NBC Universal Japan brought out some artwork on the retail sites recently for the upcoming Chobits Blu-ray box set, which is planned for a December 25th, 2015. Now they’ve updated it again, this time going with a very different piece overall and one that’s a welcome change of pace. The release will bring out all twenty-seven episodes for 28,000 yen. The show is being produced across four Blu-ray discs and, so far, looks to be Japanese only.
The show is based on the eight-volume manga series from CLAMP that ran between 2000 and 2002. The anime adaptation debuted in the spring 2002 season as animated by Madhouse and directed by Morio Asaka. It was originally released by Geneon Entertainment in North America and it saw its last release from FUNimation back in 2011 on Blu-ray (read our review). Madman Entertainment holds the Australian rights while MVM Films has the UK rights.
Plot concept: Tokyo is abuzz with persocoms – humanoid computers that are virtually perfect. The socially and technologically inept Hideki is dying to get his hands on one. When he finds Chi abandoned in the trash, she’s cuter than any current model he’s ever seen, but when he gets her home and turns her on, she has no data and only a single learning program installed. While Hideki puts his whole heart into teaching Chi the ins and outs of humanity, a mystery unfolds as a dark secret within her awakens.
Previously solicited artwork:
[Source: Chobits]
