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* StockholmSyndrome: The only believable reason Yumi still seeks her father's approval and puts all the blame on Yuki instead.
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* DeathOfAChild: Episode 5 shows the mangled, bloodied bodies of three children after a car accident [[spoiler: that one of them accidentally caused]].


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* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: In episode 5, Masahiro and his friends decide to hang out of the windows of a moving car after being told to put on their seatbelts. This results in their violent deaths when the car flips after colliding with an oncoming truck]].
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* ElderAbuse: [[spoiler: Episode 4 is dedicated to this. Only one of the perpetrators goes to Hell, and it’s unclear what happened to the others]].

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* AbusiveOffspring: Episode 3 has a teenage girl feel comfortable slapping her grandmother around for ruining dinner.
* AbusiveParents: In episode 3, the mother is abusive to all three of her children, [[DontYouDarePityMe even hitting her younger daughter for simply asking if she was okay after being stabbed in the hand]]. Meanwhile, the father has mentally checked out of the family and is unconcerned about what happens to them.

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* AbusiveOffspring: Episode 3 has a teenage girl feel Asuka, who feels comfortable slapping her grandmother around for ruining dinner.
dinner. She also sits idly by as Yoshinori beats her father.
* AbusiveParents: In episode 3, the mother is abusive to all three of her children, [[DontYouDarePityMe even hitting her younger daughter for simply asking if she was okay after being stabbed in the hand]]. Meanwhile, the father has mentally checked out of the family and is unconcerned about what happens to them. By the end of the episode, both parents abandon Akira and Arina with their abusive older cousin to live their own lives.


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* BullyHunter: [[spoiler: After sending Yoshinori to Hell, and by having his sisters victim send her to Hell, Akira becomes this with him to the extreme, as they kidnap, torture, and kill people who victimize others, rationalizing that since they're going to Hell anyway, it won't matter what they do if they can save others from going through what they had to gone through]].


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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Akira and Arina's parents get away with being abusive and neglectful to their children, and are last seen living out their lives care freely]].
* KissingCousins: Yoshinori and Asuka in episode 3, who are cousins but act more like a couple. Yoshinori also tries to molest Arina, his younger cousin, [[spoiler: and is heavily implied to have raped her at the end of the episode]].

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* AbusiveOffspring: Episode 3 has a teenage girl feel comfortable slapping her grandmother around for ruining dinner.
* AbusiveParents: In episode 3, the mother is abusive to all three of her children, [[DontYouDarePityMe even hitting her younger daughter for simply asking if she was okay after being stabbed in the hand]]. Meanwhile, the father has mentally checked out of the family and is unconcerned about what happens to them.



* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler: Haru was beaten by her partner in the past. She would unintentionally continue this cycle by lashing out at Nanako when she would start to get clingy in a stalker-like way]].

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[[spoiler: Haru was beaten by her partner in the past. She would unintentionally continue this cycle by lashing out at Nanako when she would start to get clingy in a stalker-like way]].way]].
** [[spoiler: Episode 3 has a whole family that engages in this: The daughter abuses everyone in the family, the grandmother abuses the mother, the mother is abusive toward her children, and no one except their son cares]].
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* DomesticAbuse: [[spoiler: Haru was beaten by her partner in the past. She would unintentionally continue this cycle by lashing out at Nanako when she would start to get clingy in a stalker-like way]].


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* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: Nanako in episode 2, who becomes obsessed with her partner Haru. She even sends her to Hell so they can be together for eternity, although Haru accepts this]].
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* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Haru and Nanako perform this act as a comedy duo and when they're around other people, but in reality their personalities are reversed, with Nanako being the Bokke and Haru being the Tsukkomi.


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* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Nanako puts on a mature, bossy, straight woman front when people are around her and Haru, but is sweet, and people-pleasing [[spoiler: and crazy]] when they're alone.
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* CruelAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler: It ''is'' Hell, but Yukawa gets one of the series' worst punishments: she has to watch as Ai's goons delete her internal organs, feeling the pain of each one as they're deleted from her]].

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* CruelAndUnusualPunishment: CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler: It ''is'' Hell, but Yukawa gets one of the series' worst punishments: she has to watch as Ai's goons delete her internal organs, feeling the pain of each one as they're deleted from her]].

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* TheBully: In the first episode, Yukawa is revealed to be the one who turned the entire class against the protagonist solely because they bumped into each other once and it pissed her off. She even devised a plan to pretend to befriend her just so she can leak their chat logs to the entire class, further worsening the bullying.

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* TheBully: In the first episode, Yukawa is revealed to be the one who turned the entire class against the protagonist solely because they bumped into each other once and it pissed her off. She even devised a plan to pretend to befriend her just so she can leak their chat logs to the entire class, further worsening [[spoiler: Or so Shizuka thought, as it turns out the bullying.one who leaked the chat logs really was Yokota, just not the one Shizuka thought it was]].
* CruelAndUnusualPunishment: [[spoiler: It ''is'' Hell, but Yukawa gets one of the series' worst punishments: she has to watch as Ai's goons delete her internal organs, feeling the pain of each one as they're deleted from her]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Shizuka sends Yukawa to Hell at the end of Episode 1, believing Yukawa was the one who leaked their chat logs after she confesses to being the one who initially turned the class against her. The next day, however, it is revealed that Yokota, the third person in the chat and the one Shizuka suspected of leaking the chat logs in the first place, did exist and was most likely the one who leaked their chats; Shizuka simply confronted the wrong Yokota when she went to their class since there were two of them. While Yukawa deserved her punishment for turning the entire class against Shizuka for no real reason, the way she's reduced to a sobbing mess while being ferried to Hell almost makes you feel sorry for her]].



** Yukawa devised a plot to turn the entire class against Shizuka solely because they bumped into each other and it irritated her. Worse, Yukawa is the one who ran into ''her'' and wasn't even the one who dropped her phone during the collision.
* PhoneaholicTeenager: Yukawa in the first episode. She's on her phone so much that it's difficult to have an in-person conversation with her. She even talks on the phone in class. When she starts a group chat for them, she gets Shizuka addicted to her phone in the same way, which only makes things worse for Shizuka when their gossipy chat log is leaked by her.

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** [[spoiler: Yukawa devised a plot to turn the entire class against Shizuka solely because they bumped into each other and it irritated her. Worse, Yukawa is the one who ran into ''her'' and wasn't even the one who dropped her phone during the collision.
collision]].
* IronicHell: Since Yukawa was addicted to her phone in life, her head is turned into a giant phone in the afterlife.
* PhoneaholicTeenager: Yukawa in the first episode. She's on her phone so much that it's difficult to have an in-person conversation with her. She even talks on the phone in class. When she starts a group chat for them, she gets Shizuka addicted to her phone in the same way, which only makes things worse for Shizuka when their gossipy chat log is leaked by her.leaked. [[spoiler: Shizuka becomes the next Yukawa after sending her to Hell]].

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* DisproportionateRetribution: The first episode begins with a girl wishing to damn her classmates to Hell because they laughed at her. Ai and even Kikuri questioned her irrational decision-making, with Ai leaving without giving her the doll and Kikuri telling her to calm down before calling back.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: TheBully: In the first episode, Yukawa is revealed to be the one who turned the entire class against the protagonist solely because they bumped into each other once and it pissed her off. She even devised a plan to pretend to befriend her just so she can leak their chat logs to the entire class, further worsening the bullying.
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** Yukawa devised a plot to turn the entire class against Shizuka solely because they bumped into each other and it irritated her. Worse, Yukawa is the one who ran into ''her'' and wasn't even the one who dropped her phone during the collision.
* PhoneaholicTeenager: Yukawa in the first episode. She's on her phone so much that it's difficult to have an in-person conversation with her. She even talks on the phone in class. When she starts a group chat for them, she gets Shizuka addicted to her phone in the same way, which only makes things worse for Shizuka when their gossipy chat log is leaked by her.
* YouAreFat: The girl in the first episode is bullied by her classmates because of her weight, with the other students calling her a "gasball" due to her roundness.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The first episode begins with a girl wishing to damn her classmates to Hell because they laughed at her. Even Ai and Kikuri questioned her decision-making, with Ai leaving without giving her the doll and Kikuri telling her to calm down before calling back.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: The first episode begins with a girl wishing to damn her classmates to Hell because they laughed at her. Even Ai and even Kikuri questioned her irrational decision-making, with Ai leaving without giving her the doll and Kikuri telling her to calm down before calling back.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: The first episode begins with a girl wishing to damn her classmates to Hell because they laughed at her. Even Ai and Kikuri questioned her decision-making, with Ai leaving without giving her the doll and Kikuri telling her to calm down before calling back.
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* {{Hellgate}}: A torii on the river in Saigawara is stated by Wanyuudo to briefly open into Hell during a local festival. When Yuzuki first goes up to it that night, she sees [[spoiler:herself as Hell Girl]]. [[spoiler:When the lantern Yuzuki used to send Ai off drifts through the gate, a miniature boat comes through the other way, allowing Ai to fully return.]]
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* AnAesop: Vengeance isn't worth it. No matter how satisfying it is to see your tormentor get a taste of their own medicine, getting revenge on them will dig your own grave because you've descended to the level of that which you hate. This is shown by the central premise of the show: someone you hate gets DraggedOffToHell, but you'll be going to Hell when you die right along with them. As the old saying goes: "when seeking revenge, first dig two graves" — one for them, and one for you.
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* SinsOfOurFathers: When Ai discovers that [[spoiler: Hajime and Tsugumi are distant relatives to a childhood friend who ended up helping bury her alive]] she decides to [[spoiler: try and MindRape Tsugumi into sending her father to Hell.]]

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When Ai discovers that [[spoiler: Hajime and Tsugumi are distant relatives to a childhood friend who ended up helping bury her alive]] alive]], she decides to [[spoiler: try and MindRape Tsugumi into sending her father to Hell.]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution:

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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Usagi from "The Rabbit and the Turtle" sends her older brother to Hell because he forgot the ChildhoodMarriagePromise he made to her. What's worse is that it happens right after they reconciled their differences]].
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* BaitAndSwitch: This trope comes into play several times this season, whether it be a different person than we thought being sent to Hell or the villain of the episode being someone different:
** In "This Mundane World," [[spoiler: Despite setting up the grandmother to be the antagonist, it's revealed toward the very end of the episode that the real antagonist was the soft-spoken Ririka, whose lies and manipulations of both the grandmother and the protagonist were the direct causes of the episode's plot]].
** In "The Midsummer Chart," [[spoiler: the ''protagonist'' of the episode Nobuo is sent to Hell by Kokoro, who is revealed to be a BitchInSheepsClothing]].
** In "Right In Front Behind You," [[spoiler: the child protagonist Kaito is being abused by his pregnant stepmother, and his father ignores his abuse in order to keep his wife with him. In a normal ''Hell Girl'' episode, it wouldn't be out of the ordinary for the protagonist to send the problematic parent away, but then it's revealed that the one Kaito hates most is his ''unborn sister'', since his relationship with his stepmother was actually rather close before she had gotten pregnant. It's the only episode in the series in which an unborn baby is sent to Hell]].
** In "My Teacher," [[spoiler: not only does the protagonist get sent to Hell, but she also turns out to be more villainous than the girl that was set up to be TheBully]].
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* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: In the season finale, Ai sacrifices her freedom and resumes her place as Hell Girl, allowing Yuzuki's soul to ascend to heaven]].
* ShaggyDogStory: Happens a few times across the season, [[spoiler: and then the season finale reveals that the entire Yuzuki subplot is one. Nearly the entire season is spent setting up Yuzuki to become the next Hell Girl; every time she tries to reject or deny this fate, Yuzuki is reminded that it can't be avoided because YouCantFightFate. Come to the season finale, after Yuzuki finally accepts her fate and succeeds Ai, she's Hell Girl for all of a few hours before she breaks one of the rules, forcing Ai to rescue her from the Lord of Hell and resume her position as Hell Girl]].
* YouCantFightFate: A recurring theme in this season. Like Tsumugi and Hajime before her, no matter what Yuzuki does, the straw doll thread will be pulled and someone will be banished to Hell.

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** "Repenting" during the banishment doesn't actually do anything. Ai will ferry the target to Hell regardless of whether they feel remorse for their actions.
** Ai will ferry souls, even if they're innocent. The difference is that she may occasionally feel bad for an innocent person being sent to Hell.



** Accidental string pulls count.

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* MagicAIsMagicA: 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.
** Also, almost nobody ever actually ''does'' show remorse, which means it's never actually ''tested'' whether or not they could save themselves if they owned up to what they did. The targets almost always boast that either what they did was insignificant (episode 1's target) or that their actions were ethically justified (episode 11's target) or that the victim had it coming (episode 7's target). And the people who do show remorse are always the ones who for some reason accept being sent to Hell anyway: to name just one example, in episode 12, the schoolteacher repents how he treated the client, but this particular schoolteacher ''wanted'' to be sent to Hell, and the fact that his client will soon join him isn't what he wanted at all.

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* MagicAIsMagicA: A somewhat questionable case. In some episodes, it seems The series is full of rules surrounding the Hell Correspondence that may come out of nowhere but are otherwise consistent within the universe's lore:
** You have to know the first and last name of the target you want to send to Hell.
** You can only send one person to Hell at a time.
** It has
to be implied that if the victim shows remorse, even after the string has been pulled, they may yet be saved. However, other someone you really hate (usually, though some episodes seem to indicate break this rule for plot reasons).
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that people in this world are is already Hell-bound can still be sent to hell not because they've done anything wrong, but because they're hated by Hell using the Hell Correspondence (though this rarely happens due to a lack of recurring Hell-bound characters).
** If a person already has a target on them,
another person (and could even be sent for no can't enter their name into the Hell Correspondence.
** Once you're Hell-bound, there's nothing you can do to avoid your fate of being ferried to Hell. Being a
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 person up until your death changes nothing.
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** Also, almost nobody ever actually ''does'' show remorse, which means
Hell, it's never actually ''tested'' whether or not they could save themselves if they owned up to what they did. irreversible. [[spoiler: The targets almost always boast that either what they did was insignificant (episode 1's target) or that only way one can avoid this fate is by Ai turning the boat around before she can cross the gate, which she's only done once in the entire series]].
** Ai's companions can't be cursed using the Hell Correspondence even if the curser really hates them. If
their actions were ethically justified (episode 11's target) or that the victim had it coming (episode 7's target). And the people who do show remorse names are always the ones who for some reason accept being sent to Hell anyway: to name just one example, in episode 12, the schoolteacher repents how he treated the client, but this particular schoolteacher ''wanted'' to be sent to Hell, and the fact that his client entered, Ai will soon join him isn't what he wanted reject the request as an error.
** Straw dolls can change ownership
at all.any time, and with the ownership, the grudge placed on it will change.
** If the target of the grudge dies or the straw dolls owner lets go of their grudge, the straw doll returns to Ai.
** Accidental string pulls count.
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* ApatheticCitizens: If they're not complicit in whatever abuse is happening, the background characters tend to be portrayed as apathetic to the plight of the main characters of the episode's plot. This is especially prevalent in episodes about bullying.
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* EvilVsEvil: Although by season 2 the series went for GreyAndGrayMorality, episode 5 is notable for both Ai's client and the banished are equally despicable persons.

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* EvilVsEvil: EvilVersusEvil: Although by season 2 the series went for GreyAndGrayMorality, episode 5 is notable for both Ai's client and the banished are equally despicable persons.
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* CalculatorSpelling: {{Invoked}} in a {{filler}} episode. A competition marksman is being compelled to snipe a businessman by his girlfriend's kidnappers. After finding some kids playing close to where the thugs has him practice the act, he left behind a calculator with the number "3135134162." He's trying to communicate when and where do those people want him to do the act: "2-9-1 Heisei E" or the 1pm, February 9 departure of the Heisei Express train.

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* CalculatorSpelling: {{Invoked}} The series premiered in Creator/{{Animax}} Asia at October 2006 at 11:34 PM ("HELL" upside-down on a {{filler}} episode. A competition marksman is being compelled to snipe a businessman by his girlfriend's kidnappers. After finding some kids playing close to where the thugs has him practice the act, he left behind a calculator with the number "3135134162." He's trying to communicate when and where do those people want him to do the act: "2-9-1 Heisei E" or the 1pm, February 9 departure of the Heisei Express train.calculator).
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* CalculatorSpelling: {{Invoked}} in a {{filler}} episode. A competition marksman is being compelled to snipe a businessman by his girlfriend's kidnappers. After finding some kids playing close to where the thugs has him practice the act, he left behind a calculator with the number "3135134162." He's trying to communicate when and where do those people want him to do the act: "2-9-1 Heisei E" or the 1pm, February 9 departure of the Heisei Express train.
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* AnAxeToGrind: Fujie killed her sister Satsuki with a hatchet when she tried to leave for the city life even after her troubled marriage. She was also going to repeat the act on her stepdaughter Mina for eloping.
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** Attempted by a client in the manga--she tries to write her own name and send herself to Hell, because she can't pick just ONE of her many tormentors. [[DarkIsNotEvil Enma explicitly tells her that suicide is not the intended use of the Hell Correspondence.]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Many clients' problems could be solved if they talked about it (like the very first: "Sorry everybody, I lost the money but I'll work hard to pay it back." might be shameful but beats being blackmailed or going to hell), or found the right person to talk about it, or talked with the person they did it for (TheDollEpisode, what level of not communicating did she do to miss "like mother, like son" that badly?).

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* PoorCommunicationKills: Many clients' problems could be solved if they talked about it (like the very first: "Sorry everybody, I lost the money but I'll work hard to pay it back." might be shameful but beats being blackmailed or going to hell), or found the right person to talk about it, or talked with the person they did it for (TheDollEpisode, what (what level of not communicating did she do to miss "like mother, like son" that badly?).

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