Ice Candy and Chivalry: Suoh Takamura/Nokoru Imonoyama

[von_questenberg]

Title: Ice Candy and Chivalry: The Suoh/Nokoru Manifesto
Author: VonQuestenberg
Fandom: CLAMP Gakuen Tanteidan and several other CLAMP series
Pairing: Suoh Takamura/Nokoru Imonoyama
Disclaimer: I don't own them. The kind ladies of CLAMP do.
Warning: Spoilers for CLAMP Gakuen Tanteidan, 20 Mensou ni Onegai, CLAMP Gakuen Tokkei Duklyon, X, Tsubasa

Comments

[jougetsu]

I just wanted to say I really liked your manifesto. I've been a NokoruxSuoh fan for years but have never been able to so eloquently express their relationship as you have. I'm definitely adding this to my LJ memories!

As for the older sibling thing. From what I can remember, the rest of the Imonoyama family is shown in now former Clamp member Sei Riiza's manga "Combination." The family consisted of older brothers Hajime, Tsuzuku, Owaru, and lastly Nokoru. Yes, just like the names of the brothers of the Super Dragon Brothers novels that Clamp illustrated the second editions of. There's no real connection, those names are popular for brothers in Japan (or at least Japanese fiction) since they mean "beginning," "continuing", and "ending" repsectively. And from what I can recall there was an older sister as well. Sei began the series before she left Clamp, and by the time her series made extensive use of the siblings she had left the group. To avoid copyright infringement she left out Nokoru (except save a mention possibly) and in return Clamp didn't use "her characters" of the older siblings. I'll have to go dig out my Combination F[a/u]n Book to verify. Of course I could be completely mistaken since it's been a few years since I pondered the mystery of the Imonoyama family. Also I think the two mysterious women of the Clamp Group are sisters, one being Nokoru's mother and the other his aunt. One I think was the Chairman of the Imonoyam Group and the other the Chairman of Clamp Academy. Again, it's been years since I last looked this stuff up, but I wanted to put it out there in case it's helpful to anyone.

[von_questenberg]

Holy crud, thank you! I've seen scanlations of Combination around and I've read one or two chapters. I'll have to check it out. ^_^ Thanks again. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[jougetsu]

Combination follows the detective team of Hashiba Shigemitsu and Sasaki Taiji. It's fun and I like it, but that being said it's certainly not going to win Manga of the Year anytime soon. All right, now flipping through the back of the Sei's art & info book the Imonoyama sister is Shuuko. There's a couple of pages dedicated to "What's Imonoyama?" but my jet lag is making it hard for me to read anything that complicated. Give me a couple days and I should have the gist of it typed up if not an actual translation. Again thanks for the great manifesto, it's really got me excited about this pairing all over again.