The story starts off quite simple with the lead male discovering a beautiful young girl in a strange setting (on top of garbage) and their story begins. Although the story seems like a typical ecchi anime mainly being the fact that Chii has her on switch on her privates and an entire episode dedicated to PANTSU, it's more than meets the eye.
The anime focuses entirely on the relationship between Hideki and Chii with the emphasis on the question if Hideki can really love a machine like Chii, or can a special persocom like Chii discover love and become one step closer to being a human. The majority of the cast is there to share their own experience with how they've dealt with those questions.
Throughout the story, the character development is directed heavily to Chii as she begins to learn about the world through Hideki's guidance, her social interactions with the cast and mainly from the picture book "The City with No People". As her character slowly develops from a child to a young woman, the plot begins to move on to answer the questions presented above.
The characters are all lovable and some are quite sad. The supporting cast, all suffered emotional damage due to their pasts with their relationship to persocoms, serve as pioneers to show what might happen if Hideki begins to love Chii.
The social interactions between all the characters makes this show very enjoyable to me. To this day, I still have the Chobits opening song on my playlist and always makes me remember how great this anime is. The character designs are wonderful and stay true to the original designs by CLAMP.
Overall, this is a must watch for those who have not seen it by now which is very surprising for any veteran anime enthusiasts. The only problem that keeps me from giving it a perfect 10 has to be the involvement of the duo of government persocoms that were there to make it feel like a battle anime which it is not. Other than that, this will be one of my all-time favorites so if you didn't watch it, I definitely recommend you to watch this ASAP.
