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Al_Sleeper:
--- Quote from: Micharus on August 21, 2011, 01:18:53 PM ---What will Chi get up to next?
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(click to show/hide)A heavy case of split personality :).
Micharus:
--- Quote from: Al_Sleeper on August 21, 2011, 04:25:23 PM ---
--- Quote from: Micharus on August 21, 2011, 01:18:53 PM ---What will Chi get up to next?
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(click to show/hide)A heavy case of split personality :).
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Only a *tiny* spoiler there Al, good work ::)
With that, on to my review of "Chobits".
We meet our hero, Hideki, in the very first episode.
It appears that Hideki is a talking cow!
BUT! No, in fact Hideki is the hard working son of a farmer and his wife, who is currently 'helping out' on that very same farm, while waiting to find out if he got into college in Tokyo or not.
The answer is.....no.
Hideki decides to go to Tokyo anyway and enroll in a 'prep school' so he can get into college.
Once he gets to Tokyo, he finds out about 'Persocoms', which are literally mobile computers that look exactly like humans, except for their 'ears'.
While he would like to have one, they are very expensive, far beyond the reach of a poor student in need of work.
Somehow, within days of finding the place where he will live while attending prep school, he finds a job, completely by accident and then he finds a persocom of all things thrown out in the trash.
This is how Chobits starts out and we get to follow the adventures of Hideki, Chi and their friends.
Each episode has a name along the line of "Chi <insert various words>" which basically tells you what Chi gets up to in that episode.
However, what Chi does is very occasionally not the main focus of the episode in question.
Most of the episodes are 'easy watching', you need to pay attention sometimes but not often, at least not until you get further into the series.
Early in the anime, Hideki and Chi go to a book shop and Hideki buys a book with a blue cover for Chi. Keep an eye out for these books!
Hideki finds out that owning a Persocom is a little more work than it seems and some funny scenes result from his efforts to maintain Chi in the proper fashion.
Hideki's building manager, Hibiya, comes to his rescue in his attempts to teach Chi things a number of times.
Hideki's next door neighbor, Shinbo and his persocom, Sumomo, who is a 16cm high female persocom, also spend a bit of time helping Hideki understand how persocoms work.
There are many things that happen in this anime and it's not just about Hideki and Chi.
Situations happen that involve all of Hideki's friends and people he knows from work and school.
Hideki and Chi often help to resolve these problems.
--- Quote from: Micharus on August 21, 2011, 01:18:53 PM ---There is also a surplus of cute females around, his building manager, Hibiya = cute, his teacher, Shimizu = cute, his female co-worker, Yumi = cute, not to mention Chi herself, who is probably the cutest of the lot.
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Chobits is a nice easy watch, but it felt like a lot of it was 'filler' for some reason, I think it would have made a much better movie, even though it would be a fairly long one.
The ending was, while not perfect, quite good, with all of the loose ends tied up, which is rare for most anime.
While there could be a second season, I doubt that there will be.
I think 'A-Channel' is up next.
Edit: added a quote from a previous post about the number of cute females in the anime.
After a quick look at the first episode, it looks like the artwork in A-channel is similar to the artwork 'TMoHS', which can't be all bad.
Micharus:
A Channel was..... refreshing.
Similar in ways to both 'Lucky Star' and 'K-On!', it doesn't have any real storyline that connects the whole series, only the fact that the four close friends all attend the same school.
One thing that A Channel does right from the start is show that the youngest girl, Tooru, is in fact a year below the three other girls.
The only other slice of life anime I've seen do that is K-On! in it's second season.
This means there is a slightly different dynamic in the anime.
It's still a wonderfully warm and fuzzy anime, but the four girls aren't together all of the time and Tooru has two classmates, Yukata and Mihoru, that provide some 'comedy relief', with Mihoru keeping Yukata under control using the '3 minute rule'.
The first episode had me doing a double take, as it opens on Tooru running up the hall with a baseball bat.
At first glance I thought 'what the heck is Nagato doing with a baseball bat?', but after watching for a bit longer you get to see Tooru's face.
Tooru, it seems, is a little possessive of Run and is at first a little suspicious of Nagi and Yuuko, Run's new 2nd years friends, but she rapidly gets over that.
As with all slice of life anime, there are the usual episodes.
The beach, the festival, the episode where two of the characters have a misunderstanding and so on, all done in A Channels particular style.
Each episode has a piece of MUSIC in it, with the music done to fit the mood of that part of the episode.
The three main 'sensei' are;
Tooru's homeroom teacher, Kitou-sensei, an intense, 'let do this!' personality who likes to wear a white coat, which upsets the school nurse
Satou-sensei, who believes that he should be the only one who wears a white coat. He also like some rather strange things.
Kamade-sensei is Run, Nagi and Yuuko's homeroom teacher. She has a very relaxed attitude to pretty much everything.
There a quite a few funny moments in A Channel and you will be smiling at a lot of things.
One of the funniest moments for me was near the beginning of episode two, which made me laugh so loud that my mother came in to see. When I showed her, she laughed too.
Of course there are sort of sad moments in the anime, particularly in the last few episodes where Tooru realizes that a certain situation is going to eventually happen again.
The end is well done and as with most slice of life anime, there are no loose ends, but plenty of room left for a second season to come along.
I could easily stand to see a second season of A Channel. Bring it on!
Edit: While adding A-Channel to my MAL list, it was revealed to me that there is an OVA coming, as well a Special/s! I'll be waiting on those. :D
Kyrdua:
^ hilariously enough, one of the specials have long been aired. there was a webrip copy by evetaku, i think.
comments on the review come later.
Micharus:
--- Quote from: Kyrdua on August 30, 2011, 06:01:22 AM ---^ hilariously enough, one of the specials have long been aired. there was a webrip copy by evetaku, i think.
comments on the review come later.
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Really?
That's an interesting co-incidence, because the version of A-Channel I got was done by Evetaku.
Which reminds me, there is at least one reference to 'Lucky Star' in pretty much every episode and it always refers to the same thing, the 'Lucky Channel' bit that happened at the end of each episode.
Remember the hostess always had a shirt with really long arms and you almost never saw her hands? Tooru's jumper. heh.
There is also a reference to Ika Musume, or at least I think there is. It also involves Tooru again. Did anyone spot it?
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