Rozen Maiden 10
Suigintou comes into Shinku's dream and challenges her to a fight, with their Rosa Mystica on the line. Shinku agrees to it and a time is set...
As usual, things are rather loud in Jun's room and things get worse with Suiseiseki dropping in (breaking the window again). Then Nori asks Jun to help her practice for a play.. It's Shirayuki-hime, so Hina and the rest help out. Suiseiseki plays the part of of the old woman who gives Shirayuki-hime the poisoned apple, a very fitting role for her ;) Shinku plays Shirayuki-hime. And Jun is supposed to be the prince.. and that means giving Shirayuki-hime a kiss to wake her up. He refuses of course :)
After that Nori does the laundry and Jun drops in to see Suiseiseki, Souseiseki, and Hina waiting while their clothes are washed. It's too much for him ;) Shinku asks him to fix up her dress before it's washed as well.. as he works on it Shinku looks on from the bed. She tells Jun more about the Alice game and what the goal of the Rozen Maiden dolls is... she leaves in the middle of the night, giving Jun a kiss and saying "sayonara", to go fight Suigintou...
Shinku was a bit out of her usual character at times this episode (though she did give Jun a nice kick like she would usually), thinking about the upcoming battle with Suigintou a lot of the time, it seemed. And seeing Shinku in that kakkou was a bit different as well ;) See what happens in the big fight next time with Suigintou.
And a bit off topic here.. But Suiseiseki is number 2 in this blogger's "moe character ranking" (Souju from Futakoi is number 3). Hmmm... I dunno, Suiseiseki doesn't really strike me as moe.. she wouldn't even be close to Souju (from Futakoi) or Ichika (from Uta~Kata) on my list, I know that ;)
1/2 Shinku doll here. An Animage Mail-in exlusive in Japan.
http://img22.exs.cx/img22/2373/img200412081558058jz.jpg
But $150 for her seems a bit.....
I find it amusing they managed to make an episode where they get the dolls (mostly) naked. ^_^
Shinku's so cute laying on the bed though!
Suiseiseki's sister is far better (other than in playing slapstick comedy like episode 6) and her character is definitely better. :P
Personally I think Shinku would be more moe than either of the twin dolls. But then again I like that victorian gothic look. :)
Wait a second, This series had turned wrong in a disturbing way. It might be that the producers decided that hell, if we are going to make Jun emberassed by seeing dolls undressed, then we can go even farther. Anyone caught the phrase Nori muttered when she was sleeping, I quote, "I can't, Jun-kun! We're siblings!"
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Now that says a lot about Nori