Rozen Maiden 7
Shinku still won't move and Jun, Suiseiseki, Hina, and Nori try to think of a way to help her. Suiseiseki's ("ill-natured doll" to Jun) method doesn't quite work all that well.. Jun can't think of anything either so he goes on the net to search. And there's nothing much there.. Suiseiseki explains what Shinku's going through. She's in a deep sleep and dreaming, seeing everything that's happened to her again. Jun heads to the library to search, but the books he's looking for have all been moved to the middle school he used to attend. He tries to make himself go, but he remembers all the bad things that happened to him and can't even take more than a step..
When he comes home Hina's stopped as well since she draws her power from Shinku and he goes into his room in despair. Nori tries to cheer him up, but to no avail. The next morning Jun once again goes to the school and sneaks in.. but not stealthily enough as Tomoe sees him. The library's locked, but Tomoe comes with the key and helps him find the book on the Rozen Maiden. It's in German, of course, but they can still read it ;) Apparently, Holie's help is needed to wake Shinku up and Suiseiseki knows how to get that done. Holie comes out and goes into the keyhole in Shinku's back and a black feather pops out. Shinku opens her eyes... and what's the first thing she does? Smack! Jun's a useless servant since he couldn't figure it out quicker, ain't he? ;)
Suigintou's in her rundown world looking at these shards of a mirror with scenes of Shinku and Jun and the rest reflected in them. She'll be the one to turn Shinku into junk...
So that was a rather quickly resolved crisis, thankfully :) Jun really's got some tough issues to overcome there. To be teased and ridiculed so much as to lock yourself in a room and think you can't do anything is a rather deep hole to get out of... I have something of an idea of what that's like (though not to that extent). Step by step I made progress and he's making progress, with support from his friends. One of those steps is worrying about others when in trouble, and how much Jun cares for Shinku was very much displayed these past couple of episodes. He really does like her a lot :)
Anyways, next time Suiseiseki's twin sister, 蒼星石 Souseiseki, will be showing up it seems. Relations between them don't seem to be that well so we'll see where things go.
Souseiseki's twin is a guy isn't it?