Chobits, Volume 3 [Paperback]

CLAMP (Author, Creator)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 22, 2002

The continuing adventures of Hideki your typical 20-year-old slacker. He didn't get into college straight out of high school, so he's working a dead-end job, can't find a girlfriend, and is perpetually broke. If only he had a persocon - a humanoid robot - to keep him company, perhaps things wouldn't be so bad. The problem with persocons is they are incredibly expensive, and it would take Hideki a lifetime to afford one. Then, one day Hideki finds a particularly cute female persocon dumped in a pile of trash, so he decides to take her home. As they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure...

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In 2026, many humans have persocoms, attractive robots designed to make life easier. But when teenage Hideki accidentally acquires Chi, a sexy but exceedingly childlike persocom, his life gets complicated. Chi, who acquires knowledge and forms attachments quickly, soon falls for Hideki and does anything to make him happy-including dance at a burlesque club to earn him cash. Hideki doesn't know what to make of Chi's affections; furthermore, he's appalled by her behavior. Worse, he learns the teacher he adores has run away with his best friend, who leaves in Hideki's care another persocom who's quite shrill. As Hideki struggles through this chaos, Chi takes solace in a picture book apparently written just for persocoms. Things get more complicated when a mysterious couple comes looking for Chi. Might she be more than an average computer servant? Clamp is an all-female manga-creating team whose feminine touch shows in this entertaining, sci-fi soap opera. Besides a plot revolving around personal drama, the art style borrows from the Japanese romance genre, where girls have huge doe eyes and long, flowing hair, and fuzzy, florid backdrops frame sentimental moments. Clamp excels at multiple manga styles, transitioning through realistic establishment panels of urban scenes, the cartoony explosions of facial expressions in comedic moments and science fiction and romance. Presenting the work in original right-to-left format, TokyoPop has also left in the Japanese sound effects that are integral to the art, carefully embedding drawn-to-match English translations within the frame. The result is impressively unobtrusive, if occasionally difficult to read. But discerning young manga fans will appreciate the attention to such details.
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From the Publisher

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 (October 22, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591820065
• ISBN-13: 978-1591820062
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #609,531 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this now now now!, October 18, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Chobits, Volume 3 (Paperback)

Yatta for Chobits! I picked up a copy of this at Barnes and Noble, and had no idea whatsoever what was going on! So I hurried up and got the first book, and in no time I was completely hooked! It has spiffy and detailed character design, awesome plot, and Chi is so sickeningly CUTE!!!!! Some people think it's gross because of all the fanservice, but it's meant to be funny, not porno >:P I'm a girl, and I like it! Overall, it's one of my favorite mangas and should be an installment in anyone's collection of mangas and...stuff. ^_^;;

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars love love love, November 16, 2003

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polexia - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chobits, Volume 3 (Paperback)

i love this manga, yes it has some funny(not porn) moments, and i like how chii and hideki are together, and how he treats her!and it's really facinating too see how it all goes! there are some omoments where you can laugh your butt of, and some where you sigh *wow* to see hidekis devotion.. being a girl, i can say this is a manga for all, not just guys! and it's not porn!!
and the drawings are so wonderful!
people should cheack it out!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Manga For Guys... And Girls!!!, April 6, 2003

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Gothic Geisha (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chobits, Volume 3 (Paperback)

"Chobits" is deffinatly the best manga book I've read since "Paradise Kiss". The art is great, the story creative, the characters vivid...and Chii's the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life! Even though (I think) "Chobits" is meant for a male audience, I'm a girl, and I still loved it. It's really cute! Even though there is some nudity and sexuality, and some language, it's well worth it.BR>-Enjoy!