Where Does The Chobits Anime End In The Manga?

While the age of Chobits is likely long past, it still provides a unique look at robot romance in anime. Or rather, the manga provides a unique, ponderous look while the anime remains a fun romp.

Where To Start The Chobits Manga After The Anime?

Strictly speaking, the Chobits anime is a full adaptation of the Chobits manga.

However, while Chobits did fully adapt the manga story and it does end similarly, that doesn’t mean what you watched in the anime is fully like what you would read in the manga.

It needs to be said that Chobits is a rather silly, casual sci-fi romantic comedy with a few more serious and/or melancholic moments. However, what you would find utterly missing from the anime upon reading the manga is the depth of emotion and the surprisingly deep exploration of the philosophy surrounding the concept of humanity that the manga explores.

Essentially, the Chobits anime shaved off all the philosophy and a good bit of the more serious emotion from the manga in order to create a more light-hearted and cute anime product. This makes the ending of the manga in particular feel quite a bit different from the anime ending despite fundamentally being the same.

The anime is pretty pretty straightforward and even a bit cheerful with the ending while the manga definitely leans bittersweet as it goes off on a particularly interesting tirade about what is humanity and what it means to love something.

The anime does omit some of the more ponderous serious moments, but it also injected its own anime-original content. However, the anime-original bits really never alter the storyline, they are mostly just cute.

Do you need to read the Chobits manga from the beginning after the anime? No, only if you want to. Should you read the Chobits manga if you liked the characters and want a more in-depth exploration of the concept? Yes.

Is The Chobits Manga Over?

The Chobits manga is complete. It ended in 2002 with Volume 8, Chapter 88.