Chii?
I forgot to mention, last night my wife and I watched the first four episodes of Chobits, a new anime from studio CLAMP. We loved it! Ended up watching the whole disc, so I could drop it in the mail this morning and get the next volume out to us that much quicker. Basically the story is about an 18-year-old farm boy (Hideki Motosuwa) from Hokkaido who wants to get into college, but is rejected. He decides he needs to better prepare, so he moves to Tokyo to go to prep school for a year. In the big city, almost everyone has what’s called a “persocom.” It’s basically an android; a very human-like personal assistant that walks around with you, helping you remember appointments, acting as a broadband modem, a notepad, a cell phone, everything. People call them “PCs” (not to be confused with personal computers, although in a way, you could think of them as the evolution of today’s PC).
Anyway, Hideki wants one of these persocoms real bad. Especially because most of them are built to look like beautiful women and he’s, uh, not really been around many girls before, to put it lightly. But persocoms are way too expensive for him to ever afford. Luckily, that night he winds up finding a really cute persocom lying deactivated in a trash heap, and takes her home. He soon learns that the mysterious android female appears to have had her memory wiped, but his friends discover that she seems to be full of secret data that no one can access. The series tells the story of how Hideki teaches his persocom—who he names “Chii,” because initially that’s the only word she can say—how to speak, act, run errands and behave more like a human. And it’s massively funny. Especially when he sends Chii out into the big city to buy herself some panties, because he’s too embarrassed to go into the lingerie store.
For any anime fans, I highly recommend this series. And hey, the theme music is groovy, too. (Let me be with you!)
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