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From Tokyopop: CLAMP School Detectives focuses on the exploits of Akira, Nokoru, and Suoh - 3 pre-teen sleuths - and their quest to make the CLAMP world safe for the girls in their class...
This manga had barely any story line and the characters all acted too smart/intellectual for their age (in my opinion). Despite that, it wasn't bad to read, it just wasn't really good either. This series is good if you want a short, light, ridiculous series to read.
Putting aside the ridiculously age-inappropriate behaviors (the fact that they are all WAY too smart and responsible) and the simplicity of the mysteries, I enjoy this manga because it is just plain funny! The jibes, the situations, and the characters' actions and individual quirks are hysterical; especially how Suoh is constantly getting onto the Chairman about finishing the mountain of paperwork that is always on his desk.
If you are willing to delve into the world of the plausible impossible, you are in for an incredibly cheerful read!
Having read this one after reading Clamp's X/1999, my expectation level was fairly high. The Clamp school is a fairly significant location in X/1999, and the three "detectives" also show up in X/1999 manga as minor characters.
I was expecting some sort of mystery and more importantly, something that would actually live up to X despite it's status on perpetual hiatus. While I wouldn't go so far as to call it a big pile of shotacon fanservice, I cannot help but feel like it lacks a plot that is relevant to the world it is part of.
A title like "Clamp School Detectives" might bring to mind the image of a series chronicling the episodic crime-fighting adventures of a group of schoolboys, in the air of Detective Conan and the legions of boys' detective novels from which it is inspired. Too bad this title seems to be about as relevant to the story as "xxxHolic". No, these stories are about a group of boys in tiny shorts being chivalrous with females is disturbingly chaste ways, with disturbingly happy endings. It has no purpose other than to let the Clamp women draw more shotacon fanservice and romances with uncomfortably large age gaps. Although it's one of the few earlier CLAMP series published in English, there's not a reason in the world to bother reading it. Unless you're into shotacon fanservice, of course.
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