I watched Gosick because Mari Okada, the writer of O Maidens in Your Savage Season and director of Maboroshi, worked on it. Of course, she was the “Series Designer” and not the writer, and it shows…
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Gosick
Title: GosickGenre: MysteryRating: 9.5/10 Summary: Gosick takes place in 1924 in a small, made-up European country of Sauville. The story centers on Kazuya Kujo, the third son of a Japanese Imperial soldier, who…
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