Chobit

Person

• She is found by Hideki one night in a pile of trash as he makes his way home from work. He takes her to his apartment and tries to figure out how to activate her. A typical persocom has its power switch in or behind its ears, but Chii's is located in a very unorthodox place: her vagina. Realizing this, Hideki overcomes his moral objections and manages to activate her. She has difficulty communicating with him at first; the only word that she is able to say being "chii", but slowly she learns how to speak. She is initially fearful that Hideki will discard her because of this, but he reassures her that he would never throw her away. When Hideki decides to give her a name, he remembers the only word that she can say and decides to call her "Chii".
  
  Chii remembers nothing of her past life and is unable to perform simple tasks, so Hideki takes it upon himself to teach her and take care of her. Mimicking Hideki and several other outside influences, Chii proceeds to start learning about the environment around her. She makes many humorous mistakes in the process, including her imitation of a pornographic pose from one of Hideki's magazines, and calling everyone and everything "Hideki"
  
  Hideki tells Shinbo about finding Chii, and asks for his help in setting her up. Shinbo connects Chii to the television, but the only information displayed is "No Data". He muses that it must mean that Chii's data has been lost, or that none has been installed yet, although he is confused on how she can be mobile if there is no operating system installed. He suggests that they use Sumomo to analyze her to discover what company made her and what model she is. Unfortunately, Sumomo's system crashes when she is connected. Under the impression that Chii is a custom-made persocom, Shinbo suggests that Hideki take her to Minoru, a persocom expert.
  
  Minoru is curious about Chii's abilities, and he agrees to scan her; four of his custom models are used, each one crashing during the attempt. While this astounds Hideki, it only heightens Minoru's curiosity. Another one of his persocoms, Yuzuki, suggests that she try scanning Chii. Minoru reluctantly agrees, and Yuzuki connects herself to Chii. Her attempt also fails, although she is able to disengage with a minimal loss of data. Amazed by Chii's ability to repel Yuzuki's probe, Minoru begins to suspect that she may be a Chobit; a legendary persocom rumored to possess true sapience. He suggests that he post about her on a persocom forum that he frequents to see if anybody online has any idea what make she is. He later receives a strange image via email from an untraceable sender; the image depicts a persocom identical in appearance to Chii except for the word "HOBIT" on one leg. Hideki shows the image to Chii, but she claims that this is not the same persocom as herself. Minoru is later sent a second image from the same anonymous user. This image depicts the same persocom with two scientists, one of whom is Chitose Hibiya.
  
  At one point Hideki considers having to take on a second job due to his poor financial state. Chii, looking through one of his magazines, sees a job advertisement and shows it to Hideki with the suggestion that she take the job, completely unaware that the advertised position is for a dominatrix. Hideki is both embarrassed and furious, and an upset Chii asks why she cannot have a job. Hideki hastens to reassure her that she can have a job, but it's just the type of job that matters. He tells her that when he gets home from work he'll talk to her about getting a good job.
  
  Chii disregards this and leaves the apartment shortly after Hideki, looking for a job. She is soon approached by a stranger, who asks her where she is going. Upon learning that she is searching for a job, the man invites her to follow him, saying that he has been looking for a girl to work for him. Chii asks if it is a "good job", and the man answers yes, saying that it has short hours and lots of pay. The job in question is that of a stripper at a peep show. Minoru and Yuzuki, searching online for any possible information pertaining to Chii's past life, stumble across live video of her at the peep show as she waits for instructions on what to do. Minoru contacts Shinbo through Sumomo, and a nearby Hideki overhears their conversation. He takes Sumomo and she directs him to the location of the peep show.
  
  The owner of the peep show tries to direct Chii on how to put on a good show for the customers. Chii is unable to take off her bra, so the man tells her to take off her underpants and put her fingers into her vagina. Chii is about to do so when Freya intervenes and warns her to stop. Perplexed and under the assumption that Chii is running some sort of program, the owner attempts to show her how to do it. Chii resists, destroying the room in the process and escaping outside just as Hideki arrives.
  
  After Hideki manages to find Chii and bring her home, he reassures her that she did not do anything wrong, and that if she truly desires a job, he will help her to find a good one. He is eventually able to this, convincing Hiroyasu Ueda to employ her at his bakery during his anniversary sale. Ueda is very impressed with her effort, stating that she made no mistakes and worked diligently all day. He asks her if she would like to work there full time and a delighted Chii asks Hideki for his permission to do so when she arrives home from work.
  
  On one occasion Hideki is unable to walk Chi to the bakery, so she is forced to make the trip alone. While standing outside a bookstore examining the latest copy of A City with No People, she is kidnapped by Yoshiyuki Kojima, who recognized her as being the strange persocom Minoru had posted about. Under the assumption that she must be an especially powerful persocom to have captured the interest of Minoru, he comes to believe that she might be a Chobit. Yoshiyuki connects her to all of his custom-made persocoms (the only exception being Kotoko), and initiates a program that he had created especially for Chii that is designed to break through her firewalls.
  
  After Hideki is told by Ueda that Chii hasn't shown up for work, he begins to suspect that she may have been kidnapped. He contacts Minoru and begins to search the streets for her. At the same time, Minoru is systematically searching through the IP addresses of every member of the persocom forum to try and determine who had sent the strange images before. He is then sent another image, this time a street map. He contacts Hideki, who is searching for Chii with Shinbo and Sumomo. They run through all of the IP addresses registered on the forum and narrow the possible locations of the kidnapper down to a nearby area of Tokyo. Minoru checks to see who the IP address is registered to and realizes that it is Yoshiyuki, who goes under the alias "Dragonfly". He tracks Sumomo and superimposes her location onto his map, and when they arrive on the street they are able to determine which house Chii must be in.
  
  Yoshiyuki is amazed that Chii has been able to block his program after an hour of continuous running, but he is confident that it will not take much longer to break through her defenses. He hugs her in delight at how powerful she is, and then begins to grope at her. Freya intervenes again, binding Yoshiyuki with all of the wires connected to Chii, and then releasing a powerful concussive blast. At this moment Hideki and Shinbo appear and Freya vanishes, causing Chii to collapse. She recovers and briefly reunites with Hideki before losing consciousness. Shinbo then forces Yoshiyuki to transfer Kotoko's registration to Hideki in order to prevent Yoshiyuki from deleting her memories, so that a record of his attempted kidnap exists. The next day, Hideki and Chii then leave to find Ueda and let him know that Chii is safe.
  
  An organization known only as "The Syndicate" is aware of Chii and her special programming. Under the impression that something terrible will happen if her program executes successfully, they send two persocoms, Zima and Dita, to destroy her. They have been created from the same system architecture as Chii, and are immune to her ability to freeze other persocoms. However, Zima wants Chii to succeed in her task, and purposefully misinforms Dita of Chii's whereabouts. Chii's program is almost completed when Zima unwillingly gives away her position to Dita, who goes to destroy her.
  
  Hideki arrives and goes up to his apartment room. Once inside Chii tells him of her love, asking if it is requited. Hideki responds in the affirmative, and they embrace briefly before Chii's program executes. Chii floats up to the roof of the apartment and begins to run her program, freezing every persocom with the exceptions of Zima and Dita. Dita attempts to hack into Chii, who repulses it easily. Dita then connects directly and begins to shut Chii down. Hideki makes his way on to the roof to save Chii, but he is restrained by Zima. Dita explains to him that for the good of all persocoms, Chii must be destroyed. After hearing Hideki's pleas, Zima releases him and grabs Dita, disconnecting her from Chii. With the connection broken, Chii is able to complete her program but chooses not to. She retreats inside herself, and Freya takes control as Chitose Hibiya arrives on the rooftop.
  
  Freya explains how she came to inhabit Chii's body. She reveals that Chii and herself merely switched places inside the body, but Chii has shut herself away and Freya cannot contact her. Hideki asks why and Freya explains that Chii discovered there were certain things that humans could do but she could not, leading her to believe that while Hideki would love her, it would make her existence unbearable. Hideki protests that it would not, but Freya tells him that Chii thought otherwise. She then tells Chitose that the time has come to destroy both of them, and she reluctantly agrees. Against Hideki's protestations, she deactivates Freya.
  
  Disappointed by the outcome, Zima leaves with Dita. Chii, however, has survived the deactivation and come to the conclusion that while life with Hideki may seem painful because of her limitations, it is even more painful without him. She regains control of her body and completes her program, giving every persocom the ability to love.
  
  Chii is currently deactivated and waiting for her new special someone to come and save her.
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