Shinku fights on against Suigin Tou and quickly gets the upper hand. Suigin Tou doesn’t want to drain Megu’s energy, and this leaves her open. Naturally, sneaky Bara Suishou creeps up behind Suigin Tou and mows her down; Suigin Tou, however, shields Shinku because she doesn’t want Bara Suishou stealing her kill. For some reason, Bara Suishou only gets Sousei Seki’s Roza Mystica (which reveals that Sousei Seki had the hots for Suisei Seki… twincest!), while Shinku gets Suigin Tou’s Roza Mystica and learns about Megu and also about Bara Suishou’s trickery. Greatly angered that she didn’t get to watch the twincest flashback, Shinku lays the smackdown on Bara Suishou.
In a really cool sequence, Bara Suishou begins using the powers of the defeated sisters, but Shinku has also played Megaman, and fights back. In the end, Shinku comes out on top, but when Jun intervenes, Bara Suishou uses a hair decoration to stab Shinku and capture all of Shinku’s Roza Mysticas. Here comes the twist: it seems that Enju was simply Rozen’s apprentice, and he created Bara Suishou to show that his dolls were superior to Rozen’s.
However, at the last moment, Bara begins to develop fissures as she is unable to contain all the Roza Mysticas. She crumbles to pieces in Enju’s arms, and they disappear in a bright light. It seems that everyone was manipulated by LaPlace. However, the blinding vision of Rozen appears, fixes everyone but Hina Ichigo and Sousei Seki, and tells Shinku that he’s working on getting them a third season. Perhaps there is a different way to become Alice? With that said, the dolls return to their various mediums, and Shinku and Jun go back home in time to catch the start of Detective Kun-kun.
Talk about a cliffhanger ending! I feel like this second series really raised more questions than it answered, and really there just has to be a third season. That bizarre scene with LaPlace and the real Bara Suishou (and her creepy eye-rose) celebrating was just too weird. I really enjoyed the episode, but I can’t help feeling a bit unsatiated.
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I think that Suiseseki has shined throughout this show and she, therefore, deserves the best doll award (^_^) Shinku also proved that she is a lean mean fighting machine and can be very scary when she gets mad (and very cute when things don’t go her way). She is the ultimate leader of “Dollkind” (I can’t believe I just said that)(x.x)
If there is a 3rd season then I would hope that it ends in tragedy because a fully happy ending will make this show look weak. I think the ending of this season was exceptionally good because not all the dolls were revived.
Anyone else realize that Enju put the eyepatch on the wrong eye? Silly apprentice!
As reset endings go, we could have had all of the defeated dolls rematerialising on board suddenly flight-capable monster forms of their Rosa Mysticas and streaking forth to destroy the descended EnJU star for great justice and the Lovely Eyepatch!
Now kids, piracy is bad! Just look what happened to that bootleg Rozen Maiden!
Awww, it ain’t the same without Hina around. Souseiseki isn’t so much of a loss since she never said much anyway.
Had to remind me about Hina didn’t you?:( And yeah this episode had some sweet action. BTW if someone could make a .gif file of Shinku B!tchslapping Suigintou, or find a link to one I’ll love you forever. I must have rewound that scene like 20 times thinking “About damn time!”.
I have to disagree kindly with Mohammad. A fully happy ending doesn’t have to suck (then again, for me a fully happy ending doesn’t require every character to remain alive. I’m weird that way). If the third season is even darker and more intense than Traumend and ends happilly–WITHOUT some shoddy Deus Ex Machina ending, I’d be happy.
I was kinda disappointed with Jun in this entire season. It’s good that he is less of a jerk (unless provoked) but his innate abilities foreshadowed in the first season went completely to pot in this season. All he did really was go to the creepy doll place every day and scream at Enju when he was pissed off. Ah well–I hope at least they could put him to good use if a third season ever shows up.
Hmmm… but since it was a comedy to start with, why not a comic ending? (*mad philosophy* see, alice is born when the Rosa Mysticas unite, yes? There was nothing stating it had to unite in ONE “container”… Hmm… seven alices competing for alice? Heh heh …. oh wait, it would be a WIERD ending instead of a comic one…
How would seven Alices be born you say? Well… they hook their “vessels together to form a network and then um…. combine them together! weird, huh? okay, we need some NICs and CAT6 cables! quick! or maybe WI-Fi! Okay… which one of them is the server?
Interesting…we only briefly see Kirakishou in the ending (The real seventh doll…) I guess its true she only exists in the “Nth” world. I wonder when she’ll be able to materialize.
Took a while to understand why Sousei Seki and Hina-Ichigo weren’t revived by Rozen, just given the fact they were defeated by legitament rozen maidens (Bara defeated the others).
I wonder how things will turn out given Shinku has a mission to “fix things.”
Ah…too much to grind
any news on when the third season will come out?
My favorite Rozen Maiden Traumend episode is ep 12.
I like the music and the commbat part of Shinku and Barasuishou.
I like the way how is ends, Barashishou broke and that none of the dolls
had become Alice. The part where Barasuishou broke and Shinku died had almost
made me cry. I felt kind of sorry for Barasuishou at the last part, but I still
couldn’t forgive her for what she had done in the past( such as killing suiseiseki,
Canaria, and her only comrade, Suigintou.). I can see Jun feel pity for all the
Rozen Maidens are just born to fight for Alice, and live and die for Father.
*Grins* Kabitzin, Enju screwed up a lot more than just the eyepatch. I wonder if maybe his goal was to make them look similar only at casual glance and upon closer inspection have all the differences be more clear.
*Laughs at Doc Co Cau Bai* Glad to hear I’m not the only one who thought that.
Still no words on third season in my neck of the woods, however crunchyroll.com has the OVa which is a nice bit of extra backstory.
That picture of Kirakishou is the 7th doll
Kirakishou
Barasuishou is actually not the seventh Rozen Maiden, but rather a copy of one. The true seventh Rozen Maiden, Kirakishou, is shown very briefly towards the end of the final episode of Rozen Maiden träumend, watching Laplace no Ma dance with two Rosa Mystica in his hands. Nothing more about Kirakishou has been revealed.
dumbass
Donno about you guys, but I bursted out laughing when I saw Bara magically summon Karina’s (sp?) violin in her hand to cut the strawberry vines during her fight with Shinku. It just seemed so odd to me, out of all the things to randomly appear in one’s hand…
By the way, does anyone know of a schedueled third season for this series (aside from oveurture)? I heard that the manga just recently concluded or is still going on.
Heh, aside from that inappropriate laughing in a dead serious scene, I thought this episode was very well written.