Characters that have appeared in the Rozen Maidenanime, 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 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.
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 failing on a test and becoming the laughing stock of his class.
Break the Cutie: Practically the reason he became a Hikikomori, specifically he was dismissed by his peers becaused he likes sewing, and his self-image went downhill from there.
Book Dumb: Just before he shunned schooling altogether. Justified as he is already too broken at this point.
Ordinary High School Student: Subverted in that he doesn't exactly go to school. He does start going to school in the manga, and is studying to catch up everything he lost before going back in the anime.
Supporting Protagonist: He's the master of Shinku, but he himself is a Non-Action Guy most of the time, though he can provide useful support from the sidelines.
Unfazed Everyman: With dolls running rampant in his house, it's amazing how he can put up with everything going on.
You Suck: Practically the reason Suiseiseki calls him a chibi.
Morality Pet: Megu, since the start of the manga and from season two beyonds in the anime.
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.
Tsundere: Type A. She is usually Tsuntsun on other people and her sisters, but Deredere to Megu.
Villainous BSOD: In the manga, after learning that Hinaichigo willingly gave her Roza Mystica to Shinku, she realizes that Souseiseki's Roza Mystica had been hurting her because she stole it. She lets both Suiseiseki and Souseiseki go because of this to reflect upon the purpose of the Alice game, commenting snarkily that she will take demand the Roza Mystica back later rather than at that point.
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.
Badass Boast: She tries to do one in the manga, but Older!Jun interrupts it much to her dismay.
The Chew Toy: Kanaria, who screws up every time without anyone noticing.
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.
Small Name, Big Ego 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.
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.
The Heart: She's the first one to try and convince the other dolls that the whole Alice Game is a worthless endeavour.
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...
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 McCoy: She refuses to fight the Alice Game because she cares too much about her sisters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 almost killing her in the process.
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.
Big Bad: In Traumend, but she's not alone in villainy.
Body Horror: At the end of Traumend when she literally falls apart. Since she wasn't a true Rozen Maiden, she couldn't handle the power of all of the Roza Mystica, leading to her death.
Emotionless Girl: Played straight towards the other dolls, then subverted when she dies in the hands of Enju.
The drama CDs revealed that not only does she rarely show any emotion, she is practically unable to, as when Enju and Shirosaki make her seem more alive and upbeat in personality, she still sounds just as emotionless as a Genki Girl, Tsundere, and bondage queen as she usually does.
Evil Knockoff: She was created by Enju for the simple reason to prove that Enju was a superior doll-maker.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yandere: "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.
The young doll craftsman who runs the doll shop with Shirosaki.
God Guise: Kinda. Much of the cast mistakes him for Rozen, and Rozen is the closest to a god there is in the setting. Enju indeed poses as the doll-father for much of Traumend.
The first doll of the Rozen Maidens, she served as the antagonist in the first season.
