the.Merines covered most of it. I didnt think about them fighting over the badge; but I guess Shinku's reaction to Jun sewing on that badge gives quite a lot away doesnt it?

I'm quite certain Laplace will have something to do in turning Gin around - thats really all he has done so far, damn him. (Actually, I'd rather not have that prediction come true, because I'm getting sick of Peach-Pit pushing the blame to him.. I don't know how to say it, but to me it just seems like the easiest thing to do, the easy way out to make it the fault of the wabbit. I wish they could show up Gin in greater depth by having her make the decision herself, without that push from him.)

So while my prediction is that Laplace will give that final push; I rather not it come true.

Is Shinku teaching Suigintou how to walk? How cute X3

..they were right

her anger and sudden outburst of power. Seriously. At first, we see feathers floating around her, then she gets mad and sprouts a large mass of feathers from her back, attacking Shinku. Then the newly formed wings shrink to their ...I guess "usual" size.

After she came through the mirror, Stinku sort of took her in. Shinku became the one person...er doll....that SuiginTou believed in. And when Shinku didn't believe that SuiginTou after SouseiSeki cut her in half basically...SuiginTou probably felt abandoned..again. Then...she finally got her Rosa Misticae from a certain blonde person..and probably got her strings pulled.

ahh but what happens after!? noo shinku you evil bitch! :frustrated: suigintou asks soo desprately for help and you just let her sink to the bottom of hell T_T

shinku at first tries to care for gin sama but things turn horribly when she finds out about the alic game...omg as if boku just atacked gin for minimal reason :mad: revealing her weak form its soo hard to bare >.< gin sama just lying there crying breaks my heart >.<

and what? well gin turns evil in the end because shinku was looking down on her too much...so enough was enough and she decides to take what is hers...grabbing the broach she then crushes it in her hands causing shinku to scream in pain...and thats where the legendary "J" word started out...oh man did that word his gin hard...and she will never forget it for as long as she lives ~ too bad the end was spoiled by the easter bunny and thats the end...

Shinku cried at the end, too :p

Shinku didn't really look down on her, that was what Suigintou misunderstood...Shinku tried to explain that she wanted her to live happily with Sarah as a normal doll did she not? Also, to think that Suigintou would move without a rozamystica...I bet that it was pretty much of a surprise to him...in the end he did admit that she had the qualification to become alice so that makes him a bit less of a bastard...just a bit.
ps. Could someone check Suigintou's eyes' colour for me? I thought I saw them red a few times not magenta like they are in the anime...my eyes are tired but meh.:uhoh:

well she was obviously looking down on her status calling her "poor this poor that" i mean whats soo poor about gin? sure she isnt a complete doll but for shinku to keep referring to the word "you poor thing" its irritating >.< almost as bad as calling her the "J" word to which i shall not speak in honor of the great gin sama! /fanboy mode ~

and shinku shouldnt have held the secret for soo long and even when the truth was out try to comfort her with words that imply..."your daddy doenst love you so you should just go an be a normal doll"...well little does she know its her love for her father which made her move in the first place even without a rosa mystical ~

and rozen is still a bastard...okey now hes given gin a rosa mystical...but wheres the rest of her body? O.o why not just complete he for hells sakes instead of letting her carry on suffering mourning that she doesnt have a stomach!? T_T

Yeah, I know it's irritating then again seeing as she was, couldn't walk or pretty much anything else either, wouldn't that qualify as a "poor one", ofc she didn't give enough credit to her in the end but I didn't think that Suigintou was really ready to be "not called the poor one" more like a child just learned to walk (sigh, pun kinda intented) but didn't know where to walk.

the part after Sou attacked her were heartwrenching indeed but it does show that Shinku wanted to protect her eventho she went kinda overboard with the "oh you poor one, you're an unfinished product" but she did want her to be happy, didn't she? I mean...if she had told her that, she would've been absolutely crushed losing the will to live at all. If I had been in her shoes I would've kept it a secret long enough for her to get something else to live for as well.

about the not completing her...that kinda beats me as well. Trying to look from a different viewpoint...like he accepts unfinished ones but if he did repair her fully that would mean that Suigintou was indeed born as unfinished doll which wouldn't have had any qualifications to be an alice. This way he shows that eventho she is unfinished she can be an alice even with her faults?

Suigintou is so totally innocent and childlike that it’s very hard not to feel sympathetic, and for me that was a very good thing, considering that I always considered ‘Gin-sama’ to be over-rated and not very fleshed-out. Shinku cares for her as she learns to walk and a nice bond forms between them. She follows Shinku into the N-Field, where Souseiseki, dedicated as always to the Alice Game, attacks just where Suigintou is, erm…lacking and makes her fall in two (NASTY Souseiseki! You bad and naughty doll!) and she disappears from the N-Field.

However, Rozen meets her, and gives her a Rosa Mystica. That nasty stirrer.

Shinku and Suigintou meet again, and are soon fighting. What I was very pleased about was that they begin to battle not because LaPlace no Ma instigated it, but because of a genuine enmity that is easy to understand – Shinku, having seen Suigintou at her most vulnerable, pities her, calling her a poor, sad thing and an unfinished product. Suigintou gets angry, her pride offended by being looked down upon. I fully expected to think Shinku was an idiot in this episode, especially since she seemed more arrogant and self-satisfied than ever in the first one, but actually I really understood why she saw Suigintou the way she did – she was just being protective, and I understood why. However, I could also understand why Suigintou was angry, and lashed out…though she went too far, breaking the brooch. Poor Shinku!

Deeply upset, Shinku calls Suigintou the dreaded J-Bomb, and Suigintou, through anger and most likely thanks to her new Rosa Mystica, sprouts her wings and the true battle began. However, out of nowhere, LaPlace no Ma comes and stops the battle, presumably until Jun, Tomoe and that old guy start their makimaki-ing in present-day Japan. It was an abrupt and unsatisfying ending, but Suigintou’s story was told, so…job done, I suppose. It leaves me hungry for more, though.

The Alice Game has always been a bit arbitrary, with Rozen’s desires left inscrutable, but it leads to some great drama; I don’t really mind that his motives are shady at best, utterly contrived at worst. I was also surprised Suigintou didn’t have a rosa mystica before…I always assumed that’s what made the dolls able to move, talk, eat et al, but apparently not. I also didn’t really understand why Shinku was ending her contract with Sarah…

My favourite bit, though, was Souseiseki’s Oddjob impression, with her amazing boomerang hat!