajime...Daddy...I'm okay because I have ''you''."]]
** This exchange becomes even more of a Tear Jerker come Season 3, [[spoiler: where we learn from the now-adult Tsugumi that she and her father have drifted apart and lost touch, and that he basically became tired of trying to convince people not to condemn themselves to Hell.]]
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* Episode 23 of Season 1 is particularly infamous among fans for its ending. [[spoiler:The The kindly young nurse is sent to hell by some random drug addict on the street, who she'd never seen in her life, and who did it ''just because he could.'' Even Ai's assistants are shaken by this, and Ai herself can't even hold back her tears as she has no choice but to cart her to Hell. What's worse, they mention this has happened ''a lot''.]]
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* The end of the Season 1 finale is part Tear-Jerker, part Heartwarming. To sum up:[[spoiler: Tsugumi refuses to send Hajime to hell, despite Ai's attempts to manipulate her with twisted memories of her mother's death. She then proceeds to tell Hajime how happy she was to be with him and go places and do things together, like eating dinner or even watching TV - how she's happy just to have him, even though her mother is gone.]]
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-->"I miss Mommy. I'll always miss her. But Hajime...Daddy...I'm okay because I have ''you''."]]
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** This exchange becomes even more of a Tear Jerker come Season 3,[[spoiler: where we learn from the now-adult Tsugumi that she and her father have drifted apart and lost touch, and that he basically became tired of trying to convince people not to condemn themselves to Hell.]]
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* The end of the Season 1 finale is part Tear-Jerker, part Heartwarming. To sum up:
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-->"I miss Mommy. I'll always miss her. But Hajime...Daddy...I'm okay because I have ''you''.
** This exchange becomes even more of a Tear Jerker come Season 3,
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* When Hone-Onna goes to Ran in episode 16 to find her [[spoiler: dying from being stabbed by the [[ManipulativeBastard woman]] who used her. You see a small glimpse into Hone-Onna's back story as she helps the girl enter the woman's name into Hell Correspondence. After the revenge is acted out, she returns to find the girl dead. Hone-Onna gently closes the girl's eyes, telling Wanyuudo and Ren to leave her alone.]]
** [[spoiler: Seconds after the candle with the girl's name has been lit, it burns out...]]
** [[spoiler: And how was the girl used? First the guy she intended to use Hone-Onna's wara-ningyo on turns out to never have loved her: he only got close to her so she could give him vital information to embezzle loads of money from the account of the girl's boss. But before the girl gets desperate and is about to pull the string, [[HopeSpot an older woman appears and gives her an idea and opportunity to get back at the guy without the usage of the Hell Correspondence.]] The plan works, inasmuch as they get the money back, and the woman is adamant on splitting it fifty-fifty... but only so she can try to guilt the girl into keeping up working for her after the guy they tricked commits suicide. When the girl refuses and wants to turn herself in, the woman stabs her, saying she should have either blindly obeyed or never believed her from the start, because people are liars, especially women, and reveals she worked with several other young girls like that, and disposed of them all.]]
* Episode 17 of ''Futakomori'' is one of the saddest episodes of the season. A little girl named Nene contracted Ai to send her mother Honami to Hell because she believes, along with her paternal grandmother, that her mother killed her father. When Nene walks in on Honami in a confrontation with the grandmother in which harsh words about her father are exchanged, Nene runs to a bridge with Honami in pursuit. When Nene takes out the doll and threatens to pull the string and send her mother to Hell, Honami reveals that [[spoiler:eleven years ago, she sent her husband to Hell to put an end to the violence and abuse he visited upon them both. She shows her daughter the black fire mark that all contractors with Ai receive when they've sent someone to Hell and then begs Nene not to pull the string -- Honami is already going to Hell, but she doesn't want her daughter to share her fate. And then, to keep Nene from damning herself by pulling the string (and despite Ren's best efforts to save her), Honami throws herself off the bridge and into the streets below, meeting her fate with open arms]].
** [[spoiler: Seconds after the candle with the girl's name has been lit, it burns out...]]
** [[spoiler: And how was the girl used? First the guy she intended to use Hone-Onna's wara-ningyo on turns out to never have loved her: he only got close to her so she could give him vital information to embezzle loads of money from the account of the girl's boss. But before the girl gets desperate and is about to pull the string, [[HopeSpot an older woman appears and gives her an idea and opportunity to get back at the guy without the usage of the Hell Correspondence.]] The plan works, inasmuch as they get the money back, and the woman is adamant on splitting it fifty-fifty... but only so she can try to guilt the girl into keeping up working for her after the guy they tricked commits suicide. When the girl refuses and wants to turn herself in, the woman stabs her, saying she should have either blindly obeyed or never believed her from the start, because people are liars, especially women, and reveals she worked with several other young girls like that, and disposed of them all.]]
* Episode 17 of ''Futakomori'' is one of the saddest episodes of the season. A little girl named Nene contracted Ai to send her mother Honami to Hell because she believes, along with her paternal grandmother, that her mother killed her father. When Nene walks in on Honami in a confrontation with the grandmother in which harsh words about her father are exchanged, Nene runs to a bridge with Honami in pursuit. When Nene takes out the doll and threatens to pull the string and send her mother to Hell, Honami reveals that [[spoiler:eleven years ago, she sent her husband to Hell to put an end to the violence and abuse he visited upon them both. She shows her daughter the black fire mark that all contractors with Ai receive when they've sent someone to Hell and then begs Nene not to pull the string -- Honami is already going to Hell, but she doesn't want her daughter to share her fate. And then, to keep Nene from damning herself by pulling the string (and despite Ren's best efforts to save her), Honami throws herself off the bridge and into the streets below, meeting her fate with open arms]].
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* When Hone-Onna goes to Ran in episode 16 to find her [[spoiler: dying from being stabbed by the [[ManipulativeBastard woman]] who used her. You see a small glimpse into Hone-Onna's back story as she helps the girl enter the woman's name into Hell Correspondence. After the revenge is acted out, she returns to find the girl dead. Hone-Onna gently closes the girl's eyes, telling Wanyuudo and Ren to leave her alone.]]
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**[[spoiler: Seconds after the candle with the girl's name has been lit, it burns out...]]
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**[[spoiler: And how was the girl used? First the guy she intended to use Hone-Onna's wara-ningyo on turns out to never have loved her: he only got close to her so she could give him vital information to embezzle loads of money from the account of the girl's boss. But before the girl gets desperate and is about to pull the string, [[HopeSpot an older woman appears and gives her an idea and opportunity to get back at the guy without the usage of the Hell Correspondence.]] The plan works, inasmuch as they get the money back, and the woman is adamant on splitting it fifty-fifty... but only so she can try to guilt the girl into keeping up working for her after the guy they tricked commits suicide. When the girl refuses and wants to turn herself in, the woman stabs her, saying she should have either blindly obeyed or never believed her from the start, because people are liars, especially women, and reveals she worked with several other young girls like that, and disposed of them all.]]
* Episode 17 of ''Futakomori'' is one of the saddest episodes of the season. A little girl named Nene contracted Ai to send her mother Honami to Hell because she believes, along with her paternal grandmother, that her mother killed her father. When Nene walks in on Honami in a confrontation with the grandmother in which harsh words about her father are exchanged, Nene runs to a bridge with Honami in pursuit. When Nene takes out the doll and threatens to pull the string and send her mother to Hell, Honami reveals that[[spoiler:eleven eleven years ago, she sent her husband to Hell to put an end to the violence and abuse he visited upon them both. She shows her daughter the black fire mark that all contractors with Ai receive when they've sent someone to Hell and then begs Nene not to pull the string -- Honami is already going to Hell, but she doesn't want her daughter to share her fate. And then, to keep Nene from damning herself by pulling the string (and despite Ren's best efforts to save her), Honami throws herself off the bridge and into the streets below, meeting her fate with open arms]].arms.
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* Episode 17 of ''Futakomori'' is one of the saddest episodes of the season. A little girl named Nene contracted Ai to send her mother Honami to Hell because she believes, along with her paternal grandmother, that her mother killed her father. When Nene walks in on Honami in a confrontation with the grandmother in which harsh words about her father are exchanged, Nene runs to a bridge with Honami in pursuit. When Nene takes out the doll and threatens to pull the string and send her mother to Hell, Honami reveals that
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* ''Mitsuganae'' Ep 25, [[spoiler: Yuzuki's life]], the entire thing.
** [[spoiler: To wit, she had a happy family as a kid, but then her father, who was a bus driver, got into an accident and died of it, along with several of his passengers. Since the bus company declared the driver to be the one at fault, Yuzuki and her mother had a hard time, and the mother hardly had any job. When the mother got ill, Yuzuki tried to ask for help in vain. Thus, they ended up at the local shrine, hiding in the sanctuary until eventually the mother died. Yuzuki, despaired and alone, went back to their own apartment and died hugging her old teddybear. Seeing and remembering this, the Yuzuki we have been watching all season gives up all fight and accepts her role as the new Hell Girl.]]
** [[spoiler: To wit, she had a happy family as a kid, but then her father, who was a bus driver, got into an accident and died of it, along with several of his passengers. Since the bus company declared the driver to be the one at fault, Yuzuki and her mother had a hard time, and the mother hardly had any job. When the mother got ill, Yuzuki tried to ask for help in vain. Thus, they ended up at the local shrine, hiding in the sanctuary until eventually the mother died. Yuzuki, despaired and alone, went back to their own apartment and died hugging her old teddybear. Seeing and remembering this, the Yuzuki we have been watching all season gives up all fight and accepts her role as the new Hell Girl.]]
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* ''Mitsuganae'' Ep 25, [[spoiler: Yuzuki's life]], life, the entire thing.
**[[spoiler: To wit, she had a happy family as a kid, but then her father, who was a bus driver, got into an accident and died of it, along with several of his passengers. Since the bus company declared the driver to be the one at fault, Yuzuki and her mother had a hard time, and the mother hardly had any job. When the mother got ill, Yuzuki tried to ask for help in vain. Thus, they ended up at the local shrine, hiding in the sanctuary until eventually the mother died. Yuzuki, despaired and alone, went back to their own apartment and died hugging her old teddybear. Seeing and remembering this, the Yuzuki we have been watching all season gives up all fight and accepts her role as the new Hell Girl.]]
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* Episode 1 starts like a usual school bullying episode, with the whole class writing crap about one of the girls in a chatroom. Then one of the more popular girls reaches out to the bullied classmate and makes another chatgroup to keep her too occupied to read what the class wrote, inviting a third friend into the chatroom. [[spoiler: Turns out the whole bullying began because of a remark the popular classmate made about the main character always apologizing even when there is no need to which annoyed the poplar one. Why she reached out then? Because she honestly thought it would blow over in a few days but it has gone on for months with no signs of stopping and she never meant for it to go that far.]]
** What makes it worse is the ending.[[spoiler: The reason for her being bullied makes her [[TookALevelInJerkass Take a Level in Jerkass]] and makes her so bitter that she's openly resenting her classmates. Effectively turning her into a BrokenBird.]]
** What makes it even ''worse'' [[spoiler: is the popular girl's reaction as she's being ferried off to Hell: She's curled up and crying, begging to go home. Even if she started the whole mess, it'll leave you feeling as empty as the main character.]]
** What makes it worse is the ending.[[spoiler: The reason for her being bullied makes her [[TookALevelInJerkass Take a Level in Jerkass]] and makes her so bitter that she's openly resenting her classmates. Effectively turning her into a BrokenBird.]]
** What makes it even ''worse'' [[spoiler: is the popular girl's reaction as she's being ferried off to Hell: She's curled up and crying, begging to go home. Even if she started the whole mess, it'll leave you feeling as empty as the main character.]]
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* Episode 1 starts like a usual school bullying episode, with the whole class writing crap about one of the girls in a chatroom. Then one of the more popular girls reaches out to the bullied classmate and makes another chatgroup to keep her too occupied to read what the class wrote, inviting a third friend into the chatroom. [[spoiler: Turns out the whole bullying began because of a remark the popular classmate made about the main character always apologizing even when there is no need to which annoyed the poplar one. Why she reached out then? Because she honestly thought it would blow over in a few days but it has gone on for months with no signs of stopping and she never meant for it to go that far.]]
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** What makes it worse is the ending.[[spoiler: The reason for her being bullied makes her [[TookALevelInJerkass Take a Level in Jerkass]] and makes her so bitter that she's openly resenting her classmates. Effectively turning her into a BrokenBird.]]
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** What makes it even ''worse''[[spoiler: is the popular girl's reaction as she's being ferried off to Hell: She's curled up and crying, begging to go home. Even if she started the whole mess, it'll leave you feeling as empty as the main character.]]
** What makes it worse is the ending.
** What makes it even ''worse''
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** What makes it even ''worse'' [[spoiler: is the popular girl's reaction as she's being ferried off to Hell: She's curled up and crying, begging to go home. Even if she started the whole mess, it'll leave you feeling as empty as the main character.]]
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* Episode 17, features an IllGirl named Nina, who was abandoned to die in a sanatorium. Her memories and her desperate longing for her father who never came back for her [[spoiler:turned her doll into a youkai, who, even after her master's death, continues to wait for her "father"'s return. In the end, Ai helps the doll discover the truth, and as her memories return and her illusions fade, the doll disintegrates in Tsugumi's arms.]]
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* Episode 17, features an IllGirl ill girl named Nina, who was abandoned to die in a sanatorium. Her memories and her desperate longing for her father who never came back for her [[spoiler:turned her doll into a youkai, who, even after her master's death, continues to wait for her "father"'s return. In the end, Ai helps the doll discover the truth, and as her memories return and her illusions fade, the doll disintegrates in Tsugumi's arms.]]
