The Alice game:Their apparent purpose is to participate in the "Alice Game", a lethal competition that promises the winner the right to meet "Father" by becoming "Alice", a girl of supreme beauty that lives inside of "Father", which is said to be "more sublime than any flower, purer than any gem, and without a touch of impurity".[3]

The game is played through duels in which the dolls fight using both their guardian spirits and respective abilities — such as the manipulation of strawberry vines — as well as the spiritual energy from their medium. The doll that loses the duel loses her "Rosa Mystica", the very essence that endows her with the ability to move. The lost Rosa Mystica is then collected and absorbed by the duel's winner. This Rosa Mystica contains the doll's memories and emotions. The doll that gains all of her sisters' Rosa Mystica will become Alice. Shinku, the central doll of the series, is notable in that while she does not refuse to fight, she does refuse to take the lost power and kill a sister doll. Supposedly, a doll can no longer become Alice if she loses her Rosa Mystica or her ring (which is used to transfer power from a medium), but there have been exceptions to this rule.

the rozen maidens:
The Rozen Maidens are a collection of dolls created by a craftsman named Rozen, whom the dolls refer to as "Father". Their primary source of power is a human host (a "medium") that wears a ring to symbolize their bond with the doll, although certain dolls have been shown to act without a medium. According to Shinku, she can only be at full power when her medium is present. Each Rozen Maiden has her own distinct personality, guardian spirit, and supernatural ability.

stuff:
Dream worlds
These places are mirrors of a soul, containing elements from old memories or representations of important items. Both humans and dolls have them. For example, Suigintou's dream world is an abandoned snowy city, Jun's dream world is flooded with broken computer monitors, and Shinku's dream world is a cozy Victorian house. The dream worlds of all living beings are connected via an enormous tree, and the gardener Rozen Maidens, Suiseiseki and Souseiseki, can traverse this at will using their artificial spirits. The more closely related two people are, the closer their "branches" on this tree are located. A person may be locked inside their dreams by Sui Dream or Lempicka, but the gardeners never do this as it would lead to insanity.
Soul trees
A special tree within an individual's dream world. Their size and growth reflects a person's lifeforce or mental state. The growth of soul trees can be assisted through the power of Suiseiseki's watering can and Souseiseki's scissors. This is demonstrated on Jun's tree in the anime to some extent by Suiseiseki alone, but the growth is hampered by weeds. She and her sister offer to fix Jun's tree, but it is determined that allowing him to grow on his own would be a far better choice.
N-Field
The N-Field (n のフィールド) (possibly "nth Field", due to mathematical references such as Laplace) is a region of space that is the domain of a Rozen Maiden, and contains elements that are characteristic to the doll it represents. It can only be accessed via some object that "has fragments of life" — often, this is the mirror in the storage room of the Sakurada residence, but various other objects have been used, such as Jun's computer screen. Every Rozen Maiden has an N-Field of her own, and she has a sort of home court advantage in her own Field, which can be offset by the power of a Medium. When a Rozen Maiden loses her Rosa Mystica, her N-Field is shut down, and the things within vanish from sight.
Detective Kun-kun
A puppet-based television series about a dog that solves crimes. The dolls that live with Jun are positively hooked on it, and Shinku's (formerly Jun's) shelves are crowded with the show's merchandise. This series-within-a-series appears to be satirizing such p

Jun Sakurada is a Junior High School student who refuses to go to school due to mental trauma from an embarrassing experience there (see Hikikomori). He has taken to locking himself in his room, never leaving the house, and spends the day ordering supernatural goods online. His older sister, Nori Sakurada, does everything she can to brighten Jun's dreary existence, but is unable to change his situation.

One day, Jun receives a letter mysteriously. This letter states to place it in the drawer on his desk and a liaison from the spirit world, Hollier, will take it to the spirit world. Jun only has to circle agree or not agree. He circles agree and following the instructions on the letter, he places the envelope in his drawer, and a richly detailed wood box appears in his room. The box contains a strangely lifelike doll dressed in french aristocratic attire. Jun, after a brief and somewhat crude examination of the doll, winds its included key carefully. The doll creaks a bit, stands up on its own, then proceeds to slap him for handling her so indelicately. She introduces herself as, "...Shinku, the fifth doll of the Rozen Maiden."

Shinku is a doll from the unique "Rozen Maiden" collection, and before Jun can fully realize just what he's got himself into, he is attacked by a knife-wielding plush toy that enters through the window. Jun finds himself pledging service to Shinku to save his life, and is thus endowed with the responsibility of protecting Shinku's "Rosa Mystica" whilst she is engaged in intense battles with the other Rozen Maiden

about me and jun:
Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (Japanese), Mela Lee (English)
The fifth Rozen Maiden doll and the first Rozen Maiden to appear in the series. She embodies the traditional Victorian aristocrat. She is extremely demanding and can seem unappreciative of others, even though this is often not the case. Her favorite words are "tea" and "servant"; she takes pride in lecturing, slapping, and generally abusing Jun, her medium, at every opportunity. No matter how strong the emotion, Shinku rarely lets her sadness, joy, or fear show through. Shinku may seem cold, but she is highly protective and cares deeply for her doll sisters as well as Jun. She can be relied on for the occasional bit of parent-like wisdom, and despite her aristocratic quirks, is the most level-headed doll living in Jun's house.

Shinku does not use honorary suffixes such as 'chan', 'san', or 'kun', except when she refers to 'Father'. Despite her relative youth amongst the Rozen Maidens, the other dolls look up to her as an older sister, and a worthy challenger in the Alice Game. However, she has a cute side, in that she is unusually open with her intense admiration for the puppet detective "Kun-Kun", which can border on obsessive. Jun was once able to convince her to come to his side during an argument using a Kun-Kun doll. Shinku hates cats, as one attempted to eat her wind-up key in the past.

Along with being the central doll in the series, Shinku seems to hold a special place in "Father"'s heart, as he had given her a special brooch with his image when she was created. This brooch was destroyed by Suigintou out of jealousy. She desires to become "Alice", but refuses to employ the more ruthless methods of playing the "Alice Game". Shinku believes that there must be a different way to fulfill "Father"'s wishes. She has feelings for Jun, showing it a few times in the anime and OVA, mostly in the first season. The part that reveals her feelings for him very clearly is in the ending of episode 10 in the first season, where Shinku kisses Jun on the cheek at midnight while he is sleeping before going into Suigintou's N-Field to battle her in an Alice Game.

In combat, she fights with extremely versatile rose petal based attacks, making her one of the strongest dolls in battle. She can direct them for area attacks, or use them as a shield. Her other weapon is a cane, which she skillfully wields as a sword. S