Hell Girl

The resources of one known as "Recon" provided me with a recording of part of IFC's run of Hell Girl.

I just finished watching it.

It's a beautifully-animated show and deeply, deeply f***ed up.

In a nutshell, this girl named Ai can be summoned by the "Hell Correspondence" website that appears after midnight. Enter your grievance and it summons Ai, the Hell Girl. Ai gives the summoner a straw doll with a red cord tied around it. She then explains that the summoner has only to remove the string and the summoner's target will be sent straight to hell.

No passing Go. No collecting $200.

The catch: the summoner bears a mark indicating that (s)he will also go to hell, when the summoner's life ends.

The interesting bit about the story - to me - is that the target for the summoner doesn't have to be a guilty person.

Kind of messed up.

There's apparently three seasons of this messed-up show. I'll have to track the rest down now.