A Report About Clamp School Detectives
IN THE NAME OF GOD IAM GLAD TO PRESESNT THIS HUMBLE REPORT ABOUT CLAMP SCHOOL DETECTIVES IAM SORRY THAT IT IS WRITTEN IN ENGLISH BUT IT IS BEC ALL THE SOURCESS ARE ENGLISH AND I HOPE THAT YOU WOULD UNDER STAND IT WELL
THE REPORT
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Alternative title:
Clamp Campus Detective
CLAMP Detectives (Italian)
CLAMP Gakuen Tanteidan (Japanese)
CLAMP School Detectives
Clamp: Club de Detectives (Spanish)
CLAMP学園探偵団 (Japanese)
الثابتون (Arabic)
Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Genres: Comedy, Mystery, Shoujo
Running time: half hour
Number of episodes: 26
Vintage: 1997-05-03 to 1997-10-25
Plot Summary: CLAMP School has all the size and resources of a small city. Over 10,000 people - students and their families - live, work, and study within its self-sufficient campus. Any student with talent, regardless of wealth, is gladly accepted into this amazing facility. Covering kindergarten through graduate school, it is without equal anywhere in the world. Nokoru Imonoyama, Student Council President of the Elementary School Division, as well as the Treasurer, Akira, and Secretary, Suoh, are three of the most well-liked and idolized students in school. Nokoru decides that he and his two friends are going to start a detective service, solving any mystery or crime, great or small. But, as Nokoru is a bit theatrical and a shameless romantic, he declares that these detectives will focus on aiding mostly girls and women. With all the resources the school has to offer at their disposal, the CLAMP School Detectives are on a mission to help damsels in distress.
CSD is tale of three schoolboys who form a detective agency, specializing in damsels-in-distress. Based on CLAMP's manga of the same name, the series takes place at the prestigious school called, quite originally, the CLAMP School. Housing students from as early as pre-school all the way up to university level, the school is located just outside Tokyo (and has other CLAMP characters in attendance. Crossovers are something of a CLAMP trademark).
The leader of this investigative trio is sixth grader Imonoyama Nokoru, a wispy-haired blond who is also president of the elementary student body. Highly intelligent (NASA once tried to recruit him) and obviously the brains of the outfit, Nokoru epitomizes what a gentleman should be and sets a pristine example for his two cohorts. Fifth grader Takamura Suoh, an accomplished martial-artist, is the serious side to the CLAMP School Detectives and keeps the others from getting too out of line. And finally, fourth grader Ijyuin Akira (formerly from CLAMP's manga story, 20-MENSOU NI ONEGAI!) is definitely the light-hearted member; he is a renown chef (Akira teaches cooking classes to housewives) and is always chipper in even the darkest of moments.
The first four episodes of CSD follow the manga stories quite faithfully. The pace and action to the show is fanciful (the boys tour around Tokyo in their own blimp and go hang-gliding) and tries to be melodramatic (There are lots of women in "danger," one per episode actually). The first episode, FILE 1: "Forever from the Ground," sets the tone for the rest of the show: Nokoru and company come to the aid of an elderly woman who's being forced from her home by her nasty brother-in-law. The show sort of seems kind of mindless at times and if you're expecting something along the serious lines of either TOKYO BABYLON or X just because it's a CLAMP work, think again. However, the third episode, "My Fair Lady," is somewhat heartwarming, as a brazen girl, Kyougoku Midoriko, challenges Nokoru to a game of hide-and-seek with his presidency of the elementary student body at stake.
It will be interesting to see how long CLAMP SCHOOL DETECTIVES will last in the season, having started later than the other shows during the spring season. With the first four episodes quite faithful to their manga counterparts, and with the manga only covering what could amount to the first nine or ten episodes, how far will CSD go and will they develop original stories?
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The Detectives
Imonoyama Nokoru
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At twelve years old, the youngest son of the Imonoyama Zaibatsu. Top student in sixth grade of the Elementary Division of CLAMP School, and president of the Elementary Division Student Council. Extremely intelligent, he has been scouted by NASA for several years, and at age nine was head of the Imonoyama Zaibatsu's Electrical Engineering Division. Founder and head of the CLAMP School Detectives.
Nokoru cares deeply for every living thing on the planet, and so desires to protect them that he refuses to make close friends for fear of hurting them or allowing them to be hurt through association with him. He especially cares for the ladies, and will do anything in his power to help them. Given his exceptional intelligence, great willpower, and instant access to his family's near-limitless wealth, he can do quite a lot indeed.
For those occasions when he cannot be personally involved, he created the Campus Special Police Duklyon, which he secretly commands.
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Takamura Suoh
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Eleven years old, top student in fifth grade of CLAMP School's Elementary Division, and secretary of the Elementary Division Student Council. Third dan in karate, aikido, and kyuudo (Japanese archery). Always serious and responsible.
Suoh is the driving force behind most of the paperwork which gets done by the Elementary Student Council--if Suoh gave Nokoru the choice, Nokoru would completely ignore it and spend him time helping the ladies or having fun. Suoh has been trained to be this responsible, however--he is the eldest son of a family of ninja. The Takamura ninja are sought after for their legendary skills, but they are not for hire. Each member of the family chooses the person whose life they will guard, and defends that person for the rest of their life. Suoh has chosen to defend Nokoru, the first person to really make an impression upon him.
Ijyuin Akira
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Akira is ten years old, and the top student in the fourth-grade class of the Elementary Student Division of CLAMP School. He is also the treasurer for the Elementary Division Student Council. He is very cheerful and somewhat naive. He is also a world-class chef, having earned the respect of a master chef.
Akira is secretly "Kaijin 20 Mensou" (Thief with 20 Faces or Mysterious 20 Masks, depending on how you translate it), stealing things which his mothers (yes, he has two of them, and no, I don't know how) desire while not harming anyone. Even though he steals things, he is still very innocent and trusting.
Other Characters
Mysterious kimono-clad woman in charge of CLAMP School. Her eyes are never shown. She seems to know everything which happens on campus, even before the people involved.
She is the mother of Imonoyama Nokoru, and shares much of his personality--namely, she is enamored of technology (and will use it even if it's completely unnecessary); she is mysterious, never saying more than is absolutely necessary; and she is forever finding ways to waste time (her usual pastime is drinking tea, though she also engages in viewing cherry blossoms if seasonally appropriate). She will occasionally help the CLAMP School Detectives, but never in a straightforward manner.
Ohkawa Utako
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Ohkawa Utako is six years old, and is president of the Kindergarten Division Student Council of CLAMP School. She is energetic, cheerful, and outspoken. She has a tendency to state her feelings on things quite openly ("Bad things are BAD!"). She seems to have some talent at costume design, and like every other student at CLAMP School is a prodigy.
She has an older sister, Mako, who is both her confidant and her tormentor. Mako cannot keep numbers straight (she refers to 20 Mensou as "100 Mensou" and once reminds Utako of her 233rd birthday) and has a habit of switching ingredients on Utako when she's cooking--for example, replacing sugar with salt or chocolate sauce with okonomiyaki sauce.
Azuya Nagisa
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Young girl from the Kindergarten Division of CLAMP School. The daughter of a traditional Japanese dancer and a talented musician, Nagisa inherited the skills of both parents. Somewhat soft-spoken.
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