Chobits is a Japanese manga and anime series created by CLAMP. Unlike most CLAMP stories, Chobits is a seinen series, specifically of the magical girlfriend variety. The manga is set in the same universe as Angelic Layer and takes place a few years after Angelic Layer. ♣The story centers on the life of Hideki Motosuwa, a repeat student (rōnin) attempting to qualify for university by studying at the Seki prep school in Tokyo. An honest and unassuming teenager raised on a farm, he has little experience with women, though his imagination and libido are both quite active. Besides a girlfriend, the other thing he dreams of having is a Persocom. A Persocom is an android used as a personal computer. Hideki discovers that Persocoms are commonplace in the city, as they can assist their owners in many ways, but Persocoms are extremely expensive and Hideki has no money, so he figures the only way he will ever have one is if he were to find one lying on the curb. No sooner has he thought this than it happens: on his way home from the grocery store one evening, he stumbles across a Persocom in the form of a nude, beautiful young girl with long blonde hair, wrapped in white cloth, lying against a pile of trash bags. He first thinks this to be a murder but, realizing she was a Persocom, he carries her home. At first, he has trouble turning her on and looks for a switch. He looks all over her body, and finally finds it between her legs. When he presses it, she turns on, and instantly regards Hideki with adoration. When he questions her, the only word she seems capable of saying is "chi", and thus he names her Chi. Hideki finds a book on Persocoms, and follows its basic instructions only to find that Chi apparently has no data installed. He asks his techno-savvy friend, Hiromu Shimbo, to help him out. When Shimbo learns that Chi read as having no data, he remarks that if she had no operating system, she could not function at all, let alone move or speak. He hooks up his laptop Persocom, Sumomo, to Chi to do a basic examination, only to have Sumomo malfunction. From this, Shimbo angrily determines that Chi must be a powerful custom-made Persocom.....