Customer Reviews

Chobits, Volume 8

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

This is the eighth and final volume in the "Chobits" series. All the questions about Chi are finally answered, and you get to see how everyone ends up.

I liked the end. A lot of people say that it was disappointing, but I didn't think so. I thought it was very appropriate. There are no huge surprises, but there are a couple of interesting things about some of Chi's special features. Overall, it was very sweet.

The art is is as good as ever. Great looking characters and detailed environments. If you can find it, get the edition without the red Tokyopop symbol on the spine, because it has gorgeous color pictures in the front. You may also want to get the special edition version with the book case and Chi figurine. This is hard to find as well, but Amazon or E-Bay should have it.

If you've been reading "Chobits", don't miss the last volume. This is a great ending to the series.

Oh, I loved the sereies, but the ending left a lot to be desired. It seemed the story was actually very romantic, but they seem to shoot it all down at the end...can't really say how without giving the story away, but it was frustrating. It all seems to come down to Hideki being able to love Chi, not the other way around.

And again we are subjected to CLAMP's one major flaw: endings. Don't get me wrong; I love CLAMP's stories and style, but the way they end their stories invariably invokes a single response: "Uh, what?" I liked it. But, plotwise, it was certainly not on par with the rest of the series. Perhaps the fact that I had long since figured out what was going to happen made it that less enjoyable for me.

Volume 8, being the last volume, is a tad shorter than the previous seven. If you've been reading with baited breath up until now, as I was, then of course you should pick it up. But don't expect anything life changing.

Well guys, if you've made it this far you owe it to yourself to finish this incredible story.

I was a little squeamish to buy since the book is smaller than your standard manga, (hooray for marketplace!) But it really does complete the story and tie up all the lose ends. If you saw the anime first like I did, this book answers a lot of the questions that the anime left out.

It's a real tear jerker, just because it's such a great story. This is possibly the best series I've read, and would recommend it to anyone who is even remotely interested in anime/manga.

5 stars.

Don't get me wrong, CLAMP is great, but endings... blah. I could have predicted the majority of the end. In fact, I did. There's some loose ends out there too. What the hell were Zima and Dita in Freya and Elda's past? If only there was some more action and surprise.

The end of the Chobits series and it was the best one by far. The story was so sweet and even though it is manga, you could really feel for Chi and the finding of her "someone just for her". I almost wish that the story didn't end.

I am a big manga fan and at the age of 12 trust me it isnt easy getting money to get your manga but i try anyways i have over 36 complete manga collections and it was hard for me to find more manga that was ok for my age. My friend told me to check out the 16+ section to see what i could find and at first i was real freaked out about what i WOULD find but i took a look and saw Chobits the first thing that caught my eye was the cover a picture of a cute person like character on a swing it was soo adorable so i gave it a look and at first i regreted it but i continued reading it and it was one of the best manga books i have read now i own the whole set and im still looking for another manga series to go crazy over Basicly what im saying is not just for Chobits but for any manga that is rated over your age just take a look at it if you think your too young for that type of manga put it down and take another look around. =3

i LOVE this book soooooo much i am going to make you buy it i love it soo much the ending made me cry it was so sweet great art to T-T

I have finally gotten this last book and was kind of expecting a little more out of the ending. You find out everything about Chi (Elda and her sister, Freia) as they were in the past, and that Hideki loves her and all that... I guess it was a happy ending, if thats what you're looking for. It was weak, other than that. It happens really fast and is just like any of the other steriotypical girly manga that I try to stay away from...At least you get about 4 pages of colored art in the front...

Yes, I read all 8 volumes and I gave the entire series 1 star. I would have given it zero stars if I could, but this rating system won't allow it.

I have a very good reason for canning the series. Unfortunately, that reason constitutes a major spoiler. So, if you want to know why I trashed it, you'll have to read past the warning.

**** WARNING. MAJOR SPOILER FOLLOWS. *****

OK then, here goes. The spoiler concerns the ending.

No, it wasn't tragic or sad per se. In fact, Chi really did find her "someone just for me" in Hideki. But there was a catch in their relationship. And that catch was just plain stupid. Frustrating. Idiotic. Inane.

Here's why. It turns out that Chi's "Reset" button is located where the vagina would be on a human woman. In her case, a "Reset" would erase her complete database - all of her memories, programming, "emotions" (whether they're real or simulated by programming). She'd lose her life with the "someone just for me."

Earlier in the series, when she's been abducted by the hacker, she says something that suggests that only this "someone just for me" can be allowed to touch her there. She has defensive programming which causes her to resist anyone else's attempts to do so.

Sure, she'll allow that "someone" to touch her there. Unfortunately, if she'll still "reset" - essentially destroying her memories and personality.

In other words, after 7 Manga volumes in which Chi searches for this "someone just for me" and finally finds him, it turns out they can't make physical love.

The male protagonist, Hideki, passes the test of "pure love" by agreeing that he still loves her even though he can't make physical love
to her.

Well. Thank goodness the fairy tale of emotional love wasn't ruined by physical love making, eh? We certainly wouldn't want Hideki to make love to a machine now, would we? Of course, emotionally loving a machine is just fine. Solid logic.

After seeing the anime series, which didn't directly suggest such a limitation on their relationship (all they said was "there are things people can and can't do, and there are things persocoms can and can't do"), I thought the story was so great that I bought all 8 volumes of the manga and devoured them in a one-day reading session.

I'm sorry I did. The manga ruined the story for me with that asinine ending.

Junk. You blew it, CLAMP. I won't even dignify this trash by trying to re-sell it on Amazon. Also, I wouldn't want to inflict it on anyone else. It's going straight into the garbage where it belongs.