Chobits

Drama / Comedy / Sci-FiTV26 EP/3 Apr 2002

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Synopsis

A broke country kid cramming for college entrance exams, Hideki Motosuwa lives in a world where personal computers look like people. He can't even afford a regular one, so naturally he finds one in the trash. She's beautiful, she seems broken, and the only word she can say is 'Chi.' That becomes her name. From there, Hideki basically has to teach this persocom how to exist, buying underwear, learning words, figuring out how a grocery store works, but and it's genuinely funny in that fish-out-of-water way. But underneath the comedy, Chobits is asking a surprisingly heavy question: can you actually love something that was built to make you happy? And does it matter if they love you back? The show does this thing where it balances goofy ecchi humor with moments that are quietly devastating, especially as you learn more about Chi's origins and meet other people whose lives have been shaped by their relationships with persocoms. CLAMP's character designs are gorgeous, Madhouse's animation holds up well for 2002, and the soundtrack has this gentle, melancholic quality that sticks with you. At 26 episodes it never drags too much. If you liked Angelic Layer's blend of warmth and sci-fi, or the stranger-in-a-strange-land dynamic from DearS but want something with more emotional depth, this is worth your time. It's a romance that happens to be about technology, or maybe a technology story that happens to be about what makes love real.

Episode Guide

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Characters

Chii

Amnesiac Persocom found by Hideki; learns to feel and connect with others, possessing unique abilities.

Ruff Michelle

Hideki Motosuwa

Hideki Motosuwa, a kind, naive ronin, dreams of a Persocom and unexpectedly finds Chii, altering his life.

Freeman Crispin

MANGA BRIDGE

This season covers Chapters 1-52 of the manga. Continue reading from Chapter 53.

Manga cover

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lala031306★★★★★VerifiedEP 26

Es un final digno de tremenda y hermosa trama, puede que la historia se vea un poco infantil por la personalidad de Chii pero volver a ver este anime de grande me ha hecho analizar y pensar en muchos aspectos de los humanos y lo que son las máquinas como las persocons. Chii pudo encontrar a su persona idónea y para la felicidad siempre habrá obstáculos por los que hemos de pasar. Me encantó este anime de principio a fin, deja muchas enseñanzas y te entretiene muy bien, le doy un 100/10 como calificación.

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miki_2322★★★★★VerifiedEP 26

The finale was absolutely beautiful and made this rewatch completely worth it. I don’t regret watching it again at all. Now I remember why I fell in love with this series in the first place. It’s been over a decade since I last watched it, so I’d forgotten many parts of the story, which made several scenes feel almost new to me. I know the manga takes a different direction, but setting that aside, I still had a great time revisiting the anime. It was a genuinely enjoyable watch from beginning to end.

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bluethorn★★★☆☆VerifiedEP 26

It's a... conclusive ending. However, there are several things that are unclear and confusing. So much so that I had to go and read the last chapters of the manga to see if that's how things were supposed to be. And NO. Everything makes more sense in the manga. In the anime, Chii, upon recognizing that Hideki is the most important person to her, enters a strange mode that affects the other persocoms in the city, disconnecting them. Someone reappears, and Chii makes a drastic decision, causing Hideki great distress. I won't say more to avoid spoilers, but know that it's very different in the manga. Freya questions Hideki if he would love Chii even if he couldn't sleep with her because her reset button is in her private area (So doing "things" with her would erase her memory). The chaos Chii caused not only disconnected the city's persocoms but literally caused the city to collapse, with thousands of things failing. (This isn't in the anime.) Chii isn't a legendary persocom; that's a legend people wanted to believe in, a way of hoping that a machine could exist that was different from all the others. Therefore, the fact that Chii is capable of love opens a window of hope that all other persocoms can do so as well. Read the manga if you didn't understand the anime's ending. I recommend it.

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bluethorn★★★★★VerifiedEP 25

As the series nears its end, we finally learn the whole truth about Chii's origins and who the twin who speaks to her in her mind really is. The story is quite tragic, and it helps us better understand why finding someone "right" is such a sensitive topic for Chii. Now, there's something that's been bothering me this whole time. They want to convince me that Hideki loves Chii, but up until this episode, he doesn't seem entirely sure. He cares for her, he likes how she worries about him, and he's lustful towards her... just like he was with Professor Shimizu or Yumi. So why does it have to be love with her and not just affection, like with anyone else he lived with every day? But that's just my interpretation. If the anime tells me this is a love story, I believe them.

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