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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.

* [[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.

* [[Clear My Name]] / [[Clear Their Name]]

** Kazuya begs Victorique to help him when he is accused of murder.

** 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.}}

* [[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.

* [[Of Corset Hurts]]: Victorique runs afoul of an antique one in episode 22.

* [[Official Couple]]: Kazuya and Victorique, natch.

* [[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.

* [[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 as 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]].}}

** 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 the 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 with 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.

* [[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}}.

* [[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.}}

* [[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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