Juubee-chan: Lovely Gantai no Himitsu

I expected much more, all my friends were hyping this to the moon. They said it was great, but they were wrong. What's sad is the potential that this anime has to be great, it has such a good story line. Unfortunately where this show suffers greatly is in the pathetic writing job. It takes forever for the characters to develop, and I swear they're saying the same things every episode (example: Episode 1: "I'm not Jubei, I'm Jiyu Nanohana". Episode 2 "I'm not Jubei, I'm Jiyu Nanohana". Episode 3: You get the picture)

Not only does the show suffer ... from bad writing, but bad voice acting on both ends. The Japanese voices are annoying, I'm all for high and cute voices, but the female voice are so high that they pierced my eardrums (or at least I thought they did). The english voice acting is the worst that Ocean Group has ever done. Really expect better from these guys, they did great dubs: Death Note, Gundam Wing, and much more are on that list. However, we are stuck with a cast that either under acts, or doesn't act at all. This looks to me like a series full of over acting, but the voice actors show little or no skill in that department.

The only good thing this series has going for it is the fight scenes. They are sweet. Sadly, they are short, and you have to wait all episode, before you actually see a 5 minute battle.

Why is this popular in the US? My best guess is, it came out during a time when anime fans were starving for product, when the anime section at Suncoast was only a shelf as opposed to the wall it is today. Anime fans wanted what they loved so badly, they excepted almost anything. Today, you find anime at Wal-Mart, Target, Some Gas stations, your city may even have an anime shop. Those that like this, are either mostly old school fans who are nostalgic, or they like to play MST3K the home version.

This was one of those animes I thought was so bad that it was amusing... The main character is one of those cliche school girl characters, but the whole show is kind of mocking the whole "school girl gets power, saves world" idea. The quote "Get me out of this screwy anime" almost makes it worth it anyway....

Back on topic, the other main characters are much better than Jubei is-- she gets kind of annoying-- Her father is hilarious, he made me laugh out loud on several occasions as did the samurai.

The plot... Well, you people saw the description, she gets a lovely ... eyepatch and turns into some powerful warrior. Not at all original, but if you look at it from another perspective it's completely mocking all animes like it. It has all the cliche things I usually hate in an anime, but it's more of a parody than anything else.

Overall, don't expect much from this except a few laughs... It'll be a lot better if you don't take it seriously.

i watched this over a period of time and wasn't really interested, so my memory of it is vague. the story is of a girl Jiyu or nicknamed Juubee and how she receives this eye patch that harnesses the power to transfer the soul of the historical Juubee.


The comedy is horrible in this, trying to use animation for comedic effect backfired, joke wasn't funny and they just destroyed the animation and mood, not that i was into the mood. Few jokes are actually decent, i noticed that trio of Jiyu fans have a good line now and then, other ... than that the trio is to cringe-worthy, only their for comedy it feels.

I like her fathers reaction at the end in finding out the secret, seemed realistic, if not overplayed a bit. However then they went ahead and decided, i want to save this person so lets have the spirit they just defeated enter into him so he could defeat the one hes trying to protect in order to free her form the good spirit helping her fight.
"defeat" in this situation would be "kill", which makes it stupid, anyone would realize that's a horrible idea.

Even though he just found out the situation somehow comes up with a ... "plan"... to bring her back, which was just to shout in his mind to her to return to normal form, which somehow meant both the spirits being released as juubei spirit slashed the spirit that was in his body and fixes everything 0 / 10.


couldn't enjoy the action with how little, fast paced and poorly animated it was.

i would add more details if my brain didn't erase the past episodes for more room. ;)