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Chobits (ちょびっツ, Chobits^?) is a Japanese manga and anime series created by CLAMP. The original manga was published from 2001 to 2002 by Kodansha.

The English manga is published by the American company TOKYOPOP, and TOKYOPOP's translation is imported to Australia by Madman Entertainment. Also, the Traditional Chinese manga is published by COMICSWORLD.COM (天下出版有限公司) under official authorization for Hong Kong only. In Singapore, the Simplified Chinese version is published by Chuangyi. Unlike most CLAMP stories, Chobits is a seinen series, specifically of the magical girlfriend variety.

Plot

The story centers on the life of Hideki Motosuwa, 19, (in the anime, 18) a repeat student ("ronin") attempting to get into university by studying at the Seki cram school in Tokyo. An honest and unassuming teenager raised on a farm, he has little experience with women, though his imagination and libido are both quite active. Besides a girlfriend, the other thing he dreams of having is a persocom. A Persocom is an android used as a personal computer, hence the name Persocom from the Japanese shortening of personal computer as "pasokon" (see Etymology). Hideki discovers that persocoms are commonplace in the city. They are programmed with fairly subdued personalities; they assist their owners with chores (such as shopping, dictation, email, and accounting), are easily identifiable by the large data ports on the sides of their heads that look like ears, and surf on the internet. But persocoms are expensive and Hideki has no money, so he figures the only way he'll ever have one is if he were to find one lying on the curb.

No sooner has he thought this than it happens: on his way home from the grocery store one evening, he stumbles across a persocom in the form of a nude beautiful young girl with blonde long hair, wrapped in cloth, lying against a pile of trash bags. He first thinks this to be a murder but, realizing she had ears like the persocoms as he had seen in the window display earlier, he carries her home (dropping a disk as he walks away). He finally turns her on and she comes instantly to life and regards Hideki with open adoration, hugging him often and watching him fascinated as she often mimics the things he does, but the only word she ever says (until later episodes) is "chi", so this is the name Hideki gives her (in the Japanese anime Hideki spells it with an extra "i", as Chii, and it remains "Chi" in the manga).

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