Chobits

Chobits is a Japanese manga and anime series created by CLAMP.

Chobits
ちょびっツ (Chobittsu)
Manga
Written by	Clamp
Published by	Kodansha
English publisher	AUS Madman Entertainment NA Dark Horse Comics
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Weekly Young Magazine
Original run	2000 – 2002
Volumes	8
Anime television series
Directed by	Morio Asaka
Produced by	Tatsuya Ono Yuichi Sekido Tetsuo Gensho
Studio	Madhouse
Licensed by	AUS Madman Entertainment NA Geneon (2003–2007) Funimation (2011–present) UK MVM Films
Original network	TBS, HBC, BS-i, CBC, SBS, TBC, MBS
English network	SEA Animax Asia US Funimation Channel
Original run	2 April 2002 – 24 September 2002
Episodes	26

Plot

The story is mostly about the life of Hideki Motosuwa who did not make it into a university, and so is called a 'ronin', a repeat student. Hideki tries to get into a university by moving from his farm and studying at Seki, a cram school in Tokyo. He is not used to women, but likes to imagine that he is. He wants to have a girlfriend and a 'Persocom'. A Persocom is a kind of robot that looks like a person, but can be used like a computer, phone, and a "partner" in some cases.

One evening when Hideki is walking home from the grocery store, he finds a unique Persocom on a curb. It is a beautiful young girl with long blonde hair, wrapped in white cloth, lying against a pile of trash bags. He takes the Persocom home. Hideki looks all over the Persocom's body for a switch to turn her on, and finds it between her legs. He turns her on and asks her questions, but all she can say is "chi", so Hideki names her Chi Archived 2014-12-31 at the Wayback Machine

Anime

The anime has 26 episodes and was broadcast across East Asia and Southeast Asia by the anime television network, Animax. Episodes 9, 18, and an extra 27th OVA episode are used as "recap" episodes, looking back on the events that happened previously. The episodes were given different numbers for the DVD release because the original recap episodes were not included as part of the main anime, instead being published together on the final DVD and re-numbered as 8.5, 16.5 and 24.5 making the series only 24 episodes.

There is a 6-minute special episode: "Sumomo and Kotoko on a Quest", or "Chibits", which is about Sumomo and Kotoko.

The series was supervised by Morio Asaka, and Hisashi Abe was the character designer and the animation director. The ending to the anime series is different from the manga. One thing that is different is that there is no allusion to Hideki never having Chi because of where her switch is, and the new part of Freya taking over Chi's body and asking her mother Chitose to shut them down, saying the Chobits series is a failure, and the activation of the program after all, although the effect on Persocons is not the same as in the manga.