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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]].

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

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

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

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

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

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

* [[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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* [[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 As Backstory|far]] [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|nastier]].}}

* [[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 as Backstory|far]] [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|nastier]].}}

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

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

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

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

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

* [[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]].}}

* [[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]].}}

* [[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 As Backstory|Wr]]-[[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|ong]]!}}

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

* [[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 ~~(Literature)~~|Remind you of anything?]]

** 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|Remind you of anything?]]

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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-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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* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Avril and Victorique.

* {{spoiler|[[Together in Death]]: Cordelia and one of the Roscoes.}}

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

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

* [[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.

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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 A Room]]: The food at the Miniature Garden Box Evening was drugged, and when everyone wakes up, they've been moved to another room.

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