chobits

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Manga

The original Chobits manga was written by Clamp, a famous group of four Japanese mangaka (manga artists) and was serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine in Japan from February 2001 until the manga's completion in November 2002. Clamp often reuses (or parallels) various characters among their manga. Chobits is one of their first attempts at the seinen genre.

The manga is 88 chapters long and was collected into 8 volumes, which are published in English by TOKYOPOP. TOKYOPOP's translation is imported to Australia by Madman Entertainment. 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.

Anime

Further information: Chobits media information
See also: List of Chobits episodes

The anime consists of 26 episodes and was broadcast across Japan, East Asia and Southeast Asia by the anime satellite television network, Animax and the terrestrial Tokyo Broadcasting System network. Episodes 9, 18, and an extra 27th OVA episode are used as "recap" episodes, looking back on the events that happened previously. The episodes were re-numbered for the DVD release; the original recap episodes were not included in sequence, instead being published together on the final DVD and re-numbered as 8.5, 16.5 and 24.5 making the series itself only 24 episodes.

There is a 6-minute special episode: "Sumomo and Kotoko on a Quest", or "Chibits", concerning Sumomo and Kotoko.

The series was directed by Morio Asaka and animated by Madhouse while Hisashi Abe acted as character designer and chief animation director. The ending to the anime series is different from the manga on many levels; perhaps the most notable being removal of all true allusion to Hideki never having Chi because of her switch location, and of Freya taking over Chi's body and asking her mother Chitose to shut them down, saying the Chobits series is a failure, and the activation of the program after all, although the effect on Persocoms is not the same as described in the manga. :-h: