Rozen still being alive isn’t that hard to imagine, this series does have a magical basis, not like living dolls are very realistic in the first place.

Suigin Tou being a mistake by Rozen is only your conjecture. She is *incomplete*, for reasons unknown to us.

Suigin Tou being repaired is not a fanboi fix, as it was intended from the start when Shinku refused to take her Rosa Mystica, I can’t imagine Rozen leaving something like that lying around.

As for the “For those unwilling to do the maths, this is approximately 67 years, and is a line borrowed from Shinku and Suigintou’s first reunion in the manga. Placing it in Traumend is a pointless blunder, however, as it means that it has been 67 years since the first season.” You have completely missed the point, for she is referring to their first battle 67 years ago. She did not initially remember her recent battle with Shinku because of her repairs.

Enju making a living doll isn’t all that “amazing” or “plot-breaking” either. Suigin Tou herself managed to achieve animation without a Rosa Mystica. This within itself is enough proof that the Rosa Mystic, whilst special, is not a requirement for a living doll.
Enju’s long life is also not really anything big, purely because it’s something that is well within the realms of the world this series is based in.

Also, some backstory on Rozen to help explain some things. Rozen is based on the Count of St. Germain(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comte_de_Saint-Germain), who is said to have perfected the Philosopher’s stone, and have made a homonculus with it that had intellect and reason, as well as the ability to move(Hence the whole “rosa mystica” thing, also explaining the long life, as the Philosopher’s stone was said to be able to make an elixir to make humans younger), as well as claiming to be hundreds of years old.

1.) Well, I’ve answered the age question, and I’ve never seen or heard anything about them being seperate parts of a whole one.
2.) Rozen never said Junk was a failure, Shinku did. If everything is for the sake of creating Alice, then pain/loneliness/etc. IS crucial to being human, explaining everything else.
4.) Well, Bara may have her own one. Enju may just have made a new one for Suigintou, not had her originally intended one. They just seem to be memory/power storers, like batteries. Maybe putting more than one in at once causes explosions/malfunctions, as seen with Bara.
6.) There probably will be one~
7.) I’m pretty sure that’s what Laplace said, so.
8.) Yes, but considering Rozen is obviously hundreds of years old, 150 years or so is pretty recent.
9.) It’d make sense, people go to absurd lengths for ego. I consider the manga to be a completely seperate story, as there’s completely different character personalities/events.
10.) Suigintou managed to send feathers out of the N-field while in it, don’t see why Kirakishou can’t just send vines through it and aet Hina’s body.
tl;dr

As I said somewhere above, yes I hope in time everything will be explained and clarified to my satisfaction, but for now I’m afraid I’m of the mind that the anime writers and possibly even Peach Pit themselves will be pulling answers out of their backsides because they haven’t thought far enough ahead.

1.) The Rosa Mystica are not all just parts of one thing, they’re all seperate. We also have no proof that Rozen himself wants them to fight, the only ones who talk about the game are Enju and crew. Why is he still alive? It’s an animoot/manga. People can live forever if they’re magic, it’s one of those things you just don’t question.

2.) As said several times in the series, Rozen lost Suigintou’s plans and thus didn’t finish her. He gave her a Roza Mystica eventually since he of course DID start making her, so why not?

3.) I think the ’started working on her while in the N-field’ is the best explanation.

4.) I’m personally assuming Enju fixed her, as they say only ‘father’ can repair people, but Enju WAS his apprentice. Enju could very well have had the ability to make Rosa Mystica, and maybe he had Suigintou’s all along.

5.) That screencap is from episode 2 or 3 of the first season. The second time she says that is in the episode she comes back, where she obviously has amnesia.

6.) …That’s not in any way a plot-hole, it’s just something unexplained. There’s also no proof that Laplace is working with/for Rozen, just Enju.

7.) The Alice Game is always on, from what I understand. Laplace just said that since they all thought every doll was ‘awake’, so it was perfect timing to actually begin in earnest. As for Hina, she only loses her ability to gain power from Shinku after Souseiseki loses her rosa mystica, the first true ‘loss’ in the game.

8.) Maybe Enju is a recent apprentice of Rozen, or, since the Rosa Mystica seems to be a sort of Philospher’s stone, they’re just usin’ their magicz to keep alive. There is no reason to assume he can’t make Rosa Mystica.

9.) Since Laplace and Enju are the only ones constantly talking about the Alice Game, it’s possible that Rozen didn’t originally intend to do it that way, but thought it might be a decent alternative after Enju and Laplace were tricking the dolls to try and prove that Enju was superior.

10.) Kirakishou could still use Hinaichigo’s body, I don’t see the problem there.

wait what

Watch the episodes more closely before you start throwing holes around. That was just a blatant disregard of information regarding that episode.

I thought that seeking the other way was the whole point of Shinku’s conduct in the game: she does not wish to play the game as it is “supposed” to be played, by taking Rosa Mystica from her sisters.

From the OVA, it certainly seems as though Shinku is Rozen’s favorite. As Arvanna said, it could be that Laplace is the one who sets up the game… perhaps so much that he was the one who gave Rozen the Rosa Mystica to begin with.

It is possible that Rozen does not want to see his life’s work–his daughters–destroyed by playing the game and granted/encouraged/gambled on Shinku to seek another way. This may be why Shinku would be his favorite.

Personally I have enjoyed the entire season and instead of plot holes see interesting questions mostly regarding what is Laplace’s true role in the game? It wouldn’t surprise me if it turns out the Alice game was his invention hence why Rozen told Shinku there was another less muderous way to become Alice.

Last note regarding why Rozen would appear to Sougintou in the OVA? He may have been unaware she was alive and had managed to pull herself together with that incrediable will of her’s untill she came into contact with the other Rozen Maiden. At that point he decided that she had demonstrated she was worthy as he told her in the 2nd season.

kacpy, it was just to point out plot holes in anime and manga- even if you consider them separately there are some problems, imo.

Hopefully another season will get made to explain some points from the anime, but I don’t want to get my hopes up.

Yes, a lot of the other issues may have explanations to come in the future, but the point of writing this was to highlight the fact that the very lack of explanation for these rather arbitrary plot points is affecting my enjoyment; it’s going to need a spectacularly well thought out third season (and future manga volumes in the case of that storyline) in order to tie everything together properly.

C’mon, surely there are other shows (with better holes) that you could analyze… :)