IFC Premiere Talkback - Hell Girl (Spoilers)

Breaking news! Hell Girl features its first MALE victim in eight episodes!

Money DOES change people.

Where did he find a net cafe open this late?

It's too soon for the freakout. Wait till he pulls the string.

Tsugumi sees dead people.

Pay no attention to that eye on the ceiling.

Don't throw your cigarettes around like that, you'll put an eye out.

I've heard that if you eat a bagel or something before a drug test, you can fail it.

The press is entitled to its freedoms, but Inagaki's abusing the privilege.

Inagami is channelling Hiro from Shin Chan.

Oh let's not go there.

Maybe not kill him, just send him to the burning fires of Hell to punish him for his sins.

So much for his late-breaking story.

DANG IT WE'RE MISSING OUT ON THE BEST PART!! COME ON GIVE US SUBTITLES!!!

I make my living on the evening news
Just give me little something, something I can use
People love it when you lose
They love dirty laundry...

And his subscription's been canceled...permanently.

Another satisfied customer for the Hell Correspondence! Vengeance served in thirty minutes or less or your next grievance is free!
 
Watch the rerun of this when I came home last night. It also reminRAB me of Death Note, and Serial Experiments: Lain. Nice to see that mean girl get what she deserved, too bad about Mayumi, but at least she live a full life now, unlike Light. I'm hooked on the first episode, and waiting for more to air.
 
"It made a sound."
Those things do that when you blow into them.

Gilles' such a great guy. Let's give him a big hand.

Oh yeah. You mess with the Girl, and you get the Hell.
 
I was able to see it on my dad's house! Recorded, of course. Thanks Dish, again.

A Yoda imitator, he must be.

Don't worry, Watanabe, just pretend that you're all around in a green screen.

Gille's last name is "hell" in Italian, correct?

Admit it, Moku, you're all bored, to check out on what Hajime is doing now.

You know, watching Hajime and Tsugumi like that, muts be something out of a Rush Hour movie, except with a little girl taking Chris Tucker's role. Wait, isn't that the same?

Working never looked so strange. Also, I know that's Shin's dad voicing him. How come you never mentioned that, Kitschensyngk?

OMG, an Anime facial expression? On Hell Girl? That can't be right!

"It made a sound."
No, it farted.

Also, she smiled, first time that ever happened?

For some reaosn, that "HOT HOT HOT!" scene didn't make me laugh as much as I thought...

That was a trap that felt like a Warriors Orochi arabush. They should all see it coming.

Where are the reinforcements? I just had to make another reference to this awesome video game.

Ai neeRAB to watch action films, she couldn't think of a good comeback line.

I do like how she gasps, though.

Gille is like Mewtwo now!

"I was thinking of something."
So...need your head checked, Ai?

So wait, when Watanabe was about to pull the string, Gille was like "Whatever.", then when he does pull the string, he was like "Why was I so cocky?". Kinda a mistake for the original writers.

FAIL. Ai should've said something else, for this ocasion.

DOUBLE FAIL. Ai, stop being redundant!

Wow, Watanabe has badly drawn chest hair.

That boy, my frienRAB, is the beginning of Ai's origins...maybe.
 
지옥 소녀
흘렸어 비트
That is the Korean for Hell Girl and the title for Episode 12. Here they are in English:
Hell Girl
Spilled Bits

A misunderstood student named Akane lives alone in her room. She has two contacts in her life. One is her teacher, Mr. Fukazawa, who comes by her room daily to demand that she return to class. The other is a student she met and contacts online who goes by the name Cheppo. Yes, Cheppo.

(wait a minute to reflect upon the name of Cheppo)

Anyway, Cheppo gives Akane a stupid idea. That idea? Give her teacher a coconut cream pie in the face! I'm just kidding; it's really to contact Hell Girl and send Mr. Fukazawa to burninate for eternity.
 
Am I the first to post on this new episode?

Not safe leaving those tools sharp enRAB up.

Drinking does not solve you problems...and neither does revenge for that matter.

And another dog di--oh wait, no he doesn't.

But the dad does.

Don't waste your breathe, Hajime. She's gonna do it anyway, I know it.

Now he's taking away the weapon, but that won't change the attacker's heart.

So he can change back.

Watch your mouth, young girl!

That kid again...

She just needed an extra push...

She's ... not pulling the thread?!

They would've gotten away with it if it weren't for that meddling reporter!

And he just had to show up...

Still not going through with it?!

Well, I wasn't expected this kind of ending. The preview said "Your grievance shall be avenged," nothing cryptic like episode 7's "Hmm." Still wish that guy got his, maybe attacked by the farming tools or bad crops or something. But then, there's still another chance...

5 eps left this season. Next week...Hajime's story?
 
I'll put this in a spoiler box, even though its not really spoiling anything.

Having seen the first 12 episodes on IFC's On Demand over the summer(before I went back to college), the episodes are pretty episodic. Maybe it changes from that point on, but yeah just throwing it out there.
 
1. So I don't get why Hajime never suggested that the girl seek social services or something. I mean wasn't she too young to be living on her own?

2. And what about the guy coming over and befriending her father, only to be a wolf in sheep clothing? I admit I didn't see that coming.

3. And how the hell did her father die was it from alcohol poisoning? Why did they make it seem her father was missing at first? And why, if after the funeral was she allowed to stay on her own?

4. Shouldn't Hajime be lockup for showing his kid his pimp hand?

I admit this ep wasn't good and left me more confuse.
 
Keeping the spoiler box just in case:

I think you mean "independent" there rather than "episodic" -- none of the episodes really have anything to do with each other, and none of the people who make the deal with Hell Girl are ever seen in the first season again, although there is one episode about a guy who made the deal decades ago and is now facing his own death. There isn't anything like a real on-going plot until around episode 8, when Hajime and Tsugumi are introduced, but their on-going plot doesn't really get going until around episode 21, IMO.

That's not a typo. Most of what you're going to get for the rest of the season is the same thing as episode 1 with the names changed.
I wasn't kind to the series until the last volume (Vols. 1-4, Vol. 5, and Vol. 6), and The New York Times reviewer makes the exact same points I did about the first 5 episodes, except much more briefly. Then again, he only had to sit through 5 episodes rather than 18 before he wrote his review, so I admit I might have been a lot grumpier.

-- Ed
 
So he actually wanted hell. Be careful what you wish for...

Hey, no revenge plot in the preview this time? This should be a nice break from the formula.

Kind of like when Paranoia Agent did three episodes without the main characters to look at the paranoid populace in general.
 
This week: Old MacDonald had a grudge, E-I-E-I-O.

How to kill time between Hell Girl calls...

*sigh* Next victim...

I can time any quit I want.

Ren, Hone, relax. It's different this time. Close frienRAB.

What ARE neigrabroadors for?

Organic farmers, eh? Try growing them in a greenhouse with screens all around.

Delayed action pesticides?

Oh crap. Like we need any more doggie deaths on this show.

Sucker born every minute.

Try telling her she'll go to Hell too.

Wanyuudou gets a bath.

Life sucks and then you contact Hell Girl.

Someone oughta wash yer mouth out with soap, little lady.

Should he stay or should he go now? If he stays there will be trouble, but if he goes it will be double.

Stop calling her an idiot. It's not good for her development.

Wow. Score one for Hajime.

Come on, at least PUNCH HIM!

I suppose we'll have to leave this one to divine retribution.

...or will we?

Ooh, backstory. Eyebrow raise.
 
This week, it's Welcome to the H-G-K for a disillusioned high school student.

Way to give away the ending.

He seriously visits her EVERY DAY?!

It's just background noise now, isn't it?

Look, she doesn't want you in there. Accept it.

Hey, they skipped the "you have summoned me" speech this week. That's new.

Err, Hajime, you shouldn't be talking about this Hell Correspondence thing in front of such impressionable young persons.

Isn't there just one person whose name you've thought of submitting to Hell Girl? Come on, I'll bet you just thought of five people right now.

If this were an American show, they'd just say she's going through a phase.

So Japanese high school is more like American high school. Everyone just keeps up appearances.
I hope they don't have standardized tests over there.

Now, wait...he was speaking on your level...

Uh, hang on, you WANT to go to hell?!

Oh, guess they didn't skip the speech.

WHAT grievance? He WANTS it!

Oh well, time to get kiRAB thinking about studies and tests and college entrance exams. Yep, no socializing, sympathy or fun for my students, gotta produce the next generation of soulless corporate worker drones.

Whoa, not just another male victim, but a FLASrabroadACK EPISODE?

EDIT 12/19: "Absences hurt this school's reputation. Listen, can't we just kick this girl out already?" Sheesh, what a Truncrabroadull.
 
The following is your reminder bump about the next episode of Hell Girl debuting tonight. Why am I posting this at midnight-ish? Because I work all day later today and will probably miss the 8pm showing. Thank you, DVRs! Anyway, here's a brief overview of what to expect from Episode 2 of Jigoku Shoujo (BTW, I will be posting different names of what Hell Girl is called around the world every week; this week, the original Japanese name in romanji):

Episode 2 - The Possessed Girl (Mi irareta shōjo)
A girl named Ryoko is being stalked. After a year of investigating, the police discover that the stalker is one of their own and comes from a highly infuential family, forcing the police to act stupid about the whole situation.
 
This week, a stirring story of student vs. stalker.

Hey, they've made their AUTOMAT bug smaller.

And STILL NO SUBTITLES!

How complicated can it get?
Your stalker is the policeman who came to your house after you called the police to report a stalker near your house.

Headless doll? Now that's eerie.

Eternal damnation in exchange for a moment's peace.
To think, when she dies, she'll join her stalker in the hereafter.

Oh crap DON'T GET IN THE CAR DON'T GET IN THE CA--oh crap squared.

Now there's a twist.

Relationships aren't forged on routine unwanted e-mails and nightly phone calls.
Or dead animals and headless dolls in neatly wrapped boxes.

Sucks that the victim has to go to hell, but it feels so good when the perp gets what he's got coming.

"What the hell's going on here?"
EXACTLY!!

Welcome to the river Styx. Don't worry, the fare is on me--you'll be too busy being tormented to think about money where YOU'RE GOING!!!

"Where the hell are you taking me?"
EXACTLY!!

Best not to let them see that--they seem like the kind of parents who'd rather die than let you get a tattoo.
 
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