Chobits, Volume 2 [Paperback]

CLAMP (Author, Creator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 23, 2002

Hideki’s luck with girls seems to be turning around. First his sexy test-prep teacher asks to sleep over, then the landlady starts doing him favors, and even the really cute girl from work goes out with him. And then there’s Chi. She’s the artificially intelligent Persocom that Hideki found, and as she continues to grow and learn, she hopes that Hideki will be her one true love. She’ll do anything thing for Hideki, so when he tells her he’s low on money, she takes a job. But when Hideki finds out what she’s been paid to do, he’ll do anything to bring her home.

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CLAMP is an all-female team and one of the hottest groups of manga creators in Japan today. Credited with bridging the gap between male and female comic fans, CLAMP has many other series to their credit, including X, Clover, as well as Magic Knight Rayearth followed fanatically by readers wherever they're

Product Details

• Paperback: 184 pages
• Publisher: Tokyopop (July 23, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591820057
• ISBN-13: 978-1591820055
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #614,278 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clamp does it again, September 1, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Chobits, Volume 2 (Paperback)

Okay; I'll admit that certain parts of the art in Chobits shouldn't be exposed to children too young. I was 14 when I read Chobits, volume 1, however; and it didn't really make me want to go run naked through the streets, or whatever people seem to think exposure to nudity would do to young girls- however, it DID make me want to read volume 2.

It was a long and grueling wait but as usual the results for Chobits volume 2 were well worth the effort. Okay, I'd like some of the backround writing to have been translated- but the more important parts, like 'grin' and 'copycat' were written nicely if one looked closely. And, you can't exactly get rid of the large letters in the backround- they portrayed a lot of emotion when Hideki would shout in anguish at Chi's actions. Or exposure to girls, in general, in either real life or in.. certain dreams. Naughty, naughty!

The storyline was interesting- it covered a lot about Shimbo and Ms. Shimizu's , leaving very little confusion about it but allowing for a few laughs as Hideki oversees things. It also shows Hideki having divided feelings, as he confides to Yumi that Chi's just a machine but then he goes back home and forgets there's a difference.

All in all, the storyline was rather deep for a comic which could be enjoyed by kids.. I'd say, twelve and up. Unless they were male, or somehow turned on by drawings of naked women. Hideki had a constant obsession with pornography, and Chi had no ideas about modesty, with a tendancy to play copycat to things she saw other people do. While there's less of Chi posing ... the girls in Hideki's porn, Chi DOES go to work in a peep show- however, she doesn't actually show too much; just keep it away from little children. Chi is constantly nonsexual and really very sweet- there is no fear that this is a form of hentai, as Chobits might show a bit of skin but overall it remains both innocent and charming.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yay!, December 7, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Chobits, Volume 2 (Paperback)

I loved the first one and the second is even better, sine the characters have been introduced and the story can really begin. I think that the way CLAMP is advancing the relationship between Chi and Hideki is awesome; please don't hesitate to buy this book because of some nudity. This series is so good it would be a shame! I think the rating is wrong- it should really be T for Teen, 13+ not OT 16+.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than the first, September 24, 2003

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Nina (Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chobits, Volume 2 (Paperback)

When I started reading this series I wasn`t too fond of it at first. I liked the kind of dark science fiction element and it was generally entertaining, but I didn`t think the story was told all that well. The entire first volume gives you information that doesn`t seem very important at the time so the whole thing seems really uneventful.
However, I happened to buy the second one and read it out of boredom and found that the story really starts to get better at this point and the plot speeds up a lot. The first volume seems bland and empty in comparison to how intriguing the later volumes become. Eventually the storytelling gets a little deep, and very interesting questions are brought up about persocoms, the very human-like robot computers the story revolves around. Would it be right to create a machine that could make its own decisions? What makes people and machines different? If it`s okay to not consider the robots people because they don`t have real feelings, then what makes feelings real? And a question that Hideki wonders himself is, Why are the persocoms made to seem so human-like anyway? Which makes the reader wonder, If we had the technology to make things like persocoms, would we? It actually ends up being a very smart and deep story.
As well as making me think about a lot of things, this series is very entertaining because of its art. Clamp always delivers very impressively as far as art goes, and this series is no exception. I`m always amazed by Clamp`s creativity in character design and the clothes that the characters wear. (Then there`s when the characters are wearing nothing, which happens a lot in this series, as you should be warned. But even at those parts the art exceeds that of other manga.)
I would probably recommend this series to females, but I think some males could possibly enjoy it, too. If nudity would make you very uncomfortable you shouldn`t read this, even though most of the nudity happens in scenes that aren`t even necessarily sexual. Like all of Clamp`s manga that I`ve read this one is very addictive. After reading the first one you may not like it as much but after this one it gets a lot more interesting.