Anime Review: Jubei-chan 2

After the mildly successful first series, Jubei Chan 2 improves on it with the quantity and quality of action scenes but is also bogged down by the repetitive message it portrayed in the first series.

Jubei Chan 2 is as I said much more action-packed, where in the first series had a fair few scenes of action, most of these are either repeated scenes or very quick one slash wins. The second series on the other hand have fewer badguys to face but more action in terms of quality and less repeated scenes and much more intense atmosphere involved. This was a bother with the first series when the action was missing in this action series, but the first season was priased well for its family-message which was portrayed well and quite touching. This series however, it went a bit overboard, the same message is there, the father-daughter thing is still present and strong but oh so melodramatic and many times un-needed, especially after we had our dose in the first series. This isn't to say its not bad, just felt very tacked on in some places, and the message wasn't really special or as touching as I had hoped.

One mention to go to the comedy part of the series, its far less chaotic and far less random but it still isn't funny. And again, very un-needed, the monkey boy trio and whatever are wasteful extras and pathetic.
Character-wise Jiyu is still the same old girl, which plays almost exactly the same as before (i.e. don't want eye-patch, but finally realises she has to use it), while Freasha is a fun loving girl with an almost stereotypical background. Kita is an unfortunate character, he was cool and felt that more screentime was needed for him.

Overall, this and the first series are opposites, one was action-packed while the other had a better story. Basically, they're two sides of the same coin, combine both together, and you get a great little action series, which is worth your time.

Overall: 8/10
Grade: B+