Tokyo, where human-shaped computers have become widespread. Hideki Motosuwa, a 19 years old ronin, moved to Tokyo to attend a cram school and lives part-time every day. One night, he picks up a human-shaped computer in the shape of a girl at a garbage dump. Hideki named her “Chi“ when she answered only “Chi“ no matter what he asked her. Hideki tries to find out how to use the computer and learns that Chi is a model not sold by any manufacturer, and imagines that it might be the legendary “Chobits“.

This work captures the problems of a world where more and more people are immersed in games and computers. Can people love machines, and can machines love people? The idea originated from an illustration of a “human-shaped computer“ that Nekoi had drawn as a doodle. Nowadays, everyone owns a personal computer, everyone operates it daily, and it has become an indispensable part of our lives. What if the personal computer were our partner in private life as well? And what if it were anthropomorphic? Everyone may have fantasized about such a feeling at least once. The depiction of a world in which it would not be surprising to see such a world in the near future has attracted a lot of attention. The magazine was “Weekly Young Magazine“ (KODANSHA), and it was CLAMP’s first weekly serialization. Since the medium allows for adult depictions, there are a few more erotic elements that have not been seen in CLAMP’s works to date.The TV anime was broadcast on TBS from April 2002 to September of the same year.