Clamp School Detectives, Book 2 [Paperback]

Clamp (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: TokyoPop; Pap/Pstr edition (June 17, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591822955
• ISBN-13: 978-1591822950
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,026,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Clamp, stylized as CLAMP, is an all-female Japanese manga artist group that formed in the mid 1980s. Many of the group's manga series are often adapted into anime after release. It consists of their leader Nanase Ohkawa, who provides much of the storyline and screenplay for all their works and adaptations of those works respectively, and three artists whose roles shift for each series: Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi. Almost 100 million Clamp tankōbon copies have been sold worldwide as of October 2007.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Umm...it was okay....I guess...., July 22, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Clamp School Detectives, Book 2 (Paperback)

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars The boys are back in town...... ;P, July 8, 2004

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Liolania "In2Jesus" (Oregon USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clamp School Detectives, Book 2 (Paperback)

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

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cool, May 16, 2006

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Clamp School Detectives, Book 2 (Paperback)

Noroku, Suoh, and Akira are back for more mysteries to solve and damsels in distress. ^^ I really enjoyed this book. The mysteries were cool. Suoh just keeps amazing me. I can't wait for the last volume.