Gosick
 

The shounen(boy's) light novel series GOSICK by Sakuraba Kazuki (author) and Takeda Hinata (illustrator) will be getting an anime adaptation:
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/moonphase/20100316

GOSICK

少年向けライトノベル.
Shounen light novel series (light novel series aimed at boys).

The light novel series is published under the shounen light novel label Fujimi Mystery Bunko.
Currently there are 6 volumes released of the light novel series.

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Author: Sakuraba Kazuki
Illustrator: Takeda Hinata

A short story light novel series titled GOSICKs is published under the shounen light novel label Fujimi Mystery Bunko.
Currently there are 3 volumes released of the short story light novel series.

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Author: Sakuraba Kazuki
Illustrator: Takeda Hinata

A shounen manga adaptation is serailized in the shounen manga magazine Dragon Age.
Currently there are 4 volumes released of this manga.

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Manga drawn by: Amano Sakuya

Genre: Shounen, Mystery, Horror

Wiki entry for the light novel series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosick

WOOTSAUCE, now just to see which studio is doing this

Good to know. I wonder who's the VA's gonna be.

Never heard of this before but considering genre is mystery, horror, Im in :) Also Im a sucker for period style anime, epsc ones set in Europe.

In the radio drama Kazuya was voiced by Miyu Irino and Victorique(or Victorica, whichever translation you've seen) was voiced by Chiwa Saito.

Lol, I thought this was a hospital slice of life from the title.

It's basically the romanized version of the Japanese pronunciation of "Gothic".

Woot this is a dream come true..

Now i hope they will animate S9 too...

The novel art is really beatiful *O*
I'm very excited about this~

I've heard some good things about this series especially about it's similarities to Sherlock Holmes novels.

Based on my experience after watching Sherlock Holmes movie 2009 (and some stuffs about him) I'd say Victorica is as damn smart & sharp as him. :heh:
You can think this series's more like about Sherlock Holmes in lolita form and doctor Watson in young boy form.

This series is definitely a ...different... take on Holmes and Watson. Victorique is Holmes with even fewer social graces and Kazuya is Watson, with confidence issues. It sounds harsh, and Victorique can quickly drive you crazy, but the mysteries are actually fairly innovative and both characters grow on you. Also, the LN's are gorgeously visual and, with some love from the studio, should transfer beautifully to animation. I'm really looking forward to this one. :D

So, what studio is everyone hoping for? I really want Madhouse, Production I.G, or ufotable on this one.

Smells like A-1 to me.

Heard nothing but good things about the novels so looking forward to this, hopefully it's Fall 2010.

The anime adaption of Gosick will be animated by Bones.

Any sort of announcement to back that up?

Nevermind, just saw that on MOON PHASE. We can be at least assured it's going to look good now ^^.

It's in this month's Newtype.

BONES, you say? Color me surprised. Is this a first for them? I don't think I remember any other series by them like this one.

Also, if anyone's read the novels, what are they like? I'm a big fan of stuff like Agatha Christie's Poirot stories and Conan Doyle's Sherlock, so would I enjoy this?

Awesome news about Bones animating this.