IFC Premiere Talkback - Hell Girl (Spoilers)

How to Make a Killing in the Business World--and Get Away with It!

At least they spared us a preview of her actually rotting in Hell this time.
 
Ritual slayings for a fanatical religious cause.
Feudal times. They're a nice time to visit, but I wouldn't want to live then.

Blame her parents. It was their idea.

Forgive us, o Kami, for this, our dreadful toadying and barefaced flattery...

Tsugumi with a doll?! Oh spit.
 
I thought the lady got off too east compared to the other people Hell Girl went through. I mean they just showed her killing Misato's dad and wife, compared to the Baseball guy that got torture and the Doc getting a taste of his own medicine.
 
This is one of the better series I've seen in a while. I like how it ranges from quiet and subtle at times then gets dramatic and horrific at others. I'd sure like to see them continue into Season 2 immediately. Among the weekly hightlights for me, along with a few current titles on Anime Network On Demand.
 
God, I didn't like the Circus episode, it just didn't work for me. It was just...ugh.

But I can comment on the other episode. (I just like your style of posting, Kitchensyngk, which inspired me this)

Tsugumi's right Hajime, there could something like...a serial killer! (Sorry, I saw My Bloody Valentine last night)

Hajime, Tsugumi, how come you both didn't say the word "haunted" when you saw the building? Look at the windows!

A detective's gotta do what a detective's gotta do?

Oh, sorry Nina, I was expecting you to say desu.

Ah, a discussion on a small table, a pastime in anime.

Look, a nurse. Let's follow her!

Ooh, a scientist...okay, there's nothing else interesting here.

OMG, SHE'S GONNA RIP HER ARM OFF-oh wait, nevermind.

Um, can you make rain too, Nina? In here? It hasn't rained in a while here...

How come when Nina and Ai were talking, it reminded me of a scene in Crank? Except, there's no gangs with guns, no gruesome violence, no Jason Stratham and no reporter being all disturbed and traumitized at the end?

Also, what I just said, did it make sense?

You're overreacting, Tsugumi. You're overreacting too, Nina.

Vine faces? That's all?

Honne Onna is helping Hajime? The fact that she pushed him 2 episodes ago makes this fact more funnier than I thought.

Already? Well that was--oh crap. Tsugumi now faints.

Moku's (yes, I know his name is Ichimoku, but this is an easier name for me, thanks to the circus episode) like Spiderman with that rescue.

Okay, Nina being in the glass of your car is scary.

Ai to the rescue! That doesn't sound right.

"The real Nina died."
CALLED IT.

To make this more dramatic, here's rain!

Wait. They're going back inside?! Have they learned nothing?!

Tsugumi really neeRAB a doll after all this--oh, come on! Not fair!

Ai looks like she has the "sigh" face.
 
Polish: Piekło Dziewczyna - Wczesnym Popołudniem Oknie
English: Hell Girl - Early Afternoon Window (episode 6)
From IFC.com's schedule page:
Keiko witnesses her neigrabroador committing adultery; Keiko's daughter seeks to avenge her mother.

Oh, yeah, just an early reminder. Hell Girl will move to a new time on Noveraber 18 from 8:00 pm to 8:30 pm, with the same-day repeat moving to 11:30 pm. (The Friday repeats are at the same time). The reason? The IFC Media Project With Gideon Yago. Yes, it's the same Gideon Yago that was on MTV. He has a new show with a producer behind Fahrenheit 911 and Sicko.
 
Eight shows left after this week.

This week, it's Dennis the Menace, only backwarRAB...and with a predominantly female cast.

Now you'll be late for school AND you've got soup on your face.

Back in the revenge game after last week's mindfrag.

Remeraber when I said I would kill your dogs last? ...I lied.

Did she retire or was she just sacked?

And of course, the old standby, the Hell Girl site.

Think about it. She SEES this things, how hard do you think it is on her?

This seems to borrow from episodes 1, 4, 5, 6 and 12, some more than others.

Business is unusually slow.

"'I can end this anytime I want.' That's all she ever says."

Oh. Violence now?

Hey Ai, you think you could shorten that speech? We've practically memorized it.

Oh great. MORE dead animals.
I bet she killed the puppies, too.

HERE LIES THE LAST TWO DOGS THAT POOPED IN MY YARD.

Why do people hate each other, Daddy?

Call animal control while you're at it.

You see what I did to those dogs?! I'll do it to you too!

Don't pull the string. She'll rot in jail, but she'll live.

Dang. Anything in this episode she DIDN'T kill?

HELL. NEXT EXIT.

So much for the euthanasia freelancer.

Wahh! Stop making us look down a little girl's shirt! We know that tattoo's there!

Dang, that's gotta be the most painful episode I've seen since episode four. No wait, five. Hang on, six. Seven. Nine. Fourteen. Sixteen...
 
This begs the question: Were there really mountain spirits that needed the sacrifice? We know that Hell exists, and that souls exist. So the existence of Mountain Spirits that badly affect the harvest would not be beyond this show's reality. They could really have been retaliating for the cheat. But they never explicitly manifested themselves. And it's curious that they still let the village survive for six years.

So, Ai hid away for six years. That's why she looks 13 as Hell Girl. Hmm, and that pulp artist kept going on about how "beautiful" that 13-year-old was.

Ai sure has a nice left glute... It's like Ai and Tsugumi are in some competition over who looks best in the nude.

So this is just one big misunderstanding? Sentoro was obviously forced to bury Ai, but Ai thinks he's betrayed her? Will she ever learn the truth?

I guess Ai made some deal with Hell to come back. I can't say I felt bad for the village, though they didn't show any actual villagers burning to death.

Now's the time for Sentoro to take that long vacation.
 
ALMOST forgot to do my comment on the episode, sheesh, I was a bit slow yesterday.

But first, a recap!

So...they're gonna do something or what?!

Moku looked like he was totally not yelling, he still had his hanRAB on his pockets...you can't yell when you do that, it's sorta strange.

FLAAAAAAAAAAAAAASrabroadAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK...

It's Protective Man!

Wow, he puched him that easily?

Oneof the guys looked like if his parents were a circle and a oval.

Blah, blah, blah, yackity smackity.

"Let's teach him a lesson."
Boring line...(falls asleep)

They painted his cheek pink! That is harsh!

"Those guys are idiots."
And they smell, too!

Wow, that smile looks weird with his cheek painted pink.

"Find a replacement."
You know, I find this line strange becasue, other than Ai, THERE ARE NO OTHER FREAKIN' GIRLS IN THAT LITTLE VILLAGE!

Annoying bell noises are annoying.

Gah! Now it's in slow-mo!

Oh my God, that baby crying sounRAB so freakin' fake! Was that actually in the original version, too?!

More awesome singing. Just the way I like it.

I was hoping they would have an erabracing moment, sorta like Tidus and Yuna when they kissed the first time.

"Why can't the two of us move out and live together?"
"Hmm?"
"Oh, nothing."
DAMN IT! I wish she heard that!

Oh hey guys, hunting a bear or something? Oh, wait...crap.

Shut up, shut up, THIS IS MY STORE! No, wait, wrong line...

Uh, Ai? You screamed a bit too late.

Wow, they seriously have nothing to do.

Was that a hammer?

And...Sentaro's head explodes, the end.

Kidding.

But if I was him, my head would actually explode. And if that doesn't happen, I would be buried along with Ai.

That's just another way of Ai saying "Damn you all. damn you all to hell".

And he leaves, as a protest. Can something happen in the next minute, please?

Ai is now The Comedian from Watchmen. That sounded even more awesome than I thought.

Whoa, Sentaro, check your head, or better yet, check your arm, neck and leg.

"I don't understand what Sentaro did. I don't understand."
"I understand."
Wow, the writers were clearly lazy as hell here. It makes it sound like if Sentaro did soemthing bad while he did nothing like that in the first place.

"The decision rests upon you...Tsugumi."
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!? Wait, wait, huh?! Let me rewind the preview for a bit...

I...I didn't even see the doll in Tsugumi's hanRAB there, holy crap!

Heck, I was able to diiscover the summary for the next episode, too, and I already know what's gonna happen...
 
Another dog dies? Forget Hell Girl, try burying him in the Pet Semetary!

Speaking of Stephen King, that woman looks like Kathy Bates' character from Misery.

Send her to Hell now, do it! Save the doggie!

Scratch that, save the doggie and the puppies!

Too late for the doggie. You can still save the puppies though...for a price.

Call her now! Call her now! Call her now! Call her now! Call her now! Call her now! Call her now! Call her now! Call her now! Call her now! Call her now! Call her now! Call her n--oh, guess you don't have to now...

...because it's too late.

Detour sign, nice touch.

She ain't nuthin' but a DOG!

This time it was definitely for nothing. Like Kitschensyngk said about ep 7: "you snooze you lose" (though it has a different meaning here).

From dolls to dogs to dolls again.
 
Tonight, on election night, muRABlinging worthy of a presidential candidate.

This week, on Desperate Japanese Housewives...

If you think you can bribe me with cherries...you're absolutely right.

The Country Mouse and the City Slut.

This week, on Desperate Japanese Teenage Daughters...

Haven't we had enough traumatized kiRAB on this show already?

"The neigrabroadors can hear everything!"
I think that's the point.

Kinda hard not to be frightened with the way you just pop up out of nowhere like that.

Is this little presentation part of the revenge deal, or is it pro bono?

She HAS been keeping her mouth shut! What was the point of all that?!

Guess what just got posted on the Internet.

Now THAT is a freakout!

Wait, it's not working! She's enjoying it!

I say her mother should seriously divorce her father. She was wallowing in a pit of public humiliation and the only thing he cared about was his reputation at work.
 
Katy Bates LOL, I mean that old psycho deserved it. It wasn't so much about the dogs killing until we learned she killed her parents and her own kid. Damn, she had issues. And when a giant baby attacks your car you know its time for you to go to hell!
 
Why are most of the revenge-wishers (for lack of a better term) young women? We only had one male lead so far; I'd like to see more in the future, and maybe throw some adults in the mix. Even Paranoia Agent was more varied in its victims-of-the-week. (I figure things will get a little mixed up soon soon, but this is still a little too formulaic so early on).

And is it just me, or did that one guy look like the reporter from Witcrabroadlade?
 
I never thought of Hell Girl as a violent anime, really, but after hearing about all this, heh.

Once again, I'll have to wait until I'm with my dad, again, it's a bit painful, but it's worth it.

Your funny comentaries inspired me to do my own funny commentaries, as you've noticed, Kitschensyngk.

I also wonder, has the dub had any cheesy moments, other than the swear-fest of "Cracked Mask" (episode 7)?
 
FWIW, I lean towarRAB "no," since the show has no problems showing us things explicitly that exist in the supernatural world, but that's just me. I don't believe you get a definitive answer to your question, though.

The question is whether it really matters much in the end if there were or weren't real mountain spirits. They were certainly a convenient excuse for the villagers to do what they wanted anyway, but as you'll see (unless the final episode has already aired), what they wanted or didn't want or were appeased/not appeased by (assuming they existed in the first place) really didn't really affect things too much in the end.
 
well, im going to make a wild and probably very wrong/inaccurate assumption to answer that. Based on the fact that the manga adaptation of this anime is a shojo (in a shojo mag and everything), im going to assume that like the manga adaptation this anime was intended for a young female target audience, therefore most characters who matter and or are the important ones or the center of the episodes will be young teenage girls.
 
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