The year is 1924, the place, Sauville, a small European country neatly tucked beside the Alps... Kazuya Kujo has been studying abroad at the prestigious Saint Marguerite Academy, where urban legends and horror stories are all the rage. Most Kazuya ignores -- but the story of the "Queen Berry", a mysterious ghost ship, really gets to him. Of course, his brainy friend Victorique is much more intrigued by true stories, and she uses her unrivaled logic to solve mysteries even the town's famous detective can't. Ironically, it's Victorique's inquisitive nature that leads the duo to board a ship that matches the "Queen Berry"'s description to a tee, a ship that might just hold the key to solving a sinister mystery... Kazuki Sakuraba's modern twist on Holmes and Watson-- pairing Victorique, a brittle young girl with doll-like looks with her eager-to-please sidekick Kazuya-- make this international bestseller a must-read murder mystery. (Source: TOKYOPOP)
Japanese study overview
GOSICK is a Japanese novel of 1,033,749 characters, with 18,990 unique words and 2,357 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 18,990 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 一弥Ichiya×4,195
- 君you×1,339
- 顔face×1,248
- 言うto say×974
- 警部police inspector×969
- 声voice×922
- 久城Kushiro×739
- 中inside×735
- 男man×712
- 先生teacher×670
- 出るto leave×630
- 瞳pupil (of the eye)×626
- 侯爵marquis×285
- 灰色狼(European) gray wolf (carnivore, Canis lupus lupus)×226
- 公妃noble's consort×153
- 時計塔clock tower×150
- 瑠璃Ruri×130
- 修道院monastery×126
- 老女elderly woman×103
- 錬金術師alchemist×91