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Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre (special)

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Alternative title:
Rozen Maiden: Introduction
ローゼンメイデン・オーベルテューレ (Japanese)
薔薇少女 序曲 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: drama, magic
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Set during the second season, the story between Shinku and Suigintou is told by Souseiseki when Jun buys Shinku a brooch. The first OVA starts with the creation of Sugintou, Rozen's first doll, which he abandons and moves on to create the rest of the Rozen dolls, ignoring Sugintou's cries for help.
User Ratings: 896 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 94 votes (sub:74, dub:8, raw:4, others:8
7 Spanish subtitled
1 German subtitled
)
 Excellent: 179 votes (sub:153, dub:12, raw:3, others:11
7 Spanish subtitled
2 French subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
)
 Very good: 284 votes (sub:236, dub:26, ?:4, raw:1, others:17
6 Spanish subtitled
2 Italian subtitled
2 French subtitled
2 German subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Finnish subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 Korean subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Good: 223 votes (sub:191, dub:12, raw:4, ?:2, others:14
8 Spanish subtitled
3 Russian subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Decent: 79 votes (sub:62, dub:11, raw:1, others:5
3 Spanish subtitled
1 Dutch subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 So-so: 15 votes (sub:12, dub:3)
 Not really good: 12 votes (sub:12)
 Weak: 6 votes (sub:6)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: 2 votes (dub:1, sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 1550 users, rank: #792 (of 9585)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.818 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.382, rank: #995 (of 9708)
Weighted mean: 7.713 (Very good−), rank: #1118 (of 9708) (seen all: 7.71 / seen some: 7.66)
Bayesian estimate: 7.709 (Very good−), rank: #850 (of 7289)
Running time: 24 minutes
Episode titles: We have 2
Vintage: 2006-12-22 to 2006-12-23
Release dates: We have 3
Opening Theme:
"Bara Goku Otome" (薔薇獄乙女; "Rose Jail Maiden") by ALI PROJECT
Ending Theme:
"Utsusemi no Kage" (空蝉ノ影) by kukui
Trivia: We have 2
Press Release:
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Rozen Maiden - The Complete Series (Blu-ray) 2024-04-16 (from $66.99)
DVD (Region 1)
    Rozen Maiden - Complete Collection (DVD) 2011-12-06 (from $39.99)
    Rozen Maiden - Complete Collection [Sentai Selects] (DVD) 2016-06-14 (from $249.99)
    Rozen Maiden: Ouverture (DVD) 2011-12-06 (from $18.48)
DVD (Region 2)
    Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre (DVD) 2012-11-05

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Kou Matsuo
Series Composition: Jukki Hanada
Storyboard:
Kou Matsuo
Mitsue (ep 1)
Mitsue Yamazaki (ep 1)
Original creator: Peach-Pit
Character Design: Kumi Ishii
Art Director: Chikako Shibata
Animation Director:
Kumi Ishii (OP)
Masafumi Tamura (ep 1)
Toshihiro Kikuchi (ep 2)
Sound Director: Yota Tsuruoka
Director of Photography: Yuko Orikasa
Assistant Animation Director:
Kenji Oda (ep 2)
Masafumi Tamura (ep 2)
Reiko Nozaki (ep 2)
Assistant producer: Junichiro Tanaka
CG Design: Miki Hashimoto
Color Inspection: Hiroko Umezaki
Digital Special Effects:
Ayumi Arabata
Kumiko Taniguchi
Editing: Mutsumi Takemiya
In-Between Check: Akiko Fujimoto
Music producer: Shunji Inoue
Online Editing Manager: Masaaki Okamoto
Planning Collaboration:
Akane Suzuki
Yoshimi Nakajima
Production Desk: Mitsue Yamazaki
Production manager: Hitomi Ōkawa
Recording Assistant: Megumi Igarashi
Sound Production Manager: Yoshimi Sugiyama
Theme Song Arrangement:
Mikiya Katakura (OP)
myu (ED)
Theme Song Composition:
Mikiya Katakura (OP)
myu (ED)
Theme Song Performance:
Ali Project (OP)
Kukui (ED)
Asami Sanada as Jun Sakurada
Miyuki Sawashiro as Shinku
Rie Tanaka as Suigintou

Asami Sanada as Sarah
Masayo Kurata as Tomoe Kashiwaba
Natsuko Kuwatani as Suiseiseki
Noriko Rikimaru as Nori Sakurada
Rika Morinaga as Souseiseki
Sakura Nogawa as Hinaichigo
Saori Gotō as Barasuishou
Yumi Shimura as Kanaria

Daisuke Ono as Enju
Kōsuke Kobayashi as Man (ep 1)
Kyousei Tsukui as Detective Kun-kun
Masayuki Omoro as Sarah's father
Shiho Kawaragi as Megu
Yukiko Mizuochi as Sarah's mother
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Nomad
Background Art: Studio Kanon
Digital Composite: Studio Cosmos
In-Between Animation: Kyung Kang ANIA
Music Production: Mellow Head
Offline Editing: Studio Gong
Recording Studio: Studio Gong
Sound Production: Gakuonsha
Video Editing: Q-Tec
English staff
English cast
ADR Director: Wendee Lee
ADR Script: Wendee Lee
Executive producer:
Eiichi Takahashi
John Ledford
Producer:
Eric P. Sherman
John Ledford (Sentai Selects)
Kaeko Sakamoto

Assistant producer: Mio Moroe
Casting Director: Kaeko Sakamoto
Co-Producer: Mami Okada
Dialogue Editing: Justin Kohler
DVD Authoring: Neal Barnes
DVD Menu Design: Larry Koteff
Engineering Assistant:
Austin Shannon
Jun Umeda
Media Coordinator: Janice Williams
Packaging Design:
Andrea Rodriguez (Sentai Selects)
Larry Koteff
Production Coordination:
Janice Williams (Sentai Selects)
Victor Sgroi
Production manager:
Joey Goubeaud (Sentai Filmworks)
Luke Patterson (Sentai Selects)
Megumi Kunisada (Bang Zoom!)
Melanie Hanson (Bang Zoom!)
Re-Recording Mixing:
Michael Brooks
Oscar Garcia 
Recording engineer: Oscar Garcia
Sound Supervision: Patrick Rodman
Spotting: Emily Nicolas
Subtitle Formatting: Dwayne Jones
Subtitling:
Clark Cheng (Bang Zoom!)
Technical Assistant: Michael Olesch
Karen Strassman as Suigintou
Mela Lee as Shinku
Mona Marshall as Jun Sakurada

Cristina Valenzuela as Kanaria
Dorothy Elias-Fahn as Tomoe Kashiwaba
Julie Ann Taylor as Souseiseki
Minx Le as Nori Sakurada
Rebecca Forstadt as Suiseiseki
Sherry Lynn as Hinaichigo
Tara Platt as Barasuishou

Jason C. Miller as Enju
Keith Silverstein as
LaPlace's Demon
Sara's father
Shirosaki
Victor Sgroi as Man
English companies
ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Distributor:
Distribution Solutions (2024 release; United States and Canada)
Madman Entertainment
MVM
Section23 Films (US & Canada)
DVD Production: Seraphim Digital
Internet Streaming:
HIDIVE (Subtitled & Dubbed)
The Anime Network
Licensed by:
Sentai Filmworks (2011)
French cast
French staff
(none)
Claire Tefnin as Suigintou
Esther Aflalo as Shinku
Thierry Janssen as Jun Sakurada

Alexandra Correa as Barasuisho
Beatrice Wegnez as Hinaichigo
Cathy Boquet as Suiseiseki
Julie Basecqz as Tomoe Kashiwaba
Sophie Landresse as Souseiseki
Véronique Fyon as Nori Sakurada

David Manet as
Laplace No Ma
Shirosaki
Marielle Ostrowski as Meg Kakizaki
Patrick Donnay as Détective Kun-Kun
French companies
Distributor: KAZÉ
Dubbing: Mirroring
Dutch staff
Dutch cast
Translation: Niels Viveen
(none)
Dutch companies
Distributor: Kaze Animation S.A. (Dutch)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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