Rozen Maiden

Name: Rozen Maiden
Released: 2004-10-07T07:00:00.000Z
Cast: Ryōta Ōsaka, Miyuki Sawashiro, Chiemi Chiba

TV Show · Anime · Animation

What if Jun Sakurada chose NOT to turn the key in the back of the lifelike doll that mysteriously arrived at his house? The events of the original ROZEN MAIDEN are rewritten, and the destiny of the characters rewound.

2004 · 24m

Starring Ryōta Ōsaka, Miyuki Sawashiro, Chiemi Chiba

Director Mamoru Hatakeyama

EPISODE 1

Tale 1

The story of the Rozen Maidens is retold, giving rise to a new tale of the eternal power struggle that is the Alice Game.
EPISODE 2

Tale 2

In an alternate reality, Jun decides to "Not Wind It", and continues to live a normal, if somewhat sad life. Things change when he gets a strange package in the mail.
EPISODE 3

Tale 3

Jun continues to receive messages from his younger self, urging him to complete "Shinku" at all costs.
EPISODE 4

Tale 4

University Jun is all alone in his strange dream world with his handmade sweet-turned-vicious doll, Shinku, with no way to communicate with his more positive, younger self. The doll immediately demands that he make another choice, and everything goes blank.
EPISODE 5

Tale 5

Suigintou has made her way to Shinku, and the melancholic journey she underwent to get there is revealed.
EPISODE 6

Tale 6

To get back to the Jun who wound, Shinku and Suigintou call a truce. Elsewhere, adult Jun is humiliated.