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| great way to end the episode and an enjoyable series 9/10 |
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Imanza said: It's that mystery tag that ends up misleading and ultimately disappointing so many people when it comes to this series. A lot of people have said it before, but this is NOT a mystery series. It's a historical drama that has elements of mystery in it. I enjoyed Gosick for what it is. I LOVED the atmosphere of this show. That had to be one of the highlights for me. Post-WWI Sauville was such a rich and beautiful setting, and the characters were all very rich and interesting to match. Although the character and plot developments don't really go anywhere until the second half of the series, the mini-arc format of the first half still held my interest and still served its purpose in fleshing out the setting of the story. Of course, the second half is where the series really shined. Everything just fell together so perfectly, but the tension was maintained at just the right pace and by some miracle, there was a perfect blend of development between the bigger plot and the relationships between the characters but nothing was sacrificed and nothing felt rushed. Overall, it was a very entertaining show. Kurogashi said: oh jeez, they did it. the open ending with a slight nudge to the 'ideal ending, yet you will never know for sure. did they live? probably. but with the changing scenes at the end, the scene of kujo's legs being blown off, and the scene with the book and the closing door -- yeah, we'll never know for sure. Really? I thought it was a pretty clear ending. I don't think Gosick is the type of mindscrew series that wants to leave you guessing between what's real and what's not. They made it pretty clear that Kujo's legs being blown off was either a dream or a hallucination from the way that whole segment is shot with this grainy, surreal quality. I think the whole point of that part was to show us how he pulled through the war because the thought of living to see Victorique again gave him strength. As for the scene with the door and the book, that was pretty clear too. It was used to symbolise a new world after the war where superstitious stories like the ones everyone in Sauville used to believe in wouldn't influence people's thinking the way they did in the past. An end to the occult and the beginning of a more rational age, you could say. I also thought the ending scene was meant to strongly imply that Kujo and Victorique got married and lived happily ever after, but to each their own I guess. Winner. Thought I was gonna have to come in here and say all that, but looks like you beat me to it. Beautiful story. Came in expecting a mystery, left with a powerful drama and a masterpiece, if not damn near close to one. But now what am I supposed to follow this series up with?... Geez. |
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| Oh Gosick...It was everything I could hope for and so much more. The ending was beautiful. I sound like a sap but I'm so glad they got their happily ever after :'D |
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| I felt like the last episode was a bit too rushed with Kujo and Victorique getting only about 2 minutes of screen time after their reunion. Despite the last episode feeling rushed, I did love that ending. It pretty much screams "They get married and live happily ever after!" which is the sort of ending I wanted for Gosick. I give this an 8/10 for keeping me interested this long. I only took off points because A) a couple of episodes were so boring I took a break from the show and B) that last episode was very rushed. |
| First episode bored me to death, premise wasn't something that I'd be interested in for a long time and the other 9 eps that I had on my iPod were waiting to be watched for more than a month, waiting for a second chance so to say, maybe the anime steps it up. Ep2 nailed it and I was hooked and marathoned it in two sessions. One of the best dynamic between MCs that I've seen in an anime. VA of Victorique did an outstanding job. The whole story is a bit light and Kujo was a bit too impertinent and annoying with his constant "Victorique!" screams. But other than that this was a beautiful story nontheless, portrayed in a fantastic way. Not showing a kiss or a confession in a cliched/cheesy way, ruining everything they build up was smart. Although the reunion was emotionally 'demanding' (that poor Victorique loosing hope there for a second, oh god :'( ) I thought it'd sad that they didn't even hug. But I guess that underlines how close they were in each others heart, while being far away from each other. Beautiful anime. 9/10 |
nantukoJul 9, 2013 9:03 AM
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Atenias said: No Kujo didn't lose his legs. Just his imagination/nightmare. If you noticed, then you'd see he was in the desert. Kujo fought in the 'north', where there are no deserts. Losing his leg is only a metaphor that he lost the ability to reach for Victorique and that Kujo feels alone in the world without her by his side. Overall, I didn't like the ending where Victorique was wearing white clothes (bridal robe?). 1) She didn't grow a little bit. 2) Blushing (in love?) Victorique doesn't suit her. 3) Very unclear scene: did Victorique got married to Kujo? If so, why wasn't Kujo wearing a suit. 4) Where did they get the dress from? Actually, he did lose his legs. Two things to support my claim: 1) He appears to much taller than Victorique when they reunite. His height doesn not resemble that of normal growth (out of proportion, legs are too long) over the course of 4 years. 2) If you look closely at his legs, it is very thin and wrapped like a mummy. In conclusion, he is wearing prosthetic limbs. Poor guy, lost his legs to the war. But thanks to their love, they were able to reunite and hopefully live together happily ever after. As for Vic's hair turning grey/silver/white, I suppose it could be shock as people have mentioned and it could also be just to dramatize her being the Grey Wolf. I personally prefer her gold hair better, but whatever. Overall, the show had really amazing moments (mostly those involving Vic's and Kujo's clumsy relationship) and not too great moments (those weird awkward cases). This show would have made a great slic-of-life thanks to Vic's tsundere-ness and Kujo's stupidity + attachment to the former. But I suppose it wouldnt have been any special of a show without the mystery and complex plot. 10/10 + Victorique as a new favorite character. I have a soft-spot for smart, loli, tsuderes |
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| love how they ended it, its sad to see it finish but all good things must come to a end and a animes is even better when they finish with a ending imo |
| I thought Kujou was dead for sure. Great ending, I'll miss this show. |
| I usually don't like these kinds of endings with time-skips and grown-up versions of the main characters (I hated the Harry Potter ending for instance). But gosick had a nice ending, and thanks to Wikipidia I think i understand the whole plot now :) I wouldn't change anything. Overall rating: 8 |
| Amazing. I came here for my love of loli detectives, no, wait, just all round lolis after watching Kamisama no Memochou. I was not disappointed. I still want more, though. Then again, I always want more. This is why Victorique's hair turned silver. Does anyone else think Grevil looks hot with his hair down? I'm guilty, I do. |
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| fucking beautiful |
| I'm a sucker for happy endings, especially after they trolled me into thinking Kujo died None of the mysteries (except for Leviathan's which was probably the only well thought out one) interested me but thankfully the plot improved! Very addicting and emotionally involving series! Soundtrack when she was reading his letter melted my heart, and I think it was stated earlier but her hair likely changed from all the enormous amounts of stress she was experiencing in such a short timespan. I believe it is called Marie Antoinette Syndrome. 5/5! |
| Absolutely loved it! I think it was the episode with Leviathan where the anime picked up and it was enthralling and fascinating ever since. I am so glad that Kujou and Victorique ended up together otherwise all their hardships would have been for naught and would have been unbelievably sad. Because of how they suffered, how they longed for getting to meet one another, and believing that they would see one another once again, and finally being able to be together, have made the anime an amazing experience for me. Wonderful animation, amazing soundtracks, captivating story, intriguing characters, and a memorable finale, all that I look for in an anime and thus anime deserves nothing less than a 10/10 in my book. :) |
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shanimebib said: I was almost in tears fearing the fact that Kujou might have died.Absolutely loved it! I think it was the episode with Leviathan where the anime picked up and it was enthralling and fascinating ever since. I am so glad that Kujou and Victorique ended up together otherwise all their hardships would have been for naught and would have been unbelievably sad. Because of how they suffered, how they longed for getting to meet one another, and believing that they would see one another once again, and finally being able to be together, have made the anime an amazing experience for me. Wonderful animation, amazing soundtracks, captivating story, intriguing characters, and a memorable finale, all that I look for in an anime and thus anime deserves nothing less than a 10/10 in my book. :) |
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Diran-kun said: shanimebib said: I was almost in tears fearing the fact that Kujou might have died.Absolutely loved it! I think it was the episode with Leviathan where the anime picked up and it was enthralling and fascinating ever since. I am so glad that Kujou and Victorique ended up together otherwise all their hardships would have been for naught and would have been unbelievably sad. Because of how they suffered, how they longed for getting to meet one another, and believing that they would see one another once again, and finally being able to be together, have made the anime an amazing experience for me. Wonderful animation, amazing soundtracks, captivating story, intriguing characters, and a memorable finale, all that I look for in an anime and thus anime deserves nothing less than a 10/10 in my book. :) I was scared to see how many minutes left for the anime! I wasn't going to give this a 10/10 if it weren't for the two getting to be together. :) |
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shanimebib said: I would have given it a 10/10 either way.Diran-kun said: shanimebib said: I was almost in tears fearing the fact that Kujou might have died.Absolutely loved it! I think it was the episode with Leviathan where the anime picked up and it was enthralling and fascinating ever since. I am so glad that Kujou and Victorique ended up together otherwise all their hardships would have been for naught and would have been unbelievably sad. Because of how they suffered, how they longed for getting to meet one another, and believing that they would see one another once again, and finally being able to be together, have made the anime an amazing experience for me. Wonderful animation, amazing soundtracks, captivating story, intriguing characters, and a memorable finale, all that I look for in an anime and thus anime deserves nothing less than a 10/10 in my book. :) I was scared to see how many minutes left for the anime! I wasn't going to give this a 10/10 if it weren't for the two getting to be together. :) Loli detectives are awesome. |
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| Shit dawg. That ending was so cash. All the feels flowing free, like really. Anime on the whole was pretty aight, but it ended magnificently. tbh, I thought Kujo was dead or seriously maimed and I was all types of angry over it. I'm glad he survived, but if he did die it would have made for a much sadder but overall better ending. Either way the series is very memorable. Blonde hair Victorique is about 10x better then silver. Avril can continue to suck. |
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haloff1 said: you know there's a sequel coming up in December right? furthermore the final pages of the novel shows what their life together is like many years in the future as a married couple so yeah I'd say it's 100% guaranteed they didn't die lolDuskGolem said: I'm pretty sure they died though... Maybe I've just seen too many horror movies but the build-up, the symbolism, and other things just made it seem super obvious to me they died and the last scene is in the afterlife. I mean, first you have the comment early in the series that the two of them will die apart, but their hearts will be together. We have the scene where Avril throws the bottle in the sea and it comes back to her (as there is no one to deliver it too). We have the fact that Grevil puts his hair down again now (as he no longer is obliged to do so as Victorique died). We have the literal scene where we see Kujo alone in the battlefield, his legs are no more, he crawls into a light and thinks he see's Victoria, and goes into that bright light that consumes him from the sky. The scene of the moving book based on the monster and the rabbit being discarded as history, and then the picture coming to life and the characters being sucked into a gate of light and disappearing. The story that alludes to the two of them even has the characters dying in the story, and after the animated pictures get sucked up into the gate of light they are no longer in the story or on the books cover (because they are no longer in this world). The whole 'if the heart dies, then I die' talk, which is followed by seeing Kujo die. And then in the end scene when they meet up, magically Kujo has his legs and hair back again and everything is A-okay, they walk and suddenly the barren wasteland turns into a field of flowers and they walk through angelic gates... I mean, it just seems so obvious that they died to me but it seems most didn't pick up on it. I hate you for your logical analyse Victorique-bis sama. |
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| Score for this anime 10/10 Excellent voice acting,epic atmosphere,very interesting past`s,and lastly a beautiful ending i hope this anime gets a season 2! |
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DuskGolem said: I'm pretty sure they died though... Maybe I've just seen too many horror movies but the build-up, the symbolism, and other things just made it seem super obvious to me they died and the last scene is in the afterlife. Some people think so, i think they are wrong for some simple reasons, the anime don't show how and where Victorica die, there is a date displayed when they meet in Japan (alterlife don't have time and space), Kujo legs seems a blatant dream, and moreover the original novel end with them together in the real world. Yes there are some symbols that may be interpretated this way to make the end more strong (Yosuga no Sora ending is a lot more misterious even if the original videogame is pretty clear how it end) but this is not the case, the original novel has now an official sequel (and sequels can't be made if main characters dies unless is an alternate world with a different storyline or a complete spin-off, but for what i read seems not the case since main cast simply grow up). Btw, hope they animate the sequel too when there is enought material. |
Fn76Dec 19, 2013 4:08 AM
| great ending to the series, felt a bit rushed. overall: 9/10 not sure if anyone's noticed, but around the end in the scene where there's a blond hair guy working in the library or something (the one who picks up the charming monster book), who is he? Kujo? |
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| 1000000000000000/10 for me. great ending. I loved it. Bravo. About the white hair: I think the police were looking for a blonde haired short female, so dying her hair seemed reasonable. |
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| So no one is questioning how Vic suddenly got silver hair, that's cool... The big gale didn't end up being WWII, I didn't see that coming. Was really happy that both Grevil and Kujo have their normal hair again. But no one had aged other than the smart, previously street rat kid. Were the people Vic was staying with someone we should recognise? And what was all the crap about not understanding her language, she was obviously speaking Japanese... unless everyone was theoretically speaking English, oh whatever. It was a cute ending but I don't know... it wasn't all that great. OH! I almost forgot! Where was the crap Kujo was supposed to tell Vic when they meet again (quoting from one of the letters Kujo was writing)?! |
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| Beautiful ending .......love this show till the end , except for Kujo when he shouts "Victorique" all the time , it was annoying. But overall , Gosick is a great anime. |
| I liked this anime a good deal, enough to give it an 8/10 to be precise, but that doesn't mean this anime is executed that well. Outside of Victorique, all the characters are static, and Kujo might be the single most bland and generic male lead in any anime ever. On a side note, it seems most anime are this way, so does this mean that most japanese males are like that or are anime creators just unimaginative. |
| Ended well enough though it seriously needed some more Kujo x Victorique for a more satisfying epilogue. Caz that ending was weak, can't deny. At least it ended with everything resolved and them back together. 8/10 |
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| i loved that they mixed the end with the music that was a great anime |
| Victorique Side *Roscoe twin falls off* MY reaction: well that happened *see's that he is still alive* well OK then just don't go insane again. *Roscoe twin #2 DIes* welp NOW your dead. anyway this was an amazing ending to this anime.i definitely felt happy and depressed(for more reasons then 1) while watching this. Happy for Kujo finally reuniting with Victorique(i had THE BIGGEST smile on my face). the silver hair thing was a little odd although that theory on stress causing that is interesting. on a side note going back to Roscoe twin #2 Falling off if people are wondering how he survived if you look closely when they pan out and show the area you can see there is a ledge not far down from where he fell, so i'm assuming he fell their and just climbed back up with his injury. anyway Kujo going through war was pretty cool, although i actually thought he lost his legs when they showed him in some kinda Desert.(thought it might have been some kinda scenario where its like "oh this is the price you must pay to reunite with your loved one" kind thing but alas that was some weird dream) anway beautiful anime, great animations and story. loved the characters(although a little more characters development with a few of them the teachers and Avril for instance would have been nice. but that's all i really thought about that i didn't like about this anime)Speaking of avril her scene with the bottle at the end made me die. anyway ultimately i have no real issues present with this anime it really isn't a favorite for me and it did have a few downsides, mainly towards the beginning, so my final score is 9/10 with a seal of Awesome. |
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| That epilogue was a bit...disappointing. I'm happy they were able to reunite after 5 years, but I hoped for much more. Just a few more scenes (like them living together or at least a kiss) and I would have been happy :/ I also hoped for heroic moment for Kujou, not just him coming back like nothing happened (though him surviving the war was kinda heroic in its own way). I was afraid for a sec when they showed him without legs :S Victorique's hair turning silver was a nice touch (I guess it was due to the big shocks that happened in a mere few days). I liked her more with gold hair, but this suits her as well :) I heard that theory about them actually being dead, but I also heard the ending of the novel (vaguely) so I'm glad that's not the case at all (though the anime might have intentionally gone with an ambiguous ending like that). The anime was amazing. The story, the art style (and the era) and the OST were all great (I especially loved the first ED). The characters, mainly Victorique were great of course. Kujou wasn't a bad lead, I really liked his gentemanly nature (though him always shouting Victorique was kind of annoying after a while :D ). Victorique was just simply amazing. Nothing less, I don't feel the need to say more about her :) I really don't get what was really Avril's point. She was so unnecessary. I mean she wasn't even a competition (Thank god!) for Victorique... and Kujou never even thought about loving her... Her parts could have easily been replaced by the teacher or any random person really. The chemistry between Victorique and Kujou was what made the show beautiful for me. I know they are pretty much officially together, but I'm sad they didn't at least kiss :( The anime gets a 9/10 from me. It was not perfect and it didn't become a favorite, but it was definitely a wonderful show :) I might read the novels in the future (mainly since I heard that its story wasn't followed and adapted as it should have been and the anime kind of deviated from it). |
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samuraigirl said: zeroryoko1974 said: Great show, how did Victorique turn her hair silver? You know, there is a theory that sudden shock can turn the hair white. Here is a link I found: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/29/the_odd_body_shock_hair/ . So in Victoirque's case there was the death of Cordelia and Brian, plus she knew nothing about Kujo. Anyway, beautiful ending, although it was a bit rushed. ^^ I think maybe you're thinking too much into it. I know this is an old post, but a lot of characters I've seen have witnessed some horrible things and never got the silver hair treatment, so to speak. I think it was more or less her trying to conceal her identity than anything. |
| Wow! What an ending! xD Really awesome and unique anime, I enjoyed the mysterious a lot genre and scenes a lot! They were really interesting....and the way the "puzzle pieces" of the certain mystery were put together to solve the mystery was awesome! Really good anime overall: Lovable characters (Victorique! x3), awesome plot, and beautiful artwork~! So worth watching. :3 |
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| Yeeey happy ending. I'm usually rooting for the bad ones 'cause I like chaos, but this time I was definitely rooting for a good one. I'd get very pissed if things went the other way around |
| I've never really appreciated Kujo and Victorique's romance until the last scene.. but I still think this anime is better off with no romance and that it should just go for more mysteries. Anyway even though it was a good and happy ending I still remember how annoying Kujo was the entire time and that adulterous Coco is still living the life with her son. Mysteries lacked consistency and has some plot holes 6/10 |
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| That ending was so beautiful, i thought the ending would be bitter sweet ending but thank God it didn't, Definitely one of my favorites anime out there, so glad that i tried to watch gosick. but sadly there was no kiss 'till the end :( , judging by the wedding dress, i think they got married but still they should've kiss but anyways it's forgivable since the ending was satisfying... Overall score 9/10, would give it a perfect score if there was a kiss :P |
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| Perfect anime. 10/10, fav list and Victorique goes to fav characters, there is no other option. One of the most beautiful stories i've ever seen! I can't find words to describe this series! |
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