Chobits

Chobits is a Japanese manga and anime series created by CLAMP. The original manga was published from 2001 to 2002 by Kodansha.

The story centers on the life of Hideki Motosuwa, 19, a repeat student ("ronin" attempting to get into university by studying at the Seki cram school in Tokyo. An honest and unassuming teenager raised on a farm, he has little experience with women, though his imagination and libido are both quite active. Besides a girlfriend, the other thing he dreams of having is a persocom. A Persocom is an android used as a personal computer, hence the name Persocom from the Japanese shortening of Personal computer as "pasokon". Hideki discovers that persocoms are commonplace in the city. They are programmed with fairly subdued personalities; they assist their owners with chores (such as shopping, dictation, email, and accounting) and are easily identifiable by the large data ports on the sides of their heads. But persocoms are expensive and Hideki has no money, so he figures the only way he'll ever have one is if he were to find one lying on the curb.