Characters
- Jiyu Nanohana (菜ノ花 自由, Nanohana Jiyū?)
Jiyu is a 14-year-old junior high school girl attending a new school at the start of The Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch. She has a bright personality and a close relationship with her father. Her voluptuous figure makes her popular with boys at her school. When she dons the Heart-shaped Eyepatch, she turns into the reincarnation of Yagyu Jubei, the famed swordsman from Japan's feudal era.
The Counter Attack of Siberian Yagyu catches up with her a year later. Even though Jiyu has tried to forget the events of the first series, she still feels guilty over what happened to Koinosuke.
Voiced by: Hiroko Konishi in Series 1, Voiced by: Yui Horie in Series 2, Voiced by: Melanie Risdon (English)
- Sai Nanohana (菜ノ花 彩, Nanohana Sai?)
Jiyu's father. He is a stay-at-home ghostwriter of historic samurai novels. He cares greatly for his daughter and affectionately nicknames her Jubei. He is often tormented by the memories of his wife, who died at home by Jiyu's side when he used to work in his office. After the incident, he promised to be a better father to Jiyu and subsequently started working at home.
At the time of The Counter Attack of Siberian Yagyu, he is trying to write a novel under his own name at his daughter's request.
Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (Japanese), Byron Close (English)
- Koinosuke Odago (小田豪 鯉之介, Odagō Koinosuke?)
A servant to Yagyu Jubei who walked the Earth for 300 years searching for a worthy successor to his master. Besides the Lovely Eyepatch, he entrusts Jiyu with his master's sword and the "Koinosuke Whistle" that summons him. Though mostly a comedic relief character, Koinosuke is good-hearted and does his best to serve both his old master and his new hosts.
Voiced by: Ryotaro Okiayu (Japanese), Stephen Holgate (English)
- Freesia Yagyu (柳生フリーシャ, Yagyū Furēshā?)
Jiyu's rival during The Counter Attack of Siberian Yagyu. She is Jubei Yagyu's daughter who has spent roughly three hundred years in suspended animation inside a block of ice. She believes that she is the rightful owner of the Lovely Eyepatch and seeks to take it from Jiyu. She intends to make Jiyu suffer as she has suffered. Freesia dons a spade-shaped Eyepatch to transform herself into what she calls the true Jubei Yagyu the Second.
Voiced by: Erina Nakayama (Japanese), Carol-Anne Day (English)
- Ayunosuke Odago (小田豪 鮎之介, Odagō Ayunosuke?)
Koinosuke's only child, charged with carrying on his task – to give the successor to Jubei Yagyu the Lovely Eyepatch – should he fail. For 300 years, Ayunosuke waited for Koinosuke to return home. Discovering the Lovely Eyepatch that Jiyu had returned to Koinosuke at the end of the first series, Ayunosuke believes that Koinosuke failed and sets out to finish Koinosuke's mission. Unlike Koinosuke, Ayunosuke is a competent ninja and healer, capable of running from Freesia while Freesia is transformed into Jubei Yagyu. Ayunosuke refuses to accept that Jiyu does not want the Lovely Eyepatch and persists in attempting to give it to Jiyu, despite Jiyu's objections.
Voiced by: Ayaka Saito (Japanese), Jasmine Berg (English)
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