Chobits (OAV)
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Director: Morio Asaka Character Design: Hisashi Abe Art director: Chikako Shibata Chief Animation Director: Hisashi Abe Producer: Editing: Satoshi Terauchi | Rie Tanaka as Chii Tomokazu Sugita as Hideki Motosuwa Houko Kuwashima as Minoru Kokubunji Kikuko Inoue as Chitose Hibiya Motoko Kumai as Sumomo Yukana Nogami as Kotoko Junichi Suwabe as Yoshiyuki Kojima Yuji Ueda as Hiroyasu Ueda | |||||||
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| (none) | Crispin Freeman as Hideki Motosuwa Michelle Ruff as Chi Bridget Hoffman as Chitose Hibiya Mona Marshall as Minoru Kokubunji Terrence Stone as Yoshiyuki Kojima Kari Wahlgren as Kotoko Sandy Fox as Sumomo Steven Blum as Hiroyasu Ueda | |||||||
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This week, the dried-
Spit and polish notwithstanding, you're better off sticking to the television series.
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The problems with this second half are not enough to derail the show, but the experience is way less satisfying than it should be. Such is the power of its characters that I still can't help but love the whole package.
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It's a film that defies any and all expectations of both medium and genre, that makes us marvel and has really little time to do much else.
The clues it contains about the future direction of Guts' journey—and the relentless monster action—ultimately save it, but unless the series regains its bearings soon this will begin to qualify as a genuine slump.
If you know anything about the first series, then you already know what to expect: maximum boobs, maximum pantyshots, and zero intelligence.