Rozen Maiden

[Shinku]

Originally Posted by Blablabla

So there were an other Rozen Maiden Thread... 2 Threads, 300 pages both together.... best series ever ^^

i agree, out of all the anime series i watched, Rozen Maiden was one of the best! ^_^

[Ziv]

Originally Posted by darkanimeghost

no offence to all of you but rozen maiden is compleatley emo with how the story line goes.
to sya this i also have to point out why i mean the guy drops out of junior- high because no one under stands him finds a box and becomes a slave o goody what next you find out there is many parionied dolls in somethingcalled the alice game looking for a goth woman.

he doesn't drop out because no one understands him... And Shinku just says that because she's got the personality of a victorian aristocrat.

Spoiler for why he drops out:

He drops out because he's simultaneously ruined his chances of getting into a good high school/college, become the focus of the ridicule of everyone at school since he was always used as the standard of an ideal student, and on top of that, word got out of his interest in sewing and designing women's clothing. In addition, kids dropping out of school because of too much pressure to succeed isn't an uncommon occurence in Japan. Infact, it's a serious social problem. see wikipedia's article about it here.

[the.Merines]

Originally Posted by darkanimeghost

no offence to all of you but rozen maiden is compleatley emo with how the story line goes.
to sya this i also have to point out why i mean the guy drops out of junior- high because no one under stands him finds a box and becomes a slave o goody what next you find out there is many parionied dolls in somethingcalled the alice game looking for a goth woman.

Making posts without using basic capitalization and punctuation makes you emo.

+/-end grammar-Nazi mode

Truthfully, I can't understand your post enough to post a real response. "Emo" is supposed to be shorthand for "emotional," which Rozen Maiden is. In fact all media is made to invoke some kind of emotional response. I refuse to accept "emo" as a bad thing.

If you're referring to kids that wear tight black clothes, listen to music that isn't "mainstream," wear too much makeup and have odd hair styles... Grow up. If you think being ridiculed and generally destroying one's future prompting one to withdraw from society is strange, you're in the minority. Everyone wants to run away from hopeless situations. With the absence of Jun's parents as a higher guiding force, he runs away when he can. Besides, if you can find a better storypoint to keep him at home all the time and have a messed up personality, more power to you. Write a manga.

[Kikaifan]

'parionied?' WTF is 'parionied?'

[Lost]

Well, thats pretty belated bashing..

[grey_moon]

Originally Posted by darkanimeghost

no offence to all of you but rozen maiden is compleatley emo with how the story line goes.
to sya this i also have to point out why i mean the guy drops out of junior- high because no one under stands him finds a box and becomes a slave o goody what next you find out there is many parionied dolls in somethingcalled the alice game looking for a goth woman.

Errrrr I think its kinda wrong for a person with Strawberry Panic as their sig to call RM emo.... Unless of course you mean it in a good way (the no offence part kinda makes that not possible)

But lets look at your statement from a more serious POV. Is RM emo? Well if u mean emo as in whining about your life and wearing black clothes (the new goth?) and sprouting lots of poetry, then no it is not. If you mean emo as in an show that tugs on the viewers emotions on many levels then yes I would have to agree that it is emo...

As mentioned earlier RM deals with a really serious psychological problem which exists in Japan (probably elsewhere in the world just not reconised). The cause of it hinted heavily in S1 is a very nasty and real situation for many children no matter what country you look in.

I think RM deals with these subjects very well, althrough in a very fantasy way.

*Fanboysim on*

For me there is no part of RM (anime) I don't like. The music is great, the characters are all so memorable, and personally I have fallen in love with most of them, I find myself even wanting to know more about the ones I don't like (the bastard bunny for example). Personally I think that the story is so well told.

I don't think that you have followed the monster thread on ASF because the amount of indepth discussions we have had over 24 episodes is amazing. Just search for any of the posts by Alu about RM will give you a good example.

*Fanboyism off*

[QueenNori]

A German Rozen Maiden Trailer from TOKYOPOP Germany XD
http://www.tokyopop.de/dvd/anime/roz...en/trailer.php

[Mincemaker]

The trailer sounds.....weird.

Hinaichigo sounds older than usual.

Maybe I'm not used to hearing Japanese names in other languages. I think it would be better if the dolls were referred to in their German names in the dub.

[QueenNori]

I think the trailer sounds "weird", too (the DVD doesn't sound "weird" btw).

[grey_moon]

Originally Posted by QueenNori

I think the trailer sounds "weird", too (the DVD doesn't sound "weird" btw).

OMG please someone stop my ears from bleeding! I don't understand a word of german so I shouldn't really comment, but Hina and Gin just sound so wrong!

[Choki]

I thought that Hina-Ichigo sounded alright....but not Gin-sama or Shinku or Jun

[Deathkillz]

as always the original voices are always perfect

[the.Merines]

Originally Posted by grey_moon

OMG please someone stop my ears from bleeding! I don't understand a word of german so I shouldn't really comment, but Hina and Gin just sound so wrong!

Hehe... I guess dubbing isn't perfect in any language.

[QueenNori]

I actually like Shinku's German voice very much.

If you want to hear Suiseiseki and Souseiseki's voice.........XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhwfaX6J4ZM

[ChibiAurora]

Originally Posted by QueenNori

I actually like Shinku's German voice very much.

If you want to hear Suiseiseki and Souseiseki's voice.........XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhwfaX6J4ZM

I think SouseiSeki's voice is the best from the clip. Shinku and Hina's voices lost their cuteness factors, and SuiseiSeki just doesn't sound like SuiseiSeki. I'm not crazy about Gin sama's voice, either......

I think the thing the thing that throws me off the most is the fact that I'm not used to hearing the German language spoken O.o to me, it almost sounds like they're speaking English backwards XD

[QueenNori]

It seems that some mistakes have been corrected for the DVD version. In the TV version of episode 11, there was a scene where Suigintou hat 6 fingers, on my German DVD, however, she now has 5 fingers.

[Suiseiseki]

I want to shoot the person who did Hina's voice. Hina is supposed to sound cute.
Anyways I prefer watching things in their original language. I tried watching a Roberto Benigni film dubbed in English, but I ended up tearing the hair off my head . The dubbed plainly sucked! Give me Roberto Benigni in italian or give me death!

Originally Posted by QueenNori

It seems that some mistakes have been corrected for the DVD version. In the TV version of episode 11, there was a scene where Suigintou hat 6 fingers, on my German DVD, however, she now has 5 fingers.

But wasn't the sixth finger used to take Shinku's virginity away? Or am I thinking about something else?

[Lost]

Originally Posted by Suiseiseki

But wasn't the sixth finger used to take Shinku's virginity away? Or am I thinking about something else?

Now.. where did that doujin I had go..

Heh I'm suprised they picked up the sixth-finger mistake.

[QueenNori]

Originally Posted by Lost

Heh I'm suprised they picked up the sixth-finger mistake.

Btw, are there some more mistakes in the TV version of Rozen Maiden? Maybe they have been corrected, too (as you may know, I only have the DVD^^).

[StorminNorman]

Wow... none of those voices sounded right to me at all, especially Hina's. Though that's at least in part due to the fact that she's speaking German. It's not a very cute sounding language, so it's hard to sound cute while speaking German. '>.>