Rozen Maiden: Zuruckspulen: Complete Collection

The original Rozen Maiden series was excellent. It was clever, funny, and had a serious undertone. You also cared for the characters and their relationships to each other. You also got into the "Jun" personality. The use of flashback and the artistic style of it also were unique.But this retread/sequel series is a bit weak. Rather than continuing the original story after where it left off in Season Two of the series they do a "what if?" scenario. That is "what if Jun didn't wind?" and therefore meet Shinku?It's interesting and fun to meet all the characters again, but honestly it doesn't add much to the original series. The introduction of the final doll is powerful and different but you feel that it should have been done in the storyline of the original series. Even the first episode of this news series rewrites the story a bit from the original and its "alice game" of a second season.My recommendation is if you have seen the original series you might want to watch this one to have an interesting twist on it, to meet the final doll, and even to find out what was Jun's original problem at school, but if you haven't seen the original series then please don't start here. See that one first ( Rozen Maiden Season 1 Collection . It's also available to stream right now, as of 2016, on Amazon.

$60 seems like a lot for DVD. Why isn't this available in BluRay? Three discs yes, but there are only 13 episodes. That's over $4 per episode, in standard definition. I like this show, and most people who have seen it already have seen it in HD. Sentai needs to release this on BluRay.EDIT:Alright, I added a star now that it is down to $30. I bought it and it is good. Even though the English cast is different from the previous series (Japanese cast is the same), I do like the voices after getting used to them. Shinku is hilarious interacting with Jun!Standard size dvd case but for holding three discs, no inserts, nothing really special as far as bonus features.

I was so happy to jump back into these worlds again. There were additions and twists, as well as tie-ins to and explanations for unanswered questions in the original series. There may have been too much explanation or recap for my case, which felt like I was being told a lot of what was going on through character dialog as opposed to being shown through the scenes and action. Still, very entertaining.

I like this series.

it was nice to see rozen maiden out again it starts slow then pick up, like it waiting for sea 2.

I love it

Adding to the anime/manga collection!

Nice!

If you haven't see the previous Rozen Maiden sets then this one is going to be hard to follow. Living dolls may be hard to grasp as a watchable story but if you persevere you won't be disappointed. The battle continues and new revelations make for an excellent series. If you can get the earlier stories to get the full story, it will be well worth it.

it is great

very good

Das Anime ist sooo toll ich liebe es einfach die Story ist einfach so schön nur schade das ich diese DVDs nicht abspielen kann sogenannt habe ich mein Geld verschenkt

旧アニメの北米版を以前購入したので、この新アニメも、ってことで買いました。画質、音質はどっちも問題ありません。英語、原語(日本語)の２音声があるので、キャラの声や台詞を比べて楽しんでいます(もちろん物語も)。購入するとき、リージョン「１」を再生できるプレイヤーの有無を確認しときましょう。因みに、旧アニメ北米版とは違う声優さん達が吹き替えています。新旧の声の比較も楽しいです。