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300 years ago, [[Yagyu Jubei]] was the greatest swordsman Japan had ever seen. His feats were legendary. But eventually he started getting old, and he didn't have an heir. Despite his style of swordsmanship being the standard, nobody quite did it correctly. He didn't want his technique to be lost, so [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|he somehow bound it up into an eyepatch shaped like a heart]]. He sent his most trusted servant to find the one who would be able to access the eyepatch -- he would know them by their "plump bouncy bon bons." The servant, Odago Koinosuke, left on the geas that he would find the next Jubei if it took the rest of his life, [[Undying Loyalty|and beyond.]]

 

There is a second season, ''Jubei-chan: Revenge of the Siberian Yagyu''. In it, ''another'' dead clan, this time a splinter group of the Yagyuus, want revenge on Jubei. They are overshadowed, however, by another Jubei-chan! This one, Freesia Yagyu, is the biological daughter of Yagyuu Jubei, preserved for 300 years by being [[Human Popsicle|frozen in a glacier]]. She's very upset that her father's inheritance has gone to another girl -- and she wants it back. She becomes simultaneously Jiyu's [[Stepford Smiler|manipulative best friend]] and Jubei-chan's [[Evil Counterpart|worst enemy]]; she knows who Jiyu is. Jiyu doesn't know who she is. The second season has, arguably, some of the greatest sword battles in all of anime.

 

* [[Arc Words]]: "Nisemono" from the second series, translated as either "imposter"<ref>Freesia's term for Jubei-chan</ref> or "fake". The importance starts to appear in the episode "Peaceful in a Fake Family", where it becomes clear that Jiyu, Freesia, Mikage, and Sai are all hiding secrets from each other while trying to be a surrogate family. Later still, {{spoiler|Freesia manages to provoke Sai into slapping Jiyu by claiming that she said her father's work was fake. When Jiyu eventually recovers from the [[Heroic BSOD]] provoked by this, she shows her character development by declaring that both she ''and'' Freesia are truly the successors of Yagyu Jubei -- so neither of them is an imposter.}}

** This gets lampshaded by characters who the victims of an art shift to crude line drawings during a single scene, by virtue of the plot moving away from them.

* [[Badass Normal]]: Shiro in the first series, Oozaru & Kozaru in the second series.

* [[Expressive Shirt]]: Bantaro's shirt, which displays ''kanji'' related to whatever his current mood or train of thought might be. Such as "idiot," "reckless" or "breasts."

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: The Lovely Eyepatches, of course.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: {{spoiler|Freesia}}

* [[Fusion Dance]]: {{spoiler|Freesia and Jiyu fuse together in the last episode using the [[Power of Friendship]], which somehow either turns them into or summons the Original 300-years-dead Yagyu Jubei. (The initial result was just a fused successor, given the boobs; Jiyu and Freesia are left on the ground, untransformed, once the original Jubei appears.)}}

* [[Mood Whiplash]]

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: {{spoiler|Sai stayed at work -- as his boss demanded -- while Jiyu's mother was dying, and only made it back when it was too late.}}

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Freesia Yagyuu only ''acts'' like a cheerful hick.

* [[The Ojou]]: Subverted. She and her [[Girl Posse]] are the [[Yuppie Couple]] of this series.

** Maro trying to take Jiyu and Sachi out to a dessert shop in town, only to be foiled by either Jiyu's other life interfering or by the store being closed for no apparent reason.

** Sai immediately shooting Bantarou or Shiro down if they try calling him "Papa", "Dad", "Otousan", or anything similar.

* [[Stock Footage]]: The transformation sequences. Played straight in the first season, averted in the second.

* [[Talking Animal]]: A whole forest of them with who Freesia lives after thawing out and before leaving on her quest.

* [[Traitor Shot]]: About a third of Freesia's scenes when she's near Jiyu or Sai.

* [[Transformation Sequence]]

 

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