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Chobits is my all time fav anime book chii is so adoreable :} this series is about a young teen about 19 who is kinda poor and lives on a farm when he fails his exam he has to move to Tokyo ( atleast I think its Tokyo… I cant remember the name of the town where he moves to) where he has to go for cram school in the summer. There he meets some friends along the way and where they are there are these things like robots called persocoms. Persocoms are expensive robots more or less, when hediki finds one in a trash can he brings her home and later on finds out that she is a chobits and shes one of a kind. This book is relle good for yea if yer into this kind of girly girl stuff but if not u mite like it neways:P:P
From the idea of vampirism being a HIV-esque sexually transmitted disease, to the presentation of the mysterious and wraith like Chizuna (a character heavily influenced by 'Vampire Princess Miyu' in my opinion), the supernatural element to the story is text book. In other words, nothing mind blowingly original.
However, this story has one sailent redeeming element which increases the enjoyment factor dramatically. The relationships the main character, Kazuna, has with those around him are carefully sculpted and not in the least over dramatic or exagerated. While it may be fair to say that having him abandoned by his father at a young age is slightly cliched, the subject is handled cleverly and sensitively. Even more impressively, Kei Toume manages to convey Kazuna's isolation and resilience to accepting his new situation elegently, where as some would have let the character degenerate into whiney monolouges and over played this character atribute.
It is these features of the story which provide a reason for continuing with the series, due to the sense of forboding and intrigue established throughout. A genuinely suspenseful ending to the romantic sub plot of this book, coupled with a presumably deliberate lack of details about some characters, certainly warrants continuity in some form.
As for the art of the book, there are some positive and negative points also. The cover art is very well drawn and I particularly liked the choice of colours and inks as it suited the slightly dark and gritty tone of the whole story quite well. This fine standard extends itself to the character designs, which remain a strong point through out. However, by comparison backgrounds are sometimes sparse and lacking in detail, as if they had less time spent on them. Overall the art of the book is well suited and appropriate for the style of story.
In summary, despite the lack of any revolutionary elements in terms of horror, the story stands up very well. One may then ask why only three stars? The answer is this book really only lays the ground work for what could potentially be a very engaging story, it remains to be seen if the positive elements will be capitalised on. So if your looking for a beginning stages of a dark and angst ridden vampire teen story, I'd say you've just found your match.
Ranma 1/2 started off almost semi-serious, with one continuing story. Then it got sillier. And sillier. But in between the really stupid stories are a handful of long, less-silly stories, and these are the ones that I prefer to concentrate on. Moreover, the later stories improved in quality. The emphasis on martial arts competitions (whether martial tea-ceremony or martial cheer-leading) faded, in favor of more character-oriented action.
Quick Intro: Saotome Ranma, son of Saotome Genma, is dragged off by his father on a martial arts training expedition to China, where they both become the unfortunate victims of a certain set of magical hot springs (Jyusenkyo). There are over a hundred springs at this site, each of which is cursed. The curse is that anyone that falls into a spring takes on the body of the first creature to drown in that spring --- but only whenever s/he is splashed with cold water. Thus, Ranma, who fell into the Spring of the Young Girl (where a young girl drowned long ago), turns into a girl when splashed with cold water. His father turns into a panda. The only way to undo the transformation is to get splashed with hot water. Of course, Ranma and his father aren't the only victims of these cursed springs...
