Gosick (ゴシック Goshikku, stylized as GOSICK) is a Japanese light novel series by Kazuki Sakuraba, published by Fujimi Shobo. Set in a fictional European country in 1924, a Japanese exchange student meets a mysterious, brilliant girl who only leaves the library to sleep. Her brother, a detective, relies on her exceptional mind to solve difficult mysteries.
Tokyo pop
released the first novel in the series in English in April 2008
and the second in March 2010. The series has been published in Germany by
Tokyopop since November 2006.A manga adaptation started serialization in the
shōnen manga magazine Monthly Dragon Age
on December 9, 2007. An anime adaptation by Bones premiered on January 7, 2011. Crunchy roll simulcasted the animation during its Japanese
broadcast and continues to webcast it.
At Otakon 2011 Bandai Entertainment
announced that they would release the series in North America. In January 2012 Bandai Entertainment
announced that they'll withdraw from the North American market, and GOSICK's
North American release is cancelled.
Gosick takes place in 1924 in a small,
French-speaking fictional European country, which stretches in a strip from
Switzerland, through the alps between France and Italy, to the Mediterranean
Sea. The country's called "Sauville" in the English translation of
the light novels; it is called "Saubure" in the anime adaption. The
story centers on Kazuya Kujo, the third son of a high-ranking officer of
Japanese Imperial Army, who is a transfer student to St. Marguerite Academy,
where urban legends and horror stories are all the rage. There he meets
Victorique, a mysterious yet beautiful and brilliant girl who never comes to
class and spends her days reading the entire content of the library or solving
mysteries that even detectives cannot solve. The series mostly focuses on Kazuya
and Victorique getting involved in different mystery cases and their struggle
to solve them, at the same time forming important bonds with different people.
Watch go sick trailer here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMFLC-SKtFs
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