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* BellyDancer: Episode 6 reveals the origins of Cordelia Gallo, who came to Saubreme after being shunned by her home village. She began to work as a dancer at a cabaret, and managed to catch the attentions of [[spoiler: the Brian Roscoe brothers and Marquis de Blois.]]
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The story is set in 1924, in the fictional European country of Sauville ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS 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 Franchise/SherlockHolmes more than [[Manga/RozenMaiden 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 [[ArtStyleDissonance moe-style art]], its tone is rather serious.
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The story is set in 1924, in the fictional European country of Sauville ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS ([[InconsistentSpelling 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 Franchise/SherlockHolmes Franchise/SherlockHolmes, or more closely, Literature/NeroWolfe, more than [[Manga/RozenMaiden 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 [[ArtStyleDissonance moe-style art]], its tone is rather serious.
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* AngryCheekPuff: PlayedForLaughs when Kazuya finds Victorique sulking with her cheek puffed, but assumes the inflated cheek means she has a tooth cavity. This only makes her more upset which causes her face to get even more red and inflated, and he thinks she's getting worse so he hurries off to find a dentist.
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* {{Bishounen}}:
** Inspector Blois is fairly attractive, if you can ignore his absurd haircut. In Episode 11, we see him before he got his strange new hairstyle. [[MrFanservice No doubt the female fans were quite pleased.]] In Episode 13, he shows up without his hairstyle and neither Kazuya nor Cecile recognize him. The latter swoons.
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** Inspector Blois is fairly attractive, if you can ignore his absurd haircut. In Episode 11, we see him before he got his strange new hairstyle. [[MrFanservice No doubt the female fans were quite pleased.]] In Episode 13, he shows up without his hairstyle and neither Kazuya nor Cecile recognize him. The latter swoons.
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* PrettyBoy: Inspector Blois is fairly attractive, if you can ignore his absurd haircut. In Episode 11, we see him before he got his strange new hairstyle. [[MrFanservice No doubt the female fans were quite pleased.]] In Episode 13, he shows up without his hairstyle and neither Kazuya nor Cecile recognize him. The latter swoons.
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* AbusiveParent: Albert de Blois uses Victorique for her intellect, so he keeps her locked away with only books for company and refers too her as [[ItIsDehumanizing 'the little grey wolf']].
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* AdaptationalMundanity: The anime downplays heavily all the supernatural elements from the light novel, particularly the Grey Wolves's nature, which the anime implies to be simply a very smart HumanSubspecies without anything special about them. In the novel, however, it's stated they are supernaturally bond to the Old World and will die if they try to travel abroad.
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* AdaptationalMundanity: The anime downplays heavily all the supernatural elements from the light novel, particularly the Grey Wolves's nature, which the anime implies to be simply a very smart HumanSubspecies without anything special about them. In the novel, however, it's stated they are supernaturally bond bound to the Old World and will die if they try to travel abroad.
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The light novel establishes the Grey Wolves are supernaturally unable to leave the Old World, and they will die if they tried. That's the true reason [[spoiler:why the last Brian Roscoe dies in the ship and why Victorique's hair turns silver; she only manages to survive the ordeal because she's technically only a half-Grey Wolf.]] However, in the anime continuity [[spoiler:the Roscoe brothers are also half-Grey Wolf children , which means he should have survived just as Victorique if the rule still applied. The reason why he suddenly dies in the ship, even although he seemed to be only superficially wounded and was receiving medical attention, is never explained, nor is Victorique's hair change. If anything, it's only implied that it might be a case of DeathByDespair and PrematurelyGreyHaired respectively due to all the tragic events.]]
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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The light novel establishes the Grey Wolves are supernaturally unable to leave the Old World, and they will die if they tried. That's the true reason [[spoiler:why the last Brian Roscoe dies in the ship and why Victorique's hair turns silver; she only manages to survive the ordeal because she's technically only a half-Grey Wolf.]] However, in the anime continuity [[spoiler:the Roscoe brothers are also half-Grey Wolf children , children, which means he should have survived just as Victorique if the rule still applied. The reason why he suddenly dies in the ship, even although he seemed to be only superficially wounded and was receiving medical attention, is never explained, nor is Victorique's hair change. If anything, it's only implied that it might be a case of DeathByDespair and PrematurelyGreyHaired respectively due to all the tragic events.]]
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* AlwaysMurder: Averted in the Jeantan and Leviathan cases, which did not ender in murder [[spoiler:though the latter was [[DeathTrap a bit more complicated]]]].
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* AlwaysMurder: Averted in the Jeantan and Leviathan cases, which did not ender end in murder [[spoiler:though the latter was [[DeathTrap a bit more complicated]]]].
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* BatmanGambit: In Episode 22, Victorique uses one on Kujo (and the other students at the school to an extent) to make sure that when they take a gift from under the Christmas tree he gets the one she brought. With her Wellspring of Wisdom, she knew exactly how they would react so, so the outcome was inevitable.
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* BatmanGambit: In Episode 22, Victorique uses one on Kujo (and the other students at the school to an extent) to make sure that when they take a gift from under the Christmas tree he gets the one she brought. With her Wellspring of Wisdom, she knew exactly how they would react so, react, so the outcome was inevitable.
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* BellyDancer: Episode 6 reveals the origins of Cordelia Gallo, whom came to Saubreme after being shunned by her home village. She began to work as a dancer at a cabaret, and managed to catch the attentions of [[spoiler: the Brian Roscue brothers and Marquis de Blois.]]
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* BellyDancer: Episode 6 reveals the origins of Cordelia Gallo, whom who came to Saubreme after being shunned by her home village. She began to work as a dancer at a cabaret, and managed to catch the attentions of [[spoiler: the Brian Roscue Roscoe brothers and Marquis de Blois.]]
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* ChildrenForcedToKill: In episodes two and three of the anime adaptation, Victorique and Kujo discover information about an incident 10 years ago involving several children and a grissly method of fortune telling.
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* ClearTheirName: Cordelia Gallo, [[spoiler:Victorique's mother]], was accused of murder but was innocent of the crime. So one of the mysteries Victorique solves is fingering the true murder.
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** [[spoiler:The cause of the deaths in the school clock tower after an alchemist's hidden lair become a minor tourist site. The alchemist in question triggered a poison dart to sting anyone who tried to find his stash of gold.]]
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** [[spoiler:The cause of the deaths in the school clock tower after an alchemist's hidden lair become becomes a minor tourist site. The alchemist in question triggered a poison dart to sting anyone who tried to find his stash of gold.]]
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** In the novels, Victorique's blond hair is mentioned a lot. Grevil and Avril have it, too. All of them are good-hearted, but Avril is the only one in whom this is immediate appearant.
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* HappyEndingOverride: Downplayed in the ''Gosick New Continent'' sequel, where it's revealed [[spoiler:Kazuya's father didn't accept his engagement to Victorique and they were forced to move to United States to escape his rage.]] It ends with [[spoiler:them finally marrying there]], though, which is how the second distant finale in the first Gosick series ends. ''New Continent'' takes place between the two distant finales.
* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Victorique and Kujo reunite in Japan after WWII.]] The anime ends with [[spoiler:them walking together while holding hands and promising to stay together forever, with an image of Victorique wearing a wedding dress and carrying a bouquet suggesting they get married.]] The light novels expand a bit more, [[spoiler:showing explicitly they marry and eventually setup a detective agency in the US.]]
* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Victorique and Kujo reunite in Japan after WWII.]] The anime ends with [[spoiler:them walking together while holding hands and promising to stay together forever, with an image of Victorique wearing a wedding dress and carrying a bouquet suggesting they get married.]] The light novels expand a bit more, [[spoiler:showing explicitly they marry and eventually setup a detective agency in the US.]]
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* HappyEndingOverride: Downplayed in the ''Gosick New Continent'' sequel, where it's revealed [[spoiler:Kazuya's father didn't accept his engagement to Victorique and they were forced to move to the United States to escape his rage.]] It ends with [[spoiler:them finally marrying there]], though, which is how the second distant finale in the first Gosick ''Gosick'' series ends. ''New Continent'' takes place between the two distant finales.
* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Victorique and Kujo reunite in Japan after WWII.]] The anime ends with [[spoiler:them walking together while holding hands and promising to stay together forever, with an image of Victorique wearing a wedding dress and carrying a bouquet suggesting they get married.]] The light novels expand a bit more, [[spoiler:showing explicitly they marry and eventuallysetup set up a detective agency in the US.]]
* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Victorique and Kujo reunite in Japan after WWII.]] The anime ends with [[spoiler:them walking together while holding hands and promising to stay together forever, with an image of Victorique wearing a wedding dress and carrying a bouquet suggesting they get married.]] The light novels expand a bit more, [[spoiler:showing explicitly they marry and eventually
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* HiddenElfVillage: 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 on a special occason, but otherwise it is closed off. In fact, [[spoiler: when the bridge that connects them to the larger country is burned, none of them care enough to put the fire out, because they are self-sufficient.]] Many of them are actually a HumanSubspecies; pale, [[ShorterMeansSmarter petite]], green-eyed blondes with SuperIntelligence, capable of AwesomenessByAnalysis, and {{Sherlock Scan}}s. The village Elders, meanwhile, are ''oracles''. '''Non-cryptic ones!''' [[spoiler:Though they do give the odd SelfFulfillingProphecy, and it [[BreakTheCutie really sucked]] for Cordelia Gallo when the Marquis de Blois realized she was a Grey Wolf.]]
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* HiddenElfVillage: 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 on a special occason, occasion, but otherwise it is closed off. In fact, [[spoiler: when the bridge that connects them to the larger country is burned, none of them care enough to put the fire out, because they are self-sufficient.]] Many of them are actually a HumanSubspecies; pale, [[ShorterMeansSmarter petite]], green-eyed blondes with SuperIntelligence, capable of AwesomenessByAnalysis, and {{Sherlock Scan}}s. The village Elders, meanwhile, are ''oracles''. '''Non-cryptic ones!''' [[spoiler:Though they do give the odd SelfFulfillingProphecy, and it [[BreakTheCutie really sucked]] for Cordelia Gallo when the Marquis de Blois realized she was a Grey Wolf.]]
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** Victorique is most used to solving mysteries second-hand, so while she does pick up on a fair amount while she's on-scene, most of it is pretty basic or relates to her personal experience. In fact, it's Kazuya who she tends to rely on to get the facts for her.
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** Victorique is most used to solving mysteries second-hand, so while she does pick up on a fair amount while she's on-scene, most of it is pretty basic or relates to her personal experience. In fact, it's Kazuya who whom she tends to rely on to get the facts for her.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Both [[MagicVersusScience the Ministry of the Occult and the Science Academy]] don't practice what they preach. The former uses scientific principles in its work more than it does anything resembling magic, whilst the latter [[spoiler:is led by one of the possibly-mystic [[HumanSubspecies Grey Wolves]]]].
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Both Neither [[MagicVersusScience the Ministry of the Occult and nor the Science Academy]] don't practice what they preach. The former uses scientific principles in its work more than it does anything resembling magic, whilst the latter [[spoiler:is led by one of the possibly-mystic [[HumanSubspecies Grey Wolves]]]].
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* LighterAndSofter: The last arc is tweaked in the anime in order to make it less traumatic and more satisfactory, as well as shorter. In the original series, [[spoiler:Albert was simply arrested by the Sauville government instead of killed, Cordelia and the first Brian were executed after saving Victorique, the latter passed a whole year subjected to experiments with drugs to use her during the war, and afterwards Victorique had to escape a Japanese prostitution ring until finally reaching Kazuya's family]]. Meanwhile, in the anime [[spoiler:Cordelia dies killing Albert, the first Brain Roscoe dies at Cordelia's side, the second Brian Roscoe overcomes enough hatred of Victorique to enourage her to live before dying of his own injuries, and Victorique escapes from Sauville and the Monstre Charmant movement. Victorique's search of Kazuya is offscreen and presumably much less dramatic.]]
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* LighterAndSofter: The last arc is tweaked in the anime in order to make it less traumatic and more satisfactory, as well as shorter. In the original series, [[spoiler:Albert was simply arrested by the Sauville government instead of killed, Cordelia and the first Brian were executed after saving Victorique, the latter passed a whole year subjected to experiments with drugs to use her during the war, and afterwards Victorique had to escape a Japanese prostitution ring until finally reaching Kazuya's family]]. Meanwhile, in the anime [[spoiler:Cordelia dies killing Albert, the first Brain Roscoe dies at Cordelia's side, the second Brian Roscoe overcomes enough hatred of Victorique to enourage encourage her to live before dying of his own injuries, and Victorique escapes from Sauville and the Monstre Charmant movement. Victorique's search of Kazuya is offscreen and presumably much less dramatic.]]
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''Gosick'' (-ゴシック-, ''Goshikku'', ''Gothic'') is a Japanese LightNovel series written by Kazuki Sakuraba, illustrated by Creator/HinataTakeda 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 side stories set in this universe, released four collections total. Creator/{{Tokyopop}} licensed the novels in the United States and has released the first two.
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''Gosick'' (-ゴシック-, ''Goshikku'', ''Gothic'') is a Japanese LightNovel series written by Kazuki Sakuraba, illustrated Sakuraba with illustrations by Creator/HinataTakeda and Creator/HinataTakeda, which was published by Fujimi Shobo. The first novel was released on Shobo from December 10, 2003. The ninth and final one was published on 2003 to July 23, 2011.2011 for nine volumes. ''[=GosickS=]'', a series of short side stories set in this universe, released four collections total. Creator/{{Tokyopop}} licensed the novels in the United States and has released the first two.
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** Kazuya finds one in Episode 9, [[spoiler: who was hiding to escape a group of slavers.]]
** [[spoiler: Cordelia was frequently hiding out in a mechanical automaton]].
** Kazuya finds one in Episode 9, [[spoiler: who was hiding to escape a group of slavers.]]
** [[spoiler: Cordelia was frequently hiding out in a mechanical automaton]].
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->''"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."''
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''Gosick'' (-ゴシック-, ''Goshikku'', ''Gothic'') is a Japanese LightNovel series written by Kazuki Sakuraba, illustrated by Creator/HinataTakeda 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 side stories set in this universe, released four collections total. Creator/{{Tokyopop}} 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 ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS 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 Franchise/SherlockHolmes more than [[Manga/RozenMaiden 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 [[ArtStyleDissonance moe-style art]], its tone is rather serious.
A manga adaptation, illustrated by Amano Sakuya, ran in ''Monthly Dragon Age'' until 2012. A drama CD, based on the first volume of ''[=GosickS=]'', was released on April 21, 2006. An 24 episode anime adaptation by Creator/StudioBones began airing on January 7th, 2011. Finally, a novel series set before the original series's DistantFinale, ''Gosick New Continent'', was launched in 2013, lasting until 2016.
In America, Creator/BandaiEntertainment licensed the anime, although they decided to stop distributing [=DVDs=] before they were able to give it a physical release. However, the ''Gosick'' anime was [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/gosick streamed]] by Crunchyroll until their license expired in August 2014, and Australian licensee Creator/MadmanEntertainment released the series in [[http://www.madman.com.au/series/home/16591/gosick in two DVD volumes]] as well as streaming it on their site. Creator/FUNimation currently holds the North American license to the series and released it on home video with an English dub in May of 2017.
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* TheAbridgedSeries: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDcWxc3_Gyk Here.]]
* AbsurdlyLongStairway: The labyrinthine stairway of St. Marguerite Academy's library was supposedly constructed in such a way so that the King of Sauville could meet with his mistress at the top floor, without prying eyes.
* AbusiveParent: Albert de Blois uses Victorique for her intellect, so he keeps her locked away with only books for company and refers too her as [[ItIsDehumanizing 'the little grey wolf']].
* ActionMom: Cordelia, especially in the anime, is capable of ninja-esque manuevers with a pair of short swords.
* AdaptationalMundanity: The anime downplays heavily all the supernatural elements from the light novel, particularly the Grey Wolves's nature, which the anime implies to be simply a very smart HumanSubspecies without anything special about them. In the novel, however, it's stated they are supernaturally bond to the Old World and will die if they try to travel abroad.
* AdaptationDistillation: The anime simplifies things towards the ending, almost entirely removing Victorique's dramatic search for Kazuya after World War II and [[spoiler:implying their marriage through a vision instead of showing it in a second DistantFinale years later as in the novel.]] It also removes or replaces events of the last arc in order to make a LighterAndSofter conclusion.
* AdaptationExpansion: The anime not only adapts the ''Gosick'' main novel series, but also integrates some of the ''[=GosickS=]'' side stories, most notably the Kuiaran II arc.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The light novel establishes the Grey Wolves are supernaturally unable to leave the Old World, and they will die if they tried. That's the true reason [[spoiler:why the last Brian Roscoe dies in the ship and why Victorique's hair turns silver; she only manages to survive the ordeal because she's technically only a half-Grey Wolf.]] However, in the anime continuity [[spoiler:the Roscoe brothers are also half-Grey Wolf children , which means he should have survived just as Victorique if the rule still applied. The reason why he suddenly dies in the ship, even although he seemed to be only superficially wounded and was receiving medical attention, is never explained, nor is Victorique's hair change. If anything, it's only implied that it might be a case of DeathByDespair and PrematurelyGreyHaired respectively due to all the tragic events.]]
* AdaptedOut: The light novel contains ''two'' instances of DistantFinale, the first in 1929 and the second in 1934, but only the first is shown in the anime. It gets added as a dream image of [[spoiler:their marriage]] to imply the second will happen as well, though.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited:
** Grevil has been in love with Jacqueline for years. Pity that she's (a) married and (b) completely oblivious.
** Avril's initial jealousy of Victorique over Kujo's clear fondness for her, though she seems to [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy get over it]].
* AlternateUniverse: Apart from the existence of the fictional country of Sauville, it seems that [[spoiler:World War II starts in 1925 in this world]].
* AlwaysMurder: Averted in the Jeantan and Leviathan cases, which did not ender in murder [[spoiler:though the latter was [[DeathTrap a bit more complicated]]]].
* AmateurSleuth:
** Victorique is a deliquent student who solves cases that her brother brings to her.
** Grevil could qualify as well, seeing as his inspector-status is due to his aristocratic position and not actual talent. He also acquired his position due to taking credit for solving cases which Victorique actually solved.
* ArcWords: "The coming wind" or all other variants, which can be easily inferred to be UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. [[spoiler:Preparing for this is the reason Albert de Blois did everything he did.]]
* ArrestedForHeroism: 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.
* ArtShift: Most of the opening sequence is drawn and colored in an Art Nouveau style reminiscent of Creator/AlphonseMucha.
* AudibleSharpness: The Hunting Dog's axe in Episode 3 makes noise somehow
* AuctionOfEvil: [[spoiler: The girls that were being auctioned off in the Jeantan case are presented as sacrifical victims in demonic ritual. That is how evil it is.]]
* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Victorique's gorgeous and frilly dresses are out of time even in the setting of the story. This is because they are hand-me-downs from a previous era in fashion.
* AxCrazy
** [[spoiler:Ned]], who even goes berserk with an actual axe.
** [[spoiler:Harminia]] completely loses it after being outed as the true murderer of the village elder.
* BadassBookworm
** When the bookworm starts beating the shit out of an axe-murderer with a pair of brass knuckles, one might imagine that he's not to be trifled with.
** When the other bookworm [[ThrowTheBookAtThem drops books]] on [[spoiler:the fake Avril]], she is not to be trifled with either.
* BatmanGambit: In Episode 22, Victorique uses one on Kujo (and the other students at the school to an extent) to make sure that when they take a gift from under the Christmas tree he gets the one she brought. With her Wellspring of Wisdom, she knew exactly how they would react so, so the outcome was inevitable.
* BattleAmongstTheFlames:
** Kazuya and the true murderer of Salliune's elder face off [[spoiler:on the ignited bridge leading into the village]].
** Episode 23: [[spoiler:Cordelia and Albert de Blois' sword-fight takes place on a burning stage after Brian Roscoe blows up the entire building that surrounds them.]]
* BellyDancer: Episode 6 reveals the origins of Cordelia Gallo, whom came to Saubreme after being shunned by her home village. She began to work as a dancer at a cabaret, and managed to catch the attentions of [[spoiler: the Brian Roscue brothers and Marquis de Blois.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: For Kazuya, Avril is the ordinary and friendly Betty while Victorique is the exotic and icy Veronica.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Episode 3. Kujo with Brass knuckles against a threat to his only friend. It doesn't end well for that guy.
* {{Bishounen}}:
** Inspector Blois is fairly attractive, if you can ignore his absurd haircut. In Episode 11, we see him before he got his strange new hairstyle. [[MrFanservice No doubt the female fans were quite pleased.]] In Episode 13, he shows up without his hairstyle and neither Kazuya nor Cecile recognize him. The latter swoons.
** There'a also Brian Roscoe, whose good looks certainly help him charm his audiences
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Fake Avril aka The Second Kuiaran is not a sweet girl. She's actually a vicious thief.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Cordelia and the Brians are dead, Sauville is severely disrupted by war, but Marquis de Blois will never cause anyone trouble again and Grevil decided on what was truly important to him in the end. Also, Kujo and Victorique are finally reunited and are assumed to be married and live happily after.]]
* BlindWithoutEm: Cecil can't see much without her big glasses. One instance she takes off her glasses so she doesn't have to see anything scary.
* BrattyHalfPint: Luigi is a fiesty little street kid with a smart mouth.
* BreatherEpisode: Episode 12 is Kujo and Victorique's summer vacation. Nothing dangerous happens. It's just a pleasant time together where the "mystery" is a logic puzzle sent by Kujo's elder brother.
* TheButlerDidIt: Two cases:
** In the Queen Berry case, it was [[spoiler: the Arabian Maid]] who killed Roxanne.
** In the Seyrun village case, it was [[spoiler:maid Harminia, who successfully framed Cordelia]].
* ChastityCouple: Victorique and Kujo. They're clearly in love, but the most we see them do onscreen is HoldingHands and hugging.
* ChekhovsGun: 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.
* ChekhovsGunman: Practically every secondary character appears in his/her first scene as a seemingly irrelevant bystander. A good example is the redheaded magician on the market, who turns Kujo's textbooks into a bunch of pigeons. Over the next few episodes he is revealed to go by the name Brian Roscoe [[spoiler: and to be associated with Victorique's mother]]. Or the two calm elderly gentlemen who sit right to Miss Sophie during the performance of the Queen Coco Rose play. [[spoiler: They are Jupiter Roger and King Rupert.]]
* ChildrenForcedToKill: In episodes two and three of the anime adaptation, Victorique and Kujo discover information about an incident 10 years ago involving several children and a grissly method of fortune telling.
* ChocolateBaby: [[spoiler: Queen Coco Rose's affair with the African court alchemist Leviathan has predictably messy consequences.]]
* ClearMyName: Kazuya begs Victorique to help him when he is accused of murder.
* ClearTheirName: Cordelia Gallo, [[spoiler:Victorique's mother]], was accused of murder but was innocent of the crime. So one of the mysteries Victorique solves is fingering the true murder.
* ConvictionByContradiction: Victorique certainly has a few Encyclopedia Brown moments in her "boring" cases, so both this trope and ConvictionByCounterfactualClue come up. Almost all the claims she makes are plausible deductions, and certainly damage the original case, but they're a long way from proof. In one particular sequence which wouldn't hold up in any sane court: [[spoiler:Cheesewire over the road when the police arrived? Absolute proof that your friend didn't garrotte the victim with it beforehand. The use of a trap device like that? Could only be a woman or a child, as men are always directly violent. Oh, and your friend thought about blonde hair while out walking? Clearly that's your criminal, seen from the corner of the eye, because boys never daydream about women randomly!]]
* TheCorpseStopsHere: In the anime's 4th episode, Kujo is accused of a murder by Grevil just because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
%%%* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Kazuya and Ms. Cecile.
* DarkestHour: [[spoiler:Episode 22. Sauville is preparing for war. Marquis de Blois gets ready to make his move and Grevil has revealed himself to be his loyal [[TheDragon dragon]]. Also Kujo has been kidnapped and is being used to blackmail Victorique.]]
* DeathTrap:
** The Queen Berry is loaded with traps meant to kill those trapped on it.
** [[spoiler:The cause of the deaths in the school clock tower after an alchemist's hidden lair become a minor tourist site. The alchemist in question triggered a poison dart to sting anyone who tried to find his stash of gold.]]
* DetectiveDrama: The arcs are framed by mysteries which Victorique solves, with help from Kujo.
* DisneyVillainDeath: The true murderer of the [[spoiler: Village Elder]] dies from a long fall from a high point. It also counts as a KarmicDeath because the only reason they were in such a position is because they committed several foul acts to avoid such a fate.
* DistantFinale: It is set four years after the events of the series, in 1929, and shows [[spoiler:Kazuya and Victorique reunited in Japan after the war is over]]. The light novel has an additional scene set in 1934 where [[spoiler:they are married and operating the Grey Wolf Detective Agency in United States.]] The sequel series, ''Gosick New Continent'', is set between those two scenes, making it more of an {{Interquel}}.
* DualWielding: [[spoiler:Cordelia]] fights with two blades.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: [[spoiler: Victorique has them in the flashbacks to her days living with the de Blois family, because this is before she met Kujo and everyone treated her like a dangerous beast.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:In the finale, Victorique and Kujo go through hell to live for each other by doing the impossible to survive WWII and find each other again. After the war, they are reunited and they finally get to stay together forever.]]
* ElaborateUniversityHigh: St. Marguerite Academy is not ''just'' an academy. It is also [[spoiler: a storehouse for weapons that the country would use in war, and the site of a alchemist's labratory.]]
* ElegantGothicLolita: Victorique always wears big dresses that have lots of frills and ribbon, complete with a tiny hat or headress. [[spoiler: Her mother is the same.]]
* EmotionlessGirl:
** Victorique ''seems'' to be this while on the Queen Berry, but she's really just repressing them. It appears that her emotionless personality is caused by [[spoiler:[[BreakTheCutie years of being locked up in a dungeon]]]], but comes to accept that [[spoiler: by meeting Kujo]], she [[CharacterDevelopment became a gentler person who knows love]].
** Grey wolves in general are supposedly this, but it turns out to be just a misconception by non-grey wolves.
* EvilVersusEvil: Whilst the series as a whole doesn't qualify, the background struggle between the [[MagicVersusScience Ministry of the Occult and Science Academy]] definitely does because both of them are populated by terrible people. Their ends are different but their means are the same.
* EyeScream: Roxanne the FortuneTeller is shot in the eye.
* FairPlayWhodunnit: Technically all clues to solve the mysteries are given, although Victorique often has to use very outlandish reasoning to piece them together, which is ''awesome''.
* FakeUltimateHero: Grevil, thanks to taking all the credit for Victorique's deductions, is thought to be a genius investigator by the public.
* FakingTheDead:
** One of the "hares" from the first Queen Berry pretended to die so he could spook the other children. [[spoiler:He perfectly replicates this tactic on the second Queen Berry.]]
** [[spoiler:Queen Coco Rose's maid took the king's beating for bearing an illegitimate child for her, leading to her own death by the king's]]. We see her once toward the episode where her escape is realized by Victorique. Surprisingly, [[spoiler:the King]] didn't realize it wasn't her that he killed.
* FictionalCountry: ''Gosick'' is set in Sauville, a fictitious country very ostensibly based on the historical Savoy, which became an independent Duchy somewhere during the Middle Ages and existed as a country until it was annexed by France in 1860 during the Italian unification movement. Savoy was located on the slopes of the Alps, but also had control of the port city of Nice, which Sauville conflates by stretching down from the Alps to the Mediterranean coast.
* {{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]].
* FortuneTeller: Roxanne is known as a fortune teller and she predicts WWI. To determine the winners of this war, she put "hares" onto a "box on the sea" and then set a "hunting dog" amongst them. The survivors would tell her who would win.
* FriendOnTheForce: Grevil is part of Saubre's police force and he asks Victorique for assistance because she is smarter than him. Though it's more like [[spoiler:Brother On The Force]] who takes the credit for your hard work.
* FoodAsBribe: Kazuya gives Victorique various Japanese snacks in exchange for her help.
* GirlInABox:
** Kazuya finds one in Episode 9, [[spoiler: who was hiding to escape a group of slavers.]]
** [[spoiler: Cordelia was frequently hiding out in a mechanical automaton]].
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Victorique carries a pipe and enjoys [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gosick_vol_1.jpg smoking]] it in the novels. In the anime, she only seems to have the habit to suck it instead of actually smoking, as it's illegal to show underage people smoking or drinking alcohol on Japanese public television.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: Even though the series is set in TheRoaringTwenties, Victorique wears old-fashioned ElegantGothicLolita style dresses. It is 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.
* GratuitousEnglish: In the credits to one of the novels, the title is explained to be a play on the word Gothic, representing the "sickness" that was present during the story's time period.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: St. Marguerite Academy's library is ''huge''. Victorique feeds her Wellspring of Wisdom from its countless books.
* GunsAkimbo: [[spoiler:During the assassination mission against the Marquis de Blois, the Roscoe guarding Cordelia's back wields a pair of submachine-guns [[note]] Actually, they look more like the Mauser [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Mauser_C96 C96 German]] semi-automatic[[/note]].]]
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold:
** In the novels, Victorique's blond hair is mentioned a lot. Grevil and Avril have it, too. All of them are good-hearted, but Avril is the only one in whom this is immediate appearant.
** In the anime, Victorique's almost certainly the legendary "Golden Fairy Of The Library" due to this.
* HappyEndingOverride: Downplayed in the ''Gosick New Continent'' sequel, where it's revealed [[spoiler:Kazuya's father didn't accept his engagement to Victorique and they were forced to move to United States to escape his rage.]] It ends with [[spoiler:them finally marrying there]], though, which is how the second distant finale in the first Gosick series ends. ''New Continent'' takes place between the two distant finales.
* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Victorique and Kujo reunite in Japan after WWII.]] The anime ends with [[spoiler:them walking together while holding hands and promising to stay together forever, with an image of Victorique wearing a wedding dress and carrying a bouquet suggesting they get married.]] The light novels expand a bit more, [[spoiler:showing explicitly they marry and eventually setup a detective agency in the US.]]
* HeroicBastard: [[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.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Cordelia and one of the Brian Roscoes rescue Victorique from her prison, then Cordelia pretends to be her until Albert de Blois's arrival. This was to make smugling Victorique out of the city possible. Victorique and the other Brian Roscoe don't think they will make it out alive. Their fate is left unclear, however, as their survival is hinted at in ''Gosick: Blue''.]]
* HiddenElfVillage: 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 on a special occason, but otherwise it is closed off. In fact, [[spoiler: when the bridge that connects them to the larger country is burned, none of them care enough to put the fire out, because they are self-sufficient.]] Many of them are actually a HumanSubspecies; pale, [[ShorterMeansSmarter petite]], green-eyed blondes with SuperIntelligence, capable of AwesomenessByAnalysis, and {{Sherlock Scan}}s. The village Elders, meanwhile, are ''oracles''. '''Non-cryptic ones!''' [[spoiler:Though they do give the odd SelfFulfillingProphecy, and it [[BreakTheCutie really sucked]] for Cordelia Gallo when the Marquis de Blois realized she was a Grey Wolf.]]
* HoldingHands: Happens a lot during Kazuya and Victorique's various ShipTease moments.
* HollywoodToneDeaf:
** Victorique. When she sings in the bath, Kujo first thinks that she is screaming in pain or fear.
** One of the [=CDs=] features her singing the song "Incertitude". It is absolutely painful to listen to. There's also a second version of the song included as a bonus track in which her VA sings properly. It's difficult to tell that it's even the same person.
* HopelessSuitor: Avril is infatuated with Kujo, but he never notices due to his OfficialCouple-ness with Victorique.
* HumanNotepad: In the light novel, [[spoiler:Victorique tattooes herself (painfully) with Kazuya's address before being captured by the Sauville government. Given that she was stripped of virtually everything and could not simply memorize the address due to it being in Japanese characters, this was the only way not to lose it. It later saves her when she falls into a coma and is captured by a Japanese prostitution ring, which frees her upon seeing the tattoo and thinking the Kujou family might be searching for her.]]
* HyperAwareness: Unusually for this sort of series, largely averted.
** Victorique is most used to solving mysteries second-hand, so while she does pick up on a fair amount while she's on-scene, most of it is pretty basic or relates to her personal experience. In fact, it's Kazuya who she tends to rely on to get the facts for her.
** Luigi, however, has an amazing memory and once counted the money that fell out of Kazuya's pocket before it hit the floor.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Both [[MagicVersusScience the Ministry of the Occult and the Science Academy]] don't practice what they preach. The former uses scientific principles in its work more than it does anything resembling magic, whilst the latter [[spoiler:is led by one of the possibly-mystic [[HumanSubspecies Grey Wolves]]]].
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The series makes an art form of this, with episode titles so heavily metaphorical that you can get an idea what the episode is about just from the title ('Blue Roses Bloom in the Cannibal Department Store'), while others only make sense [[MakesSenseInContext after viewing the episode]] ('A Malicious Frill is Censuring the Farting Newt').
* ImprobableHairstyle: [[ThisIsADrill Grevil]] has drill hair, 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.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: 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.
* InSeriesNickname: The students of St. Marguerite call Kazuya "The Black/Dark Reaper" or "The Reaper Who Comes In Spring" because of a local ghost story that he happens to fit. They also call Victorique "The Golden Fairy of the Library" because of her mysterious nature and the place she supposedly haunts.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: It takes quite a few of the citizens of Sauville more than one go to correctly identify Kazuya's country of origin. Hardly surprising, given the relative lack of international travel at the time. Some people throughout the series call to him by saying, "Hey Chinese!" They either don't know his Japanese heritage or just don't care.
* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler: Things get considerably darker once the Marquis de Blois takes an active role in proceedings.]]
* LargeHam: Grevil is introduced with a loud and silly discusion about squrriels and he even has hammy, over-exaggerated ''[[ThisIsADrill hair]]''. According to his [[BeleagueredChildhoodFriend 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''.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Roxanne the fortune teller turns out to have been zapped by her own past misdeeds, as does ''every single guest'' on the second Queen Berry who (a) isn't Kazuya or Victorique, and (b) isn't the person who set up the entire DeathCourse to begin with.
* LastNameBasis: Victorique always calls Kazuya by his last name, "Kujo".
* LighterAndSofter: The last arc is tweaked in the anime in order to make it less traumatic and more satisfactory, as well as shorter. In the original series, [[spoiler:Albert was simply arrested by the Sauville government instead of killed, Cordelia and the first Brian were executed after saving Victorique, the latter passed a whole year subjected to experiments with drugs to use her during the war, and afterwards Victorique had to escape a Japanese prostitution ring until finally reaching Kazuya's family]]. Meanwhile, in the anime [[spoiler:Cordelia dies killing Albert, the first Brain Roscoe dies at Cordelia's side, the second Brian Roscoe overcomes enough hatred of Victorique to enourage her to live before dying of his own injuries, and Victorique escapes from Sauville and the Monstre Charmant movement. Victorique's search of Kazuya is offscreen and presumably much less dramatic.]]
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Avril and Victorique are light and dark, respectively. Avril is bright and cute and friendly, while Victorique is more elegant and mysterious and temperamental.
* LittleGirlsKickShins: When Victorique is particularly annoyed/bored, she invariably expresses her annoyance with a kick to Kujo's shin.
* LittleMissSnarker: ''Victorique'' is shorter than everyone except her own mother and young children, and she sasses everyone.
* LockedRoomMystery: Episode 1 has one of these. [[spoiler:In fact, the lock itself turns out to be instrumental to the murder method.]]
* MagicalRealism: Despite the down-to-earth explanations for most of the strange occurrences in the story, some apparently genuine supernatural elements (such as highly accurate prophecies and the Grey Wolves' possibly-superhuman mental faculties) do appear to exist.
* MagicVersusScience: The heart of the SecretWar between the Science Academy and the Ministry of the Occult is a debate over which is the better power. Whilst the Academy has the advantage of far more empirical evidence on its side (and of not being run by the Marquis de Blois), both factions fight so dirty that it's impossible to call either one the good guys.
* MamaBear:
** Cecil is shown to be protective of her students, especially Victorique.
** [[spoiler: Cordelia is very protective of her daughter Victorique, to the point she makes it her sole reason of living.]]
* {{Meido}}: Victorique has to borrow a change of clothes from the train staff in Episode 18 because she was soaked at the climax of the previous episode, and somehow they find a maid's uniform that fits a [[OlderThanTheyLook very short 13-14 year old girl who looks like 10 or 12]]. Maids tended to start out at that age in the period, so it's not out of place. Kujo meanwhile gets a waiter uniform.
%%%* MicroMonarchy: Sauville.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:The English boy Ned]] on the first Queen Berry is not a "hare" but a "hunting dog" meant to spoke the other children.
* MoodWhiplash: Frequently changes from dramatic crime-solving, to humor, to d'aww, often within ''seconds''.
* MoralEventHorizon: 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 [[RapeAsBackstory far]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness nastier]].]]
* MurderousMannequin: Episode 9 opens with Avril telling Kujo a horror story about a mannequin that invites people that stop by store window into the store after closing hours. She, or a spirit possessing the mannequin, then consumes the victim in the dressing room.
* MysteryOfTheWeek: Kujo has a tendency to stumble into mysteries, which he then presents to Victorique to solve. This is the format for mot episdes.
* MysteryMagnet: 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.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Beelzebub's Skull; why in the world would someone name a nunnery after ''after a demon''?
* NastyParty: Everyone invited to the Miniature Garden Box Evening is there so that one of the "hares" from the first Queen Berry [[spoiler:(Julie)]] can have their revenge for what happened 10 years before.
* NewTransferStudent:
** Kazuya transfers to St. Marguerite Academy before the start of the series, and this is why he called "The Reaper Who Comes in Spring"
** Avril Bradley transfers in some time later after Kazuya, [[spoiler: which means that no one could tell her apart from the thief pretending to be her.]]
* NiceGuy: Kazuya's kindess and tolerance for difficult people helps a ''lot'' with putting up with [[LittleMissSnarker Victorique]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Kujo is on the receiving end of one-sided beating [[spoiler: in Episode 23 from a DrillSergeantNasty who even [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown kicks him for good measure]]]].
* NoSocialSkills: Victorique never really had a chance to develop socil skills because of her father's insistence that she develop her intellect instead, resulting in her characteristic bluntness and making such things as [[DullSurprise her attempts at]] [[NoblewomansLaugh polite laughter]] a... memorable experience for all present.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Pulled off by ''[[spoiler:[[UpperClassTwit Grevil]]]]'', of all people, in Episode 10. If Episode 11 is any indication, [[spoiler:Grevil]] has always been fairly bright... just not as bright as Victorique. He's still quite dumb with various weird conclusions he makes. He's smart in very narrow fields, and [[spoiler:police work]] is not one of them, despite his good eye for detail -- when he bothers looking in the first place.
* OfCorsetHurts: Victorique runs afoul of an antique corset in Episode 22 when putting on a Christmas costume. Kujo is the one lacing it for her, and he asks if her sweet tooth has caused her to put on weight. Victorique elbows him in response.
* OfficialCouple: Kazuya and Victorique set up to fall for each other quickly, though Victorique refuses to acknowledge such feelings for some time. The anime's OP is centered on how they are linked by destiny, and were following an invisible line to each other. [[spoiler: The first series ends with their engagement, and the second distant finale includes their wedding.]]
* OffWithHisHead: The victim in Episode 5 is beheaded by razor wire and a motorcycle.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[HumanSubspecies Grey Wolves]] tend to look younger than they really are, thanks to their short stature and childlike frames.
* OpenSaysMe: Avril kicks open a couple of doors in the clock tower. Each time afterwards, she hops around in pain for a bit. Fashionable heels aren't really meant for this sort of thing, you know?
* OutrunTheFireball: Kujo outruns a floodwater while carrying Victorique in Episode 17.
* ParentalAbandonment: [[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.]]
%%%* PhantomThief: [[spoiler:The Second Kuiaran.]]
* PhoneInDetective: Very common for Victorique, due to the restrictions her family have placed on her movements. In fact, it's implied to be the exclusive method by which she helped out Grevil before Kazuya came along. She's literally this in the Jeantan case, due to being bedridden with sickness.
* PingPongNaivete: Victorique is solving a complex crime with second-hand information one moment, and not knowing that one can get a carriage for hire the next because she has been cloistered her whole life in a library.
* PoliceAreUseless: The local police are generally not helpful, and it doesn't help that an UpperClassTwit is their acclaimed chief investigator. This is averted in the Jeantan case, as they successfully implement Victorique's plan to find the victims and then arrest the perpetrators without further help.
* PropertyOfLove: Victorique claims Kujo belongs to her several times. First, she says he is her "vassal" and later she says he is her "heart".
* ProphetEyes: Used, naturally, whenever someone's making a prophecy, though it's really more of a case of their eyes rolling up in their heads.
* RapeAsBackstory: [[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 [[HumanSubspecies Grey Wolf]].]]
* RedHerring:
** [[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. That was the reason her child's father wants nothing to do with her any more, right? [[RapeAsBackstory Wrong!]]]]
* SayMyName: Kujo has the tendency to shout Victorique's name due to stress or danger of the current situation.
* ScaryBlackMan: [[spoiler: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 were all to try to discourage further exploitation of his home country by Sauville's royalty.]]
* ScoobyDooHoax: In Episode 4, we're told that there's an abandoned storehouse that is haunted by the ghost of a former student. [[spoiler: In the following episode, it's revealed to be a ruse by the Second Kuiaran to keep people from going inside, since that's where she's keeping the real Avril BoundAndGagged.]]
* ScreamingBirth: [[spoiler:Victorique's]] mother screamed constantly during her birth, and this is highly justified, given that the birth in question was an obstetrician's nightmare. Forget an epidural, this mother was chained up in a dungeon without any medical professionals of any kind present.
* SecretWar: [[MagicVersusScience the Ministry of the Occult and the Science Academy]], two powerful political factions battling over control of the government. This has gone on for decades, long before the events of the show. Leviathan unwittingly stepped into the middle of it, and was targeted by both sides; the Academy wanted to discredit him and the Ministry wanted him to join them.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[spoiler:Harminia's motivation for murdering the Elder of Seyrun and later attempting to destroy the tiny city-state was to prevent her own foretold death at age 26. Naturally, the plan went wrong and she eventually [[KarmicDeath ended up]] [[DisneyVillainDeath causing her demise]] just as the elder had predicted.]]
* SherlockScan: Victorique is very good at analyzing events and people, though her tendency to rely on second-hand information means that she lacks much of the corresponding HyperAwareness when she's on the scene herself. She refers to his as "reconstructing the truth from the fragments of chas with her wellspring of wisdom".
* ShipTease:
** Many sweet moments take place between [[OfficialCouple Kazuya and Victorique]]. It helps that [[OlderThanTheyLook despite her appearance]], they're actually about the same age.
** Avril has a crush on Kazuya, but she has no moments with him. It goes about [[HopelessSuitor as well]] as [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy you'd expect]].
** There's also a moment in the anime when Jacqueline reminisces, LuminescentBlush and all, about how striking Grevil was when they were younger. It's fair to assume that if Grevil had expressed his feelings for her earlier, he might not have ended up an UnluckyChildhoodFriend.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Victorique and Luigi are the shortest in the cast, and have the greatest analytical minds. Luigi isn't even a grey wolf, he's just that smarter naturally. He gets taller in the distant finale.
* ShoutOut:
** 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. [[{{Literature/Rapunzel}} Remind you of anything?]]
** Victorique uses a pipe when she's thinking in a way similar to the popular conception of Franchise/SherlockHolmes, although in the anime she just holds it in her mouth instead of actually ''smoking'' anything.
** In Episode 22, Avril wears a costume for Christmas that greatly resembles [[Literature/PeterPan Tinker Bell]].
* ShroudedInMyth: The Grey Wolves, a legendary European [[HumanSubspecies bloodline]] known for their short stature, golden hair, lack of emotions and vast intellect, are the source of several local legends and a great deal of general superstition.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Kazuya and Victorique really complicate the Queen Berry murder plot. It didn't help that the culprit, being a SympatheticMurderer, didn't want to see two innocent children die in the gigantic DeathCourse they'd set up, and so had to expose themselves more than they would have otherwise wished to in order to keep them safe.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There is some contention on how to [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseRomanization romanize]] various names in the series, including those of the main heroine, the police inspector, and the fictional country they live in.
* StageMagician: 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]].
* StarCrossedLovers: The elder of Seyrun predicted that an event that will soon come will tear Kazuya and Victorique apart. With UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 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.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[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 InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals. Her mother has noticeably larger breasts (that is, any) than her daughter, even after the TimeSkip where we see Victorique at around 18, but it's hard to tell under the frills.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Victorique occupies the middle ground between this trope and {{Tsundere}}, being more cranky than the average SugarAndIcePersonality and more reserved than the average {{Tsundere}}.
* SympatheticMurderer: The surviving "hares" of the first Queen Berry, [[spoiler:save for Ned]], where all children forced into a kill-or-die situation by a grup of terrible adults.
* TakeMyHand: Victorique reaches out to Kazuya [[spoiler:when the only bridge to the Grey Wolf village collapses. This is significant because Victorique reaches for Kazuya instead of the momento necklace from her mother, which was also falling]].
%%* TenLittleMurderVictims: This happens at the Miniature Garden Box Evening.
* ThrowTheBookAtThem: Victorique's method of dealing with [[spoiler:the fake Avril Bradley]] is to drop a full trunk of books on them.
* ToTheTuneOf: The OP "Destin Historie" sounds awfully similar to "[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Sorairo Days]]" and vice versa, as pointed out in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rVDQNbFYno this video]].
* TogetherInDeath: In the anime, [[spoiler:Cordelia and one of the Roscoes die together. The Roscoe navigates the flames and corpses in order to find Cordelia's body, sits down next to it, takes her hand, and then expires.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: [[spoiler:The Village of the Grey Wolves is the site of an event that influences a terrible tragedy, the framing of Cordelia Galleo and her exile.]]
* TranslationConvention: 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]].
* TsurimeEyes: Victorique and Avril both have upturned eyes but only Victorique has the sharp personality to match. Avril is way too friendly to count but [[spoiler: her imposter counts.]]
%%* UnkemptBeauty: Mildred.
* UpperClassTwit: Grevil is a large ham with a ridiculous hairstyle and is the chief investigator because his father is a nobleman. One can only imagine what state Sauville's criminal justice system would be in without [[ChildProdigy Victorique]] around....
* VagueAge: 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 OlderThanTheyLook 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.]]
* VestigialEmpire: [[spoiler:Seyrun is very, ''very'' vestigial. It is one little village in a rural area.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: A common fate for criminals outed by Kazuya and Victorique is a hit to their sanity. [[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 somewhat detrimental to one's mental wellbeing.
* TheWatson: Kazuya asks Victorique to explain how she solved the crimes so she can do so for the audience.
* WhamEpisode:
** Episode 19, which shows just how horrifying Victorique's BackStory really is.
** Episode 22 when [[spoiler: it turns out Grevil helping Kujo find Victorique and his affection for his little sister might have all been an act]].
** Dear God, Episode 23. [[spoiler:Kujo's been deported. Victorique is Albert's prisoner. Albert has defeated the Science Academy and taken control of Sauville. And then... Cordelia reaches new levels of badass in confronting Albert at a public function, stages a terrorist attack on him with Brian Roscoe's help, and then ''kills him'' in a swordfight. Then she gets killed, and Brian's twin makes an attempt on Victorique's life. Holy shit.]]
* WouldntHitAGirl: 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, he tends to dodge more than attack. It is worth noting that the one time he fought a ''male'' villian, he did pretty well considering that his opponent was an adult.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:After he 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.]]
* YouWakeUpInARoom: The food at the Miniature Garden Box Evening was drugged, and when everyone wakes up, they've been moved to another room.
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->''"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill'''
''Gosick'' (-ゴシック-, ''Goshikku'', ''Gothic'') is a Japanese LightNovel series written by Kazuki Sakuraba, illustrated by Creator/HinataTakeda 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 side stories set in this universe, released four collections total. Creator/{{Tokyopop}} 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 ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS 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 Franchise/SherlockHolmes more than [[Manga/RozenMaiden 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 [[ArtStyleDissonance moe-style art]], its tone is rather serious.
A manga adaptation, illustrated by Amano Sakuya, ran in ''Monthly Dragon Age'' until 2012. A drama CD, based on the first volume of ''[=GosickS=]'', was released on April 21, 2006. An 24 episode anime adaptation by Creator/StudioBones began airing on January 7th, 2011. Finally, a novel series set before the original series's DistantFinale, ''Gosick New Continent'', was launched in 2013, lasting until 2016.
In America, Creator/BandaiEntertainment licensed the anime, although they decided to stop distributing [=DVDs=] before they were able to give it a physical release. However, the ''Gosick'' anime was [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/gosick streamed]] by Crunchyroll until their license expired in August 2014, and Australian licensee Creator/MadmanEntertainment released the series in [[http://www.madman.com.au/series/home/16591/gosick in two DVD volumes]] as well as streaming it on their site. Creator/FUNimation currently holds the North American license to the series and released it on home video with an English dub in May of 2017.
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!!Tropes:
* TheAbridgedSeries: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDcWxc3_Gyk Here.]]
* AbsurdlyLongStairway: The labyrinthine stairway of St. Marguerite Academy's library was supposedly constructed in such a way so that the King of Sauville could meet with his mistress at the top floor, without prying eyes.
* AbusiveParent: Albert de Blois uses Victorique for her intellect, so he keeps her locked away with only books for company and refers too her as [[ItIsDehumanizing 'the little grey wolf']].
* ActionMom: Cordelia, especially in the anime, is capable of ninja-esque manuevers with a pair of short swords.
* AdaptationalMundanity: The anime downplays heavily all the supernatural elements from the light novel, particularly the Grey Wolves's nature, which the anime implies to be simply a very smart HumanSubspecies without anything special about them. In the novel, however, it's stated they are supernaturally bond to the Old World and will die if they try to travel abroad.
* AdaptationDistillation: The anime simplifies things towards the ending, almost entirely removing Victorique's dramatic search for Kazuya after World War II and [[spoiler:implying their marriage through a vision instead of showing it in a second DistantFinale years later as in the novel.]] It also removes or replaces events of the last arc in order to make a LighterAndSofter conclusion.
* AdaptationExpansion: The anime not only adapts the ''Gosick'' main novel series, but also integrates some of the ''[=GosickS=]'' side stories, most notably the Kuiaran II arc.
* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The light novel establishes the Grey Wolves are supernaturally unable to leave the Old World, and they will die if they tried. That's the true reason [[spoiler:why the last Brian Roscoe dies in the ship and why Victorique's hair turns silver; she only manages to survive the ordeal because she's technically only a half-Grey Wolf.]] However, in the anime continuity [[spoiler:the Roscoe brothers are also half-Grey Wolf children , which means he should have survived just as Victorique if the rule still applied. The reason why he suddenly dies in the ship, even although he seemed to be only superficially wounded and was receiving medical attention, is never explained, nor is Victorique's hair change. If anything, it's only implied that it might be a case of DeathByDespair and PrematurelyGreyHaired respectively due to all the tragic events.]]
* AdaptedOut: The light novel contains ''two'' instances of DistantFinale, the first in 1929 and the second in 1934, but only the first is shown in the anime. It gets added as a dream image of [[spoiler:their marriage]] to imply the second will happen as well, though.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited:
** Grevil has been in love with Jacqueline for years. Pity that she's (a) married and (b) completely oblivious.
** Avril's initial jealousy of Victorique over Kujo's clear fondness for her, though she seems to [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy get over it]].
* AlternateUniverse: Apart from the existence of the fictional country of Sauville, it seems that [[spoiler:World War II starts in 1925 in this world]].
* AlwaysMurder: Averted in the Jeantan and Leviathan cases, which did not ender in murder [[spoiler:though the latter was [[DeathTrap a bit more complicated]]]].
* AmateurSleuth:
** Victorique is a deliquent student who solves cases that her brother brings to her.
** Grevil could qualify as well, seeing as his inspector-status is due to his aristocratic position and not actual talent. He also acquired his position due to taking credit for solving cases which Victorique actually solved.
* ArcWords: "The coming wind" or all other variants, which can be easily inferred to be UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. [[spoiler:Preparing for this is the reason Albert de Blois did everything he did.]]
* ArrestedForHeroism: 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.
* ArtShift: Most of the opening sequence is drawn and colored in an Art Nouveau style reminiscent of Creator/AlphonseMucha.
* AudibleSharpness: The Hunting Dog's axe in Episode 3 makes noise somehow
* AuctionOfEvil: [[spoiler: The girls that were being auctioned off in the Jeantan case are presented as sacrifical victims in demonic ritual. That is how evil it is.]]
* AwesomeAnachronisticApparel: Victorique's gorgeous and frilly dresses are out of time even in the setting of the story. This is because they are hand-me-downs from a previous era in fashion.
* AxCrazy
** [[spoiler:Ned]], who even goes berserk with an actual axe.
** [[spoiler:Harminia]] completely loses it after being outed as the true murderer of the village elder.
* BadassBookworm
** When the bookworm starts beating the shit out of an axe-murderer with a pair of brass knuckles, one might imagine that he's not to be trifled with.
** When the other bookworm [[ThrowTheBookAtThem drops books]] on [[spoiler:the fake Avril]], she is not to be trifled with either.
* BatmanGambit: In Episode 22, Victorique uses one on Kujo (and the other students at the school to an extent) to make sure that when they take a gift from under the Christmas tree he gets the one she brought. With her Wellspring of Wisdom, she knew exactly how they would react so, so the outcome was inevitable.
* BattleAmongstTheFlames:
** Kazuya and the true murderer of Salliune's elder face off [[spoiler:on the ignited bridge leading into the village]].
** Episode 23: [[spoiler:Cordelia and Albert de Blois' sword-fight takes place on a burning stage after Brian Roscoe blows up the entire building that surrounds them.]]
* BellyDancer: Episode 6 reveals the origins of Cordelia Gallo, whom came to Saubreme after being shunned by her home village. She began to work as a dancer at a cabaret, and managed to catch the attentions of [[spoiler: the Brian Roscue brothers and Marquis de Blois.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: For Kazuya, Avril is the ordinary and friendly Betty while Victorique is the exotic and icy Veronica.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Episode 3. Kujo with Brass knuckles against a threat to his only friend. It doesn't end well for that guy.
* {{Bishounen}}:
** Inspector Blois is fairly attractive, if you can ignore his absurd haircut. In Episode 11, we see him before he got his strange new hairstyle. [[MrFanservice No doubt the female fans were quite pleased.]] In Episode 13, he shows up without his hairstyle and neither Kazuya nor Cecile recognize him. The latter swoons.
** There'a also Brian Roscoe, whose good looks certainly help him charm his audiences
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Fake Avril aka The Second Kuiaran is not a sweet girl. She's actually a vicious thief.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Cordelia and the Brians are dead, Sauville is severely disrupted by war, but Marquis de Blois will never cause anyone trouble again and Grevil decided on what was truly important to him in the end. Also, Kujo and Victorique are finally reunited and are assumed to be married and live happily after.]]
* BlindWithoutEm: Cecil can't see much without her big glasses. One instance she takes off her glasses so she doesn't have to see anything scary.
* BrattyHalfPint: Luigi is a fiesty little street kid with a smart mouth.
* BreatherEpisode: Episode 12 is Kujo and Victorique's summer vacation. Nothing dangerous happens. It's just a pleasant time together where the "mystery" is a logic puzzle sent by Kujo's elder brother.
* TheButlerDidIt: Two cases:
** In the Queen Berry case, it was [[spoiler: the Arabian Maid]] who killed Roxanne.
** In the Seyrun village case, it was [[spoiler:maid Harminia, who successfully framed Cordelia]].
* ChastityCouple: Victorique and Kujo. They're clearly in love, but the most we see them do onscreen is HoldingHands and hugging.
* ChekhovsGun: 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.
* ChekhovsGunman: Practically every secondary character appears in his/her first scene as a seemingly irrelevant bystander. A good example is the redheaded magician on the market, who turns Kujo's textbooks into a bunch of pigeons. Over the next few episodes he is revealed to go by the name Brian Roscoe [[spoiler: and to be associated with Victorique's mother]]. Or the two calm elderly gentlemen who sit right to Miss Sophie during the performance of the Queen Coco Rose play. [[spoiler: They are Jupiter Roger and King Rupert.]]
* ChildrenForcedToKill: In episodes two and three of the anime adaptation, Victorique and Kujo discover information about an incident 10 years ago involving several children and a grissly method of fortune telling.
* ChocolateBaby: [[spoiler: Queen Coco Rose's affair with the African court alchemist Leviathan has predictably messy consequences.]]
* ClearMyName: Kazuya begs Victorique to help him when he is accused of murder.
* ClearTheirName: Cordelia Gallo, [[spoiler:Victorique's mother]], was accused of murder but was innocent of the crime. So one of the mysteries Victorique solves is fingering the true murder.
* ConvictionByContradiction: Victorique certainly has a few Encyclopedia Brown moments in her "boring" cases, so both this trope and ConvictionByCounterfactualClue come up. Almost all the claims she makes are plausible deductions, and certainly damage the original case, but they're a long way from proof. In one particular sequence which wouldn't hold up in any sane court: [[spoiler:Cheesewire over the road when the police arrived? Absolute proof that your friend didn't garrotte the victim with it beforehand. The use of a trap device like that? Could only be a woman or a child, as men are always directly violent. Oh, and your friend thought about blonde hair while out walking? Clearly that's your criminal, seen from the corner of the eye, because boys never daydream about women randomly!]]
* TheCorpseStopsHere: In the anime's 4th episode, Kujo is accused of a murder by Grevil just because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
%%%* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Kazuya and Ms. Cecile.
* DarkestHour: [[spoiler:Episode 22. Sauville is preparing for war. Marquis de Blois gets ready to make his move and Grevil has revealed himself to be his loyal [[TheDragon dragon]]. Also Kujo has been kidnapped and is being used to blackmail Victorique.]]
* DeathTrap:
** The Queen Berry is loaded with traps meant to kill those trapped on it.
** [[spoiler:The cause of the deaths in the school clock tower after an alchemist's hidden lair become a minor tourist site. The alchemist in question triggered a poison dart to sting anyone who tried to find his stash of gold.]]
* DetectiveDrama: The arcs are framed by mysteries which Victorique solves, with help from Kujo.
* DisneyVillainDeath: The true murderer of the [[spoiler: Village Elder]] dies from a long fall from a high point. It also counts as a KarmicDeath because the only reason they were in such a position is because they committed several foul acts to avoid such a fate.
* DistantFinale: It is set four years after the events of the series, in 1929, and shows [[spoiler:Kazuya and Victorique reunited in Japan after the war is over]]. The light novel has an additional scene set in 1934 where [[spoiler:they are married and operating the Grey Wolf Detective Agency in United States.]] The sequel series, ''Gosick New Continent'', is set between those two scenes, making it more of an {{Interquel}}.
* DualWielding: [[spoiler:Cordelia]] fights with two blades.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: [[spoiler: Victorique has them in the flashbacks to her days living with the de Blois family, because this is before she met Kujo and everyone treated her like a dangerous beast.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:In the finale, Victorique and Kujo go through hell to live for each other by doing the impossible to survive WWII and find each other again. After the war, they are reunited and they finally get to stay together forever.]]
* ElaborateUniversityHigh: St. Marguerite Academy is not ''just'' an academy. It is also [[spoiler: a storehouse for weapons that the country would use in war, and the site of a alchemist's labratory.]]
* ElegantGothicLolita: Victorique always wears big dresses that have lots of frills and ribbon, complete with a tiny hat or headress. [[spoiler: Her mother is the same.]]
* EmotionlessGirl:
** Victorique ''seems'' to be this while on the Queen Berry, but she's really just repressing them. It appears that her emotionless personality is caused by [[spoiler:[[BreakTheCutie years of being locked up in a dungeon]]]], but comes to accept that [[spoiler: by meeting Kujo]], she [[CharacterDevelopment became a gentler person who knows love]].
** Grey wolves in general are supposedly this, but it turns out to be just a misconception by non-grey wolves.
* EvilVersusEvil: Whilst the series as a whole doesn't qualify, the background struggle between the [[MagicVersusScience Ministry of the Occult and Science Academy]] definitely does because both of them are populated by terrible people. Their ends are different but their means are the same.
* EyeScream: Roxanne the FortuneTeller is shot in the eye.
* FairPlayWhodunnit: Technically all clues to solve the mysteries are given, although Victorique often has to use very outlandish reasoning to piece them together, which is ''awesome''.
* FakeUltimateHero: Grevil, thanks to taking all the credit for Victorique's deductions, is thought to be a genius investigator by the public.
* FakingTheDead:
** One of the "hares" from the first Queen Berry pretended to die so he could spook the other children. [[spoiler:He perfectly replicates this tactic on the second Queen Berry.]]
** [[spoiler:Queen Coco Rose's maid took the king's beating for bearing an illegitimate child for her, leading to her own death by the king's]]. We see her once toward the episode where her escape is realized by Victorique. Surprisingly, [[spoiler:the King]] didn't realize it wasn't her that he killed.
* FictionalCountry: ''Gosick'' is set in Sauville, a fictitious country very ostensibly based on the historical Savoy, which became an independent Duchy somewhere during the Middle Ages and existed as a country until it was annexed by France in 1860 during the Italian unification movement. Savoy was located on the slopes of the Alps, but also had control of the port city of Nice, which Sauville conflates by stretching down from the Alps to the Mediterranean coast.
* {{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]].
* FortuneTeller: Roxanne is known as a fortune teller and she predicts WWI. To determine the winners of this war, she put "hares" onto a "box on the sea" and then set a "hunting dog" amongst them. The survivors would tell her who would win.
* FriendOnTheForce: Grevil is part of Saubre's police force and he asks Victorique for assistance because she is smarter than him. Though it's more like [[spoiler:Brother On The Force]] who takes the credit for your hard work.
* FoodAsBribe: Kazuya gives Victorique various Japanese snacks in exchange for her help.
* GirlInABox:
** Kazuya finds one in Episode 9, [[spoiler: who was hiding to escape a group of slavers.]]
** [[spoiler: Cordelia was frequently hiding out in a mechanical automaton]].
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Victorique carries a pipe and enjoys [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gosick_vol_1.jpg smoking]] it in the novels. In the anime, she only seems to have the habit to suck it instead of actually smoking, as it's illegal to show underage people smoking or drinking alcohol on Japanese public television.
* GorgeousPeriodDress: Even though the series is set in TheRoaringTwenties, Victorique wears old-fashioned ElegantGothicLolita style dresses. It is 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.
* GratuitousEnglish: In the credits to one of the novels, the title is explained to be a play on the word Gothic, representing the "sickness" that was present during the story's time period.
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: St. Marguerite Academy's library is ''huge''. Victorique feeds her Wellspring of Wisdom from its countless books.
* GunsAkimbo: [[spoiler:During the assassination mission against the Marquis de Blois, the Roscoe guarding Cordelia's back wields a pair of submachine-guns [[note]] Actually, they look more like the Mauser [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Mauser_C96 C96 German]] semi-automatic[[/note]].]]
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold:
** In the novels, Victorique's blond hair is mentioned a lot. Grevil and Avril have it, too. All of them are good-hearted, but Avril is the only one in whom this is immediate appearant.
** In the anime, Victorique's almost certainly the legendary "Golden Fairy Of The Library" due to this.
* HappyEndingOverride: Downplayed in the ''Gosick New Continent'' sequel, where it's revealed [[spoiler:Kazuya's father didn't accept his engagement to Victorique and they were forced to move to United States to escape his rage.]] It ends with [[spoiler:them finally marrying there]], though, which is how the second distant finale in the first Gosick series ends. ''New Continent'' takes place between the two distant finales.
* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler:Victorique and Kujo reunite in Japan after WWII.]] The anime ends with [[spoiler:them walking together while holding hands and promising to stay together forever, with an image of Victorique wearing a wedding dress and carrying a bouquet suggesting they get married.]] The light novels expand a bit more, [[spoiler:showing explicitly they marry and eventually setup a detective agency in the US.]]
* HeroicBastard: [[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.]]
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Cordelia and one of the Brian Roscoes rescue Victorique from her prison, then Cordelia pretends to be her until Albert de Blois's arrival. This was to make smugling Victorique out of the city possible. Victorique and the other Brian Roscoe don't think they will make it out alive. Their fate is left unclear, however, as their survival is hinted at in ''Gosick: Blue''.]]
* HiddenElfVillage: 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 on a special occason, but otherwise it is closed off. In fact, [[spoiler: when the bridge that connects them to the larger country is burned, none of them care enough to put the fire out, because they are self-sufficient.]] Many of them are actually a HumanSubspecies; pale, [[ShorterMeansSmarter petite]], green-eyed blondes with SuperIntelligence, capable of AwesomenessByAnalysis, and {{Sherlock Scan}}s. The village Elders, meanwhile, are ''oracles''. '''Non-cryptic ones!''' [[spoiler:Though they do give the odd SelfFulfillingProphecy, and it [[BreakTheCutie really sucked]] for Cordelia Gallo when the Marquis de Blois realized she was a Grey Wolf.]]
* HoldingHands: Happens a lot during Kazuya and Victorique's various ShipTease moments.
* HollywoodToneDeaf:
** Victorique. When she sings in the bath, Kujo first thinks that she is screaming in pain or fear.
** One of the [=CDs=] features her singing the song "Incertitude". It is absolutely painful to listen to. There's also a second version of the song included as a bonus track in which her VA sings properly. It's difficult to tell that it's even the same person.
* HopelessSuitor: Avril is infatuated with Kujo, but he never notices due to his OfficialCouple-ness with Victorique.
* HumanNotepad: In the light novel, [[spoiler:Victorique tattooes herself (painfully) with Kazuya's address before being captured by the Sauville government. Given that she was stripped of virtually everything and could not simply memorize the address due to it being in Japanese characters, this was the only way not to lose it. It later saves her when she falls into a coma and is captured by a Japanese prostitution ring, which frees her upon seeing the tattoo and thinking the Kujou family might be searching for her.]]
* HyperAwareness: Unusually for this sort of series, largely averted.
** Victorique is most used to solving mysteries second-hand, so while she does pick up on a fair amount while she's on-scene, most of it is pretty basic or relates to her personal experience. In fact, it's Kazuya who she tends to rely on to get the facts for her.
** Luigi, however, has an amazing memory and once counted the money that fell out of Kazuya's pocket before it hit the floor.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Both [[MagicVersusScience the Ministry of the Occult and the Science Academy]] don't practice what they preach. The former uses scientific principles in its work more than it does anything resembling magic, whilst the latter [[spoiler:is led by one of the possibly-mystic [[HumanSubspecies Grey Wolves]]]].
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The series makes an art form of this, with episode titles so heavily metaphorical that you can get an idea what the episode is about just from the title ('Blue Roses Bloom in the Cannibal Department Store'), while others only make sense [[MakesSenseInContext after viewing the episode]] ('A Malicious Frill is Censuring the Farting Newt').
* ImprobableHairstyle: [[ThisIsADrill Grevil]] has drill hair, 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.
* InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals: 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.
* InSeriesNickname: The students of St. Marguerite call Kazuya "The Black/Dark Reaper" or "The Reaper Who Comes In Spring" because of a local ghost story that he happens to fit. They also call Victorique "The Golden Fairy of the Library" because of her mysterious nature and the place she supposedly haunts.
* InterchangeableAsianCultures: It takes quite a few of the citizens of Sauville more than one go to correctly identify Kazuya's country of origin. Hardly surprising, given the relative lack of international travel at the time. Some people throughout the series call to him by saying, "Hey Chinese!" They either don't know his Japanese heritage or just don't care.
* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler: Things get considerably darker once the Marquis de Blois takes an active role in proceedings.]]
* LargeHam: Grevil is introduced with a loud and silly discusion about squrriels and he even has hammy, over-exaggerated ''[[ThisIsADrill hair]]''. According to his [[BeleagueredChildhoodFriend 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''.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Roxanne the fortune teller turns out to have been zapped by her own past misdeeds, as does ''every single guest'' on the second Queen Berry who (a) isn't Kazuya or Victorique, and (b) isn't the person who set up the entire DeathCourse to begin with.
* LastNameBasis: Victorique always calls Kazuya by his last name, "Kujo".
* LighterAndSofter: The last arc is tweaked in the anime in order to make it less traumatic and more satisfactory, as well as shorter. In the original series, [[spoiler:Albert was simply arrested by the Sauville government instead of killed, Cordelia and the first Brian were executed after saving Victorique, the latter passed a whole year subjected to experiments with drugs to use her during the war, and afterwards Victorique had to escape a Japanese prostitution ring until finally reaching Kazuya's family]]. Meanwhile, in the anime [[spoiler:Cordelia dies killing Albert, the first Brain Roscoe dies at Cordelia's side, the second Brian Roscoe overcomes enough hatred of Victorique to enourage her to live before dying of his own injuries, and Victorique escapes from Sauville and the Monstre Charmant movement. Victorique's search of Kazuya is offscreen and presumably much less dramatic.]]
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Avril and Victorique are light and dark, respectively. Avril is bright and cute and friendly, while Victorique is more elegant and mysterious and temperamental.
* LittleGirlsKickShins: When Victorique is particularly annoyed/bored, she invariably expresses her annoyance with a kick to Kujo's shin.
* LittleMissSnarker: ''Victorique'' is shorter than everyone except her own mother and young children, and she sasses everyone.
* LockedRoomMystery: Episode 1 has one of these. [[spoiler:In fact, the lock itself turns out to be instrumental to the murder method.]]
* MagicalRealism: Despite the down-to-earth explanations for most of the strange occurrences in the story, some apparently genuine supernatural elements (such as highly accurate prophecies and the Grey Wolves' possibly-superhuman mental faculties) do appear to exist.
* MagicVersusScience: The heart of the SecretWar between the Science Academy and the Ministry of the Occult is a debate over which is the better power. Whilst the Academy has the advantage of far more empirical evidence on its side (and of not being run by the Marquis de Blois), both factions fight so dirty that it's impossible to call either one the good guys.
* MamaBear:
** Cecil is shown to be protective of her students, especially Victorique.
** [[spoiler: Cordelia is very protective of her daughter Victorique, to the point she makes it her sole reason of living.]]
* {{Meido}}: Victorique has to borrow a change of clothes from the train staff in Episode 18 because she was soaked at the climax of the previous episode, and somehow they find a maid's uniform that fits a [[OlderThanTheyLook very short 13-14 year old girl who looks like 10 or 12]]. Maids tended to start out at that age in the period, so it's not out of place. Kujo meanwhile gets a waiter uniform.
%%%* MicroMonarchy: Sauville.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:The English boy Ned]] on the first Queen Berry is not a "hare" but a "hunting dog" meant to spoke the other children.
* MoodWhiplash: Frequently changes from dramatic crime-solving, to humor, to d'aww, often within ''seconds''.
* MoralEventHorizon: 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 [[RapeAsBackstory far]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness nastier]].]]
* MurderousMannequin: Episode 9 opens with Avril telling Kujo a horror story about a mannequin that invites people that stop by store window into the store after closing hours. She, or a spirit possessing the mannequin, then consumes the victim in the dressing room.
* MysteryOfTheWeek: Kujo has a tendency to stumble into mysteries, which he then presents to Victorique to solve. This is the format for mot episdes.
* MysteryMagnet: 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.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Beelzebub's Skull; why in the world would someone name a nunnery after ''after a demon''?
* NastyParty: Everyone invited to the Miniature Garden Box Evening is there so that one of the "hares" from the first Queen Berry [[spoiler:(Julie)]] can have their revenge for what happened 10 years before.
* NewTransferStudent:
** Kazuya transfers to St. Marguerite Academy before the start of the series, and this is why he called "The Reaper Who Comes in Spring"
** Avril Bradley transfers in some time later after Kazuya, [[spoiler: which means that no one could tell her apart from the thief pretending to be her.]]
* NiceGuy: Kazuya's kindess and tolerance for difficult people helps a ''lot'' with putting up with [[LittleMissSnarker Victorique]].
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Kujo is on the receiving end of one-sided beating [[spoiler: in Episode 23 from a DrillSergeantNasty who even [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown kicks him for good measure]]]].
* NoSocialSkills: Victorique never really had a chance to develop socil skills because of her father's insistence that she develop her intellect instead, resulting in her characteristic bluntness and making such things as [[DullSurprise her attempts at]] [[NoblewomansLaugh polite laughter]] a... memorable experience for all present.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Pulled off by ''[[spoiler:[[UpperClassTwit Grevil]]]]'', of all people, in Episode 10. If Episode 11 is any indication, [[spoiler:Grevil]] has always been fairly bright... just not as bright as Victorique. He's still quite dumb with various weird conclusions he makes. He's smart in very narrow fields, and [[spoiler:police work]] is not one of them, despite his good eye for detail -- when he bothers looking in the first place.
* OfCorsetHurts: Victorique runs afoul of an antique corset in Episode 22 when putting on a Christmas costume. Kujo is the one lacing it for her, and he asks if her sweet tooth has caused her to put on weight. Victorique elbows him in response.
* OfficialCouple: Kazuya and Victorique set up to fall for each other quickly, though Victorique refuses to acknowledge such feelings for some time. The anime's OP is centered on how they are linked by destiny, and were following an invisible line to each other. [[spoiler: The first series ends with their engagement, and the second distant finale includes their wedding.]]
* OffWithHisHead: The victim in Episode 5 is beheaded by razor wire and a motorcycle.
* OlderThanTheyLook: [[HumanSubspecies Grey Wolves]] tend to look younger than they really are, thanks to their short stature and childlike frames.
* OpenSaysMe: Avril kicks open a couple of doors in the clock tower. Each time afterwards, she hops around in pain for a bit. Fashionable heels aren't really meant for this sort of thing, you know?
* OutrunTheFireball: Kujo outruns a floodwater while carrying Victorique in Episode 17.
* ParentalAbandonment: [[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.]]
%%%* PhantomThief: [[spoiler:The Second Kuiaran.]]
* PhoneInDetective: Very common for Victorique, due to the restrictions her family have placed on her movements. In fact, it's implied to be the exclusive method by which she helped out Grevil before Kazuya came along. She's literally this in the Jeantan case, due to being bedridden with sickness.
* PingPongNaivete: Victorique is solving a complex crime with second-hand information one moment, and not knowing that one can get a carriage for hire the next because she has been cloistered her whole life in a library.
* PoliceAreUseless: The local police are generally not helpful, and it doesn't help that an UpperClassTwit is their acclaimed chief investigator. This is averted in the Jeantan case, as they successfully implement Victorique's plan to find the victims and then arrest the perpetrators without further help.
* PropertyOfLove: Victorique claims Kujo belongs to her several times. First, she says he is her "vassal" and later she says he is her "heart".
* ProphetEyes: Used, naturally, whenever someone's making a prophecy, though it's really more of a case of their eyes rolling up in their heads.
* RapeAsBackstory: [[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 [[HumanSubspecies Grey Wolf]].]]
* RedHerring:
** [[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. That was the reason her child's father wants nothing to do with her any more, right? [[RapeAsBackstory Wrong!]]]]
* SayMyName: Kujo has the tendency to shout Victorique's name due to stress or danger of the current situation.
* ScaryBlackMan: [[spoiler: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 were all to try to discourage further exploitation of his home country by Sauville's royalty.]]
* ScoobyDooHoax: In Episode 4, we're told that there's an abandoned storehouse that is haunted by the ghost of a former student. [[spoiler: In the following episode, it's revealed to be a ruse by the Second Kuiaran to keep people from going inside, since that's where she's keeping the real Avril BoundAndGagged.]]
* ScreamingBirth: [[spoiler:Victorique's]] mother screamed constantly during her birth, and this is highly justified, given that the birth in question was an obstetrician's nightmare. Forget an epidural, this mother was chained up in a dungeon without any medical professionals of any kind present.
* SecretWar: [[MagicVersusScience the Ministry of the Occult and the Science Academy]], two powerful political factions battling over control of the government. This has gone on for decades, long before the events of the show. Leviathan unwittingly stepped into the middle of it, and was targeted by both sides; the Academy wanted to discredit him and the Ministry wanted him to join them.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: [[spoiler:Harminia's motivation for murdering the Elder of Seyrun and later attempting to destroy the tiny city-state was to prevent her own foretold death at age 26. Naturally, the plan went wrong and she eventually [[KarmicDeath ended up]] [[DisneyVillainDeath causing her demise]] just as the elder had predicted.]]
* SherlockScan: Victorique is very good at analyzing events and people, though her tendency to rely on second-hand information means that she lacks much of the corresponding HyperAwareness when she's on the scene herself. She refers to his as "reconstructing the truth from the fragments of chas with her wellspring of wisdom".
* ShipTease:
** Many sweet moments take place between [[OfficialCouple Kazuya and Victorique]]. It helps that [[OlderThanTheyLook despite her appearance]], they're actually about the same age.
** Avril has a crush on Kazuya, but she has no moments with him. It goes about [[HopelessSuitor as well]] as [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy you'd expect]].
** There's also a moment in the anime when Jacqueline reminisces, LuminescentBlush and all, about how striking Grevil was when they were younger. It's fair to assume that if Grevil had expressed his feelings for her earlier, he might not have ended up an UnluckyChildhoodFriend.
* ShorterMeansSmarter: Victorique and Luigi are the shortest in the cast, and have the greatest analytical minds. Luigi isn't even a grey wolf, he's just that smarter naturally. He gets taller in the distant finale.
* ShoutOut:
** 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. [[{{Literature/Rapunzel}} Remind you of anything?]]
** Victorique uses a pipe when she's thinking in a way similar to the popular conception of Franchise/SherlockHolmes, although in the anime she just holds it in her mouth instead of actually ''smoking'' anything.
** In Episode 22, Avril wears a costume for Christmas that greatly resembles [[Literature/PeterPan Tinker Bell]].
* ShroudedInMyth: The Grey Wolves, a legendary European [[HumanSubspecies bloodline]] known for their short stature, golden hair, lack of emotions and vast intellect, are the source of several local legends and a great deal of general superstition.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Kazuya and Victorique really complicate the Queen Berry murder plot. It didn't help that the culprit, being a SympatheticMurderer, didn't want to see two innocent children die in the gigantic DeathCourse they'd set up, and so had to expose themselves more than they would have otherwise wished to in order to keep them safe.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There is some contention on how to [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseRomanization romanize]] various names in the series, including those of the main heroine, the police inspector, and the fictional country they live in.
* StageMagician: 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]].
* StarCrossedLovers: The elder of Seyrun predicted that an event that will soon come will tear Kazuya and Victorique apart. With UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 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.]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: [[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 InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals. Her mother has noticeably larger breasts (that is, any) than her daughter, even after the TimeSkip where we see Victorique at around 18, but it's hard to tell under the frills.]]
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Victorique occupies the middle ground between this trope and {{Tsundere}}, being more cranky than the average SugarAndIcePersonality and more reserved than the average {{Tsundere}}.
* SympatheticMurderer: The surviving "hares" of the first Queen Berry, [[spoiler:save for Ned]], where all children forced into a kill-or-die situation by a grup of terrible adults.
* TakeMyHand: Victorique reaches out to Kazuya [[spoiler:when the only bridge to the Grey Wolf village collapses. This is significant because Victorique reaches for Kazuya instead of the momento necklace from her mother, which was also falling]].
%%* TenLittleMurderVictims: This happens at the Miniature Garden Box Evening.
* ThrowTheBookAtThem: Victorique's method of dealing with [[spoiler:the fake Avril Bradley]] is to drop a full trunk of books on them.
* ToTheTuneOf: The OP "Destin Historie" sounds awfully similar to "[[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Sorairo Days]]" and vice versa, as pointed out in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rVDQNbFYno this video]].
* TogetherInDeath: In the anime, [[spoiler:Cordelia and one of the Roscoes die together. The Roscoe navigates the flames and corpses in order to find Cordelia's body, sits down next to it, takes her hand, and then expires.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: [[spoiler:The Village of the Grey Wolves is the site of an event that influences a terrible tragedy, the framing of Cordelia Galleo and her exile.]]
* TranslationConvention: 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]].
* TsurimeEyes: Victorique and Avril both have upturned eyes but only Victorique has the sharp personality to match. Avril is way too friendly to count but [[spoiler: her imposter counts.]]
%%* UnkemptBeauty: Mildred.
* UpperClassTwit: Grevil is a large ham with a ridiculous hairstyle and is the chief investigator because his father is a nobleman. One can only imagine what state Sauville's criminal justice system would be in without [[ChildProdigy Victorique]] around....
* VagueAge: 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 OlderThanTheyLook 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.]]
* VestigialEmpire: [[spoiler:Seyrun is very, ''very'' vestigial. It is one little village in a rural area.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: A common fate for criminals outed by Kazuya and Victorique is a hit to their sanity. [[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 somewhat detrimental to one's mental wellbeing.
* TheWatson: Kazuya asks Victorique to explain how she solved the crimes so she can do so for the audience.
* WhamEpisode:
** Episode 19, which shows just how horrifying Victorique's BackStory really is.
** Episode 22 when [[spoiler: it turns out Grevil helping Kujo find Victorique and his affection for his little sister might have all been an act]].
** Dear God, Episode 23. [[spoiler:Kujo's been deported. Victorique is Albert's prisoner. Albert has defeated the Science Academy and taken control of Sauville. And then... Cordelia reaches new levels of badass in confronting Albert at a public function, stages a terrorist attack on him with Brian Roscoe's help, and then ''kills him'' in a swordfight. Then she gets killed, and Brian's twin makes an attempt on Victorique's life. Holy shit.]]
* WouldntHitAGirl: 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, he tends to dodge more than attack. It is worth noting that the one time he fought a ''male'' villian, he did pretty well considering that his opponent was an adult.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:After he 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.]]
* YouWakeUpInARoom: The food at the Miniature Garden Box Evening was drugged, and when everyone wakes up, they've been moved to another room.
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