Audience reviews
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Supersonic_Pain
Absolutely rotten show.
First, the relationships.
Basically the main thrust of this show is the concept of a human x "persocom" (personal computer, think a humanoid computer... so a robot) relationship. There are multiple couples that end up forming and they all have some sort of relation to the idea of humans and persocoms dating.
However, that kind of buries the lede because more than one are relationships where someone at least a decade their senior dates someone who is roughly 18. And it's not just an age gap, as icky as a 17-19 year old dating someone who is in their 30s is, the full-grown adults are in positions of power over the high schoolers.
Not ONLY that but the men in these relationships do outright creepy things.
One of them holds a girl hostage in the mountains, browbeat…
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I love romances. I really do. I enjoy sitting down and letting my brain melt over these silly little animu relationships.
Chobits is not a romance.
Chobits is not some sort of intellectual look into if robots were real and sentient.
Chobits disappointed me. Chobits is a fetish show. A rip off of a fetish show.
Story: 2
If you enjoy watching a brain dead girl walking around saying underpants over and over again, this show is for you. If you enjoy ecchi and porn, this show is for you. If you were told, like me, that this show discusses how robots and humans would become in a futuristic society, you were deceived. The plot likes to shove morals in your face constantly and then in the end basically says the morals apply to everyone but Chi because Chi is Chi.
Yeah. Also, two random re…
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This anime has amazing and loveable characters that most can relate too. It has a cute background love story and is filled with funny moments, and of course with a little bit of sexual jokes. So why only the rating of an overall 7??? Personally I think the ending was not the best. I felt it lacked tying things together, and made things even more confusing. They built up everything for a rushed ending. With the story that they had, and the characters that were created I feel the ending could have been stronger. I ignore the last couple episodes after episode 24 “Chi Wears And Takes Off" and adopted my own ending because I feel the actual one brought down the rest of the show.
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Today, I'm actually going to review something that doesn't suck!
Warning! the following review contains spoilers and extrapolates on an allegorical interpretation of the plot that you may or may not agree with.
Overview:
Chobits is a romance anime that centers around a couple named Hideki and Chii. They have an unconventional relationship that is criticized by many in their society as unnatural and a slight against God. They can't have "real" sex that produces children. However, they overcome these criticisms and show that 2 consenting adults in a loving relationship is a beautiful union that should be respected by society. I am of course talking about man and girl robot relations. What? You thought I was talking about something else? Chobits does an excellent job of showing that a wri…
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Short review: While this anime may seem perverse on the surface, Chobits actually does ask deep questions regarding emotions, and technological singularity. Characters are interesting and dynamic, but art and animation is kept to a minimum. English dub is pretty good, and the music is fun but not remarkable. The anime is well executed, and I did enjoy watching it.
Loooooooong review:
Story: (This is going to be long...)
The first half-or-so of Chobits is rather lighthearted and comedic, with Hideki adjusting to city life, school, and teaching Chi new things. This is where you mostly see the slice-of-life part of this anime.Within the middle part, there are a few rather pointless episodes, such as a beach episode or the "haunted" apartment episode. However, darker themes are introduced pas…
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Chobits is a romance oriented anime that presents the viewer with a futuristic world inhabited by humans and android-like beings called "persocoms" who are a much more advanced humanoid versions of the PCs you and I use today. It is a very engrossing anime because it portrays a number of themes like morality, spirituality and even sexuality from a number of different viewpoints - those of humans, those of 'persocoms' and a neutral one.
The setting and story are very simple. We have the male lead, a village boy by the name of Motosuwa Hideki who aspires to go to a University and also happens to be the complete inverse of a pick-up artist, as his lack of experience with women and people in general is the unfortunate result of milking cows in seclusion for way too long.
One day he decides…
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Romance is my favorite genre of anime, so naturally when my friends told me Chobits was a good classic anime of that genre, I watched it. Unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed, which isn't saying that Chobits was terrible. It just didn't live up to my expectations. Who knows, maybe I had too high of expectations. The anime was overall kind of sort of cute and funny but it didn't have a "good" plot, and the drama in it was very dull. I thought the plot was original in it's unique way because of the introduction of a Persocom, a machine that resembles a female human. But the romance between a robotic human and a real flesh and blood human was a bit disturbing to me, because I just don't see how they can fall in love.
The story revolves around the penniless, perverted, cram school student…
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This is my first time doing a review, so bear with me. I'll try the best I can.
Chobits isn't revolutionary with its female android protagonist. There are, of course, a great many other anime that have the same idea. Although, from what I can see, a lot of them are somewhat perverted and contain a sundry of fan service. I think Chobits did a good job with the android cliché. It's not as simple as the others. In my opinion, Chobits is my favorite anime of this type.
Story 8/10:
Some time in the future, our protagonist, Hideki Motosuwa, goes to a city to prepare for college. Once he arrives there, he notices the abundance of "Persocoms", a personal android that have become hackneyed to the city residents and other urban dwellers. To him, it seems as though everyone who is anyone owns these…
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I'm not sure what I was expecting when I first started watching Chobits, but I can tell you that whatever expectations I had were abandoned within the first few moments of the first episode.
Chobits is the story of a naive young "country bumpkin" arriving in the big city in order to prepare for his next attempt at being accepted to college.
Hideki Motosuwa arrives in town impossibly ignorant of current technology and is immediately enthralled with the omnipresent "Persocoms", which are humanoid computers and have become so common throughout the city as to be entirely ordinary.
Hideki pines for a Persocom of his own, because they are cute (the vast majority of Persocoms seen throughout the series are built to resemble attractive young women) and will enable him to pursue many interests, ch…
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I first saw Chobits very soon after I got into anime and something about it really grabbed me. In retrospect I can kind of see why. That was back when I was a horny teenager who deliberately searched out anime with the tags 'harem' and 'ecchi'. Most of them were utterly terrible dribble, but then came Chobits which managed to blow me away because it actually had depth. In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man etc. But it's 2013 now, and I've changed.
The story, for those uninitiated, is set in a world where everyone owns humanoid computers called persecoms. That is, apart from our shmuck lead Hideki because he's a poor farmboy who failed to get into college and now has to live on peanuts while taking cram school to retry the entrance exams. On his first day in Tokyo he finds a perse…
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Chobits
I remember liking this show a whole lot back in the day, and unfortunately it hasn't lived up to what I remember. Chobits starts off well enough, but by the end it gets lost in trying to be profound.
The animation is good. It was consistent and fluid throughout the show, so no complaints there. The artwork.....I'm hesitant to say it was bad, because I don't think it was, but much of the character designs are all pretty much the same with different hair plonked on to distinguish them, and even there.....they all had the same sort of scraggy haircut. The only ones who are unique in design are Chii and Sumomo. Chii's design is extraordinarily cute, and all the various lolita outfits she get dressed up in enhance her cute factor, by quite a lot.
As for the characters, our main leads…
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"Try your very best to not write any spoilers."
Unfortunately, here's the biggest spoiler of them all.
THIS SERIES SUCKED!
Oh, are you still here? Let's get some (but not much) detail into this horribly sucky series. Will I tell all? No, I'm not Oprah. If you want to know the full details, you'll have to suffer as well. Now, on to the review.
Where oh where to begin.
About a month ago I suffered a heart attack. Compared to watching this horrid series, that was enjoyable. The incredible pain I was put through as a catheter was rammed into my leg and threaded into my heart was pleasant compared to the agony of sitting through this absolutely horrid anime.
There was a plot... somewhere. At times, I honestly think the writers even forgot what the plot was. First, we have horny redneck t…
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I started into the world of Chobits with the manga. I read about two volumes of it and thought it was pretty intriguing so I thought well why not watch the anime?
Let me say this, I am generally fairly easy to please. I'm one of those people that has learned that what is a good anime/manga is not necessarily the same as what anime/manga you enjoying watching/reading. That being said, I though Chobits failed on both accounts.
Hideki made me want to run my head through a cheese grater. He was incredibly dull and annoying as a character. He is completely and entirely forgettable. Chii was cute, but there wasn't much depth to her. She is slow at learning the human ways and while sometimes her antics are funny, most of the time it comes off as irritating.
I did like some of the art, particul…
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CLAMP has outdone themselves yet again and given us a crappy anime.
This time, spazes get theirs as loser farm boy Hideki gets to have some robot lovin'.
The story follows an utter creepy wanker who gets a human-shaped computer, he does all sorts of adult things with it, but AH HA HA HA, she's not a real person--molestation is all right!! Then it learns to talk to him, so he can tell it all sorts of loser things and perv out on it because real girls won't touch his shorts with a ten-foot pole. The End.
What a load of crock this was.
The characters were DUMB. SERIOUSLY! Hideki has to be the most unexceptional guy ever to be animated. His one talent is being disgusting and bland but so stupid that everyone goes, 'Aw, he's so sweet.' He reminds me of a dog that keeps running into the…
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Story: Well, it seems cliche when you first look at it, but thinking back at that time, that might have been the way it would have been. It has it's own unique twists and such but it's really a pretty "straight-forward" storyline. It has it's own paced established and you'll get used it in no time. Not bad, but pretty good
Art: Clamp this I have to say, is really the starting point of which I started watching your other shows. The animation is smooth and the drawing style is somewhat unique. Though there are just some times where I think the animation and the colouring just don't suit the mood.…
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I have mixed feelings about this series. Everybody seems to LOVE IT, and I feel like I missed the bus, so to speak.
In the first place, I'm a CLAMP fan. I love their old stuff--Tokyo Babylon, X, Rayearth, even Cardcaptor Sakura and Angelic Layer--but Chobits feels like the beginning of an era of relative mediocrity to me, especially compared to their earlier works. I know that Chii is supposed to be a perpetually-confused Robot Girl Who Needs to Learn To Love (R), but after a while her doe-eyed moe persona starts to get annoying.
In the second place, I'm also a cyberpunk fan. The question of what makes us 'human' and whether or not androids dream of electric sheep is not new to me. Robot sentience and 'emotions', or lack thereof, is old ground. This does not mean it cannot still be expl…
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Ok, I’ll admit it, I like romance anime, especially with drama and comedy. So I should love Chobits, right? Let me step back for a moment and say above all else I like anime with good stories and interesting characters. Chobits fails for me due to weak characters, in particular Hideki and Chii.
Hideki is way too flat and lack sufficient depth. In addition, he is a joke character, we don’t laugh with him, we laugh at him. Because of this it makes it hard to empathize/engage with a character like Hideki. This is why we have token male side characters who take the joke character role. Shinbo, Hideki’s male friend clearly doesn’t take this role, in fact they should have made him the main character as his story is far more interesting than Hideki and Chii’s. In ad…
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As you might have noticed already, almost all the reviewers give this series a 10 on everything. This is offcourse not without reason. It performs top notch in every aspect. Chobits kept me entertained from the first milisecond to the last.
Story:
The story is simply amazing. It has a bit of everything going from romance to suspense. Although the story is quite slow it doesnt feel like it. Every episode shows the devolopment of the characters in a serious but also a funny way. The first episodes will give you a big laugh, but the mood swings over to a more romantic view the more it develops.
This show is probably something you haven't seen before, the characters evolution is something quite special. To prevent spoilers you'll have to find that out for yourself.
The fact remains that th…
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The typical perverted boy meets beautiful innocent girl but with a twist the girl is a robot! As much as I loved this anime the story really wasn't too original or inspiring. Many places where is is just a fan service but the detailed gothic lolita styled dresses give it an up in the art category.
As for the characters they are typical and not liable to change much throughout the series. The robot twist does add a little points in this category though.
The theme song and the two ending songs were wonderfully chosen and the voices where well done as well.
Watching it was pleasant because it was just a funny uplifting with some dark plot behind it. It was a nice little anime that really just kinda made your day and just asked you to keep watching it.
Overall I would have to give it an 8…
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I'm...*sniff*...speechless. I'm not sure what to really say! The animation is gorgeous, the characters are deep and interesting, the story has some really nice plot twists, the music and voices are fantastic (in Japanese...of course), and the ending really hits the mark.
Perhaps the closest comparison I can make (and it's still a fairly loose association) is to a modern re-telling of Pinocchio. No, it's not the same story...but you'll understand why I say that when you watch it.
I think what I love most about this series is the lessons it teaches about love, sacrifice, and what it really means to be human. It's definitely not a series for kids. Although nothing truly graphic happens, there are a few ecchi moments that some (American) parents would definitely object to. We have a much str…
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