Hell Girl
Best Summer Anime 2017
Hell Girl is something a bit darker, which you probably figured out by the series name. It follows Ai Enma, a young girl who appears when called to send a person to hell for their transgressions against whoever summoned her. At times the person is definitely evil and worthy of going to hell, but sometimes that isn’t the case, leaving every episode feeling like a dark, twisted mystery as you watch a person tortured, and eventually damned. What’s more intriguing is seeing how far a person is willing to go, as the price to use Ai Enma’s services is for a person to agree to go to hell when their own life has ended.
If you’re looking for something action-packed, this is certainly not going to appeal to you. But you shouldn’t overlook it simply for that. Ai Enma’s story, and those of her acquaintances, are sad and beautiful, and each episode feels like a brand new show of its own as you delve into the lives of new characters on the verge of damnation. The fourth season just started up, and it seems just as good if not better than the previous ones. It’s streaming on both Amazon and Crunchyroll so you have no real excuse not to give it a shot.
