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The Anime Blog » Blog Archive » Hell Girl, Volume Four — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:19:30 +0000

[...] Hell Girl, Volume Four March 20, 2008 By Rachel Related Reviews Check out my reviews of the Hell Girl anime starting with Volumes One, Two and Three. [...]

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:42:33 +0000

@Etienne, I really dug Wolf’s Rain, and while it was slowly paced, I don’t think it was slow, like Hell Girl is. WR was also a highly refined story which kept refreshing itself throughout the series. I was never bored with Wolf’s Rain, except for that entire disc of recap episodes….

By: Etienne

Etienne — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:40:28 +0000

I’ve been watching 2 series a week for about 6 month now, so in my 100 differents series i’ve watch since then, Hell Girl is in my top 5. So me too I have totally opposite taste from you

I like slow stories with little info that will all comes at the end of the series, like Wolf’s Rain. So Hell Girl for me and my friends is a must, that shows taste is different for everybody.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:56:24 +0000

@Roku, “Why do we have opposite tastes in everything?! because it makes for great conversation! (><)b

I feel where your coming from, though, and it can be tough when two people have almost completely different tastes. It boils down to respecting the other person’s opinion, no matter that you believe what they like is utter crap and should be burned.

As for Hellgirl, I think it’s a bit too slow and too sneaky about the development. Can’t trust an anime like that, you know. They’ll turn around and get Evangelion on you at the end, if you know what I mean….

By: Roku

Roku — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:46:36 +0000

My partner REALLY likes Jigoku Shoujo. He showed me a little bit of it and it was interesting. I’m a little apprehensive of moving forward now, because I’m usually really picky about anime too ^^;

I hope we finish watching Haibane Renmei first. That one is really cute!! He doesn’t seem to like it though. Why do we have opposite tastes in everything?!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:51:33 +0000

@enma ai, don't you think that a plot should be the first priority in the first season of an anime? Why should viewers wait to enjoy an anime? That doesn't make any sense from my viewpoint, but I'm sure the folks in marketing think it's a fantastic idea to tease audiences along for three seasons.No thanks, I'll pass. There's other anime out there that actually work at being good. I believe I'll invest my time and money in those.

By: enma ai

enma ai — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:08:48 +0000

ive prevoiusly watched jigoku shoujo i realy cant wait till i get it on dvd its my fave anime so far and im not the only one who thinks that i realy like the first sesson and the seccond sesson is better also i love the ending its so GREAT!!!! i hope emma ai is in the third sesson ive also just got the manga so dont be dissing hell girl or the jigoku shoujo will come and
“IPPEN SHINDEMIRU” you

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:51:00 +0000

@psgels, That’s kind of cheap that there’s no development till much, much later in the series. In fact, I think it’s highway robbery to string viewers along in order to make a few extra bucks.

@McE, There’s slow plot development and then there’s crappy plot development, and Hell Girl’s got crappy plot development. The stories are actually making less sense and the plot is still going NO WHERE. WTF was up with the teacher/ student story? That was beyond lame. Way way beyond.

By: McE

McE — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:25:43 +0000

I just finished Vol 3 last night. I don’t think I’d disagree with anything you’ve written, but I’m still sticking with this.

I’m either watching too much anime or I think I’m finally getting use to slow plot development (didn’t it take almost 100 episodes to rescue Rukia in Bleach?), though Death Note almost restored my short American attention span – that’s a series that gets into it quickly.

Or maybe its because I just finished R.O.D the TV series. That was another one that seemed to take its time getting started, I was about halfway through the series run before it got its plot mojo running. So I’m ok letting Hell Girl take its time and build slowly. It just better build to somewhere. If it doesn’t, I might just have to visit a certain website…. around midnight…

PS The link to the review of Vol 2 is broken

By: psgels

psgels — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:41:52 +0000

Do note that this series has fifty-two episodes to work with. Don’t worry, both Ai and her dolls will get their bit of development. It’ll just take a lot of time to get there.