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Hell Girl is a love comedy IMO.

Summary:

A girl named Serizawa Yuu contacts the Jigoku Tsushin through her phone, but instead of meeting Ai, Kikuri only appears to hand her an eyeball. It turns out that Yuu wants revenge on none other than Ren of the correspondence, though when the rest of the members ask him about it, he only seems flattered. During gym class, Hone observes Yuu in belief that she looks nothing like a killer. A girl named Morohashi Kira then approaches Hone with a towel, expressing her admiration for the instructor as usual. In the locker room afterwards, Kira insults Yuu for a mistake she made during practice. The Jigoku Tsushin later find Ren in a depressed state. When Hone asks about this, it is revealed that Ren was only targeted because Yuu saw him as a rival to Hone who she admired. This obviously happened because they are around each other quite often.

Hone later has Yamawaro help her to make Yuu crash off her bike while leaving school. Hone takes this chance to give Yuu a bandage, and to ask her about love interests among other things. Yuu admits that she does have someone that she likes, but she believes that the person already has a lover. After Yuu expresses how much she dislikes this person, Hone wonders if she wouldn’t first confirm if this person is really involved with the person she likes. Yuu responds that she won’t, however, because she is afraid of learning the truth. After Hone leaves Yuu at her home, she expresses to herself that such an honest girl would probably forget her grudge soon enough. When Yuu reaches her room, she quickly pulls the bandage off her knee to look at the blood beneath it in delight.

At school the next day, Kira brags to her friends about getting a bandage from Hone. When she sees that Yuu has a similar bandage on her neck, however, she becomes quite angry. Kira questions Yuu about this outside later, taking the bandage off of her neck before she can leave. Yuu only requests that Kira do not tell this to anyone, but when Kira leaves afterwards, Yuu puts on a devious smile. Kira contacts the Jigoku Tsushin that night, successfully retrieving a doll from Ai.

Kira finds that her shoes are missing during school the next day, then returning to the classroom to find them soaking in a unsanitary bucket in a locker. When Yuu enters the room, she quickly guesses that she is the culprit. Although Yuu admits to this, she lies by revealing that she did it because Sune-sensei (Hone) desired it. As Yuu leaves, Kira quickly removes the string off her straw doll. Yuu is tortured in the form of a humerous race, and although she wins, she soon finds that Hone is not what she originally appeared to be. As Ai brings Yuu to hell, she looks to see that Hone is watching her away from the ferry. On a latter day, Kira reveals that she has started to admire someone else: Wanyudo. Hone sighs at the sight of this, but Yamawaro tells her not to worry. Anybody is okay for people like her; as long as they are useful to them.

Preview: Hey man, what’s wrong with your eyes? GO TO HELL.

Impression:

Haha, wow. They’re really going for the comedic approach this season aren’t they? I guess they needed some yuri to make up for the yaoi two days ago, but this was played on in a much more entertaining way. Ren and Hone’s expressions after finding out Yuu’s ambitions were absolutely hilarious, but even after another silly torture scene, Ai’s messing up her lines at the end was definitely the highlight of the entire episode. (How many people got the joke when Yuu told Ai to fall to hell after kicking her?) I’m not really sure if there’s much to say about the characters this week though. They were all cliched and irrational in their own ways, and just used to push a certain theme or story as usual. I praise Studio Deen and the show’s writers for actually trying to experiment after so long, but I’m really hoping we can move on from purely episodic material to find out about Yuzuki moderately soon. There were hints of Yamawaro’s powers this week though, along with slight reminiscence of Hone and Ren’s backgrounds.

Oh, and jeez, talk about fanservice this week. Two shots of girls undressing, Yuzuki in the bath, and Ai in bloomers? Come on, I think anyone can see how shameless that is.