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The story is set in 1924, in the fictional European country of Sauville ([[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"|also known as Saubure]]). At St. Marguerite Academy, a school where the students love to gossip about horror stories and urban legends, many real mysteries find their way into school lore. There, Kazuya Kujo, a Japanese transfer student and the third son of an Imperial soldier, meets Victorique, a strange girl who is so small and beautiful that she can easily be confused with a living bisque doll. Her intelligence and smoking habit, however, make her resemble [[Sherlock Holmes]] more than [[Rozen Maiden (Anime)|Shinku]]. She spends her days skipping class, reading multiple books at a time on the top floor of the library, and solving mysteries so difficult they have even the police stumped. As the series progresses, Kazuya and Victorique continue to get involved in strange cases, where they meet many kinds of people, both good and bad. Despite the [[Art Style Dissonance|moe-style art]], its tone is [[Sugar Apocalypse|rather serious]].

* [[Bratty Half -Pint]]: Luigi

* [[Fair Play Who DunnitWhodunnit]]: Technically all clues to solve the mysteries are given, although Victorique often has to use very outlandish reasoning to piece them together. Which is ''awesome''.

* [[Friend Onon the Force]]: Grevil, though it's more like {{spoiler|Brother On The Force}}. Who takes the credit for your hard work.

* [[Food Asas Bribe]]: Kazuya gives Victorique various Japanese snacks in exchange for her help.

* [[Girl in Aa Box]]: Kazuya finds one in episode 9.

** Victorique carries a pipe and enjoys [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gosick_vol_1Gosick vol 1.jpg |smoking]] it in the novels.

* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: The in-universe reaction of just about everyone to {{spoiler|Victorique's mother, Cordelia, apparently murdering her village's elder, a highly revered prophet}}. Among other things, it resulted in her being banished from her home, losing her prospective husband, and having her daughter locked away from society for most of the rest of her life. {{spoiler|Although, as it turned out, the husband-and-daughter thing was really more of an excuse told to the rest of the world to cover up something [[Rape Asas Backstory|far]] [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|nastier]].}}

* [[No -Holds -Barred Beatdown]]: Kujo is on the receiving end of one in {{spoiler|Episode 23 from a [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]] who even [[Kick Them While They Are Down|kicks him for good measure]].}}

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Pulled off by ''{{spoiler|[[UpperclassUpper Class Twit|Grevil]]}}'', of all people, in Episode 10. If Episode 11 is any indication, {{spoiler|Grevil}} has always been fairly bright... just not as bright as Victorique. He's still quite dumb with various weird conclusions he makes. He's smart in very narrow fields, and {{spoiler|police work}} is not one of them, despite his good eye for detail -- when he bothers looking in the first place.

* [[Off Withwith His Head]]: The victim in episode 5.

* [[Phone -in Detective]]: Very common for Victorique, due to the restrictions her family have placed on her movements. In fact, it's implied to be the exclusive method by which she helped out Grevil before Kazuya came along. She's literally this in the Jeantan case, due to being bedridden with sickness.

* [[Ping -Pong Naivete]]: Victorique is solving a complex crime with second-hand information one moment, and not knowing that one can get a carriage for hire the next.

* [[Police Are Useless]]: Not helped by having an [[UpperclassUpper Class Twit]] as their acclaimed chief investigator. Averted in the Jeantan case.

* [[Rape Asas Backstory]]: {{spoiler|Cordelia, Victorique's mother, was kidnapped by the Marquis de Blois and forced to bear his child once he found out that she was a [[Human Subspecies|Grey Wolf]].}}

** Also, {{spoiler|Cordelia's murder charges. Those were the reason her child's father wants nothing to do with her any more, right? [[Rape Asas Backstory|Wr]]-[[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|ong]]!}}

* [[Schedule Slip]]: Episode 10 was delayed a week, and episode 11 was delayed until the 1st of April because of the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T:2011 T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami8Dhoku earthquake and tsunami|2011 earthquake and tsunami]] in the Tôhoku region of Japan.

* [[Shout -Out]]

** A girl with long golden hair trapped at the top of a tower by the person who raised her until a boy stumbles upon her. [[Rapunzel (Literature)|Remind you of anything?]]

* [[Spanner in Thethe Works]]: Kazuya and Victorique to the Queen Berry murder plot. It didn't help that the culprit, being a [[Sympathetic Murderer]], didn't want to see two innocent children die in the gigantic [[Death Course]] they'd set up, and so had to expose themselves more than they would have otherwise wished to in order to keep them safe.

* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: There is some contention on how to [[Japanese Romanization|romanize]] various names in the series, including those of the main heroine, the police inspector, and the fictional country they live in.

* [[Town Withwith a Dark Secret]]: {{spoiler|The Village of the Wolves.}}

* [[UpperclassUpper Class Twit]]: Grevil is one who happens to be ''in a position of actual authority''. One can only imagine what state Sauville's criminal justice system would be in without [[Child Prodigy|Victorique]] around....

* [["What the Hell?" Dad]]: Albert De Blois towards his son, Grevil. {{spoiler|With his daughter, Victorique, though, [[Abusive Parents|things are considerably worse]].}}

* [[You Wake Up in Aa Room]]: The food at the Miniature Garden Box Evening was drugged, and when everyone wakes up, they've been moved to another room.

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