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Story - 8

The storyline is much better than in season 1. Less boring casual fillers (and empty space at all - first season was very, very emty, so that it could be cut to 8-9 episode without any harm to the plot). More reflection and philosophy (we even see them talk about God on the example of Master Rozen). Briefly, the story of Traumend is just smarter. Although, the illnesses of past times did not vanish utterly, and some episodes are still rather sleepy. And in plot there appear time after time illogical or rude lines that freak me out and spoil the enjoyment greatly.


Art ... - 9

I can hardly see differences between 2 seasons, but there are more cute dresses (photos at Kanaria's), 2 more lolitas with their own styles and all that awesome crystal stuff coming out of Barasuichou's hands. Rozen Maiden style remained stable and good.


Sound - 9

What is undoubtedly perfect in Rozen Maiden series is its breathtaking soundtrack. Piano and violon plays suit lolita-fashion so well that any action is exciting with this music playing. Opening is not great but alright, ending is dull, but at least you may skip it. What really doesn't let 10 to be set is the invariability. OST melodies are not to criticize but they are less, and after 20+ episodes of non-stop watching they don't please one's ears as much as in the beginning.


Character - 9

Rozen Maiden dolls are the collection. The collection of faces, haircuts, dresses, and psychological types. Of course, it should not be considered as serious "panorama of social types" or some that way. But this variety helps the comedy action a lot. Besides, some characters' personalities are not as primitive as in season 1 (Suigintou, for example, turned in flesh-and-blood girl (if it can be said this way of talking doll) from Ominous-Villain-Demon-With-Non-Stopping-Nasty-Laugh), Shinku kicks Jun no more (annoyed me a lot) and, in general, became the most ample character in anime (she is principal char so that is natural, but I couldn't see it clearly before). All Maidens became more amiable and cute, I love them all after this season. And it's not because of their lowened agressiveness... they just got more alive.


Enjoyment - 8,5

Greatly spoiled by shortcomings of story, it is still high... I can make a conclusion in five words: I Would Rewatch This Anime.


Overall - 8,5

Rozen Maiden is original and outstanding yet using classical comedy-drama-system, and this is anime for everyone (no nudity, no violence, no profanity, purely platonic love storyline), so it is undoubtedly worth watching. It may please more or less depending on what to pay attention to most in general picture, but I think there are less people who watched RM and considered it a class-B shounen anime or so.
I Would Rewatch This Anime.
Would You Join Me?

So it's called "action anime"? Oh well...
The first two or three episodes were really interesting and teasing for me. I noticed high quality of animation and expected exciting plot based on popular yet not used out conception "survival-game". I thought it would be something like "Cube" movie, with secrets and psychological analysis. But after that...
I started to understand something was wrong when the green-Frankenstein-like-clawed-monster ran after characters for about 3 episodes in a row, spilled a lot of blood (well, generally, I'm not against violence, I loved it much in Elfen Lied, Afrosamurai and all that), and the Almighty-Heroes just held their Mega-Blasters and ranranran. ... And for half an episode the main char couldn't kill trapped monster... well, I've seen lots of sentimental Hollywood blockbusters where superheroes can't kill people... But damn, they don't hesitate for SO long! In fact, they simply don't have so much time, american time is too expensive.
And now, as I woke up after sleeping (I mean "watching-these-last-pathetic-episodes-where-characters-still-didn't-learn-how-to-fire-their-guns"), I can remember two real advantages of this anime: energetic opening theme and cute big-breasted chan (looking at her I understand this perv K-chan with constant erection, hehe). They say manga is better. Well, I'll try to read, I'll really do my best... until someone else says "No, I can't shoot them".