Chobits
Book Description: Published by Clamp
Some people buy their personal computers based on style... and in near-future Japan, the hottest style for your "persocom" is shaped like an attractive android! Poor student Hideki, fresh off the farm and trying to get into a Tokyo university, has neither money nor a girlfriend - then finds a persocom seemingly discarded in an alley. Taking the cute robot home and activating it, Hideki finds her affectionate, but amnesiac, able only to say the word "Chi" - and so he names her.
But who is this strange new
persocom in his life? Instead of being his digital assistant, Hideki
finds himself having to teach Chi how to get along in the everyday
world, even while he and his friends try to solve the mystery of her
origins. Is she one of the urban-legendary Chobits - persocoms built to
have the riskiest functions of all: real emotions, and free will?
Product Details
Price: $21.70 "Barns and Noble"
- ISBN-13: 9781595824516
- Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
- Publication date: 1/20/2010
- Series: Chobits Series
- Pages: 720
- Sales rank: 301,936
- Product dimensions: 5.10 (w) x 7.20 (h) x 2.40 (d)
Personal View:
I completely love this series its super cute!! An a great romantic type style. If your into computers, and you know what its like to be in college. This book will so be worth your time to read. It originally come out in eight volumes. "This is when I bought it" I recommend buying the new two volumes of the omnibus versions it will save you a lot of money in the long run!! I also included the Anime series below, sorry only some is in english. "I TIRED" I also listed below, more information on this Manga, as well as the veil ability to read it online. ENJOY!
More Information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chobits
Read Online: *Note - Online version is different from American version
http://www.mangareader.net/186/chobits.html
(Omnibus Volume)
Book Description: Published by Clamp
The conclusion of the best-selling Chobits saga! In a world where people rely on computers to escape loneliness, the logical conclusion is the persocom - attractive robot companions that are becoming everyone's boyfriend and girlfriend. Chi is a persocom, but she is also one of the legendary "Chobits," experimental persocoms built to acquire full awareness and emotion. As Hideki and his friends search for the abducted Chi, others are watching them - others who know who built Chi, and why, and what went terribly wrong. It is already known that the affectionate persocom can, in fact, be quite dangerous... but the real danger is what the soul of this new machine means for the future of the human heart. Because it was never the computers who were weak, it was the people who made them, and if Hideki wants to truly save Chi, he needs the courage to truly love her!
Anime
Episode One - Chi Awakens
Original Airdate: 2 April 2002
Description:
Hideki Motosuwa is an 18-year-old student living with the short end of
the stick. He's short of money, has to go to prep school, and is still a
virgin. Hideki dreams of getting into college and having a cute
Persocom to surf the internet for pornography. While he's out one night,
he finds a Persocom in the garbage, activates her, and names her Chi,
after her first word, which appears to be the only thing she can say.
After trying to hide her from Hiromu Shinbo, his neighbor (and his
mini-Persocom Sumomo), and trying and failing to hide her from his
landlady, Ms. Hibiya, he decides to keep her, much to her joy.
Episode Two - Chi Goes Out
Original Airdate: 9 April 2002
Hideki wants to find out more about Chi, so he takes her to Shinbo's
friend Minoru Kokubunji, who is a rich but very young expert on
Persocoms. There, they find out she has some sort of learning program
even though she has no OS (Operating System). Minoru concludes that Hideki is able to teach her and that she will be able to grasp information that she is given.
Episode Three - Chi Learns
Original Airdate: 16 April 2002Chi begins learning words from Hideki, who is running very low on money. He decides to get a job to pay for his living expenses. Unfortunately, all the jobs are taken, except for a position he stumbles upon by accident at Japanese pub called Yorokonde ("My Pleasure"), where he meets a high school girl named Yumi.
Episode Four - Chi Goes on Errands
Original Airdate: 23 April 2002Hideki comes to realizes that Chi doesn't have "pantsu" ("Underpants" in the dub). Since he's too embarrassed to get them himself, he lets Chi go to a lingerie store to buy them with the help of Sumomo's navigation system. After several mishaps and mistakes, Hideki finally plucks up the courage to run into the store and buy them himself and run back out.
Episode Five - Chi Finds
Original Airdate: 30 April 2002Hideki is facing his first practice exam and goes to the book store to buy an English dictionary since he forgot his own at his parents' place. At the store, Chi finds a picture book called "A City with No People," which sparks Chi's curiosity. Hideki buys it for her rather than his dictionary, and Shinbo lends his to Hideki. While Shinbo is teaching Hideki how to use the dictionary, Chi finishes the picture book and something unusual happens.
Original Airdate: 7 May 2002
Hideki begins to worry because Chi seems to be tired constantly. He talks to Shinbo about this, and learns that Persocoms need to be charged. Normally, prolonged exposure to sunlight is fine, but in this case, Chi needs to be plugged in. When Hideki returns, he finds that Chi is very close to losing all of her battery power, but he cannot recharge her because he hasn't paid his electricity bill. In a desperate attempt, he tries to take Chi to Yorokonde but gets horribly lost along the way.
Original Airdate: 14 May 2002
Chi wants to find a job to so she can help Hideki pay for their expenses. But Chi, being Chi, manages to get an accidental job in a peep show, and Hideki must look for her.
Original Airdate: 21 May 2002
During the events in the previous episode, Chi's defense mechanism activates and puts her in a trance-like state that results in her jumping from building to building and that seems to disable all of the other Persocoms in the area. Hideki goes looking for Chi. Seeing him takes her out of the state, and Hideki takes her home.
Episode 8.5 -Shinbo and Sumomo Chat
Original Airdate: 28 May 2002
Description:
Sumomo is running low on memory space, so she asks her owner, Shinbo, what he wants to erase. He starts at Sumomo's "congratulations on moving in" dance for Hideki, and then recalls several main events and funny incidents that have occurred in the series thus far. This episode serves mainly as a recap of the storyline.
Episode Nine - Chi Buys
Original Airdate: 4 June 2002
Description:
Chi decides to use her money to buy the sequel to the book "A City with No People" and a porno
magazine for Hideki, who learns from Shinbo that Persocoms need
bathing. Since he doesn't have money to buy bathing software for Chi, he
has to teach Chi how to bathe. At the public baths, after some awkward,
unsuccessful attempts to instruct Chi on how to bathe herself, Hideki
eventually finds a way to avoid the task when he meets his landlady, who
helps bathe Chi.
Episode Ten - Chi Meets
Original Airdate: 11 June 2002
Description:
Hideki gets a date with Yumi. While he's out, Chi reads the sequel of
her book, which awakens a part of her memory. As a result, she meets a
mysterious girl who looks exactly like her, named Freya, who seems to
know everything about Chi's past that Chi does not.
Episode Eleven - Chi Confirms
Original Airdate: 18 June 2002
Description:
Hideki is scared of a room in the apartment because of a horror story he
heard at Minoru's house when he was asking about the internet through
Minoru's custom-made Persocom Yuzuki. He becomes paranoid thinking about
the story and, believing that his apartment building is haunted, has
several self-induced hallucinations. The apartment number in the story
is 104, as 4, or shi.
"Shi" is the Japanese word for Four (四) and Death (死), and because of
this, the number four is unlucky in Japan. According to the story, a
woman who was hoping to rendezvous with her lover was killed in that
room. Hideki and Chi along with Shinbo, Minoru and Yuzuki decide to
investigate. At the end, Hideki and Chi discover that it is all a misunderstanding.
Original Airdate: 25 June 2002
Description:
Hideki gets a DVD player and an online game from Minoru. He, Chi, Sumomo and Shinbo play the game together. However, Chi is somehow not with them in the game, and Hideki searches around in-game to find her despite the fact that he has no experience in playing online games. While doing so, he accidentally finds himself confronting an undefeatable boss monster and is eventually rescued by Chi, although afterward Chi claims that she has no memory of the incident.
Hideki gets a DVD player and an online game from Minoru. He, Chi, Sumomo and Shinbo play the game together. However, Chi is somehow not with them in the game, and Hideki searches around in-game to find her despite the fact that he has no experience in playing online games. While doing so, he accidentally finds himself confronting an undefeatable boss monster and is eventually rescued by Chi, although afterward Chi claims that she has no memory of the incident.
Episode Thirteen - Chi Goes to the Ocean
Original Airdate: 2 July 2002
Description:
Hideki, Shinbo, Chi, Ms. Hibiya, Yumi, and Ms. Shimizu (their prep
school teacher) decide to go to Minoru's Beach House over the Spring
Break. There, dolphins catch their eye, Chi jumps overboard, and in an
attempt to rescue Chi, Hideki nearly drowns himself.
Episode Fourteen - Chi Entertains
Original Airdate: 9 July 2002
Description:
Ms. Shimizu suddenly shows up at Hideki's apartment and spends the
night. She doesn't say why, but she asks him if he prefers Persocoms
over people. The next day, he finds out that Shinbo hasn't slept at all.
But when Hideki tells him what had happened overnight, Shinbo freaks
out. Later, Hideki is walking home when he sees Ms. Shimizu and Shinbo
locked in a romantic embrace.
Episode Fifteen - Chi Doesn't Do Anything
Original Airdate: 16 July 2002
Description:
Hideki wakes up with Sumomo in his bag. Then he finds out that Shinbo
has run away with Ms. Shimizu and eloped. Bewildered, Hideki goes to
Minoru's house and gets him to contact Shinbo via video call. Shinbo
explains that Ms. Shimizu lost her trust in men when her husband bought a
Persocom and became so enamoured with it he completely forgot about his
wife.
Episode Sixteen - Chi Provides
Original Airdate: 23 July 2002
Description:
Hideki has lost his wallet and cannot buy anything to eat. Chi wants to
give him a meal to make him happy, so she uses her work paycheck to buy
the food and make it herself. Her attempt results in the smoke alarm
going off, and Miss Hibiya teaches her to cook a more edible meal.
Episode 16.5 - Minoru and Yuzuki Chat
Original Airdate: 30 July 2002
Description:
Minoru and Yuzuki tried to find what Chi really is and search for clues
about the creator of the Chobits picture. Yuzuki reviews with Minoru
what they know about Chi, and the only thing they can conclude with the
information they have is that Chi is not a normal Persocom. This episode
is another recap of the events that have happened so far in the series.
Episode Seventeen - Chi Helps
Original Airdate: 6 August 2002
Description:
Ms. Hibiya is cleaning the apartments, and Hideki and Chi offer to help
her. When Hideki goes to clean the electronics room, Sumomo accidentally
falls onto some wires and gets electrocuted. Ms Hibiya then reveals
that she used to build Persocoms, and she repairs Sumomo.
Episode Eighteen - Chi Disappears
Original Airdate: 13 August 2002
Description:
While Chi is on her way to work, she notices the third part of the book
series "A City With No People" on the shelf of a bookstore. While she
flips through the pages, she is grabbed from behind and is kidnapped.
Hideki comes home from prep school and returns to find Chi missing.
Episode Nineteen - Chi Waits
Original Airdate: 20 August 2002
Description:
Chi is still in the hands of her abductor as Hideki searches for her.
After he talks to Mr. Ueda about Chi missing work, they decide to search
for Chi together, and Mr. Ueda talks about his marriage to his last
Persocom.
Episode Twenty - Chi Wants
Original Airdate: 27 August 2002
Description:
Chi is still missing, and Hideki is enlisting as much help as he can to
find her. A strange e-mail image gets sent to him and Shinbo from the
house of the infamous hacker "Dragonfly". It turns out that this is
Chi's abductor, and he is carrying out research to find out what Chi
is.
Episode Twenty-One - Chi Answers
Original Airdate: 3 September 2002
Description:
Hideki and Chi help Shinbo move out of the apartment to live with Ms.
Shimizu (who is now married to him). Then they arrive at Minoru's house,
where he is trying to find information on Chobits. Minoru, who has not
been sleeping enough, passes out, and Yuzuki (Minoru's custom-made
Persocom) decides to try to hack the Chobits database herself.
Episode Twenty-Two - Chi Wears And Takes Off
Original Airdate: 10 September 2002
Description:
Hideki takes Chi to work. There, Chi changes into the wrong uniform.
Ueda tells her it's the wrong one, but before she goes to change, Yumi
sees her wearing it from outside the shop and runs away crying. As it
turns out, Yumi used to work at the store, and that had been her
uniform. When Yumi was working for Mr. Ueda, the two had started falling
in love, but when Yumi learned about Mr. Ueda's previous marriage to a
Persocom, she concluded that he believed Persocoms to be superior to
humans, so she quit her job at his bakery and broke off the
relationship.
Episode Twenty-Three - Chi Decides
Original Airdate: 17 September 2002
Description:
Ms. Hibiya secretly leaves Chi the fourth book in the "A City With No
People" series. Hideki meets with Shinbo and shares his feelings for
Chi. He realizes he loves Chi, and back in Hideki's apartment, when Chi
tells Hideki that she loves him, he also tells her that he loves her. At
this point, something triggers in Chi, and she flies out of the
apartment window and onto the roof of the building. Finding Hideki and
Chi on the roof, Hibiya reveals that she is Chi's mother. She tells
Hideki that Chi is a Chobit, and that Freya, the "familiar voice" other
Persocoms had been hearing during Chi's trances, was Chi's sister who
had died. Zima and Dita, two advanced Persocoms who had been observing
from a distance for several episodes, wait nearby intending to stop Chi
from launching her hidden program that they fear will destroy all
Persocoms.
Episode Twenty-Four - The Person Only For Chi
Original Airdate: 24 September 2002
Description:
Chi has chosen Hideki as her "one and only," and Freya has taken control
from within Chi. At Freya's request, Hibiya issues the command to shut
them down and delete their programming, heedless of Hideki's protests.
Hideki then tells Chi/Freya that he loved her and tells her the meaning
of happiness. Freya accepts that Chi has done the thing Freya couldn't
do while alive: to find her "one and only." Freya subsides and
disappears, leaving Hideki and Chi to live happily ever after.
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