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Summary: Best Manga Since "Paradise Kiss"
Review: "Chobits" is deffinatly the best manga book I've read since "Paradise Kiss". The art is great, the story creative, the characters vivid...and Chii's the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life! Even though (I think) "Chobits" is meant for a male audience, I'm a girl, and I still loved it. It's really cute! Even though there is some nudity and sexuality, and some language, it's well worth it. (And it's not that bad at all.) I believe "Chobits" was originally a very popouler anime in Japan, and so it was brought to America and made English. I think that the anime is available at some special Japanese online stores, but it probably won't be dubbed, or contain English subtitles.
-Enjoy!
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Summary: Chobits rocks!
Review: This is a gem of a manga series, by none other than the group CLAMP. The art, while not as detailed as Magic Knight Rayearth or X/1999, is still beautiful. The story is meant to be lighthearted and funny,although there are deeper emotions running under the surface.If you are offended by a couple of cuss words and suggestions of an erotic nature, as well as slightly erotic pictures, then this is not for you. That is not to say that this is a pornography or hentai manga. It's just that a good portion of the story deals with mature, sexual themes. All in all, if you are looking with a good story with nice artwork, lovable characters, and a bit of an older theme, then this is the manga for you.
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Summary: Girls are not really robots...
Review: There are real boys and girls, but the computers have been turned into persocom, humanoid computers (with huge ears that look like they came from giant rodents). There are full size ones, plus PDAs and even cute laptops. They do everything from search the web, calculate sales, type, remember phone numbers, act as maids and even wink-wink-nudge-nudge, if you know what I mean.
Hideki is too poor to buy a persocom, but he ends up finding it in the trash and now must figure out where she is from and who made her and WHAT is she. It seems she is not just a normal, run-of-the-mill persocom.
I love Plum, the cute tiny laptop. She dances when nobody is using her, kind of a persocom verison of screen saving, and says, "Okey Dokey".
The best part of CLAMP manga is that all these sexy female characters and, the story itself, was created by a female group, four writers and artists, so it's OK for males to drool over it!
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Summary: Cuteness and CLAMP and robots, oh my!
Review: This is one of my favorite Manga series of all time, cute, charming, and mysterious. The art is splendid, every little emotion registering, and you'll laugh out loud in some parts.
It IS a little ecchi (perverted) but nothing 13 year olds can't handle. All of my friends, and my sister, have read and enjoyed it, and we all wait for the manga to continue to be released.
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Summary: Computers that need underwear?
Review: An odd ride from Clamp. Enjoyable but odd. Chobits is another great Clamp comic. Chobits offers a sci-fi tale of the future when computers have taken on the shape of humans. This comic gives us a possible view of way may come. Would you be comfortable with a computer that almost human or would you detested the very idea? It's a bit kinky and for an older audience then most of their pervious works like Card Captor Sakura or Rayearth. The artwork dulled down too but not in a negative way.The cutest and perhaps best thing about the comic is Plum. With a cute "notebook" like her maybe this future isn't to weird after all.
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Summary: Once you enter the Chobits world, you won't want to leave...
Review: As a collector of Japanese comics, I'd heard of Chobits but hadn't gotten around to buying any copies until recently. Now I don't know why I didn't start reading this series sooner! I couldn't put it down.
Okay, the world of Chobits...imagine a place where everyone owns a personal computer...okay, that could be our world...except the computers aren't boxes that sit on the desk...these look and act like humans! These "machines" assist with everthing from finances to housekeeping.
Enter our "hero", who is typical for this form of story. A college wanna-be with a low paying job who can't find a girlfriend, he longs to have his own "persocom" to help him study (and look for adult content on the internet). The problem...he doesn't have the money.
Of course, his fate changes when he finds one in the garbage...but is it for the better?...I can't tell you because I don't know the whole story yet, but I will.
With characters that are "real" and engaging, Chobits will grab you and make you feel like your part of its world. You'll laugh and cry as the story unfolds, and it'll keep you locked in to find out how it all ends.
Oh, one thing though, the content leans toward the adult side. I don't recommend this for the younger manga readers.
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Summary: A tasty side-dish
Review: CHOBITS takes place in a not-too-distant future when personal computers in humanoid form are all the rage. Perpetually broke Hideki can't afford one, but he is lucky enough to stumble upon a discarded "persocom" lying in the trash while walking home from work one night. Seizing the opportunity, he takes her home and activates her, but she has no memory. He attempts to train her and seeks assistance from a twelve-year old programming genius, who suspects that she may be one of a rumored new model of supercomputer called CHOBITS. This is the first of a series of collections by the female manga collective known as CLAMP. For those like me, who find much of their work either too dry or too juvenile, this is something different. There's quite a bit of mild sexual humor (for example, there is a running joke regarding Chi's tendency to learn by copying others, including those she finds in certain magazines Hideki has scattered about his apartment) but it's not an adult book. Chi manages to be both adorable and sexy in an innocent way. It's one of the funniest things I've read in a while.
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Summary: A different CLAMP style
Review: Let me begin by saying that this is NOT your typical CLAMP work. While CLAMP is known for writing nice shoujo manga that is appropriate for almost any age, Chobits completely surprised me by being a piece that is definitely not in that classification. First of all, most of the female cast of this book is now scantily-clad, large-breasted eye candy that is probably included to hook more men into reading. Of course, knowing CLAMP, this could also be a veiled social commentary on how the women of today are viewed. Also, the main character is a male...and a dirty one at that. He enjoys porn and staring at women's chests. There is also gratuitous nudity of the female torso, and mature dialogue everywhere.
Now that I've finished the children's warning, I'll put in some good words for the book. It is, if you can look past the raunchiness, another excellent CLAMP production. The storyline promises to be very intriguing, and I expect to see much more of the supporting characters later on. Hideki is a lovable loser, and Chii is an adorable young lady with a penchant for copying things, whether it be Hideki's anguished antics or the ladies in the porn magazines. You really begin to sympathize with Hideki's troubles and Chii's bittersweet cluelessness. Well, I won't give away any more spoilers. Read this manga if you can handle seeing naked breasts (a whole lot of them,) swear words, and porn.
Verdict: Besides the gratuitous and sometimes unnecessary nudity, CLAMP has produced another masterful story with breathtaking art. Read it!
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Summary: Classic Clamp
Review: Chobits is adorable. The artwork is beautiful and the story is lightweight compared to some of its creators other works (X, Clover, etc.) but it's still a cute, light romantic comedy boy meets possible AI supercomputer shaped like gorgeous girl that's worth a read.
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Summary: Everything you need in a Clamp book
Review: Like many entries in this genre "Chobits" is funny, sexy, cute, dramatic and romantic all together. Clamp has a particular formula and they do it very well. There is nothing original in "Chobits." Nerdy struggling student hopeful accidentally finds a beautiful, naive non-human girl, (in this case a personal computer who looks like a girl.) who then takes up residence in his small apartment. Hijinks ensue. Shortly there after, insert an actual human potential love interest, add a dark, dramatic history for non-human girl, a generous dash of panties and you are off on a Clamp-driven anime adventure. So there is nothing original. It is still fun. The jokes are good, the drawings are pretty and the formulaic plot is a good time. Most people who enjoy Japanese manga are going to enjoy "Chobits." I do.
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