It's really hard to find any words for this episode, once you have watched it. I know this is Jigoku Shoujo and I know that actually no one got sent to hell, but still this was heartbreaking episode. Yuzuki turned out to have so much more to her character that was hidden to now. All we knew was that she's naively goodhearted but the side she showed when she was little... Characters who can endure sadness much as she did are few enough for you to count them just on your fingers. I remember Takuma, but still... I felt bad for everyone, besides Wanyuudou, refusing to stand on Yuzuki's side, but it's really understandable.
It's just now that I realised how beautiful Yuzuki's eyes are. They don't look well with red lenses though.
One moment was really difficult to understand for me - the part when Yuzuki decided to become Jigoku Shoujo. I know that her soul was doomed to a living hell anyway, but still I never saw this coming. We're talking about Yuzuki here!
My heart was already at the point of breaking, when Akie gave candy to Yuzuki. That really explained why she was her best friend in her "imaginary" life, just when I was feeling bad about "If Yuzuki's life was just an illusion, then what about Akie - was their friendship just an illusion too?".
I can talk about this episode on and on, but there's no way to explain every feeling I got after watching this episode. I thought on the whole Jigoku Shoujo sequence matter, and I came down to the decision that even if Futukamori was so much different than Season 1, Mitsuganae is just a different and separated universe. The feeling in this Mitsuganae is just nothing like before. I'm not saying it's not as good or anything like this. It's just different. It's not just that Ai Enma isn't in the center of the show. There are so many things that differ. The Devil doesn't seem to have any role in what is happening, like he didn't create Jigoku Tsuushin to start with. The Jigoku Tsuushin is different by itself. Yuzuki is not just the center of Mitsuganae. She's connected with every bit of it, every character who made(or didn't make) a deal. This might be the only way for this show to actually have last season after all, but still I feel so melancholic about it. Like it's really going to end for good now. Even Ai disappeared. And we didn't even get to know so much important things - like what's the origin of Kikuri or even more - we didn't get a single ray of light on Ai's grandma. But I guess Jigoku Shoujo is really departing, taking the truth about these secrets with itself, concealing them forever. You can feel it, can't you? We're just one episode away from the end of Jigoku Shoujo...
To be honest the show actually ended with the last episode of Futukamori. Not that I don't acknowledge Mitsuganae, but Ai died back then. Now I think that I know it... Ai never really came back. She was probably dead all the time. There's no other reason Yuzuki would be really needed to replace Ai. And I don't think that Ai would actually go back to Jigoku Tsuushin to start with. I think that the whole illusion and everything that actually happened in Mitsuganae is just the Devil's scheme. Doesn't it make perfect sense? Ai finally refused to go on with her bidding and now he needs new Jigoku Shoujo. That's why he's so desperately trying to convince Yuzuki that there's no other way for this world to go on except if Jigoku Tsuushin exists. Everything Yuzuki lived through from the start of Mitsuganae was an illusion. Why can't Ai be such an illusion too? Think of it. Tsugumi said that her father gave up at some point. If you've watched Season 1(and even if you've watched the last episodes of Futukamori) you'd probably think that Hajime would never give up. Tsugumi herself is probably an illusion too. How is it that just she can see Yuzuki? This way her words will have even heavier influence on the little girl.
Anyway... Yuzuki doesn't seem as good Jigoku Shoujo to me. In my opinion Jigoku Tsuushin can't work the way she wants it to. But at least now I know why Mitsuganae was so obsessed with the people deceiving themselves and sending to hell the ones who are in the way of their illusions.
erastale said: * Whoa! Akie!? (The girl who gave Yuzuki candy) Akie...this is sick sad world , you know T-T |