Ai Enma

**Ai Enma**, also known as the **Hell Girl**, is the main protagonist from the *Hell Girl* series.

## **Charactah Account**

With long, flowing hair and red eyes, she is a spiritual entity with a tragic past, who lives in a world of eternal twilight with her grandmother, and is the one who receives and delivers vengeance on her clients' behalf. She normally wears a black seifuku, or sailor uniform (which is usually worn during winter months), but always wears a kimono with floral designs when delivering the vengeance of a client.

Ai started her career as the Hell Girl by her own act of vengeance on the villagers who sentenced her to a sacrificial death. Her eyes turned red arguably at the point where Sentaro (her childhood soulmate who gave in under the villagers' pressure to bury her alive) gave the first shovel of soil onto her face. She broke out of her grave after a while, and took revenge on the entire village with her wrath, burning it to the ground. Her task of fulfilling other people's vengeance and ferrying people to Hell is her punishment, a task which she has performed for the better part of 400 years. Although this task is presented as atonement, it is unknown whether she will ever be freed of it. Since she has done this for so long, she initially seemed to have become emotionless, numbed, as is shown by her expressionless face. Wanyuudou noted she still had feelings, though, although she did not express them strongly, and it was later revealed that Ai had been ordered to close her heart by the Spider. The experiences she has with the Shibatas reawakened her discontent with her terrible fate and later apparently reawakened other emotions, or at least Ai's ability to express them. When enraged, Ai demonstrates the ability to hurl great blasts of energy, as well as the power to create elaborate illusions and the ability to teleport.

## **Appearance**

### **Anime**

* Hell Girl
* Hell Girl: Fourth Twilight
* Hell Girl: Three Vessels
* Hell Girl: Two Mirrors
* Student Council's Discretion

### **Manga**

* Hell Girl
* Hell Girl Returns
* New Hell Girl

## **Trivia**

* Ai is similar to the ferryman Charon from Greek mythology, who carried the souls of the dead across the river Styx to the Underworld.
* Ai's reincarnation immediately after her death and her act of burning her village down makes her, at that stage, similar to an Onryō from Japanese mythology, which is a ghost believed to be capable of causing harm in the world of the living, injuring or killing enemies, or even causing natural disasters to exact vengeance to redress the wrongs it received while alive, then taking their spirits from their dying bodies.
	+ Her appearance also has similarities to most exemplary Onryō, who also commonly have pale white skin and long black hair.
* Ai was physically injured every season, once in *Two Mirrors*, and twice in *Three Vessels*, and the first season each:
	+ In the first season, she was beaten up by the villagers of her village when she was alive.
	+ Later on, in the first season, she was thrown around through Gilles de L'Enfer's telekinetic abilities in the episode *Hell Girl vs. Hell Boy*. However, she showed no sign of pain or resistance.
	+ In *Two Mirrors*, she was beaten to death again by some of the individuals of Lovely Hills.
	+ In *Three Vessels*, she was kicked in the stomach in the episode *My Teacher*.
	+ Furthermore, in *Three Vessels*, Ai was hit in the stomach with a dark bolt of energy fired by Yuzuki Mikage.
* Ai and Sentarou have been hinted to have had romantic feelings for each other multiple times.
* Ai can play flutes, though their only use, which happened before sending someone to Hell raises doubts as to whether it was just an illusion or not.
* Unlike Michiru Sagae, Ai's flames are blue, which is a more potent form of yellow fire.

## **External Links**

* Ai Enma at Hell Girl (Jigoku Shoujo) Wiki