Obscure Anime of The Day:

Hell Girl

Aired: 2005-2006

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Seinen, Supernatural, Violence

Jigoku Shōjo 地獄少女

Art by deviantart.com/sysen/

Enma Ai 2024 Watercolour and ink on paper

In part this was inspired by the fact that the cherry trees in my garden are flowering. (They have white flowers though.) In other part I painted this because I wanted to express the fragility of life; and I also simply really like her as a character.

I know this is not a kimono she ever had on in the anime. I made it for her for the sake of the picture. But I tried to follow what she would be likely to want to wear, he kind of thing she usually does wear. And I also know that I disregarded the folds when it comes to the flowers; that too is on purpose, because since her kimono usually seems to have the flowers just floating there in the blackness, and floating off when she takes someone's soul, I wanted to have that effect that they aren't quite a fabric pattern. It was actually really hard to resist, every part of me was demanding that I fold the cherry pattern with the fabric.

It was actually very interesting to depict the same kind of flowers in two different ways, in a much more graphical way on the garment and a much more painterly way on the actual branch.

~ 朱に染まる ~  Paint in Blood

いっぺん、死んでみる?

地獄少女 / きくり

「人を呪わば穴二つ」

彼岸花

地獄少女

Jigoku Shōjo

Higanbana

地獄少女スロット♪AT中に中段チェリーだと? なんという僥倖!僥倖!僥倖! しかし、ストック1個で終了だと? 頼むから起こってくれよ 当たり前の確率でいいんだ(^_^;) #地獄回廊 #地獄少女 #輪廻転生 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg1q8kRPtf6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Girl Hell (Masaru Konuma, 1977)