List of Jubei-chan characters

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Nanohana Jiyū (菜ノ花 自由) Voiced by: Hiroko Konishi (Japanese) in Series 1, Yui Horie (Japanese) in Series 2, Melanie Risdon (English)

The main protagonist of the series, Jiyuu Nanohana (菜花 自由, Nanohana Jiyū) is a 14–15-year-old junior high school girl attending a new school at the start of The Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch. She has a bright personality and a close relationship with her father. She is very well rounded which grabs the attention of the boys in her school and local area. Her nickname is Juubei, a reference to the famous Japanese swordsman Yagyuu Juubei. As Yagyuu Juubei, Jiyuu is described as a calculating young swordswoman with a completely different persona, although some of her true self is still shown. Whenever she defeats an enemy, she releases him/her from their hatred on Yagyuu Juubei. Despite her appearance of a petite young high school girl, Jiyuu does have some skills, one of these is the "Yagyuu Shinkageryuu Mutodori", a sword catching skill used to prevent harm on her opponent.

Jiyuu first encountered Koinosuke Odagou, who had been searching for a worthy successor for the Lovely Eyepatch. After her first transformation into Yagyuu Juubei, Jiyuu is targeted by the Ryuujouji clan, a school that has had a grudge on Yagyuu Juubei. Since then, Jiyuu has battled with the Ryuujouji clan and their leader.

The second series starts a year later. Even though Jiyuu has tried to forget the events of the first series, she still feels guilty over what happened to Koinosuke and did not want to wear the Eyepatch anymore. She requests Sai quit being a ghostwriter and write her a love story under his own name. She meets and befriends Freesia Yagyuu, a transfer student from Russia, and later encounters Koinosuke's child, Ayunosuke. At first, she refuses to wear the Eyepatch, but after being attacked by the Siberian Yagyuu and Freesia, who desires the Eyepatch so she can become the true Yagyuu Juubei the Second, she picks up her sword once again.

After being slapped by Sai, Jiyuu falls into a state of confusion, mistaking Mikage as her mother while not recognizing Sai as her father. Later, both Mikage and Sai help her to regain her memories and convince her to stop running from what she must do. Understanding her destiny, she provokes Freesia into an amazing duel and convinces her to stop her goal of vengeance since her spade-shaped Eyepatch has already made her what she wanted to be due to it having the same powers as the Lovely Eyepatch, after which they are attacked by the spirit of Kita Retsusai. Together with Freesia, Jiyuu defeats Retsusai, wiping him out of existence. She feels guilty over what has happened to Ayunosuke, but the last screen shot shows her reuniting with Ayunosuke.

Note: Jiyuu's nickname Jubei if pronounced slowly is Jiyuu-bei.

Nanohana Sai (菜ノ花 彩) Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese); Byron Close (English)

Sai is Jiyuu's father and a ghostwriter of silly samurai dramas. He is often tormented by the memories of his wife, who died at home by Jiyuu's side when he used to work in his office. After the incident, he promised to be a better father to Jiyuu and subsequently started working at home. Despite his appearance, Sai is in fact talented, he taught Juubei the "Yagyuu Shinkageryuu Mutodori"; as well as disarm Mick and restrain him.

In the first series, Sai is shown as an hilarious character who often gets beaten up for being mistaken as Jiyuu's stalker. He learns the truth about Jiyuu after Mikage tells him. When Jiyuu battled Taiko Daiyu, he lets him possess his own body and fight his daughter. However, Sai still wants to protect her, and aids her in defeating Taiko Daiyu. He is last seen crying after finding out that Mikage is married.

When the events of The Counter Attack of Siberian Yagyuu take place, Sai instead of writing silly samurai dramas, writes a romance novel under his own name at his daughter's request. However, when his old boss begs him to write a samurai novel, he skips his daughter's request. When Mikage later appears as his supervisor, old feelings for her return despite the fact knowing she's already married. Later, Jiyuu finds out about this and left home; Sai is depressed and tricked by Freesia, he slaps Jiyuu the moment she returns which makes her fall into a state of confusion. He apologises to Jiyuu and convinces her to fight again. After the incident, Sai stays home working under Mikage's supervision.

Yagyū Furēshā (柳生フリーシャ) Voiced by: Erina Nakayama (Japanese); Carol-Anne Day (English)

Shinsen Subs offers her name as "Felicia"

Freesia Yagyuu (柳生 フレーシャ, Yagyū Furēsha) is the daughter of Yagyuu Juubei with Trusia. As a child, Freesia witnessed her father's fight with Kita Ressai. During the fight, Freesia fell into the lake where her father and Ressai were fighting and was trapped inside a block of ice for 300 years until it melted. There, she landed in Hokkaido where she was raised by animals. While Jiyuu dons a Heart-shaped Eyepatch, Freesia makes a Spade-shaped Eyepatch and calls up her father's power to transform herself into what she calls the true Yagyuu Juubei the Second.

When she finds out her father has been dead for several centuries and that he left the Lovely Eye Patch to a successor, Freesia believes that she is the rightful owner of the Lovely Eyepatch and came to take it back from Jiyuu. Freesia intends to make Jiyuu suffer as she has suffered, so she tricks Sai into believing that Jiyuu left home because he lied to her about writing the romantic novel under his own name instead of continuing to ghostwrite and that he is a fake father. This makes him slap his own daughter the moment she returns home, putting Jiyuu in a state of confusion. After being done with Jiyuu's part, she plans to finish what her father could not, destroy the Siberian Yagyuu. Under the "False" Jubei, she is good of a swordswoman as Jiyuu, but lacks techniques like Mutodori, in addition, carries the blood lust that her father did not want her to inherit.

While waiting for them, Freesia encounters Jiyuu, who has regained her memories. The two rivals engage one another in a fantastic duel. Jiyuu however, convinces Freesia to stop fighting as she is her friend and that she has already become what she desires thanks to her Spade Eyepatch, proving it by having her use the Mutodori technique to block her sword strike. Seeing that the Lovely Eyepatch wasn’t needed to accomplish her goal after all, Freesia finally realizes her mistake and atones for this by fighting alongside Jiyuu to defeat Kita Ressai. She is last seen visiting her father's grave.

Odagō Koinosuke (小田豪 鯉之介) Voiced by: Ryotaro Okiayu (Japanese); Stephen Holgate (S1), Roger Rhodes (S2) (English)

A follower of Yagyuu Juubei, he carries the task of searching for a worthy successor to his master. After 300 years, he met Jiyuu in the modern day Japan. He tries hard to persuade her to wear the Eyepatch which she quickly refuses. He then takes up residence with the Nanohanas and builds his own Koinosuke's hut (doghouse) although Jiyuu said he could sleep in the house he says that he doesn't want her to spoil him. He sometimes transforms into a 300-year-old man for not fulfilling his task. Despite his appearance, Koinosuke states that he has no fighting skills.

His life centers around the mission he was given by his former master and he struggles to find a new life after he Jiyuu tells him. In the end, he is reunited and served his master in the afterlife.

Koinosuke appears briefly in the second series to support Jiyuu and his child.

Odagō Ayunosuke (小田豪 鮎之介) Voiced by: Ayaka Saito (Japanese); Jasmine Berg (English)

Koinosuke's only child, although having the appearance of a boy, Ayunosuke is actually a girl. Koinosuke entrusts her the Yagyuu's successor task if he fails.

When Jiyuu first blew the "Koinosuke Whistle", Ayunosuke appeared before her eyes and tried to give her the Lovely Eyepatch, Jiyuu quickly escapes and is chased by Ayunosuke. Since then, Ayunosuke has watched over Jiyuu and often gets attacked by Freesia and questioned by Mikage. Eventually, she treats Jiyuu's wounds and continues to convince her to wear the Eyepatch, but she refuses and says that she doesn't want to fight anymore; this makes Ayunosuke exhausted and transforms into a 300-year old body.

Later, she is revived after Jiyuu wears the Eyepatch and witnesses her fight with Freesia. In the end, Ayunosuke is reunited with her father in the afterlife but she is seen at the last screen, sleeping in her father's doghouse.

Ryūjōji Shirō (竜乗寺 四郎) Voiced by: Tatsuya Nakazaki (Japanese); Jim Ripley (S1), Scott Roberts (S2) (English)

One of the male characters who fell in love with Jiyuu. He first met her when they both wandered around the forest. Despite believing he is the second child, Shirou is in fact the first. He is shown as an enthusiastic young man at the first series. He tries to free Jiyuu from burden of becoming Yagyuu Juubei after found out about this, but fails. He challenges Jiyuu to a duel and defeats her, however, Jiyuu passes out. Shirou is attacked by Hajime, and is found by an old teacher. Then he duels with Hajime and free him from the 300-year old grudge of the Ryuujouji school. While visiting his savior, it turns out that he became possessed by Taiko Daiyu's spirit. Later, he fights Jiyuu and nearly kills her, but Shirou's self overcomes Taiko Daiyu's spirit (after seeing Jiyuu's chest) turns back to his own self.

In the second series, Shirou apparently has lost his fighting spirit (though this returns near the end of the series) and becomes much like an idiot. He joins Bantarou's gang, and often ends up playing their crazy games.

Sanbonmatsu Bantarō (三本松 番太郎) Voiced by: Yuji Ueda (Japanese); Jonathan Love (English)

Nickname: Chief, skipper, Ban.

Bantarou is the leader of the Ruffians (Unrefined in the English dub) gang of three at Hontsuru Jr. High and heir to the 300 year running Sanbonmatsu sake brewery in Hontsuru city, but he isn't a bright character. He is unquestionably the least intelligent of the trio. Since the first day that he saw Jiyuu riding her bike, he fell in love and being in love means that he would do anything to protect her.

Bantarou's role in The Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch is little, in fact, he protests that he became more unusable in every episodes. In The Counter Attack of Siberian Yagyuu, together with Shirou, they formed a group known as The trio idiots + Shirou and open a campaign to protect Jiyuu.

Trivia: The label on Bantarou's shirt and hat often shows his emotions and actions writing in Kanji.

Kozaru (小猿) Voiced by: Rie Iwatsubo (Japanese); Bryce Kulak (S1), Mike Thiessen (S2) (English)
Ōzaru (大猿) Voiced by: Chinami Nishimura (Japanese); Dean Bareham (S1), Roger Rhodes (S2) (English)

The two monkey-like members of the Ruffians; Kozaru, the short one, and Oozaru, the taller one both seem to be more intelligent than their leader. They are not shy when it comes to criticizing their leader. In fact, they seem to do it very often and begin doing to Shiro as well, when he joins the group. However, when their leader becomes hurt, they are usually the first ones to react. It's implied that they may be brothers.

Maruyama Shōko (丸山 翔子) Voiced by: Harumi Ikoma (Japanese); Mariette Sluyter (English)

Shoko, whose nickname is Maro, is also a new student at Jiyuu's school. She is a cheerful girl who usually recommends that the three new students form a group call the "New Student Lovelies" which is often declined by Sachi. She seems to like older men and has a crush on Jiyuu's father, this however, is not present in the second series.

Tōyama Sachi (遠山 幸) Voiced by: Kendra Masonchuck (English) in Series 1, Morgan Partridge (English) in Series 2

Sachi is also a new transferred student like Jiyuu. A somewhat stoic figure, she never seems to have much to say nor wants to do anything, and often declines the formation of the "New Student Lovelies", which makes Shoko say that she is no fun. Sachi appears to have some romantic interest with Kozaru.

Tsumura Mikage (津村 御影) Voiced by: Reiko Yasuhara (Japanese); Elinor Holt (English)

Nickname: Francoise

Once an assassin sent by the Ryuujouji clan to assassinate Jiyuu . After being defeated and saved by Jiyuu, she devotes herself to protect her. She also looks strikingly similar to Jiyuu's mother; this causes some confusion for Sai, who misses his wife and hasn't felt love in a long time, so he falls on Mikage despite the fact knowing she's married. In The Counter Attack of Siberian Yagyuu, Mikage still strives to protect Jiyuu while working as Sai's editor; in addition, aid Jiyu whenever she is in trouble.