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Chobits

★ 7.3 5K votes 2002–2003 1 season · 27 episodes Ended TBS
AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 10/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 9/10Near-future techTechnology one step ahead of today, and what it costs us.This show: 7/10SentimentalOpenly emotional storytelling that reaches straight for the heartstrings.This show: 7/10BittersweetJoy and loss mixed so thoroughly they can't be separated.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Rie TanakaSarah HauserTomokazu SugitaMotoko KumaiCrispin FreemanTomokazu Seki
Starring
Rie TanakaSarah HauserTomokazu SugitaMotoko KumaiCrispin FreemanTomokazu Seki
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
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About

"A sweetly melancholy meditation on loneliness and artificial love"

A broke student named Hideki moves to the city and finds an abandoned Persocom, a humanoid computer, in the trash. He names her Chi, and as she slowly learns to speak and feel, he's pulled into a mystery about her origins while navigating an office-of-oddballs cast of neighbors and classmates. The tone swings between gentle slapstick comedy and surprisingly melancholy questions about loneliness, consent, and what makes someone a person rather than a tool. It's slower and softer than typical action anime, carried mostly by its earnest emotional core.

Watch it for

the tender, surprisingly thoughtful exploration of what makes a companion feel human.

Maybe skip if

you want fast plotting or find the fanservice-adjacent comedy off-putting.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

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Season 12002
7.62K2711h 12m
After failing the university entrance exam, Hideki Motosuwa decides to attend a tutoring course in Tokyo. He also looks for a part-time job to earn a little money. In this city, he discovers the “Persocoms”, personal computers in human form. One evening, the young man discovers an abandoned Persocom in a pile of garbage that looks like a beautiful girl. Fascinated, he decides to take it home with him and activates it. This Persocom only repeats the same gestures and can only say “Chii”. Hideki calls her that and gradually teaches her to speak. But maybe Chii is no ordinary computer? Maybe she is a Chobit, a persocom with a power beyond imagination?
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Chii mezameru7.4
8625 min
▶2Chî dekakeru7.4
6425 min
▶3Chî oboeru7.3
6325 min
▶4Chî otsukai7.8
6425 min
▶5Chî mitsukeru7.8
6225 min
▶6Chî yowaru7.5
5825 min
▶7Chî hataraku7.5
5825 min
▶8Chî tomadou7.7
5825 min
▶9Chî kau7.5
5924 min
▶10Chî deau7.5
5625 min
▶11Chî tashikameru7.1
5625 min
▶12Chî asobu7.3
5425 min
▶13Chî umi iku7.4
5325 min
▶14Chî motenasu7.8
5525 min
▶15Chî nanimo shinai7.7
5525 min
▶16Chî makanau7.9
5425 min
▶17Chî tetsudau7.5
5325 min
▶18Chî inaku naru7.6
5324 min
▶19Chî matsu8.1
5725 min
▶20Chî motomeru7.8
5325 min
▶21Chî kotaeru8.0
5525 min
▶22Chî kite nugu7.4
5425 min
▶23Chî kimeru7.7
5225 min
▶24Chî dake no hito8.1
5825 min
▶25Shinbo and Sumomo Chat7.5
3825 min
▶26Minoru and Yuzuki Chat7.5
3925 min
▶27Hibiya and Kotoko Chat7.4
4024 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Rie Tanaka Chii, Chî
Sarah Hauser Sumomo
Tomokazu Sugita Hideki Motosuwa, Hideki Motosu
Motoko Kumai Sumomo
Crispin Freeman Hideki Motosuwa
Tomokazu Seki Hiromu Shinbo, Shinbo Hiromu, Hideki Motosu
Kikuko Inoue Chitose Hibiya, Chisato Hibiya
Karen Strassman Yuzuki, Clerk #1
Noriko Kawashima Minoru Kokubunji
Fumiko Orikasa Yuzuki

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