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Ai Enma
Ai Enma (閻魔 あい, Ai Enma?)
Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese), Brina Palencia (English)
The primary protagonist of the series. With long, flowing hair and red eyes, she is a spiritual entity with a tragic past, she lives in a world of eternal twilight with her grandmother, and is the one who receives and delivers vengeance on her clients' behalf. She normally wears a black seifuku, or sailor uniform (which is usually worn during winter months), but always wears a flowery kimono when delivering the vengeance of a client. Ai started her career as the Hell Girl by her own act of vengeance on the villagers who sentenced her to a sacrificial death. Her task of fulfilling other people's vengeance and ferrying people to Hell is her punishment, a task which she has performed for the better part of 400 years. Although this task is presented as atonement, it is unknown whether she will ever be freed of it. Since she has done this for so long, she initially seemed to have become emotionless, numbed, as is shown by her expressionless face. Wanyūdō noted she still had feelings, though, although she did not express them strongly, and it was later revealed that Ai had been ordered to close her heart by the Spider. The experiences she has with the Shibatas first reawoke her discontent with her terrible fate and later apparently reawoke other emotions, or at least Ai's ability to express them. Before meeting the Shibatas, it was even possible that Ai had managed to suppress her memories of her own grudge and past. When enraged, Ai demonstrates the power to hurl great blasts of energy, as well as the power to lucrate elaborate illusions and teleport others and herself. Later, in the second season, Ai's emotions and memories are once again released by the suffering of Takuma Kurebayashi, similar to her own situation in the past. This leads Ai to defy her 'employer', who is the Lord of Hell, causing her to be restored to human life - and killed shortly thereafter, when saving Takuma from his tormentors. After Ai's self-sacrifice, her body dissolves into sakura petals and drifts into the sky; one might theorize her self-sacrifice serves as sufficient atonement for her crimes that she and her loved ones are released from the grasp of Hell.
Ichimoku Ren (一目連, Ichimoku Ren?)
Ichimoku Ren (一目連, Ichimoku Ren?)
Voiced by: Masaya Matsukaze
An assistant of Ai who appears to be a handsome young man. He can manifest a single, very large eye that can be directed anywhere, allowing him to see inside of a building through walls. This manifests as an eye on a wall, etc. The large eye can also be used as a weapon, by projecting intense flashes of light. When so required, Ren becomes the blue straw doll by kissing a pendant he wears around his neck. He is sometimes referred to as "Moku" or "Ichimoto Ren". It is later revealed that Ren is a tsukumogami, an artifact which has gained sentience after a long time of existence. In Ren's case, he was once a katana, forced to be aware and watch whatever was done with him. He was given his current form(s) by Ai, who collected him after he was abandoned on a battlefield. Since that time, Ren has apparently grown quite fond of his human form, displaying considerable vanity from time to time. Ai claims she invited him to join her because there is something that Ren is looking for, a fact perhaps manifested in Ren's occasional puzzlement and inability to understand the things humans do. Alternatively, some of Ren's comments indicate that what he was looking for was companionship, something to fill the emptiness of his existence as a sword used for endless killing. Ren has apparently developed feelings for his colleagues, seeing them as family. He is Ai's second companion.
Hone Onna (骨女, Hone Onna?)
Hone Onna (骨女, Hone Onna?)
Voiced by: Takako Honda
Assistant of Ai, and appears to be a beautiful woman in a kimono with its obi tied in front--the trademark of a prostitute. But in the second season, the obi was tied in the usual manner. She becomes the red straw doll when necessary by tossing her red obi strap over her neck. Onna, along with Ren, researches the people who make a contract and the ones they have a grudge against. She usually infiltrates human society in casual clothing to investigate cases, on these occasions she tends to use the psudonym "Sone Anna". On certain occasions, she uses throwing knives as weapons; Onna is apparently extremely skilled with these weapons. Her knives seem to carry some mystic charge, since they can be used to quickly dispatch supernatural enemies. Onna also seems to have some skill as a contortionist, which allows her to squeeze into very small places. Getting out of those same places, however, is an area she is less talented in. Onna seems to suffer from mild vanity; she can be quite offended when she is addressed as obā-san ('old lady' or 'auntie'; a Japanese form of address for any woman of middle age and above). She can expose the bones in her body, scaring the target of the grudge; the name Hone Onna actually means bone woman. In episode 8 of Futakomori she jokingly reveals that she is "200 years old". A flashback scene revealed that she was a Geisha originally named Tsuyu; Tsuyu was betrayed by a man who she had fallen in love with, who sold her to a Geisha house to be able to pay off his own debts. Tsuyu was betrayed again later, this time by fellow Geisha Kion, when she attempted to arrange Kion's escape with a man who had come to truly love Tsuyu. She and her beloved one were stabbed by a samurai under the eyes of Kion; that same samurai cast Tsuyu into a river afterwards. Spirits rising from human bones thrown into the river before merged with her, transforming Tsuyu into the yōkai Hone Onna, in which form she later met Ai. She is Ai's third companion.
Ai's Grandmother (あいの祖母, Ai no Sobo?)
Voiced by: Eriko Matsushima
Never actually seen in the series, other than as a shadowy silhouette behind a paper screen, she is always spinning thread in her room, and occasionally talks to Ai and gives her advice. She is mostly telling Ai that she has another client or telling Ai her client has pulled the string. She never speaks to anybody but Ai, with three exceptions; she occasionally scolds Kikuri, and she has talked to Hajime once as a deal for her to get him out of captivity in the sunset world for a favor. A single human eyewitness who has observed Ai's grandmother ran in terror, implying her appearance may be other than human. And lastly when she gave a message to Ai's 3 assistants from Ai herself.
The Spider (人面蜘蛛, Jinmen Gumo?)
Voiced by: Hidekatsu Shibata
An oddly-coloured spider with three eyes upon its abdomen, which appears in the sunset world where Ai and her assistants reside between assignments. The spider is probably the same creature as the giant jellyfish-like entity which watches whenever Ai ferries a soul to Hell. It speaks with the voice of a man and is apparently Ai's superior, having been the one to pronounce sentence on her after she killed the people of her village. It claims to be holding the souls of Ai's loved ones - namely her parents - hostage against her good behaviour; if Ai did not do the job she was given, they would wander in darkness for eternity. The spider at one time demonstrates an ability to pilot the ferryboat to Hell and tries to restrain Ai, having decided to take her to Hell when she reawoke her feelings of rage and violently attacked the Shibatas. Ai turned out to be too strong for it to hold her without her consent. The spider is neither liked nor trusted by Ai's assistants, with whom it in turn does not speak. In the last episode of the second season, Wanyuudou identifies the spider as the lord of Hell. It seems likely that the Spider deliberately exposed Ai to a situation reminiscent of her own death in order to test whether she would obey its will or act on the impulses of her human heart. Apparently only Ai's self-sacrifice saved her and her parents from the cruel fate the spider had planned for them.
Kikuri (きくり, Kikuri?)
Voiced by: Kanako Sakai
An enigmatic little girl introduced in season two. Little is known about her except the fact she is not an ordinary human as she can wander freely between the mortal plane and Ai's house in the sunset world, sometimes interfering with her and her associates' job. In stark contrast to Ai, Kikuri has completely blue/purple eyes (including the sclera) and her personality is far more childish than Ai's. She has stated that she likes Ai, but her actions and use of powers seem to serve causing the greatest amount of suffering and fear possible. It is as yet unknown whether this is due to true malice or not. Occasionally, she seems to take delight in acts of low-level destruction, such as chopping off flowers or destroying anything that Ai cares for. She has shown incredible skills with her loincloth, using it whip-like to catch or hit objects. Despite the fact she appears to wreak havoc on her, she takes orders from Ai and Ai alone (in one episode, she shows this while going to touch Ai's grandmother's spinning wheels despite the woman's protests). In the last episode of the second season, it is revealed that Kikuri is in fact a host for the will of the Spider, which can take over her body as it pleases. As such, it becomes questionable how many of her malicious acts were of her own will and which were instigated by her master. After Ai's death and the release of her beloved ones, Kikuri, riding on the boat, says, "it's over...that was Ai's answer...Well done." As she says those words, she pokes a cherry the color of Ai's eyes in her former childish way. As of now, it is uncertain who the next Hell Girl is - but it is certain that there is one.
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