Episode
Gosick: Listening to the Voice of the Cicadas on a Summer Afternoon
Overview
Everybody in school are preparing for there summer vacation. Kujo has tuned down his vacation trip with Avril to stay with Victorique. Kujo has flash back of his past of why he left japan, while relaxing on a tree. When Kujo went into the academy, Victorique wanted to climb the tree Kujo was on and gets stuck in the tree forcing Kujo to save her. Kujo then chills at Victorique's house while it rains, but she spills tea all over her kimono and forcing Kujo to clean it up. The scene ends with Kujo remembering to to buy sweet for Victorique.
Details
- Series
- Gosick
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2011-04-09
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Listening to the Voice of the Cicadas on a Summer Afternoon is Episode 12 in Season 1 of Gosick. It aired on 2011-04-09. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 11: The Drill Speaks Eloquently of Love
Jaqueline, an old friend of Grevil's, pays a visit to the Academy to make a donation and has a sudden encounter with Victorique at the Library Tower. There, she tells the story of a mysterious incident from the past where she was falsely accused of murder, unaware about its connection with both Victorique and the reason why Grevil has started bearing his unusual hairstyle.
Episode 13: He Who is His Own Lawyer Has a Fool for a Client
Kujo and Avril explore one of the school's towers and Avril figures that it is related to the legend of Leviathan, an alchemist who lived there decades before. Victorique stumbles on a pop-up book containing a cryptic message aledgely from Leviathan himself and when a death occurs at the top of the tower, she decides to investigate by herself.
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Victorique is dragged by her teacher to her classroom and is introduced to the rest of her classmates. Avril tries to bring her attention but she gets angry on her instead. Kujo demands Victorique to apologize to her, and when she refuses, he sets with Avril to keep investigating the Leviathan case without her help. Meanwhile Victorique has an encounter with Brian Roscoe, a friend of the victim's, on the top of the clock tower.
Episode 9: A Blue Rose Blossoms in a Cannibal Department Store
Victorica gets a fever as Kujo sets out alone for some errands in Sauville. While searching for a souvenir for his sister, he meets a girl among a pile of mannequins. The girl asks for help, but when he gets back to the department store with the Inspector, she is nowhere to be found. Kujo calls Victorica by phone to ask her help, but the call is cut short as he is taken away.
Episode 15: Two Monsters Know Each Others' Hearts
Kujo inquires Brian Roscoe regarding his connection to Victorique and her mother, but he only warns him to beware of her father instead. Meanwhile, Victorique succeeds to unlock the secrets behind Leviathan, the clock tower and the truth about her own origin.
Episode 8: Howling Echoes from the Kingdom of the Past
Victorica manages to find the culprit behind the recent deaths at the village and to clear her mother's name by exposing the woman who framed her. However, when the woman attempts to escape, she starts torching the entire village, and Kujo must confront her while protecting Victorica with his life.
Episode 16: The Toppled Maria Has the Head of a Fly
Victorique's father have her taken from the academy to a convent known as "Beelzebub's Skull" in Lithuania. Kujo learns about her whereabouts from Grevil and takes a train going there to look for her. Guided by a woman who resembles a lot like her, Kujo manages to find where Victorique is held and learns from her that the woman is most likely her mother, Cordelia.
Episode 7: An Oracle is Sent Down at the Midsummer Feast
Victorica and Kujo explore the "Village of the Gray Wolves" where her mother lived in search for clues to prove her innocence, but Victorica gets disappointed when she uncovers the truth and figures that she lacks the means to clear her name. To complicate matters, two of the tourists who were visiting the village with them are killed among strange circumstances.
Episode 17: The Box Lies in the Spiral Labyrinth
Victorique reveals to Kujo that her father brought her to the convent in order to bait out Cordelia and Brian. As the two escape, they become separated by an illusion. Victorique encounters Brian, who reveals that he is planning to stop her father and the Academy. Meanwhile, Kujo runs into Cordelia, who entrusts him with a ring and some words of encouragement for her daughter, then Marquis Albert de Blois himself. Albert attempts to force Kujo to surrender Victorique to him, but Kujo refuses and leaves. The floodgates shielding the convent are opened by a time-release trap set by Albert, flooding the entire area, and Kujo barely escapes with Victorique.
Episode 6: A Gray Wolf Summons its Brethren
Kazuya is stumped by the disappearance of a valuable plate from a local bazaar. At the same time he sees an advertisement in the paper call for all “Descendants of the Gray Wolves” to return to their ancestral home. After telling Victorique about it she insists on going to the town immediately.
Episode 18: The Jet-Black Train Carries Several Lies
Having escaped from the flood, Victorique, Kujo and the rest of the passengers of the Masquerade Express find themselves involved into a bloody contest for an elusive item that can shake the balance of power between the Academy and the Ministry of Occult.