A.I. Love You
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A.I. Love You (Japanese: A.I.が止まらない) is a Japanese manga series by author Ken Akamatsu.
First released in the mid-1990s in Japan, an English translation of the series is published by TokyoPop; the first volume came out in North America in February 2004.
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Story
The story centres around Hitoshi Kobe, a guy who is neither academically gifted nor good at sports, so he doesn't do very well at school.
Hitoshi has only one thing going for him - his ability to program computers. In fact, he is so good at this he has created programs that can rewrite themselves - Artificial Intelligence in other words. So far he has created thirty of these programs, and the latest - simply called Thirty - is so advanced that conversation with her is indistinguishable from a normal girl (except that Hitoshi can actually talk to Thirty).
However, there is still the barrier of Hitoshi being in the physical world and Thirty being a program, until one day a freak lightning accident transfers Thirty to the real world, where she becomes the girlfriend of Hitoshi.
The series then follows the lives of Hitoshi and Thirty, as well as other A.I.'s of Hitoshi's creation.
Characters
Names are in Western order.
Hitoshi Kobe
Hitoshi is a student who underachieves at school both physically and academically. One of his few strengths is his ability to program, and create artificial intelligences, and he eventually created both Twenty and Thirty - programs so real that conversations with them (if you exclude the fact they communicate via a computer screen) are indistinguishable from conversation with normal girls.
Through a series of freak lightning accidents, both Twenty and Thirty are transferred to the real world, and become a (greater) part of the life of Hitoshi.
Thirty
(サーティ)Thirty (Saati) is the thirtieth Artificial Intelligence program that Hitoshi has created, and is the first program that Hitoshi really liked and could really talk to.
Through a freak lightning accident Thirty is transferred to the real world, and becomes Hitoshi's live-in girlfriend.
Thirty is a kind girl, and a bit naive, which does lead to frequent problems with Hitoshi. The most notable of which is the fact that when she cooks, she has the tendency to make them look like the picture, regardless of the taste (Having no taste buds), using everything from paint to colored markers.
Twenty
(トウェニー)Twenty (Towenii, Toni in the Tokyopop version) is the twentieth Artificial Intelligence program that Hitoshi created. However, despite the fact she worked, she teased him a little too much, and though the teasing was good-natured he couldn't handle it in addition to the pressures of school, so he stored her away.
Due to one of the highly frequent freak lightning accidents Twenty is also brought into the real world, where she too stays with Hitoshi just like Thirty (who calls Twenty onee-san - big sister).
Forty
Forty is an A.I. that Hitoshi develops after he is able to bring A.I.s to life at will. Twenty and Thirty argued about the gender and personality when he was putting the finishing touches on it, and pressed too many buttons at once. The end result was an A.I. that had two forms: both boy and girl. Both were childlike, and would switch to the alternate gender when that word was said (Forty would become a girl when the male Forty said "girl," and vice versa).
The male Forty is somewhat of a neat-freak, Thirty's personality choice (Although her gender of choice was female), and a bit high-strung. The female Forty is laid-back and outgoing, Twenty's personality choice (Although, similarly, Twenty's gender choice was male). Both Forty's are extremely powerful.
Kimika Aso
Kimika, the smartest and prettiest girl in school, and also possibly the meanest girl in school, is adored by Hitoshi to the point where he makes Twenty, however, she never gives him any consideration, playing a trick on him at the beginning of the series.
Media Information
Manga (Books)
| Name | Publisher | ISBN |
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| English A.I. Love You Volume 1 | Tokyopop (http://www.tokyopop.com) | ISBN 1-59182-615-2 |
| English A.I. Love You Volume 2 | Tokyopop (http://www.tokyopop.com) | ISBN 1-59182-616-0 |
| English A.I. Love You Volume 3 | Tokyopop (http://www.tokyopop.com) | ISBN 1-59182-617-9 |
| English A.I. Love You Volume 4 | Tokyopop (http://www.tokyopop.com) | ISBN 1-59182-618-7 |
| English A.I. Love You Volume 5 | Tokyopop (http://www.tokyopop.com) | ISBN 1-59182-619-5 |
| English A.I. Love You Volume 6 | Tokyopop (http://www.tokyopop.com) | ISBN 1-59182-620-9 |
| English A.I. Love You Volume 7 | Tokyopop (http://www.tokyopop.com) | ISBN 1-59182-943-7 |
| English A.I. Love You Volume 8 | Tokyopop (http://www.tokyopop.com) | ISBN 1-59182-944-5 |
External links
- Ken Akamatsu Forum (http://s8.invisionfree.com/Ken_Akamatsu/), a place to talk about all of Mr. Akamatsu's works.id:A.I._Love_You