Jiyū Nanohana

Jiyū Nanohana  (菜ノ花 自由 Nanohana Jiyū) is the main-character of the Jubei-chan series. She is the future reincarnation of the famous swordsman, who wield a Heart-shaped eyepatch which embodied Yagyu Jubei power.
She is voiced by Hiroko Konishi and Yui Horie on season 2 and Melanie Risdon on English version.
==Personality==
Jiyū is overall bright, upbeat, humorous and kindhearted. Because of her beauty-look, curvaceous body and her bright-persona, many people love her even its a enemies and she very close among her friends, especially the Ruffians gang.
When she gains a power of Yagyu Jubei from the Lovely Eyepatch, she has a different persona. As Yagyu-Jubei II, she becomes a more calm, serious and calculating swordswoman. Her Yagyu-Jubei II persona is also wiling do anything for stop the revenge of her enemies even it will she lose her original Jiyū persona. Despite this, Yagyu-Jubei II persona has sometimes shown Jiyū's persona, for example when Jiyū tries stop to Yagyu-Jubei II from cutting Freesia Yagyu, or she chooses to save Kita Furō who was trapped and possessed by his father spirit on monster-ice form.
After the events on the previous season, Jiyū decides to forget the past event and chooses to continue to live as normal girl. She befriended with a mysterious cheerful-student from Russia, Freesia Yagyu, who confirmed as Yagyu-Jubei lost daughter and start antagonizing her. At first, she doesn't want to fight with her, and wanted to Ayunosuke to give the Lovely-Eyepatch to Freesia because she felt Freesia is worthy to get the eyepatch. After she got wisdom from her father, Mikage, Nizaemon, Kita Furō and Koinosuke's spirit, she later agrees to pick her eyepatch again, and engage a duel with Freesia, in order to make her know her father's true desire.
==Skill and Abilities==
===Master of Swordsman===
As Yagyu-Jubei II , Jiyū possess a great swordsman-skill which can defeat the Ryuujoji , The Siberian-Yagyu , and Freesia as the other Jubei Yagyui II. Her skill as great as Original Yagyu-Jubei, which make Kita Furō amazed with her
===Enhanced Strength===
Both as herself and as Yagyu-Jubei II , Jiyū naturally have a great strength to defend a sword with her bare-hand , its shown when she use "Yagyuu Shinkageryuu Mutodori" to catch Kita Furō sword and as Yagyu-Jubei she able to defend herself with her body from Kita Retsusai giant ice-sword
==Trivia==
*Her name, Jiyū (自由) means "freedom". Her name is refers to her will to releasing someone who trapped in dark path.
*Jiyu's nickname Jubei if pronounced slowly is "Jiyuu-bei".
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