Brand New from CLAMP
CHOBITS
“Chii?”
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Motosuwa Hideki is an
eighteen-year-old attending a college prep school. More than anything else,
he wants to enjoy the more luxurious things in life, namely, having a
persocon of his own. But like all luxuries, persocons aren't cheap, and the
poor former farmboy turned college reject can't seem to scrounge up enough
dough... But one day, as luck would have it, he finds and picks up an
abandoned persocon, one who is found to have no memory nor OS installed.
Nevertheless, she is extremely lovely in appearance, so Hideki takes her home
with him and names her the one thing she is able to say, "Chii."
Somehow though... Chii seems different from other persocons. Could she be one
of the legendary Chobits? One thing is for sure... Hideki got a LOT more than
he bargained for. Personal outlook on the show: I
had first heard of CHOBITS when I was lazily strolling through a Barnes and
Noble and picked up a ten dollar graphic novel, hoping I could bribe my
mother into buying it before I even really knew what it was. She said no so I spent the next hour
actually reading it and really got into it.
I’ve always been a fan of robots-falling-in-love-with-humans type
stories (hence, my favourite movie is Edward Scissorhands) so it
didn’t take me much to get into this manga.
The anime(animation) and manga(comics) are very similar so far, I’m
surprised that the anime hasn’t even been released in the US yet whereas the
first graphic novel is already available. A
boy named Hideki fails to make it to college so now he’s spending a year in
cram school trying to prepare himself for the next year and suffer as a ronin
(someone who didn’t make it to college their first time) as short as
possible. Well, he wants a persecon
computer, lifelike computers, each with their own unique look, but he can
barely scrape up the money for rent, even more, a six thousand dollar
computer. Well, he finds one in the
trash and that’s when it all begins.
I find that this show has a high amount of “fan service”, being that
there are a lot of things such as men touching the wrong areas of women on
accident or catching a woman at a bad time of dressing and such. I’m not really a fan of shows who do this,
because it’s almost like they try to replace quality with anything
droolworthy of those who fall for its trap. Now,
the first episode, when he found her in the trash, she wore nothing but
bandages that barely covered around her body. Since we didn’t feel comfortable showing this in front of a
teacher and students in the school environment, we suggested editing. Well, edit that and you have a ten
minute episode. Not to mention a few
other things that just simply couldn’t be changed. Yes,
the second episode was very slightly edited on four different occasions but
because Langtry did this on the computer, he could catch it frame by frame so
that it wasn’t overly obvious where it was edited, whereas when I tried it on
the VCR, it skipped around too much and was very obvious and not very well
done. Being that while I’m making
this site, I’m unsure whether or not this will be a link from the Southeast
website itself, I’ll keep what was edited to myself. Rating: Original contains: Sexual Content, Mild
Language, Sci-Fi, Love Story |
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And I must give credit to: http://www.dark-chii.net/ A website with a layout beyond my capabilities… where I
got all the pics from. |
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