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Jubei-chan: Lovely Guntai no Himitsu TV 1
synopsis by Jareth David (from J.U.R.A.I.'s Necronomicon 1999 Anime Guide)
The title translates to "Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch". Jiyu Nanoha was a relatively normal junior high student, that was until the appearance of Koinosuke Manago in her life. As the apprentice of infamous swordsman Yagyu Jubei, he is bound by honor to fulfill his master’s dying wish, that his eyepatch be passed on to a girl (who must meet a rather *snicker* rigorous set of physical standards which involves a few japanaese onomatopoeia outlined by the hentai na ojii-san) thereby bestowing his abilities upon its recipient to help Yagyu continue a 400 year old feud with his rival. Comic relief is handled by the Saru Gang (as Zack & I call the ‘monkey boys’) and their leader who (in a tradition like Charlie Brown) is always wearing the same shirt, sort of a ‘kanji mood shirt’, which literally spells out his state of mind at any given time.
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