MissLaurelle
Chobits was one of the first anime I ever watched (also first manga I ever read) and after watching quite a few other animes, I would still place Chobits in my top 5.Chobits truly is a cute and fun anime to watch and starts out quite innocent, but the deeper you get into the anime the more serious and intriguing the story gets all while keeping it's cuteness factor through the roof. I must warn, there are a few 18+ scenes in the anime but they are more silly than sexual.Chii is probably one of the cutest, innocent characters you'll ever come across in an anime but her back story is a huge mystery and is the main intrigue of the story. All the other characters in the anime have their own interesting personas which makes the anime even more interesting past it's cutesiness.Overall I would definitely recommend watching Chobits if you are looking for something light and fun with still a good story behind it.
Tweekums
I had heard of this series long before I got a chance to see it and when Funimation put the opening four episodes on their YouTube channel I decided to check it out. Even though I prefer my anime subtitled and this was the dubbed version I was quickly hooked and was left wanting more. Some time later the series was finally re-released here on DVD so I could watch the whole thing. The rest of the series was just as good as the opening episodes although the tone does shift somewhat midway through; the earlier episodes are light hearted and while never explicit often feature situations that suggest that that Hideki; the main character, is a bit of a pervert! Later on things get much darker when the 'person' he cares for disappears.To summarise the plot; Chobits is set in a world where instead of using personal computers people use Persicoms; robots that fulfil the roles of computers but look almost human. Hideki moves to the city so that he can cram for his university entrance exam; he dreams of owning his own persicom but knows he will never be able to afford one. He is lucky though and one day finds one lying amongst some garbage. He takes it home hoping to get it working but it doesn't have an operating system installed. He manages to turn it on but all she can say is 'Chi'; and thus she is named. In the opening episodes he struggles to get her working, study for cram school and earn a living. As the story progresses it becomes apparent that Chi isn't like other persicoms; she may be a 'Chobits', this is a persicom capable of genuine emotion
if so other people may want to get their hands on her.This was a really fun series with plenty of laughs as well as one or two genuinely tear-jerking moments. While I watched the whole series in Japanese with English subtitles I saw enough of the English dub to say that is sounded pretty good; so dub-fans shouldn't be disappointed. The animation was decent although I'm not sure why Hikeki's eyes were drawn in a different way to all the other characters. The main characters were fairly likable; I especially liked Sumomo; the small 'genki girl' persicom belonging to Hideki's housemate
she may be tiny but she has plenty of energy!
Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71)
All I could I say about this series, is that when I had heard the name it sounded like "hobbits" with a "c." Actually this great anime series, which is based on a manga, is about "persocoms."Persocoms are attractive female-type robots who often look younger than they ought to. They acted like personal computers and tend to be unquestioningly devoted to their owners - usually men. One man named Hideki Motosuwa (the male lead character of the show), finds a cute persocom in the trash and decided to take her for himself. Upon turning her on, she instantly regards Hideki with adoration. The only word she seems capable of saying is "chi;" thus he names her Chii. Well that is about I could tell, folks. You would have to watch the series for yourself.When my twin sister let me borrow her DVD box-set of the series to watch, and after I had watched all the episodes, I automatically love it! Also I love CLAMP, who had worked on the original manga; they do very beautiful artwork. And I personally love Chii, she is just too flippin' cute! So overall, as I said I really love this series.
sippan
Chobits hasn't been officially subtitled, but I have seen fansubbed episodes and I must say, since I was first introduced to manga and anime at the age of 13, I have never seen anything this cool! No other anime series is as funny, and none as addictive.Every ninth episode seems to be a long set of memories so that new viewers can get updated on what they have missed in previous episodes. Good idea, but bad for those of us who have seen all the previous episodes, and want to see more of Hideki and his quest to find out wether Chii really is a Chobit.I hope I will never have to see a final episode of Chobits.