Chobits: Vol. 1 : Persocom [(DVD) videorecording] /Clamp, Kodansha/Chobits Partnerhip ... English version produced by Pioneer Entertainment (USA), Inc. in association with Bang Zoom Entertainment ; producers, Tetsuo Gensho, Yuichi Sekido ... [et al.] ; script, Nanase Okawa ... [et al.] ; director, Morio Asaka.
Based on the original comic by Clamp, serialized in weekly "Young Magazine" by Kodansha. Special features: full color art gallery; non-credit opening; two English subtitle streams (dialogue translation or signs only translation). Japanese voices: Rie Tanaka, Tomokazu Sugita, Tomokazu Seki, Motoko Kumai, Houko Kuwashima ; English voices: Crispin Freeman, Doug Stone, Ellen Wilkinson, Julie Maddalena, Karen Strassman.
Contents:
Chi awakens -- Chi goes out -- Chi learns -- Chi goes on errands.
Summary:
Rejected by Tokyo University, Hideki must attend a "cram school" to retake the exams. Once there, he finds that everyone else has the latest model living computers in beautiful robot form. Too poor to afford one, he finds one abandoned in a trash can. She respondes without the need of an operating system ... could she be the legendary Chobits?
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