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'''''Gosick''''' (-ゴシック-, ''Goshikku'', ''Gothic'') is a Japanese [[Light Novel]] series written by Kazuki Sakuraba, illustrated by Hinata Takeda and published by Fujimi Shobo. The first novel was released on December 10, 2003. The ninth and final one was published on July 23, 2011. ''GosickS'', a series of short stories set in this universe, released four collections total. [[Tokyo Pop]] licensed the novels in the United States and has released the first two.
The story is set in 1924, in the fictional European country of Sauville ([[Spell My Name
A manga adaptation, illustrated by Amano Sakuya, runs in ''Monthly Dragon Age''. A drama CD, based on the first volume of ''GosickS'', was released on April 21, 2006. An 24 episode anime adaptation by [[Studio BONES]] began airing on January 7th, 2011.
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* [[The Abridged Series]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDcWxc3_Gyk Here.]
* [[Adult Child]]: Cecile Lafitte, Kujo's teacher. Sophie could qualify as this as well.
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Several of the various legends and fairy-tales Kazuya and Victorique have to deal with are introduced several episodes before they become relevant, such as the Grey Wolves and Leviathan the Alchemist.
* [[Children Forced to Kill]]: In episodes two and three of the anime adaptation, Victorique and Kujo discover information about an incident of this that happened 10 years ago.
* [[Chocolate Baby]]: {{spoiler|Turned up after Queen Coco Rose's affair with the African court alchemist Leviathan, with predictably messy consequences.}}▼
* [[Clear My Name]] / [[Clear Their Name]]
** Kazuya begs Victorique to help him when he is accused of murder.
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* [[Foreshadowing]]: One notable point in the anime's opening is when it shows Brian Roscoe. When the spotlights hit him {{spoiler|he casts ''two'' shadows.}}
* [[Fortune Teller]]: Roxanne
* [[Friend
* [[Food
* [[Girl in
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]
** Victorique carries a pipe and enjoys [[wikipedia:File:Gosick vol 1.jpg|smoking]] it in the novels.
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** All of the residents of the Seyrun village.
* [[Heroic Bastard]]: {{spoiler|Victorique is an illegitimate daughter of the de Blois family with a politically-troublesome mother, which is why she's spent most of her life isolated from the rest of society.}}
▲* [[
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Cordelia (presumably) killing Albert}}
* [[Hidden Elf Village]]: The Village of Gray Wolves a.k.a. Seyrun. Outsiders are welcome to visit, and residents -- even children of exiled residents -- can leave and return, but many of them are actually a [[Human Subspecies]]; pale, [[Shorter Means Smarter|petite]], green-eyed blondes with [[Super Intelligence]], capable of [[Awesomeness By Analysis]], and [[Sherlock Scan|Sherlock Scans]]. The village Elders, meanwhile, are ''oracles''. '''Non-cryptic ones!''' {{spoiler|Though they do give the odd [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]]. And it [[Break the Cutie|really sucked]] for Cordelia Gallo when the Marquis de Blois realized she was a Grey Wolf.}}
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* [[Micro Monarchy]]: Sauville
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|The English boy Ned}} on the first Queen Berry.
* [[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
* [[Mystery of the Week]]
* [[Mystery Magnet]]: Kazuya is starting to get an in-series reputation for tripping over gruesome murders wherever he goes, and it's not without reason. Hence the name The Black Reaper.
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* [[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]].}}
* [[No Social Skills]]: Victorique never really had a chance to develop them, resulting in her characteristic bluntness and making such things as [[Dull Surprise|her attempts at]] [[Noblewoman's Laugh|polite laughter]] a... memorable experience for all present.
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Pulled off by ''{{spoiler|[[
* [[Of Corset Hurts]]: Victorique runs afoul of an antique one in episode 22.
* [[Official Couple]]: Kazuya and Victorique, natch.
* [[Off
* [[Older Than They Look]]: [[Human Subspecies|Grey Wolves]] tend towards this, thanks to their short stature and childlike frames.
* [[Open Says Me]]: Avril kicks open a couple of doors in the clock tower. Each time afterwards, she hops around in pain for a bit.
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* [[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 [[
* [[Prophet Eyes]]: Used, naturally, whenever someone's making a prophecy, though it's really more of a case of their eyes rolling up in their heads.
* [[Rape
* [[Rapunzel Hair]]
** Victorique's hair reaches her ankles.
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* [[Red Herring]]
** {{spoiler|The fake Avril's injured hand.}} It ''was'', in fact, evidence of a crime, but not the one Kazuya was thinking of.
** Also, {{spoiler|Cordelia's murder charges. Those were the reason her child's father wants nothing to do with her any more, right? [[Rape
* [[Say My Name]]: Kujo has the tendency to shout Victorique's name about ten times an episode.
* {{spoiler|[[Scary Black Man]]: Leviathan the Alchemist is shown to be this, although it had nothing to do with his being African, but with the fear people had of the mystery of his mask and his alchemy, which was revealed by Victorique to be false. The clothes he donned and the ruse he perpetrated to try to discourage further exploitation of his home country by Saubre's royalty.}}
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* [[Shorter Means Smarter]]: Victorique and Luigi.
* [[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
** Victorique uses a pipe when she's thinking in a way similar to the popular conception of [[Sherlock Holmes]], although in the anime she just holds it in her mouth instead of actually ''smoking'' anything.
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: The Grey Wolves, a legendary European [[Human Subspecies|bloodline]] known for their short stature, golden hair, and vast intellect, are the source of several local legends and a great deal of general superstition.
* [[Spanner in
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Stage Magician]]: Several, including the Phantasmagoria troupe, though towering above them all is the legendary Brian Roscoe, whose stunts include {{spoiler|using a magic lantern and a picture of the Virgin Mary to take out an entire German bomber squadron}}.
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Or whatever their relationship might actually be. The elder of Seyrun predicted that an event that will soon come will tear Kazuya and Victorique apart. With [[World War II]] coming up, it'll be no surprise, seeing as he's Japanese and she's (Allied) European. {{spoiler|Then it actually ''happens'', over a decade early, and they still get back together afterward.}}
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* [[Sympathetic Murderer]]: The surviving "hares" of the first Queen Berry, {{spoiler|save for Ned}}.
* [[Take My Hand]]: Victorique to Kazuya {{spoiler|when the only bridge to the village collapses}}.
▲* [[Ted Baxter]]: Grevil
* [[Ten Little Murder Victims]]: This happens at the Miniature Garden Box Evening.
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: Near the end of Episode 17 the instrumental version of "Resuscitated Hope", the first [[Ending Theme]], plays as {{spoiler|Kujo and Victorique chase after the departing train while Beelzebub's Skull gets flooded. Also note the situation - for once it is Victorique who has broken down and it is only because of Kujo her hope is resuscitated.}}
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* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Avril and Victorique.
* {{spoiler|[[Together in Death]]: Cordelia and one of the Roscoes.}}
* [[Town
* [[Translation Convention]]: In the final episode it can be assumed that most of the cast have been talking French the entire time {{spoiler|as Kujo's sister says she doesn't speak enough of it to talk properly with Victorique when she arrives in Japan.}}
* [[Tsurime Eyes]]: Victorique and Avril.
* [[Unkempt Beauty]]: Mildred
* [[
* [[Vague Age]]: In episode 7 Victorique indirectly states that she's around ten to twelve years old, though later recollections by other characters place her as being around fifteen, which would fit with the tendency for Grey Wolves to be [[Older Than They Look]] and explain why she's in Kazuya's class at school. {{spoiler|This is acknowledged in the Episode 24 description given to folks trying to capture Victorique as she runs as far away from Sauville - as was suggested - as she can get.}}
* [[Vestigial Empire]]: {{spoiler|Seyrun. Very, ''very'' vestigial.}}
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* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Kujo, so far, demonstrates an admirable degree of restraint even in the face of likely death. When the lives or freedom of innocents hang on subduing a female villain, on the other hand...
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|1=After he'd had her provide him with a child, the Marquis de Blois dumped Cordelia in an asylum. Not, strictly speaking, a death sentence, but considering that this was the 1910s, close enough.}}
* [[You Wake Up in
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