Hell Girl 2 [Paperback]

Miyuki Eto (Author)

Book Description

Series: Hell Girl | Publication Date: May 6, 2008

REVENGE BECOMES HER

The Hell Girl is the ultimate avenger. Go to her website at midnight, enter the name of your tormentor, and the Hell Girl will destroy your enemy. Some who turn to the Hell Girl are evil (the figure skater who’ll stop at nothing to win); others are good people at the end of their rope (the girl who saves her sister from an abusive nanny). But the price of revenge is the same for all: eternal torment in hell!

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 16 and up
  
• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Del Rey (May 6, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 034550416X
• ISBN-13: 978-0345504166
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.6 x 7.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #895,305 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Much better than the first one..., May 28, 2008

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This review is from: Hell Girl 2 (Paperback)

I was originally drawn to Hell Girl by the artwork, only to be dissapointed by volume 1's storyline. While the premise (people send their enemies to hell via a website) is an interesting, it's still been done before to some extent. What drove me away from the first volume was the brainlessness & selfishness of the characters- you just couldn't sympathise with them enough to get that interested in the manga. Still, I decided that I'd give the manga another shot with the second volume, and I have to say... it's definately made me glad I did.

Where the first volume's characters were either unlikable or unsympathetic in that they were too overly hasty in dialing up Hell Girl (they didn't even try all of their options), the majority of the characters in this volume are people who are literally at the end of their rope and can only be helped by a little demonic intervention. With characters ranging from a jilted friend who's a little too reluctant to go through with the curse to an older sister who summons Hell Girl to protect her little sister, these are characters that you can not only sympathize with, they are characters that you can believe would be willing to send themselves to hell to save someone else. Even when the characters are selfish or a bit whiny they are still people that you can relate to (which is important in any fictional work). After reading this, I have to admit that I'm much more of a fan of the series than I was before.

Would I recommend this to a friend? Yes, more so now than when I read the first volume. This is a good creepy series that has a lot of potential that it is just now starting to fulfill.