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. Besides a girlfriend, he dreams of having a persocom (パソコン ): an android used as a personal computer, which is expensive. 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 fell on the ground. Upon turning her on, she instantly regards Hideki with adoration. The only word the persocom seems capable of saying is "chi" (ちぃ Chii ), thus he names her that. Hideki assumes that there must be something wrong with her, and so the following morning he has his neighbor Hiromu Shinbo analyze her with his mobile persocom Sumomo. After Sumomo crashes during the attempt they conclude that she must be custom-built.
Shinbo introduces Hideki to Minoru Kokubunji, a twelve-year-old prodigy who specializes in the field of custom-built persocoms. Minoru's persocoms, including Yuzuki, a fairly exceptional custom-built persocom, are not able to analyze Chi either, and thus they conclude that she may be one of the Chobits, a legendary series of persocoms rumoured to have free will and emotions. Although this is a possibility, Minoru is confident that it is only rumour. Yuzuki also adds that she does not resemble any persocom model in any available database and so she must be custom made after all.
A major part of the plot involves Hideki attempting to teach Chi words, concepts, and appropriate behaviours, in between his crammed schedule of school and work. At the same time, Chi seems to be developing feelings for Hideki, at an emotional depth she is not supposed to possess, and Hideki struggles with his feelings for her. The need to figure out more about Chi and her mysterious functions and past becomes a pull for the characters in the series.
Hideki's feelings intensify for Chi whether she is a persocom or not, despite horrible experiences of his friends involving persocoms. Chi becomes aware of her purpose through a picture book series called A City with No People which she finds in a bookstore. The books speak about many different things involving human and persocom relationships: persocoms and their convenience as friends and lovers, how there are things that they cannot do and questioning whether a relationship between a persocom and a human is really one-sided. It also speaks about the Chobits series; that they are different from other persocoms, and what they are incapable doing unlike other persocoms. These picture books awaken Chi's other self, her sibling Freya who is aware of their past and helps Chi realize what she must do when she decides who her "person just for me" is. Together, Chi and Hideki explore the relationship between human beings and persocoms, as well as their friends' and their own.
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Official web site
http://www.clamp-net.com/works/chobits
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Trigun
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Trigun
Trigun tells the story of Vash the Stampede, the first case in the history of man declared natural disaster. Everything we know about him is that it is a dangerous wanted tall, blond, with a red coat, a big weapon and especially with a price on his head from 60 billion $ $ (double dollar), known in the world the humanoid typhoon nickname because of the many disasters that leave behind traveling from city to city. But the true nature of the mysterious gunman is far from being wicked and cruel that all imagine, Vash is actually a kind and carefree a convinced pacifist, always ready to intervene to save others and with only two passions: the beautiful Women and donuts.
The entire story takes place on the surface of a distant desert planet Gunsmoke, illuminated by only two and surrounded by five moons, settled a little more than a century before by dozens of spacecraft from Earth and Seeds belonging to the project. It is a wild and harsh world, where human colonists struggling to maintain a dignified existence, including the continuing technological regression (The world of Trigun is very similar to the old American West) and the old feuds and powerful rival families. Also blamed for the destruction of July City, two agents of the insurance company Bernardelli are placed on the steps of the humanoid typhoon, hoping to track him down and minimize the damage he caused. Their names are Meryl Strife and Milly Thompson.
From this moment on, make their appearance in the series dozens of new characters, including a Bluesummer Legato, Vash warns that put him in the ribs as many as 12 gunmen in an attempt to get him out, and Nicholas D. Wolfwood, a reverend and he almost as good gunslinger, which will help him to defeat the 12 murderers of the Gung-Ho Guns following him wherever he goes crazy and helping him in his business, while being itself one of the Gung-Ho Guns. The final challenge will, however, the meeting between the humanoid typhoon and his brother Knives, a clash which will determine the fate of mankind.
Wikipedia
Trigun the Movie site
http://www.trigun-movie.com/
The entire story takes place on the surface of a distant desert planet Gunsmoke, illuminated by only two and surrounded by five moons, settled a little more than a century before by dozens of spacecraft from Earth and Seeds belonging to the project. It is a wild and harsh world, where human colonists struggling to maintain a dignified existence, including the continuing technological regression (The world of Trigun is very similar to the old American West) and the old feuds and powerful rival families. Also blamed for the destruction of July City, two agents of the insurance company Bernardelli are placed on the steps of the humanoid typhoon, hoping to track him down and minimize the damage he caused. Their names are Meryl Strife and Milly Thompson.
From this moment on, make their appearance in the series dozens of new characters, including a Bluesummer Legato, Vash warns that put him in the ribs as many as 12 gunmen in an attempt to get him out, and Nicholas D. Wolfwood, a reverend and he almost as good gunslinger, which will help him to defeat the 12 murderers of the Gung-Ho Guns following him wherever he goes crazy and helping him in his business, while being itself one of the Gung-Ho Guns. The final challenge will, however, the meeting between the humanoid typhoon and his brother Knives, a clash which will determine the fate of mankind.
Wikipedia
Trigun the Movie site
http://www.trigun-movie.com/
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