Hells Angels (manga)

Hells Angels is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shinichi Hiromoto [ja]. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump from August 2002 to April 2004 and compiled into three tankōbon volumes. It follows a teenage girl named Rinne Amagane who dies on her way to school and ends up in another school, in the underworld. While down there, she learns to get along with her new classmates, who are all demons.

Hells Angels
First tankōbon volume cover
Genre	Dark comedy[1] Dark fantasy[2]
Manga
Written by	Shinichi Hiromoto [ja]
Published by	Shueisha
Magazine	Ultra Jump
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	August 19, 2002 – April 19, 2004
Volumes	3
Anime film
Hells
Directed by	Yoshiki Yamakawa
Written by	Yoshiki Yamakawa Kazuyuki Fudeyasu
Music by	Edison
Studio	Madhouse
Licensed by	NA: Discotek Media
Released	October 18, 2008
Runtime	117 minutes[3]

Hells Angels was adapted into an anime film produced by Madhouse, which premiered at the 2008 Tokyo International Film Festival. The film was initially released under its original title, but was later retitled to Hells on the 2012 Blu-ray release. The film was licensed by Discotek Media in 2017.

Plot

Amagane Rinne is a playful and cheerful teenager. One day, she gets hit by a truck on her way to school, and lands in Hell. Far from being discouraged, she wants to finish her schooling and will try despite the circumstances to make friends, which she had promised herself when she was alive. But what she doesn't know is the fact that she is dead.

Cast

Hells cast

Roles	Japanese[4]	English[5][6]
Rinne Amagane	Misato Fukuen	Amanda Lee
Ryu Kutō	Daisuke Kishio	Howard Wang
Headmaster Hellvis	Fumihiko Tachiki	Jason Marnocha
Steela	Miyuki Sawashiro	Megan Shipman
Rokku	Chō	Martin Billany
Mario	Hidenobu Kiuchi	Joshua Gotay
Rei Kagurazaka	Yūna Inamura	Amber Lee Connors
Luca	Akeno Watanabe	Corinne Sudberg
Phantoma	Yui Kano	Marin Miller
Kiki	Ami Koshimizu	Sarah Anne Williams
Wolfie	Yuki Matsuoka	Marissa Lenti
Cronola	Yū Asakawa	Caitlyn Elizabeth
Gillealla	Rina Satō	Amanda Gish
Curia	Nana Inoue	Elizabeth Maxwell
Mummyla	Akeno Watanabe	Emily Fajardo
Franken (grunts)	Nobuyuki Hiyama	Benjamin Tehrani
Who	Keiji Fujiwara	Chris Guererro
Rinne's Mother	Romi Park	Jessica Calvello
Pandaz	Nobuyuki Hiyama	Scott Frerichs
Captain of the East Witches	Takako Honda	Melissa Sternenberg
Dorm mother	Masako Nozawa	Lawrence Simpson
Homeroom teacher	Zennosuke Fukkin	Nick Landis
Hebo	Keiji Fujiwara	Anthony Sardinha

Media

Manga

Hells Angels is written and illustrated by Shinichi Hiromoto [ja]. It was serialized in Shueisha's seinen manga magazine Ultra Jump from August 19, 2002,^[a] to April 19, 2004.^[b] Shueisha collected its chapters in three tankōbon volumes published from April 18, 2003,^[11] to July 16, 2004.^[12]

Volumes

No.	Release date	ISBN
1	April 18, 2003[11]	4-08-876438-2
2	October 17, 2003[13]	4-08-876521-4
3	July 16, 2004[12]	4-08-876633-4

Film

An anime film adaptation by Madhouse, which premiered at the 2008 Tokyo International Film Festival.^[1][14] The theme song is "Breathe Again feat. Sphere" by Jamosa.^[15]

The Japanese distributor TC Entertainment released the film, simply titled as Hells, on Blu-ray with English subtitles on August 3, 2012.^[2][16] On June 12, 2017, Discotek Media had announced at its panel at AnimeNEXT that it would release the film on Blu-ray and DVD.^[17] On August 13, 2017, Discotek Media announced that the home media release would include an English dub.^[5] The English dub of the film marked the first time voice acting/video production company TeamFourStar (known for the comedic webseries Dragon Ball Z Abridged) worked on an official dub.^[5][18][19] Discotek Media released the Blu-ray on November 27, 2018.^[20]

Reception

The Hells anime film was one of the Jury Recommended Works at the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2008.^[21]

Notes

1. It debuted in the September 2002 issue,^[7] released on August 19 of that same year.^[8]
2. It finished in the May 2004 issue,^[9] released on April 19 of that same year.^[10]