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Hell Girl #2
地獄少女（２） (講談社コミックスなかよし
おねがい！ あいつを地獄に落として！ 晴らせぬ怨みを地獄へ流す地獄少女・閻魔（えんま）あい。彼女からわたされる、わら人形の赤い糸をほどけば憎い相手は地獄へと送られる。ただし、その契約の代償は死後自らの魂も地獄に落ちること――。フィギュアのライバル、若いヘルパー、ストーカー、いじわるな教師……。あなたはそれでも……怨みを晴らす？
192 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 6, 2006
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June 7, 2021
Me puse a averiguar como era el tema... ¿Primero el manga o el anime? Y por lo que encontré, primero se publicó el anime y luego el manga.
Las fechas del anime son del 4 de octubre del 2005 al 4 de abril del 2006; mientras que el manga va desde noviembre del 2005 a septiembre del 2008.
Si fue así, no entiendo porque hicieron tan mal el manga. "Tan mal" es un poco fuerte, pero "mal" podría ir bien. La expectativa de las pesadillas que tienen los individuos cuando son enviando al infierno es nula. No hay nada emocionante, ni aterrados en comparación con el anime; Ai Enma misma no da esa sensación de incomodidad al verla, con sus ojos grandes y su expresión turbia. No sé... no comprendo que quisieron hacer con el manga.
Lo que rescato son las historias, cómo es que se llega a solicitar la ayuda de Ai Enma.
Las fechas del anime son del 4 de octubre del 2005 al 4 de abril del 2006; mientras que el manga va desde noviembre del 2005 a septiembre del 2008.
Si fue así, no entiendo porque hicieron tan mal el manga. "Tan mal" es un poco fuerte, pero "mal" podría ir bien. La expectativa de las pesadillas que tienen los individuos cuando son enviando al infierno es nula. No hay nada emocionante, ni aterrados en comparación con el anime; Ai Enma misma no da esa sensación de incomodidad al verla, con sus ojos grandes y su expresión turbia. No sé... no comprendo que quisieron hacer con el manga.
Lo que rescato son las historias, cómo es que se llega a solicitar la ayuda de Ai Enma.
December 26, 2019
The stories get a bit repetitive, and sometimes it’s hard to differentiate among the characters because so many of them look the same. I really have trouble with the “awful people being awful” kind of series; I don’t think I will continue with the manga.
December 7, 2023
It's too repetitive, I'm starting to get bored
April 29, 2021
Re-read 2021: The second volume of the Hell Girl manga series and it was good! Depressing, scary, sad, and maybe a bit too much at times, but still good. It is an interesting concept. My heart breaks for these girls though and that no one believes them until the only way out is emailing Hell Girl. Who btw, is always around despite not always having been called. Which I kind of liked, some kind of foreboding sense. I do wonder if she erases the minds of the girls she meets afterwards or if they just forget because she is the Hell Girl. I was surprised at the last girl and that Enma berates her. Normally she just holds her spiel and then when called she is done, but here she tells the girl she was weak and should find better relationships/become stronger. That was an interesting thing.
I am glad that instead of constantly victims we also have a bully. Yes, just like all the stories it was hard to read, maybe even harder because of how cruel she was, but I did like the change.
I would have liked some people NOT pull the string, even one would have made me very happy. I understand that these people are desperate but it just gets so depressing if people gets send left and right to hell without even one thing. Plus, something I always had with this series is that I just find it so extreme. I mean I get it, someone curses the other, but to doom that one for life? Eh.
I am glad that instead of constantly victims we also have a bully. Yes, just like all the stories it was hard to read, maybe even harder because of how cruel she was, but I did like the change.
I would have liked some people NOT pull the string, even one would have made me very happy. I understand that these people are desperate but it just gets so depressing if people gets send left and right to hell without even one thing. Plus, something I always had with this series is that I just find it so extreme. I mean I get it, someone curses the other, but to doom that one for life? Eh.
December 16, 2025
Evidently some people like this. Don't count me among them. The stories are too grim for my taste.
November 18, 2015
Hell Girl: Volume 2 has some descent stories, but ends with two really horrible ones. I find it humorous that these kids are so vindictive that they don't understand the value of life. If I believed in the eternal soul and had a choice of Heaven and Hell, I would do everything in my power to be a good person so I could go to Heaven. Life may sometimes seem like Hell, but an eternal life of damnation does not sound very appealing. Can't they see that using Hell Girl to send someone to Hell is the same thing as murder? I could understand wanting to kill someone that is abusing you little sister. Personally, I may want to, but I wouldn't kill them because I have morals.
Do any of the girls in the stories have morals? And why is it only girls sending people to hell? Why not any boys? Interesting... I must admit that having a stalker hunt you down and threaten your life . . . well, that would be a major issue.
So, I did enjoy stories two and three. The first story was okay, but so Tanya Harding-esk that I found it funny. Then came the fourth story. The one about the teacher. As a former teacher and a current employee of a school district, there is no way a teacher like that would ever get hired. The story is just utterly ridiculous. I actually made me upset that the story we as even created.
Then there was the fifth story. Best friends throwing away a friendship over a boy. It happens all the time in the real world, but why? Never let someone come between your friendship. I should know, it happened to me and I hated it. As for the artwork, the characters eyes are just way too big. They are ridiculously large. I guess with not liking many of the stories, finding the concept of the manga flawed, and not really enjoying the artwork, there just isn't really room for me to like this manga at all.
So, if you are looking for a story that has the same thing happen in every individual story, then this is the book for you. If you like vindictive girls murdering people because they cannot hand life, pick up a copy of this book.
Overall, I find Hell Girl: Volume 2 to be a substandard book in a series that needs a lot of tuning before I would ever consider it to be good. Not great, just good. Maybe things will get better in Hell Girl: Volume 3, but I doubt it since they made anime about this series. Why would they do that?
I rated this book a 4½ out of 10.
Do any of the girls in the stories have morals? And why is it only girls sending people to hell? Why not any boys? Interesting... I must admit that having a stalker hunt you down and threaten your life . . . well, that would be a major issue.
So, I did enjoy stories two and three. The first story was okay, but so Tanya Harding-esk that I found it funny. Then came the fourth story. The one about the teacher. As a former teacher and a current employee of a school district, there is no way a teacher like that would ever get hired. The story is just utterly ridiculous. I actually made me upset that the story we as even created.
Then there was the fifth story. Best friends throwing away a friendship over a boy. It happens all the time in the real world, but why? Never let someone come between your friendship. I should know, it happened to me and I hated it. As for the artwork, the characters eyes are just way too big. They are ridiculously large. I guess with not liking many of the stories, finding the concept of the manga flawed, and not really enjoying the artwork, there just isn't really room for me to like this manga at all.
So, if you are looking for a story that has the same thing happen in every individual story, then this is the book for you. If you like vindictive girls murdering people because they cannot hand life, pick up a copy of this book.
Overall, I find Hell Girl: Volume 2 to be a substandard book in a series that needs a lot of tuning before I would ever consider it to be good. Not great, just good. Maybe things will get better in Hell Girl: Volume 3, but I doubt it since they made anime about this series. Why would they do that?
I rated this book a 4½ out of 10.
October 30, 2010
I was originally drawn to Hell Girl by the artwork, only to be dissapointed by volume 1's storyline. While the premise (people send their enemies to hell via a website) is an interesting, it's still been done before to some extent. What drove me away from the first volume was the brainlessness & selfishness of the characters- you just couldn't sympathise with them enough to get that interested in the manga. Still, I decided that I'd give the manga another shot with the second volume, and I have to say... it's definately made me glad I did.
Where the first volume's characters were either unlikable or unsympathetic in that they were too overly hasty in dialing up Hell Girl (they didn't even try all of their options), the majority of the characters in this volume are people who are literally at the end of their rope and can only be helped by a little demonic intervention. With characters ranging from a jilted friend who's a little too reluctant to go through with the curse to an older sister who summons Hell Girl to protect her little sister, these are characters that you can not only sympathize with, they are characters that you can believe would be willing to send themselves to hell to save someone else. Even when the characters are selfish or a bit whiny they are still people that you can relate to (which is important in any fictional work). After reading this, I have to admit that I'm much more of a fan of the series than I was before.
Would I recommend this to a friend? Yes, more so now than when I read the first volume. This is a good creepy series that has a lot of potential that it is just now starting to fulfill.
Where the first volume's characters were either unlikable or unsympathetic in that they were too overly hasty in dialing up Hell Girl (they didn't even try all of their options), the majority of the characters in this volume are people who are literally at the end of their rope and can only be helped by a little demonic intervention. With characters ranging from a jilted friend who's a little too reluctant to go through with the curse to an older sister who summons Hell Girl to protect her little sister, these are characters that you can not only sympathize with, they are characters that you can believe would be willing to send themselves to hell to save someone else. Even when the characters are selfish or a bit whiny they are still people that you can relate to (which is important in any fictional work). After reading this, I have to admit that I'm much more of a fan of the series than I was before.
Would I recommend this to a friend? Yes, more so now than when I read the first volume. This is a good creepy series that has a lot of potential that it is just now starting to fulfill.
November 12, 2013
Pretty good so far. Goodreads recommended I read this, and its simplicity is actually quite attractive. It feels like one of those short manga series that will eventually build up and get really complicated and scary!
It makes me wonder where Ai Enma came from, although I can kind of relate to her and Vampire Princess Miyu. There's a junior high setting since both Enma and Miyu are so young (in appearance, not in actual form). Also, their helping humans is always a double-edged sword. Or in Enma's words, a double-grave. Looking forward to volume 3!
It makes me wonder where Ai Enma came from, although I can kind of relate to her and Vampire Princess Miyu. There's a junior high setting since both Enma and Miyu are so young (in appearance, not in actual form). Also, their helping humans is always a double-edged sword. Or in Enma's words, a double-grave. Looking forward to volume 3!
January 21, 2013
I do like this series.
While the stories are all stand-alone, it helps to be familiar with the anime since the 'ensemble' characters who serve Hell Girl aren't really explained.
It's serial and episodic - and this volume, at least, is completely taken from the anime.
Art is good, but the drama is mostly in your own head. (Again, why a recommend you watch the anime, so the 'being taken to hell' bit is more impactful.
While the stories are all stand-alone, it helps to be familiar with the anime since the 'ensemble' characters who serve Hell Girl aren't really explained.
It's serial and episodic - and this volume, at least, is completely taken from the anime.
Art is good, but the drama is mostly in your own head. (Again, why a recommend you watch the anime, so the 'being taken to hell' bit is more impactful.
May 13, 2014
This second volume is where the series begins to vary from the initial repetitive premise. While it's still all about seeking revenge, the rules of the "game" don't require that the seeker be a good person. So, what if someone truly awful is out to get revenge, for selfish reasons? Also, is there a way to cheat the system? This volume deals with both of those questions.
June 1, 2009
A continuing adaptation of the story of Enma Ai, the Hell Girl, who sends condemned souls to Hell, acting as an agent of revenge for others who have been wronged.
But, as she says, "To curse someone is to dig a double grave".
But, as she says, "To curse someone is to dig a double grave".
December 27, 2009
The second one has added infromation that was forgotten from the first edition. This helps the story a bit but it also could confuse people who are unfamiliar with the legend of Hell Girl. I liked Chapter 9: Lost Cat the most <3
April 21, 2011
Indeed, the same things happen: one person sends another to hell through a website that is only accessible at midnight, on the hour. He/She who enters a name will receive a black straw doll with a red string around its neck; if the person pulls the string, the deal is is carried out.
August 30, 2015
Much better than the previous one. I like how some of the characters had attacks of conscience rather than immediately leap for the doll. The adults are idiots, though; rather than try to help the protagonists and take their claims seriously, they just shrugged it all of. Still, an enjoyable read.
April 2, 2008
even though its scares me so i love this series XD
July 26, 2010
It has interesting inner story lines, however I'd like to know more about what goes on in the mind of "Hell Girl" as that character development is rather lacking.
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August 4, 2011I love a good horror manga.
December 27, 2012
I got this one for my birthday in 2011 and I loved it. I hate the fact that it's hard to get manga in India but I still got this one
July 16, 2016
Another great Hell Girl book!
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