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Monday, 24 November 2008 |
 | | ▪ | RELEASED BY: | | DEL REY | | | ▪ | AUTHOR / ART: | | MIYUKI ETO | | | ▪ | FORMAT: | | JAPANESE/ B&W | | | ▪ | PAGES: | | 200 | | | ▪ | RATING: | | OT | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 10/28/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 11/24/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | DAVEY C. JONES |
It’s a full plate of vengeance in the latest round of hell gone wild! First a little precious girl wants nothing more than to play piano. She lost her real dad a long time ago. He just disappeared (things that make you go “Hmm.”. It already seems suspicious. Then her step-dad gets violent about the piano playing, even threatens to chop off her hands! He locks her up and she finds out the ugly truth behind her real daddy’s disappearance. Hell Girl gives her a choice, and when the step-father from hell attacks her mom, he’s about to find out what real Hell is like! That was righteous vengeance justly served! But it’s too bad the little girl has damned her own soul to eternal suffering because of it. Next is another pet abuse story (That is so one of my least favorite topics and too often used in this series.) about a nasty hag who rescues dogs just so that she can beat them whenever the mood strikes her. Well Hell Girl is about to help one pet lover strike back! Then in an odd twist, a girl stands up to her bff to stop another classmate from getting bullied. But it lands her on the wrong end of the bullying when her buddy and the rest of the class turn against her! They shut her out, pull some seriously nasty pranks, and even the bullied girl she helped gives her the cold shoulder! She considers using the Hell Girl Correspondence. But she’s too nice girl at heart and tries to fix it all and be friends again (although why anyone would want to be friends with a turncoat and nasty piece of work like her supposed ‘best pal’ is beyond me). That's when it all goes wrong. Someone pulls the string, but you’ll never believe who it is! Yep, pulling the red thread on that black straw doll is bad news no matter what. But the last story in the volume has an unusual twist. In fact I might go out on a limb here and say that I think this is my favorite story in the series, at least so far. A girl gets framed by a former student for making a fake Hell Correspondence web site and for pushing a teacher down the stairs. It’s not quite what you expect when you learn who did what to whom and why. Then when it comes down to hellacious vengeance, it’s another surprise to find out who put in whose name and pulled that thread of nasty fate! Plus there’re fun manga extras like all sorts of bonus comical omake offering a look at Hell Girl like you’ve never imagined possible. It’s such a zany addition after all the serious vengeance stuff to go to these silly and totally funny comic panels about Hell Girl afterwards. It’s super fun.
IN SUMMARY:
It's hellacious grudges gone wild! |
