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Chobits, Vol. 2 (2010)

by CLAMP(Favorite Author)

4.32 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dark Horse

review 1: This omnibus contains the final four parts of the story. It's all good reading, and nicely drawn. The premise has persocoms, human-appearing robots that verge on AI, available to everyone at reasonable costs, and has people becoming emotionally attached to them and even trying to marry them. There are rumors of a more advanced model, the chobits, that possibly cross the boundary into self-awareness. The earlier volumes, strongly hinted that Chi was a chobit, and this book solves the mysteries about what's going on.The series is well written and nicely illustrated. I would have rated it higher except for the (rather nasty, imo) idea at the heart of the story. For Chi at least, love is a soppy emotional thing in which there is only one person for her, she can't be happy when... more that person isn't around, and if that person doesn't reciprocate, life won't be worthwhile. Ugh. Also, I would have liked some loose ends tied up. For example, I don't understand why the "National Data Bank" would be, um, on the loose, and so focused on attending to the issue of Chi that, to all appearances, it isn't paying attention to anything else...I guess it's busily multitasking in the background?
review 2: This second volume of the Chobits story gets a bit more interesting, as the plot takes a few turns here and there and gets away from the somewhat predictable premise of the first. However, it hurts the pacing a little, because there are a lot of pages used to fill us in on the back story and Chi's detailed history. It's all part of the bigger picture, but if CLAMP dropped the ball anywhere in this volume, it would be the over indulgence on abstract ruminating and recounting of past events.Despite this, Chobits remains to be a wonderfully realised manga and when it's considered as a complete two-volume set, the books speak for themselves. There's really not many series that manage to become more than the sum of their parts, but Chobits takes some familiar manga devices and weaves them in with a dose of originality to create something altogether enticing. less

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