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Chobits Anime Summary

Chobits is about a country guy named Hideki who sets out for Tokyo to study at a cram school in order to pass the entrance exams for University. He becomes preoccupied with the latest technology in the capital called Persocoms (basically computers that look like people, or robots for lack of a better word). Being your average poor student (hey know how you feel mate) he can't imagine ever being able to own one, but comes across a very cute persocom in the trash and takes her home. He names her Chii, because at first this is all she can say and the series takes you through him gradually teaching her new things with the help of some friends he makes along the way. The anime is quite ecchi; lots of panty shots or Hideki descending into wild fantasy, but there is actually a storyline and some meaning behind the anime, so it's not just gratuitous pervy scene after scene.

Chii turns out to have some mystery behind her. She has the processing power of a super computer and a design unlike any other persocom (i.e. she is custom-made) according to Hideki's new neighbour Shinbo and the custom-made persocom expert Kokubunji-kun speculates on the possibility that she may be a 'Chobits' - a legendary persocom said to have free will and feelings similar to humans. Hideki doesn't understand any of this of course, all he wants to do is get through cram school and get into University, find himself a girlfriend (He seems to think most girls with a pulse are pretty) and stop Chii from getting into trouble, which she seems to do fairly often.

Hideki might have continued in that vein too, but circumstances come up in the series that force him to re-evaluate his feelings for Chii and realise that though she may be a machine, who could never bear him children or really feel for him at all, he couldn't treat someone who talked and acted as though they were human as though they were not.

Nearly every episode of Chobits I can watch over and over it has that much going for it. The characters are all well thought out and the storyline is well-concluded and not left hanging in the air like a great deal of anime series. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

• Summary by Marchioness