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In the year 20XX, insects have developed immunity to every kind of insect spray. To counter the incredible rise in insect numbers the Japanese government developed tiny extermination robots code named "Hoihoi-san". The popularity of Hoihoi-san units rises not only as a night time extermination unit, but for doll collectors as well! However, when a rival company introduces its own tiny extermination robots a new form of corporate sabotage begins, as they target not only the insects, but all Hoihoi-san units themselves!
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Hoihoi-san and Rozen Maiden both have a remarkably gothic feel to them, with very interesting small characters. Though Hoihoi-san is short in length and Rozen is a full series, that doesn't matter. If you appreciated the mood or even the content in one, you'd surely like the other.
Both anime involve little dolls fighting; in Ichigeki Sacchuu!! Hoihoi-san the dolls use guns, and in Rozen Maiden they use magic. The plots and genres are much different but the general mood and action will probably make you like both.
I'm not sure why, but when watching HoiHoi-san, I was immediately reminded of Rozen Maiden. The first striking similarity is the characters - dolls coming to life and fighting one another. Rozen Maiden features magical battles and is a little more restrained than HoiHoi...
However, the tongue-in-cheek feel of both shows should endear you to both of these.
Despie one being a full series, and the other being a ten minute short, i was instantly reminded of Rozen Maiden when i put on HoiHoi-san.
It's mainly the cute dolls that come to life and fight each other, with both having somewhat of a dark tone and plenty of action. So if you liked one for the cute dolls fighting things aspect, then the other might be something you should at least check out.
Misaki Suzuhara is a young girl who traveled to Tokyo to live with a relative, but ended up becoming involved in the greatest game of all time: Angelic Layer! In this fast-paced competition, players customize dolls and fight them in arenas of all sizes, hoping to gain experience and perhaps win the greatest tournament of them all! With new friends to meet and new enemies to defeat, the best time of Misaki's life seems to be just beginning. Join Misaki as she struggles to be the best, even in the face of overwhelming odds...
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In both series doll and owner are involved in a serie of fights.
Even if this one has a totaly diferent "felling" the global idead is similar.
What could they really not have in common---both anime center on dolls that are destined to fight one another and depend on humans to use the best of their abilities. Well, the only difference is that the Rozen Maidens are more human-like whereas the Angels are almost completely controlled by their human. Regardless, they are very similar and are a good watch.
Both series revolve around fighting dolls but in Angelic Layer, the dolls are toys controlled by kids. In Rozen Maiden, the dolls are self aware and use thier owners life force to power themselves. Rozen Maiden is given a more dramatic feel while Angelic Layer is more of a friendly competition. If you like to see dolls fighting than you'll love both of these series.
The plot and style are very different but if you like dolls you'll love both of them. Both of them feature dolls as main characters and in both series they are "alive" and have their own personalities and "feelings".
In the early 20th century, Kazuya transfers to a prestigious academy as part of an exchange program between Japan and Saubure, a small European country. But while Kazuya would love to make friends and have a typical school life, the boy is shunned by his ghost story-loving peers who believe that he's a "Black Reaper" to be feared. Things change one day when Kazuya wanders to the top of the library and discovers a lush botanical garden, and a beautiful, small, blonde-haired girl named Victorique who rarely leaves the building and is fascinated by unsolved mysteries. Together, the two develop a budding friendship and take on many chilling and dangerous cases that even the famous local detective Grevil can't solve.
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They both have a goth lolita looking girl and a servant like boy,if you like tsundere based relations this is one for you :)
Both Gosick and Rozen Maiden have distinctivly vicorian feels to them, mixing gorgeous dresses with dolls and magic, or detective stories. The two stories are more or less in the same range of darkness/light.
The main thing that ties them together are the bossy main girls. Both treat the male leads of their respective series as servants, all while warming up to their company.
If you like one you should give the other a change.
Rozen Maiden follows Jun Sakurada, a middle school student who has withdrawn from society after suffering persecutions from his classmates. He is chosen to become Shinku's master and joins the Alice Game.
The main female character is a cute Victorian dressed Tsundere. One looks like a doll, the other is a doll. The relationship with the lead male is about the same as well. Decent story line in both anime although very different in that aaspect.
Sakai Yuuji thought he was a normal high school student, until one fateful day when time stopped. Watching in horror, he witnesses a monster devouring the "frozen" people around him; but luckily for Yuuji, he is saved by a sword-wielding red-headed girl that calls herself a "Flame Haze". The girl informs him that he has been dead for some time now and that his current self is merely a replacement for the human that he used be while alive. He is, she says, merely a torch whose life will come to an end when the blue flame in his chest ceases to burn. After this rude awakening, Yuuji realizes that he is able to see the flames of life in other "torches"; and after discovering that a friend of his is also a torch -- and her life is burning out faster than his – he gains the courage to live out the rest of his life with meaning. Will Yuuji be able to find his place in the world before he ceases to exist?
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Shinku and Shana have very similar personalities. They are don't like to admit their mistakes, strong, and stubborn. Both these animes are great to watch. They are action packed with comedy. You'll most definently like both of these series.
There is surely no comparison to Rozen Maiden that I've seen thus far. However, Shakugan no Shana is relately close (in my opinion) if you're looking for the same general ideas. Both have strong female leads that have a definite character (which I loved!). Shinku and Shana both stay true to who they are and what their goal is in life.
Aside from the females, the males also offer their own contribution to the anime. They're both indentical in the sense that their female counterparts add "flavor" in their lives XP Both Yuji and Jun grow and develop their own identities as the series progresses and when season 2 hits, they've grown up in their own ways.
On top of everything, both anime have their own "supernatural" aspects. Even though the anime itself may not be EXTREMELY exciting, the ideas of death and living are evident.
Shakugan no Shana is an action/romance anime which all in all has to do with a mysterious girl who appears in the life of a young boy and changes everything, pretty simillar to the Rozen Maiden concept. I believe that you'll like SNS if you liked Rozen Maiden because in both you can see how the male main character changes after his encouter with the girl, becomes more mature and brave and takes responsibilities and how the girl discovers a new world and the feelings of love. To sum up, I believe that you should give Shana a shot, if you liked Rozen Maiden!
Takamine Kiyomaro is a junior high school student who thinks he’s too smart for school, to the disappointment of his mother. On his 14th birthday a surprise literally crashes through Kiyomaro’s window, in the form of… a small naked child?! His name is Gash Bell and his goal is simple: be a mentor for Kiyomaro, at the request of Kiyomaro’s departed father. In return, Kiyomaro must help discover the secrets behind Gash Bell’s amnesia and his past, with only a red book as a clue. As if things weren’t crazy enough, Kiyomaro soon discovers that Gash Bell is a demon -- one of many on Earth -- who can be forced back to the demon world if its corresponding book is burned. Armed with the power of the red book, Kiyomaro must now help Gash Bell defend himself against other demons who want to vanquish him from the Earth, lest his newfound friend vanish forever!
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Each of these anime feature living dolls with great magical powers that are supported by a human "master" or "servant" without which they wouldn't be able to use their abilities to its full potential. They also fight against other dolls and their respective master for a somewhat similar purpose in both anime. However, there's a more "gothic" feeling to Rozen Maiden that is not present in Konjiki no Gash Bell!! and less fighting/action scenes but that doesn't mean you wouldn't like one if you really enjoyed the other.
These both have a sense that there is a need to fight to reach the top. In Konjiki its to be the king and for the Rozen Maiden yhere is a need to alice the perfect doll. They both work around younger looking children who have powers but to use there powers to the best they must have a master
Ambos tratan de la relación entre un ser con poderes y su contrato que les apoya en su batalla por lograr ser Rey en el caso de Gash o convertirse en Alice para las Rozen Maiden
On the eve of nobleman Oz Bezarius's fifteenth birthday, he and his loved ones gather to celebrate in a coming-of-age ceremony. But after Oz steps under a long-stopped clock and the hands finally move once more - thus fulfilling a mysterious prophecy - he is violently thrown into the legendary prison known as the Abyss by three cloaked intruders. Existing in another dimension, the Abyss is home to lifeforms born within its walls known as Chains; these beings can only live in the real world if they make contracts with humans, binding their power to the person's body. However, there's a catch - in time, the human will be overcome by the Chain's power and then thrown into the deepest level of the Abyss. When Oz wakes up in the Abyss he is quickly attacked by hungry Chains, only to be saved by one named Alice - a Chain who appeared just before he was thrown into the prison. Together, the two make a contract and return to the real world, where they are enlisted into the Pandora organization - a group researching both the Abyss and the trio that threw Oz into it. Along with members of Pandora, the duo searches to find Alice's lost memory fragments that are scattered throughout the world, to discover the secrets of the Abyss, and to determine if there's a way their contract can be broken without killing either Oz or Alice.
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26 years ago, something terrible happened in a middle school’s third year classroom. A popular, talented student named Misaki suddenly died, and the ramifications of that incident have caused each third year class since then to live in fear. It is now 1998, and Kouichi Sakakibara has just transferred into the notorious classroom, curious about the mysterious secret that his peers are hiding from him. He’s drawn to one enigmatic girl named Mei Misaki, a quiet student who wears an eye patch and warns him about getting involved with her, and continues to seek her out against the pleas of his classmates. And that’s when people begin to violently die...
both girls looks like dolls. but in rozen maiden they actually live. an in another ( i hope the don't live) and the tinds that happend are supernatural. both anime are worth to watch
The theme of dolls is heavily represented in both anime. Though Another is considerably more light hearted than Rozen Maiden, they still share many of the same aspects.
Rozen Maiden focuses more on how to make the most of your life when it gets bad, wheras Another mostly just makes you curious and tries to scare you. In Rozen Maiden the happy scenes are there to make you feel better after the scarier ones, but in Another they give you a nice scene first to make the scary ones that much scarier...
In my opinion; if you are planning on watching both, it would be better to watch Rozen Maiden first.
Uzume Uno was on her way to class one day when a stranger dropped a mysterious device into her bag - and it’s no ordinary device! The middle school student soon discovers that she can use the cards within the device to summon five gorgeous dolls to fight for her in card battles with others! What adventures await this would-be card master and her new, loyal dolls?
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Both series feature dolls who come to life in order to battle alongside their masters. Rozen Maiden is the more serious of the two shows, with Fantasista Doll being the lighter of the two, and closer to your average mahou shoujo anime.
Both Rozen Maiden and Fantasia Doll feature the ability for dolls to come "alive" to combat one another alongside a human "master". In both, the "master" stumbles across the dolls haphazardly, and then becomes involved in said fight. However, Rozen Maiden is the more serious of the two, with Fantasia Doll being more lighthearted and almost like a magical girl type anime.
Mahiru Shirota dislikes difficult things, preferring to live a simple life. But after rescuing a cat he names Kuro, life takes a turn for the complex. Kuro turns out to be a “Servamp”—a servant vampire—named Sleepy Ash, and the two form a contract. Kissing his simple life goodbye, Mahiru is pulled into the world of vampires, the seven deadly Servamps, and war. Life couldn't be more complicated!
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This show is starting to look a bit like a less female exclusive version of Rozen Maiden. The number and the unknown extra factor are similar attributes in both anime, Melancholy for Servamp and Suigintou for Rozen Maiden. Some even transform into dolls, which is like Rozen Maiden too. I have yet to see the reason for the anguish but so far it appears at least part of the reason is the same for both, being forgotten.
They're similar in the instance that it has a "Master Servant" theme where there is powerful character, who then joins up with a human to help fight for an ongoing cause.
Once there lived an eccentric author called Drosselmeyer who wrote grand tragedies - one of them was the tale of a prince who sealed away an evil raven by breaking his own heart into tiny pieces. However, before the story could be completed, the author died and the tale took on a life of its own. Now, in a town where fiction and reality meet, the story continues on its tragic course with Ahiru, a duck who transforms into the beautiful Princess Tutu in order to restore the prince's heart. But will Ahiru's act of love be enough to defy the story's terrible destiny and lead to a happy ending?
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Completely different concepts, and yet, a similar dark and moody feel to them. Victorian type music and interesting characters round out both series, and in general, this is just a recommendation I make on a hunch. If you liked one, I'm really thinking you'd like the other, but don't take my word on it.. try it for yourself!