Gosick

Kazuya Kujou is a foreign student at Saint Marguerite Academy, a luxurious boarding school in the Southern European country of Sauville. Originally from Japan, his jet-black hair and dark brown eyes cause his peers to shun him and give him the nickname "Black Reaper," based on a popular urban legend about the traveler who brings death in the spring.

On a day like any other, Kujou visits the school's extravagant library in search of ghost stories. However, his focus soon changes as he becomes curious about a golden strand of hair on the stairs. The steps lead him to a large garden and a beautiful doll-like girl known as Victorique de Blois, whose complex and imaginative foresight allows her to predict their futures, now intertwined.

With more mysteries quickly developing—including the appearance of a ghost ship and an alchemist with the power of transmutation—Victorique and Kujou, bound by fate and their unique skills, have no choice but to rely on each other.

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de Blois, Victorique Main

Yuuki, Aoi Japanese

Kujou, Kazuya Main

Eguchi, Takuya Japanese

Gallo, Cordelia Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Roscoe, Brian Supporting

Ookawa, Tooru Japanese

de Blois, Grevil Supporting

Kiuchi, Hidenobu Japanese

Lafitte, Cecile Supporting

Kano, Yui Japanese

Bradley, Avril Supporting

Shitaya, Noriko Japanese

Leviathan Supporting

Hayami, Show Japanese

The Orphan Supporting

Nazuka, Kaori Japanese

Ambrose Supporting

Abe, Atsushi Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Amano, Naoki Producer

Beniya, Yoshikazu Producer

Kobayashi, Junka Producer

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Feb 14, 2025

BlackGlove

Recommended

Gosick starts off with a mix of high and lower stakes mystery cases that aren't deeply involved with the two main characters in the long run, so there's not much motivation to keep coming back for more. But once the two build a stronger bond, and mysteries turn into conspiracies that can put them both in danger, that's when the anime really hits its stride. And on the point of romance, it very much delivers without feeling tongue in cheek or cliché. The anime does a good job of building them up, making you care about them both as individual characters and when they're together.

The ... setting is also really good. It is set mostly in 1924, shortly after the first world war. Carriages were still in use, telephones weren't everywhere. Delivering messages or knowing another person's location was very difficult. When one of the two protagonists cannot find the other, there is a lot of tension, because there's no way to know what might be happening. The anime doesn't treat this lightly, there's no teleporting the characters around to serve the plot. The lack of technology helps in adding a good deal of tension and suspense.

Furthermore, about the production quality: the art style, animation, and sound design, sometimes feel like movie quality. It has its highs, but never hits any noticeable lows. It is largely consistent on its presentation quality.

While mysteries and conspiracies take center-stage, which sometimes can be slow-paced, the careful build up of the romance between the two leads and what they go through together and for each other is what makes this anime worth a watch.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Apr 1, 2025

maxbraketorque

Mixed Feelings

The story starts off very interesting with the two main characters interacting. The animation style and quality were ahead of its time, and it felt like I was watching a very recent anime rather than a nearly 15-year old anime. There is a mix of action and interesting sleuthing in perhaps the first twelve episodes. And there is some relationship development between the two main characters.

The character types were good enough for me at first. The main character Victorique is typical tsundere, almost to the point of being annoying, but I suppose I get easily annoyed by the tsundere character type ... now. At any rate, I didn't let it bother me. What did bother me more was that the second character, a boy, was pretty helpless. He somewhat dense and meek, and it pretty much never changes throughout the series. Ultimately, all he really does is provide mental support for the main character by being a nice guy despite Victorique continually treating him poorly.

The primary reason for the reduced rating is that the second half of the season is rushed, and the story is even more contrived than the first season. Ridiculously impossible situations occur that are ignored by key characters, and things happen that make no sense. Having not read the manga, I can't tell if there is an issue with story adaptation, if too much story is crammed into the second half of the season, or if the manga story is just that bad towards the end.

My overall recommendation is to only watch the first 12 episodes. That's reasonably satisfying.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Apr 22, 2022

sana_a99

Not Recommended

Wow this actually has a high rating for some reason.

I rewatched Gosick recently and boy was it bad.

Firstly the characters. Do people actually like little girls kicking boys that they like? He would ask her a simple question and she would kick him or hit him. And kujo would actually forgive her and BRING HER SWEETS. If it were the other way around, with him hitting her, everyone would be pissed. Kujo is the reason why this relationship even exists. Yeah he's a boring character with not much to offer, but you have to admit, he's sweet and treats her right. Victorique, on the other ... hand, is pure garbage. I can't believe anyone actually likes her. A few nice words does not cover up the fact that she's abusive both emotionally and physically. Not only does she hits him, she also calls him stupid and useless all the time.

They're romance is non existent. If you think that's romance, it's not. They're no chemistry, mutual understanding, or memories that makes the viewers go : aww this couple is meant to be together. They magically need each other and want each other, but there were no steps leading to that development. It was done poorly. The shoved their romance in the last few episodes. It was super cringy and sappy.

Next for the mystery component. Yeah, I guess it could be called mystery since there were cases, but like others mentioned it was done poorly as well. A lot of it was Victorique assuming things to be true without any real evidence, and those assumptions were magically correct. Throughout, she was the only one who solved things, while others were just her dogs, doing whatever she asked of them. So it was redundant and predictable.

Next, the whole gray wolf concept. What really is a gray wolf? They brushed over their powers. They're supposed to be very important beings, but we don't even know most of their powers. Do they actually become gray wolves? Do they have magic? Victorique's power is intellegence, but what about the rest of them? What was her mother's powers? What was so special about her and Brian and the rest of them? If they're so powerful, how come no one else is seeking for them? If they're so powerful, how did her mother managed to get captured and how were they unable to help victorique escape?

Next the part of the mother's story. Yes, it was sad, but it could've been very well avoided. Did her mother really let her daughter be in the tower all these years? Why did she wait all these years to kill the marquis? How did she know everything would work out all right? What was the whole point stalking her daughter when she could've spend time with her whenever victorique was out with kujo? And if Victorique couldve left the library all along why didnt she? She left the library all the time with kujo. Was she waiting for someone to hangout with her?

Brian, his brothers, and cordilias deaths were the stupidest things ever. Useless deaths. With their "powers" they could've killed Albert any time they wanted to lol. There was nothing stopping them. But they waited years to get revenge after leaving her daughter behind? What selfish mother would leave the daughter behind knowing that her daughter is being held captive? I certainly would make sure I got her out as soon as possible.

I think the best thing about this show was the story of the queen and leviathan.

The side characters were all just there without purpose. They had no importance to the storyline. The annoying teacher who didn't have a life. She didn't even teach lol. The annoying blonde girl who always followed kujo. Victorique's brother was fine, I guess. He was struggling between listening to his father and being a good brother. I think he deserved a better story and could've even had romance with the girl he liked. But if course not. They just focused on kujo and Victorique and screwed every one else.

Thank you for reading this long long review. I hoped it helped!

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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	Poll: Gosick Episode 22 Discussion ( 1 2 3 ) tsubasalover - Jun 17, 2011	115 replies	by Albertpaygar342 »» Mar 29, 4:49 PM
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