Rozen Maiden: Träumend

[Ryllharu]

OOC? "out of control" maybe? My weakness is non-standard acronyms.

I thought Shinku explained the Alice Game to Jun in the first season.

All of the dolls fight each other, as it was the only way that Enju/whatever his other names are, could find to create 'the perfect girl.' That's why it was sad when you found out Suigintou was broken and uncompleted, and Shinku had said Suigintou's feelings for their father were the most pure. Suigintou had wanted to prove to their father that despite her broken/unfinished status, that she was capable of being prefect too.

As the dolls fight each other, they steal the others' Roza Mystica. When one of the dolls has all of them, and the rest are turned into junk, and Alice, the perfect girl, is born. That's the winged girl breaking out of the egg they show in the opening of the first season and at various other places in this one.

That's the end of it, as their father would have created the perfect daughter. The Alice Game is the one any only, end all purpose to their existence, at least according to the the others not allied with Shinku.

[Hotsuma]

Yeah, I know that much. But if you watched Traumend, it seemed that the dolls are hesitant about it now, and even Rozen didn't seem to enjoy it all that much. This leads me to believe there's more to Alice game than meets the eye.

[Ryllharu]

Only Shinku and her allies (Suiseiseki, Hina Ichigo, Kanaria) were that hesitant about it. Hina Ichigo didn't really seem to care about it at all, as long as she was having fun, and Kanaria just didn't want to leave (whatever that crazy OL's name is, I forgot it). Suiseiseki didn't want to fight after realizing she'd need to fight her sister, and Shinku was more than willing to participate until after she had killed Suigintou and realized what the consquences of the Alice game.

As for the others, Souseiseki was driven back into it (given it was a trick by Barasuishou) by feeling sorry for avoiding their purpose and making their father sad, a view Shinku supported until she had killed Suigintou. Suigintou is driven by gathering enough Roza Mystica to save Megu, someone she she sympathizes with. Barasuishou seems to be motivated only in finally moving the Alice game along.

The smile Rozen gave at the end of eps 10 seemed like he was either glad that he could see them again or that he was just as glad the Alice game was finally making some progress.

But I haven't seen 11, so I suppose I might see things differently then.