Rozen Maiden/Characters

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.

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. -
 * Blue Eyes
 * Cultured Badass
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Flower Motifs: Red Roses.
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Girl in a Box
 * Hair of Gold
 * Improbable Weapon: Aside from manipulating rose petals, her other weapon is a cane. That's right. A freakin' cane.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Lady of War
 * Little Miss Snarker
 * Kuudere: She is basically just putting up her Stoic image to appear in a way she believes is worthy of Alice.
 * Lethal Chef: On the rare occasion she cooks. There's a reason she always wants Jun to make her tea other than nobility.
 * Cane Fu
 * Ojou: While not exactly a princess per se, and certainly not living in a rich household, her manners and personality definitely counts.
 * Petal Power
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Suigintou's Blue.
 * Something About a Rose
 * Spot of Tea: There's a high chance that whenever she asks Jun to do something, it usually involves him bringing her tea.
 * The Heroine
 * The Kirk
 * The Stoic
 * Not So Stoic: See Kuudere above.
 * Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: Her relation with Jun.
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: Where did her ability to necromance by inserting petals into toys go?
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: Where did her ability to necromance by inserting petals into toys go?

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. -
 * Anti-Hero: Type I.
 * Break the Cutie: Practically the reason he became a Hikikomori, specifically
 * Book Dumb: Just before he shunned schooling altogether. Justified as he is already too broken at this point.
 * Chew Toy: Especially to Shinku and Suiseiseki.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He's revealed to have powers similar to Rozen himself, which even amazes Shinku.
 * Hikikomori: ]].
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Ordinary High School Student: Subverted in that he doesn't exactly go to school..
 * Unfazed Everyman: With dolls running rampant in his house, it's amazing how he can put up with everything going on.
 * Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: As mentioned above, this is his relationship to Shinku mostly.
 * You Suck: Practically the reason Suiseiseki calls him a chibi.

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. -
 * Berserk Button: Just call her 'Junk'
 * Broken Bird
 * Cool Sword
 * Creepy Cool Crosses
 * Dark and Troubled Past
 * Dark Magical Girl
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita
 * Giggling Villain: Does this a lot.
 * Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons: She can morph her wings in the form of black dragons, but doesn't do it often.
 * Jerkass: To other people, especially her sisters except for Megu.
 * Jerkass Woobie: She does have her very tragic reasons to act such, as elaborated upon in Overture.
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Little Miss Snarker
 * Love Makes You Evil And Crazy
 * Noodle Incident: Kanaria uses one of those to blackmail Suigintou in the manga, but like the majority of Noodle Incidents, we never get to know what it is.
 * Not Good with People: And with her sister dolls as well.
 * Precision F-Strike: Seldom happens, but it still happens.
 * Psychotic Smirk: In certain situations, she has this on. Not really "psychotic", but her face can look very creepy.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning: More like Pinkish-Red Eyes Take Warning, but...
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Shinku's Red.
 * Sensual Slavs: English dub only, (also overlaps a bit with Accent Adaptation) since she had a weird Eastern European accent in her voice. Guess what kind of mental image they're trying to give with that accent.
 * Tall, Dark, Bishoujo, And Snarky
 * The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Her default attitude towards Shinku.
 * The Rival: To Shinku.
 * The Stoic: Has some moments of being this.
 * Tsundere: Type A. She is usually Tsuntsun on other people and her sisters, but Deredere to Megu.
 * Winged Humanoid
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: Or more like White Haired Creepy Girl at times.
 * Worthy Opponent: To Shinku.
 * Tsundere: Type A. She is usually Tsuntsun on other people and her sisters, but Deredere to Megu.
 * Winged Humanoid
 * White-Haired Pretty Girl: Or more like White Haired Creepy Girl at times.
 * Worthy Opponent: To Shinku.
 * Worthy Opponent: To Shinku.

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
 * 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.
 * 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!"
 * 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.
 * 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. -
 * Anti-Hero: Type IV
 * Bifauxnen: Many who watched the series initally misstook her for a boy.
 * Bokukko: Leading Micchan to believe she actually is a boy in the manga.
 * Green Thumb
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Mismatched Eyes: Even mirroring Suiseiseki's.
 * My Master, Right or Wrong: She is extremely loyal to whatever master she has, although it is partially due to a will to help them become better people in the end.
 * Nice Hat
 * Sibling Yin-Yang: With Suiseiseki, obviously.
 * The Spock
 * The Stoic
 * Tomboyish Sidetails: Though they are on the short side.
 * The Spock
 * The Stoic
 * Tomboyish Sidetails: Though they are on the short side.

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. -
 * Cheerful Child: She loves to play, draw, and do practically everything a child wants to do.
 * In-Series Nickname: Called "Little Strawberry" by Shinku.
 * Let's Get Dangerous: She gives everything she's got in her first battle, almost defeating Shinku in order to be with Tomoe, although not realizing she is also.
 * Princess Curls
 * : In episode 10 of the second season.
 * Token Mini-Moe
 * Trademark Favorite Food: She really likes her unyuu.
 * Verbal Tic: A rare case of having two different verbal tics. "Na No" (the most used) and "unyuu".
 * Yandere: Only explored during her first appearance, but she can be creepily and dangerously possessive about people she cares about.
 * Trademark Favorite Food: She really likes her unyuu.
 * Verbal Tic: A rare case of having two different verbal tics. "Na No" (the most used) and "unyuu".
 * Yandere: Only explored during her first appearance, but she can be creepily and dangerously possessive about people she cares about.

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. -
 * Canon Foreigner
 * Emotionless Girl: Played straight towards the other dolls, then brutally subverted when.
 * Eyepatch of Power
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Fan Nickname: Thanks to Kanaria getting scared and couldn't spell her full name, a good portion of the fandom calls her 'Bara Bara'.
 * Filler Villain
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Implacable Doll
 * Girlish Pigtails
 * Implacable 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."

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. -
 * Ahoge
 * Beware the Nice Ones: Even Shinku is deathly afraid of her if she is angry.
 * Cool Big Sis
 * Covert Pervert
 * Dojikko
 * Meganekko
 * Lethal Chef: Subverted. She's actually a very good cook. Except for her tea, which, according to Shinku, is horrible.
 * Scary Shiny Glasses: When she gets angry, heh heh...
 * Yamato Nadeshiko

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.


 * Class Representative: Of Jun's class, specifically.
 * Little Miss Snarker: When she actually starts talking, that is.
 * She's Not My Girlfriend: Shirosaki thought this about her and Jun. It did not end well.
 * Yamato Nadeshiko

Enju

 * Hidden Agenda Villain

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

Micchan

 * Adult Child
 * Fan Girl: To the Rozen Maidens in particular.
 * Meganekko
 * Office Lady

Megu Kakizaki

 * Heartwarming Orphan
 * Heroic Self-Deprecation
 * Ill Girl:.
 * Shiho Kawaragi
 * Shiho Kawaragi
 * Shiho Kawaragi