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A.I. Love You is a Japanese manga series by author Ken
Akamatsu. First released in the mid-nineties in Japan, an English
translation of the series is being done by Tokyopop, with the first volume
due out early in February 2004.
Story
The story centers around Kobe Hitoshi, 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.
Characters
Kobe Hitoshi
Kobe 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 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 girlfriend.
Twenty
(トゥエニー)
Twenty 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 oneesan - big sister).
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