Rozen Maiden

A party is being held in the bright outside gardens of the home. We see a partially hidden man and his daughter greeting the guests before returning inside to a room of dolls. One doll is placed inside a coffin-like box by the daughter.

Nori Sakurada is asked by her friends to join them but because of her brother's difficulties she declines and returns home. There she is greeted by a number of delivery men with parcels for Jun, her brother. He has been ordering items online while isolated in his room and returns them for refunds as a hobby. One of the papers says that he has won a prize and instructs him to circle agree and place the paper in the 2nd drawer of the desk. It also mentions the supplier Holie as a (Eng, sub. info.) spirit liaison. Nori attempts to encourage her brother to leave his room but at the mention of school he becomes hostile.

The coffin-like box has appeared in Jun's room and when opened he finds a strange girl-like doll. After looking the doll over he tries the key which suddenly brings it to life (and slaps him for 'feeling her up'). She introduces herself as Shinku, the 5th Rozen Maiden and reminds him about the contract he signed and put in the drawer. One of his internet 'cursed' dolls catches her attention but is interrupted by the appearance of black feathers and an evil clown.

Shinku, tells Jun that the only way he will be protected is if he swears allegiance by kissing her rose ring. After following through, he receives a ring rose and becomes her medium. She and two other dolls stop the clown.

After the fight Jun takes over the role of her 'servant' by getting her tea. However, sees his school uniform and is questioned by Nori about his hesitation to return. We also find out that his parents are away working overseas. Shinku suddenly shows up at the table and Jun attempts to hide her from Nori.

After tea is brought Shinku attempts to help Jun realize his sisters kind feelings and caring but he is slow to acknowledge these. Nori meets Shinku but as usual says something that upsets Jun and is sent out of the room.

Tomoe is styling Hina Ichigo (Hina) `s hair when her mom calls for her to head to school. Hina gets upset and asks Tomo to make an unbreakable promise to return early and play.

Nori, Shinku and Jun are in his room. After Nori attempts to hug Shinku she is sent to make tea, leaving a less then happy Jun to complain about the broken window (from the previous episode). Shinku fixes the window and decides to explore the house. After an embarrassing moment when Shinku asks for her tea on the toilet, she returns to her box to sulk.

Tomoe, the class's representative, arrives with a school hand out and faints at the front door. She comes in for a few minutes to have a cup of tea and talk with Nori. Shinku suddenly appears and Nori attempts to hide the fact that Shinku is alive. Meanwhile Shinku has noticed the Rozen Maiden ring on Tomoe's finger.

Jun comes out of his room to find where Shinku went and comes across Tomoe in the hall as she leaves. He returns to his room and to bed, embarrassed about the encounter with a former school mate. Nori tries to explain to Shinku that Jun sometimes gets like this for a few days and will need space.

Tomoe returns to a very upset Hina whose previous experience of being abandoned has left her insecure. Hina brings Tomoe into another dimension where they will both be trapped.

Jun continues to stay in bed while Nori sees Shinku's ball of light and thinks that it is a shooting star. Shinku finds out about Tomoe and Hina's departure and decides to follows them into the other dimension through a large mirror in the closet.

Tomoe and Hina have arrived in the other dimension but Tomoe tries to return. Hina gets upset and uses her powers to change Tomoe into a larger version of herself.

Shinku arrives and challenges Hina to the Alice game while filling in the details about how winning the game will result in becoming Alice, the perfect doll. As the battle begins Jun is awoken by the ring turning hot and Tomoe starts to weaken. Using stuffed animals, Hina attacks Shinku and eventually catches her in roots. But because of Tomoe's weaken state they fail. The only way to save Tomoe's life is for Hina to give up her connection to her medium and her power. Which she does and then offers Shinku her Rosa Mystica for having lost. Shinku however connects her to Jun's power and makes Hina a servant.

Shinku returns back through the mirror with Hina and is met by a frustrated and confused Jun.

Hinaichigo now lives with Jun and Nori, becoming Shinku's servant due to her loss in the Alice Game. Jun and Nori try to figure out what unyu is, which is what Hinaichigo calls her favorite food. Meanwhile, Suigintou, the first doll of the Rozen Maiden, appears, encountering Shinku and Hinaichigo.

Hina Ichigo continues to have difficulty adjusting to being Shinkun's servant which continues to cause grief for Jun. Suddenly a Rozen Maiden box flies through Jun's window bringing Nori running. Suisei Seki emerges from the box in tears but does not elaborate on why she has arrived.

Jun is less then happy with the arrival of this new doll. And things quickly get worse as Suisei Seki indicates her distrust by throwing chocolates at him. But, after a soft word from Nori she stops throwing them and things calm down for a moment.

The dolls head to bed. Suisei Seki however waits until the others have said goodnight before calling Jun a 'chibi' and slamming her box closed.

Jun awakens to a shadow hovering over his face. After letting out a yell he notices Suisei Seki peaking around the door and a red line drawn across his bedroom floor. She tells him to not cross the line but he ignores the command and starts chasing her. The racket wakes up the other dolls and Shinkun takes Suisei Seki's side noting that she is the shyest sister.

Suisei Seki runs down the stairs and sees Nori watering the garden. She tells Nori that the flowers are saying that they have had enough water.

Jun returns to bed and Suisei Seki performs Amethyst Dream, which allows the dolls to go into Jun's mind. There they find a dark world with broken computers and a black sky. Nori asks to go but is asked to wait behind by Shinkun.

The dolls watch as a robot of Jun walks along the path of discarded workbooks. Along the sides of the road flowers turn into the teacher and students and begin talking. When Hina Ichigo attempts to pick a flower, Jun gets upset and runs into a dark forest with flying cars. He tries to catch a car with Hina Ichigo but they are interrupted by a grayish white monster.

Suisei Seki catches up to Jun and points out his inhibitions are due to feelings of being a chibi (small person). She notes that he will have to realize that he has control in this dream world if he wants to stop the monster from chasing him. Desks appear from under him and start lifting him up into a tall tower which he can not climb down from. As Jun attempts to jump, the monster hits the desks and turns into old failed tests.

The dolls are the first to notice a beautiful lake with an island in the center. When they arrive on the island they find his heart tree that has been stunted. Suisei Seki explains that if she had the gardeners scissors she could trim the tree but at the moment can only water it. She tries to make it better by giving sweet water but the grass prevents the tree from growing. After Jun tells Suisei Seki to stop apologizing she gets upset and they start fighting again.

Shinkun notes that they have to return quickly but that since it is Jun's world he is the only one who knows how to do it. And they return to a very relieved crying Nori who has been by his beside the entire time. Shinkun asks Suisei Seki to form a bond with Jun but she continues to be hostile and refuses.

It is night time again when Suisei Seki comes out of her box to remove the red line in Jun's bedroom.

Yamamoto tries to speak to Nori after school but she leaves to join her team mates suddenly.

Back at home Jun and Shinku are too wrapped up with watching Kun-Kun (a T.V. show) to join the others for cake. When Hina Ichigo is distracted by the show, Suisei Seki eats Hina's strawberry and convinces Nori that she is being framed. Nori asks Jun to make sure the dolls get along and leaves to go shopping with the promise of making flower-shapped egg on hamburger for dinner.

Jun goes to check on Hina and finds her hiding in his bed. She continues to be upset and goes on 'strike'. Jun eventually takes Hina's side when he thinks over Suisei Seki's past actions. Together they create a blockade in the hallway declaring that the upstairs is now their territory. Hina also takes it a step further by drawing on Suisei Seki's box.

Suisei Seki makes plans to get Hina and Jun back while Shinkun just ignores them. Hina and Jun demand an apology for the strawberry incident but Suisei Seki continues to play the victim.

Eventually Jun sends down a stuffed crocidile declaring that it will not bite Suisei Seki if she is telling the truth. When it finally does bit her she admits to lying but quickly takes back her confession.

Nori continues to shop unaware of the battle being fought back at home.

Suisei Seki declares the kitchen and refrigerator under her control in an attempt to convince Hina and Jun to give up. Jun responds by rubbing two styrofoam pieces together and making annoying sounds. Suisei Seki comes back with a pan and metal ladle to add her own noise to the battle.

Meanwhile Nori is returning from the store when she sees a group of boys playing soccer and it brings back memories of Jun. Suddenly she is hit by a spray of water from a girl at a garden nearby. She decides to help the girl who is having difficulty growing flowers from seeds.

At the house, the debris from the battle is scattered across the floor and up the stairs. Hina has begun to look hopeless and every minutes is getting hungrier and hungrier.

Nori brings more seeds for the girl at the garden and they plant them together. Soon the boys at the soccer game join them.

Jun attempts to get Shinkun on their side by turning a Kun-Kun doll into a puppet. Shinkun falls for the trick despite Suise Seki attempts to stop it. However, suddenly Hina (also thinking that the puppet is real) jumps for the doll which results in the destruction of the barricade.

Nori arrives home to find a disaster of dolls, Jun, barricade and items which have been flung down the stairs and across the floor. And she gets upset.

In the end she does follow through with the flower-shapped egg on hamburger dinner that was promised because she views the mess as the dolls 'getting along'.

Suigintou has taken Hinaichigo hostage, forcing Jun, Shinku, and Suiseiseki to enter Suigintou's realm to save her. The task forces Shinku to her breaking point.

After fighting with Sugin Tou in the previous episode, Shinkun had lost consciousness.

In the morning she is still not responding despite Jun, Hina Ichigo and Susei Seki's attempts to revive her.

Yamamoto comes to the door dressed in a suit and with a gift for Nori. But she confuses him with a salesman and closes the door.

Suddenly she hears a loud ringing and thinks that it is the fire alarm. She runs to Jun's room where he and the dolls are attempting at waking Shinkun with many alarm clocks. Susei Seki comes up with a different idea that involves tying up Jun and dropping a kettle on his head. She thinks that Shinkun will be forced to wake up to save him. When that doesn't work she attempts to use a knife.

Nori finds a hole on Shinkun's back and turns the key hoping that it will wake her. As they wait a comercial for Kun Kun (a tv show) comes on giving Hina an idea. She grabs the Kun Kun doll and has Jun move it around like a puppet. But, this still has no effect and Shinkun does not respond.

Jun returns to his room and begins researching the Rozen Maiden dolls on the internet but is unable to find any helpful information.

As he lays down he is reminded of moments with Shinkun. The other dolls come in to get him for lunch and Suisei seki tells him how the dolls are connected to their dreams.

When a new message on an internet chat site appears, Jun runs to the library for a book. However, finds that all the books in the section he is looking for have been moved to his former school.

He goes to the school but is haunted by memories of his past and is unable to enter the yard. He returns home feeling defeated and finds out that Hina has also lost consciousness. After Susei Seki yells at him and calls him names, he returns to his room and lays in the dark.

Nori comes to get him for dinner and tries to talk to him. She reminds him about the time he made her a new doll to replace one that had been lost. However, Jun gets upset and calls himself worthless. Before leaving Nori reminds him that Shinkun loves him which brings back the dolls positive comments during the previous episode.

Again Jun go to the school and this time does not hesitate to enter the yard. For a moment he is forced to hide when members of the baseball team come out. But eventually makes his way into the building. Tomoe sees him sneaking down the hall and tries to distract the principal's attention. She then helps him by providing the key to the library and looking for the Rozen Maiden book.

He can not take the book so he read it out loud as Tomoe records the notes. When the principal returns Jun sneaks out the window.

Both Shinkun and Hina continue to sleep as Jun opens Shinkun's box. A red glow appears (Shinkun's spirit and enters her body through the key hole. A single black feather (symbol of Sugin Tou) falls out and Shinkun awakes. As usual she slaps Jun while telling him that he took too long to wake her. He accidentally mentions that they (Nori, the dolls and himself) were worried about her which she points out to his embarrassment.

At the end Sugin Tou in her other world continues to plot her revenge against Shinkun and the other dolls.