>>11257
that is an interesting pic ... because if Jun is 155cm tall ... and I agree with you that the dolls tend to be shown as about half as tall as Jun (especially in the manga, which would be considered "canon" compared to the various anime's) ... which is how it is shown in the pic in 11256
so using 155cm for Jun's height, that would have Suigintou at least 77.5cm tall ... with Suiseiseki and Souseiseki about 75cm ... Shinku about 65cm tall ... Kanaria about 62cm ... and Hinaichigo at about 60cm
one of the things I have noticed, that does not help in trying to figure out their sizes, is how in both the manga and the anime, they are never drawn to normal human proportions
... when I look at normal bjd's, the body proportions are the same as a normal human, just scaled down ... but the Rozen Maidens are usually shown as being thicker/wider in body shape than a normal human ... they are usually drawn more like a dwarf or midget human than a normal human ... which would make sense in a way because I can guess that since the artists of the manga are women, they would be familiar with the ordinary dolls that girls play with ... which are proportioned differently than a bjd is
... it's like trying to use an apple to portray an orange, yeah they are both about the same size, but they are not the same thing
like in the very early scene where Jun is picking up Shinku to look at her for the first time ... if you look at the way his arms are positioned as he holds her, the width of her body is much wider than a scaled down adult's body would be, and her head is much larger compared to what a scaled down adult's head would be ... it is more like she is drawn with "baby doll" proportions instead of scaled down adult proportions
... and all the dolls are frequently drawn with those kid's doll proportions all throughout the manga
I can hazard a guess that the artists draw the dolls like that because it is easier than trying to drawn the much smaller body parts that would be required in order to show the dolls in "real" scale
it would be nice if some doll company made a series of the Rozen Maiden dolls using the "half the size of Jun" as a baseline ... I know I would love to have a Suigintou bjd that was close to 80cm tall :-)
...it would be well worth saving up to get one !
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