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.

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The Protagonists

Shinku

Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (JP), Yui Horie (JP - drama CD), Mela Lee (Geneon), Luci Christian (Sentai) (EN)

The fifth Rozen Maiden. Shinku 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.

Absurd Phobia: Shinku, one of the most composed and coolheaded characters, becomes absolutely terrified at the sight of a cat. Although, she does sort of befriend said cat after realizing it isn't dangerous.
Accent Adaptation: She puts on a slight British accent in the English dub.
All-Loving Heroine: Her main goal is finding a way to win the Alice Game without losing or abandoning any of her sisters, even though only one of them can become Alice. She even finds it in her heart to forgive Kirakishou and give up her own life for her along the rest of her sisters.
Aloof Big Sister: She behaves like an aloof and haughty older sister in her interactions with Hinaichigo.
An Arm and a Leg: Suigintou ribs off her right arm in a fight. Jun fixes her by retrieving the arm from the N-field and reattaching it with his powers as a potential doll maker.
Bait-and-Switch Character Intro: In her introduction, Jun thinks Shinku is an adorable little doll while she's inert in his hands. Then she wakes up and delivers a Bitch Slap to him. This is done once again as part of her Reestablishing Character Moment in the sequel series, where she does the same thing to the older Jun from another timeline.
Body Backup Drive: At the end of Part 1, Shinku is captured by Kirakishou and left trapped in the N-field. At the start of Part 2, Jun asks his Alternate Self from the Unwound World to make a replica of Shinku's body and Holly transfers Shinku's Rosa Mystica to it, although there's a time limit for how long she can use the replacement body and the real one needs to be recovered.
Break the Haughty: After Suigintou ribs off her arm, Shinku breaks down crying, thinking that she's just a broken doll without her complete body. Thanks to Jun, she recovers her arm, but also learns to accept her own imperfections.
Cane Fu: In the anime, aside from manipulating rose petals, her other weapon is a cane. That's right. A freakin' cane.
Condescending Compassion: In Ouverture, she acted nice to Suigintou when she found her as an incomplete doll because she felt sorry for her. Once Suigintou realized this and Shinku called her junk, their mutual hatred was born.
Cultured Badass: She's a magical doll who carries herself like a Proper Lady and enjoys drinking tea. She also manipulates flower petals to fight and packs a good punch.
Cute Bookworm: Besides teatime, her favorite hobby is reading. She looks adorable when she sits quietly holding a book.
Dies Wide Open: In Träumend, after she is fatally stab by Barasuishou she falls to the ground and tries to talk to Jun Sakurada only to succumb to her wounds. Oddly, her eyes are closed later even though no one closed them for her.
Forgotten Phlebotinum: Where did her ability to necromance by inserting petals into toys go?
Girlish Pigtails: Her hair is tied up into twintails, showcasing her Tsundere characteristics.
Hair Flip: When she doesn't want to use her hands for a Bitch Slap, Shinku flips her pigtails and slaps people in the face with them.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Though the heart of gold is down deep, really deep, Shinku's golden hair fits her elegant and feminine personality and she can be very kind when she wants to.
The Hero Dies: She dies when her Rosa Mystica is destroyed to bring her sisters back at the end of the manga.
Heroic Sacrifice: She sacrifices herself at the end of the manga to bring her sisters back to life.
Humanizing Tears: Shinku isn't as coldhearted as she appears. She shows her more empathetic side for the first time when she cries for a Pooh Bear toy that Suigintou tore apart.
Icy Blue Eyes: She gives off a piercing and unyielding stare with her blue eyes.
Infant Sibling Jealousy: When Hinaichigo was made, Shinku for the first time in her life felt jealousy over someone taking her father's love and attention from her. Despite those feelings, she quickly accepted Hinaichigo as her younger sister and they formed a very close relationship.
Jerkass Ball: After Suigintou is revived in Ouverture and shows her Rosa Mystica, Shinku is truly shocked and attempts to deny it because to her Suigintou is an incomplete doll so she isn't worthy of either having a Rosa Mystica or calling herself a Rozen Maiden. Naturally Suigintou is truly hurt by these words and comes to believe that Shinku never saw her as a true friend and only acted kind towards her out of pity and becomes Shinku's archenemy.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Although she can be a jerk to Jun and the other dolls, she has a kind heart beneath it all.
Lady of War: She has the grace of an elegant lady while being a capable fighter.
Lethal Chef: Her attempts at cooking tend have poor results.
Little Girls Kick Shins: She's a shin-high doll, so she typically hits or kicks Jin's shin when she's annoyed with him.
Little Miss Snarker: She has a dry and witty personality for a two-foot tall doll. She's not above giving snarky jabs to her fellow dolls and Jun.
Meaningful Name: Her name is the Japanese word for "Crimson".
Memento MacGuffin: In Ouverture, it's revealed she had a brooch that was given to her by Rozen. It was destroyed by Suigintou, which is the reason she hates her.
Messianic Archetype: At the end of the manga, Shinku becomes the "perfect girl" Alice and makes the ultimate sacrifice by destroying her own Rosa Mystica to revive her sisters. Jun swears to find a way to resurrect Shinku and the Rozen Maidens are going to help him.
Mistaken for Murderer: When Kanaria sees Shinku with Hinaichigo's Rosa Mystica, Kanaria jumps to the conclusion that Shinku killed their sister for the Alice Game and attacks her. Hinaichigo speaks through her Rosa Mystica to explain that Shinku is innocent, since the real killer was Kirakishou.
Mistress and Servant Boy: Despite Jun being officially her human master, Shinku insists that she's the boss of him and treats him like her servant, usually bossing him around the house.
My God, What Have I Done?: In the Wonderland arc, Shinku feels shocked and disappointed in herself for leaving Suiseiseki behind to fight Judica and Madulin alone at the cost of herself. By doing this, Shinku believes she betrayed her ideal of trying to win the Alice Game without sacrificing anyone.
Nice Job Breaking It Heroine: As seen in Ouverture, she is pretty much solely to blame for Suigintou turning out the way she did. Later, Shinku comes to realize it and apologizes to her. Suigintou, while genuinely taken back, doesn't let go of her hatred that she has been nurturing for centuries.
Not So Above It All: Shinku tries to act like a refined lady, but she can still get into childish squabbles with her sisters.
Onee-sama: In her interactions with Hinaichigo, Shinku acts as a wise, elegant and caring older sister. Flashbacks in the manga reveal Shinku was the first of the Rozen Maidens to accept Hinaichigo and took her under her wing to teach her how to behave like a lady.
Petal Power: She's able to create and control rose petals, using them as knife-like objects to strike her opponents in battle.
Punny Name: Her name is the Japanese pronunciation of the word Cinq (French for "five") and she's the fifth Rozen Maiden.
Red Is Heroic: She wears a red dress and is one of the main heroines.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's the stoic, heroic Blue Oni to Suigintou's vicious, villainous Red Oni. Ironically, Shinku is the one wearing red.
Regal Ringlets: She's a living Victorian doll who behaves like a sophisticated lady and her Girlish Pigtails curl into ringlets. She also has Ojou Ringlets with the pair of ringlets in front of her ears and shoulders.
Sibling Rivalry: She and her sister Suigintou are not known to get along well, as both are deadset on becoming Alice no matter what it takes to beat the other.
Something about a Rose: She's associated with red roses.
So Proud of You: Her smile while she sees Adult Jun organize the stage can be taken as this, since she's thinking how much Jun has grown and progressed without him even realizing it.
The Stoic: Her facial expression is solemn and aloof by default. It's rare for her to show strong emotion.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's basically just putting up her stoic image to appear in a way she believes is worthy of Alice, but she shows that she does care deeply about Jun and her sisters in her own way. Also a rare case of one doubling as a Tsundere.
Sympathy for the Devil: While she and Suigintou hold a very hostile relationship, Shinku does feel pity for her and is aware that she is to blame for having their relationship turn this sour. This sympathy is augmented after Shinku temporarily loses her arm, thus becoming an incomplete doll like Suigintou, and realizes how wrong she was in calling her junk.
- Subverted in Träumend where she dies at the end only to be brought back to life by Rozen.
Tea Is Classy: She is a Victorian doll who acts like a snobbish noblewoman, and frequently orders Jun to bring her tea, specially brewed in her exact specifications.
Tiny Tyrannical Girl: She treats Jun like a manservant despite being a just over two-foot tall porcelain doll. Older Jun never imagined that the beautiful and sweet-looking little doll Shinku of the pictures could be so naggy.
Tsundere: A stoic Harsh type. She's condescending, bossy, irritable and constantly abuses Jun verbally and physically, but there are moments in that she shows she really does care about Jun and her sisters.
Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: Even though Jun is technically her master, Shinku bosses him around and looks down on him as a mere "servant".
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She's afraid of cats because one almost swallowed her wind-up key in the past.

Jun Sakurada

Voiced by: Asami Sanada (JP - Young), Sanae Kobayashi (JP - drama CD), Mona Marshall (Geneon), Shannon Emerick (Sentai) (EN)

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A reclusive loser who has a fear of school after a traumatic event that turned him in his class's laughing stock. He kicks off the plot by winding up Shinku, making him her master even though their relationship dynamic would make anyone think it's the other way around.

The Ace: Deconstructed in his backstory in the anime. 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. Then the sheer pressure of it all caused him to mentally collapse and turn into a Hikikomori.
Butt-Monkey: He often gets made fun of and abused, usually by Shinku and Suiseiseki.
Classical Anti-Hero: Early in the story, Jun is a reclusive and traumatized Hikikomori who gets dragged into the plot when Shinku suddenly appears at his doorstep.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He's revealed to have powers similar to Rozen himself, which even amazes Shinku.
Deuteragonist: Aside from being about Shinku and the dolls, the main story is about Jun and his life getting better thanks to being involved with the dolls.
Distressed Dude: After getting physically and emotionally attacked by Megu at school, Jun is captured by Kirakishou and taken prisoner in her dimension. He gets rescued by Tomoe and his older self from the Unwound World.
Don't Call Me "Sir": He asks Souseiseki to stop calling him "Master" after she becomes one of his Rozen Maidens.
Embarrassing Hobby: He likes sewing and designing girls' clothes. Since boys normally don't like such things, he's mortified by people knowing about this. Last time people found out about his hobby, he was mocked by his peers and he felt so humiliated that he withdrew from society.
Fatal Flaw: Being a Hikikomori, Jun tends to shut himself in his room to avoid people out of fear of being hurt. He stopped going to school because a teacher revealed to everyone that Jun is good at designing girls' clothes and hearing some insulting comments about his hobby made Jun believe that everyone was mocking him and laughing at him. He starts overcoming his insecurities after he bonds with the Rozen Maidens and he realizes there's people who will care for him and accept him for who he is.
Foil: To Shinku. Both are ill-tempered and abrasive individuals who struggle with insecurities and fears underneath their harsh attitude. Only the way they cope with it is different; Shinku faces her fears head-on to not let others see her as weak and flawed, whereas Jun runs away from his problems and pushes people away to avoid any conflict that could hurt him. Jun gains the courage to face his fears thanks to being inspired by Shinku and the other dolls.
Hikikomori: After a traumatizing experience at school, Jun became a shut-in and refused to leave his house. He does start going to school later in the manga.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He acts like a brat in general and loses his temper easily around the Rozen Maidens, but he does care about Shinku and the others.
Loner-Turned-Friend: He starts the series as an antisocial Hikikomori, but slowly grows out of it thanks to forming bonds with the Rozen Maidens living at his house.
Loony Friends Improve Your Personality: Jun starts as an antisocial Hikikomori who wants nothing to do with other people. After Shinku and the other Rozen Maidens come into his life, interacting and bonding with the quirky dolls gradually leads to him opening up and gathering the courage to be around people again.
Mundane Utility: The final chapter of the manga reveals Jun has been using the N-field's portal doors to arrive on time when he's running late for school.
Non-Action Guy: Unlike the Rozen Maidens, Jun doesn't have magical powers and isn't a fighter since he's an ordinary human. He can only provide useful support from the sidelines.
Oblivious to Love: He doesn't notice Suiseiseki's crush on him. He interprets her Tsundere behavior as her just wanting to annoy him.
Seeks Another's Resurrection: At the end of the manga, Jun finds the new goal to revive Shinku, whose Rosa Mystica was destroyed when she brought her sisters back to life. Jun is going to seek rare stones that he can use to make a new Rosa Mystica for Shinku.
She Is Not My Girlfriend: In the 2004 anime, Shirosaki thinks Tomoe was Jun's girlfriend. It did not end well.
Sibling Yin-Yang: With Nori. Jun is the grumpy and introverted younger sibling, while Nori is the sweet and extroverted older sibling.
Stress Vomit:
- When his teacher comes to try and persuade him to come back to school, Jun can't handle the pressure of being reminded of his trauma and goes to puke at the bathroom.
- After his secret hobby of sewing girls' clothes was exposed to his whole school, he turned Blue with Shock and puked.
This Loser Is You: Jun practically represents the many Japanese teens who are Hikikomoris for a bad incident at school.
Trauma Button: Anything that reminds him of school triggers the trauma that drove him to isolate himself and refuse to go back to school.
Unfazed Everyman: With dolls running rampant in his house, it's amazing how he can put up with everything going on.
Unmanly Secret: He likes to design and sew girls' clothes, specially Elegant Gothic Lolita ones. He drew a dress for a girl of his class in his notebook, but since he 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.
Voice with an Internet Connection: In the first half of Tales, he can only communicate with his Alternate Self from the N-Field to the outside worlds via emails.

The Rozen Maidens

In General

The Ageless: The dolls never age.
Color-Coded Characters:
- Shinku - Red
- Suigintou - Black
- Kanaria - Yellow
- Suiseiseki - Green
- Souseiseki - Blue
- Hinaichigo - Pink
- Kirakishou - White
Living Toys: They're dolls brought to life through alchemy.
Never Bareheaded: The dolls are rarely, if ever, seen without their hair accessories and headgears.

Suigintou

Voiced by: Rie Tanaka (JP), Mamiko Noto (JP - drama CD), Karen Strassman (Geneon), Jessica Calvello (Sentai) (EN)

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. Despite not having a master until the end of the 2004 anime and original manga, she's very powerful. Her artificial spirit is Meimei.

Accent Adaptation: In the English dub, she has a weird Eastern European accent in her voice.
Adaptational Badass: 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 Suigintou's first master in the anime and she still managed to match Shinku without a master in all their fights.
Adaptational Jerkass: Zigzagged. In the 2004 anime, Suigintou displays both a level of sadism and a hatred towards Shinku that her manga counterpart never showed. At the same time however, Suigintou from the anime at first was a lot nicer and possesses a more legitimate Freudian Excuse for her current personality.
Alas, Poor Villain: Both her deaths in both 2004 anime seasons are so heartwrenching that even Shinku, her most hated enemy, mourns her death in both situations.
Anti-Villain: In the first season, she appeared to be a straight villain, until it is revealed in the final episode the main reason behind her behavior. In Träumend, she meeting Megu and seeing Shinku apologizing to her makes her start to mellow down slowly, to the point she mostly wanted Rosa Mystica in order to save Megu. Ouverture gives us her Start of Darkness.
Arc Villain: The main antagonist of the first season, before being replaced as the Big Bad by Kirakishou (Barasuishou in Träumend).
Awesome, but Impractical: After she steals Souseiseki's Rosa Mystica, Suigintou's wings grow much larger and powerful. However, the wings' large size (along with Souseiseki's Rosa Mystica causing her pain) makes it difficult for her to move around and she can't get inside her briefcase to recover energy.
Beta Test Baddie: In the 2004 anime, she's literally incomplete due to premature animation.
Bonding over Missing Parents: Megu feels all but abandoned by her own parents because they rarely come to visit her at the hospital. Since Suigintou can't see her own father unless she can become Alice, she sympathizes with Megu's family situation to some extent.
Broken Bird: Being incomplete and seemingly unloved left her with trust issues, a tendency towards aggression and generally being a jerk. But she really just wants to have someone to be happy with.
Bullying a Dragon: She boldly went and pressed Kirakishou's Berserk Buttons.
Cool Sword: In the anime, and she keeps it somewhere (and somehow) inside her wings.
Creepy Crosses: She has inverted cross imagery across her Elegant Gothic Lolita dress, representing Rozen's rebellion against God in his desire to create life, and how Suigintou is meant to bear Rozen's sins.
Dark and Troubled Past: Rozen left her incomplete and started working on the other dolls, though Suigintou was still hellbent on finding her father. She later meets Shinku, with whom she became good friends with. And then she finds out that her friend never saw her as true Rozen Maiden, having even kept her ignorant of several important facts, and most of her previous kindness was done out of pity. Obviously Suigintou doesn't take this well and vows unending hatred towards her previous friend.
Dark Magical Girl: Her black-and-white colour scheme is a good clue to this; she's lonely and bad at social interaction, and can be jealous and mean to make up for it, which obviously only alienates people further. What she really wants is her father's love.
Determinator: So desperate to become Alice that even without an acting master, she's still powerful enough to match blows with Shinku (who has a master).
Disc-One Final Boss: She served as the Big Bad for the first part of the series, until Kirakishou proves to be a much bigger threat than she could ever be.
Don't You Dare Pity Me!: In Ouverture, the reason she came to hate Shinku is that she saw Suigintou as just an incomplete doll and pretended to be her friend out of pity.
Elegant Gothic Lolita: A black dress with cross imagery and fitting headdress are her trademark outfit.
Enemy Mine: She may hate Shinku's guts, but she was willing to put that aside in order to fight Kirakishou with Shinku's help.
Evil Wears Black: She's the only doll wearing a predominantly black dress and while not exactly evil, she plays a villainous role in the first half of the story. Subverted in the second half where she becomes an Anti-Hero.
Feather Flechettes: She mainly fights by firing feathers from her wings as projectiles.
The Final Temptation: Kirakishou offers to give her her Rosa Mystica if Suigintou gives Megu to her. She doesn't buy it.
Giggling Villain: She often giggles when acting smug towards her sisters.
Graceful Loser: In the final battle of the manga, Suigintou is mortally wounded by the Kirakishou-possessed-Megu. Despite receiving the Rosa Mystica that Megu stole from Kanaria and Suiseiseki, Suigintou accepts Shinku is the true winner and hands her over all the Rosa Mystica, allowing her to become Alice and revive everyone.
Her Own Worst Enemy: She wants love, but since she's angry and mean to most people, she's denied it, which only makes her even more angry.
Hidden Heart of Gold: 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.
I Will Find You: In Tales, Suigintou looked through thousands of doors in the N-Field looking for Megu, who was abducted by Kirakishou.
Inferiority Superiority Complex: She acts arrogant and believes herself to be superior to her sisters. Beneath that, she's very insecure and scared by her father's abandonment of her because she wasn't the "perfect girl" that he wanted to make. She's so driven to win the Alice Game by crushing her sister to prove to her father that she isn' worthless junk.
Jerkass: She is cruel to other people, especially her sisters - except for Megu, who she still insults.
Little Miss Snarker: She's a small doll with a snarky streak, especially around Megu.
Meaningful Name: Suigintou means "Mercury Lamp" in Japanese.
Mythical Motifs: Megu calls her angel because of her wings.
Mystical White Hair: A white-haired doll brought to life.
Noodle Incident: Kanaria uses one of those to blackmail Suigintou in the manga, but like the majority of the cases of the trope, we never get to know what it is.
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Her default attitude towards Shinku,to the point of using her own body to shield Shinku from Barasuishou's attacks, while lampshading the trope, which led to her death.
Out-of-Clothes Experience: In one chapter, Suigintou passes out and her mind ends up in the N-field, where Jun finds her naked.
Perpetual Molt: Everytime she shows up or is about to, the page or screen fills with black feathers. Justified because her wings and feathers are her weapons.
Pet the Dog: Stays with Kanaria after the exhausting fight against Kirakishou's new "sister".
Precision F-Strike: Seldom happens, but it still happens.
Psychological Projection: She projects her feelings of inferiority and jealousy onto her sisters, mainly Shinku. Since they all were rejected and abandoned by Rozen, Suigintou believes it's natural for her to fight against her sisters in the Alice Game, as she expects her sisters to have the same feelings of anger, loneliness and envy that drive her to prove her own superiority by crushing the other dolls. Shinku baffles her when she repeatedly proves that she cares for her sisters and doesn't believe the Alice Game should be solved through violence.
Psychotic Smirk: In certain situations, she has this on. Not really "psychotic", but her face can look very creepy.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Suigintou is the only doll with blood red eyes and she's the most antagonistic one until Kirakishou shows up.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's the vicious, villainous Red Oni to Shinku's stoic, heroic Blue Oni.
Revenge: Aside from her goal of becoming Alice, she also hates Shinku with a passion.
The Rival: She's Shinku's biggest and most antagonistic rival in the Alice Game, with Suigintou wanting to prove her superiority over Shinku and all her sisters by defeating them.
Secret-Keeper: When she discovers the Adult Jun making a Rozen Maiden doll without Shinku's knowledge, she agrees to not tell Shinku anything because it amuses her.
Sibling Rivalry: She and Shinku are not known to get along well.
Sitting on the Roof: At the Unwound World, Suigintou spends some of her time sitting on the roof of Adult Jun's apartment building.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: With Shinku in Tales when both are up against Kirakishou.
Took a Level in Kindness:
- In Träumend, she meets Megu, a girl that sees herself as incomplete and worthless, a feeling that Suigintou deeply relate to and is what made her grow fond of the girl. After seeing that Megu's life force could be used to enhance her powers, Suigintou tries her best to not use it and is horrified when she realizes that she has been using it without realizing. Her devotion to Megu reaches such level that she partially forsakes her long-time goal of absorbing all Rosa Mysticas in order to become Alice in favor of using them to fully heal Megu.
- After Shinku apologizing to her for calling her junk, Suigintou's hatred towards her starts to diminish. While she still hates Shinku and wants to defeat her, she stops being as obsessive as she used to be and even drops most of her previous sadistic demeanor while fighting the other dolls. In Tales, she acts more like a jerk than an actual villain towards her sisters and her relationship towards Shinku has evolved from mortal enemies into a healthier Sibling Rivalry.
Tsundere: Harsh type. She has a soft spot for Megu, but she usually tries to act like she doesn't care about her and insults her like she does with everyone else.
Tsurime Eyes: Since she tends to be more on the harsh and antagonistic side, she fittingly have the "strong personality" eyes.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: In her anime-only backstory from Ouverture, Suigintou was an innocent doll who was abandoned by Rozen without being completed. Her hatred towards Shinku was born when she found out Shinku only tried to help her out of pity and Shinku insulted her by calling her "junk".
Villainous BSoD: In the manga, after learning that Hinaichigo willingly gave her Rosa Mystica to Shinku, she realizes that Souseiseki's Rosa 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 demand the Rosa Mystica back later rather than at that point.
"Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: All she wants is her father's love. Another trait she shares and makes her sympathize with Megu.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: In Träumend, she wants a Rosa Mystica not only to become Alice but to save her master, Megu, as well.
White Hair, Black Heart: She has white hair and is an evil Dark Magical Girl.
Winged Humanoid: She has a pair of black bird wings. She can morph her wings in the form of black dragons, but doesn't do it often. Deconstructed as in the manga her wings are deteriorating her back.

Kanaria

Voiced by: Yumi Shimura (JP - 2005-2016), Akari Kageyama (JP - Gothic wa Mahou Otome and SINoALICE collaborations) Cristina Valenzuela (Geneon), Monica Rial (Sentai) (EN)

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.

Accidental Misnaming: The other dolls have been shown not to remember her name properly.
Badass Boast: She tries to do one in the manga, but Older!Jun interrupts it much to her dismay.
Butt-Monkey: Most scenes she's in have her try some kind of crazy plan or boast about her infiltration skills, but they never work and people just make fun of her for it.
The Chew Toy: She 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 she almost defeated Shinku when she thought she stole Hinaichigo's Rosa Mystica, 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.
Curtains Match the Window: Green hair and eyes.
Detrimental Determination: She tries and fails to sneak inside the Sakurada house over 100 times. Even after Hinaichigo discovers her and invites her to the house, Kanaria still refuses the invitation because she wants to prove she's the smartest doll by finding a way to enter the house by herself.
Girlish Pigtails: She wears her hair in spiral-shaped pigtails, which make her look even younger than she already does.
Idiot Hair: She has a classical ahoge that goes perfectly with her eccentric character.
Instrument of Murder: She uses the sonic waves of her violin to fight.
Large Ham: Boasts about her skills every so often, but it's generally just an act.
Let's Get Dangerous!: Despite her childish personality and immature behavior, she's very competent in battle.
Meaningful Name: Kanaria means "Canary Bird".
Musical Assassin: She uses her violin to employ wind-based attacks.
Parasol of Prettiness: She has a parasol to fit her self-styled elegant image. It can also dish out.
Small Name, Big Ego: She 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 Träumend, when Barasuishou destroys her violin, she stands still, not realizing she can use Suiseiseki's power.
Trademark Favorite Food: Tamagoyaki, a kind of Japanese omelet.
Verbal Tic: Kanaria almost always ends her sentences with "Kashira" (Feminine version of "I wonder?" adapted to "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. She does not take said comment very well.

Suiseiseki

Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani (JP), Nana Mizuki (JP - drama CD), Rebecca Forstadt (Geneon), Brittney Karbowski (Sentai) (EN)

The third doll of the Rozen Maidens. Despite her bad attitude, she loves her sisters and doesn't want to fight them. Her weapon is her watering can and her artificial spirit is named Sui Dream.

All-Loving Heroine: She might not show it usually, but she's very compassionate about people and would like for everyone to just get along.
Angsty Surviving Twin: Before Souseiseki was brought Back from the Dead, she was greatly affected by losing her twin sister. Once she gets her back, she doesn't want that Suigintou takes Souseiseki's Rosa Mystica again.
Big Sister Bully: Besides Jun, her younger sister Hinaichigo is her favorite target for pranks and teasing.
Big Sister Instinct: Though she loves all her sisters dearly, her younger twin sister Souseiseki's well-being will always be her priority going as far of defending Kirakishou of Shinku and Suigintou because of Souseiseki's body being in the line. This is however justified in that she was merely trying to buy time in order to get the Unwound Jun to make a contract with Souseiseki's ring in order to forcefully eject Kirakishou from her body.
Brainwashed and Crazy: In the final battle of the manga, Suiseiseki is turned into a mindless puppet by Toriumi, who uses her to attack Shinku, Suigintou, the two Juns, and Micchan.
Crush Filter: When she imagines herself sharing a kiss under the curtain with Jun, she envisions him looking like a Pretty Boy straight out of a Shōjo manga.
Dream Weaver: While all dolls are capable of entering people's dreams, this is her specialty. She's the one mainly responsible for helping Jun sort out his subconscious self.
Dynamic Entry: She tends to make an entrance by crashing her flying briefcase into a window.
Eye Scream: After Toriumi gets his hands on an inanimate Suiseiseki, he sews her left eye shut. Jun magically heals it later.
Green Thumb: Aside using plants to fight, she can make people's heart trees grow with the water of her watering can.
Hates Being Alone: Suiseiseki's mayor fear is being without her sisters, specially Souseiseki. Shinku even said that Suiseiseki is the one most scared of loneliness.
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 Unwound World arc, Suiseiseki sacrifices her own Rosa Mystica to revive Souseiseki fully and banish Kirakishou from her body. She gets better after Souseiseki returns her Rosa Mystica.
- In the Wonderland arc, Suiseiseki uses up all of her power in the fight against the dolls Judica and Madulin, making sure Shinku and Kanaria can escape while she's left behind and collapses from running out of energy.
Humans Are the Real Monsters: Downplayed. In her introductory episodes, she's scared of humans and refuses to give her ring to one. She makes a contract with Jun out of necessity.
Imagine Spot: In Tales chapter 36, she has one of those after reading a shoujo manga... so we get to see Suiseiseki wearing a school uniform receiving a love confession from a boy (who strangely looks like Jun).
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She's haughty, naughty and mischievous, but also loving, caring and protective of her sisters.
Let's Get Dangerous!: She doesn't like fighting, and in fact wants no part of the Alice Game, but push her hard enough (or worse, threaten Souseiseki)...
Little Girls Kick Shins: Similar to Shinku, Suiseiseki tends to kick Jun's shin when she's angry.
Loving Bully: She likes to pick on Jun while having an obvious crush on him.
The Matchmaker:
- 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 Kiku confesses to Suiseiseki that she, instead, had feelings for the doll all along.
- Suiseiseki also tried to get Hozumi to confess to Kazuha Yuibishi in Die Zwillinge.
The McCoy: She refuses to fight the Alice Game because she cares too much about her sisters.
Plucky Girl: She is even willing to go through hell and back for her sisters.
Polar Opposite Twins: With Souseiseki. Suiseiseki is the brash, emotional and girly twin doll.
The Prankster: 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.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The loud and emotional Red Oni to Souseiseki's quiet and stoic Blue Oni.
Regal Ringlets: She's a doll with a Victorian era dress and long hair stylized into two massive curls.
Senseless Sacrifice: In the 2004 anime, she tries to take on Barasuishou herself to give Kanaria a chance to escape. Sadly, Kanaria decides to keep on fighting. They both end up dead because of it.
Shared Unusual Trait: She has a red right eye and a green left eye. Souseiseki has the same eye colors, but reversed.
Sympathy for the Devil: She felt sad for the twin doll sisters Judica and Madulin, because after Judica grew bigger because of the "Drink Me potion", they can't return to be one again. Just like Suiseiseki herself and Souseiseki.
Technical Pacifist: She certainly isn't afraid of dishing out violence should the need arise, but given her rather vocal opposition to the Alice Game, she merely does it to protect her sisters and never with the intention of actually killing anyone.
Theme Twin Naming: Combined with Rock Theme Naming. Suiseiseki (Japanese for "Jade Star") is named after gem, like Souseiseki.
Tiny Tyrannical Girl: She can be worse than Shinku when she demands something, and isn't afraid to get physical to get what she wants.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Souseiseki's Tomboy. Suiseiseki wears a dress and has long hair.
Tsundere: Harsh type. She's haughty and loves to pull pranks on her sisters, but she really loves them and will do anything to protect them. Despite her bad attitude and insults towards Jun, she has an obvious crush on him.
Tsurime Eyes: Her eyes slant upwards, since this is a common trait in Tsundere.
Verbal Tic: She says "desu" at the end of her sentences, desu. Though in Japanese it's a copula that's just a regular part of polite speech,^notepronounced "des" in most dialects Suiseiseki is notable for using it constantly, to the point that it became memetic.
Water Is Womanly: Suiseiseki is the more feminine and sensitive doll of the gardener Rozen Maiden twins. She uses her watering can to make plants grow and nurture the growth of the soul trees inside people's dreams.

Souseiseki

Voiced by: Rika Morinaga (JP), Julie Ann Taylor (Geneon), Kara Greenberg (Sentai) (EN)

The fourth doll of the Rozen Maidens, Souseiseki is the calmest and most duty-bound of the dolls. Because of her sense of duty, she believes that becoming Alice is her obligation. Souseiseki's weapon is a pair of gardening scissors, and her artificial spirit is named Lempicka.

Back from the Dead: In Part 2, Souseiseki comes back to life after her body gets remade by Adult Jun and her Rosa Mystica is extracted from Suigintou's body.
BFS: Her scissors, which she uses as if they were a sword, are almost her size. Justified because she's a two-foot doll.
Bifauxnen: Her masculine style of clothing and short hair make it easy to mistake her for a cute boy, but Souseiseki is a girl like the other Rozen Maidens.
Big Sister Instinct: Inverted as she's the younger sister, but just as Suiseiseki is protective of her, Souseiseki is also very occupied with her twin's well-being.
Boyish Short Hair: To contrast her twin sister's long hair, Souseiseki has chin-length hair that marks her as the tomboyish twin.
Caring Gardener: She tends to the rose garden at Yuibishi's mansion.
Demonic Possession: Suffers of this after Kirakishou uses her as a Living Bodysuit.
The Dutiful Daughter: She wants to become Alice because she considers it her duty towards Rozen.
Even the Girls Want Her: Hana in particular, but Clara and Kiku also have some interesting reactions to her.
Face Death with Dignity: She doesn't protest when Suigintou comes to reclaim her Rosa Mystica and assures her that it won't cause her pain anymore when she returns it to her body. Although Suigintou offers to pass a dying message to Suiseiseki, Souseiseki says there's no need to and is at peace with knowing her twin sister has becoming more independent.
Fighting from the Inside: After Adult 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.
Four Is Death: She's the fourth Rozen Maiden and the first one to die.
Identical Twin ID Tag: She looks like Suiseiseki, but wears a different outfit, has much shorter hair and her heterochromia's eye colors are reversed.
Innocent Innuendo: She calls herself Jun's slave after Adult Jun forms an accidental contract with her. She can't see why Jun gets all uncomfortable with it, since she doesn't know the implications.
Souseiseki: (to Adult Jun) I remember...your fingers. They gently touched my body everyday. ^note
Adult Jun: EH!?
Shinku and Suigintou: (stare~)
Jeanne d'Archétype: Several characters in Die Zwillinge make direct comparisons to Jeanne d'Arc regarding how Souseiseki looks and acts. When Suiseiseki is attacked by Suigintou she prays that Souseiseki would find and save her, which quickly happens. Suiseiseki compares how Souseiseki saved her from the attack to Jeanne, but Souseiseki does not like the comparison because she doesn't feel that she can protect others well, unlike Jeanne who protected France. Clara later has her dress in Jeanne's clothing claiming that Souseiseki can pull it off with her boyish figure. She has Souseiseki roleplay Jeanne a bit, to which Clara remarks that she looks like "the real Jeanne". Souseiseki briefly wonders if God could save the Rozen Maiden.
- Considering how Souseiseki later dies (both the first and second times), this association might be an intentional Call-Forward.
My Death Is Just the Beginning: In the 2004 anime, her death is practically used by Barasuishou to force every remaining doll into fighting.
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.
"Not So Different" Remark: She admits she has much more in common with Suigintou than with her twin sister Suiseiseki.
Polar Opposite Twins: With Suiseiseki. Souseiseki is the soft-spoken, quiet and boyish twin doll.
The Quiet One: In contrast of Suiseiseki's talkative attitude, Souseiseki just talks when she's talked to or it's necessary.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The quiet and stoic Blue Oni to Suiseiseki's loud and emotional Red Oni.
Replacement Goldfish: In the 2004 anime, an old man convinced himself Souseiseki was his child, Kazuki.
Shared Unusual Trait: She has a red left eye and a green right eye. Suiseiseki has the same eye colors, but reversed.
Shear Menace: She fights with her gardening scissors. She uses them as if they were a sword.
The Spock: In contrast to Suiseiseki's McCoy.
The Stoic: Not many things can faze her.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She's composed, collected and focused on her duty as a Rozen Maiden, but still a caring doll who truly loves her twin sister.
Theme Twin Naming: Combined with Rock Theme Naming. Souseiseki (Japanese for "Lapis Lazuli Star") is named after a gem, like Suiseiseki.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Tomboy to Suiseiseki's Girly Girl. Souseiseki dresses like a boy and has Boyish Short Hair.
Tomboyish Voice: She's a Bifauxnen who speaks with a much lower voice than her more feminine sisters.
Tsurime Eyes: Her eyes are sharp and focused, like Suiseiseki herself.
Undying Loyalty: Out of the Rozen Maidens, Souseiseki is the most fervently loyal and devoted to her master; first, Yuibishi and later, Jun.

Hinaichigo

Voiced by: Sakura Nogawa (JP), Tomoko Kaneda (JP - drama CD), Sherry Lynn (Geneon), Hilary Haag (Sentai) (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. She can make grow strawberry vines to fight, her artificial spirit is Berrybell.

All-Loving Heroine: She hates fighting her sisters and wants them to get along. She doesn't seem to fully understand why everyone fights, either.
Annoying Younger Sibling: She is very childish and demanding, towards her older sister Shinku in particular.
The Baby of the Bunch: She's the youngest of the dolls (before Kirakishou shows up) and her personality is the most childlike out of them. Her sisters and friends tend to baby her because of this.
Cheerful Child: She loves to play, draw, and do practically everything a child wants to do.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Near the end of the first half of the manga, Kirakishou implants rose vines inside Hinachigo through a kiss. As a result, her body gets torn apart and then eaten.
The Cutie: She's an adorable, innocent, and sweet little doll.
Defeat Means Friendship: She loses her fight with Shinku and breaks off her contract with Tomoe, but Shinku refuses to take her Rosa Mystica and instead orders her to become her "servant" so they can join forces in the Alice Game. Hinaichigo then moves in with Jun and Shinku.
Death by Irony: Vines are her weapons. Kirakishou implants vines in her mouth and these burst out of her body, killing her.
Gratuitous French: She frequently speaks French words. One of her former masters was a French girl, so she probably picked up the language from there.
Green Thumb: She can control vines and use them in battle.
Guardian Entity: She protected Shinku's body until Jun could take it back from Kirakishou and when Jun was spirited away by her, Hinaichigo somehow protected him too.
Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's a blonde, and by far the sweetest and most innocent of Rozen's dolls.
Hates Being Alone: Her last master abandoned her in the house from which she was moving out, leaving her with abandonment issues.
The Ingenue: She's easily the most innocent of the dolls, sometimes to idiot-levels.
In-Series Nickname: She's called "Little Strawberry" by Shinku.
Kill the Cutie: Things get grim when she gets killed by Kirakishou.
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.
Obliviously Evil: In her introduction, Hinaichigo is lonely and afraid of being abandoned by her human partner again, so she takes Tomoe to the N-field, not understanding why Tomoe wouldn't want to be separated from her family. She doesn't realize that her contract is draining Tomoe's life force until Shinku points it out to her, leading Hinaichigo to cancel their contract because she doesn't want to keep hurting Tomoe.
Ojou Ringlets: She wears her hair in four ringlets in front and behind of her ears.
Pink Means Feminine: Her pink colour scheme and youthful behaviour result in a very girly and innocent doll.
Prone to Tears: She's a big crybaby.
Quirky Curls: She's a peppy and childlike doll with blonde curls.
Sacrificial Lion: Towards the end of the first half, Hinaichigo is brutally killed by Kirakishou, establishing how much of a threat Kirakishou is to everyone involved in the Alice Game.
Spirit Advisor: After her death, Hinaichigo's spirit still helps up via her Rosa Mystica.
Strawberry Shorthand: Hinaichigo's name means "Small Strawberry" and her power is manipulation of strawberry vines. She's a little doll as cute and sweet as a strawberry.
Terrible Artist: She has the drawing skills of a kindergartener. Her attempt at drawing a daifuku results in Nori Playing Pictionary.
Third-Person Person: She tends to refer to herself as "Hina" in sentences.
Token Mini-Moe: The youngest-looking and cutest of the dolls, though Kanaria is also pretty small.
Trademark Favorite Food: She really likes her strawberry daifuku, or "unyuu" as she calls it.
Verbal Tic: A rare case of having two different verbal tics. "Na No" (the most used) and "unyuu".
Vine Tentacles: She can manipulate strawberry vines, which she uses to tie up her opponents.
Yandere: Subverted. During her first appearance, Hinaichigo kidnaps Tomoe and traps her in the N-field with her so she can never leave her. This only lasts until she realizes she's killing Tomoe by draining her life energy and cancels their contract to save Tomoe's life. From then on, Hinaichigo doesn't show yandere tendencies again.

Kirakishou

Voiced by: Chiemi Chiba (JP), Carli Mosier (EN)

The 7th Rozen doll. She lacks a physical body and only exists in the N-Field. Her abilities include crystals and white vines.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Her hair color alternates between white and light pink in the manga colored artwork. In the 2004 anime, her hair was given a grayish color. In the 2013 anime, she becomes a strawberry blonde.
And I Must Scream: From the moment of her creation, Kirakishou was kept inside the N-Field as a disembodied spectre, unable to leave due to not having a physical body. The only way she can make contact with the outside world is through influencing human minds with her powers and using them as a catalyst to reach her sisters.
Animal Motifs: She behaves like a spider, using her vines as spider webs to trap the other dolls and to crawl over them.
Ascended Extra: The first Rozen Maiden manga introduces her and her backstory, but she's given more focus in Rozen Maiden Tales, where she's the main villain.
Ax-Crazy: She's the most unstable and brutal doll by far.
Become a Real Girl: Unlike her sisters, she's a spiritual being without a physical body and she desperately wants to become a real doll. Eventually, her 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. To her luck, Kirakishou still gets her own doll body in the end, thanks to Shinku.
Berserk Button: She gets furious when she's reminded that Rozen didn't give her a body, or even worse, when getting called an fading illusion.
Big Bad: The main antagonist of Rozen Maiden Tales.
Broken Bird: Unlike her sisters, she doesn't have a physical body and can't leave the N-Field, forcing her to lead a very lonely and empty existence.
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 original anime.
Creepy Doll: She doesn't have a physical body, but she's still a doll made by Rozen. Unlike her sisters, however, she's very creepy and insane.
Crystal Prison: Her field is full of crystals, though she doesn't use this ability for combat, but instead to keep imprisoned human masters to feed on their energy.
Cute and Psycho: She's cute as a button, but being trapped in the N-Field her whole life has made her insane and murderous.
Diabolus ex Machina: She is the last to appear and her appearance change the landscape of how Alice Game is played
Dissonant Serenity: This goes hand in hand with Faux Affably Evil and Stepford Smiler.
Driven by Envy: Part of the reason of why she is so insane is because she is envious of the other dolls' physical bodies.
Energy Beings: When he made his last doll, Rozen thought that a physical body wouldn't be needed for the perfect girl he wanted to create, so Kirakishou only exists as a disembodied spirit.
Ethereal White Dress: She wears a white, ornately ruffled dress. This, along her lack of a physical body, makes her resemble a spectre.
Faux Affably Evil: She always speaks in a nice polite tone which contrasts her insane behavior.
Flowers of Nature: Her main power is controlling rose vines. She has a white rose growing from the socket of her right eye and there's two small roses tied to her hair.
Forceful Kiss: Kirakishou wanted to make a contract with Adult Jun, but her ring was created from her saliva and was inside her mouth. So she tried to make him kiss her mouth to kiss her ring; thank you Suiseiseki for stopping her.
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: A bit of her hair is tied into twin-tails.
Go Mad from the Isolation: Spending her entire life inside the N-field with little to no contact with the other dolls and humans has some really disturbing effects.
Green Thumb: She has the ability to create and control rose vines.
Heel–Face Turn: At the end of the manga, Kirakishou reforms after she receives forgiveness and salvation from Shinku, who uses her power as Alice to give her a physical body. 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.
Hellish Pupils: In the anime of Tales, her eyes are drawn with vertical ovals for pupils that make her look creepier than the other dolls.
Human Resources: Her powers require a lot of energy, so she's gathering all current and old doll masters into her seed bed to drain energy out of them.
In Place of an Eye: Her right eye is not an eye, but a white rose growing from the socket.
In-Series Nickname: Adult Jun calls her "Yuki" since it's the only kanji of her name he can read.
Karma Houdini: Despite all the horrible things she did, she ultimately gets a happy ending with her sisters and does not receive any consequences for her actions.
Kiss of Death: Implanted her vines inside Hinaichigo through her mouth.
Lecherous Licking: Licked Adult Jun's finger right before the aforementioned Forceful Kiss in a way that very closely (and deliberately) resembles... well... use your imagination. Combined with Spit-Trail Kiss just for extra Rule of Creepy. What she said right before that doesn't exactly help.
Kirakishou: "Master... I want you."
Light Is Not Good: She has the brightest colour scheme and uses sparkling crystals, yet she's completely insane and evil to the core.
Living Doll Collector: In an odd case of a doll collecting humans as if they were the dolls.
Love Hungry: She really wants to be loved and accepted by her sisters and master, but her ways to get love make The Other Mother's come to mind.
Manipulative Bitch: She takes advantage of Adult Jun's wish to change his life by getting his own Rozen Maiden and tricks him into making a vessel for her by having him rebuild Souseiseki's soulless body.
Master of Illusion: Her crystals can show illusions on its surface, like mirrors, even her N-Field is a illusion of the real world; but as she doesn't truly know the world except for what she sees on mirrors, her illusion feels odd.
Meaningful Name: Kirakishou means "Sparkling Snowdrop Crystal".
The Mentally Disturbed: Already mentioned above, but Kirakishou shows some very severe (and understandable) symptoms of mental instability. She's ruthlessly violent, appears to have multiple personalities, suffers from delusions and at times distributes erratic and sociopathic behaviour.
More than Mind Control:
- Over Adult Jun. The white vines over him and his room show how much Kirakishou is influencing him.
- Also over Megu as she promised her she'll consume her life and give her death, something Suigintou is now doubtful to do.
Not Good with Rejection: When people deny her what she wants, she goes ballistic.
The Ophelia: Constantly surrounded by white roses, her hair is super long and flowing, she's dressed all in white, and her mind is not all there.
People Puppets: She can manipulate people that she has encased in her crystal.
Pure Is Not Good: Rozen created her to represent the soul itself. Kirakishou turned to be insane.
Shirley Template: She has the look of Shirley Temple with her blond curly hair.
Soft-Spoken Sadist: She talks politely and never raises the tone of her cute sweet voice, not even when trying to destroy her sisters.
Something about a Rose: Probably the most profound example among 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.
Stepford Smiler: A very much Type C. To expand, until very recently, she spent her entire life inside the N-field with little to no contact with the others which drove her mad, but at the same time she has this... 'cute' demeanor that heavily contrast with her actions, whatsoever, she never breaks character, even when crying or when she's furious.
Supernatural Gold Eyes: Her only eye is golden, indicating she's very special even among Rozen Maidens.
Terms of Endangerment: She calls all of her older sisters "Onee-sama", either as a mocking or as a twisted way to act like the youngest sister she is, probably the former, especially Suigintou.
Tranquil Fury: When Suigintou insults her she says "Please don't say such mean thing to me" before trying to kill her.
Viler New Villain: From the moment she's introduced, Kirakishou quickly establishes herself as a much more dangerous and cruel villain than Suigintou ever was. While Suigintou is definitely mean to her sisters and willing to play dirty to win the Alice Game, Kirakishou's first villainous act is killing Hinaichigo in a horrifying way. She then proceeds to capture most of the human masters and puts them in a deep slumber. Part 2 continues to have her as the biggest threat to everyone in the Alice Game.
Villainous Breakdown: When Adult Jun says, in no uncertain terms, that he is not her master and wants nothing to do with her at all, she breaks down into tears, her body starts falling apart, and her once stoic demeanor is reduced to hysterical screaming. She gets better, though.
Vine Tentacles: She uses rose vines to strangle or grab anybody she chooses.
White Hair, Black Heart: Sometimes it's blonde, sometimes it's light pink or actually white, but either way she's evil and manipulative to the very end.
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: All the evil actions she takes are out of a desperate need to be loved, and with her having been isolated in the N-field her entire life, it's not surprising why she would want it so much.
Yandere: She expresses interest in making Adult Jun into her master, but her twisted and unhinged nature shows when talking to him.
Kirakishou: (To Adult Jun) "You can choose anyone you want, as long as you choose me at the end."
Youngest Child Wins:
- Later explained that Rozen actually crafted Kirakishou without a body for that reason, wondering if leaving her as a disembodied spirit would grant her superiority over the other Rozen Maidens and achieve greater perfection. And indeed she did; Kirakishou won the Superpower Lottery as she, inside the N-Field, is almost omnipresent, has more power than her sisters (as she's starting to collect more "masters") and can influence the real world to her advantage.
- Nearly happens at the climax of the manga. When it is just down to her and Shinku as the remaining dolls, Kirakishou breaks down, telling Shinku how envious she is of what the other dolls had that she didn't. In response, Shinku offers her the Rosa Mystica of all the other dolls, including her own, so that Kirakishou can become Alice. However, Kirakishou was unable to handle absorbing them due to being cut from her source of energy, and the title of Alice went to Shinku after all.

Human Masters

Tomoe Kashiwaba

Voiced by: Masayo Kurata (JP), Ayako Kawasumi (JP - drama CD), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (Geneon), Juliet Simmons (Sentai) (EN)

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Hinaichigo's previous master, and a classmate of Jun, who helps him with missed schoolwork and dealing with the Rozen dolls and such.

Academic Athlete: She's the Class Representative and a member of her school's kendo club.
Brainy Brunette: She's a brunette and a honor student at school.
Childhood Friends: 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. After leaving Hinaichigo in Jun's care, they're slowly becoming friends again.
Class Representative: She serves as the class representative of Jun's class.
Implied Love Interest: 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.
Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Tomoe is usually inexpressive and reserved, but she's a kindhearted girl who cares for Hinaichigo and Jun.
Sympathy for the Devil: As she watches the memory of Megu's Breaking Speech to Jun, Tomoe ends up feeling more sorry for Megu, realizing she's being cruel to Jun to take out her pain and anger.

Megu Kakizaki

Voiced by: Shiho Kawaragi (JP), Erika Weinstein (Geneon), Emily Neves (Sentai) (EN)

A sickly girl who woke Suigintou from her sleep, but Suigintou is initially reluctant to make a contract with her because of Megu's poor health. She eventually becomes Suigintou's master, but is kidnapped by Kirakishou shortly afterwards.

Animal Motifs: Doves. Suigintou compares her to the dove that was released from Noah's Ark. When Jun first meets her, he gets the impression of seeing Megu surrounded by doves, when she was actually throwing around papers.
The Anti-Nihilist: 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. (uses Kirakishou's vines to attack Suigintou)
Anti-Villain: When she returns into Part II, Megu is willingly working with Kirakishou, betrays Suigintou in the process, and helps in Jun's capture. Megu is mainly doing this because Kirakishou promised to kill her and end her unhappy life, and also because Megu gets the chance to take out her anger on other people, like Jun, who don't appreciate they have better lives than her.
Beautiful Singing Voice: Suigintou likes hearing Megu sing.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She's nice to Suigintou because she thinks Suigintou is an angel who has come to finally let her die. She's really a very bitter and scornful person who resents and blames her father and the nurses for her unhappy life at the hospital. At school, she acts friendly and sweet around her classmates, but when alone with Jun, she shows her true colors and it's revealed she's working with Kirakishou, who promised to grant her wish to die, while using the opportunity to take out her anger and resentment on Jun.
Bratty Teenage Daughter: 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.
Break Them by Talking: She gives Jun a crushing speech where she tells him his selfish existence isn't needed in the world and that he would be better dead. This breaks him enough to be trapped by Kirakishou.
Broken Bird: 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: She thinks Suigintou is an angel of death who will grant her wish to die and much of her behavior makes clear she isn't quite right in the head.
Deal with the Devil: After getting kidnapped by Kirakishou, Megu makes a deal with her by offering to help Kirakishou capture the other remaining human masters. 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.
Death Seeker: She has been inside the hospital since she can remember, so she wishes to die already and rejects the treatment they try to give her.
Delicate and Sickly: She has a congenital heart disease and because of it, she has been hospitalized her entire life.
Dying Declaration of Love: When she finally dies in the manga, Megu tells Suigintou that she loves her, and Suigintou returns the sentiment.
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She has long black hair and very pale skin, emphasizing her poor health.
Hates Their Parent: Zig-Zagged. 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.
Intimate Hair Brushing: Suigintou allows Megu to brush her hair, showing how strong their bond is.
Killed Off for Real: At the end of the manga, Kirakishou absorbs all of Megu's life and she dies. Just as she wanted.
Morality Pet: 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.
New Transfer Student: After recovering in the manga, she attends Jun's class, despite being a few years older. She's actually there at Kirakishou's orders and seeks to hurt Jun.
Nightmare Fetishist: She loves the idea of dying by having Suigintou drain her life force entirely.
No Sense of Personal Space: Megu was really excited for finally have a girl's talk after finally able to go to school and at result, she gets very close and touchy feely with Tomoe.
"Not So Different" Remark: When she meets Jun at the school, she tells him that she thinks they're similar because they feel alienated at school after spending such a long time locked away somewhere else (Megu due to her illness and Jun due to shutting himself at his house), and like Jun, Megu hates their teacher and classmates because she thinks they look down on her.
Not Brainwashed: She's not helping Kirakishou because of being controlled, she's there because she wants to let the world take some of her misery.
The Ophelia: She believes Suigintou to be an angel, send to finally let her die. Her occasional musings about these things don't help.
People Puppets: Kirakishou controls her body through invisible strings like a puppet so she can move around and go to school.
Prefers Going Barefoot: She's used to being barefoot after spending years in the hospital. When she goes to school, she finds wearing shoes restrictive and discards them whenever she can.
Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: With Suigintou. Megu is the only person who can bring out Suigintou's softer side. They share Megu's hospital bed and when they make their contract, the scene is framed like a wedding ceremony.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech:
- 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.
- She gives one to Kirakishou of all people.
  "You're jealous because you want a master of your own. You collected so many, but none of them like you. You are lonely and want to be loved. There's no helping you, Kirakishou.
The Resenter: Towards Jun, at least unconsciously, as she was about to cry while breaking Jun by talking, resenting he will live while she would die, even though she considers Jun a Dirty Coward who doesn't deserve to live.
Stepford Smiler: All her repressed rage against the world that was hiding behind her smile is getting free under Kirakishou's "influence".
Willing Channeler: In the final arc of the manga, Megu allows Kirakishou to possess her body as part of a deal they made.

Kazuha Yuibishi

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Souseiseki's master. He used to lead a conglomerate and is still wealthy.

Angsty Surviving Twin: His twin brother died in an accident when he was young. The grief drove him to claim his brother's identity and pretend the one who died was himself for many years.
My Sibling Will Live Through Me: His twin brother Futaba eloped with a woman and died in a ferry accident. Kazuha claimed Futaba's body as his own and has since then gone on living in Futaba's identity.
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 was for Souseiseki to remove the feelings of grief and remorse that kept him tied down to his dead brother's identity. After Souseiseki grants his wish, Kazuha doesn't seek revenge anymore and moves on.
Theme Twin Naming: "Kazuha" means "One leaf" and "Futaba", his twin brother's name, means "Two leaves".
Took a Level in Kindness: After Souseiseki's first death, Kazuha becomes a kinder man thanks to being freed from his feelings of grief and resentment. He feels saddened by losing Souseiseki and forms a friendship with Suiseiseki.

Mitsu Kusabue

Mitsu "Micchan" Kusabue

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

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

Be Careful What You Wish For: In her captured state, she wished a prince to come to her rescue, comforting herself thinking it was all a dream. Cue Toriumi presenting himself as the lord of Kirakishou's castle; she associated him with a prince and then started to question herself if her love for dolls is because, maybe subcounciously, she's a paedophile since "her prince" is a young boy.
Bespectacled Cutie: Leaving aside her obsession with dolls, she's a nice and friendly young woman with glasses.
Camera Fiend: It seems she can't spend even a minute without making a photo of her dolls. Or other people's dolls, for that matter.
Cuddle Bug: She really loves hugging the Rozen Maidens, especially Kanaria.
Damsel in Distress: In the sequel, she gets abducted by Kirakishou.
Eccentric Fashion Designer: She's a doll clothing designer who is very passionate about her work.
Fangirl: To the Rozen Maidens in particular. They're not too happy about it.
Go-Go Enslavement: After Kirakishou abducts her, the captive Micchan is seen wearing a French Maid Outfit.
Heroic Sacrifice: 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.
In-Series Nickname: Her name is Mitsu, but is called "Micchan" to sound cuter.
Loony Fan: Aside Kanaria (who's already her doll), all Rozen Maidens, Suigintou included, are creeped out at best and straight out scared at worst of Micchan's exaggerated fangirlism over them.
Otaku: She's obsessed with dolls, enough so that she can assess the qualities of a new doll in seconds by sight alone.
Parental Substitute: From her behavior, she seems more like Kanaria's doting mother rather than her master.
Supreme Chef: According to Kanaria, Micchan's cooking is delicious.
Thinks Like a Romance Novel: In her captured state, she felt herself like Cinderella and wished a prince to come to her rescue, comforting herself thinking it was all a dream.
Youthful Freckles: She has freckles in the manga and 2013 anime. They were absent in the first anime seasons.

Odille Fosset

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The granddaughter of Corinne, Hinaichigo's former master. Odille comes to the Sakurada home claiming to be Hinaichigo's master, showing her contract ring to prove it. In reality, said ring is a contract ring from Kirakishou.

Damsel in Distress: Her mind is trapped by Kirakishou in a dream world.
Hime Cut: She's a wealthy girl with blunt bangs, bra strap length sidelocks, and waist length straight hair.
Identical Granddaughter: She looks just like her grandmother did at her age.
I Will Find You: She moved from France to Japan to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish to find Hinaichigo.
Phenotype Stereotype: She's a French girl with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Unwitting Pawn: Taking advantage of her wish to find Hinaichigo, Kirakishou forms a contract with Odille and uses her to find the Sakurada home, resulting in Hinaichigo being captured and killed.

Kiku

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

Cute Clumsy Girl: At first, but as her confidence rises her clumsiness fades.
Meido: She works as a maid at the Rosa Mansion.
Out of Focus: As the dolls take more focus in the final chapters, she manages to not even appear in a few chapters.
Verbal Tic: "-Desu" at first, but as she interacts with Suiseiseki she becomes more comfortable in using her natural accent, dropping the "-desu".

Hana

An elevator girl working at the Youunkaku in the Taisho era of Imperial Japan. She is Souseiseki's master in Rozen Maiden 0. Kiku is her older sister.

Ambiguously Bi: She had an interest in a boy previously and later falls in love with Souseiseki.
Expository Hairstyle Change: The length of her hair used to be longer in flashbacks. It's been cut and styled at some point since her arrival to Tokyo.
The Flapper: Of the moga variety.
Foreign Culture Fetish: 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).
Ironic Fear: An elevator girl of a 12 story tower with a fear of heights.
Out of Focus: Like Kiku, she ended up being left out during a few of the final chapters as the story shifted focus to the dolls.
Unlimited Wardrobe: 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.
Verbal Tic: Tends to slip into her country accent when distressed, adding "-dabe" to the end of her sentences.

Supporting Characters

Nori Sakurada

Voiced by: Noriko Rikimaru (JP), Aya Hisakawa (JP - drama CD), Jennie Kwan ^note credited as Minx Lee (Geneon), Nancy Novotny (Sentai) (EN)

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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.

Adaptation Dye-Job: She had light brown hair in the original anime adaptation, but the Zurückspulen anime depicts her with auburn hair.
Bespectacled Cutie: She's a kind and gentle girl with glasses.
Beware the Nice Ones: She is nice and friendly, but she will get really upset if pushed her far enough.
Blind Without 'Em: In one episode, she loses her glasses and is unable to see Kanaria sitting about four feet away from her.
Childish Older Sibling: When compared to her more serious younger brother, Nori is silly, clumsy and a bit of an airhead. Shinku actually thought she was the younger sibling at first.
Children Do the Housework: Nori lives alone with her brother Jun because their parents are working overseas. Because she's the older sibling, she takes care of the household chores and cooks for herself, Jun and the dolls every day.
Cool Big Sis: 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.
Covert Pervert: Nori seems naive and innocent, but she gets surprisingly dirty ideas about what her brother does in private. When Shinku first arrived, Nori thought she was a sex doll that Jun ordered for himself.
Curtains Match the Window: Brown hair and brown eyes.
Cute Clumsy Girl: She tends to trip and fall over at times.
Demoted to Extra: Her role and screentime got drastically reduced in Part 2 of the manga.
Feminine Women Can Cook: She's a girly girl and a very good cook.
Girlish Pigtails: She's a cute young girl with her hair tied into low bunches.
Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She's very girly, peppy, a good cook, and an avid lacrosse player.
Idiot Hair: Particularly in the original anime, Nori has a prominent cowlick to match her slightly quirky character.
Locked Out of the Loop: While she knows about the Rozen Maidens being Living Toys, she's kept in the dark about the Alice Game and other unpleasant events related to it, such as Souseiseki's death and also Hinaichigo's murder by Kirakishou initially.
Oblivious to Love: In the 2004 anime, Nori is blissfully unaware of her classmate Yamamoto's crush on her.
Passionate Sports Girl: She plays lacrosse and suggest Jun to join to the club to help him socialize.
Promotion to Parent: 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.
Shipper on Deck: She gets excited when she thinks Jun went on a library date with Tomoe.
Shoo Out the Clowns: In the original manga and anime, she showed every now and then, mainly during the comic relief scenes, but as the manga approaches its climax, she's left out.
Sibling Yin-Yang: With Jun. Nori is the sweet and extroverted older sibling, while Jun is the grumpy and introverted younger sibling.
Supreme Chef: She cooks delicious dishes that the dolls enjoy very much.
Tareme Eyes: Her eyes are big and droopy, matching her niceness and bubbliness.
Team Chef: At the Sakurada home, Nori cooks for herself, Jun, and their doll houseguests.
Team Mom: She takes care of her brother Jun and the dolls living at their house.

Laplace's Demon

Voiced by: Kyousei Tsukui (JP), Keith Silverstein (Geneon), David Wald (Sentai) (EN)

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

Combat Referee: 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.
Hair-Raising Hare: Especially in Träumend, where he is extremely creepy looking and completely indifferent to the suffering of others.
Meaningful Name: He is named after the mathematical concept.

Rozen

The one who made the Rozen Maidens.

The Ageless: He achieved immortality as a result of his experiments with alchemy, apparently.
Alchemy Is Magic: In order to create the perfect girl, Alice, he created the Rosa Mystica and the Rozen Maiden dolls using alchemy.
Anti-Villain: 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.
The Atoner: 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.
The Blank: 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.
The Faceless: 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. Later literal when Jun sees his body and he lacks a face entirely.
Greater-Scope Villain: He's the last "enemy" the dolls must face if they want to break free of the whole Alice Game. Ultimately subverted when it is revealed that he wants to end the Alice Game, but is ultimately powerless to do so.
I Have Many Names: He has gone by many aliases throughout time, such as The Count of St. Germain or Alessandro Cagliostro.
Julius Beethoven da Vinci: He has gone by many aliases throughout time, such as the Count of St. Germain or Alessandro Cagliostro.
My God, What Have I Done?: He may or may not honestly regret the fact he had his seven "daughters" fight to the death to appease him.
Really 700 Years Old: While his exact age is unknown, he's at least over 2,000 years old, considering he was said to have known King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
Replacement Goldfish: The true intention behind the creation of the Rozen Maidens was the death of his daughter.

Kaito Toriumi

A boy of the same class of Jun. He also has antiquarian parents and is interested in dolls, especially the Rozen Maiden series.

Chekhov's Gunman: He was first introduced in Tale 31 as an unimportant classmate of Jun, seen every now and then in the classroom scenes...and then it's revealed that he's helping Kirakishou.
The Chosen Wannabe: He envies Jun for being chosen as a master to multiple Rozen Maidens.
The Dragon: He's Kirakishou's most prominent minion and is the second biggest obstacle to the heroes after her.
Human Resources: 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".
I Just Want to Be You: He wants to be both Jun and Rozen. He tries to force the Rozen Maidens to call him "Father". He even deludes himself into thinking that Jun is "Toriumi" because that's how badly he wants to be Jun.
Mook Maker: He's making new "sisters" for Kirakishou to help her to dispose of the remaining 5 Rozen Maidens.
Tomato in the Mirror: Towards the end of the manga, it's revealed that Toriumi isn't a real human being, but an illusion created by Kirakishou to have a "father" who would love her. Toriumi is the one most shocked to find out about this when he disappears along all of Kirakishou's illusionary world.

Unwound World

Adult Jun Sakurada

Voiced by: Ryōta Ōsaka (JP), Corey Hartzog (EN)

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Jun's adult counterpart in the parallel dimension where he responded "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 Alternate Self in his fight against Kirakishou.

Accidental Kiss: 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.
Alternate Self: To the original Jun. He's older, never signed the contract and lived a normal life without much in the way of magic happening until adulthood.
Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Brooding Boy to Saitou's Gentle Girl. After years of social isolation and brooding, Saitou is the first person who befriends Jun and makes him feel appreciated.
The Bus Came Back: After the dolls leave the Unwound World, they part ways with Adult Jun. He returns to the story in Tale 42.
Classical Anti-Hero: Similar to the main timeline's Jun, this Jun is an introverted, insecure and antisocial person who got his self-esteem screwed by a traumatic experience in middle school. His flaws are even more emphasized because unlike his younger counterpart, he didn't start overcoming his fears until he became an adult.
The Final Temptation: Kirakishou offers him the power to change his past if he forms a contract with her.
The Glasses Gotta Go: He dyed his hair and uses contact glasses.
Insecure Love Interest: He's convinced that a girl like Saitou is out of his league.
Jade-Colored Glasses: 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.
Living MacGuffin: 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 Apple of Discord between them.
Love Epiphany: 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 hurt him so badly.
Mistress and Servant Boy: Shinku sees him as her temporary servant.
Other Me Annoys Me: He considers Jun a brat.
Point of Divergence: His timeline is the result of him choosing to "Don't wind", meaning rejecting being Shinku's master.
She Is Not My Girlfriend: He says this about Saitou when Shinku refers to her as his girlfriend, but he starts to wish she was.
Supporting Protagonist: 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.
There Is Another: After Jun is abducted by Kirakishou, the dolls ask Adult Jun's help since he's also the master of three of them.
Unwitting Pawn: Kirakishou tricked him by making him think she was younger Jun so he could make her a temporary body out of Souseiseki's body.

Saitou

Voiced by: Natsumi Takamori (JP), Margaret McDonald (EN)

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Adult Jun's colleague in the bookstore and a to-be actress in a theatrical company.

Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Gentle Girl to Jun's Brooding Boy. Her gentleness and compassion help him come out of his shell and see that not everything in his life is bad.
Last-Name Basis: She and Jun call each other by their last names.
Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Her talk with Jun about her dream of being an actress was what started to break his shell before Shinku's arrival.
Nice Girl: She's very friendly and kind.
No Full Name Given: We never get to hear her first name.
Satellite Love Interest: She's Jun's love interest in the Unwound World. Her presence helps him open up to her and other people of her theatrical company, but she has no relevance in the plot beyond that. Her personality also boils down to being a Nice Girl.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: To Jun. Both of them, in fact, which gives them more confidence for their respective challenges in life.

Minor Characters

Mr. Umeoka

Voiced by: Kensuke Tamura (JP), David Wald (EN)

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Jun's teacher. He tries to persuade his student to return to school.

Condescending Compassion: Jun feels insulted by the way Umeoka expresses concern for him after he turned into a Hikikomori, thinking that Umeoka treats him like a pitiful animal rather than a student that he unintentionally wronged.
Innocently Insensitive: He means well as a teacher, but his attempts to encourage Jun have the totally opposite effect and only make him withdrawn from people around him further.
No Full Name Given: His first name isn't mentioned.
Oblivious to Hatred: He genuinely doesn't seem to realize Jun hates him for telling everyone about his talent for designing girls' clothes. When he goes to visit Jun at his house, he's totally oblivious to the way every single thing he says and does just makes Jun feel triggered, and his insistence on convincing Jun to rejoin his class only makes Jun feel even more unmotivated to go back to school.
Small Role, Big Impact: He has few appearances in the story, but his actions are what resulted in Jun becoming a Hikikomori at the beginning.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He unwittingly caused the incident that drove Jun to become a Hikikomori. He took a dress design from Jun's notebook, showed it to the entire school, and publicly announced Jun was the designer, all without Jun's permission. He didn't realize that Jun is very self-conscious about what other students think about him and his hobby, so he only felt humiliated when everyone knew he likes to design girls' clothes.

Anime Only

Motoharu Shibasaki

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

Souseiseki's master in the 2004 anime. He's an elderly watchmaker who became delusional after his young son died, convincing himself that Souseiseki is said son.

Outliving One's Offspring: He lost his only son in an accident.

Barasuishou

Voiced by: Saori Goto (JP), Tara Platt (EN)

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An anime-only character that first appeared in Träumend, Barasuishou 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 Träumend, but she's not alone in villainy.
Body Horror: At the end of Träumend when she literally falls apart. Since she wasn't a true Rozen Maiden, she couldn't handle the power of all of the Rosa Mystica, leading to her death.
Canon Foreigner: She only appears in the anime adaptation.
Crystal Prison: One of her favorite tricks in battle is to trap dolls in a cell made of crystal.
Crystal Weapon: She has a sword that is made out of pure crystal.
Daddy's Little Villain: Enju created her to collect the Rozen Maidens' Rosa Mystica and become the ultimate doll to prove he had surpassed his master, Rozen.
Died in Your Arms Tonight: She dies in the hands of Enju.
Emotionless Girl: 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 of proving that Enju was a superior doll-maker. Ironically, the real Seventh doll, Kirakishou, makes her look tame by comparison.
Eyepatch of Power: A rose-shaped one that keeps her emotions under control.
Filler Villain: She's a villain in the original anime, but not very important for the actual story.
Flower Motifs: Her name means "Rose Crystal" and her dress is decorated with purple roses.
Gemstone Assault: She has the ability to create and manipulate crystals. She uses these quite freely, causing them to spike up from the ground in bunches. She also uses them as swords or as daggers.
Girlish Pigtails: Some of her hair is worn in pigtails.
Meaningful Name: Barasuishou means "Rose Crystal" in Japanese.
Mystical White Hair: White hair for a doll brought to life.
Pimped-Out Dress: She wears an ornately ruffled collar with a small, dark purple rose on it that covers the puffy part of the sleeves, a lavender dress with a wrap-around top, puffy sleeves at the shoulders and wide long sleeves, with two crystals dangling from the puffy parts.
Supernatural Gold Eyes: Her one visible eye is yellow and she isn't like the Rozen dolls because her creator is not Rozen, but Enju.
Villainous Breakdown: When it becomes clear that she is about to die, she finally shows that she is Not So Stoic. Tragically, she died while showing that she truly loved Enju as her father.
White Hair, Black Heart: She has long silver hair and while it's hard to say if she's really evil, she's a villain and her actions hardly speak favourably of her.

Shirosaki

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (JP), Keith Silverstein (EN)

The salesperson at the doll shop in the anime.

Meaningful Name: His name is loosely taken from the Japanese word for "White Rabbit". It's meant to be a hint to him being another form of Laplace's Demon.
Two Aliases, One Character: He's an alternate form of Laplace's Demon. It is not revealed until the very last few episodes of Träumend that Shirosaki and Laplace's Demon are actually the same person.

Enju

Voiced by: Daisuke Ono (JP), Jason C. Miller (EN)

The young doll craftsman who runs the doll shop with Shirosaki.

God Guise: Kinda. Much of the cast mistake 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 Träumend.
Hidden Agenda Villain: He made Barasuishou in an attempt to surpass Rozen, and everything goes downhill due to this desire.
The Man Behind the Man: He created Barasuishou, a knockoff of Rozen's Kirakishou, in the hopes of surpassing Rozen.
The Stoic: He barely shows emotion. Even Barasuishou cannot bring out much in him. In reality, he's very bitter about Rozen.
Walking Spoiler: He doesn't have much of a role, but you can see that his little info is very much intended to be hidden until the end.

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