CLAMP School Detectives

To protect and serve women all around, is CLAMP's detectives' noble goal.

CLAMP School Detectives is a 3 volume manga series made by CLAMP (creators of Cardcaptor Sakura, Chobits, Angelic Layer, Magic Knight Rayearth, Tokyo Babylon, etc.) which was adapted into a 26 episode anime, in 1997. It tells the adventures of the Elementary School Student-board, solving cases and easing the life of all kinds of women. Aiding them are the Pre-school Class President Utako and her best friend Nagisa, who are sorta smitten with them. But their hardest case will be one regarding Nokoru's past...

CLAMP's manga Man of Many Faces (which stars Akira as the elusive thief 20 Faces) and Duklyon: Clamp School Defenders both Crossover with Clamp School Detectives, and X/1999 is also partially set in Clamp School.

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Tropes used in CLAMP School Detectives include:

• Absurdly Powerful Student Council: No kidding.
• Attractive Bent Gender^[context?]
• Baseball Episode^[context?]
• Beach Episode^[context?]
• Big Brother Complex: Develops into something more^[context?]
• Bishie Sparkle^[context?]
• Bodyguard Crush (But no Ho Yay, sorry)
  • True for the anime. The manga, however...
• Crossdresser: In an episode, Nokoru dresses as an Elegant Gothic Lolita, and very convincingly...
• Cooking Duel: Without the 'duel' part^[context?]
• Dark-Skinned Redhead: Only in appearance.^[context?]
• Elaborate University High: Like you wouldn't believe.^[context?]
• Elevator School^[context?]
• Evolving Credits^[context?]
• Eyecatch^[context?]
• Festival Episode^[context?]
• Fiction 500: The Imonoyama family founded the CLAMP Academy, which acts as a self contained city, and doesn't actually charge any tuition.
• Hair of Gold: Nokoru and Nagisa in the manga.
• High-Speed Missile Dodge: Suoh saved Nagisa from them.
• I Have the High Ground: The last episodes' antagonist was fond of hiding in tall places, like the School's clock tower.
• Last-Episode New Character: Appeared where there were only five episodes left.^[context?]
• Late for School: Inverted: they LIVE in the school.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Utako and Akira
• Meganekko: Some of the students.
• Meitantei^[context?]
• Names to Know in Anime: Akemi Okamura (Nokoru), Shiho Niiyama (Suoh), Omi Minami (Akira), Yuko Miyamura (Utako)
• New Transfer Student. (related with Last-Episode New Character.)^[context?]
• Ninja: Suoh
• Official Couple: Suoh/Nagisa and Akira/Utako.
• One Head Taller: Straight in Suoh-Nagisa, inverted in Akira-Utako.
• School Idols. (Taken ever so slightly to excess.)
• Student Council President^[context?]
• Team Chef: Akira
• The Ace: Nokoru
• The Faceless: Possibly parodied: the Chairwoman aka Nokoru's mother frequently hides her eyes on purpose with a fan or a set of blinds whenever the camera could have gotten a good shot of her upper face.
  • Lawyer-Friendly Cameo / Writing Around Trademarks: Apparently, the Chairwoman is based on a character named Imonoyama Rarisa who appeared in some of CLAMP's old doujinshi (SHOTEN, I think). However, some of CLAMP's members split in the interim, and one of them took the rights to the character Rarisa with her. So the face hiding and general crypticness surrounding the Chairwoman was basically due to avoiding trademark/copyright.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You. (again related with the New Transfer Student.)^[context?]
• Those Two Guys ( Kentaro and Takeshi, who are really Crossover characters.)
• Tsundere. (Utako, sometimes.)
• Tokyo Tower: The very first setting.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Utako is a Plucky Girl Tsundere, Nagisa is a pint-sized Yamato Nadeshiko.
• School Play^[context?]
• Two-Teacher School^[context?]
• Wise Beyond Their Years: I'm sorry, but these are supposed to be 4th to 6th grade boys? Not to mention Utako and Nagisa can hold rather sophisticated conversations when they're kindergarteners.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Nagisa is a kindergarten version.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Special mention goes to Suo, who really does have blue hair, and Nagisa, who has lavender hair in the anime (she has Hair of Gold in the manga).