| Chobits | |
 Volume 1 tankōbon cover, featuring Chi | |
| ちょびっツ (Chobittsu) | |
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| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Clamp |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| English publisher |
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| Imprint | Young Magazine KC |
| Magazine | Weekly Young Magazine |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | September 2000 – October 2002 |
| Volumes | 8 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Morio Asaka |
| Produced by |
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| Music by | Keitarō Takanami |
| Studio | Madhouse |
| Licensed by |
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| Original network | TBS |
| English network | |
| Original run | 2 April 2002 – 24 September 2002 |
| Episodes | 27 + OVA |
Chobits (Japanese: ちょびっツ, Hepburn: Chobittsu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by the Japanese manga collective Clamp. It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine from September 2000 to October 2002, with its chapters collected in eight bound volumes. Chobits was adapted as a 26-episode-long anime television series broadcast on TBS from April to September 2002. In addition, it has spawned two video games as well as various merchandise such as model figures, collectible cards, calendars, and artbooks.
The series tells the story of Hideki Motosuwa, a college student who finds an abandoned persocom (パソコン, PasoKon), or personal computer (パーソナルコンピュータ pāsonaru konpyūta) with an anthro-human form, which he names "Chi" after the only word it initially can speak. As the series progresses, they explore the mysteries of Chi's origin together and questions about the relationship between human beings and computers. The manga is set in the same universe as Angelic Layer, taking place a few years after the events of that story, and like Angelic Layer, it explores the relationship between humans and electronic devices shaped like human beings. Chobits branches off as a crossover into many other stories in different ways, such as Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, xxxHolic and Kobato.
In North America, the manga was licensed for an English-language release by Tokyopop in 2002 and was re-released by Dark Horse Comics in 2009 and later, Kodansha Comics in 2020. The anime series was licensed by Geneon in 2002 and re-licensed by Funimation in 2010.
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