Chobits
ちょびっツ (Chobittsu)
Genre	Comedy , Romance, Science Fiction[1]
Manga
Author	Clamp
Publisher	Kodansha
Demographic	Seinen
Serialized in	Young Magazine
Original run	2001 – 2002
Volumes	8[2]
TV anime
Director	Morio Asaka
Studio	Madhouse
Network	Animax, TBS, BS-I
Original run	2 April 2002 – 24 September 2002
Episodes	26
Specials
Episode 9 Episode 18 Episode 27 (OVA)

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Contents 1 Plot 2 Etymology 3 Differences Between the Manga and Anime 4 Manga 5 Anime 5.1 Reception 6 Media 6.1 Theme Songs 6.2 Games 7 Notes and References 8 See also 9 External links

Plot

The story centers on the life of Hideki Motosuwa, a repeat student (浪人, Rōnin^?) attempting to qualify for university by studying at the Seki prep school in Tokyo. In Japan, a is a student who has graduated from middle school or high school but has failed to enter a school at the next level and consequently is studying outside of the school system For a history of higher education in Japan see Education in Japan. officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. Besides a girlfriend, the other thing he dreams of having is a Persocom. A Persocom is an android used as a personal computer; however, they are expensive, and Hideki has no money. An android is a Robot designed to resemble a human usually both in appearance and behavior

On his way home one evening, he stumbles across an android in the form of a beautiful girl with long blonde hair lying against a pile of trash bags. He first thinks this to be a murder but, realizing she is an android, he carries her home. Upon turning it on, she instantly regards Hideki with adoration. The only word she seems capable of saying is "chi", and thus he names her Chi. is a fictional character Although Chi does not appear to have any programs installed in her, Hideki's friend's friend Kokubunji Minoru surmises that she must have some sort of learning program installed, judging from her behavior.

A major part of the plot involves Hideki attempting to teach Chi words, concepts, and appropriate behaviours, in between his crammed schedule of school and work. At the same time, Chi seems to be developing feelings for Hideki, at an emotional depth, which she is not supposed to possess, and Hideki struggles with his feelings for her. Minoru assumes that she is one of the legendary "chobits" hence the name of the series. The series explores the nature of androids, human interactions with them, and the nature of love. All sorts of characters are introduced; some of them love androids, some see them only as tools.

In the later part of the story, the characters start to explore Chi's mysterious past. Chi discovers a series of picture books of mysterious origin, that seem to awaken something deep inside of her. The book inspires her to find the "person just for me", a euphemism used in the series to refer to one's true love. Chi is also a very special android, and towards the end of the story, together with Hideki, discovers her true identity, as well as what lies within her.

Despite the comedic and ecchi moments, Chobits itself deals with several dualities concerning subject matter it shows. Ecchi (or Etchi, from the Japanese エッチ etchi) is derived from a Japanese word meaning "lewd" "sexy" "lascivious" The most explored issue throughout the series is humans-android relationships (cf A.I.) . "Watashi", or "Atashi" (Japanese for I or me), a character drawn by the character "Hibiya", is a comic book used in the series to hint at the definition of reciprocated love to Chi, and is used to highlight issues with human-persocom relationships; drawing upon the fact that because persocoms can be programmed to imitate desirable human behavior, humans would opt-out of human relationships, resulting in obvious problems, such as the inability to further produce offspring.

The series deals with issues and ideals of virginity, and sexual intercourse in that Chi is effectively incapable of sexual intercourse (in the manga and in the series) and must therefore only entrust her body to someone who cares for her well-being. The series also hints that Chi's particular placement of her "on switch" is added after Freya's death, since her father gave her "special abilities". Along with his goal to ensure all persocoms found happiness, the placement of Chi's on switch ensures that her personality will thrive only in a relationship in which she is loved without the pressure of sex. Persocoms, like women before the women's liberation, are viewed as objects to meet needs rather than be loved. This is shown in the series, particularly when several males attempt to "interfere" with Chi. The idea of "love", as a concept is addressed for the denominator of the series, in several installments of "A City with No People"; this deals with issues particularly relating to searching, and subsequently waiting for someone who is what would be referred to as a "soul mate". This is in parallel to the story of Freya, who fell in love with her father and creator, and ultimately wished death due to heartache, and is used as a means of "aiding" Chi in her quest for "A Person Just For Me", or "My One and Only". Both Chi and her sister, Freya; Atashi being linked to Chi, and the companion, linked to Freya.

Etymology

The name "Chobits" comes from the fact that their father, Ichiro Mihara, used the word "Chobi" to describe anything he thought was "small and hopelessly adorable". Two Chobi become "Chobits". The word "Chobits" is an anagram of "Chitose Hibiya. "^[4], and is also the password given to Elda, Freya, Plum, and eventually Chi. The spelling of the title uses a mixture of hiragana ちょびっ Chobi[t] and katakana ツ tsu. is a Japanese Syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system, along with Katakana and Kanji; the Latin alphabet is a Japanese Syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with Hiragana, Kanji, and in some cases the Latin alphabet The mixed letters were chosen because a persocom's password requires a mixture of hiragana, katakana and/or Latin alphanumeric characters for increased security. Similarly, the password チょびっつ Chobittsu for Plum (also known as "Sumomo"; "Sumomo" is Japanese for "plum"), set by Hideki in episode 19 of the TV series (entitled "Chi Helps Out"), mixes katakana (チ, Ch[i]^?) and hiragana (ょびっつ, [y]obittsu^?), although in TOKYOPOP's English translation of the manga, the password is "Chobits" (with a capital "C"). In computing a password is a Word or string of characters that is entered often along with a user name, in modern times usually into a computer system Capitalization (or capitalisation &mdash see spelling differences) is writing a word with its first letter as a Majuscule (upper case letter

The word persocom (パソコン, pasocon^?) is a Japanese contraction of personal computer (パーソナルコンピュータ, pāsonaru conpyūta^?). In Traditional grammar, a contraction is the formation of a new Word from one or more individual words A personal computer ( PC) is any Computer whose original sales price size and capabilities make it useful for individuals and which is intended to be operated In Japan, it is used to refer to personal computers in the same way as the initials PC are in English. In Chobits, it is used with no distinction between modern and humanoid computers. In the final chapter of the manga, Chitose Hibiya explains that humanoid computers are not named "robots" because Ichiro Mihara did not include the Three Laws of Robotics in them. In Science fiction, the Three Laws of Robotics are a set of three rules written by Isaac Asimov, which almost all positronic robots appearing in his fiction

Differences Between the Manga and Anime

• Hideki is 19 years old in the manga, and in the anime he is 18.

• In the manga, when Hideki introduced himself, he was not unemployed, whereas in the anime, he was unemployed when he found Chi.

• In the manga, Yumi Oumura is not the daughter of Manager Nekoi at Club Pleasure.

• In the anime, Hideki moves to Tokyo and meets Chitose Hibiya, his apartment manager. In the manga, Hideki is already living there upon the time of his introduction.

• In the manga, Sumomo is 24 centimetres tall. In the anime, she is 16 centimetres.

• Several major events in the anime (such as the trip to Minoru's beachhouse, Chi and Hideki playing the Netgame, Hideki becoming afraid of an online urban legend regarding his apartment being haunted, Chi and Hideki helping Ms. Hibiya clean up the apartment complex, Chi buying underwear, Chi needing to be charged up and Chi cooking for Hideki) do not happen in the manga.

• Shinbo Hiromu lives in the same apartment complex as Hideki in the anime, however, in the manga, he does not.

• In the manga, Hideki finds out about Ms. Shimizu and Shinbo having an affair when he attempts to search for Chi, who went looking for a job. In the anime, he found out much later.

• In the anime, Yoshiyuki Kojima suggested to Minoru that in order to find out more about Chi, they hack the syndicate's main computer using Yuzuki. In the manga, there is no evidence that Minoru knew that it would be the most effective way to get information. Yuzuki does this act in the manga based on her programming.

• In the anime, Chi gets an outfit from Chitose Hibiya that was from her past life after she and Hideki helped her with cleaning the apartment building. In the manga, Chi got the outfit the night after Takako Shimizu stayed at Hideki's apartment.

• In the anime, Chitose Hibiya does not go to the publishing office, whereas in the manga, she does. However, we can assume that she must have in the anime as well, because in the episode in which Chi and Hideki fall off a ledge on their way to My Pleasure, Ms. Hibiya is in a taxi wearing the same outfit that she does in the manga when she is in the publishing office.

• In the anime, Chitose Hibiya's late husband Ichiro is not mentioned by name, nor is his affiliation with the creation of Angelic Layer.

Manga

The original Chobits manga was written by Clamp, a famous group of four Japanese mangaka (manga artists) and was serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine in Japan from February 2001 until the manga's completion in November 2002. is the Japanese word for a comic artist or Cartoonist. Outside of Japan, Manga usually refers to a Japanese Comic book and mangaka is the largest Japanese publisher headquartered in ( Bunkyo) Tokyo. is a Japanese Manga Magazine published weekly by Kodansha. The magazine was started in 1980 and is targeted at adult males ( Seinen Clamp often reuses (or parallels) various characters among their manga. Chobits is one of their first attempts at the seinen genre.

The manga is 88 chapters long and was collected into 8 volumes, which are published in English by TOKYOPOP. TOKYOPOP's translation is imported to Australia by Madman Entertainment. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Madman Entertainment is an Australian company that specialises in the distribution of Japanese Anime and Manga in Australia and New The Traditional Chinese manga is published by COMICSWORLD. COM (天下出版有限公司) under official authorization for Hong Kong only. Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders In Singapore, the Simplified Chinese version is published by Chuangyi. Singapore

Anime

Further information: Chobits media information

See also: List of Chobits episodes

The anime consists of 26 episodes and was broadcast across Japan, East Asia and Southeast Asia by the anime satellite television network, Animax and the terrestrial Tokyo Broadcasting System network. This is a list of episodes for the Anime series, adapted from the Manga of the same name by Clamp. Satellite television is Television delivered by the means of Communications satellites as compared to conventional Terrestrial television and Cable See also Animax Mobile TV is a Japanese Anime Satellite television network dedicated to broadcasting anime programming Terrestrial television is a term which refers to modes of television broadcasting which do not involve satellite transmission For other uses see TBS. ( or TBS, is a Television network in Tokyo, Japan. Episodes 9, 18, and an extra 27th OVA episode are used as "recap" episodes, looking back on the events that happened previously. abbreviated (and sometimes as OAV) is a term originating from Japanese animation ( Anime) for animated films and series which are made specially to be The episodes were re-numbered for the DVD release; the original recap episodes were not included in sequence, instead being published together on the final DVD and re-numbered as 8. 5, 16. 5 and 24. 5 making the series itself only 24 episodes.

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

The series was directed by Morio Asaka and animated by Madhouse while Hisashi Abe acted as character designer and chief animation director. is a Japanese Anime Director. A graduate of the Osaka Designers' College, he is a member of the studio Madhouse. is a Japanese animation studio founded in the early 1970s by ex– Mushi Pro animators including Masao Maruyama, Osamu Dezaki, Rintaro, and The ending to the anime series is different from the manga on many levels; perhaps the most notable being removal of all true allusion to Hideki never having Chi because of her switch location, and 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 Persocoms is not the same as described in the manga.

Reception

Source	Reviewer	Grade / Score	Notes
Anime News Network	Allen Divers	Overall (dub): A Overall (sub): A Story: A Animation: A Art: A Music: A	DVD/Anime Review of DVD 1 (of 7)
AnimeOnDVD	Chris Beveridge	Content: A- Audio: B+ Video: A Packaging: A- Menus: B Extras: B	DVD/Anime Review of DVD 1 (of 7)
THEM Anime Reviews	Christina Ross	3 out of 5	Anime Review

Media

Theme Songs

Opening: "Let Me Be With You" by ROUND TABLE featuring Nino

Games

In 2002 Marvellous Entertainment Inc. Round Table (officially ROUND TABLE) is a J-pop (Japanese pop band known mostly for their Anime Soundtracks They are most popularly released a Chobits game for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance. is a Multinational corporation headquartered in Kyoto Japan founded on The Game Boy Advance (often shortened to GBA) is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed manufactured and marketed by Nintendo. This game has not been released outside of Japan. The game was available bundled with a clear blue Game Boy Advance with a decal of Chi above the A+B buttons and a Chobits logo above the D-pad. A decal (ˈdiːkæl ˈdiːkəl or transfer is a Plastic, Cloth Paper or ceramic substrate that has printed on it a Pattern [1] Their Chobits: Crystal Kingdom is also a PlayStation 2 game that was released exclusively in Japan.

Another PC version game was also released in 2002, using Macromedia and Quicktime as the background support. Macromedia was a North American graphics and Web development Software house headquartered in San Francisco, California producing such products QuickTime is a Multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc, capable of handling various formats of Digital video, Media clips sound text This game is called "Communication Game", player can "talk" with Chii and teach her to speak, it also contained some small games inside such as keyboard typing game.

Notes and References

See also

• Chobits media information
• List of characters in Chobits

External links

• Chobits Manga Official TOKYOPOP site
• TV Animation Chobits TSB official site (Japanese)

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