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Chobits (TV)

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[ adapted from Chobits (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Chibits (special) (spinoff)
    Chobits (OAV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Чобиты (Russian)
ちょびっツ (Japanese)
Themes: love, robot girl
Age rating: Mature (May contain sex, drugs, and extreme graphic violence)
Plot Summary: In the future, personal computers have developped into "Persocons", mobile computers that look like human beings. Hideki Motosuwa, a prep school student, desperately wants to buy a Persocon but cannot afford to. One day he finds a Persocon that has been thrown away and decides to keep it. When he turns on the Persocon, all she can say is "Chii" so he decides to name her that. After a while it starts to become apparent that Chii is more than an average Persocon. Having much better performance, it seems that Chii might be a "Chobit", a type of advanced Persocon rumoured to have independent thought.
User Ratings: 4850 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 537 votes (sub:355, dub:161, Spa.sub:7, raw:6, ?:3, Ger.dub:3, Ger.sub:1, edit.dub:1)
 Excellent: 1200 votes (sub:841, dub:318, Spa.sub:14, ?:7, raw:5, Por.sub:4, edit.dub:4, Fre.sub:3, Rus.sub:1, Ger.sub:1, Ita.sub:1, Pol.sub:1)
 Very good: 1300 votes (sub:912, dub:324, Spa.sub:14, ?:12, Fre.sub:7, edit.dub:6, Por.sub:5, Ger.dub:4, Pol.sub:4, raw:4, Ita.sub:2, Ger.sub:2, Rus.sub:2, Spa.dub:1, Rus.dub:1)
 Good: 965 votes (sub:700, dub:225, Spa.sub:17, raw:6, edit.dub:4, ?:2, Por.sub:2, Ita.sub:2, Rus.sub:2, Pol.sub:2, Ger.dub:1, Kor.sub:1, Dut.sub:1)
 Decent: 424 votes (sub:332, dub:77, Spa.sub:4, ?:3, Fre.sub:2, Spa.dub:1, Por.sub:1, raw:1, Pol.sub:1, edit.dub:1, Fre.dub:1)
 So-so: 181 votes (sub:133, dub:39, edit.dub:2, raw:2, Pol.sub:1, Rus.sub:1, ?:1, Por.sub:1, Fre.sub:1)
 Not really good: 91 votes (sub:74, dub:12, ?:3, Por.sub:1, edit.dub:1)
 Weak: 90 votes (sub:64, dub:21, Kor.sub:1, raw:1, Spa.sub:1, Por.sub:1, edit.dub:1)
 Bad: 29 votes (sub:21, dub:7, ?:1)
 Awful: 17 votes (sub:13, dub:3, ?:1)
 Worst ever: 16 votes (sub:12, dub:4)
Seen in part or in whole by 9461 users, rank: #13
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.729 (Very good-.27), std. dev.: 1.6922, rank: #721
Weighted mean: 7.602 (Very good-.39), rank: #742 (seen all: 7.78 / seen some: 6.75 / won't finish: 4.23)
Bayesian estimate: 7.602 (Very good-.39), rank: #520
Running time: 26 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26
Vintage:
2002-04-02 to 2002-09-24
2008-04-16 (Portugal - Animax)
2008-04-16 (Spain - Animax)
Releases: We have 14
Opening Theme:
"Let Me Be With You" by ROUND TABLE feat. Nino
Ending Theme:
#1: "Raison d'Être" by Rie Tanaka (eps 1-12)
#2: "Ningyohime" by Rie Tanaka (eps 13-25)
#3: "Katakoto no Koi (duet ver.)" by Rie Tanaka and Tomokazu Sugita (ep 26)
Links: We have 6
Trivia: We have 9
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Reviews:
    Chobits DVD 6
    Chobits DVD 2
    Chobits DVD 1

DVD
    Chobits - Persocom (DVD 1) 2003-03-11 (from $11.35)
    Chobits - Persocom + Artbox (DVD 1) 2003-03-11
    Chobits - Persocom DVD + Artbox + Limited Edition Extra (DVD 1) 2003-03-11
    Chobits - The Empty City (DVD 2) 2003-05-13 (from $5.00)
    Chobits - Darkness Descends (DVD 3) 2003-07-08 (from $5.00)
    Chobits - Love Defined (DVD 4) 2003-09-09 (from $5.00)
    Chobits - Disappearance (DVD 5) 2003-11-11
    Chobits - My Only Person (DVD 6) 2004-01-13 (from $5.00)
    Chobits - Chat Room (DVD 7) 2004-03-09
    Chobits - 3-pack (DVD 1-3) 2004-07-06 (from $12.00)
    Chobits - Box Set (ThinPak) (DVD 1-7) 2005-11-08
    Chobits - DVD Box 1 (DVD 1-3) 2005-01-11
    Chobits - DVD Box 2 (DVD 4-6) 2005-01-11
Soundtrack
    Chobits (OST 1) 2003-07-01
    Chobits: Character Song Collection (OST) 2004-02-17 (from $10.19)
Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 
Director: Morio Asaka
Storyboard:
Hideki Inoue (ep 25)
Hiroshi Aoyama (ep 10)
Hiroshi Hara (eps 6, 20)
Hiroyuki Tanaka (eps 9, 18)
Hon Shimazu (4 episodes
eps 11, 14, 17, 21
)

Jun'ichi Sakata (4 episodes
eps 4, 13, 22, 24
)

Kenichi Yatagai (ep 3)
Kiyoko Sayama (eps 7, 12, 23)
Makoto Fuchigami (ep 19)
Masayuki Kojima (ep 2)
Morio Asaka (eps 1, 26)
Nanako Shimazaki (eps 5, 16)
Sunao Katabuchi (ep 8)
Tatsuyuki Nagai (ep 15)
Episode Director:
Fumiharu Kamanaka (ep 3)
Hideki Inoue (ep 8)
Hiroshi Kimura (ep 17)
Hiroyuki Tanaka (eps 9, 18)
Kaoru Suzuki (eps 4, 12)
Kazuhiro Ozawa (ep 23)
Makoto Fuchigami (eps 10, 19)
Masahiko Ohta (eps 15, 22)
Mitsuo Hashimoto (eps 11, 23)
Mitsuyuki Masuhara (ep 21)
Morio Asaka (eps 1, 26)
Nanako Shimazaki (eps 5, 16, 24)
Osamu Sekita (ep 14)
Ryo Miyata (4 episodes
eps 6, 13, 20, 25
)

Tatsuyuki Nagai (ep 2)
Tomoki Kobayashi (ep 7)
Music:
Dan Miyakawa (Strings Arrangement)
Katsutoshi Kitagawa (lyrics)
Keitaro Takanami
Original Manga: CLAMP
Character Design: Hisashi Abe
Art Director: Chikako Shibata
Chief Animation Director: Hisashi Abe
Animation Director:
Hiroyuki Yanase (ep 3)
Hisashi Abe (4 episodes
eps 1, 9, 18, 26
)

Junko Abe (ep 2)
Kunihiko Hamada (ep 3)
Kunihiko Sakurai (eps 8, 16, 22)
Mariko Fujita (ep 12)
Masakazu Saito (ep 23)
Masaru Kitao (eps 15, 21)
Masayoshi Tanaka (4 episodes
eps 6, 13, 20, 25
)

Motoichi Murakami (ep 10)
Satoshi Tazaki (eps 19, 24)
Shigeru Fujita (ep 5)
Shinichiro Minami (ep 11)
Takashi Uchida (ep 4)
Yuichi Tanaka (eps 7, 17)
Yuki Iwai (ep 14)
Sound Director: Masafumi Mima
Color Key: Yuriko Kadamoto
Insert Song Arrangement: F.T.C.C. (ep 26 - I hear you everywhere)
Insert Song Lyrics: Caoli Cano (ep 26 - I hear you everywhere)
Insert Song Performance: Rie Tanaka (ep 26 - I hear you everywhere)
Inserted Song Composition: Caoli Cano (ep 26 - I hear you everywhere)
Sound Effects: Kenji Koyama (Soundbox)
Theme Song Arrangement: Keitaro Takanami (ED 3)
Theme Song Composition:
Akino Arai (ED 2)
Keitaro Takanami (ED 3)
Rui Nagai (ED 1)
Theme Song Lyrics: Keitaro Takanami (ED 3)
Theme Song Performance:
Nino (OP)
Rie Tanaka (ED1/ED2)
Round Table (OP)
Tomokazu Sugita (ED 3)
 
Rie Tanaka as Chii
Tomokazu Sugita as Hideki Motosuwa

Fumiko Orikasa as Yuzuki
Houko Kuwashima as Minoru Kokubunji
Isshin Chiba as Jima
Junichi Suwabe as Yoshiyuki Kojima
Kikuko Inoue as Chitose Hibiya
Megumi Toyoguchi as Yumi Omura
Motoko Kumai as Sumomo
Ryoka Yuzuki as Takako Shimizu
Tomokazu Seki as Hiromu Shinbo
Yuji Ueda as Hiroyasu Ueda
Yukana Nogami as Kotoko

Hiroko Ōnaka as High School Girl B (ep 4)
Jun Shikano as
Maid (ep 16)
Maid A (ep 2)
Junichi Suwabe as Player (ep 13)
Kanji Suzumori as
Bamboo Pole Seller (ep 15)
Salaryman (ep 1)
Kaori Takeda as Clerk B (ep 4)
Katsuya Fujiwara as Student (ep 15)
Kentaro Honda as
Couple (Man) (ep 11)
Passer-by (ep 1)
Koichi Sakaguchi as Police Officer (ep 8)
Kouichi Toochika as Glasses Man (ep 8)
Kumiko Izumi as Reporter (ep 24)
Masaki Aizawa as Tetsuya Omura
Masaya Oshima as
Man (ep 4)
Shopkeeper (ep 3)
Masumi Kageyama as
Convenience store persocom (ep 1)
Couple (Woman) (ep 11)
Naomi Shindoh as Ueda's persocom (ep 21)
Natsuki Yoshihara as Woman Customer (ep 24)
Rika Wakusawa as Clerk A (ep 4)
Ryou Hirohashi as
Bath Woman (ep 10)
Convenience store persocom (ep 12)
Maid B (ep 2)
Maid persocom
Persocom (ep 1)
Shou Wada as Student (ep 3)
Suguru Ōnuma as Student (ep 15)
Takeshi Sasaki as
Employee (ep 3)
Employee (ep 7)
Florist Shopkeeper (ep 21)
Passer-by (ep 8)
Yoshinori Sonobe as
Book Store Clerk (eps 5, 20)
Man (ep 10)
Snack Mama (ep 3)
Yugo Takahashi as
Persocom owner (ep 25)
Student (ep 16)
Yuka Tokumitsu as Persocom of "My Pleasure"
Yumiko Daikoku as High School Girl A (ep 4)
Japanese companies 
Animation: Madhouse Studios
Broadcaster:
BS-i
TBS
Co-Production: Madhouse Studios
Music Production: Victor Entertainment
Original story: CLAMP
Recording Studio: Studio Aoi
Sound Production: Techno Sound
Video Editing: Q Tech
English staff 
English cast 
ADR Director: Eric P. Sherman
Translation: Rika Takahashi
ADR Script:
Fred Kennamer
Michael McConnohie (eps 5-8)
Executive producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto
Dialogue Editing: Patrick Rodman
DVD Executive Producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto
DVD Producer: Kevin Chu
DVD Supervising Producer: Hiroe Tsukamoto
Post-Production Assistant: Deb Munini
Production Assistant: Mami Okada
Re-Recording Mixing: Mark Rozett
Recording engineer: Patrick Rodman
Subtitling: Clark Cheng
Supervising Producer: Hiroe Tsukamoto
Supervising Sound Engineer: Patrick Rodman
 
Crispin Freeman as Hideki Motosuwa

David Lucas as Hiroyasu Ueda
Ellen Wilkinson as Chitose Hibiya
Julie Maddalena as Yumi Ohmura
Karen Strassman as Yuzuki
Kay Jensen as Kotoko
Midge Mayes as Dita
Mona Marshall as Minoru Kokobunji
Ron Allen as Jima
Sandy Fox as Sumomo
Terrence Stone as Yoshiyuki Kojima
Tony Oliver as Hiromu Shinbo
Wendee Lee as Takako Shimizu

Dave Lelyveld as Peep Show Manager
Doug Stone as Tetsuya Ohmura
Ellen Wilkinson as Clerk #2 (ep 4)
Julie Maddalena as Minoru's Persocom
Karen Strassman as Clerk #1 (ep 4)
Michelle Ruff as
Atashi
Freya
Minoru's Persocom
Student #2 (ep 4)
Ron Allen as
Driver (ep 4)
Pess' Owner
Police Officer (ep 4)
Pub Employee
Terrence Stone as RPG Player
Wendee Lee as
Intercom Voice (ep 2)
Persocom (ep 1)
Student #1 (ep 4)
English companies 
Distributor:
Madman Entertainment Pty. Ltd. (Australia)
MVM (UK)
Korean staff 
Korean companies 
(none)
 
Broadcaster: Anione
Korean cast 
(none)
French staff 
French cast 
Collection Director: Cedric Littardi
Production manager: Pierre Xavier
Recording & Mixing Engineer: Benjamin Cabaj
 
Benoit Dupac as Hiromu Shinbo
Susan Sindberg as Minoru

French companies 
Distributor: Kaze
Dubbing: Midisync

Spanish cast 
Spanish staff 
Recording engineer: Marc Arambudo
Theme Song Performance: Marta Mateo (OP)
Núria Trifol as Chii (European Spanish dub)
Pablo Sevilla as Hideki Motosuwa (Spain dub)

Albert Trifol Jr. as Hiromu Shinbo (European Spanish dub) 
Albert Trifol Segarra as Hiromu Shinbo (Spain dub)
Elisabet Bargalló as Sumomo (Spain dub)
José Antonio Torrabadella as Minoru Kokubonji (Spain dub)
Marta Barbará as Yuzuki (Spain dub)
Nuria Doménech as Chitose Hibiya (Spain dub)
Roser Vilches as Yumi Omura (Spain dub)

Claudio Domingo as Hiroyasu Ueda (Spain dub)
Gemma Ibáñez as Tatako Shimizu (Spain dub)
Oriol Rafel as
Jefe Omura (Spain dub)
Zimma (Spain dub)

Alberto Trifol (Spain dub)
Spanish companies 
Broadcaster:
Animax España
Buzz Channel (Spain)
Dubbing Studio: Q.T. Lever (Barcelona, Spain)
German staff 
German cast 
(none)
 
Anna-Maria Kuricova as Yumi Omura
Dinis Loures as Minoru Kokubunji
Karin Schubert as Chitose Hibiya
Marco Steeger as Yoshiyuki Kojima
Nina Marschke as Takako Shimizu
Olaf Michael Ostertag as Tetsuya Omura
Patrick Schmitz as Shinbo Hiromu
Sascha Kaufmann as Hideki Motosuwa
German companies 
Distributor:
ADV Films (DT) (germany)
Universum-Films

Dutch staff 
(none)
Dutch companies 
Distributor: Kaze Animation S.A.
Subtitles: TVS - Titra Film
Dutch cast 
(none)
Russian staff 
Russian companies 
(none)
 
Distributor: MC Entertainment
Russian cast 
(none)
Tagalog staff 
Tagalog companies 
(none)
 
Broadcaster: GMA Network (coming soon)
Tagalog cast 
(none)
Polish staff 
Polish companies 
(none)
 
Broadcaster: Hyper
Polish cast 
(none)
Portuguese staff 
Portuguese companies 
(none)
 
Broadcaster: Animax Portugal
Portuguese cast 
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 
Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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