Chobits - Persocom (Vol. 1) - With Series Box

Rating:
Summary: Cute, But for Adults
Review: Chobits, Volume One contains the first three episodes of the anime series by Clamp. Clamp is the female artist studio that created the popular Sakura Cardcaptors manga and anime. Chobits has such a bouncy, catchy, intro that makes it seems like the series will be as innocent as Cardcaptors. In a way, Chobits is innocent, but it also has some very sexual aspects. In the first few minutes, the main character Hideki is ranting about how he wants a Persocom to download porn from the Internet. His porn mags are open, showing hot shots of young girls. Later on the disc, Hideki visits a young computer prodigy who has a bevy of beautiful Persocoms in highly sexual maid outfits. This incongruous blend of kawaii and hentai still is very sweet and moral as a whole.

Chobits begins as young Hideki leaves the countryside for the big city of Tokyo as he has to attend prep school because he has failed the entrance examination to college. This Tokyo is modern day Japan; the slow Japanese economy is mentioned. But Tokyoites have humanoid robots that they use as PC's. There are full size ones, and mini ones. They are almost all female, without exception, and are used sometimes as sex objects - in fact, they have ALL their parts in place. This subverted sexism can make some female viewers uneasy. Yet the kawaii quotient is super-high, so it somewhat cancels out the perveted stuff.

Hideki is a typical poor college student who cannot afford a Persocom in his dreams. He mysteriously finds a lovely Persocom tosed out in the trash. His friend has a (super cute) mini Persocom and helps Hideki get Chi started. Chi is extremely pretty and naiive. Her new owner is highly aroused. He is a gentleman with her, though. Hideki runs into problems with her setup, and the mystery deepens. Where did Chi come from? She seems to be custom-made, but by who? The mystery will deepen in volume two.


Rating:
Summary: Great Movie... as are the others
Review: When i first saw Chobits I was drawn in by the characters and the wit of this show. Though the show has stuff in it like the books of "goodies" I didn't mind having my little brother watch it with me. He didn't understand some of the more adult themes but he enjoyed it either way. Chii is very cute and i wish Clamp would have made more episodes of Chobits.