Title:　十兵衛ちゃん２〜シベリア柳生の逆襲〜 (Jyubei-chan 2~The Counterattack of Siberia Yagyu) Preview Disc
Original Creator: 大地丙太郎 (Akitarou Daichi)
Catalog No.: KIBA-1018
Release Date: 3/24/04
Rating: 4/4

Let's see, they have Yuji Ueda and Yui Horie partnered up again in an anime featuring music from Ho-chan, Ritsuko Okazaki, and Matsuda Toshio. This series has all the signs of a winner for me, and that's disregarding the fact that I enjoyed first season.

The artwork is very representative of the director and creator. It ranges from very crude sketches for the comical parts to fast and detailed action scenes during the fighting scenes. I was impressed with the first season's work, and the fighting scene in this first episode is even better.

The music has the same feel as first season, but the in response to the theme song from my review of the single, I do like it more now that I've seen the visuals that go with it.

The packaging is pretty bare, given that this is a preview disc. The cover has art on both sides, but it doesn't even have liner notes. The animation is presented in anamorphic widescreen, but everything else is standard 4x3. There's a bonus 10 minute or so segement where Yui Horie takes on the Jubei-chan challenge. In the segments, there's footage of her learning how to use a kendo stick and how to perform the tea ceremony from the time of Yagyu Jubei. She's not good at any of it.

1. 地球のどこかがとけていた (It Had Thawed Somewhere on Earth): It's been 6 months since the end of the first story and Jiyu is now in her last year of middle school. Everyone's pretty much the same. Jiyu bikes to school and gets lost in the forest again where she sees a SD Koinosuke with an eyepatch. She avoids him like the plague. At school, a new student has transfered, Felicia Yagyu. Through various slips of the tongue, she reveals that she's not as naive as she looks. After school when she's hanging out Felicia, enemies come after Jiyu. SD Koinosuke slips on the eyepatch, Jiyu becomes Jubei and defeats the enemy. However, this time, there's another girl with an eyepatch calling Jiyu/Jubei an imposter.

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