Is Jigoku Shoujo good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Jigoku Shoujo (The Girl From Hell) is a TV series from Fall 2005 by Studio Deen Co., Ltd.: 26 episodes, about 11 hours in total, finished, 7.45/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged horror, psychological, thriller, tragedy and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 26
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 11 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2005
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Studio Deen Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.45/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- aliens, urban fantasy, crime, demons, detective, drama, episodic, ghost, gore, horror, magical girl, mystery, psychological, revenge, school, seinen, supernatural, thriller, tragedy, zombie, violence, youkai
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: Hell Girl.
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Related anime
More like this: aliens · urban fantasy · crime · demons · detective · drama · ghost · horror · magical girl · mystery · psychological · revenge · school · seinen · supernatural · thriller · tragedy · zombie · youkai.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Jigoku Shoujo?
- About 11 hours for all 26 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Jigoku Shoujo have?
- 26 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Jigoku Shoujo finished?
- Yes, Jigoku Shoujo is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Jigoku Shoujo good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Jigoku Shoujo is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Jigoku Shoujo listed?
- Jigoku Shoujo is on AniList (id 228) and MyAnimeList (id 228); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists