"Chobits" by Clamp Review

Summary:
The series centers on the life of Hideki Motosuwa, a held-back student attempting to qualify for university by studying at Seki prep school in Tokyo. Besides a girlfriend, he dreams of having a persocom: an android used as a personal computer, which is too expensive for Hideki to afford. On his way home one evening, he stumbles across a persocom in the form of a beautiful girl lying against a pile of trash bags, and he carries her home. Upon turning her on, she instantly regards Hideki with adoration. The only word the persocom seems capable of saying is "chi", thus he names her that. A major part of the plot involves Hideki attempting to teach Chi words, concepts, and appropriate behaviours, in between his crammed schedule of school and work. At the same time, Chi seems to be developing feelings for Hideki, at an emotional depth she is not supposed to possess, and Hideki struggles with his feelings for her. The need to figure out more about Chi and her mysterious functions and past becomes a pull for the characters in the series. Together, Chi and Hideki explore the relationship between human beings and persocoms, as well as their friends' and their own.-Wikipedia
Review:
I found this series a little too ecchi for me, but still really cute. It was a nice little Clamp work, and I've heard that it's one of the more popular ones. It has a nice meaning, and, if you didn't know, Anglic Layer is the sort of prequel. I found Chii to be really very cute, and the "City With No People" series helped a lot in leading the story to its climax. Chobits wasn't very long, and it was a very simple series to read. It wasn't too much or too little, and without the ecchi, it would've been even more popular than it is today. Towards the end, though, the ecchi was sort of "lost" (in a good way) and you could ignore any little traces that were left behind. All in all, I give it a six on the Kekkaishi Scale. Chobits lost three stars for the ecchi, and another one for most of the characters' design (not as in drawing, but as in attitude and such).