^_^x Kenshin-dono wrote:
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> ungh that series is so godawful. they had like 3 or 4 filler 'flashback' 
> epps in a 24 (or 25? forgot how long it was been a while since i saw it) 
> epp series, ASS. Some modertatly amusing quotes though

I didn't watch more than an episode or two of Chobits, but it seemed to 
me like a failure of the media mix strategy, trying to adapt a manga 
into an anime too quickly. From what I've heard, the story in the anime 
doesn't even cover the first 2 (of 8?) volumes of manga. There really is 
a story in the manga with very little filler, but with the anime you get 
to see the Dragonball effect in full force: "we've gotten ahead of the 
manga, so we'll just have to produce filler/recap episodes until the 
manga pulls ahead again". Ugh. Angelic Layer (another CLAMP effort) 
starts off about as bad; it takes something like 8 (of 26) episodes to 
cover the first volume of the manga, though I hear that AL managed to 
save itself from suffering Chobits' fate by deviating from the manga.

Alan Zabaro