History Characters / RozenMaiden

* TheBabyOfTheBunch: She's the youngest of the dolls (at least until Kirakishou shows up) and her personality is the most childlike out of them. Her sisters and friends tend to baby her because of this.

* BecomeARealGirl: She's a spiritual being without a physical body and she desperately wants one to become a real doll like her sisters. [[spoiler:Eventually, her mad obsession with becoming a real girl drives her to attempt acquiring a human body. Megu offers her a deal, promising she'll allow Kirakishou to possess her body in exchange of collecting all the Rosa Mystica that Megu wants to give to Suigintou. It fails when Megu's ill body finally gives out shortly after the possession. However, Kirakishou still gets her own doll body in the end thanks to Shinku.]]

* ChildrenDoTheHousework: Nori lives alone with her brother Jun because their parents are working overseas. She's managing the household chores due to being the older sibling.

* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She's very girly and peppy. She's also an avid lacrosse player.

* TheAgeless: Due to being dolls, they never age.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Kirakishou gets her own doll body in the end and gets to be with the other sisters, which is what she wanted all along.]]
* BecomeARealGirl: She's a spiritual being without a physical body and she desperately wants one to become a "real" doll like her sisters. [[spoiler:Eventually, her mad obsession with becoming a real girl drives her to attempt possessing a human body when Megu offers her a deal where she can get her body in exchange.]]

* CuteAndPsycho: She acts cute and polite, but being trapped in the N-Field her whole life has made her insane and murderous.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:At the end of the manga, Kirakishou reforms after she receives forgiveness and salvation from Shinku. To pay her back, she's going to help Jun and the rest of her sisters find a way to restore Shinku's Rosa Mystica.]]

* InPlaceOfAnEye: Kirakishou's main power is controlling rose vines. She has a white rose growing from the socket of her right eye.

* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:After getting kidnapped by Kirakishou, Megu makes a deal with her. Megu offers to help Kirakishou capture the other remaining human masters and in exchange, Kirakishou gives Megu a healthy body, finally allowing her to get out of the hospital as she always wanted, before draining her of her life force to finally let her die.]]

* IntimateHairBrushing: The aloof Suigintou allows Megu to brush her hair, showing how strong their bond is.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:She calls Jun a coward who was just very focused in his self-pity that didn't see he was sucking out of his sister and Tomoe's life.]]

* HumanResources: [[spoiler:Her powers require a lot of energy so [[PeopleFarm she's gathering all current and old doll masters into her seed bed to drain energy out of them]].]]

* PsychologicalProjection:

* ThemeTwinNaming: Suiseiseki (Japanese for "Jade Star") is named after a gem, like Souseiseki.

* ThemeTwinNaming: Souseiseki (Japanese for "Lapis Lazuli Star") is named after a gem, like Suiseiseki.

* PinkMeansFeminine: Her pink colour scheme and youthful behaviour result in a very girly and innocent person.

* AllLovingHeroine: Her main goal is finding a way to win the Alice Game without losing or abandoning any of her sisters, even though [[ThereCanOnlyBeOne only one of them can become Alice]].

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: She refers to the other dolls, especially Shinku, as "junk", to the point that is her CatchPhrase, and swore that she would turn Shinku into a junk, but her [[spoiler: dying scene]] in the first season makes it clear she called the other dolls junk out of fear of called a junk on her own, because she [[spoiler: actually is incomplete]].

* HeroicSacrifice: In the 2004 anime, [[spoiler:she tries to take on Barasuishou herself to give Kanaria a chance to escape. Sadly, this turns into a SenselessSacrifice 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 Rosa Mystica to revive Souseiseki fully and banish Kirakishou from her body. She gets better in both of these cases, however..]].

* GoGoEnslavement: [[spoiler:In the sequel, after Kirakishou abducts her, the captive Micchan dresses as a maid.]]

* MeaningfulName: Hinaichigo means "Small Strawberry".

* PinkMeansFeminine: Her pink colour scheme and youthful behaviour result in a very girly and innocent person. [[spoiler:Which only makes it all the more horrible when she gets killed off.]]

-->Voiced by: Creator/MiyukiSawashiro (JP), Creator/YuiHorie (JP - drama CD), Creator/MelaLee (Geneon), Creator/LuciChristian (Sentai) (EN)

-->Voiced by: Creator/AsamiSanada (JP - Young), Creator/SanaeKobayashi (JP - drama CD), Creator/MonaMarshall (Geneon), Creator/ShannonEmerick (Sentai) (EN)

->Voiced by: Creator/RieTanaka (JP), Creator/MamikoNoto (JP - drama CD), Creator/KarenStrassman (Geneon), Creator/JessicaCalvello (Sentai) (EN)

-->Voiced by: Yumi Shimura (JP - 2005-2016), Akari Kageyama (JP - ''Gothic wa Mahou Otome'' and ''VideoGame/{{SINoALICE}}'' collaborations) Creator/CristinaValenzuela (Geneon), Creator/MonicaRial (Sentai) (EN)

-->Voiced by: Creator/NatsukoKuwatani (JP), Creator/NanaMizuki (JP - drama CD), Creator/RebeccaForstadt (Geneon), Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (Sentai) (EN)

* TheMatchmaker: In ''Rozen Maiden 0'' she makes repeated attempts to pair her master, Kiku, up with the young master of the Rose Mansion. This eventually stops when [[spoiler:Kiku confesses to Suiseiseki that she, instead, had feelings for the doll all along.]]

* {{Tsundere}}: She's haughty and loves to pull pranks on her sisters, but she really loves them and will do anything to protect them. Also despite her bad attitude and insults towards Jun, she's clearly fond of him.

-->Voiced by: Creator/RikaMorinaga (JP), Creator/JulieAnnTaylor (Geneon), Creator/KaraGreenberg (Sentai) (EN)

-->Voiced by: Creator/SakuraNogawa (JP), Creator/TomokoKaneda (JP - drama CD), Creator/SherryLynn (Geneon), Creator/HilaryHaag (Sentai) (EN)

-->Voiced by: Creator/ChiemiChiba (JP), Creator/CarliMosier (EN)

-->Voiced by: Creator/MasayoKurata (JP), Creator/AyakoKawasumi (JP - drama CD), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn (Geneon), Creator/JulietSimmons (Sentai) (EN)

-->Voiced by: Creator/ShihoKawaragi (JP), Creator/ErikaWeinstein (Geneon), Creator/EmilyNeves (Sentai) (EN)

%%* AntiVillain

* BreakThemByTalking: Does this to [[spoiler:Jun]].

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Her greatest wish is to die, grow wings and fly away.

* NewTransferStudent: [[spoiler:After recovering in the manga, she attends Jun's class, despite being a few years older.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives [[spoiler:Jun]] a good one. [[spoiler:She called him a DirtyCoward who was just very focused in his self pity that didn't see he was sucking out of his sister and Tomoe's life, that his selfish existence wasn't needed in the world and that he would be better dead. This broke him enough to be trapped by Kirakishou.]]

[[folder:Mitsu "Micchan" Kusabue]]

-->Voiced by: Akiko Kawase (JP), Jean Brown (Geneon) (EN)

-->Voiced by: Creator/NorikoRikimaru (JP), Creator/AyaHisakawa (JP - drama CD), Creator/JennieKwan [[note]] credited as Minx Lee [[/note]] (Geneon), Creator/NancyNovotny (Sentai) (EN)

-->Voiced by: Kyousei Tsukui (JP), Creator/KeithSilverstein (Geneon), Creator/DavidWald (Sentai) (EN)

[[folder:Adult Jun]]

-->Voiced by: Creator/RyotaOhsaka (JP), Creator/CoreyHartzog (EN)

-->Voiced by: Creator/NatsumiTakamori (JP), Creator/MargaretMcDonald (EN)

-->Voiced by: Kensuke Tamura (JP), Creator/DavidWald (EN)

-->Voiced by: Ikuo Nishikawa (JP), Kevin Seymour (EN)

-->Voiced by: Creator/SaoriGoto (JP), Creator/TaraPlatt (EN)

-->Voiced by: Creator/TakahiroSakurai (JP), Creator/KeithSilverstein (EN)

-->Voiced by: Creator/DaisukeOno (JP), Jason C. Miller (EN)

[[/folder]]

* {{Jerkass}}: She is cruel to other people, especially her sisters - ''except'' for [[MoralityPet Megu]], [[{{Tsundere}} who she still insults]]. Sometimes it's clear her jerkass behaviour is just an act. In ''Träumend'' she pretends that she only wants a Rosa Mystica in order to beat the Alice Game. Shinku only finds out that she also wants it to save Megu after Suigintou dies and she absorbs her Rosa Mystica. It is explained with her [[LoveMakesYouEvil motivations]].
* LittleMissBadass: Although she is noticeably larger than other dolls.
%%* LittleMissSnarker
* LoveMakesYouEvil: She wants love, but since she's angry and mean to most people, she's denied it, [[ViciousCycle which only makes her even more angry.]]

* {{Tsundere}}: Harsh type. She likes [[MoralityPet Megu]], the only person she shows sympathy to. But she usually tries to act like she doesn't care about her and calls her an idiot for being so weird. [[spoiler:[[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] when Megu eventually leaves her and goes straight to Kirakishou!]]

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:In the second half od the story, Souseiseki comes back to life after her body gets remade by Adult Jun and her Rosa Mystica is extracted from Suigintou's body.]]

* BerserkButton: Never remind her that Rozen didn't give her a body, or even worse, call her an fading illusion.

* EyepatchOfPower: Kind of. Her eye literally ''is'' a flower, instead of being a flower-shaped Eyepatch.

* HellishPupils: In the anime of ''Tales'', her eyes are drawn with vertical ovals for pupils that make her look creepier than the other dools.

* MysticalWhiteHair: Not only is she a doll brought to life, she's more special than the other Rozen Maidens.

* TheRival: She sees Shinku as her rival.

* WorthyOpponent: To Shinku.

* HellishPupils: In the anime of ''Tales''.

* ImAHumanitarian: Well, the closest thing towards the dolls as you can get.

* LoveMakesYouEvil [[LoveMakesYouCrazy And Crazy]]: Even more so than Suigintou.
%%* TheManBehindTheMan
%%* ManipulativeBitch

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Brooding Boy to Saitou's Gentle Girl.

* ForWantOfANail: His dimension and life are the result of him choosing to "Don't wind", meaning rejecting being Shinku's master.

* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler:After Jun was abducted too, the dolls asked his help since "Jun" is the master of three of them.]]

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Gentle Girl to Jun's Brooding Boy.

* {{Bokukko}}: She uses the male pronoun "boku" to refer to herself.

%%* CulturedBadass

* ChildHater: He ''hates'' little kids.

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Shirosaki thought Tomoe was Jun's girlfriend. It did not end well.

The first doll of the Rozen Maidens, she served as the antagonist in the first season. Of all the dolls, she's the one who wants to become Alice the most to please Rozen and prove she does deserve being the perfect girl. Despise not having a master until the end of the 2004 anime and original manga, she's very powerful. Her artificial spirit is Meimei.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Both her deaths in both anime seasons are so heartwrenching that even Shinku, her most hated enemy, mourns her death in both situations.]]

* DiscOneFinalBoss: She served as the BigBad for the first part of the anime and manga.

* GarnishingTheStory: Probably the only reason why her wings can be dragon heads.
* GigglingVillain: Does this a ''lot''.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: More like Pinkish-Red Eyes Take Warning, but...

%%* DefeatMeansFriendship

%%* TheMole: Initially.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Always claims to be the smartest maiden, but never seems to succeed in any of her plans.

* AngstySurvivingTwin: [[spoiler:Before Souseiseki was brought BackFromTheDead, she was greatly affected by losing her twin sister. Once she gets her back, she doesn't want that Suigintou takes Souseiseki again.]]

* EvilLaugh: "HI HI HI HI! I found you, desu!"

* HeroicSacrifice: In the anime, [[spoiler:she tries to take on Barasuishou herself to give Kanaria a chance to escape. Sadly, this turns into a SenselessSacrifice 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 Rosa Mystica to revive Souseiseki fully and banish Kirakishou from her body. She gets better in both of these cases, however..]].

* {{Tsundere}}: She's haughty and loves to pull pranks on her sisters, but she really loves them and will do anything to protect them. Also despite her bad attitude towards Jun, she still has a hidden crush on him.

* WellExcuseMePrincess: She calls Jun a chibi and looks down on him for being a {{Hikikomori}}, demanding him to do better.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:In the sequel manga, Souseiseki comes back to life after her body gets remade by Adult Jun and her Rosa Mystica is extracted from Suigintou's body.]]

* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: [[spoiler:Practically used by Barasuishou to force every remaining doll into fighting in the end of the anime.]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:In the manga, she gets strangled and then ''eaten'' by Kirakishou.]]

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Vines are her weapons. In the manga, Kirakishou kills her by strangling her with vines]]
* GreenThumb: To a lesser extent than Suiseiseki, but she can use powerful vines in battle.

* ProneToTears: She's very sensitive and cries frequently.

* ChildhoodFriends: With Jun. They often played together when they were kids, but due to her father's work, Tomoe moved away and returned when Jun was in the first year of junior high school.

* NiceGirl: She's a kindhearted girl who cares for Jun and Hinaichigo.

A sickly girl who is Suigintou's master.

* PseudoRomanticFriendship: With Suigintou. Megu is the only person who can bring out Suigintou's softer side. When they make their contract, the scene is framed like a wedding ceremony.

* {{Revenge}}: He wanted to make Souseiseki kill the soul tree of the woman his brother loved, as he blames her for making his brother leave him and then surviving the accident that killed his brother. However, it's subverted when he realizes what he actually wanted Souseiseki to kill was part of his own soul tree to free him from the pain of stealing his dead brother's identity to cope with his loss.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Helping Tomoe to escape from Kirakishou, Kirakishou takes her instead. Kanaria was about to help her but Micchan told her to don't waste strength for her.]]

The granddaughter of Corinne, Hinaichigo's former master. Odille comes to the Sakurada home claiming to be Hinaichigo's master. In reality, the ring Odille wears is a contract with Kirakishou.

* FeminineWomenCanCook: She's a very good cook, although Shinku doesn't like her tea.

The fifth doll of the dolls, and TheProtagonist 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. She fights with rose's petals and her artificial spirit is Holly.

%%* AloofBigSister: Towards Hinaichigo and the twins, at times.

* WellExcuseMePrincess: Even though Jun is technically her master, Shinku bosses him around and looks down on his status as a {{Hikikomori}}.

* EmbarrassingHobby: He likes sewing and designing girls' clothes. He's mortified by people knowing about this, especially since last time people found out about his hobby, he was mocked by his peers and he felt so humiliated that he withdrew from society.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He loses his temper easily around the Rozen Maidens, but he does care about Shinku and the others.

* UnmanlySecret: He likes to design and sew girls' clothes, specially ElegantGothicLolita ones. He drew one for a girl of his class who was participating in a contest but forgot to erase it; his teacher found it out, exposed it to the whole school and everybody started to whisper he was weird and make fun of it. He never returned to school out of embarrasment.

* AccentAdaptation: In the English dub, she had a weird Eastern European accent in her voice. [[{{Dracula}} Guess what kind of mental image they're trying to give with that accent]].
* AdaptationalBadass: In the 2004 anime, Suigintou nearly managed to beat her sisters by herself at the end of the first season, without needing a master. For that matter, Megu was Anime!Suigintou's first master, while Manga!Suigintou had several across the centuries, and she still managed to match Shinku in all their fights.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Zigzagged In the 2004 anime Suigintou comes off as more villainous than her manga counterpart (though she gets better after meeting Megu), with her displaying both a level of sadism and a hatred towards Shinku that Manga!Suigintou never showed. At the same time however, Anime!Suigintou at first was a lot nicer than Manga!Suigintou and possesses a more legitimate FreudianExcuse for her current personality.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Both her deaths in both seasons are so heartwrenching that even Shinku, her most hated enemy, mourns her death in both situations.]]

* BetaTestBaddie: In the anime, she's literally incomplete due to premature animation.

%%* DeadpanSnarker

* TheRival: She sees Shinku as her rival.
* TheStoic: Has some moments of being this.

* UsedToBeASweetKid: As seen in ''Ouverture''.

%%* LittleGirlsKickShins

* ReplacementGoldfish: In the anime, an old man convinced himself Souseiseki was his child, Kazuki.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: She is very childish and demanding, towards Shinku and Jun, in particular.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: Easily the most innocent of the dolls, sometimes to idiot-levels.

* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: By far the sweetest and most innocent of Rozen's dolls.
* HatesBeingAlone: Her last master abandoned her in the house from which she was moving out, leaving her with abandonment issues.
* InSeriesNickname: Called "Little Strawberry" by Shinku.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:She is the only Rozen doll that doesn't come BackFromTheDead.]]

* ReallyDeadMontage: [[spoiler:In episode 10 of the second season.]]

* {{Yandere}}: Only explored during her first appearance, but she can be creepily and dangerously possessive about people she cares about.

The 7th Rozen doll, although she lacks a physical body and only exists in the N-Field. She has no speaking parts in the original anime. Her abilities include crystals and white vines.

* AdaptationDyeJob: Alternates between white and light pink in the manga by itself, but in the anime, she was given the same grayish color as Barasuishou. In the new 2013 anime, she becomes a strawberry blonde.

%%* BrokenBird: Due to being forced to GoMadFromTheIsolation.

* CreepyDoll: Oh boy, is she ''ever''. [[spoiler:Not to mention her temporal body and replicas.]]

%%* CuteAndPsycho: [[{{Understatement}} And that's put it mildly.]]

%% * EtherealWhiteDress: Wears a white ensemble supposed to represent her purity, but it more fittingly [[spoiler:represents death.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: She ''always'' speaks in a nice polite tone which contrast her insane behavior.

* MySiblingWillLiveThroughMe: His twin brother Futaba eloped with a woman and died in a boat accident. Kazuha claimed Futaba's body as his own and has since then gone on living in Futaba's identity.

* BigBad: The main antagonist of the series.

* BrokenBird: Years of being sick and death avoiding her, have leave her very bitter about everything and everyone. She hates her dad, the nurses and at her new school, she hates everyone too.

* CreepyChild: Having been bed-ridden for most of her life, she actively wishes for her death and rejects the treatment they try to give her. She also believes Suigintou to be an angel, send to finally let her die. Her occasional musings about these things don't help.
* DeathSeeker: She has been inside the hospital since she can remember, so she wishes to die already and end hers and her parent's suffering.

* CoolBigSis: To Jun. She's very caring and patient with her younger brother, usually trying to support him and get him out of his isolated {{{Hikikomori}} state.

* DaddysLittleVillain: [[spoiler:Except her 'daddy' isn't Rozen.]]

* ElementalWeapon: She has a sword that is made out of pure crystal.

* FlowerMotifs: Her name means "Crystal Rose" and her dress is decorated with purple roses.

* MeaningfulName: Barasuishou means "Crystal Rose" in Japanese.

* WhiteHairBlackHeart: It's hard to say if she's really evil, but her actions hardly speak favourably of her.

* TheManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:In ''Träumend''. He created Barasuishou, a [[EvilKnockoff knockoff]] of Rozen's Kirakishou, in the hopes of surpassing Rozen.]]

* BritishStuffiness: She puts on a slight British accent in the English dub.

* TheAce: Deconstructed in his backstory in the anime. [[spoiler:When he was in school, he excelled academically as well as being good at sports and crafts, and was highly popular with the other students. [[BrokenAce Then the sheer pressure of it all caused him to mentally collapse]] and turn into a {{Hikikomori}}.]]

* EmbarrassingHobby: He likes sewing and designing girls' clothes. He's mortified by people knowing about this, especially since [[spoiler:last time people found out about his hobby, he was mocked by his peers and he felt so humiliated that he withdrew from society.]]

* NonActionGuy: Unlike the Rozen Maidens, Jun doesn't have magical powers and isn't a fighter since he's an ordinary human.

* StressVomit: [[spoiler:After his secret hobby of sewing girls' clothes was exposed to his whole school, he turned BlueWithShock and puked.]]
* SupportingProtagonist: He's the master of Shinku, but he himself is a NonActionGuy most of the time, though he can provide useful support from the sidelines.

* UnmanlySecret: He likes to design and sew girls' clothes, specially ElegantGothicLolita ones. [[spoiler:He drew one for a girl of his class who was participating in a contest but forgot to erase it; his teacher found it out, exposed it to the whole school and everybody started to whisper he was weird and make fun of it. He never returned to school out of embarrasment.]]
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: In the first half of ''Tales'' [[spoiler:as he can only communicate from the N-Field to the outside worlds via emails.]]

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* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:In the manga. And then back to the dead again.]]

* FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler:After Unwind!Jun makes a contract on her ring, she regains conscience and starts struggling for control over her body, but the help of Suiseiseki was needed to really free her.]]

* InnocentInnuendo: [[spoiler:She calls herself Jun's slave after Unwind!Jun forms an accidental contract with her.]] She can't see why Jun gets all uncomfortable with it, since she doesn't know [[MadeASlave the]] [[SexSlave implications]].

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:In the manga, she gets strangled and then ''eaten''.]]
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Vines are her weapons. Guess how she died?]]

* ThirdPersonPerson: Tends to refer to herself as "Hina" in sentences.

!Other Characters

[[folder:Nori Sakurada]]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/NorikoRikimaru (JP), Creator/AyaHisakawa (JP - drama CD), Creator/JennieKwan [[note]] credited as Minx Lee [[/note]] (Geneon), Creator/NancyNovotny (Sentai) (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.
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* AdaptationDyeJob: She had light brown hair in the original anime adaptation, but the ''Zurückspulen'' anime depicts her with auburn hair.
* BespectacledCutie: She's a kind and gentle girl with glasses.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She is nice and friendly, but push her far enough, and she will get really upset.
* BlindWithoutEm: In one episode, she loses her glasses and is unable to see Kanaria sitting about four feet away from her.
* CoolBigSis: To Jun. She's very caring and patient with her younger brother, usually trying to support him even after he became a {{Hikkikomori}}.
%%* CovertPervert
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Brown hair and brown eyes.
%%* CuteClumsyGirl
* GirlishPigtails: She's a cute young girl with her hair tied into low bunches.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She's very girly and peppy. She's also an avid lacrosse player.
* IdiotHair: Particularly in the original anime, Nori has a prominent cowlick to match her slightly quirky character.
* OneNoteCook: Inverted. She's a very good cook except for her tea, which, according to Shinku, is horrible.
* OutOfFocus: In the original manga and anime, she showed every now and then, being the one who took care of Jun and the dolls, but as the manga approaches its climax, she's left out.
* PassionateSportsGirl: She plays lacrosse and suggest Jun to join to the club to help him socialize.
* PromotionToParent: Her parents travel a lot and her little brother is a {{Hikkikomori}}, so she have to take care of him and the house, despite being just in high school.
[[/folder]]

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%%* BrainyBrunette
* ClassRepresentative: Of Jun's class.
* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Was about to be abducted by Kirakishou too.]]
%%* GirlNextDoor
* ImpliedLoveInterest: She is Jun's neighbor, she cared for him in his {{Hikkikomori}} times, they bond for being Rozen Maiden's masters and helping Jun to study. Some people in-universe keep telling they're an item but PEACH-PIT doesn't give any clear answer.
* LittleMissSnarker: When she actually starts talking, that is.
%%* NiceGirl
%%* TsurimeEyes

[[folder:Laplace's Demon]]
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-->Voiced by: Kyousei Tsukui (JP), Creator/KeithSilverstein (Geneon), Creator/DavidWald (Sentai) (EN)

An anthropomorphic white rabbit in a tuxedo and a top hat.

* AliceAllusion: The 'white rabbit' of the Alice Game.
* CombatReferee: He's the referee of the Alice Game, checking on the girls fulfilling the rules, like going to sleep at 9:00 pm, or saying when the game has come to a hiatus.
* EnigmaticMinion: Why exactly ''does'' he orchestrate the entire series and play mind-games with damn near everyone ([[WildMassGuessing Enju included]])?
%%* FunnyAnimal
* HairRaisingHare: Especially in ''Träumend'', where he is extremely creepy looking and completely indifferent to the suffering of others.
* MeaningfulName: He is named after the mathematical concept.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler:It is not revealed until the very last few episodes of ''Träumend'' that he and Shirosaki are actually the same person.]]

[[folder:Mitsu "Micchan" Kusabue]]
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-->Voiced by: Akiko Kawase (JP), Jean Brown (Geneon) (EN)

Kanaria's master, who loves dolls to the point of obsession.

%%* BespectacledCutie: She's a cute girl with glasses.%%What is her personality like?

* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Abducted too, but at least, kept out of Kirakishou's seedbed.]]

* GoGoEnslavement: [[spoiler:Kirakishou abducted her and Micchan spends her imprisonment dressed as a maid.]]

* {{Otaku}}: Dolls, enough so that she can assess the qualities of a new doll in seconds by sight alone.

[[folder:Megu Kakizaki]]
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-->Voiced by: Creator/ShihoKawaragi (JP), Creator/ErikaWeinstein (Geneon), Creator/EmilyNeves (Sentai) (EN)

A sickly girl who is Suigintou's master.

* TheAntiNihilist: [[spoiler:As Kirakishou is draining her life, she decides to use her new powers to fight the dolls, including Suigintou.]]
-->'''Megu:''' I've missed having fun like this (...) that's why, I'd rather use my life to have fun. (''[[spoiler:uses Kirakishou's vines to attack Suigintou]]'')
%%* AntiVillain
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: When her father visits her, she throws a big tantrum and demands him to leave as she doesn't believe he really cares about her.
* BreakThemByTalking: Does this to [[spoiler:Jun]].
* BrokenBird: Years of being sick and death avoiding her, have leave her very bitter about everything and everyone. She hates her dad, the nurses and at her new school, she hates everyone too.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Her greatest wish is to die, grow wings and fly away.
* CreepyChild: Having been bed-ridden for most of her life, she actively wishes for her death and rejects the treatment they try to give her. She also believes Suigintou to be an angel, send to finally let her die. Her occasional musings about these things don't help.
* DeathSeeker: She has been inside the hospital since she can remember, so she wishes to die already and end hers and her parent's suffering.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: She has long black hair and very pale skin, emphasizing her poor health.
* HatesTheirParent: ZigZagged. She hates her dad because she's convinced he considers her a burden and only visits her whenever he remembers he has a daughter. She still loves him, but because she loves him so much, she hates him for, in her eyes, not caring enough for her.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: At the end of the manga, Kirakishou absorbs all of Megu's life and she dies. Just as she wanted.]]
* MoralityPet: Suigintou is initially cruel, but eventually softens up when she realizes that she and Megu share more things than she initially thought. In the end, she even considers protecting her.
* NewTransferStudent: [[spoiler:After recovering in the manga, she attends Jun's class, despite being a few years older.]]
* NightmareFetishist: She ''loves'' the idea of dying by having Suigintou drain her life force entirely.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Megu was really excited for finally have a girl's talk after [[spoiler:finally able to go to school]] and at result, she gets very close and touchy feely with Tomoe.
* NotBrainwashed: [[spoiler:She's not helping Kirakishou because of being controlled, she's there because she wants to let the world take some of her misery.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gives [[spoiler:Jun]] a good one. [[spoiler:She called him a DirtyCoward who was just very focused in his self pity that didn't see he was sucking out of his sister and Tomoe's life, that his selfish existence wasn't needed in the world and that he would be better dead. This broke him enough to be trapped by Kirakishou.]]
* TheResenter: [[spoiler:Towards Jun, at least unconsciously, as she was about to cry while [[BreakThemByTalking breaking Jun by talking]], resenting he will live while she would die, even though she considers Jun a DirtyCoward who doesn't deserve to live.]]
* StepfordSmiler: All her repressed rage against the world that was hiding behind her smile is getting free [[spoiler:under Kirakishou's "influence"]].

[[folder:Rozen]]

The one who made the Rozen Maidens.
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:The main motivation behind him creating the dolls in the first place was that his daughter died, and as such he wanted to replicate life in order to bring her back. After creating dolls over and over he eventually lost track of his initial goal, and instead aimed for the goal of creating living, breathing dolls.]]
* TheAgeless: As a result of his experiments with alchemy, apparently.
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:He seems to have realized how much pain the Alice Game has caused and wants to end it, but has grown too weak to stop it himself.]]
%%* AlchemyIsMagic
* TheBlank: [[spoiler:He is eventually revealed to no longer even have a face by the time Jun meets him, only having a gaping hole where his face is supposed to be.]]
* TheFaceless: We see a brief overview of Rozen's life fairly early on where he is rendered in profile but blacked out in such a way further detail cannot be seen. [[spoiler:Later literal when Jun sees his body and he lacks a face entirely.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: He's the last "enemy" the dolls must face if they want to break free of the whole Alice Game. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted when it is revealed that he wants to end the Alice Game, but is ultimately powerless to do so.]]
* JuliusBeethovenDaVinci: He has gone by many aliases throughout time, such as the Count of St. Germain or Alessandro Cagliostro.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He may or may not honestly regret the fact he had his seven "daughters" fight to the death to appease him.
%%* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld
* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:The true intention behind the creation of the Rozen Maidens was the death of his daughter.]]

[[folder:Adult Jun]]
[[quoteright:150:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jun_2013_adult.png]]
-->Voiced by: Creator/RyotaOhsaka (JP), Creator/CoreyHartzog (EN)

Jun's adult counterpart in the parallel dimension where he responded "[[RedPillBluePill do not wind]]". This version of Jun is a college student and works in a bookstore. Through some manuals that keep being sent to his apartment, he makes a temporary body for Shinku and helps his AlternateSelf in his fight against Kirakishou.
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* AccidentalKiss: [[spoiler:In the stage battle against Kirakishou, he falls over Souseiseki's ring, kisses it and forms an accidental contract with Souseiseki, freeing her body of Kirakishou.]]
* AlternateSelf: To the original Jun. He's older, never signed the contract and lived a normal life without much in the way of magic happening. It didn't last.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Brooding Boy to Saitou's Gentle Girl.
* TheBusCameBack: After the dolls leave the Unwind world, they part ways with Adult Jun. [[spoiler:He returns to the story in ''Tale 42''.]]
%%* ClassicalAntiHero
%%* EmoTeen
%%* ExtremeDoormat
* TheFinalTemptation: [[spoiler:Kirakishou offers him the power to change his past if he forms a contract with her.]]
* ForWantOfANail: His dimension and life are the result of him choosing to "Don't wind", meaning rejecting being Shinku's master.
* TheGlassesGottaGo: He dyed his hair and uses contact glasses.
* InsecureLoveInterest: He's convinced that a girl like Saitou is out of his league.
* JadeColoredGlasses: Since Shinku and the dolls never came to his life, he was a {{Hikkikomori}} until he gathered some will to finally get out his house, then started struggling with an empty life, without friends, no drive and believing that dreams and optimism are meaningless.
* LivingMacGuffin: [[spoiler:At the stage battle, all dolls but Kanaria start to argue about which one has the right to claim Jun as her master. Jun made Shinku, Jun just a few days agreed to give Suigintou his energy, Kirakishou's body was made by Jun as well and Suiseiseki just came out of nowhere and demanded he kiss the ring she has with her.]] Jun practically turns into an AppleOfDiscord between them.
* LoveEpiphany: When his boss started to mock him over how Saitou would never be interested in him, he realized he did ''have'' the hope she was interested in him. That's why the mocking [[DespairEventHorizon hurt him so badly]].
* MistressAndServantBoy: Shinku sees him as her temporary servant.
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: He considers Jun a brat.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: He says this about Saitou when Shinku refers to her as his girlfriend, but he starts to wish she was.
* SupportingProtagonist: Oddly enough, to the original Jun, whom he helps out at the start-to-middle of the second manga, then is left to live his own life again.
* ThereIsAnother: [[spoiler:After Jun was abducted too, the dolls asked his help since "Jun" is the master of three of them.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler:Kirakishou tricked him by making him think she was younger Jun so he could make her a temporary body out of Souseiseki's body.]]

[[folder:Saitou]]
[[quoteright:179:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/saitou_rozen_maiden.jpg]]

-->Voiced by: Creator/NatsumiTakamori (JP), Creator/MargaretMcDonald (EN)

Adult Jun's colleague in the bookstore and a to-be actress in a theatrical company.
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* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Gentle Girl to Jun's Brooding Boy.
* LastNameBasis: She and Jun call each other by their last names.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Her talk with Jun about her dream of being an actress was what started to break his shell before Shinku's arrival.
* NiceGirl: She's very friendly and kind.
* NoFullNameGiven: We never got to hear her first name.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: To Jun. Both of them, in fact, which gives them more confidence for their respective challenges in life.

[[folder:Kaito Toriumi]]
[[quoteright:189:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kaito_toriumi.jpg]]

A boy of the same class of Jun. He also has antiquarian parents and is interested in dolls, especially the Rozen Maiden series.
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* ChekhovsGunman: He was first introduced in ''Tale 31'' as an unimportant classmate of Jun, seen every now and then in the classroom scenes...and then [[spoiler:it's revealed that he's helping Kirakishou.]]
* HumanResources: [[spoiler:While Kirakishou drains the life out the masters, it's implied that he's using the bodies to create an "organic" doll body, as he calls the masters "materials".]]
* MookMaker: [[spoiler:He's making new "sisters" for Kirakishou to help her to dispose of the remaining 5 Rozen Maidens.]]

[[folder:Kiku]]
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kikumanga.png]]

A maid working in the Rose Mansion of the Yuibishi family in the Taisho era of UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan. She is Suiseiseki's master during ''Rozen Maiden 0'' and the main human character of this manga. Hana is her younger sister.

* CuteClumsyGirl: At first, but as her confidence rises her clumsiness fades.
* {{Maid}}: Her job at the Rosa Mansion.
* OutOfFocus: As the dolls take more focus in the final chapters, she manages to not even appear in a few chapters.
* TheProtagonist: The human protagonist of ''Rozen Maiden 0''.
* VerbalTic: "-Desu" at first, but as she interacts with Suiseiseki she becomes more comfortable in using her natural accent, dropping the "-desu".

[[folder:Hana]]
[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hanamanga.png]]

An elevator girl working at the Youunkaku in the Taisho era of UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan. She is Souseiseki's master in ''Rozen Maiden 0''. Kiku is her older sister.
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* AmbiguouslyBi: She had an interest in a boy previously and later [[LoveAtFirstSight falls in love with Souseiseki]].
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: The length of her hair used to be longer in flashbacks. [[TwentiesBobHaircut It's been cut and styled]] at some point since her arrival to Tokyo.
* TheFlapper: Of the ''moga'' variety.
* ForeignCultureFetish: Her interest in western culture seeps through many aspects of her character. She wears foreign clothes, reads foreign books, and generally wants to immerse herself in the new "moga" culture (which... is very foreign-themed).
* IronicFear: An elevator girl of a 12 story tower with a fear of heights.
* OutOfFocus: Like Kiku, she ended up being left out during a few of the final chapters as the story shifted focus to the dolls.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: The only outfit that shows up more than one time is her work outfit. She wears a totally new outfit every new day that happens in the manga (and at least in one case, several over the day). New clothes are designed for her in promotional images even.
* VerbalTic: Tends to slip into her country accent when distressed, adding "-dabe" to the end of her sentences.

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 [[BlatantLies claiming to be the 7th Rozen doll]].

* CoolSword: She has a sword that is made out of pure crystal.

%%* GirlishPigtails

%%* PimpedOutDress

%%* SupernaturalGoldEyes

* VoluntaryShapeshifting

* BaitAndSwitchCharacterIntro: Done twice, in fact, in the first and second series. Jun (young and older) think Shinku is an adorable, harmless little doll while she was inert in their hands. They change their mind as soon as she wakes up and delivers a BitchSlap to them.

* CoolBigSis: When she isn't being aloof, especially towards Hinaichigo.

* DeadpanSnarker: She's not above giving snarky jabs to her fellow dolls and Jun.

* TheHeroine: Shinku is the protagonist and the series mainly follows her quest to win the Alice Game.

%%* TheKirk
%%* LadyOfWar
* LethalChef: On the rare occasion she cooks. There's a reason she always wants Jun to make her tea other than nobility.
* LittleGirlsKickShins: It's kind of unavoidable when only shin-high.
* LittleMissSnarker: She has a dry and witty personality for a doll.

* MistressAndServantBoy: She believes Jun is her servant.

* TheProtagonist: She's the main focal character of the manga.
* PunnyName: Her name is also the Japanese pronunciation of the word ''Cinq'' (French for "five").

* RedOniBlueOni: Red to Suigintou's Blue.

* SiblingRivalry: She and Suigintou are not known to get along well.

%%* TheStoic

%%* WellExcuseMePrincess: Her relation with Jun.

Basically the other main character 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 a traumatic event that turned him in his class's laughing stock.

* BookDumb: Just before he shunned schooling altogether. {{Justified}} as he is already too broken at this point.
* BreakTheCutie: Practically the reason he became a {{Hikikomori}}, specifically [[spoiler:he was dismissed by his peers becaused ''he likes sewing'', and his self-image went downhill from there.]]
* ChewToy: Especially to Shinku and Suiseiseki.

* ClassicalAntiHero: Early in the story.

* {{Deuteragonist}}: ''Rozen Maiden'', aside from being about Shinku and the dolls, is about Jun and his life getting better for them.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:After his secret hobby of sewing girls' clothes was exposed to his whole school, he turned BlueWithShock and puked.]]
%%* {{Hikikomori}}: [[spoiler:He gets over it.]]
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold
%%* LonerTurnedFriend
* MistressAndServantBoy: How Shinku sees their relationship: he's the Servant Boy to Shinku's Mistress.
%%* NonActionGuy
* NoRespectGuy: To Suiseiseki. Borderlines on a WellExcuseMePrincess relationship since Suiseiseki has a hidden crush on Jun.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Subverted in that he doesn't exactly go to school. [[spoiler:He does start going to school in the manga, and is studying to catch up everything he lost before going back in the anime]].

* RedOniBlueOni: Color-inverted. Red to Shinku's blue.

The second Rozen Maiden doll, Kanaria makes her appearance only later in the series. Her master is named Mitsu (but everyone calls her Micchan), who is a maniac doll collector, and her artificial spirit is named 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 has a VerbalTic: "Kashira" (Feminine version of "I wonder?" adapted to "Maybe" in the official English release of the manga). However, Kanaria ''is'' competent in battle, using the sonic waves of her violin to fight.

%%* BlowYouAway: Her wind-based violin powers.

* GirlishPigtails: Spiral-shaped, which make her look even younger than she already does.
%%* IdiotHair
* InstrumentOfMurder: Her weapon is a violin.

* OjouRinglets: Ironic, judging by her personality.

* ParasolParachute: Well, she ''tries'' to make it work...

* VerbalTic: "Kashira!" in the Japanese version and "Maybe" in the official English release of the manga.
** {{Lampshaded}} by Unwind Jun who believes her insistency on said verbal tic makes her sound very uncertain in everything she says. [[BerserkButton She does not take said comment very well]].

* WellExcuseMePrincess: Her relationship with Jun borders on this. She calls him a chibi and looks down on him for being a {{Hikikomori}}, demanding him to do better.

* AxCrazy: If the way she [[spoiler:[[CruelAndUnusualDeath killed Hinaichigo]]]] is any indication...

* LightIsNotGood: She has the brightest colour scheme and uses sparkling crystals... yet she's completely insane and evil to the core.

%%* MinidressOfPower:

* SupernaturalGoldEyes: Her only eye.

* {{Yandere}}:

%%* BespectacledCutie: A cute girl with glasses.%%What is her personality like?
%%* CoolBigSis

%%* GirlishPigtails
%%* IdiotHair

* ScaryShinyGlasses: When she gets angry, heh heh...
%%* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak

* {{Bishonen}}

* DoesNotLikeShoes: She's almost always barefoot.

* FashionDesigner: In the manga, she becomes a doll clothing designer, selling her products on her personal website called "Angels Cage", despite the increased workload and the minor success. [[spoiler:When she's held captive, she's forced to make doll dresses for when Alice is created.]]

* GirlInABox: She first arrives at Jun's house inside a box.

* CreepyDoll: Oh boy, is she ''ever''. [[spoiler:Not to mention her UncannyValley temporal body and replicas.]]

* MasterOfIllusion: Her crystals can show illusions on its surface, like mirrors, even her N-Field is a illusion of the real world; but [[UncannyValley as she doesn't truly know the world except for what she sees on mirrors, her illusion feels odd.]]

* BaitAndSwitchCharacterIntro: Done twice, in fact, in the first and second series. Jun (young and older) think Shinku is an adorable, harmless little doll while she was inert in their hands. They change their mind as soon as she wakes up and delivers an ArmorPiercingSlap to them.

* IllGirl: [[spoiler:As of chapter 29 of ''Tales'', she appears to have recovered, although it seems her health's still not good]].

* CryCute: [[spoiler:She started crying after having to leave behind Suiseiseki, something that goes against her own way to play the Alice Game.]]

* CryCute: [[spoiler:Her very last appearance in ''Träumend'' in Megu's window has her crying.]]

* NiceHat: As she is the most boyish of all the dolls, she wears a tophat to emphasize it. It also makes her look OneHeadTaller.

%%* NiceHat

* NiceHat: Tends to wear one with most of her outfits.

-->Voiced by: Creator/NorikoRikimaru (JP), Creator/AyaHisakawa (JP - drama CD), Jennie Kwan [[note]] credited as Minx Lee [[/note]] (Geneon), Creator/NancyNovotny (Sentai) (EN)

* VerbalTic: She says "desu" at the end of her sentences. Though in Japanese it's a copula that's just a regular part of polite speech,[[note]]pronounced "des" in most dialects[[/note]] Suiseiseki is notable for using it ''constantly'', to the point that it became memetic.

* RapunzelHair: Her GirlishPigtails reach all the way down to her ankles.

* RapunzelHair: Her hair reaches the floor.

* RegalRinglets: She's a doll with a Victorian era dress and RapunzelHair stylized into two massive curls.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: The Girly Girl to Souseiseki's Tomboy. Suiseiseki wears a dress and has RapunzelHair.

* BoyishShortHair: To contrast her twin sister's RapunzelHair, Souseiseki has chin-length hair that marks her as the tomboyish twin.

* RapunzelHair: Her hair is generally portrayed as reaching her ankles.

* RapunzelHair: Since she probably never got her hair cut beyond what's needed, she has very long hair. Possibly in an effort by other people to keep her pretty in some way, since she's so ill otherwise.

%%* RapunzelHair

* {{Meganekko}}: A cute girl with glasses.

* {{Meganekko}}: She's a cute girl with glasses.