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<blockquote>''"Playtime is over, you know."'' - 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.
 
==Jubey in Kazumi Magica==
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Jubey has so far only appeared in Kazumi Magica.
 
He first appears in Chapter 4 after Kazumi and the Plediades rescue Umika and Kaoru from a witch, watching their celebration from a rooftop, seemingly alongside Kyubey. He jumps down and greets the girls, much to Kazumi’s surprise, and is introduced by Satomi as the fairy they all contracted with. Jubey then proceeds to absorb the grief inside the Pleiades' soul gems by spinning in the air until they are sparkling clean and then eats the grief seed they've collected from the witch. When he tries to dispose of [[Evil Nuts]] however, he spits them out in disgust and says 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 after Yuuri's attack, and is seen sleeping with Kazumi's cat Toto as the girls discuss Yuuri's message. He accompanies them to Asunaro Dome to meet with Yuuri, and at [[Saki]]'s command, attempts to purify Yuuri's soul gem during the Pleiades' fight with her. However, Yuuri shoots Jubey as he begins spinning and becomes a witch. He gets up shortly afterwards, still injured, and explains to Kazumi what happened to Yuuri, claiming that he doesn't know why magical girls turn into witches, but that it happens "sometimes". He goes on to explain to Kazumi that it isn't possible to revert the process and that Yuuri must be killed.
 
Some time after the events of that night, Jubey accompanies Niko and Kazumi on a "witch hunt" to the La Vie Land Amusement Park. He remains with them during Niko's fight with [[Ayase Souju]], and explains to Kazumi Niko's abilities and Ayase's transformation into Luca. When Kazumi asks him what happens if a magical girl's soul gem is lost, he answers that they lose their magic and some may die "depending on the situation". During the battle, he defines the Souju's "Picchi Gemellati" attack to Niko and identifies Kazumi's magic as "sacrilege", but quickly corrects himself saying it's "destruction". Finally, he helps Kazumi and Niko launch a synchronized counterattack against Ayase by biting their hands.
 
After the Soujus are defeated, Niko unexpectedly becomes a witch and is subsequently defeated by Mirai; however, another Niko appears, who Jubey identifies as Niko's "preliminary", created by her contract. Jubey is then seen accompanying the Pleiades to the [[Freezer]], where he explains to Kazumi the real connection between a girl's soul gem and her body. Umika then restores Kazumi's memories with magic, triggering a flashback when the girls first met Kazumi and Jubey.
 
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 states what he is the one who Kazumi contracted with. Kazumi explains that she met Jubey one day after being rescued from a witch by [[Mami Tomoe]]. He offered her the contract, which she used to make her grandmother wake up again rather than cure her illness so she can spend one more day with her. Oddly, Jubey is seen next to Mami as she speaks to Kazumi, and his personality and tone of voice closely resembles Kyubey's than his own.
[[File:JubeyandMami.png|thumb|250px|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 reveals the secret behind the soul gems and grief seeds, and that his goal is harvesting the energy produced when magical girls despair and become witches. When Kaoru attempts to hurt him, Umika grabs him and suddenly headbutts him and fires lasers into his eyes. Jubey then falls the ground, speaking in a different tone of voice and expressing confusion as to why Umika is mad at him. Umika explains that she has altered Jubey's memories to prevent him from making anymore contracts and that he'll work for them now. 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 remains with the Pleiades after Kazumi had fled, and is next seen with Niko again as the Pleiades receive telepathic instructions from Kazumi 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 toy clone of Niko, and the actual Niko steps out with the real Kazumi safely in tow. However, Niko suddenly turns on the group, forcing Saki to become a witch with an Evil Nut and killing Mirai in the process. Niko reveals herself as [[Kanna Hijiri]] and explains in a flashback that she learned from Jubey that she was created from Niko's wish for another version of herself who had no memory of her shooting her friends when she was a child. She then made a contract with Jubey, wishing "to connect" to the Pleiades and sneak up on them without being noticed so that she can get her revenge on Niko and the Pleiades for being artificial. She attacks them by using Mirai's magic to free the darkened soul gems from the Freezer so that they complete their transformation into witches, this including the Souju's soul gems.
 
During the battle against Kanna, Kazumi's soul gem blackens and she begins reverting back into a witch and Umika shouts at Jubey to quickly purify it. However, Jubey stops mid-spin and falls to the ground breaking into pieces. He himself doesn't know what is happening to him and says "Ciao" to Kazumi one last time before vanishing completely and leaves behind a pair of broken grief seeds. It is then that Kyubey appears, watching from afar, commenting that "your 'Jubey' was incomplete" and on how Saki's witch has the aspect is "sisterly love".
 
As Umika's gem is also beginning to break open, her 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. Kyubey appears, saying it's been awhile and introduces himself to Kazumi for the first time.
It is revealed that, as the Pleiades were creating the Freezer and planning to revive Michiru, Niko created an artificial Incubator with her magic using a body of Kyubey that was killed by Umika. Having studied the mechanics of grief seeds, she incorporated their purification capabilities into the Incubator corpse, 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, making it impossible for anyone within the city to perceive Kyubey at all, as well as editing their existing memories to remove Kyubey and replace him with Jubey instead, and suppressing their memories of how to purify soul gems without Jubey.
 
==Powers==
[[File:Jubey Cleanup.png|250px|thumb|Jubey using his purification ability.]]
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 Purification:''' 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==
* In Chapter 21, it is revealed that Jubey’s name is short for “Dependent Incubator" ("'''''Juu'''''zoku suru inkyu'''''bee'''''taa" in Japanese); a Kyubey under their jurisdiction.
 
* [[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 fairy. Jubey being called a fairy may be a reference to that.
 
* Whenever Jubey cleans the girls' soul gems, he spins quickly in the air, resembling a black hole.
 
* 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 via their magic, and that he vanished when most of them died or the Grief Seeds’ over corruption broke him. It's also possible Kanna was using her magic to keep him alive.
 
* In Chapter 21, despite Kyubey being emotionless, he has expressed an interest in communicating with Jubey as he was "the very first unique individual" of his kind, but was completely unable to communicate with him due to Umika's magic. It is unknown if Kyubey's reasons were because he wanted to learn more about Jubey or if he was ''"feeling lonely"''.
 
==Speculation==
* 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
File:Jubey square.png
File:Jubey munch 2.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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