
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 Chii abandoned in the trash, she’s cuter than any current model he’s ever seen before. 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 Chii the ins and outs of humanity, a mystery unfolds as a dark secret within her awakens.






Hideki Motosuwa moves to Tokyo to live a cram school life there. When he arrives at his apartment, he is delighted to find that the manager, Chitose-san, is beautiful, and that his neighbor, Shinbo, is a computer savvy friend who attends the same cram school. Then, at night, when he finds a persocon discarded in the trash, he picks it up and goes home, but...