Product Description

It's tough being Nokoru Imonoyama, the smartest kid at a school for geniuses. There's not a lot that can stimulate his mind. So what does he do? Start a detective agency and help damsels in distress! Nokoru's partners are his two best friends: Souh Takamura, a master in all martial arts, and Akira Ijyuin, detective by day, thief by night. They also run the Elementary Division Class Board, although lately Nokoru's been more interested in altering the meeting room's climate control and turning it into an Arctic playground or tropical paradise. And when Nokoru isn't trying to replace himself with a robot to get out of his paperwork, he's searching for the owner a lost silk stocking (obviously a damsel of the highest class), investigating an elaborate surveillance system, and recalling the time he made his first real friend during a daring kidnapping escape.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #790459 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 3
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From the Inside Flap
The characters are extremely mature for their ages, but their intelligence, humor, and respectful treatment of others make this charming rather than strange. The stories can be silly, but they're light and sweet... the result is one of CLAMP's most appealing series. TOKYOPOP accurately rates this as an "all ages" series, and it's recommended for all collections. -- Steve Raiteri, Library Journal

CSD may have been originally published over ten years ago, but the art still looks obscenely beautiful. The graphic novel is drawn in CLAMP's trademark graceful, smooth style, so everything looks good (but especially the three 6th grade boys). CLAMP School Detectives delivers good, clean detective fun for manga readers of all ages. -- Winnie Chow, Animerica

Customer Reviews

Umm...it was okay....I guess....
Well, the plot's pretty simple: three boys named Nokoru (the intelligent one, who LOVES pretty girls), Suoh (the martial artist), and Akira (no, not as in the psychic from the movie 'Akira', but the youngest of the group), who deciede to become detectives for pretty girls.

Well, here are the things I DID like: beautiful drawings from CLAMP, and some good humor.

Here are the many things I didn't like: no character development. It seemed that the three boys were just perfect, perfect, and--oh! I forgot to mention--PERFECT! Not perfect as in they're characters you can adore, perfect as in no flaws. They all get perfect grades. They're all handsome and popular. They're all rich and happy (or maybe it's just Nokoru who's rich). They're all in the greatest school ever. They're all polite and compassionate. Basically, they give you no reason to really care about them because you know their lives are perfect, and the only think that can interupt that is a damsel in distress. Even the so-called "cases" they have to solve have no mystery or suspense to them. All of CLAMP's mangas have characters that you can actually CONNECT with and they have enormous flaws which makes you like them even more but CLAMP school detectives is no exception.

The plot isn't rolling either. It may be because this is a book for all ages and so they didn't want to get our younger readers confused, but it makes the book more boring. They could've had one huge almost-impossible-to-solve case that would effect the lives of the boys, but instead they chose to do mini-cases that weren't very huge.

Another thing I didn't get was why the girls were so all over the 3 boys. I, myself am a girl who gushes over many manga boys (Sesshomaru from Inu-Yasha, Kai from Akira, Yue from Card Captor Sakura, etc.) but I couldn't feel what was so "hot" about the boys who (minus the colors of their hair) looked as though they could be triplets. And the girls even said how there's no manga bishounen (japanese for "pretty boy") that could match the beauty of the three boys. Umm...yeah...sure...

So who do I recommend this item to? Children ages 7+, as the boys will set a good example for them. Teenagers, try something else.

2 Funny
This is so funny and whoever is in need of a good laugh read this, you won't be able to stop. My friend who hates manga read this and couldn't stop, she was so sad when she found out there were only three books in the series. Even though manga books are kinda spendy I encourage buying this one it's worth the money. Even though I've ready a ton of times I still laugh all the way through it. Its one of the best mangas I have on my shelf, and I have alot : )

The boys are back in town...... ;P
After volume 1 I did enjoy "Clamp School Detectives", but I wasn't extremely impressed with it. I just thought it was *cute*. However, with volume 2, it develops the characters of Akira and Suoh more, taking the spotlight away from Nokoru, and as much as I love Nokoru, it was nice to see the other characters fleshed out a bit more. :D Even though the boys do look almost exactly the same, they're personalities really set them apart. Nokoru is the woman obsessed-slacker-genius, Suoh is the martial arts pro, goal focused, and serious one, and Akira is the young innocent master chef whom looks up to his Senpai's with adoration.

The stories in this one are much better too. Especially the story that involves Suoh's search for a girl he saw in the Wisteria.

If you even remotely like volume 1, you will LOVE volume 2.! Its just as much fun, maybe more, and the art work is gorgeous. Its more than a guilty pleasure.

God Bless & *Enjoy* ~Amy