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Hell Teacher: Jigoku Sensei Nube · review

★
Top reader Sep 24, 2025 · 3 min read
↓ Not recommended
3 /10

This is a modernized shell of that '90s classic. I didn't watch the original series, but there's no denying it's a classic, even today. Thinking it would be treated like a classic and that they'd do a good job, I decided to give it a chance. In the end, they just gave me a reimagining of the story, with no defined plot and flat, charisma-free characters. You could have titled this "My Poor Teacher vs. the Neighborhood Demons," and I would have enjoyed it more. The first two episodes are an introduction to Nube's world. It shows you Nube in his dual roles as teacher and exorcist,his relationship with the students, the main "villain," and what fights are like in this world. What happens in those two episodes is completely thrown out the window in the other 11 episodes and they start telling stories no one asked for. Nube, in his role as a teacher, is comic relief about how he's always short on money, but beyond that, Nube has no depth. As an exorcist, your job is simply to hit something with your hand and explain to the demon on duty. This becomes repetitive by the middle of the season and tiresome by the end. The students are flatter than the earth in the mind of a flat-earther. None of them develop, explore, or have anything to contribute.
They're just there to be magnets for the demons that Nube will have to exorcise. If you replace them with plants, the story ends up benefiting. The "Villain" appears at the beginning and leaves, saying "I'll be back," and when he does, he ends up being more like Nube's boyfriend than her rival. I don't mind them being boyfriend and girlfriend, I mind that their romance wasn't developed on screen. That was the last good thing they had, and they decided not to exploit it. The fights went on sabbatical. They don't exist, they don't exist, it's just running from the demon the entire episode, and at the end, Nube will arrive to deliver a slap capable of exorcising even the most stubborn demon. There are no fights, no rituals, no chants, no tools, no strategies, just exorcising slaps.

The idea of ​​a remake is to allow the original story to be known by new audiences with a technological update on the technical side. If you're going to use a '90s classic to talk to me about being eco-friendly, the importance of trash, and the power of friendship, you didn't need to tarnish the name of a franchise when you could have just as easily created a new one and ruined it with this terrible level of production.

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