Characters

Bantaro, big monkey, little monkey, Nanohana Jiyu, Koinosuke, more

Setting

Japan

Series Information

Bandai series, 13 episodes, dvds are released in america now, Koinosuke shrivels up because he is so old, the voice of Bantaro is Ueda Yuuji, the voice of many popular animes including Tenkawa Akito (Naesdico), Sanosuke (Kenshin), Urashima Keitaro (Love Hina), etc.

Story

Jiyu Nanohana is a junoir high school student who has just moved to a new city with her father. Whenever she puts on the Lovely Eye Patch, a heart shaped eye patch, she receives all the skill and power of the frgom the greatest swordsman of all of Japan, Yagyu Jubei. The disciple, Koinosuke, searches for the person who fits the requirements of the Lovely Eye patch (a plump, bouncy, bon bons @_@, so funny I don't even get it) for 300 years before he finds Jubei-chan. Members of the rival clan Yagyu Juebi fought waited 300 hundred years to seek revenge against Jubei-chan since she possessess the power of Yagyu Jubei. Reluctant to use the Lovely Eye Patch, Jubei-cahn finds it necessary to deal with constant challenges she receives. In addition to this she has to deal with lovesick classmates (and teachers), the pleadinggs of Koinosuke (well preserved for being 300 hundred years old) to accept the eye patch, and her crazy father.

by Jimmy F.

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