In this season(April to June 2016), we can find "gozaru" speaker in the P.A.Works' successful anime "Kuromukuro." Like "Charlotte," the "gozaru" speaker is a younger sister of the main character (hero or heroine), and she deeply likes a specific genre of sub-culture.
Koharu is a younger sister of Yukina, the main character of this anime. Koharu is in third grade and lives with her sister and uncle at the temple. She likes to watch historical dramas("jidaigeki").
Koharu does not usually use "gozaru," but when she talks with Kennosuke, another main character who was a samurai came from the past, she uses "gozaru" at the end of her sentence. We naturally understand that Koharu intentionally uses "gozaru" because she thinks it was used by a samurai.
Meanwhile, Kennosuke does not use "gozaru" at all. He sometimes (especially in episode 5) uses obsolete language, but never say "gozaru" so far. I suppose it was thought that if Kennosuke uses "gozaru," he would be seen too much anachronistic. Although Kennosuke is a samurai who came from the past, actually he pilots a robot. Maybe the character of Kennosuke was very delicate, and creators of this anime thought of the most appropriate language that Kennosuke uses in this drama, which is a mixture of old style and contemporary one.
Back to Koharu's usage. Although she uses "gozaru" as a courtesy to a samurai came from the past (i.e. she does not use "gozaru" as an otaku), we naturally can accept her "gozaru" based on the background that she likes to watch "jidaigeki." This is because a stereotype of otaku young girl who uses "gozaru." Of course, we can not easily find such otaku girls in a real world.
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