Gosick

Gosick - Introduction

Introduction

Gosick Episode 1

The Dark Reaper Finds the Golden Fairy

The time is 1924, the place a small nation with a long, majestic history to be proud of, the kingdom of Saubure. The prestigious St. Marguerite's Academy, a school that caters to the children of aristocrats, gets a new arrival, Kujo Kazuya, an exchange student from an Eastern island nation. One day, in a botanical garden at the very top of the academy's library tower, Kazuya encounters a girl who is as beautiful as a doll...

Gosick Episode 2

The Souls of the Dead Raise a Shipwreck

With their invitation to Roxane in hand, Kazuya and Victorique join the "Miniature Garden Box Evening" party on board a ship. While eating with great gusto, they unwittingly drift off to sleep, and when they wake up, Victorique notices a difference amongst their fellow guests...

Gosick Episode 3

The Hares Break a Promise Under the Morning Sun

Victorique and the others not only realize that the ship they're on is a replica of the Queen Berry, but also that the deadly events of ten years ago are playing out again. Facing the possibility of being murdered at every turn, the survivors begin to suspect each other, when suddenly, Ned, the English actor, dies before Kazuya's very eyes!

Gosick Episode 4

The Golden Thread Cuts Through a Passing Moment

One morning, when Kazuya is walking down the road to the village, he sees someone racing by on a motorbike. In the next instant, the driver's head is soaring through the air. Kazuya, a witness to the peculiar death, is arrested for suspicion of murder. Meanwhile, a new foreign exchange student arrives at the academy, Avril from England. And a mummified knight is discovered in the school's long-unused crypt?!

Gosick Episode 5

There's a Mysterious Ghost in the Abandoned Storehouse

Right after the mummy was discovered, Kazuya saw Avril holding a purple book in the crypt, and he can't get it out of his mind. When he consults Victorique about it, she locates the book without a moment's hesitation. Did Avril hide it? Meanwhile, there are rumors that the successor to the notorious Phantom Thief Kuiaran is coming to the village.

Gosick Episode 6

The Gray Wolves Summon Their Brethren

Ghost story-loving Avril tells Kazuya about the rumor of a gray wolf who can speak the human tongue. Soon after, the two of them become involved in the theft of a Dresden plate at an open-air market. Victorique effortlessly solves that mystery, but the newspaper has no information about the case being cracked. Instead, the paper prints a classified ad invitation to the upcoming summer solstice festival at the Village of Gray Wolves!

Gosick Episode 7

A Divine Revelation is Given at the Summer Solstice Festival

Kazuya and Victorique arrive at the Village of the Gray Wolves. The villagers speak of a maid, Cordelia Gallo, who murdered the former village elder, Theodore. She was expelled from the village from her crime, but now, Victorique aims to prove the woman's innocence. To that end, Victorique and Kazuya head for the house she once lived in...

Gosick Episode 8

Howling Echoes From the Kingdom of the Past

Two visiting outsiders have been murdered at the village's midsummer festival, but Victorique solves the mystery of their deaths. However, the village elder claims, "This isn't Saubure" and won't allow the murderer to stand trial. And then, Victorique and Kazuya are on the verge of proving Cordelia Gallo innocent of the crime she was found guilty of 20 years earlier.

Gosick Episode 9

Blue Roses Bloom in the Cannibal Department Store

On a shopping errand for his older sister back home, Kazuya heads for Jiangtan, a department store in the capital city of Saubreme. One of the things on his shopping list is a piece of merchandise based on the Blue Rose, a blue diamond once owned by the royal family, but stolen during the Great War. Meanwhile, Victorique is at home with a cold and Blois is in the capital trying to track down smugglers of stolen works of art.

Gosick Episode 10

Girl With a Cold Dreams of Her Stubborn Friend

In the basement of Jeantan, Kazuya found a real girl mixed amongst mannequins. Thinking that some kind of criminal activity is afoot, he consults with Blois at police headquarters. However, no evidence can be found. Kazuya calls Victorique for her help while at the same time pursuing a lead with Luigi, the boy he met in town.

Gosick Episode 11

That Drill Eloquently Speaks of Love

A visitor comes to the academy and it turns out to be Jacqueline, wife of the police superintendent general and seemingly close acquaintance of Inspector Blois. Kazuya is entrusted with giving her a tour, but the innocent Jacqueline soon takes the reins, directing them to the library. There, Jacqueline encounters Victorique, and confides that she was at the center of a murder investigation several years before...

Gosick Episode 12

The Cicadas Are Heard on Summer Afternoons

It's summer vacation at the academy and all of the students are going on retreats from the heat, except for Victorique, who is forced to spend the boring break alone there. However, after Kazuya turns down Avril's invitation, he pays Victorique a visit, bringing along the most recent goodies sent from Japan. Among them is the answer to the puzzle Victorique posed to Kazuya's second elder brother. Under the midsummer sun, Kazuya's thoughts go to earlier summer days in Japan.

Gosick Episode 13

The Fool Designates His Own Mouthpiece

Avril has returned to the academy early on account of her infatuation with Kazuya. After seeing a movie together, the two of them come across a clock tower that's exactly the same as the one in the movie. Inside, they find the workshop of Leviathan the Alchemist. Meanwhile, at the library, Victorique is hit on the head by a falling book, which turns out to be the memoirs of none other than Leviathan!

Gosick Episode 14

A Malicious Frill Denounces a Farting Newt

A murder has occurred in the clock tower. As Victorique leaves the library tower to investigate the mystery written in Leviathan's book, she meets Avril for the first time and quickly gets into a fight with her. Meanwhile, Inspector Blois warns Kazuya that the academy is a place where Saubure's dark history lies sleeping and that he should back off or be in danger. Finally, a mystery man with some connection to Victorique closes in on her!

Gosick Episode 15

Two Monsters See Eye to Eye

The alchemy of Leviathan, once the favorite of the Queen, was denounced before the entire kingdom through the manipulation of Baron Musgrave. Leviathan, furious, killed an innocent boy. Fallen from power, a person approached Leviathan trying to get him to create artificial soldiers, Homunculi, to prepare for the oncoming war...

Gosick Episode 16

The Felling Maria Has a Fly’s Head

Victorique has disappeared. The Marquis de Blois has had her taken to a remote convent known as "Beelzebub's Skull". Worried about Victorique and determined to get her back, Kazuya arranges a plan to retrieve her. On the train over, he meets other people who are also heading for the convent. They say their purpose is to experience Phantasmagoria, a secret soirée held there, but...

Gosick Episode 17

The Box Lies in the Spiral Labyrinth

Kazuya successfully finds Victorique and she tells him that the Marquis de Blois's purpose is using her to draw out Cordelia. Meanwhile, a variety of "miracles" are happening at Phantasmagoria. Victorique easily sees through the tricks, but the prior of the convent has a hardline stance that won't be budged. Before long, a murder in the guise of a "miracle" takes place before everyone's eyes!

Gosick Episode 18

The Jet-Black Train Carries Several Lies

Most people escaped from Beelzebub's Skull by train, the Masquerade. There, Kazuya and Victorique meet fellow passengers who only identify themselves as "an orphan", "a scarecrow", "a woodcutter" and "a knight". However, they're all actually agents of either the Ministry of the Occult or the Science Academy, and all are after the memento box that Roscoe hid in the convent many years ago. Suddenly, the room that Victorique and Kazuya are in is plunged into darkness!

Gosick Episode 19

The Rose-Colored Life is Buried Under Fresh Snow

Kazuya is excited by his first snowfall in Saubure. He heads to Saubreme to buy Victorique a present. In the capital, a presentation of "The Blue Rose of Saubreme" is being put on at the Phantom Theater, where Cordelia was once employed as a dancer. Meanwhile, the curtain comes up on the secret of Victorique's birth and her mother Cordelia's past...

Gosick Episode 20

Led by the Phantom of the Phantom

"The Blue Rose of Saubreme", a dramatization of the tragic life and death of Queen Coco, is going to be performed at the Phantom Theatre. In order to expose the truth behind the queen's murder, the Marquis de Blois has Victorique brought to the theater. Why are they after the queen's killer? Victorique is in imminent danger in the hotbed of the Ministry of the Occult's ulterior motive!

Gosick Episode 21

The Bells of Christmas Eve Toll at the Heels of Time

After Kazuya rescues Victorique, it's with renewed confidence that she has the grave of a one-time dancer dug up in order to get at the truth behind the Queen's murder. Victorique finds an important fragment of Chaos lying there and soon she begins expounding on a story of Coco Rose that is quite different from the one that's being performed at the same time.

Gosick Episode 22

A Christmas Carol Decorates the Windowsill's Happiness

There's a masquerade Christmas party at the academy. Cecile takes two costumes out of storage in the attic, with the intention of outfitting Kazuya and Victorique. The costumes, a pink dress and a rabbit suit, are based on the fairy tale, "Monstre Charmant". Victorique and Kazuya go to the party in costume and have a good time, but a gust of wind is about to blow between them...

Gosick Episode 23

Announcing Checkmate at Dyed-Gray Chess

Victorique is being held captive in the basement of the Ministry of the Occult. Meanwhile, the wind of the Second World War begins to sweep through Europe. The Marquis de Blois, desiring war, uses Victorique as "Monstre Charmant" to divine the future of Saubure and manipulates the king and commoners alike. While Saubure, and indeed the entire world, faces war, Victorique continues to grip the pendant she received from Kazuya.

Gosick Episode 24

Looking at Infinity Over the Reaper's Shoulder

Victorique, along with Roscoe, continue to escape from the agents of the Marquis de Blois. When Roscoe, who also sees Cordelia when he looks at Victorique, finally gets everything off his chest as he quietly begins to speak of his past. Meanwhile, Kazuya is at war, on the front line as a soldier, but even though he's thousands of miles away from Victorique, he continues to think about her. The two have been pulled apart by the unyielding current of history. But in the end, spring comes to the age...