Which anime is the person in the picture from?

Hell Shoujo

"Hell Shoujo" is a Japanese animation, manga and TV series. The animation started broadcasting in October 2005, with a total of 26 episodes, with a mysterious horror style. The manga is also serialized in Kodansha's monthly magazine "Nakayoshi (なかよし)", written by Sachi Eternal. From October 7, 2006, the second season of the animation, called "Hell Shoujo: Two Cages", will be broadcast on Mainichi Broadcasting, Animax and Tokyo MX TV, with a total of 26 episodes, and will be completed on April 7, 2007. In addition, on November 4, 2006, a version of the TV series starring real people was broadcast on Nippon Television, and it was broadcast on Nippon Television and Shizuoka Dai-ichi TV during the "Golden Tongue" period from November 4, 2006 to January 27, 2007. Play, all 12 episodes. On December 28, 2007, it was announced that it had decided to produce a third season of animation. The title inherited the weird style of Ercong and was named "Hell Girl Sanding".

Story Prologue

[Edit this paragraph]

The world is maintained by fate

Countless tangled threads With

The fragile and sad Bana Flower

Angry and sad tears bursting down

The other side of the night at midnight

The resentment that cannot be vented will Released

The swaying evil shadow

Sad fate

The lost road

Like twin orchids facing each other

Broken in mutual hatred

From the darkness of time and space

Eliminating resentment for you

Story introduction

[ Edit this paragraph]

It is said that at exactly midnight in the middle of the night, a person with a grudge can enter a web page called "Hell Communication". Type the name of the person with resentment on the web page, and the "Hell Girl" claiming to be Enma Ai will appear next to the person with resentment. Hell Girl will then give the other party a scarecrow with a red thread tied around its neck, and explain the method and consequences of the contract: as long as the red thread is untied, the contract will be established, and Hell Girl will exile the person the other party hates to hell. However, the other party also has to pay a price after relieving the resentment. The other party decided to exile the cursed person to hell, and he would have to face the same fate after death... As for whether to untie the red thread, it completely depends on the client's decision.

"If you harm others, you will harm yourself. When the other person goes to hell, your soul will also go to hell after you die. Are you willing even so?"

Story Detailed explanation

[Edit this paragraph]

Hell Girl (Season 1)

Legendary Hell Communication

Between teenagers, There is an urban legend circulating: In the first few conversations, some students intentionally or unintentionally revealed some rumors about the "Hell Communication" web page. Some resentful people had the idea of ????logging into the "Hell Communication" webpage after hearing the rumors. However, after Hell Girl delivered the scarecrow, many people were hesitant to choose whether to untie the red thread. But due to different reasons, such as being in a life-threatening situation, or feeling helpless, everyone ultimately chose to untie the red thread. This situation seems to be changing in the eighth episode.

The appearance of the Shibata family

At the beginning of the eighth episode, an elementary school girl named Shibata Shiba met Enma Ai while waiting for the train to pass at the level crossing. Not long after, Shibata Sou's father, Shibata Kazuki, a freelance journalist, was attracted by a rumor about "Hell Communications" while reading a magazine in a cafe, and initially planned to write a report. Later, Shibata asked his daughter Shibata Sou about the hell girl, but at this moment he saw Shibata Sou's confusion. It turned out that Shibata saw the scene he met on the level crossing before, said something Yama Ai once said, and in Then fainted. After seeing this scene, Shibata started to investigate the hell girl. During Shibata Sou's last absence, he saw the scene that Hell Girl had seen before. Shibata Kazu finally learned of Hell Girl's actions and planned to rescue the people who were about to be sent to hell. Unfortunately, it was too late.

After seeing the sight of the cursed man disappearing, Shibata Kazuo did not give up the investigation.

Every time Shibata Sou loses his mind, he happens to see the personnel information about Hell Girl. Shibata uses these clues, plus some knowledge he learned during the investigation that may be Hell Girl's background and past, to try to track Hell Girl and prevent her from exiling others. The actions that go to hell are mostly unsuccessful (although there are a few examples that seem to be "successful"). At the same time, Hell Girl and Sangao (Hell Girl's three subordinates) learned about Shibata Kazuo's actions and monitored his every move. Shibata's father and daughter gradually have differences of opinion - Shibata Kazuo firmly believes that Hell Girl's behavior is wrong, but Shibata Zuo believes that there is a reason for doing so. The relationship between father and daughter seems to be showing signs of discord. During this period, Shibata and his daughter also came to the "Seven Children Temple" based on what their daughter saw when she was absent-minded. The abbot explained to him the allusions of Qitong Temple. On the other hand, Hell Girl Enma Ai seems to be gradually awakening her memory...

The Past of Hell Girl

In the Azuchi Momoyama era, a girl named Ai lived in In the village of Liudao Township, most of the villagers regard it as a monster because of its magical power (such as bringing a dead butterfly back to life) (actually the butterfly is not dead). Ai's cousin Sentaro disagrees with their statement that she is not a monster, and tries to protect her from being bullied by others.

When love reaches the age of nearly seven, the villagers offer love to the mountain god on the grounds of praying for a good harvest. Sentaro angrily criticized the villagers for their actions, but was unable to do anything. Ai's parents couldn't bear to see their daughter die, so they secretly entrusted Sentaro to go to a hut in the mountains to bring a change of clothes and food to Ai every night for six years. During the six-year period, the village had poor harvests and widespread famine occurred. The villagers believed that it was due to the displeasure of the mountain god, so some people began to doubt Sentaro, who was rumored to come to the mountains at night. One night, while Sentaro and Ai were playing in the water, they were finally discovered by the companions who bullied him six years ago. After the villagers learned of this, they believed that Sentaro violated the village's rules and angered the mountain god. Ai and her parents were captured by the villagers, and Sentaro was asked to bury Ai's family alive. Sentaro was unwilling at first, but later, with the instigation of his father and other villagers, he pushed a bit of soil into the hole where Ai and his family were, and then ran away in panic. When Ai saw that Sentaro seemed intent on burying her alive, she thought that Sentaro had betrayed her and violated his promise to protect her. Coupled with the actions of the villagers who wanted to put her to death, Ai felt very resentful. Before being buried alive, Ai felt Vow to take revenge on all villagers.

Afterwards, Sentaro suffers from insomnia (he seems to have moved to another village at that time) and discovers that Ai has been resurrected (or is Ai's spirit) and is burning down the houses one by one. Sentaro then ran away again. Later, it is said that in order to calm the young souls in the mountains, Sentaro later built a temple "Shichidoji" (Shichido itself means seven-year-old child), and at the same time opened a candy shop "Shibata House", producing Brown candies, and regularly bring some to the temple to worship.

Ending four hundred years later

When Hell Girl's memory was awakened and she learned that Shibata and his daughter were descendants of Sentaro, the hearts and resentments that had been closed for hundreds of years surged up again. heart. So he did not hesitate to be exiled to hell, but also sent Shibata and his daughter to hell. She used an attack to knock Shibata and his daughter into the water, inadvertently allowing them to see Hell Girl's past (above). Yama Ai was then sent to the river leading to hell.

Before being sent to hell, Hell Girl got rid of her struggle, returned to the real world, and appeared in front of Shibata Shiba. Enma Ai replayed in front of Shibata Zu the memories of how her mother was kicked out of the house by her father and how she died in a car accident. She also gave Shibata Zu a black scarecrow and kept telling how bad Shibata was. , trying to seduce Saru into a contract with the Hell Girl. Later, after Zuo learned how much his father regretted what he had done, he immediately forgave his father and returned the scarecrow to Enma Ai. As a descendant of Sentaro, Sou spoke out what Sentaro had been thinking for four hundred years. Enma Ai recalled the time between Sentaro and her four hundred years ago, and shed tears, and left after she burned down the Seven Children Temple. Shibata and his daughter returned to their normal lives, and Enma Ai returned to her job once again.

Hell Girl 2 Cage (Season 2)

The first episode mentioned that after resurrecting, Ai set fire to the village and killed a large number of villagers. However, he heard a sound at the entrance of the village. Take a look. Suddenly, a human-faced spider was discovered. After the spider sent Ai to a different space, he told her the whole story. Ai was very angry when she heard that her family was being taken hostage, but she couldn't do it, so she agreed to it. After that, the human-faced spider appointed her as the hell girl Yan. Demonic love, exiles people to hell. The Human-Faced Spider takes her beloved family as a hostage. If she refuses to accept her orders, her parents will always be wandering in the darkness.

In the fourth episode, a girl with purple-blue eyes and a kimono similar to Ai appears. Her name is "Juli", and she often appears briefly. She can suddenly appear around people like Ai, and reach the sunset world where Ai and Sangao live. It wasn't until the end that Kiuri's identity was revealed as one of the clones of the Human-Faced Spider.

At the same time, San Gao’s life experience was made public in the second cage.

The main plot of the second cage in the later period revolves around a boy named Kurebayashi Takuma. A series of disappearances occurred in the town where he lived, and because he happened to be among them, he was accused by the residents of being the son of the devil (in fact, the disappearance was because the residents summoned Hell Girls). In the twenty-sixth episode, on his way to hell, Ai did not hesitate to break the rules of Hell Girl, turned the wooden boat around, and sent Kurebayashi Takuma back to the real world. Because he broke her rules, Love was sent back to the human world, where he suddenly experienced four hundred years and was on the verge of death.

Later, a group of villagers (some of whom had entrusted Hell Girls) discovered Takuma and planned to kill him. Ai tried to stop him but was beaten to death by them. After Ai died, he turned into cherry blossom petals and scattered in the wind, and his parents in hell were released at the same time. Takuma was later proven innocent and his life returned to normal, while a girl walking by him received an "accepted" text message from Hell Girl on her mobile phone.

Background setting

[Edit this paragraph]

Resentment

In the eighth episode of Hell Girl (Season 1), Shibata An attempt to log in to "Hell Communication" failed, which shows that the login to "Hell Communication" is conditional. Most of the people who successfully logged in from different episodes have a relatively similar commonality, which is called "resentment" in the story. The expression of resentment is easier to see in the play, and it can be said that it is expressed in emotions; and Hell Girl also said that being exiled to hell means "eliminating resentment", so whether there is resentment in the first place can also be said to be expressed in the decision to exile the other party to hell. superior. The degree of resentment is often one of the key factors affecting the development of the story, but there is no clear definition of what "resentment" is. Perhaps because of this, the various types of resentment in Hell Girls are also very different.

Resentment caused by being framed:

There are some people who were framed, such as the cursed person Hanagasa Shoujo and the client Iwashita in the third episode of Hell Girl (Season 1) Daisuke's friend killed him, but put the responsibility of the killing on Iwashita Daisuke, so Iwashita Daisuke felt resentful and wanted to exile the cursed person.

Resentment caused by important people and things being hurt:

In the fourth episode of Hell Girl (Season 1), the client’s beloved dog was delayed in diagnosis and treatment by the doctor. Indirectly killed. In the next episode, it was because the client's father was killed that he was exiled to hell. In animation, when the client is sad, he or she sometimes shows a deep connection with important people to illustrate their importance.

Resentment caused by satisfying personal desires:

For example, in the seventh episode of the first season, the client Hong Caihua (who is also a cursed person) had to exile her adoptive mother to get the inheritance. hell. The client in the twenty-fourth episode of Ercong even made it clear that the purpose of exiling others is to satisfy desires.

Resentment caused by "betrayal":

The resentment of the cursed person also affects the development of the story. In the ninth episode of Hell Girl (Season 1), the cursed person framed the client's sister and the client because the client's sister "betrayed" him, causing the client's "resentment." But "betrayal" may not be easy to understand. What seems to be said in the story is that one party does not accept the other party's feelings, causing the other party to feel resentful. Also see The Cursed Man in Season 1, Episode 2, which is in a similar situation.

Resentment caused by unknown reasons:

Sometimes the story may not show some things that are considered to be resentful, such as in Hell Girl Season 1 Episode 23 Focused, the cursed people only show the good side, but from the exile of the cursed people to hell and the "Hell Communication" saying "We will eliminate your resentment", it can be seen that in the story, " Resentment” was eliminated. Although this "resentment" exists according to the story, there is no strong antecedent to understand why it exists.

Resentment that may be different from the general understanding:

The general concept of resentment involves the emotion of hatred, but this concept may not always be recognized in the story, and sometimes it is even the opposite.

For example, in the twelfth episode of the first season, the client and the cursed person forgive and consider each other. According to normal understanding, there should be no resentment, but the client exiles the other party to hell; in the twentieth episode of the second cage, the cursed person takes the initiative to help The client untied the red thread just to accompany the other party into hell.

It should be noted that the resentment in the story may not only have one of the above meanings, but may sometimes be a mixture of many.

Contract

Resentment often leads the client to log into "Hell Communication". However, logging into "Hell Communication" does not mean exiling others to hell, it also requires "making a contract". The representative of "pact" in the story is the scarecrow. "As long as the red thread on the scarecrow is untied, the contract will be established. The person you resent will soon be sent to hell." This is what the hell girl said to the client. But there is something that cannot be ignored in a contract - the "price" is the same as the object of resentment, but it happens after death. A reason often mentioned in the story to explain "why the price is so": "What harms others ends up harming yourself."

If the client decides to make a contract and removes the red thread on the scarecrow, the scarecrow will fly away and disappear, and a message will be heard, "I heard your resentment... (诛み、文き卑けたり...)" echo. The cursed person will be immediately exiled to hell, but a mark will also be printed on the client's chest, which will "remind" the client that he will go to hell after death when he sees it.

In addition to the mark, after each engagement, a white candle with the client's name engraved on the surface is lit and placed in a large vat in the room of love. The length of the candle indicates the remaining life of the client (but it is not easy to see it usually). When the client dies, the fire on the candle will be extinguished. In the event of an accidental death, a large piece of candle may be left when the fire goes out.

Hell

After making a contract, the Hell Girl will send the cursed person to "Hell". Clients who curse others will also be sent to "hell". The meaning of "hell" in the story is also very broad.

"Hell" may refer to the place where the dark river flows behind a torii gate that appears in most episodes. In addition to the above description, there are few descriptions of this "hell" and they are mostly abstract. Commonly used are the wailings that increase in volume after the cursed person enters this "hell"; or it is a verbal description. For example, Yama Ai mentioned that hell is "the end of the whirlpool of sorrow and joy" (Hell Girl Season 1 Episode 6), " It’s too vast to meet anyone with resentment” (Hell Girl Season 1, Episode 13), “Can’t apologize to others” (Hell Girl Season 1, Episode 14), etc. Even different people experience hell differently. For example, in the fifth episode of Hell Girl's Second Cage, one of the three cast members, Lun Ni Dao, said that the client and the cursed person may "fight happily", and Hell Girl in the first season's episode Episode 13 says "you can't meet someone you hate" is almost the opposite.

The above is mainly abstract hell. In fact, some specific plots can also be understood as "hell". For example, after Yama Ai told the client that he would go to hell if he made a contract, at some point the client would see "horror" scenes, such as being surrounded by fire (Season 1, Episode 1), and being haunted by monsters (Season 2, Episode 2). set). These can be said to be "hell", and similarly, the "horrible" sights that most of the damned people see after disappearing and before reaching the dark river may also be understood as "hell". The latter "hell" seems to have a targeted nature. If the cursed person is believed to have inflicted evil deeds on others during his lifetime, what he sees after disappearing may be things related to the evil deeds, or even inflict evil deeds on himself. For example, in the fourteenth episode of Ercong, the cursed person is suspected of shooting someone's mother, and then he will be shot with several arrows. This kind of vindictive behavior may have something to do with the subsequent attempts by San Gao and others to arouse the memory of the cursed person's previous "evil deeds".

There is also a sense of "hell", but it refers to the real world. This can be seen from some episodes. For example, in the fifth episode of the first season of Hell Girl, the client said "living is also hell"; in the twenty-fourth episode of The Second Cage, a supermarket employee said "this city is hell" when entrusting Hell Girl; in the fifth episode of The Second Cage, third Gao Yi's wheel-in-the-road says, "There is no difference between reality and hell" and so on.

Hell Girls in Different Era

Although the stories of Hell Girls focus on the modern aspect, there are also mentions from earlier eras. There are slight differences in Hell Girls in different eras.

Early Edo Period

The method of contacting Hell Girls began to spread in the early Edo Period.

At that time, those with a grudge could find a black Jigoku Ema in the shrine. Write the name of the cursed person on the back, and the Hell Girl will appear. Before San Gao and others became Yama Ai's subordinates, the scarecrow delivered by Hell Girl was not transformed by San Gao, and after pulling off the red thread tied to the scarecrow, there was no "I heard your resentment..." " echo. The origin of the scarecrow and whether it will disappear are still unknown at that time. At the same time, the cursed person will not disappear after being exiled to hell, and his physical body will appear in a horrible state of death.

The era of newspapers

When newspapers appeared, ordinary people would see a blank space in the missing person column of the newspaper, but people with resentment would see a blank space in the missing person column. Hell Girl's contact information appears. After the client writes the name of the cursed person and puts it in the mailbox, the Hell Girl will appear. Just like the era of the Internet, the cursed people will disappear invisible after being exiled to hell.

The era of the Internet

Contact Hell Girl in "Hell Communication", Hell Girl appears and delivers the scarecrow. Once the red thread is untied, the scarecrow disappears and an echo is heard. The cursed person disappears into nothingness and is exiled to hell.

The era of mobile phones

Only at the end of the last episode of the second season, a short paragraph appeared, in which a suspected hell girl received a text message similar to "Hell Communication".

Worldview

The world described in "Hell Girl" is not very different from the real world. The only difference is that the former emphasizes "exiling others to hell". In the story, a lot of space is spent describing the opinions of different characters on the exile of others to hell:

——"Because we want to eliminate resentment, we have to exile others to hell." ——This is the view held by different resenters. This takes up a large part of the story and is mentioned in almost every episode.

——"No one will be happy, revenge is meaningless", "It is a very painful thing to carry the sins that once exiled others to hell for a lifetime", "You may face Unreasonable things, but you have to overcome them, this is the meaning of survival” - mentioned by Shibata Kazuchi. Most of the time, he prevented the hell girl from being exiled, but at the end of the final chapter of the first season, he asked his daughter to exile him to hell because he felt that "his wife's death was all his fault."

——“It is a bad thing to prevent desperate people from seeking help from Hell Girls”, “It is natural for people who kill other people’s fathers to be exiled to hell”——mentioned by Shibata Shiba. She has asked her father more than once in the story not to stop Hell Girl from exiling others, which also caused some disputes (Hell Girl Season 1, Episode 21). But in the final episode of the first season, the father who thought "he killed his wife" was not exiled.

In the 20th episode of the first season, ジル?ドゥ?ロンフェール believes that - "The brain may not agree with revenge, but deep down in the heart there is the idea of ??defeating the opponent, and that's how humans are." ——At the same time, he believes that Hell Girl "sends others to hell is hypocrisy. If you have this ability, you should use it for yourself."

In the fifth episode of Ercong, a young man once logged into the "Hell Communication" webpage, but had no intention of exiling others to hell because he thought "for that kind of person (referring to the person he filled in on the webpage) It is foolish to pay the price (of going to hell after death)."

Takuma Kurebayashi, who appeared after the 14th and 22nd episodes of the Second Cage, believes that "if you do bad things, you will definitely come back to yourself", so even though he has logged into "Hell Communication" ", but never exiled anyone else. On the contrary, people around him are constantly being exiled, so he has been misunderstood by most people as a "son of the devil" who can send others to hell.

Related allusions

[Edit this paragraph]

The way Hell Girls sign contracts is derived from a curse ritual passed down in ancient Japan, called Ugly Time Worshiping (ugly no carved ginseng) Also known as ugly ginseng).

Hell Girl adopts and transforms many of the ghosts that appear in "Hyakuki Night Walk".

Run enters the path: It is a monster that lures others to look back at him. Those who fell into the trap were turned into stone, and those who entered the Tao abandoned their souls and ate the remaining bodies. Most of the victims are women, mainly adult women. It is believed that the reincarnation of the Taoism is behind them and asking them to look after their children. The mother of Lun Entering Dao died because of protecting him, so later people used this to prevent the persecution of Lun Entering Dao. If you write "This is the village of Shengmu" and stick it on your door, you will often be able to survive.

Bone Girl: She was a woman who was bullied, ravaged, and insulted by others during her lifetime. After death, he turned into a ghost with strong resentment and took revenge on men who had behaved badly. With only a skeleton left, she often disguises herself in human skin.

Ichimuro: In Japan, he was originally regarded as the god of wind, and is also said to be the god of forging. Ichimokuren can raise strong winds, destroy other people's homes, and blow people away, and he appears as a one-eyed dragon.