Chobits Volume 6

Details

 Director: Morio Asaka
 Catalogue Number: MVD2056
 Certificate: PG
 Date Released: 10th April 2006
 Screen: Widescreen 16:9
 Languages: Japanese; English - Dolby Digital (2.0) Stereo
 Subtitles: English
 Duration: 100 minutes

Synopsis

The One and Only... Chobits

Is Chi a Chobit? Minoru dedicates himself to investigating the truth behind the Chobits series and suffers dealing with unsavory people and working to the point of exhaustion to uncover Chi's relationship with those Persocoms of legend. For Hideki, his feelings are the true question - what can he truly feel for a Persocom? The answer proves to be far more important than either Hideki or Chi realizes and will impact the fate of every Persocom!

Episodes comprise:

22. Chi Wears And Takes Off
23. Chi Decides
24. The Only Person For Chi

Extras

• Full colour art gallery
• Original Japanese ending animation 'Chibits' featurette
• All 3 recap episodes

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Review

Can it be? Hideki actually manages to get through two whole episodes without having a nosebleed or heart attack?

Menus:
Nice and simple to navigate. All you need is on the top menu. Very much keeping with the computer theme. The colour scheme once more making me hungry for ice cream.

Soundtrack:
Japanese 2.0, English 2.0
For the most part the soundtracks are fine. Although if you worried your head will explode from all the high-pitched chiiii-ness, stick with the English one.

Video:
16:9 widescreen goodness! With English subtitles for the Japanese soundtrack and ‘Signs’ option for the English dub.

Extras:
Some decent ones as extras go, there’s “Chibits Featurette” where Sumomo and Kotoko have a little adventure trying to catch up with Chi after she forgets to put her knickers on (we all have our off days!) You also get the recap episodes that are comprised of “Shinbo & Sumomo Chat”, “Minoru & Yuzuki Chat” and “Hibiya & Kotoko Chat”. There’s also the third version of the Original Japanese End credits, another screen cap gallery (It says Art Gallery But I didn’t find any concept stuff) and Trailers for Burst Angel and Tenjho Tenge. Which from my first impression looked like a spin off of Ikki Tousen. (Forgive my ignorance)

Episode Contents (This part may contain Spoliers)
Things pick up from the last volume with Hideki and the gang trying to figure out the mystery that is Chi. Pint-sized Hugh Heffner wanabe; Minoru is still working on it with his new sidekick Dragonfly (who’d let his curiosity of Chi get the better of him in the last volume). They’re still trying to crack the security of the Persecom manufacturer and uncover some vital information.

But the thing that really takes up the first episode is the unfinished business between Hideki’s workmate Yumi and the baker, Mr Ueda. It appears there’s been some ancient history between the two and Hideki is determined to find out why they can’t be in the same room with one another, things aren’t helped though when Chi puts on what turns out to be Yumi’s old work outfit and she just happens to be passing the shop at the time.
Cue lots of tearful, fuzzy flashbacks and melancholic piano music.

The last two episodes basically wrap things up. As you’ve no doubt guessed Chi and Hideki are in love but they haven’t made their feelings clear just yet. Unfortunately for them the Persecom Matrix wanabe’s Zima and his female sidekick Dita have been monitoring the situation and have been ordered to terminate Chi to prevent some unknown catastrophe from occurring (Which is somehow connected to when she does her floating and glowing routine). I really pitied these characters, as their boss (who is never seen or heard in any way) had not really told them the entire situation. All they know is they have to stop Chi, they don’t actually know what she’ll do if she is allowed to share her love with Hideki.

This leads to a final confrontation on the rooftop of Hideki’s building where a plethora of revelations about Chi’s origins are found out. This is only allowed to happen because Zima’s curiosity of what will really happen gets the better of him.

It was pretty much a predictable ending that left me neither excited nor unfulfilled. (Which is reflected in the neutral score) Either that was because I’d only seen Volume one and five or it was because full blown romantic stories aren’t really my thing. But at the end of the day, if you’ve been collecting the series then you might as well see it through to the end. (Eye-on-Anime)