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<blockquote>''"Playtime is over."'' - Jubey, [[Puella_Magi_Kazumi_Magica#Chapter_4:_.22Evil_Nuts.22|Chapter 4]].</blockquote>
{{Nihongo|'''Jubey'''|ジュゥべぇ|Jūbē}} is a character in [[Kazumi_Magica|Puella Magi Kazumi Magica: The Innocent Malice]]. He is an Incubator that works alongside the [[Pleiades Saints]].
 
 
 
==Personality==
 
Despite being an Incubator, an emotionless race, Jubey has displayed more emotion throughout the manga than his colleague Kyubey has in the entire anime. He has displayed annoyance/embarrassment when he was violently hugged by Satomi, disgust when he was fed an Evil Nut instead of a Grief Seed, and fear when he sees Yuuri’s sigil form beneath the Pleiades. He also expresses distaste in being called “Bey-chan” by Satomi.
 
 
Notably, Jubey appears to understand the concept of deception: when asked, Jubey says he doesn’t know why Soul Gems turn into Grief Seeds and claims that it only happens sometimes. He appears to outright lie to Kazumi and the Pleiades about Niko’s preliminary actually being Kanna Hijiri, the product of her wish, something Kyubey never does.
He also appears to be sad when he tells Kazumi that returning a Grief Seed back into a Soul Gem is impossible. When describing the difference between Niko and Kazumi’s magic, he calls Kazumi’s magic “sacrilege” but quickly corrects himself saying “destruction” instead.
 
 
While around the Pleiades, Jubey behaves akin to that of a usual magical girl mascot and providing information when necessary, though in some circumstances he has been shown looking down on them with an evil grin, especially when he explains the details of The Freezer to Kazumi.
 
 
Another trait that separates Jubey from Kyubey is that while the latter stays completely neutral when magical girls turn on each other, Jubey openly speaks out and offers his assistance, such as in chapter 8 with Kazumi and Niko on the best strategy to neutralize the Soujous and appears worried when they are clearly outmatched by them.
Overall, his actions are contradictory to his function of being an Incubator that harvests emotions due to the fact that he is a reprogrammed Incubator made by Niko to be loyal to the Pleiades and circumvent the Magical Girl system.
 
==History==
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[[File:Jubey Cleanup.png|300px|thumb|Jubey cleaning house, literally.]]
Jubey has so far only appeared in Kazumi Magica.
 
He first appears after the Pleiades rescue [[Umika]] and [[Kaoru]] from an escaped witch, watching their celebration from a rooftop alongside [[Kyubey]]. He jumps down and greets the girls, much to [[Kazumi]]'s surprise. [[Satomi]] introduces him as the fairy who made contracts with the team. He proceeds to absorb the darkness inside the girls' Soul Gems by spinning in the air, and eats the Grief Seed they collected from the witch. When asked to dispose of [[Evil Nuts]], however, he spits them out in disgust and says that they're not real Grief Seeds. Soon after, he and the Pleiades are attacked by [[Yuuri]].
 
Jubey returns to Umika's house with the Pleiades, and sleeps with Kazumi's cat Toto as they discuss Yuuri's attack. He accompanies them to Asunaro Dome to meet with Yuuri, and at [[Saki]]'s behest, attempts to purify her Soul Gem as the Pleiades fight with her. However, Yuuri shoots him in mid-spin and becomes a witch. He gets up shortly after, still bleeding, and explains what has happened to Kazumi. Interestingly, he claims that he doesn't know why the transformation from a magical girl into a witch happens, and that it only happens "sometimes".
 
Some time after the events of that night, Jubey accompanies Niko and Kazumi on a "witch hunt" to the Lavieland Amusement Park. He remains with them during Niko's fight with [[Ayase Souju]], and answers several of their questions over the course of the battle. When Kazumi asks him what happens when a girl's Soul Gem is lost, he replies that she loses her magic and may even die "depending on the situation". He also identifies Kazumi's magic as "sacrilege", but then seems to correct himself and says it's "destruction". Finally, he helps Kazumi and Niko launch a synchronized counterattack against Ayase by biting their hands.
 
Ayase is defeated, and Niko unexpectedly becomes a witch; however, another Niko appears, who he identifies as the "spare" created by her contract. Jubey accompanies the Pleiades to the [[Freezer]], where he explains to Kazumi the connection between a girl's Soul Gem and her body. Umika then restores Kazumi's memories with magic, triggering a flashback that Jubey features in.
 
In the flashback, a Kyubey-esque silhouette appears alongside Kazumi as she saves the Pleiades Saints from a witch. Stepping forward, it is revealed to be Jubey, who says that he is the one who made a contract with Kazumi. Kazumi explains that she met Jubey one day after being rescued from a witch by [[Mami Tomoe]]. He offered her a contract, which she used to speak to her ailing grandmother again. Somewhat oddly, Jubey is seen right next to Mami as she speaks to Kazumi, and his tone of voice more closely resembles Kyubey's than his own. [[File:JubeyandMami.png|thumb|300px|Jubey with [[Mami Tomoe]], when he first spots Kazumi.]]
 
Jubey then makes contracts with the six Pleiades Saints, and offers them advice as they fight witches for some time. One night, he hurriedly calls the Pleiades out to Asunaro Dome, where they see [[Yuuri Asuka]] becoming a witch. They demand that he tell them what happened, and he explains the Incubators' goal of harvesting energy from witches. Umika suddenly headbutts him and fires lasers into his eyes. He falls to the ground, speaking in a different tone of voice and expressing confusion. Umika explains that she rewrote Jubey's memories and prevented him from making further contracts.
 
The story then returns to the present. Jubey is next seen on a rooftop with Niko, watching from afar as Satomi reveals to Kazumi that she is [[Michiru Kazusa]]'s clone and her memories are fake. He presumably remains with the Pleiades as Kazumi flees, and is next seen with them as they receive telepathic instructions from her to meet her at the Freezer.
 
At the Freezer, the Pleiades speak with Kazumi, and prepare to kill her at her request as she becomes a witch. After she dies, however, her body suddenly turns into a clone of Niko, who steps out with the real Kazumi safely in tow. This Niko suddenly turns on the group, forcing Saki to become a witch with an Evil Nut and killing Mirai in the process. {{Spoiler|She reveals herself as Kanna Hijiri [[Kanna Hijiri|link]], and attacks the Pleiades with several witches. Strangely, Jubey appears in her flashback, making a contract with her after his supposed brainwashing.}}
 
{{Spoiler|Having previously stayed at a safe distance, Jubey then leaps forward to purify Kazumi's dangerously-corrupted Gem. However, he falls to the ground midway through and begins to break into pieces. He himself does not know what is going on, and says "Ciao" to Kazumi one last time, before vanishing and leaving a pair of broken Grief Seeds behind. Kyubey, watching from afar, comments that "your 'Jubey' was incomplete".}}
 
{{Spoiler|As her Gem is also beginning to break open, Umika's magic begins to fail. A huge magic circle of hers, floating over the city, shatters, and [[Kyubey]] appears just as she and Kaoru shout for him to reveal himself.}}
 
{{Spoiler|It is revealed that, as the Pleiades were creating the Freezer and planning to revive Michiru, Niko created an artifical Incubator with her magic. Having studied the mechanics of Grief Seeds, she incorporated their purification capabilities into this Incubator, as well as making it obey the Pleiades. She dubbed it a "Dependent-Version Incubator", and nicknamed it "Jubey". Umika then cast a wide-scale spell over all of Asunaro City as part of their plan. This spell made it impossible for anyone there to perceive regular Kyubey-type Incubators, edited their existing memories of them to include Jubey instead, and suppressed their memories of how to purify Soul Gems without using Jubey.}}
 
==Powers==
Like Kyubey, Jubey also possesses some of the same abilities that all incubators have. Jubey mainly uses them to assist the Pleiades Saints.
 
*'''Grief seed consumption:''' As Kyubey consumes used grief seeds through the hatch on his back, Jubey does the same through the circle on his forehead. While Kyubey’s acts like a simple receptacle, Jubey’s is more akin to an actual mouth as it can be seen clenching just like one’s mouth does while eating and munching sounds can be heard.
 
*'''Soul gem cleaning:''' Unlike Kyubey, Jubey has the ability to clean and remove the grief from soul gems, allowing the girls relief from having to compete with others for grief seeds. In chapter 21, it was revealed that Jubey was imperfect in this ability, as it is implied that cleaning the gems would only be effective if he had consumed a grief seed beforehand. Instead, he was only able to polish the surface of the gem so it appeared to be clean while the grief accumulated inside.
 
*'''Telepathic communication, invisibility, and teleportation:''' It is assumed that Jubey had these abilities as well due to being an incubator. It was thought that he could also grant wishes, create soul gems, and replicate, but chapter 21 reveals that Umika’s magic made him appear to have these abilities when it was actually Kyubey performing them. It is also notable that whenever Jubey was injured, he never showed any replication abilities, just recovery (possibly due to the Pleiades’ magic keeping him going).
 
==Trivia==
 
* Unlike Kyubey, who merely drops Grief Seeds onto a hatch in his back, Jubey literally ''eats'' them: the circle in his forehead can be seen clenching just as one's mouth does while eating, and munching sounds can be heard.
* [[Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica_Official_Guidebook_"You_Are_Not_Alone"#Series_Proposal_.28left.29|The original series proposal]] for ''Madoka Magica'' referred to the contract-making creature as a {{nihongo|fairy|妖精|yōsei}}. Jubey being called a fairy may be a reference to that.
* As another contrast to Kyubey, he speaks in a colloquial and overtly masculine tone with the Pleiades, which appears to be {{Spoiler|a trait he adopted after his brainwashing.}} However, {{Spoiler|he still speaks in the same tone when he appears later on in Kanna Hijiri's flashback.}}
* It is revealed in Chapter 21 that {{Spoiler|his name, "Jubey", is short for "Dependent Incubator" ("'''''Juu'''''zoku suru inkyu'''''bee'''''taa" in Japanese).}}
*{{spoiler|Jubey is an artificial man-made created Soul Gem cleanser. It was created by the Pleiades Saints from the carcass of a dead Kyubey.}}
* {{spoiler|Despite being a creation by Niko, he doesn't vanish until well after Niko becomes a witch. It is possible that the rest of Pleiades Saints were keeping him alive, and that he vanished when most of them died. It's also possible Kanna was using her own magic to keep him alive.}}
 
==Speculation==
[[File:Jubey munch 2.png|thumb|Munch munch.]]
* It appears that he absorbs the grief from the Soul Gems onto his skin, which is appropriately pitch black. On the other hand, he is seen making a gulping noise and licking his lips afterwards, suggesting some sort of consumption.
* In the anime, magical girls worked alone or in small groups because the Grief Seeds they needed to clean their Soul Gems were a limited resource. Magical girls could easily clash over territory and were just as likely to compete than cooperate. When the Pleiades Saints were revealed to be a seven-member magical girl team, a number of readers wondered how that could be possible in this context. It was considered unlikely that there were enough witches in Asunaro City to support seven magical girls. Chapter 4 explained that Jubey, the fairy they contracted with, can clean their Soul Gems, meaning they don't need to compete for Grief Seeds.
** What was left unexplained was why this was done. Kyubey has never demonstrated the ability to clean Soul Gems in the anime. In fact, he actively sought to have the girls corrupt their Soul Gems and turn into witches. One probable explanation is that from what we've seen, the Pleiades had fairly minor wishes and were therefore weaker magical girls. Being weak magical girls, they wouldn't become powerful witches, and thus they wouldn't produce a lot of energy when they transformed. It is then more efficient for Jubey to let them hunt Grief Seeds for him than to try and convert them into witches.<br>In purely mathematical terms, a team of weak magical girls capturing a more powerful witch than themselves, using team tactics to level the field, is extremely efficient when it comes to energy output.
** Considering [[Kazumi_Magica_Chapter_8:_Tempura_Ice-Cream|Chapter 8]] and [[Kazumi_Magica_Chapter_15:_Ingredients_for_Satomi|Chapter 15]], where {{spoiler|Niko's spare and Satomi became Witches, respectively,}} one could compare Jubey's method of purifying Soul Gems to recharging an electronic device. For instance, charging a device constantly may reduce it's battery lifetime, to the point where it may display its battery as fully charged at one moment and the next moment show it as "low battery" and turn off. When one considers that they both had no signs of corruption in their Soul Gems until the moment before they turned into Witches, it's not an implausible train of thought.
*** But that wouldn't explain how [[Michiru]], who supposedly purified her Soul Gem via Jubey and had her Soul Gem pitch-black as she turned into a Witch, as shown in [[Kazumi_Magica_Chapter_14:_Cannibalism|Chapter 14]]
****{{spoiler|After his identity as a fake is revealed, fans are wondering if his cleaning act was a mere optical trick to fool the Saints, or if he simply ran out of power to purify their Soul Gems as time passed.}}
*****{{spoiler|In Chapter 21, Kyubey explains why Jubey failed to purify their or any Soul Gems. He explains that Incubators exist solely to harvest energy from despair, they are not capable of cleansing Soul Gems without Grief Seeds. All Jubey did was just polishing the surface of the Soul Gem while still accumulating despair. What it was doing was masking their despair, not purifying the Soul Gem.}}
* It was mentioned in the anime that it was possible for an Incubator to have emotions, but they would be considered mentally ill. Juubey might be one of those Incubators.
** Jubey claims that he doesn't know the reason why a magical girl would transform into a Witch and that it only happens "sometimes". It is unknown if he honestly doesn't know or if he is lying.
*** Chapter 10 reveals that he actually knew the reason why a magical girl transforms into a Witch. However, it is still not clear the nature or the reasoning behind hiding this fact from Kazumi. The [[Pleiades Saints]], on the other hand, knew the truth all along.
**** In Chapter 21, {{spoiler|Kyubey ''"wanted"'' to communicate with Jubey, even if it was man-made, as it wanted to connect with another of his kind. It is unknown if Kyubey's reasons were because it wanted to learn more about Jubey or if it was ''"feeling lonely"''.}}
**{{spoiler|It was revealed in chapter 12 that he was brainwashed. It may be possible that the process may have changed his personality and altered or affected the area of the brain that causes emotions. It apparently also made him able to outright lie and feel pain.}}
*{{spoiler|In chapter 19, Jubey disintegrates and fails to cleanse some Soul Gems, according with Kyubey, this was because Jubey was "incomplete". }}
**{{spoiler|One possible interpretation is that because Jubey's memories were altered, as well as its function, its magic or form was becoming and growing unstable each time it cleansed the Pleiades Saints' Soul Gems.}}
***{{spoiler|Chapter 21 reveals that Jubey was man-made by the Pleiades Saints as a Soul Gem cleanser. According with Kyubey it was an interesting experiment, but Jubey was flawed as it couldn't really cleanse their Soul Gems. All it did was clean what was in the surface of their gems, while their despair was still accumulating deep within.}}
 
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Ju and Kyu.png|Jubey standing alongside Kyubey. Together known as The Legion Of Doom.
File:Jubey evil grin.png|Maybe not such a good fairy.
File:Jubey munch 1.png|Just a snack.
File:Imitation Grief Seed (Evil Nut).png|An "imitation" Grief Seed, a.k.a an Evil Nut. Do not feed them to your Incubator, especially after midnight.
File:Hands.jpg|One of the ear-like appendages around Jubey's neck resembles a hand in this panel.
File:Chapter 21 jubey.PNG
</gallery>
 
==Fanart==
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File:Kyubey and Jubey Fanart.png|Jubey with his partner in "crime", Kyubey.
File:Tumblr_lsh208wDZI1r0zluuo1_500.png
File:Mentally_Ill.png
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