Her store was constantly trashed, robbed, & slandered, but did she ever think about leaving the area to get a fresh start in a new town?Īnother flaw is that you never see any of the people actually fully realize their choices & their mistakes. However most of them just appeared to be rather whiny & unlikeable, as in the case of the would be girl chef. Some of them really seemed to be at the end of their ropes, which made their desperate move of registering on Hell Girl's website somewhat understandable.

After the first 2 stories I was struggling to really want to finish the manga or even care about the characters.

While this format works for the first few stories, eventually I started to wonder if any of these characters actually thought about whether or not their revenge was worthwhile & if they'd really tried to solve their own problems themselves. The cost of sending your enemy or rival to hell? You eventually join them in eternal torment. The plotline revolves around Ai (Hell Girl), an ageless entity who collects names of the deserving (and sometimes undeserving) for retribution. However, that's about where my admiration stopped. While the idea of retribution via an outside party has been somewhat done before, this was a good approach. The idea of being able to send an enemy to hell by entering in their name on a hidden website is an interesting idea.

The artwork is cute, it's in an episodic format (each chapter is a different story), & the plotline is interesting. Maybe I should just go watch the anime instead. Maybe if you're afraid of Mahou Shoujo Goth Girl Scowly. I think it would've helped me with the creep factor than the cutesy art style that's used. I wish the manga had tried to emulate the anime's just a bit. That didn't help things at all.įrom what I understand, too, the manga is a spin off of the anime series (or a companion or something.

It's super repetitive, and the artwork is super inconsistent with what I assume the general atmosphere is supposed to be. Hell Girl's not as exciting as I had hoped it to be. Not even her mother, nor her best friend. No one believes her when she tries to tell them the truth. Just finished the last story, in which a teacher attempts to rape a middle school student. Slut shaming is alive and well, isn't it.

Hell Girl 1 by Miyuki Eto