Reviewed on May 30th, 2006

Visually

Well for visual wise I find it perfect and it couldn't be said any better. Some of the character animations though look kind of funny but I can't complain because there are other anime's that are much worse.

Audio

The sound and music for Chobits is good, no reason to complain about it all. It's enjoyable :)

Storyline

Eighteen-year-old Hideki Motosuwa doesn't seem particularly bright; he's astoundingly naive about everything from personal computers to girls, and he seems to have absolutely no focus or self-control whatsoever. So viewers likely won't find it too surprising when his college of choice rejects him. But Hideki is shocked and horrified, and determined to turn his life around anyway. Leaving his parents' country farm and heading to Tokyo, he signs on at a college-prep cram school and starts looking for a job, planning to support himself while he studies. His plans are complicated by a strange find. When Hideki arrives in the city, he gets his first sight of persocoms�personal computers designed to look and act like people. (Most of them are lovely, buxom young women.) Hideki falls over himself admiring a persocom display, but realizes he can't possibly afford such an expensive toy. But then he finds a discarded persocom on a trash heap. Though stricken with a mixture of lust and embarrassment the device looks like a beautiful, mostly naked elfin girl with a sweeping mane of blond hair, he takes her home and boots her up. There's obviously something wrong with her; she acts like a lost child and can't say anything but "Chi," which Hideki decides to use as her name. Hideki's affable new neighbor, Shinbo, hooks his own persocom (a tiny, bubbly little-girl-like "mobile" called Sumomo) to Chi, trying to analyze her operating system, but Sumomo promptly crashes. Shinbo, stricken, sends Hideki to see Minoru Kokubunti, a rich young PC expert. Minoru is also unable to analyze Chi, though he determines that she has an OS and a "learning program," and all of her data is tightly protected. He also declares that Chi is a custom-made, non-standard model. He implies that she might even be one of the "legendary" persocoms called chobits, which are supposedly self-motivating devices rather than personable but program-dependent machines. Oddly, he also warns Hideki not to fall in love with Chi. Hideki, who's dumbstruck every time he sees a beautiful girl or persocom, doesn't know what to make of the warning, but he sets about making Chi into a well-trained and functional personal assistant. Well ok maybe sort of.

DVD

The DVD is pretty cool but once again I don't have a clue if the DVD comes with special features or not because almost all the anime's I buy are bought from a japanese import store which the price tag for them imported are pretty cheap, of course though the DVD's I get don't come with anything special but just the content of the anime itself. :(

Overall

Even though this anime was mostly full of romance I still found it fun to watch. So if your into romantic anime here is a perfect anime to watch.

by Aidan