Product Details

• Actors: Rie Tanaka, Tomokazu Sugita, Tomokazu Seki, Motoko Kumai, Houko Kuwashima
• Directors: Morio Asaka
• Writers: Clamp
• Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Pioneer Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: January 13, 2004
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000TG49M
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #47,804 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Product Description
Studio: Geneon Entertainment Release Date: 01/13/2004 Run time: 100 minutes

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brought a tear to my eye...., January 13, 2004

By	Thomas Lent "tbug_v8eater" (Hayward, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

WHO AM I KIDDING!?! I GUSHED!!! I HAVEN'T CRIED THIS MUCH SINCE "GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES"!!!

Chobits is a story that went form an interest to an addiction and finally an obsession for me in a matter of a week. The series gives the viewer plenty of time to enjoy each character for their own traits. Many of the middle episodes could be seen as fluff and filler. But somehow in this story, all of the vacations, errands, idle chit-chat, and meals together create a broad snapshot of everyone's life together. The viewer doesn't just get told that certain characters care for each other, it all gets acted out. In doing so, the audience virtually becomes a member in this group of friends.

The series creates a delicate social environment between the main characters (Chi & Hideki) and all their friends. The constant threat of destruction of this environment has kept me hooked from the beginning. As the story nears it's end, the threat becomes more real. Even Chi's ability to stay functioning has been at the mercy of the simple flick of a "secret switch". What started as a simple perverted joke at the beginning, became the strongest example of the fragile nature of love and life.

The final episodes add a level of intensity above any typical love story. Science-fiction aside, the love theme becomes very human and could be thought of as an allegory to many interracial relationships in our own world. Anyone who has had a difficult time with family/friends accepting a relationship with differences (i.e. age, race, culture, language (personally, mine fits'em all)) could easily relate with Hideki. Watching him deal with his conflicted feelings toward Chi hit home way too hard for me.

I've seen many comments on the web complaining about how predictable the ending was. I admit, it may as well be, but it was still worth it. Even after watching the entire series a second, third, fourth... time, I still find it impossible to maintain my composure in the end. There is so much more to this series than knowing the ending. The story is full of themes just begging to be understood and learned from.

The Chobits series is definitely one to watch together with someone you love.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Chobits!, November 12, 2003

By	Hazey (Wa) - See all my reviews

Volume 6! Could you believe what happened in Volume 5?!
If you thought Volume 5 started to get odd, wait 'til you see this DVD. The charecters you knew - changed. Things you thought could never happen - happened. Just wait, Chobits fans. You're in for a treat. ^___^

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Whoa! not what I expected at all!, January 23, 2005

By	Henrik "da laffin tlhIngan" (in the Anime aisle) - See all my reviews

I agree with the other reviewers who have said that "My Only Person" is *much* different than most of the other Chobits DVDs. Particularly of note is the tone of urgency that runs through the episodes, and the two new characters Zima and Dita (who have been deep in the backgriound until now).

The characters get a "makeover"-- a new layer of complexity that adds to their appeal and draws away from the frequent "cardboardness" of quite a few anime characters.

These characters have evolved through this series; even Dragonfly (the formerly one-dimensional, opportunistic hacker) has grown to become less "villainlike". Yumi (the young student who helps Hideki get a job at My Pleasure) is less perky and more realistic. And even Chi literally reveals a definitely "different" side of herself, which we have gotten brief hints of even in some of the early episodes.

My only (tiny) complaint is that more of the changes in the episodes of Disk 6 could have been explored a bit earlier; as it is, the details are rushed over as the story ends, which disturbs the slow, easy pace established early in the series. Not a huge problem, to be sure, but enough to jar the viewer slightly and make them wonder what's going on.

The ending is very well executed; it will make you cry at first, and then, after a while, you will be happy.

My only regret is, now I'll have to find another addictive series to get into. LOL!