Gosick

Kazuya Kujou, a Japanese transfer student at the opulent Saint Marguerite Academy in the southern European nation of Sauville, stands out immediately for his black hair and dark eyes. Ostracized by classmates who brand him the “Black Reaper” after a local springtime urban legend, he keeps to himself—until a routine search for ghost stories draws him deeper into the school’s secrets.

A single golden hair on a stairway leads Kujou to Victorique de Blois, a striking, doll-like girl whose sharp, imaginative reasoning seems to see through the future as easily as it unravels the past. As their paths cross, the pair find their lives increasingly entangled, pulled from the quiet corners of the academy into a string of unsettling puzzles, from rumors of a ghost ship to tales of an alchemist said to wield transmutation.