CLAMP School Defenders, Duklyon, are a special forces unit formed in secret by the founder of CLAMP School. Their secret identities are high school students Kentaro Higashikunimaru and Takeshi Shukaido. As the CLAMP School Defenders, Duklyon, they fight against the evil Imonoyama Shopping District, who want to take over the world. We should also mention that their leader, Kotobuki Sukiyabashi, has also fallen in love at first sight with Erii Chusonji, who is the leader of Duklyon. What will become of their love, when the protagonists can’t focus on the story? And what about finding peace at school?!

This title began publication in the August 1990 edition of “Comic GENKi no MOTO” (Kadokawa Shoten). This superhero story about protecting the peace at school makes up one part of the CLAMP School trilogy. Born of a request from Nekoi, who loves tokusatsu hero stories, this is a dream superhero gag manga from CLAMP. While the original plan was for a five-man group like in sentai series, instead they went with a buddy system with two characters inspired by “Space Sheriff“. The story plays with superhero tropes, scales the story down to a cozy, neighborhood level, and for some reason the two protagonists hardly show up at all. Despite being a serialized work, there are a lot of side-stories, but you can feel how much fun CLAMP had making it, and so the readers naturally have fun along with them. A key feature to the story is also how characters from other stories just casually pop up, blending all of them together in a “star system“ that perfectly captures CLAMP’s playful approach to storytelling.