Short Synopsis: A scientist calls Jigoku Tsuushin Episode Rating: 8,5/10 (Awesome) This was definitely the best episode of the third season yet in terms of solid storytelling. Now this is EXACTLY why I’ve become such a big fan of the franchise: it’s nearly always entertaining to see the different revenges, but the real goodness pops up once [...]
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Episode 19 of Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae, “Snow, Moon, and Flower”, starts off with Nakiri Kaori, a well-known flower arrangement specialist, looking at her own work and feeling that something important is lacking. Ominously, we see a sort of flashback where flowers are sprouting from skeletons. After the opening credits, Yuzuki approaches a couple of her [...]
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Short Synopsis: A famous flower arranger calls Jigoku Tsuushin Episode Rating: 8/10 (if only because of that awesome plot twist at the end) Muahaha! Oh, this is going to be awesome! I guess that I should have seen it coming, but the end of this episode finally reveals the purpose of Yuzuki, something that the show has [...]
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NA-KA-MA. Summary: A woman named Nakiri Kaori is renown for her flower arrangements, but she herself does not believe she has been performing what she truly wishes to. Seeing her teachers cutting fresh flowers elsewhere, Yuzuki receives a bouquet from the Jigoku Tsushin. She runs into Kaori in town afterwards, who arranges the flowers in exchange [...]
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Episode 18 of Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae, “Special Radio”, starts off with Yuzuki listening to the radio. She’s alarmed when she hears a bell, and even worse, someone suggested that the radio show include a Jigoku Tsushin corner. So it’s a relief when it turns out to be a suggestion for a corner where [...]
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Since we’ve been getting so much requests to put in the single for Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae OP in here, I finally put it up ^^. Enjoy! The single is Tsukihana by Nana Kitade. I’m not much a fan of her music, since the only songs I could remember liking from her is Antoinette Blue (from D. [...]
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Back in November I introduced you to the Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae OP theme song Tsukihana by Nana Kitade (Read my review here).The download links are posted in the "Anime Music Downloads" of my forums here. So please register here to download the full Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae OP Single if you haven't already joined the forums!Tracklist:1. tsukihana2. Kagami no Kuni no Aria3. Manone4. tsukihana -Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae opening ver.-5. tsukihana -instrumental-Watch the full PV here:<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fGSE5GcL4Q4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fGSE5GcL4Q4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
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Short Synopsis: A girl who likes to send her stories to a well-known radio-host calls Jigoku Tsuushin. Episode Rating: 7,5/10 (Good) I really wonder what Ai is doing behind that computer of hers. “Ippen Shinde Miru… wait, let me check my e-mail first”. In any case, we have another standard episode again, this time about teenaged girls and [...]
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The truth behind terrible radio programs. Summary: While listening to a popular radio program hosted by Shijimi Jotaro, Yuzuki notices that a girl named Hamano Chiriko has constantly been having her letters read on air. The next day, Yuzuki and her other schoolmates are surprised to discover that Chiriko is actually in their class. This [...]
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Attack of the naked shouta and mushrooms. Summary: Yamawaro volunteers to accompany Ai in order to meet the Jigoku Tsushin’s current client. This happens to be someone who he once considered his mother. Yuzuki visits the client’s home after seeing a vision, but instead of finding the old woman she suspects to be there, she only [...]
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Short Synopsis: An elderly woman calls Jigoku Tsuushin. Episode Rating: 8,5/10 (Awesome) Haha! It’s the bizarre episodes like this one that really make Jigoku Shoujo worth watching. This episode tells about the backstory of Yamawarou, the new kid in the third season, and it’s a really imaginative one. He once was a fungus spirit (or whatever that’s [...]
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Episode 17 of Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae, “Middle of the straw”, starts with Yuzuki yet again seeing a vision of Ai handing a voodoo doll to a client. The client is an old lady, and it’s Yamawaro’s turn to be the voodoo doll, but it seems the old lady knows who he is when she [...]
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At the start of episode 16 of Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae, “Trap of Seduction”, Yuzuki is preoccupied with the events concerning the Jigoku Shoujo. In fact, it drives her crazy when she hears bells all over the place at a crosswalk and sees a lot of people accessing the Jigoku Tsushin through their cellphones, although [...]
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Short Synopsis: Yuzuki continues to try and prevent people from pulling the string… without much success. Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10 (Excellent) Haha! Another excellent episode this time. This series’ finale promises to become better than the two previous seasons, if it’s already this busy with building up. It’s great to see Ai as the bad guy again, [...]
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Lolicons attract the girls they don’t even want. Summary: Yuzuki continues to struggle with her memories and thoughts while commuting through town, taking special note of the several people around her texting on cellphones. When she passes a particular man under a bridge, she rushes to stop him. The man reveals a black straw doll [...]
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Episode 15 of Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae, “The Rabbit and the Turtle”, is about a young girl named Shinohara Usagi, who is extremely indecisive and can’t even pick a drink quickly from a particular vending machine, despite having ended up drinking the same beverage every single time. Ironically, “Usagi” means “rabbit” in Japanese, which is [...]
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Surprise! Rei Kugumiya! Summary: At school, a girl rather slow at making decisions named Shinohara Usagi is constantly helped by her close friends. Some other students in class notice that Usagi’s older brother is the rather popular musician Michi, but when they request for signatures among other things, Usagi’s friends keep them from bothering her [...]
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Short Synopsis: A girl whose brother is a rising DJ calls Jigoku Tsuushin. Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 (Good) What is it with anime and sibling complexes? Heck, it’s supposed to be a taboo, but you see it broken so much in anime that it’s become an exception for a brother and a sister to not have romantic [...]
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In which the moral issues surrounding damning someone to hell are examined, and I (briefly) talk about why I dislike Death Note despite enjoying the somewhat similar Jigoku Shoujo.
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Episode 14 of Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae, “Street Corner of Bitterness”, starts off with Kashiwagi Hidemi, the girl we saw at the end of the previous episode, missing the last subway train home. To make things worse, she drops her cellphone and breaks it, so she can’t even call home, especially since all of the [...]
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