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There is nothing I hate more than an anime failing to accomplish its main goal.
In Jigoku shoujo's case, it's showing the dark side of humans, filled with greed, resentment, jealousy, violence, etc. But it fails Horribly.
Let me repeat, HORRIBLY.

No single character is realistic. To the average eye, it may look like the characters are dark and filled with personalities to explore. But in reality, the writers are just lazy. They try to make the characters as bad and pathetic as possible, but they completely forget the main thing that makes a character interesting, motivation. The characters in the anime have no motivation for their ... action. It's all based on some blatant dull reason. In episode 5, why did the villagers suddenly go against the family who were so nice to them? How could people have a change of heart so fast? Why did the family not move? Why was the rich family so pissed at the family? Why was their KID so pissed off at them? Why were the kids in the car little bitches? Do you seriously think I will buy that the parents did not notice their child being bullied? Character motivation is what drives the plot of a story, and this anime failed in that aspect.

The horrible writing and dull characters made this an apalling experience to watch.
Highly recommend you not watching this. It is just a waste of time.

I do not usually write reviews, but had to rant about this somewhere.

I can summarize my experience under 4 words:

Great message Appalling Execution

This anime started off with a lot of hype but went downhill faster than Love-pon screams "Exectuion!"

Story is full of plot holes, and I could not stand the characters and their attitudes. The story was also rushed into 13 episodes which should have been 26. The quality of the overall storytelling went so low, that I started to find it humorous. Like really? You are traumatized by Silicon Gel because you put breast implants in your head? Are you f***ing serious? I hope the authors were having fun writing this piece of crap, cause ... I cannot imagine then writing it with a serious face.

Most of the animations were CG and it did not match with the "hand - drawn" animations. The character designs were so generic , and I could probably forget what they looked like a year later.

The sound was not bad but was not good. There wasn't a soundtrack that caught my attention.

Ah, Enjoyment.. man every f***ing character pissed me off to the point where it became funny, and I thought I was watching a comedy.