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Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre (special)

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[ prequel of Rozen Maiden (TV) ]

Alternative title:
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, supernatural
Themes: dolls, magic, toys
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: 635 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 65 votes (sub:55, Spa.sub:4, dub:3, raw:2, Ger.sub:1)
 Excellent: 151 votes (sub:137, Spa.sub:5, dub:4, raw:2, Por.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Very good: 210 votes (sub:189, dub:6, Spa.sub:4, ?:3, Ger.sub:2, Ita.sub:2, Por.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, raw:1)
 Good: 142 votes (sub:130, Spa.sub:4, dub:2, Rus.sub:2, raw:2, Ger.sub:1, Pol.sub:1)
 Decent: 42 votes (sub:39, raw:1, Dut.sub:1, Spa.sub:1)
 So-so: 10 votes (sub:10)
 Not really good: 8 votes (sub:8)
 Weak: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Bad: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 1051 users, rank: #575
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.928 (Very good-.07), std. dev.: 1.3496, rank: #515
Weighted mean: 7.831 (Very good-.16), rank: #508 (seen all: 7.83 / seen some: 7.66)
Bayesian estimate: 7.826 (Very good-.17), rank: #337
Running time: 24 minutes
Episode titles: We have 2
Vintage: 2006-12-22 to 2006-12-23
Releases: We have 2
Opening Theme:
"薔薇獄乙女 (Baragoku Otome; Rose Jail Maiden)" by ALI PROJECT
Ending Theme:
"Utsusemi no Kage (空蝉ノ影)" by kukui
Trivia: We have 2
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Kou Matsuo

Series Composition: Jukki Hanada

Storyboard:
Kou Matsuo
Mitsue (ep 1)

Music: Shinkichi Mitsumune

Original creator: Peach-Pit

Character Design: Kumi Ishii

Art director: Chikako Shibata

Animation director:
Kumi Ishii (OP)
Masafumi Tamura (ep 1)
Satonobu Kikuchi (ep 2)

Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka

Director of Photography: Yuko Orikasa

Producer:
Chiaki Terada
Kozue Kaneniwa
Shinichi Nakamura
Yoshihisa Nakayama

2nd Key Animation:
Kenji Oda
Reiko Nozaki
Reiko Sato

Animation Director Assistance:
Kenji Oda (ep 2)
Masafumi Tamura (ep 2)
Reiko Nozaki (ep 2)

Assistant producer: Junichiro Tanaka

Background Art:
Chikako Shibata
Mayumi Ogawa
Megumi Ishida
Naoto Yoshida
Tomohiro Morishita
Tomoko Sawada
Yasuhiro Okumura
Yukiko Takahashi

CG Design: Miki Hashimoto

Color Inspection: Hiroko Umezaki

Color setting:
Hiroko Umezaki
Madoka Katsunuma

Digital Composite:
Hiroshi Yoshida
Kazuhiro Utagawa
Norikazu Yamaguchi
Shinji Ikegami
Tohru Sugawara
Tomohiro Nishiyama
Yumiko Morimoto

Digital Special Effects:
Ayumi Arabata
Kumiko Taniguchi

Editing: Mutsumi Takemiya

In-Between Animation:
Mizue Akiyama
Noriko Sato
Saki Kobayashi
Takuya Inoue

In-Between Check: Akiko Fujimoto

Key Animation:
Akio Kitahara
Hideki Ito
Hiroyuki Haruhii
Jun Fuji (ED)
Kanako Kajiyama
Kazuki Ito
Kazuo Kawano
Ken Katou
Kumiko Kawahara
Masaaki Sakurai
Masafumi Nakagawa
Masafumi Tamura (OP)
Masashi Nomura
Naoki Yamauchi
Noriko Yamashita
Reiko Okamura
Reiko Sato
Ryo Kobayashi
Shinji Yamamoto
Takashi Ikari
Takushi Ueno
Tatsuya Shiraishi
Toshiaki Kobayashi
Yuki Nakashima (OP)

Music producer: Shunji Inoue

Online Editing Manager: Masaaki Okamoto

Planning Collaboration:
Akane Suzuki
Yoshimi Nakashima

Production Desk: Mitsue Yamazaki

Production manager: Hitomi Ogawa

Publicity:
Mizuho Tanaka
Sadakazu Kikuchi

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 Goto as Barasuishou

Yumi Shimura as Kanaria

Daisuke Ono as Enju

Kousuke 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

Broadcaster:
BS-i
TBS

Digital Composite: Studio Cosmos

Digital Paint:
Kyung Kang ANIA
Studio Eru

In-Between Animation: Kyung Kang ANIA

Music Production: Mellow Head

Offline Editing: Studio Gong

Recording Studio: Studio Gong

Sound Production: Gakuonsha

Video Editing: Q Tech

French cast 
French staff 

Directeur De Plateau: Julie Basecqz

Esther Aflalo as Shinku

Thierry Janssen as Jun

Beatrice Wegnez as Hinaichigo

Cathy Boquet as Suiseiseki

Claire Tefnin as Suigintou

Coralie Vanderlinden as Kanaria

Patrick Brüll as Enju

Véronique Fyon as Nori

Alexandra Correa as Sarah

Géraldine Frippiat as Suigintou

Michel Hinderickx as Pere de Sarah

Nathalie Hons as Mére de Sarah

Sophie Landresse as Suiseiseki (2eme)

French companies 

Distributor: Kaze

Dubbing: Mirroring

Dutch staff 
Dutch cast 

Translation: Niels Viveen

 (none)
Dutch companies 

Distributor: Kaze Animation S.A. (Dutch)

Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 

Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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