Chobits

When computers start to look like humans, can love remain the same?

Hideki Motosuwa is a young country boy who is studying hard to get into college. Coming from a poor background, he can barely afford the expenses, let alone the newest fad: Persocoms, personal computers that look exactly like human beings. One evening while walking home, he finds an abandoned Persocom. After taking her home and managing to activate her, she seems to be defective, as she can only say one word, "Chii," which eventually becomes her name. Unlike other Persocoms, however, Chii cannot download information onto her hard drive, so Hideki decides to teach her about the world the old-fashioned way, while studying for his college entrance exams at the same time.

Along with his friends, Hideki tries to unravel the mystery of Chii, who may be a "Chobit," an urban legend about special units that have real human emotions and thoughts, and love toward their owner. But can romance flourish between a Persocom and a human?

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Chii Main

Tanaka, Rie Japanese

Motosuwa, Hideki Main

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Sumomo Supporting

Kumai, Motoko Japanese

Freya Supporting

Tanaka, Rie Japanese

Kotoko Supporting

Yukana Japanese

Atashi dake no Hito Supporting

Tanaka, Rie Japanese

Yuzuki Supporting

Orikasa, Fumiko Japanese

Kokubunji, Minoru Supporting

Kuwashima, Houko Japanese

Shinbo, Hiromu Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu Japanese

Ueda, Hiroyasu Supporting

Ueda, Yuuji Japanese

Sekido, Yuuichi Producer

Ono, Tatsuya Producer

Oomori, Hiroyuki Assistant Producer

Asaka, Morio Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

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May 14, 2026

ebhaam

Recommended

I have To side; Dark Side: I love Monster, Casshern Sins, Blue Litrature/Aoi Bungaku
But When I am in my light mode i love iyashiki, comedy/slice of life anime like Chobits:

My Opinion:
I think chobits is Great anime, never an anime made me laugh like these from mimicking Chi moment to hilarious nap in classroom to Sumomo early morning sport.
but in terms of emotional impact it Changed my view about psychological/comedy animes, Feeling of loneliness and lost in the crowd of society and technology, now in 2026 people will understand story of this great anime(It is ahead of it's time),

Characters Depth:
i love Chemistry between Shimizu-sensei & ... shinbo, Sister-hod Love of Minoru & yuzuki, and forgotten & Odd Love of Ueda

I love direction of Morio Asako, And i should thank Masao Maruyama for planning this beautiful series.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Apr 24, 2026

Kakigori_baby

Mixed Feelings

This was recommended several times as a good romance anime, but it doesn’t really feel like one. Just a lot of horny jokes.

The male romantic lead had beady eyes that made him hard to look at- so much so it clashed with the actual art style of the show ( all the rest of males in the show have cute eyes). Yes, he’s supposed to be a “placeholder” for the male viewer, it just was too obvious and made the romantic element fake.

The female romantic lead was so cute and innocent, she basically became the mascot. It generates I higher interest in the show ... than it actually deserves.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jan 9, 2025

Supersonic_Pain

Not Recommended

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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, browbeating her until she agrees to elope with him (I mean, this sounds kind of extreme but it's more or less what he does) and the other uses a persocom to track the girl's persocom so he can meet with her.

Even the main relationship is composed of someone who is canonically a virgin taking advantage of someone who canonically knows jack shit so he can finally score. Like, it's not that cynically told in-story but once we find out the MC is a virgin, there is a streak of a few episodes where he is TORCHED over it and he previously just magically found a cute girl in a pile of trash on the curb (tbh, I'm not particularly sure how she got there, one would think that [SPOILERS] would care more about her than to throw her naked ass out on the street). He's described as this nice guy who just CAN'T score so naturally, he manages to find a fleshlight who wouldn't ever disobey him like that.

There's also a consistent throughline of jokes about the MC having "yummies" and I'm sure you can guess it's not food. The girls are kind of cute but not particularly super attractive so the ecchi doesn't really work either.

And the girl has to be taught pretty much everything because she lost her data or whatever but somehow kept her learning software. So the MC is basically her daddy and has to teach her everything from words to concepts. I will say she was a pleasant character (I even got a good chuckle when she *checks notes* was almost prostituted out for a peep show because someone said it was a "good job" and the girl didn't have the mental capacity to figure out he was lying... anyway, I got a good chuckle when she poked someone in the eye during the peep show) but as a romantic interest of the person who is teaching her everything she knows? Idk, wasn't it for me.

Hell, even the MC's boss just hands him porn DVDs and is like "heh heh, from my personal collection, feel free to jerk off!" (although the high schooler daughter of said boss feels it necessary to make sure the MC knows she has E-cup tits so it must run in the family)

Don't just think this is getting a low score for the relationships, no, that's just the big glaring issue.

I don't think it's very funny? There were a couple one-off jokes and I liked Sumomo but a lot of the jokes are unfunny ecchi, "MC talks to himself but OH NO, it's not just in his head and other people can hear him!", or this weird background where it is some colored lines and has words in the background. Let me elaborate with an example.

If there's some cute girls at the beach, he might get a nosebleed while some offscreen voice goes "ooh yeah" while the words "SUMMER VACATION" appears in the background.

Speaking of beach, there is a run of like 3 episodes where nothing of substance happens unless you already care for the Chobits Crew.

I was gobsmacked when back to back to back, they told some random creepy story and the MC was crashing out then they played Generic Fantasy MMORPG and then they just had a random beach episode.

Maybe it'd work if the characters were more engaging but, well, they aren't. If you aren't engaging, I'm not gonna wanna watch you play Baldur's Gate 3 or whatever.

The ending kind of blows too.

All of a sudden, someone who is mostly just kind of there as a side character becomes a huge part of the story, the female MC gets vague superpowers (what exactly they're supposed to be doing and why she has them, beats me), we meet some of the most worthless antagonists I've ever seen, and... well, I won't spoil how it actually ends, but trust me, it was an absolutely laughable ending.

I'll admit I'm watching this 23 years in the future so maybe people in 2002 did need their hands held like toddlers about the most basic online info but they seinensplain some of the most basic online principles like online handles, a forum, and what a REPLY is. You do realize this is technically a manga/anime for adult men, right?

I promise you, probably even in 2002, anyone going out of their way to watch CHOBITS knows what a reply is.

It didn't personally offend, piss me off, or bore me enough to be a 1 but this anime is pretty much devoid of enjoyment for me. It is hypothetically intriguing, especially in 2025 with the rise of AI chatbots and stuff, to cover a human falling for a robot. It can be funny very, very occasionally. I liked the OP (although Welcome to the NHK got a much, MUCH stronger offering from the same artist) and the second ED.

That's about all the positive stuff I have to say about the anime. Unless you're a CLAMP completionist or you just HAVE to see stories that cover this sort of ground, there's no real reason to watch it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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