Rozen Maiden 6

It's the usual racous day at the Sakurada house with Nori and Hina watching Detective Kunkun again. For some reason Shinku's not watching.. she's back to abusing Jun again this time ;) But her caring side really comes out when she talks to Jun. She says that he's wondering and has no idea where the place he's supposed to be is...

Hina and Suiseiseki hear a strange noise and go to investigate. It's coming from the room with that mirror in it.. Suiseiseki screams, so Jun and Shinku rush up to find Suigintou, with Hina as her prisoner. She goes through the mirror and Shinku and the rest follow.

On the other side of the mirror is Suigintou's world, a rather broken down sad place, of course. There's a broken doll there... that's the fate of those who lose the Alice Game. Shinku's determined to put an end to it. Suigintou appears, and she fights Shinku with an army of broken dolls while Shinku fights using Jun's dolls. The clown doll gets broken, however... Shinku gets captured by Suigintou's attack and can't escape as Suiseiseki draws a sword and approaches.. but Jun begins to think about everything that he's done with Shinku and his ring starts to glow. Suigintou's attack is deflected and Shiku goes on the offensive, driving Suigintou away.

Upon returning Shinku grieves and cries over the lost clown doll. Its soul has gone far, far away. It's lost... Jun tries to fix it.. and amazingly, its soul returns. But as Nori comes home and Jun starts to leave, something's wrong. Shinku isn't moving..

I really liked this episode, especially that Shinku's more caring side was brought out. Though Shinku was more abusive to Jun this time, she really did show a different side of herself. She's genuinely concerned about Jun and wants to lead him back onto the right path, just like Jun brought that doll back from being lost.

I'm guessing that Jun will work his magic and fix her next time. And it looks like, guessing from the preview, he's going to work with Tomoe to do it, overcoming some of his fears it would seem. We'll see what happens next time ;)