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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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* [[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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* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Cordeila and the Brians are dead, Sabure is severely disrupted by war, but Kujo and Victorique are finally reunited and are assumed to be married and live happily after.}}
* [[Blue Eyes]]: Avril
* [[Bratty Half
* [[Breather Episode]]: Episode 12.
* [[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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* [[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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* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Whilst the series as a whole doesn't qualify, the background struggle between the [[Magic Versus Science|Ministry of the Occult and Science Academy]] definitely does.
* [[Eye Scream]]: Roxanne the [[Fortune Teller]] gets killed off this way.
* [[Fair Play
* [[Fake Ultimate Hero|Fake Ultimate Detective]]: Grevil, thanks to taking all the credit for Victorique's deductions.
* [[Faking the Dead]]
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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 [
** 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.
* [[Gorgeous Period Dress]]: Even though the series is set in [[The Roaring Twenties]], Victorique wears old-fashioned [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] style dresses. Possibly explained in that Victorique is said to sound and act like an old woman, and tends to be given old hand-me-downs by her family rather than anything more modern due to her ''interesting'' parental issues.
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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
* [[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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* [[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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** Victorique usually wears a frilly bonnet. In episode 6 they briefly wore a jewelled turban, though it looked silly on her.
** 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
* [[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|[[
* [[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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* [[Parental Abandonment]]: {{spoiler|Victorique's mother was forcefully separated from her after birth. Her father, meanwhile, took this to the point of actual abuse until Grevil stepped in.}}
* [[Phantom Thief]]: {{spoiler|The Second Kuiaran.}}
* [[Phone
* [[Ping
* [[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.}}
* [[Schedule Slip]]: Episode 10 was delayed a week, and episode 11 was delayed until the 1st of April because of the [[
* [[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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** Looks like Avril now has a thing for Kazuya according to Episode 13
* [[Shorter Means Smarter]]: Victorique and Luigi.
* [[Shout
** 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
* [[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]].
* [[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.}}
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: A common fate for criminals outed by Kazuya and Victorique. {{spoiler|Harminia}} is particularly notable for starting her breakdown ''before'' this - clearly, {{spoiler|plotting to destroy the village that's been your home for most of your life}} is [[Captain Obvious|somewhat detrimental to one's mental wellbeing]].
* [[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.}}
* [[You Wake Up in
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