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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 With 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]].
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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* [[Arrested for Heroism]]: Kazuya gets arrested when he reports a murder he witnessed to Grevil, who thinks the way it supposedly happened was impossible, and therefore Kazuya is lying to cover it up.
* [[Art Shift]]: Most of the opening sequence is drawn and colored in an Art Nouveau style reminiscent of Alphonse Mucha, a renowned artist in the Art Nouveau movement.
* [[Asshole Victim]] / [[Laser
* [[Audible Sharpness]]: The Hunting Dog's axe in Episode 3.
* [[Auction of Evil]]: {{spoiler|The girls that were being auctioned off in the Jeantan case.}}
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* [[Disney Villain Death]] / [[Karmic Death]]: The true murderer of the {{spoiler|Village Elder}} dies this way.
* [[Distant Finale]]: Showing how {{spoiler|Kazuya and Victorique are reunited in Japan four years later, after the war is over}}.
* [[Dual
* [[Dull Eyes of Unhappiness]]: {{spoiler|Victorique has them in the flashbacks to her days living with the de Blois family.}}
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: {{spoiler|Victorique and Kujo. Together.}}
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* [[Food As Bribe]]: Kazuya gives Victorique various Japanese snacks in exchange for her help.
* [[Girl in A Box]]: Kazuya finds one in episode 9.
* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]
** Victorique carries a pipe and enjoys [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gosick_vol_1.jpg smoking] it in the novels.
** It may be a bubble pipe in the anime; no smoke and no tobacco are visible. Possibly a case of [[No Smoking]], as it's illegal to show underage people smoking or drinking alcohol on Japanese public television.
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* [[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
* [[Hime Cut]]: Victorique and Kazuya's sister.
* [[Holding Hands]]: Happens a lot during Kazuya and Victorique's various [[Ship Tease]] moments.
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* [[Improbable Hairstyle]]: [[This Is a Drill|Grevil]], which Kazuya immediately points out and Victorique relentlessly mocks. Grevil mentions to Kazuya that it was Victorique's idea in exchange for her cooperation on a case, and was one of the reasons he doesn't like asking for her help directly.
* [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]: There are an astonishing number of Sauvillian women who look very much like the late Queen Coco Rose. To make matters even weirder, she was not known for her plain, generic features (which might explain such a coincidence), but for being one of the country's most celebrated beauties. Given how much Coco Rose's inspiration Marie Antoinette influenced contemporary fashion, it meant that many women actually ''tried'' to look like her. That, a large enough sample size, and the usual stylization can explain the rest.
* [[In
* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: {{spoiler|Things get considerably darker once the Marquis de Blois takes an active role in proceedings.}}
* [[Large Ham]]: Grevil, who even has hammy, over-exaggerated ''[[This Is a Drill|hair]]''. According to his [[Beleaguered Childhood Friend|childhood friend]] -- who married someone else -- he used to behave differently before he got the hair. Which means that he decided to become a ham ''in order to live up to his hair''.
* [[Last
* [[Little Girls Kick Shins]]: When Victorique is particularly annoyed/bored, she invariably expresses her annoyance with a kick to Kujo's shin.
* [[Little Miss Snarker]]: ''Victorique''
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** In episode 21 Victorique tries on a crown (it's prop, not a real one). It's much too big and actually covers her entire face when she's not holding it up. Her whole purpose in trying it on was to make certain that it could contain an entire human head of specific size.
* [[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]] [[
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Pulled off by ''{{spoiler|[[Upperclass 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.
* [[Of Corset Hurts]]: Victorique runs afoul of an antique one in episode 22.
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* [[Screaming Birth]]: {{spoiler|Victorique's. Highly justified, given that the birth in question was [[Kick the Dog|an obstetrician's nightmare]].}}
* [[Secret War]]: Between [[Magic Versus Science|the Ministry of the Occult and the Science Academy]], two powerful political factions battling over control of the government.
* [[Self
* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Victorique is very good at this, though her tendency to rely on second-hand information means that she lacks much of the corresponding [[Hyper Awareness]] when she's on the scene herself.
* [[Ship Tease]]
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* [[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.
* [[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
* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: {{spoiler|Victorique looks so much like Cordelia that even Kazuya and Grevil, ''her own brother'', mistake the daughter for the mother and vice versa. Apparently Cordelia's hometown in filled with [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]. Her mother has noticably larger breasts (that is, [[Pettanko|any]]) than her daughter, even after the [[Time Skip]] where we see Victorique at around 18, but it's hard to tell under the frills.}}
* [[Sugar and Ice Personality]] / [[Tsundere]]: Victorique occupies the middle ground between the two, being more cranky than the average [[Sugar and Ice Personality]] and more reserved than the average [[Tsundere]].
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* [[The Watson]]: Kazuya
* [[What the Hell Dad]]: Albert De Blois towards his son, Grevil. {{spoiler|With his daughter, Victorique, though, [[Abusive Parents|things are considerably worse]].}}
* [[White
* [[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.}}
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