Trivia / Hell Girl

• Anime First: The anime and manga began releasing almost simultaneously, but the former is the original and the latter the adaptation (anime has a longer lead time than manga). The manga's quite different, and lacks Hajime and Tsugumi except in omakes.
• Contractual Immortality: Ai Enma was dead by the end of season 2 but they wanted a third so...
• Creator Couple: Yuji Ueda, voice of Hajime is married to Omi Minami, the voice of Nina from the 17th episode of the first season.
• Defictionalization: People have actually made real "Hell Correspondence" websites. You can find one if you look hard enough. We don’t claim responsibility if Ai actually visits you.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The DVDs can set your finances back in the triple digits, and there are no sites legally streaming it (not even Funimation). Likewise, even if you know/knew a store that carries the DVDs, you can't be guaranteed to get enough of the DVDs to complete the whole set.
• No Dub for You: The other seasons were never dubbed.
• No Export for You: Only the first manga series was licensed due to a combination of poor sales and Del Rey Manga shutting down.
• Recast as a Regular: Ryōka Yuzuki had the role of Masami Sekimoto in Episode 4 of Season 1 before voicing Azusa Mayama in Season 3.
• Screwed by the Network: Animax Latinamerica licensed the second season and was supposed to have a dub...and then the channel rebranded.
• Similarly Named Works: There's a horror film of the same name that premiered in 2019, which is completely unrelated to this series.

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