* CreatorsFavorite: WordOfGod says it's [[http://web.archive.org/web/20191024092736/https://www.uk-anime.net/articles/An_Audience_with_Peach-Pit?&page=2 Hinaichigo for Sendo and Souseiseki for Ebara]].
* CrossDressingVoices: Jun Sakurada, a young boy, is voiced by a woman (Asami Sanada).
* FranchiseKiller: The 2013 anime adaption by Creator/StudioDeen was a last-ditch effort to raise manga sales and overall interest in the series. However, the anime was a financial failure and Young Jump decided to cancel the manga, giving Peach-Pit only 3 chapters to finish it. The franchise would lay low for several years until ''Rozen Maiden 0'' was announced.
* GodCreatedCanonForeigner: Barasuishou, Enju, and Shirosaki do not appear in Peach-Pit's manga, but were created by them for the 2004 anime adaption.
* NoExportForYou:
** The original manga for English fans. It had been licensed by Creator/{{Tokyopop}} for several years, but their editions [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes went out of print]] after Tokyopop closed down. Despite the success of the 2004 anime of which was somewhat based on it and the contextual need from the 2013 anime, it has not been licensed for English audiences for well over a decade.
** The 2008 StealthSequel manga as well. Despite the fact that the 2013 anime was a financial failure in Japan, it managed to be licensed for English audiences. However, the story only adapts partway through the manga leaving the conclusion that you can only read in the manga impossible to read officially.
* TheOtherDarrin:
** The first drama CD release had Creator/SanaeKobayashi as Jun Sakurada, Creator/YuiHorie as Shinku, Creator/MamikoNoto as Suigintou, Creator/NanaMizuki as Suiseiseki, Creator/TomokoKaneda as Hinaichigo, Creator/AyaHisakawa as Nori Sakurada and Creator/AyakoKawasumi as Tomoe Kashiwaba. For their anime debut, Jun was voiced by Creator/AsamiSanada, Shinku by Creator/MiyukiSawashiro, Suigintou by Creator/RieTanaka, Suiseiseki by Creator/NatsukoKuwatani, Hinaichigo by Creator/SakuraNogawa, Nori by Noriko Rikimaru and Tomoe by Creator/MasayoKurata.
** Much like ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya'', Creator/SentaiFilmworks opted to use their in-house studio for ''Zurückspulen'' rather than outsourcing the dub to Creator/BangZoomEntertainment. Thus, most of the voice actors from the original Rozen Maiden dub did not return. For example, Shinku, voiced in the TV series by Creator/MelaLee, is voiced by Creator/LuciChristian for ''Zurückspulen''.
** Due to the retirement of Yumi Shimura in 2016, Kanaria was voiced by Akari Kageyama (Nana Ebina in ''Manga/HimoutoUmaruChan'') in collaborations with mobile games ''Gothic wa Mahou Otome'' and ''VideoGame/{{SINoALICE}}''.
* OvertookTheManga: Season one of Studio NOMAD's anime adaption was announced very early on in the manga's run and had to come up with a different plot than the arc was being developed at the same time in the manga. This happened again with season two where a combination of too little source material to work with and the enormous amount of changes that went into the plot of season one left Studio NOMAD with no clear outline to work with. Peach-Pit was brought in to write the basic plot of season two which ended up with another similar but incredibly different plot than the arc that was being developed in the manga.
* PromotedFanboy: Otofu Material made many comics about the series and eventually went on to draw illustrations for several official lightnovels[[note]]''Die Romane der Rozen Maiden: Schwarzer Wind'' and ''Kalkgrün Augen''[[/note]].
* StudioHop:
** The TV series was originally produced by Studio NOMAD. For the 2013 anime, Creator/StudioDeen handled the animation.
** Shortly after Creator/GeneonEntertainment USA went out of business, Creator/SentaiFilmworks handled the North American home media rights.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** The original manga if it hadn't been CutShort. While it's unknown what ''exactly'' would have happened, it's known that the plot would've been vastly different than the StealthSequel that ended up continuing the story.
** Peach-Pit have stated in an interview that originally there was going to be ''12'' dolls. They had to keep cutting that number down until they were left with the more manageable amount of 7.