Rozen Maiden/Characters

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Characters that have appeared in the Rozen Maiden Anime, manga and drama CDs. Basically dolls fighting a game of There Can Be Only One for the ultimate prize of becoming the perfect girl, Alice.

The Main Characters

Shinku

Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (JP), Yui Horie (JP - drama CD), Mela Lee (EN)

The fifth doll of the dolls, and the protagonist of the series. She is restrained, noble and sometimes demanding, but is nevertheless a good-hearted doll who simply does what she feels needs to be done.

Sakurada Jun

Voiced by: Asami Sanada (JP), Sanae Kobayashi (JP - drama CD), Mona Marshall (EN)

Basically the deuteragonist of the series, being the guy who actually kicks off the plot by winding up Shinku. In short, he is a reclusive loser who has a fear of school after failing on a test and becoming the laughingstock of his class.


The Rozen Maidens

Suigintou

Voiced by: Rie Tanaka (JP), Mamiko Noto (JP - drama CD), Karen Strassman (EN)

The first doll of the Rozen Maidens, she served as the antagonist in the first season.

Kanaria

Voiced by: Yumi Shimura (JP), Cristina Valenzuela (EN)

The second Rozen Maiden doll, Kanaria makes her appearance only later in the series. Her medium is named Mitsu (but everyone calls her Micchan), who is a maniac doll collector and her artificial spirit is names Pizzicato. Kanaria considers herself to be the smartest Maiden and often boasts about it, but her plans almost always fail in hilarious ways. Personality-wise, she is similar to Hinaichigo and like her and Suiseiseki, Kanaria have a Verbal Tic: "Kashira" (Feminine version of "I wonder?" adaptated to "Maybe" in the official english release of the manga). However, Kanaria is competent in battle and battle using sonic waves of her violin.

  • Anti-Hero: Type IV
  • Badass Boast: She tries to do one in the manga, but Older!Jun interrupts it much to her dismay.
  • Blow You Away: Her wind-based violin powers.
  • Butt Monkey
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: While she is similar to Hinaichigo personality-wise, she is very competent in battle, managing to defeat Suiseiseki, Souseiseki, and Hinaichigo simultaneously in the anime. Also in the manga it's stated that she protected Jun from Kirakishou while he was hiding from her in the N-Field and also managed to destroy Kirakishou's illusions using the sound of her violin.
  • Defeat Means Friendship
  • Hair Decorations: Always seen wearing a heart-shaped... doily?
  • Idiot Hair
  • Instrument of Murder
  • Large Ham
  • The Mole: Initially.
  • Musical Assassin: She uses her violin to employ wind-based attacks.
  • My Name Is Not Durwood: The other dolls have been shown not to remember her name properly.
  • Parasol Parachute: Well, she tries to make it work...
  • Princess Curls: Ironic, judging by her personality.
  • Ted Baxter and Smug Snake: Always claims to be the smartest maiden, but never seems to succeed in any of her plans.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Although she claims to be the smartest Rozen Maiden doll, none of her plans seem to work. To round off the Too Dumb to Live, she tried fighting four Rozen Maidens at once. Also, on the final episode of the anime, when Barasuishou destroys her violin, she stands still, not realizing she can use Suiseiseki's power.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Tamagoyaki, a kind of japanese omelet.
  • Verbal Tic: "Kashira!" in the japanese version and "Maybe" in the official english release of the manga.

Suiseiseki

Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani (JP), Nana Mizuki (JP - drama CD), Rebecca Forstadt (EN)

Also known simply by her Verbal Tic, desu, Suiseiseki is the third doll of the Rozen Maidens. She is haughty, naughty and mischievous, but also loving, caring and protective of her sisters.

  • Anti-Hero: Type II
  • Evil Laugh: "HI HI HI HI! I found you, desu!"
  • Heroic Sacrifice: In the anime, she tries to take on Barasuishou herself to give Kanaria a chance to escape. Sadly, this turns into a Senseless Sacrifice when Kanaria decides to keep on fighting. They both end up dead because of it. The manga has another one, more successful one in which she sacrifices her own roza mystica to revive Souseiseki fully and banish Kirakishou from her body. She gets better in both of these cases, however...
  • Green Thumb
  • Imagine Spot: In a recent manga chapter, she has one of those after reading a shoujo manga... so we get to see Suiseiseki wearing a school uniform recieving a love confession from a boy (who strangely looks like Jun).
  • The Heart: She's the first one to try and convince the other dolls that the whole Alice Game is a worthless endeavour.
    • The Messiah: She is even willing to go through hell and back for her sisters.
  • The McCoy: She refuses to fight the Alice Game because she cares too much about her sisters.
  • Mismatched Eyes: Previously the Trope Namer before the rename of the article.
  • The Prankster
  • Rapunzel Hair: Granted, she IS a doll, but her hair still reaches the floor!
  • Screwy Squirrel: She loves to pull pranks on Hinaichigo and sometimes Jun if she gets the chance, even if she often gets herself into trouble because of it.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: With Souseiseki.
  • Trickster Archetype
  • Tsundere: And how!
  • Verbal Tic: Desu, of course.

Souseiseki

Voiced by: Rika Morinaga (JP), Julie Ann Taylor (EN)

Being the fourth doll of the Rozen Maidens, Souseiseki is the most duty-bound of the dolls, and the most restrained. She feels that she is obliged to become Alice, mostly out of a sense of duty. She is commonly the most calm and collected of the dolls, and is strongly bound by her sense of honor and duty.

Shinku

See The Protagonists folder.

Hinaichigo

Voiced by: Sakura Nogawa (JP), Tomoko Kaneda (JP - drama CD), Sherry Lynn (EN)

The sixth doll, and the youngest-minded of the dolls. She loves to play, being with her friends, and just generally have fun. Rather naive and narrow-minded, but in the end a genuinely caring doll.

Barasuishou

Voiced by: Saori Gotou (JP), Tara Platt (EN)

An anime-only character that first appeared in Träumend, Barsuishou served as the primary antagonist when the anime departed from the manga. She shows up claiming to be the 7th Rozen doll.

Kirakishou

The actual 7th Rozen doll, although she lacks a physical body and only exists in the N-Field. Unfortunately, she has no speaking parts in the anime.

  • Adaptation Dye Job: Alternates between white and light pink in the manga by itself, but in the anime, she was given the same grayish color as Barasuishou.
  • Continuity Cameo: She shows up briefly (read: for nine seconds) at the end of Träumend, but other than that, she has no role in the anime.
  • Dissonant Serenity
  • Eye Of Gold
  • Freudian Excuse: Unlike the other dolls, she was created with no physical body, and was thereby forced to live out her life alone in the N-field, eventually driving her insane out of an intense wish to gain a physical body and a lack of social experience with other dolls and humans.
  • Girlish Pigtails
  • Go Mad From the Isolation: Spending her entire life inside the N-field without any sort of contact with little to no contact with the other dolls and humans has some really disturbing effects.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Part of the reason of why she is so insane is because she is envious of the other dolls' physical bodies.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: Well, the closest thing towards the dolls as you can get.
  • Living Doll Collector: In an odd case of a doll collecting humans as if they were the dolls.
  • Love Makes You Evil And Crazy: Even more so than Suigintou.
  • Suck My Rose: Probably the most profound example amongst the dolls, as she actually has a rose growing out of her right eye socket, which also happens to be her weapon to add in the mix.
  • The Man Behind the Man
  • Yandere: Kirakishou: "You can choose anyone you want, as long as you choose me."


Everyone Else

Sakurada Nori

Voiced by: Noriko Rikimaru (JP), Aya Hisakawa (JP - drama CD), Minx Lee (EN)

Jun's older sister. She willingly quit playing lacrosse to help take care of Jun and took a surprisingly fast liking to the dolls that inhabited her house.

Tomoe Kashiwaba

Voiced by: Masayo Kurata (JP), Ayako Kawasumi (JP - drama CD), Dorothy Elias Fahn (EN)

Hinaichigo's old medium, and a classmate of Jun, who helps him with missed schoolwork and dealing with the Rozen dolls and such.

Enju

Laplace

  • Enigmatic Minion: Why exactly does he Orchestrate the entire series and play mind-games with damn near everyone (Enju included.)
  • Ho Yay: In the official Träumend drama CD, he gets a real hilarious scene in which he gets intimate with Detective Kunkun.
  • Petting Zoo People
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: It is not revealed until the very last few episodes that he and Shirosaki are actually the same person.

Micchan

Megu Kakizaki

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