Comments on: Hell Girl Book 1

By: Deka Kyoshi Book 1 » Manga Worth Reading

Deka Kyoshi Book 1 » Manga Worth Reading — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:57:32 +0000

[...] While he’s supposed to be the authority figure, in practice, Toyama winds up being a goofy, oversized plot device, since Makoto is the one who drives resolution but he can’t take certain actions because of his age. The stories are really about how mean kids can be to each other. The results are simple morality tales, correcting injustice and resetting order in predictable, comforting ways. It’s like a much kinder, gentler Hell Girl. [...]

By: Hell Girl Book 5 » Manga Worth Reading

Hell Girl Book 5 » Manga Worth Reading — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:07:47 +0000

[...] Hell Girl can’t even get a simple morality tale about revenge right. It’s best to avoid Hell Girl in all her incarnations. Johanna previously reviewed volumes one and two. [...]

By: Kaitlin

Kaitlin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:46:29 +0000

Kai has a point. Basicly, in condemming someone to hell, wouldn’t you be just as bad as the people you sent there? And personally, i don’t think anyone is worth having your own soul belonging to hell when you die. I’ve watched the show and yeah, some of those people REALLY deserved to die, but does that really make us any better?

By: Kai

Kai — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:13:23 +0000

Hell Girl makes the readers want the bad people to just die. But in the overall concept, Hell Girl makes you ask the question, ‘Even if they do bad things, would it be all right for me to send them to Hell? Aren’t I being just like them?’ Readers don’t want the good characters to go to hell, but in the end, couldn’t things have been handled differently? Could they have avoided their one way trip to Hell? This makes it seem that if you were to hurt someone for hurting you, you’d be doing the same thing to begin with.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:20:54 +0000

Thanks, sorry its been about 3 weeks since ive written back, i would like to thank you Johanna for telling me, bit my parents wont let me but, i guess ill just have one of my friends order it for me. Thanks

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:47:38 +0000

If you go to any bookstore and tell them you want to buy Hell Girl and give them the ISBN (which is 978-0345497475), then they will be able to order it for you.

By: Julie Miranda

Julie Miranda — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:11:51 +0000

ok ive been all day at school and we have a computor class, and so far ive been in here for about two periods. CAN ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I CAN FIND HELL GIRL AT A STORE. and no i dont mean on line like at a real store. i dont have internet at home. oh ya i live in corinth mississippi.

By: Hell is for children! « Precocious Curmudgeon

Hell is for children! « Precocious Curmudgeon — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:16:31 +0000

[...] (Comics Worth Reading) Draper Carlson suspects the story might work better in a different medium: “This was an anime series before it was a manga, and I think it probably works better that way. [...]

By: MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Busy Monday

MangaBlog » Blog Archive » Busy Monday — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:00:34 +0000

[...] Johanna Draper Carlson has a good critique of vol. 1 of Hell Girlf up at Comics Worth Reading. At the MangaCast, Ed has an audio review of vol. 1 of Appleseed and [...]