Hell Girl: Three Vessels
- Opening theme
- Tsukihana (月華?, lit. Moon Flower)
- Lyrics: Nana Kitade
- Composition: Velvet Romica
- Performance: Nana Kitade
- Ending theme
- Ichinuke (いちぬけ?, lit. once through)
- Lyrics: Hitomi Mieno
- Composition: Asami Kousei
- Arrangement: Yasutaka Mizushima
- Performance: Mamiko Noto
- Release Date: December 17, 2008
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| # | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Girl Who Found Herself Robbed" "Ubawareta Shōjo" (奪われた少女) |
October 4, 2008 |
| Ai makes her first appearance as a blue butterfly after having seemingly died and visit her companions in the form of a glowing blue butterfly unknown to them. Since her apparent death, they went on their own separate ways, working as ordinary people: Ren is scrubbing the floor of a small shop; Wanyūdō is working at a construction site; and Hone Onna is a bartender. Ai's new companion, Yamawaro, is first introduced when meeting Ren. Kikuri returns by possessing a doll and announces Ai's return. Once all of Ai's companions gather together, they enter a high school as staff and faculty where a girl with slightly rebellious tendencies named Itsuko Hiraishi is upset with her teacher Tange not only because he is strict but because he records every fault and mischief act he finds in a small black notebook. She attempts to get her friend, Akie Takasugi, to ask her father to fire him, but to no avail. That night, Ai visits a girl named Yuzuki Mikage, Itsuko's friend, where they kiss, allowing Ai to inhabit her body. As her dislike for Tange increases, Itsuko decides to frame him but her plan backfires. She decides to type his name into the Hell Correspondence website, receiving Yamawaro as a doll. After he confiscates her mp3 player, Itsuko leaves the classroom. At the end of the school day, Itsuko tries to find her MP3 player, and asks Mr. Tange where he put it, but is told that he threw it away. Hesitating after learning of the price involved, she finally snaps after another argument with him, pulls the string, and sends him to Hell, only to later regret her decision upon learning that he was not actually a cruel teacher. It turns out her mp3 player had been given to a friend to return to Itsuko, and the notebook that she thought Mr. Tange wrote in, was actually blank. Itsuko transfers the following day. | ||
| 2 | "A Bird in a Cage" "Kago no Tori" (籠ノ鳥) |
October 11, 2008 |
| Yuzuki continues to be troubled by the experience involving Ai, Tange, and Itsuko's recent transfer to a new school. On her way home, Yuzuki passes by Akira Kitayama, a middle schooler, who is rushing to an electronic appliance store in order to see the shopkeeper, a middle-aged woman named Mitsuko, for whom is in love with unbeknown to her. Their short conversation is cut short when her husband appears in the doorway, furious. Akira later sees him beating Mitsuko and wrongly accusing her of romantic involvement with Akira. That night and the next, Yuzuki receives a vision of Akira accessing the Hell Correspondence website twice, a second time due to not having known the husband's first name, Seiji. He later consults Yuzuki about Seiji's abusive actions towards Mitsuko for advice who suggests that he tell Mitsuko to cut her connections with Seiji. As Akira to do as such, Seiji appears and once more begins to abuse her. Akira sends him to hell. Despite Mitsuko promising to see Akira tomorrow at the store, the next day, Akira finds the shop abandoned and notices a photo of one of the couple's happy memories together. | ||
| 3 | "Rotten Fruit" "Kusatta Kajitsu" (腐った果実) |
October 18, 2008 |
| Yuzuki and Akie meet an idol named Jun Moriyama during the filming of a show. After rescuing Jun from a stalker who was harassing her, Yuzuki and Akie are rewarded by Jun and her talent agency with an invitation to dinner. Before entering the restaurant, the two of them meet a woman named Masako Momota who asks them to pass an envelope to Jun containing photos of Jun Moriyama in outrageous costumes of the time when she was a cruel person. Previously, the two attended the same talent agency as aspiring singers. Jun bullied Masako until she could take no more and left, sacrificing her dream of becoming singer. When the two meet, Masako makes Jun kneel and apologize, and demands that Jun, a rising star, support her own debut in Jun's agency. Jun refuses, stating her abilities as a singer are insufficient. Enraged, Masako seeks by accessing the Hell Correspondence website, receiving Hone Onna as doll. The next day, at her concert, Jun attempts to make a public apology, which however falls short of her expectations, causing Masako to pull the string and sends Jun to Hell. | ||
| 4 | "Big Brother" "Aniki" (兄貴) |
October 25, 2008 |
| Yukawa is constantly bullied by a group of three classmates until one day, he is saved by a stranger named Nishida Shin who knows Kendo. Nishida begins teaching him Kendo, causing him to become more active, outgoing, happy, and cool, and to no longer be bullied. It is hinted that the two eventually become romantically involved. However, one day when they board a bus, a man begins threatening another man for staring at him, going to the extent of cutting the other man's hair and dragging him off to bus. Yukawa's image of his hero is shattered when Nishida fails to intervene, supposedly afraid of putting Yukawa in harm's way. He accesses the Hell Correspondence website, receiving Ren as a doll, and sends Nishida to Hell. Feeling that the world cannot change even if he himself changes, Yukawa quits Kendo and reverts back to his former timid self. | ||
| 5 | "This Mundane World" "Utsusemi" (うつせみ) |
November 1, 2008 |
| Yuzuki accidentally bumps into a first-year student, Katase Ririka, causing her to break a beaker. The two of them report the damage to science teacher, Mio Niiyama, who lets the two off without punishment. Later that night, Mio receives a silent call from an unknown person. The next day, Ririka's grandmother shows up at school and accuses Mio of picking on Ririka despite Yuzuki being at fault and continues to verbally attack her over the phone that night. The situation intensifies as Ririka's grandmother hands out leaflets that defame Mio and announces that she will be keeping Ririka at home until Mio resigns. Mio visits to get Ririka to promise to vouch for her and clear her name, however when Ririka's grandmother returns, Ririka goes against her word and delibrately slanders Mio's intentions, labeling them as harassment. Ririka earnestly explains that because Mio is a teacher and an adult, Mio is able to deal with it herself. Mio types Ririka's name into the Hell Correspondence website, receiving Yamawaro as a doll, and pulls the string sending her to Hell. | ||
| 6 | "My Teacher" "Watashi no Sensei" (わたしのセンセイ) |
November 8, 2008 |
| Yuuna Serizawa, a third-year student, holds a grudge on Ren, and tries sending him to Hell but was rejected by Ai; she is infatuated with Hone Onna and sees him as a rival. Yamawaro causes her to trip, to allow Hone Onna to correct her misunderstanding of their relationship, offering a band-aid for her injured knee. She shows up in school the next day with the same band-aid on her neck, flaunting it to her classmate who bears a similar affection for Hone Onna, Kira Moroboshi. Enraged, Moroboshi accesses the Hell Correspondence website typing in Serizawa name, receiving Wanyūdō as a doll. At school the next day, when Moroboshi finds her shoes thrown into in an unsanitary bucket by Serizawa lie blatantly that she was acting under Hone Onna's instructions, she pulls the string and sends Serizawa's to Hell. Ironically, she announces that she is no longer after Hone Onna, but Wanyūdō. | ||
| 7 | "Liar" "Usotsuki" (うそつき) |
November 15, 2008 |
| A new boy named Inuo Atsushi has transferred to Yuzuki's school and makes friends with another boy, Washizu. Although Inuo claims that he moved from Tokyo because his dad is constantly traveling and his mom is ill and needs to be away from the city, in truth, his dad left his mother and, ashamed of talk of their neighbors, the two left Tokyo. Due to the stress of lying and being scolded for his late returns to home in order to keep the pretense of the lie, Inuo frequently visits the Hell Correspondence website, never typing in a name. However, after he reveals the secret to Washizu and is subsequently beaten by his mother for doing so, realizing her suffering, he types in Washizu's name, receiving Hone Onna as a doll. Out of good faith, Washizu spreads news about Inuo's real situation and tries motivate him to seek help. However, for continually meddling with his family business Inuo takes out the straw doll and pulls the string, sending Washizu to Hell.The next day,he start to speak about his father. | ||
| 8 | "Neighbour" "Tonari" (隣) |
November 22, 2008 |
| When Yuzuki returns a lost dog named Momo to her owner,Mioi Hatsumi, a woman named Shintani descends from her apartment room to show off her newest bracelet that she brought at a high price. However, she quickly leaves in quiet rage once she notices the same exact bracelet being used by Momo as a collar. Shintani begins trying to get the apartment management to evict Momo by leaving false evidence of Hatsumi's inability to take care of Momo and finally feeding it something dogs should not eat. Finding out that Shintani poisoned Momo, she rushes to the vet and then types in Shintani's name into the Hell Correspondence website, receiving Ren as a doll. The next day, Hatsumi confronts Shintani in order to take back a package she stole that was delivered early that day containing Momo's training pads, but Shintani refuses and scatters them all over the roof. As she gathers them, Hatsumi pulls the string sending Shintani to Hell while falling off the building. She survives the fall. | ||
| 9 | "Stray Inari Spirit" "Hagure Inari" (はぐれ稲荷) |
November 29, 2008 |
| A low-profile girl named Inao Kaede claims to be a fortune-teller, telling fortunes by contacting Gon (A spirit) by playing Spirit of the Coin, a fox spirit that she claims resides within her. As she begins to build her reputation with a continuous streak of correct predictions, more students begin to ask her to perform tasks, for example cursing the school counselor. Inao reluctantly accepted these requests due to fear of losing the never before gained attention. At the sign of her continued success, a female student named Nishino apologizes to Inao for previously making fun of her fortune telling and requests she kill a college student who she claims is stalking her every day. Eventually Inao reluctantly accepts the request. No matter what she tries over the next few days, the 'stalker' still lives. Threatened to be exposed as a fake, she finally resorts to using the Hell Correspondence website. She pulls the string by sending him to Hell, only to find out that she was cheated the next day that Nishino wanted him dead because he was disgusting. | ||
| 10 | "The Goldfish in the Mirror" "Kagami no Naka no Kingyo" (鏡の中の金魚) |
December 6, 2008 |
| A boy named Ichimura Kazuya is a marathon runner. He does the morning rounds of newspaper in order to support his mother who loves to buy kimonos. His parents are constantly fighting, so his mother uses money (she believes they are from the husband) to buy kimonos. Kazuya thinks that it is the salesperson Saito Yukihiro's fault that his family is in this state, and Kazuya tries to tell his mother to stop letting Saito into the house. Until that night,Kazuya accesses Hell Correspondence and type in Saito's name. But his mother refuses, and she continuously buys kimono from him. Kazuya sends Saito to Hell, but only to find another salesperson replacing him and pampering his mother with flattery. | ||
| 11 | "Blotted Paper" "Nijinda pēji" (滲んだ頁) |
December 13, 2008 |
| Kamisaka Rokurou is a novelist whose mystery genre book, The Skyscraper's Shadow, has received publicity because of strange incidents resembling its plot. Because of the incidents, its popularity has skyrocketed over the internet, but outside of the internet, it is largely unknown. Kamisaka agrees to be interviewed by a reporter from the Editing Department, Asaba Sumi, but the Editor-in-Chief changes the final script so the magazine would sell more. Asaba feels it was her responsibility that Kamisaka is being blamed as the murderer's instigator, and goes to apologize. In the meantime the first victim's older sister, Michio Yui, meets with Kamisaka and the murderer, Chouchi Hiroto, to see which one of them is to blame. She intends to send one of them to Hell. Kamisaka, Asaba, and Michio meet together and decide to each send one person to Hell so they can get rid of three people all at once. Michio chooses Chouchi, Asaba chooses the Editor-in-Chief, and Kamisaka chooses his fair-weather friend. After the sending, Kamisaka suggests they all have a drink together, but as he grabs a drink he is sent to Hell by Chouchi Rika, the murderer's mother. | ||
| 12 | "The Midsummer Chart" "Manatsu no gurafu" (真夏のグラフ) |
December 20, 2008 |
| Nomura Nobuo works part-time at a food store beside the pool. Every time someone agitates him, he draws stickers for them and puts their face up on his calendar chart. The person who reaches the girl's breasts first will be sent to hell. There are two main candidates initially, the lady who lives near him and steals his bike-parking lot, and a random guy who impolitely takes the drinks from their counter without paying first. When he finds out his crush, Sasayama Kokoro, has a boyfriend, the boyfriend becomes another target to be sent to hell. In the meantime, his manga debuts in a monthly manga book, so although each of his victims in the calendar chart has reached "the point", he decides not to send them to hell since he is in a good mood. It is only when he sees Sasayama Kokoro trying to commit suicide because her boyfriend Ryuu, cheated on her, he decides to send him to hell. However, Nobuo is sent to hell by Kokoro, who believes that he will spread rumours about what she told him. | ||
| 13 | "Six Coin Lanterns" "Rokumondōrō" (六文燈籠) |
December 28, 2008 |
| The Six-Coin Lantern Festival will take place soon. For the festival, during the Edo period, the shrine priest would write the sins of criminals who came for expiation and ferry that with a strand of the person's hair down the river; now it used as a means to forget things. A woman named Azusa Mayama feels that chief of investigation, Norihisa who is Akie's father, halted investigation on an automotive accident involving her father and a son of the prestigious Tsujinobashi family, reporting it as an accident her father a sole cause to prevent the truth from being known. In order to get revenge, she befriends Akie and causes Akie to move in with her by telling her father's tale. Yuzuki and Akie attend the festival together; Yuzuki writes Jigoku Shōjo on her boat, but Akie blows out her boat with father written in it, deciding not to send it and rushes off to return to Azusa's apartment. Alone, Yuzuki heads towards a light in the distance and sees a reflection of herself across a gate, the gate to Hell. Before she can approach it, Tsugumi warns her that she may not be able to return if she crosses the gate. Yuzuki then realizes that Akie is in trouble and rushes to contacts Norihisa. As Akie is taking a shower in the apartment, Azusa sends a man in to rape her, however Norihisa arrives in time to intervene. Yuzuki prevents Azusa from pulling the string off of Yamawaro as a doll, but she escapes. Ai finally separates from her, receiving a whole body once more, and leaves her with the warning that it is up to her to decide from now on, returning to her companions. Yamawaro disappears from her hands. Yuzuki believes that she is finally relieved of torment. When she meets Akie later, Akie disappears before her very eyes as Azusa pulls the string. Yuzuki's eyes flicker red as she screams. The next day at the last part of the show,Yuzuki walk pass by the person and her senses can tell that she is the next client. | ||
| 14 | "The Street Corner of Bitterness" "Urami no machikado" (怨みの街角) |
January 10, 2009 |
| Convenience store worker Tsuzuki Kinya offers to take care of Kashiwagi Hidemi (who Yuzuki briefly sees at the end of the last episode) after she misses the last train home. As they are walking together, someone takes a picture of them and posts it online. Because Tsuzuki looks like a delinquent the people around Kashiwagi become suspicious. Kashiwagi will send the person who uploaded the picture to Hell for giving her a bad reputation. Yuzuki can now sense people who are about to contact Ai, and seeks out Kashiwagi to try to persuade her to stop her revenge. Kashiwagi and Yuzuki try to locate Tsuzuki's store only to find that he has been arrested for assault. Kashiwagi types in Tsuzuki's name on the Hell Correspondence with her mobile phone instead since his assault charge may land in the newspapers. Tsuzuki breaks out of jail with a gun and takes Yuzuki hostage. Kashiwagi tells him to stop hoping he will recognize her, but he doesn't at first. Saddened, she pulls the string. The next day, Kashiwagi is seen afterwards wearing excessive jewelry, make up and tattoos. Yuzuki's resolve to stop vengeful people wavers as she senses many people about to contact the Hell Correspondence. | ||
| 15 | "The Rabbit and the Turtle" "Usagi to kame" (兎と亀) |
January 17, 2009 |
| Although Yuzuki senses that a girl named Usagi has contacted the Ai, upon confronting her, Usagi claims to know nothing. Shinohara Usagi, nicknamed 'turtle', is a schoolgirl who is always being helped by her friends because she is so slow at making any kind of decision. One day, a boy named Endo asks her to date him inspiring glowers of jealously from her friends. However in jealousy, before anything can develop, Endo is forced to cheat on her by her brother Michito, and he break up with her, believing he has lost the right to be with her. When Usagi questions Michito, she reveals she has accessed the Hell Correspondence website by pulling out a straw doll (Yamawaro) intending to send her brother to hell. Shocked, he too reveals that he done the same by revealing a similar straw doll (Hone Onna). The two have a heartfelt talk about their individual sufferings and subsequent hatred of one another. They walk to the nearby bridge and drop each of their dolls into the water, both vowing to try their best in the future. However when Michito leaves, Usagi secretly retrieves the doll from the river and pulls the string and sends her brother to hell, believing that even she can do her best despite being a 'tortoise'. | ||
| 16 | "The Trap of Temptation" "Yūwaku no wana" (誘惑の罠) |
January 24, 2009 |
| In a daze, Yuzuki wanders through town, soon sensing a man on a bridge about to pull the string on one of Ai's straw dolls, Wanyūdō. As Yuzuki rushes to stop him, Ai suddenly appears and stops her, telling her that her attempts are futile. Ai shows her his future. Instead of meeting women along with his coworkers after working hours are over, Naowa has always instead played with a young girl names Kaya next door to the factory at which he works because he honestly enjoys it in spite of what his coworkers say. In Ai's future, he pulls the string to send his friend and fellow worker, Nakajima, to hell because of his suspicious and disturbing behavior towards Kaya. When he suddenly disappears, his girlfriend, Yuki, joins their company to investigate. Knowing that Naowa was good friends with him, she begins to form a relationship with him while keeping silent about her relationship with Nakajima. One night, when Yuki appears at Naowa's flat and offers to make dinner, he claims he has no right to be with her because, as he hesitantly admits to her, he sent Nakajima to hell. The next day, Yuki invites him to her house and there, she sends him to hell after he discovers that the two were a close couple. Despite seeing this future, Yuzuki still tries to save Naowa after Ai lets her through. | ||
| 17 | "Inside the Straw" "Wara no naka" (藁の中) |
January 31, 2009 |
| Upon receiving a job from an elderly woman who writes her husband's name in the Hell Correspondence section in a newspaper, Yamawaro begs to be the doll. Yuzuki goes to the mansion asking to speak to the elderly woman she saw in her vision, but a much younger woman and her husband answer the door and claims that there is nobody there who is like that, and Yuzuki leaves seeming quite confused. The woman claims that Yamawaro, now in doll form, is their son. Yamawaro explains that in the past he watched them when they were younger and witnessed them lose their child named Hikaru who looked similar to himself. When the couple grew much older, he decided to appear before the dying who exclaimed in thanks that her son had returned. However the man used Yamawaro indiscriminately, due to his non-human origins, for the sake of researching a way to achieve eternal life. Yamawaro agrees, only wanting to be of use in save the woman's life. When the man feeds the resulting potion he names ambrosia to his wife it works incredibly well as she regains her youth. However in order to avoid further unethical experimentation, she urges Yamawaro to run. Now, several years later, unable to forgive her husband for his treatment of their 'son', she takes Yamawaro and pulls the string.She later commits suicide by crashing the mansion and buries herself,seen by Yamawaro that she embraces the soul of her real son in the smoke.The flame on her candle is quenched. | ||
| 18 | "Special Radio" "Supesharuredeio" (スペシャルレディオ) |
February 7, 2009 |
| While studying late at night Yuzuki listens to the radio, which features a show named "Midnight Silence". A regular mail-sender calling herself "Chi-chan" sent a mail for an idea to create a corner called Hell correspondence where people can let others know of what annoys or angers you. This girl, whose real name is Chiriko Hamano, has fallen in love with the DJ host Joutarou and his sweet-talking romantic ways over the radio. The next day after Hamano had submitted this idea for a corner she is approached by another girl asking her if she is indeed Chi-chan. She soon becomes the talk of the school and life seems to have taken a good turn for her. On her way home she is approached by a girl named Kaname who claims to be "Frog-princess", another well-known mail sender in "Midnight Silence" and who has had her mail read much more than Chi-chan has. The two quickly become friends, bonded by their love of the radio show and the DJ host, calling each other by their mail names Chi-chan and Frog-princess as well as admiring each others letters when they are read on air. Wanting to thank Joutarou for all his touching words, the two of them go down to the radio station to wait for him. The first person to arrive is a woman Yume who works as a radio scenario writer, which Frog-princess jumps in to say that she wants to be one also which surprises Chi-chan. Furthermore, she announces that she views Yume as her idol. Yume lets her have a script of the radio broadcast that was aired the day before, shocking Chi and crushing her fantasy of Joutarou the DJ. She gains a hatred towards Frog-princess for crushing this fantasy and contracts with Ai to send Kaname to hell. After this it is shown that Chi returns to how it was before, without competition her mail is read almost always on air and she refuses to accept that Joutarou is scripted, returning to a fantasy. | ||
| 19 | "Snow, Moon and Cherry Blossoms" "Setsugekka" (雪月花) |
February 14, 2009 |
| Yuzuki meets a woman named Kaori Nakiri (Cherry Blossoms) who recounts to Yuzuki her duty of having to succeed having succeed the Nakiri school of flower arrangement. Despising the predetermined future, she had run away from home after high school, but has now returned due to her father's death. Invited to tea, Yuzuki is surprised to find first three of Ai's companions working at the funeral despite being staff for her school. After learning that Yuzuki can see through her companions' magical disguise, Ai states that she must inform Yuzuki that she will awaken soon. The next day, a woman named Yukina Kurozaka (Snow), the result of the father's affair with another woman, demands that Kaori fulfill her late mother's desire of becoming part of the family by giving her the position of head of the Nakiri school. Tsukio (Moon), Kaori's childhood friend and love interest, discovers Yukina planning to poison Kaori so as to inherit the land and sell it for a fortune. When Kaori is served with a drink later, Tsukio quickly drinks the poisoned concoction in her place and collapses. As a result, Kaori accesses the Hell Correspondence website and receives Ren as a doll. After several family secrets are revealed to her, one of which is that Tsukio is her brother, she finds what she has been searching for, finally accepting her role as the head of the family, and then pulls the string off Ren, sending Yukina to hell. At his deathbed, Tsukio asks that Kaori use his body for her first project as heir. Later,the last part of the show, Yuzuki at the graveyard where Ai appears. Ai was trying to tell that Yuzuki has a fate and destined to become the next Hell Girl. | ||
| 20 | "The Hell Professor vs. Hell Girl" "Jigoku Hakase tai Jigoku Shōjo" (地獄博士 対 地獄少女) |
February 21, 2009 |
| After awaking in Tsugumi’s health office, she asks what Tsugumi knows about Ai Enma but Tsugumi refuses to give Yuzuki a clear answer. Later, Yamawaro and Kikuri approach a large mansion belonging to a client but are unable to enter due to an encircling barrier. At night, the owner of that mansion, Mizuragi Shōgo, accesses the Hell Correspondence website and types Tsugumi's name in. Each sensing the request, Yuzuki, Ai, and Tsugumi make their ways towards the mansion. Once they gather, he explains that he initially gained interest in Hell after his mother used Ai's services to send his father to Hell. After a great deal of research on Hell, he eventually yearned to meet Ai. Learning that she had once more regained her body, he nurtured a grudge against Tsugumi through hypnosis in order to meet her. Ai agrees to give him Ren as a doll, however just before Shogo can completely pull off the string, he is instead sent to Hell by his assistant Kikyō using Yamawaro; he is exacting the grudge that the many children bore whom Shōgo treated cruelly for the sake of his research. | ||
| 21 | "Right in Front Behind You" "Ushiro no shōmen" (うしろの正面) |
February 28, 2009 |
| Yuzuki arrives at the conclusion that she could escape her fate of becoming the next Hell Girl as she believes Tsugumi had. She comes across a young boy named Kaito who then collapses. When Kaito first met his stepmother Nanami, she presented a hat to him that he treasures before announcing her intent to marry his father. However, ever since she became pregnant with a girl who she names Mao, Nanami begins to fawn over her daughter and unreasonably punish Kaito for the smallest of infractions. She eventually throws out Kaito's beloved hat, embarrassed by the laughter of neighbors due to its worn appearance and three years of use. In tears, Kaito retrieves his hat from the garbage, accesses the Hell Correspondence website, and types his unborn stepsister's name in, receiving Yamawaro as a doll. He explains to Yuzuki that he only desires to return to those earlier days of happiness when Nanami was a much kinder person. Promising to help, Yuzuki confronts his father. However, he refuses to acknowledge the domestic violence against his son in front of her as he is already well aware of it but unable to act. He confesses to Kaito over a game of Frisbee feeling that their family would not be happy should things remained the same and almost kills his son; he however stops when Kaito pulls the string of Yamawaro and sends Mao to Hell. Although Nanami expresses disappointment at losing Mao, she returns to her old, kind self. | ||
| 22 | "Flower and Moon" "Hana to tsuki" (華と月) |
March 7, 2009 |
| Yuzuki, overwhelmed when she realizes she has no plans for her future, tries to contact her mother for support, but cannot reach her. Fainting, she wakes up in the school infirmary asks Tsugumi for advice, but Tsugumi does nothing to help, explaining to Ai's companions that only Yuzuki can save herself. On her way home, Yuzuki meets Sumika, the reserved twin of the famous model and actress Yuika, who offers to help Yuzuki plan her future. Although her twin-sister Yuika wears the facade of being upbeat and peppy at work, in reality she is quite cruel. She always forced Sumika into doing all her own work, for example taking the college entry exam to Sumika's college, while still having all that Sumika desires: fame and a boyfriend named Masato. Only a birthmark on Sumika's side distinguishes the two. After a drunk Yuika fractures a bone in an accident, she orders Sumika to take her place in an important photo shoot. However during Yuika's convalescence, Sumika begins to thrive in the role, doing the job even better than her sister; she even proceeds in her relationship with Masato. However Yuika's arm heals and both sisters, now indistinguishable, begin arguing over who should continue the role of model and actress. That evening, an unspecified sister accessed the Hell Correspondence site and types in the name of the other sibling, receiving Hone-Onna as a doll. They are next shown leaving their house in opposite directions, with one (again unspecified) sister confronting Masato on a break-up, following which she pulls the string on the doll. After the sequence of Enma Ai sending one of the sisters to hell, the scene changes to that of a press conference which the remaining sibling is attending. The camera pans to the area where the birthmark should (or shouldn't) be, but the woman's arm obscure's the viewer's sight. The final scene is that of the candle bearing the name of the sibling who had accessed the Hell Correspondence site, but a trickle of wax over a portion of the name (it reads Misono -ka) leaves the true identity of the remaining sibling vague. | ||
| 23 | "Twilight Hills" "Higure zaka" (日暮れ坂) |
March 14, 2009 |
| A boy named Fumio Mizuhara who constantly bullied by Tomohide Matsuda because Fumio is born in a rich family while Matsuda is from the poor family. After Tomohide overheard that Fumio is going to high school,he continues to bully him. Fumio access Hell Correspondence to get rid of Matsuda. Tomohide's younger sister has been asking what their father is like. He sees the Hell brand on his chest(it reveals that Tomohide must have send his abusive father to Hell). As he continue to bully Fumio,he pulled the string from the doll and send Matsuda to Hell. However,Matsuda apologises to his sister that he fails to return home as he was ferried to Hell. The next day on the final year exams,the teacher may find that Matsuda is missing. Matsuda's friends mentioned that they should blamed Hell Girl for sending him to Hell. After finishing the exams,Ai appears towards Yuzuki once more. After hearing about more victims being sent to hell, Yuzuki confronts Ai. Enma Ai then reveals Yuzuki's hidden desire: That she wants to send Ai to hell using the Jigoku Tsushin. Upon hearing this, Yuzuki runs home, unable to face the possibility that she too, has been consumed by the feeling of hate and the desire for vengeance. | ||
| 24 | "Mayfly" "Kagerō" (蜉蝣) |
March 21, 2009 |
| Yuzuki realizes that nobody at school or in her neighborhood knows who she is. Ultimately, it is only Shibata Tsugumi who still recognizes her. Tsugumi has given up hope of stopping the Jigoku Shōjo, and concludes that Yuzuki is not a person of this world anymore. Tsugumi notices that all this time,Yuzuki's life was an illusion.When Yuzuki returns home, she finds her apartment in abandoned state with a corpse of a girl lying next to a stuff animal. Enma Ai appears and tells Yuzuki that she has died a long time ago. | ||
| 25 | "Yuzuki" "Yuzuki" (ゆずき) |
March 28, 2009 |
| Yuzuki at first does not believe Enma Ai's words when she said she had died, but Ai showed Yuzuki the world that she grew up in. Originally, Yuzuki lived happily with her parents, until her father, a bus driver, died in a bus crash due to faulty brakes. The whole town accused the Mikage family of murder and being irresponsible. Yuzuki's mother did her best to keep Yuzuki alive and happy, working at the Oikawa Store, but was eventually forced to quit. Sick and without a means to support herself and Yuzuki, she decides to leave and does so with Yuzuki. Its implied that close to death, Yuzuki's mother planned on killing Yuzuki to spare her from suffering any longer, as she appears to be reaching for her neck as she rests in her arms. She stops,however, when a couple of girls show up at the shrine they were staying at. After her mother dies, Yuzuki buries her mother's corpse beneath the full-bloomed cherry blossoms. Yuzuki's eyes turn a deep red at that moment,and walks away her last moments as a child are seen, lying on the floor embracing the bear her father gave her. The now older Yuzuki (who is somekind of an illusion) picks up pictures from floor next to the corpse of who she now knows to be hers and accepts her fate as Hell Girl, as Ai disappears Yuzuki is clothed in a red kimono similar to Ai's. Akie somehow returns and acts as Yuzuki's aid. At the end of this episode, a mail arrives onto Yuzuki's PC, signaling that someone is summoning her. Yuzuki prepares for her first mission as the new Hell Girl. | ||
| 26 | "The Path Left by a Soul" "Tamashii no kiseki" (魂の軌跡) |
April 4, 2009 |
| Akie's father was the one who summoned Yuzuki. Takasugi wanted to send Azusa to hell because she took away Akie's life, the joy of his life. Yuzuki was eager in awaiting Takasugi to pull the string, but Takasugi backed out, saying Azusa would go to hell after she dies anyway. Angry at this, Yuzuki decides to send Azusa to hell anyway. The Lord of Hell steps in and interferes. He decides to send Yuzuki to hell for breaking the rules, but Ai comes in just in time to save Yuzuki. Ai said that in return for saving Yuzuki, Ai will have to be the Jigoku Shōjo forever. With Ai's second kiss she transfers her memories to Yuzuki, Yuzuki's soul is finally freed. The credits roll, and at the end show Ai back in her sailor uniform, sending people to hell again, showing that the cycle of hatred still has not been resolved. At the last part of the show, Azusa was about to meet Tsujinobashi's son at the airport and secretly stabbed him until she disappeared. It turns out that Takasugi's servant, Haruko sent Azusa to Hell for Akie's sake. | ||
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