Jigoku Shoujo (Anime): Episode List

1- "Yūyami no Kanata Yori" ("From Beyond the Twilight")
(夕闇の彼方より)

Airdate: October 4, 2005

Mayumi Hashimoto, a junior high school student, is bullied by classmate Aya Kuroda a sukeban : the latter framing the former for embezzling class money, coercing her into immoral behavior and then blackmailing her. Mayumi overhears of a website that exacts revenge by sending the object of one's grudge to hell. Visiting the website at the appointed time (midnight), Mayumi learns that the price of sending her enemy to hell is the cost of her own soul. She hesitates after this but her situation gets worse, and in desperation, she sends Aya to Hell. Free of her enemy, her life becomes peaceful again; yet she must now live the remainder of her life knowing that she will go to Hell after she dies, bearing the mark on her chest.