New Hell Girl Anime TV Series Listed in July by Retailers

Japanese retailers Tsutaya and Honya Club list a Kessakusen Kachōfūgetsu volume of Miyuki Etoo's Hell Girl (Jigoku Shōjo) manga in March. According to the listing, the volume bundles a booklet of production designs for a "new anime series of Hell Girl [starting] to air in July." The manga volume compiles popular chapters from Etoo's manga adaptation of the earlier anime.

Stories in the Hell Girl franchise usually begin with bullied or tormented people accessing the Hell Correspondence website, allowing them to submit a request to eliminate the person tormenting them. It is then that Ai Enma, the titular Hell Girl, appears, and gives these people a doll that, once pulled, sends their tormentor to Hell, where Enma and her companions proceed to enact karmic torment on the doomed person. The catch is that the person who originally sent the request will be sent to hell as well.

Studio DEEN debuted the first Hell Girl television anime series in 2005. The series received two subsequent television anime sequels in 2006 and 2008, as well as a live-action television series adaptation in 2006. The anime also received the manga adaptation by Etoo, as well as two other manga adaptations named Shin Jigoku Shōjo (New Hell Girl) in 2009, and Jigoku Shōjo Enma Ai Selection Geki Kowa Story (Hell Girl: Enma Ai Selection, Super Scary Story) in 2014.

Funimation released the first series on DVD in North America in 2007. Sentai Filmworks released Hell Girl: Two Mirrors, the second season, on DVD in 2010. Sentai Filmworks also released Hell Girl: Three Vessels, the third season, in the same year on DVD. Del Rey published seven out of nine volumes of the first Hell Girl manga.

The franchise inspired a stage play last November.​

 

Yup @Supernatural-Knight I apologize to being so bloody late with everything this week. This was actually news to me & I was gonna tag you about it. Just got to late into my night to do so. This should make for a good watch.​

 

Thanks for the forgiveness @Supernatural-Knight. Just glad I could make your day. If it sticks to it's roots it'll make for a good watch. Won't be long and this'll be off my planning list. Geez texting is kind of a pain. Oh before I forget have you begun watching any of those relics?​

 

why did this not show in my notifications.

a new season of hell girl wont hurt. i only have one request for the next season. at least have tsumugi appear again may be she be an old hag or not.

 

Yay! For this, I write in red! Thanks for the tag @Supernatural-Knight
Now, the sad part is, I did memorize Ai's quotes in Japanese. I've forgotten most so in her honour, I shall! Ippen, shinde miru!

 

I actually had that as my ringtone for a while.

 

all the more reason to have her back if thats the case. having a backstory of their fall out. an episode of her in retirement house telling her stories of her encounter with hell girl. kikuri can go to hell. that character was a "lets put a brat to make it funny but gone bad". enma would pretty much have her screen time when the ribbon is pulled. its mostly about the story of the clients and what pushed them to make the contract.

what a great find there. they both have the same characteristic of not talking much xD.