After 26 episodes this series has finally come to an end. I thought the last episode did a good job of finishing this series. Pretty much all the remaining questions we’ve had are answered in this episode. We find out why Ai is doing what she has been doing for the past 400 years. I liked how we got to see Tsugumi struggling not to pull the thread while Ai was pressuring her. She’s one tough and mature 7-year-old, I’ll give her that much. I thought the scene where we see Hajime asking for Tsugumi to forgive him was a pretty nice scene. I wouldn’t say this was a fantastic ending, but I think it did what it set out to do and it has its fair share of good scenes. In the end things are back to the way they were with Ai continuing with her job of helping people damn others. They could have just left the series at this point, but a second season is already in the works. It’ll be interesting to see what changes they make in the second season.

Without a doubt this was one of the most unique series in the last couple of months. That in itself is already a good reason to watch this series. One of the drawbacks of this series were the amount of similar one-shot episodes. There were some stories that stood out because of their originality, but there were others that didn’t stray from the formula used in episode one. I thought the art for the series was pretty decent. Because of all these one-shot episodes we didn’t get to see the recurring characters develop that much. In terms of the usual category, I thought this series was a little weak in the music department. It had a good opening song and whatnot, but the BGM’s were kind of lacking in my opinion. This isn’t a series for everybody. If you’re looking for something completely different from the usual genres then I highly recommend “Jigoku Shoujo”.