Chobits: Chibits

It was cute. Mostly. If you're jonesing for Chobits, in particular, Chii, Sumomo, and/or Kotoko, this is a fine, quick fix of kawaisa. It's more of the panty fetish, which seems to be a big thing for the anime writers.

However, and let me preface a huge caveat with this: I love Sumomo. Dearly. She's as cute as a button and I'll be the first guy on my block to get me a little Sumomo persocon when they come out.

BUT - if I EVER saw Sumomo or Kotoko with the horrifying expressions on their faces at the 4:30 mark, I ... would have no other recourse, but to burn them both, with a Eucharist wafer stuffed in their mouths, and a wooden stake pounded deeply through their adorable little hearts.

And, having seen them like that, and knowing they're even capable of such a look, it's kind of hard to forget it and go back to adoring them. What has been seen cannot be unseen, and all that.

Why CLAMP would sign off on those four seconds of animation is utterly beyond me.

Wow, this is actually not as perverted as you thought it was going to be. The story line actually holds back some though not as much as I would hope. This doesn’t really tell you when this is happening; weather it is after the show or in the middle of it but it’s a bit funny none the less.

The artwork is the same as in the show, so not much to say on it. It’s bright, childish at times and yet shows a lot of detail.

The voices I have to sigh at. I don’t like how high pitched the two little bots voices are, ... and just couldn’t stand it. I just could not deal with to much of the sound.

Why is Chi's voice so drastically different in the later episodes of 'Chobits', and even more-so here? It's very off-putting. It's just not Chi. She sounds like she aged 20 years. I miss the cute Chi in the first half of 'Chobits'. That's the Chi we all fell in love with.

This is awful, by the way. Six minutes, yet so boring. Sumomo is more annoying than usual, and there's really no point to anything, other than fan service for your panty fetish, or love for mini-persocom kawaii. Animation and tone is the same as the series, of course. Nothing out of the ordinary. I say ... skip it.