“Outcast Japanese student and doll-like detective girl solve mysteries at European boarding school.”
Gosick
GOSICK -ゴシック-
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Synopsis
Outcast Japanese student and doll-like detective girl solve mysteries at European boarding school.
Kazuya Kujou is a foreign student at Saint Marguerite Academy, a luxurious boarding school in the Southern European country of Sauville. Originally from Japan, his jet-black hair and dark brown eyes cause his peers to shun him and give him the nickname "Black Reaper," based on a popular urban legend about the traveler who brings death in the spring. On a day like any other, Kujou visits the school's extravagant library in search of ghost stories. However, his focus soon changes as he becomes curious about a golden strand of hair on the stairs. The steps lead him to a large garden and a beautiful doll-like girl known as Victorique de Blois, whose complex and imaginative foresight allows her to predict their futures, now intertwined. With more mysteries quickly developing—including the appearance of a ghost ship and an alchemist with the power of transmutation—Victorique and Kujou, bound by fate and their unique skills, have no choice but to rely on each other.
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Derived from 182 sampled reviews
What 182 viewers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.64 · some divergence
5.3 pts
Recommenders 8.7 · others 3.4
↓ 1.78
Running avg · Jan 2011 → Aug 2025
- 10 “Beautiful masterpiece, the animation was great as-well as the general story. Though I think the last few episodes were a bit rushed, I found it great overall. I know theres a great chance there...”
- 10 “Gosick is an amazing anime and I fell in love with it. It has such a great plot. The story takes you with the charaters who are changes my each other as they solve crimes together. The crimes...”
- 9 “I really enjoyed this anime and i even signed up to say this she had the silver hair because she is the gray wolf and that sadly there wont be a second season because usually when an anime says Fin...”
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- Format 24 × 24′ eps × min
- Total runtime 9h 36m all episodes
- Aired Jan 2011 – Jul 2011 Winter 2011
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-5354 catalog
Produced by
- TV Tokyo Producer
- Kadokawa Shoten Producer
- KlockWorx Producer
- Memory-Tech Producer
- NTT Docomo Producer
- Fonishia Producer
Licensed by
- Funimation Licensor