History Anime / HellGirl

* BodyHorror: Happens quite a bit during the MindRape sequences. A notable example is [[TheDollEpisode Episode 19 of Season 1]], where the victim, Kyougetsu Ujiie, is gradually turned into a life-size ball-jointed doll.

* CryCute: When Ai comes to terms with her grief, she sheds these.

* PyrrhicVillainy: Literally. No matter how much better your life becomes after you send someone to Hell, you will be joining them eventually.
** Although there are a few cases where it's done for the sake of someone else. A girl named Haruka did it to the person who was ruining her mother. And for her sake, the mother seems nice to the child of the victim... whether that will hold or not is left unseen.
** PyrrhicVictory: When the person who untied the thread is innocent up to that point.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The hell banishments are usually a form of this. There have been exceptions, however. [[AcidTripDimension The most obvious]] [[ShoutOut ones are in]] [[StockParodies season three.]]

Eight years after the third season aired, [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2017-02-28/hell-girl-gets-new-12-episode-tv-anime-in-july/.112828 a fourth was announced]], entitled ''Hell Girl: Fourth Twilight'' [[note]]''Jigoku Shōjo: Yoi no Togi''[[/note]]. Premiering in July 2017, this season features six new episodes and six episodes pulled from the previous three seasons. A live-action movie directed by Kôji Shiraishi was also [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-09-12/hell-girl-live-action-film-green-lit-for-next-fall/.136701 announced]] in 2018 and was released in November of 2019.

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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The client of the 16th episode: A Youkai-possessed doll believing it is its long-deceased owner, Nina. It has cursed a decaying, abandoned sanatorium to appear as though it is simply abandoned but well maintained. The doll entered Nina's father's name into the Hell Correspondence hoping Ai will take revenge, but she refused that request. Instead, Ai out of the kindness of her heart hopes to help the entity find peace for itself

** Haruto grows resentful and suspicious of Ayumi being Rui Rokudo, the SerialKiller and village Hell Girl, after she lets it on she clearly knows much more of what's going on. Should be successful in sending her to Hell, Tomohiko will confront him the next day and suspect he's behind everything up to Ayumi's disappearance, invoking his own contract against him and killing him. A day later, a bloodied Misaki approaches Asuka's house, claiming she murdered Tomohiko but she passes out. Yuzuki is sent home by authorities the day after and Asuka was never found, but the murders at least stopped...

* SerialKiller: A string of mysterious murders has been occurring in Himamura. The victims notably die with a black straw doll at hand, but as Ai isn't involved, she and the villagers speculate another Hell Girl may be on the loose enacting vengeance. The supposed Hell Girl in question is named Rui Rukudo.

* SerialKiller: A string of mysterious murders has been occurring in Himamura. The victims notably die with a black straw doll at hand, but as Ai isn't involved, they and the villagers speculate another Hell Girl may be on the loose enacting vengeance. The supposed Hell Girl in question is named Rui Rukudo.

** Ayumi [[spoiler: comes to the conclusion Asuka is Rui Rokudo after doing her own research.]] Not intervening is the correct choice and will lead to three options of who Rokudo will attack next: Ayumi, Misaki, and Haruto. Ayumi is the correct answer and leads to some exposition on the killer's motives; picking the other two will result in Rokudo attacking Ayumi and her sending her to Hell in self-defense. As Yuzuki leaves the day after, Ai will relay some parting words to Rokudo, [[{{Foreshadowing}} warning her of a tragic fate in store for her and to not end up like her.]] Attempting to intervene in Ayumi pulling the thread will lead to a brief struggle between her and Yuzuki where the contract is inadvertently invoked and leads to mostly the same outcome but the two girls parting on bitter terms.

* MultipleEndings: Mostly based on if Yuzuki refuses to act on her premonitions.

* SerialKiller: A string of mysterious murders has been occurring in Himamura. The victims notably die on hand with a straw doll at hand, but as Ai isn't involved, they speculate another Hell Girl may be on the loose enacting vengeance.

** Haruto grows resentful and suspicious of Ayumi being Rui Rokudo, the SerialKiller and village Hell Girl, after she lets it on she clearly knows much more of what's going on. Should be successful in sending her to Hell, Tomohiko will confront him the next day and suspect he's behind everything up to Ayumi's disappearance, invoking his own contract against him and killing him. A day later, a bloodied Misaki approaches Asuka's house, claiming she murdered Tomohiko but she passes out. Yuzuki is sent home the day after and Asuka was never found, but the murders at least stopped...

** Haruto grows resentful and suspicious of Ayumi being Rui Rokudo, the SerialKiller and village Hell Girl, after she lets it on she clearly knows much more of what's going on. Should be successful in sending her to Hell, Tomohiko will confront him the next day and suspect he's behind everything, invoking his own contract against him and killing him. A day later, a bloodied Misaki approaches Asuka's house, claiming she murdered Tomohiko but she passes out. Yuzuki is sent home the day after and Asuka was never found, but the murders at least stopped...

A VisualNovel released for the [[UsefulNotes/Playstation2 PS2]]. It was envisioned as a wholesale superior successor to the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoDS DS]] game, ''Akekazura'', [[ObviousBeta which had a very troubled production]] and did not live up to Compile Heart's expectations. Chronologically taking place within the first half of ''Mitsuganae'', it follows Yuzuki enjoying summer break in the mountain village of Himamura, a religious residential said to be protected by a Hell Girl unaffiliated with Ai Enma.

* MultipleEndings:
** If Yuzuki does not intervene in Tomohiko pulling the string in her first premonition, Haruto is sent to Hell to ostensibly avenge his murdered sister and father. Yuzuki goes home the day after, leaving behind a despondent but hopeful Ayumi. Days later, Haruto's missing father is found dead with Tomohiko, the latter's head having been gorily caved in by a crowbar.

** If Yuzuki does not intervene in Tomohiko pulling the string in her first premonition, Haruto is sent to Hell to ostensibly avenge his murdered sister and father. Yuzuki leaves the day after, leaving behind a despondent but hopeful Ayumi. Days later, Haruto's missing father is found dead with Tomohiko, the latter's head having been gorily caved in by a crowbar.

* CryCute: When Ai comes to terms with her grief, she sheds these.

* SmugSnake: One of the episodes centers around an allegedly psychic named Gil de L'enfer, who tries to prove he's better than Ai Enma and challenges her to a fight. Needless to say, [[DoNotTauntCthulh it doesn't work out well for him in the end.]]

* StockholmeSyndrome: The only believable reason Yumi still seeks her father's approval and puts all the blame on Yuki instead.

* KnightOfCereberus: The unnamed drug addict that is the 23rd on-screen client marks the turning point in the series by illustrating how clients can very well be pure evil and how the Hell Correspondence can be severely misused.

* Played straight with Kyougetsu Ujiie, a deranged dollmaker that treats living people - namely her servants and children, as literal living dolls.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The 16th episode: A {{Yōkai}} possessed doll believing it is its long-deceased owner, Nina. It has cursed a decaying, abandoned sanatorium to appear as though it is simply abandoned but well maintained. The doll entered Nina's father's name into the Hell Correspondence hoping Ai will take revenge, but she refused that request. Instead, Ai out of the kindness of her heart hopes to help the entity find peace for itself

* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Fukomoto got his revenge, but it did nothing to relieve him of his trauma and brought new fears with him knowing he is condemned to Hell.

* VillainProtagonist: As the series progresses from conventional good vs bad morality, many newer clients introduced are either evil or gravely immoral.

* SinsOfOurFather: Granted, Masaya's father didn't actually do anything wrong; the scandal story was fabricated by Inagaki. Regardless, it's ruined his life and has him the subject of savage bullying.

* BaitTheDog: When the seventh episode starts, the viewer is treated to Ayaka stumbling on stage and being repeatedly berated harshly by her mother. With the way Midori is shown to be abusive, we're led to believe Ayaka is a victim of some form of extreme parental abuse. Unlike in previous episodes, she's anything but a victim despite being a client of the Hell Correspondence.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Several unique to the first season, as later ones would not emphasize repentance or self-realization upon the victim all that much