Story: It all starts in the spring of the year 1924 when Kazuya Kujo is sent to Saubure as a transfer student to St. Marguerite Academy. Here horror stories and urban legends are popular and due to his appearance he is ostracized by his classmates. Once he goes to the library though things begin to change, there he meets a small brilliant girl by the name of Victorique. Victorique is able to solve any mystery you throw at her and as a result is usually asked for help in solving crimes from her brother Grevil. Shortly after they meet Victorique and Kazuya find themselves being thrown into one mystery after another. Throughout the show the story never gets boring as you never know what exactly is going to come next. You may think that the first half of the story is irrelevant to the rest but it places key factors for the second half and not only that you see great character development from both Victorique and Kazuya as well as some interesting mysteries. The second half of the series is where this show truly shines though, from masterful storytelling to even greater character development the second half is just simply amazing.
Characters: Victorique is a brilliant girl who spends all day in the library of the academy reading books only really leaving it to sleep. She is noted for her small height and long golden hair appearing almost doll-like to people. She hates boredom and loves sweets, though initially cold to Kujo she begins to open up more to him as the series progresses and also has wonderful character development throughout the story.
Kujo is a Japanese exchange student who wants to live up to his father high expectations. His appearance getting him a bad reputation from the others at the academy, he doesn't manage to make any friends until he meets Victorique. Throughout the story his character develops quite wonderfully from a boy who just uphold his families honer to a man who wants to protect the woman he loves.
The side characters of the story provide a good support to the story throughout the series, from the funny moments that help gives the viewer a breather from the drama and mysteries (but yet not to long of a break to make us get bored with the story) to the other side characters help provide with the great drama, mysteries and sometimes though a bit of action as well.
Art and Sound: The art of the show is great as well as it provides good animation and wonder environments with great detail to the people, places and other things as well. The sound of the show was great as well, from great voice actors that fit the characters to a great opening song and two great closings for the show.
Enjoyment: The show was very enjoyable from beginning to end from the great mysteries and wonderful romance it managed to keep me guessing what would happen next and also managed to tug the heartstrings at the same time.
Overall: Overall with all of the character developments and the outstanding story, Gosick truly provides a wonderful story from beginning to end which is one of the best anime endings of all time in my opinion. I would highly recommend this anime to anyone who loves mysteries, romances and/or dramas.
This anime is truly a masterpiece.
