Gosick takes place in 1942 in a small European country namely sauville. One of the main character in the story, kazuya kujo the third son of a japanese imperial soldier transfers into st marguerite academy where urban legends and horror stories are taken seriously. As soon as kujo enters the academy, he was given the nickname of the shinigami of the spring because of one of the legend in the school and partly due to his black hair. So nobody dares to go near him as it is believed that he will bring misfortune.
By a twist of fate, he met victorique, a girl that is cute, doll like and at the same time smart at the top of the library. She does not attend classes and spends her day in the library reading mountain of books. Like kujo, she is also given a nickname as the golden fairy of the library due to her blonde hair and cute appearance that is believed to help anybody to solve anything but at the price of the requester soul. Through some turn of event, kujo and victorique began to solve mysteries together. Even though they oppose each other at the start, as the story progress their bonds began to deepen. Also the secret of the victorique past and identity also starts to un reveal itself.
At first the anime may seem like mystery genre anime (like detective cona) , however it is not really the case. I should say the mystery part is only part of them. This anime actually focus more on the character development. What i mean is like the meeting of new characters and the relationship between the characters. To be fair, i have to say the mystery part still plays a important role in this anime.
For the character wise i should say it does a pretty good job. Lets starts from the appearance, the female lead for instance has a very small body and a blonde hair while the male lead is tall and has black hair. It is not exactly similar but i can say it makes them quite compatible when you put them together. Now for the personality, victorique is awesomely smart while kujo is not the brainy type thats gets in trouble all the time where victorique always came to his rescue. So all of these contrast really helps to strengthen the characters.
For the plot wise, i should say it does not really has a solid plot but rather it has a interesting one. Also the twist at some part of the story is strong but not a very good one. Like most of the anime, the comic relief gets lesser and lesser as the episodes progress towards the end which makes it fairly tense and a bit boring.Some parts of the story is also kind of complicated and confusing which is not well explained in the anime. I am also a bit disappointed in the ending. I not saying that it is not good in fact it is very touching and impactful. How do i say, it is just not satisfying enough for me. Well although the story focuses a lot on the two main lead characters, but the side characters is also important in the story development.
Now time for the song part, it actually has one opening, two endings and one insert. For a 24 episode anime, i feel that the amount is fairly good enough. so here goes:
1. Destin Histoire by Yoshiki Lisa (OP 1)
2. Resuscitated Hope by Lisa Komine (ED 1)
3. Unity by Lisa Komine (ED 2)
4. Barairo no Jinsei ~La Vie en Rose~ by Miyuki Sawashiro (Insert)
Well my personal favorutite is destin histoire a song with a fairly fast pace. It is like those song that is not attractive at first but love it after hearing a few times. All in all this anime is quite a good one i should say. It is quite a unique one among all the anime i have watched. I think this anime scores its points from the characters the most. I also strongly recommend this anime to lolicons lovers and people who like mysteries. This is definitely the one for you. Happy watching :D
Ciao su~~
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