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{{quote|''"Desu, desu, desu, desu, desu, desu, desu, desu, desu, desu, desu, desu, desu, desu, desu, desu!"''|[[Memetic Mutation|The Internet]] on ''Rozen Maiden''}}

Shinku, the doll, immediately sets about correcting Jun's mannerisms, trying to convert him into her servant by default -- an attempt cut short by the appearance of a stuffed clown with a pair of menacing-looking knives. Jun, fearing for his life, agrees to become Shinku's medium (her supply of power so that she can fight), and is drawn from there into the strange world of the Rozen Maiden dolls and the Alice game.

 

 

Sadly, it was never finished because of [[Executive Meddling|a dispute between the producers and publishers of the manga]]. The anime [[Overtook the Manga]] and went to its own conclusion while the manga went on hiatus for months until it was finally [[Cut Short]] with a [[Deus Ex Machina]] (and an apology for doing so).

 

A new manga series is currently being published under the name ''Rozen Maiden Tale''. It's a [[For Want of a Nail]] story starring a much older Jun Sakurada, which follows what would have happened if Jun had responded [[Red Pill, Blue Pill|"do not wind"]] to the initial letter, and crosses over with the original universe. After a few chapters, the story then shifts back to the original Jun via a bridge-arc and the plot resumes where the original Manga ended, making ''Tales'', despite what it initially looked like, an actual continuation instead of an [[Alternate Universe]] spin-off.

 

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** Enju tries to replicate this, as shown when he brings a small doll to life, when Jun is visiting his shop {{spoiler|even though he has already done this with Barasuishou.}}

* [[Anti-Villain]]: {{spoiler|Suigintou in Ouverture}}.

* [[Battle Butler]]: Inverted.

* [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]]

* [[Enigmatic Minion]]: Laplace's demon.

* [[Erotic Dream]]

'''Nori:''' Jun I can't, we're siblings! }}

* [[Escalating War]]: One of the most amusing episodes in the first season.

* [[Evil Albino]]: Suigintou, she has all the conditions necessary (white hair, pink eyes, rarely if ever seen during the day, and is the [[Big Bad]] in the first season.

* [[Gecko Ending]]: Thanks to some [[Executive Meddling]] The last volume of the manga was [[Cut Short]].

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Nori, to Jun, in episode 11 of the first season.

* [[Have You Seen My God?|Have You Seen Father?]]

* [[Pinocchio Syndrome]]: The dolls want to become "Alice", the perfect girl, however, they seem to want to do it more to [["Well Done, Son" Guy|please Rozen]] than for the sake of being human.

* [[Really 700 Years Old]]: All the Rozen Maiden dolls. Of course, it helps that they're, well, ''[[Captain Obvious|dolls]]''.

* [[Recurring Extra]]: [[Butt Monkey|Kanaria]].

* [[Red Pill, Blue Pill]]: The plot kicks off by asking Jun whether or not he wants to wind Shinku up. In the [[Continuity Reboot]] manga above, he took the Blue Pill {{spoiler|It is revealed to be and [[Alternate Universe]]. The main universe characters try to get support from the Jun that did not wound and thus drag the war in his reality}}.

*** Träumend too, where Souseiseki goes so far as to threaten to cut down Suiseiseki if she got in the way of the game when Suiseiseki is trying to convince her not to participate.

* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Mix of abuse and affection in relationships between some dolls and their mediums. Also, see the first OP translation [http://www.designchronicle.com/memento/archives/kinjirareta_asobi.html here] .

* [[Spot of Tea]]: Shinku wants her tea, servant.

* [[Start of Darkness]]: ''Rozen Maiden: Ouverture'', which details Suigintou's past.

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: For the standard of ''Rozen Maiden'' character height, Suigintou kinda counts, except she's [[White-Haired Pretty Girl|white-haired]]. But the rest of her outfit is DARK.

* [[Thank the Maker]]: All the dolls, more or less.

* [[There Can Be Only One]]: The goal of the Alice Game.

** For a more sinister example, Laplace's Demon.

* [[Tsundere]]: Suiseiseki, Shinku, possibly Suigintou.

* [[Verbal Tic]]: Every last one of the Maidens, though it's more prevelant in the original Japanese then the dubbed version. The [[Memetic Mutation|"desu!"]] tic of Suiseiseki is totally nonpresent in the dubbed anime, for example, while the characters trying to figure out what Hinaichigo's "unyuu" actually is forms the plot point of an early episode.

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Basically the motivation for every doll except Suiseiseki, who loves her sisters more than her father.

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Episode 5 of Träumend is full of these moments. A couple examples are when Kanaria holds a gun up to Suiseiseki's face and it turns out to be a water gun, and when Hina Ichigo tries to put her letter to Jun in the mailbox complete with [[Slow Motion Fall]].

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: {{spoiler|the eventual fate of Barasuishou and Enju, even if the former crumbled to death.}}

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Suigintou & Kirakishou (though the latter has occasionally been depicted with [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|light pink hair]].

* [[Yandere]]: Kirakishou.

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