Upon turning her on, she instantly regards Hideki with adoration.

On his way home one evening, he stumbles across a persocom in the form of a beautiful girl with long hair lying against a pile of trash bags, and he carries her home, not noticing a disk fall on the ground. Besides a girlfriend, he dreams of having a persocom ( パソコン ?): an android used as a personal computer, which is expensive. The series centers on the life of Hideki Motosuwa, a held-back student attempting to qualify for university by studying at Seki prep school in Tokyo. Chobits branches off as a crossover into many other stories in different ways, such as Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, xxxHolic and Kobato.

The manga is set in the same universe as Angelic Layer, taking place a few years after the events of that story, and like Angelic Layer, it explores the relationship between human beings and electronic devices shaped like human beings. As the series progresses, they explore the mysteries of Chi's origin together and questions about the relationship between human beings and persocoms. The series tells the story of Hideki Motosuwa, who finds an abandoned persocom ( パソコン PasoKon ?), or personal computer (パーソナルコンピュータ pāsonaru konpyūta) with human form, that he names 'Chi' after the only word it initially can speak. In addition, it has spawned a video game as well as various merchandise such as figurines, collectable cards, calendars, and artbooks.

Chobits was adapted as a 26-episode-long anime television series broadcast on TBS and Animax from April to September 2002. Unlike most stories by Clamp, Chobits is a seinen series commonly mistaken for shōjo because of its strong romantic themes and flowery art style. It was published by Kodansha in Young Magazine from February 2001 to November 2002 and collected in eight bound volumes. Chobits ( ちょびっツ Chobittsu ?) is a Japanese manga created by the Japanese manga collective Clamp.

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