ちぃ もてなす Chii Motenasu Chi Entertains

Ms. Shimizu suddenly shows up at Hideki’s apartment and spends the night. She doesn’t say why, but she asks him if he prefers Persocoms over people. The next day, he finds out that Shinbo hasn’t slept at all. But when Hideki tells him what had happened overnight, Shinbo freaks out. Later, Hideki is walking home when he sees Ms. Shimizu and Shinbo locked in a romantic embrace.

ちぃ 海いく Chii Umi Iku Chi Goes to the Ocean

Hideki, Shinbo, Chi, Ms. Hibiya, Yumi, and Ms. Shimizu (their prep school teacher) decide to go to Minoru’s Beach House over the Spring Break. There, dolphins catch their eye, Chi jumps overboard, and in an attempt to rescue Chi, Hideki nearly drowns himself.

ちい 遊ぶ Chii Asobu Chi Plays

Hideki gets a DVD player and an online game from Minoru. He, Chi, Sumomo and Shinbo play the game together. However, Chi is somehow not with them in the game, and Hideki searches around in-game to find her despite the fact that he has no experience in playing online games. While doing so, he accidentally finds himself confronting an undefeatable boss monster and is eventually rescued by Chi, although afterward Chi claims that she has no memory of the incident.

ちぃ 確かめる Chii Tashikameru Chi Confirms

Hideki is scared of a room in the apartment because of a horror story he heard at Minoru’s house when he was asking about the internet through Minoru’s custom-made Persocom Yuzuki. He becomes paranoid thinking about the story and, believing that his apartment building is haunted, has several self-induced hallucinations. The apartment number in the story is 104, as 4, or shi. “Shi” is the Japanese word for Four (四) and Death (死), and because of this, the number four is unlucky in Japan. According to the story, a woman who was hoping to rendezvous with her lover was killed in that room. Hideki and Chi along with Shinbo, Minoru and Yuzuki decide to investigate. At the end, Hideki and Chi discover that it is all a misunderstanding.

ちぃ 出会う Chii Deau Chi Meets

Hideki gets a date with Yumi. While he’s out, Chi reads the sequel of her book, which awakens a part of her memory. As a result, she meets a mysterious girl who looks exactly like her, named Freya, who seems to know everything about Chi’s past that Chi does not.

ちぃ 買う Chii Kau Chi Buys

Chi decides to use her money to buy the sequel to the book “A City with No People” and a porno magazine for Hideki, who learns from Shinbo that Persocoms need bathing. Since he doesn’t have money to buy bathing software for Chi, he has to teach Chi how to bathe. At the public baths, after some awkward, unsuccessful attempts to instruct Chi on how to bathe herself, Hideki eventually finds a way to avoid the task when he meets his landlady, who helps bathe Chi.

新保·すもも 語る Shinbo·Sumomo Kataru Shinbo and Sumomo Chat

Sumomo is running low on memory space, so she asks her owner, Shinbo, what he wants to erase. He starts at Sumomo’s “congratulations on moving in” dance for Hideki, and then recalls several main events and funny incidents that have occurred in the series thus far. This episode serves mainly as a recap of the storyline.

ちぃ とまどう Chii Tomadou Chi Bewildered

During the events in the previous episode, Chi’s defense mechanism activates and puts her in a trance-like state that results in her jumping from building to building and that seems to disable all of the other Persocoms in the area. Hideki goes looking for Chi. Seeing him takes her out of the state, and Hideki takes her home.

ちぃ 働く Chii Hataraku Chi Works

Chi wants to find a job to so she can help Hideki pay for their expenses. But Chi, being Chi, manages to get an accidental job in a peep show, and Hideki must look for her.

ちぃ 弱る Chii Yowaru Chi Weakens

Hideki begins to worry because Chi seems to be tired constantly. He talks to Shinbo about this, and learns that Persocoms need to be charged. Normally, prolonged exposure to sunlight is fine, but in this case, Chi needs to be plugged in. When Hideki returns, he finds that Chi is very close to losing all of her battery power, but he cannot recharge her because he hasn’t paid his electricity bill. In a desperate attempt, he tries to take Chi to Yorokonde but gets horribly lost along the way.

ちぃ 見つける Chii Mitsukeru Chi Finds

Hideki is facing his first practice exam and goes to the book store to buy an English dictionary since he forgot his own at his parents’ place. At the store, Chi finds a picture book called “A City with No People,” which sparks Chi’s curiosity. Hideki buys it for her rather than his dictionary, and Shinbo lends his to Hideki. While Shinbo is teaching Hideki how to use the dictionary, Chi finishes the picture book and something unusual happens.

ちぃ おつかい Chii Otsukai Chi Goes on Errands

Hideki comes to realizes that Chi doesn’t have “pantsu” (“Underpants” in the dub). Since he’s too embarrassed to get them himself, he lets Chi go to a lingerie store to buy them with the help of Sumomo’s navigation system. After several mishaps and mistakes, Hideki finally plucks up the courage to run into the store and buy them himself and run back out.

ちぃ おぼえる Chii Oboeru Chi Learns

Chi begins learning words from Hideki, who is running very low on money. He decides to get a job to pay for his living expenses. Unfortunately, all the jobs are taken, except for a position he stumbles upon by accident at Japanese pub called Yorokonde (“My Pleasure”), where he meets a high school girl named Yumi.

ちぃ 出かける Chii Dekakeru Chi Goes Out

Hideki wants to find out more about Chi, so he takes her to Shinbo’s friend Minoru Kokubunji, who is a rich but very young expert on Persocoms. There, they find out she has some sort of learning program even though she has no OS (Operating System). Minoru concludes that Hideki is able to teach her and that she will be able to grasp information that she is given. While leaving the house, Minoru tells Hideki not to fall in love with her if he do not want to cry later. Later, at his room Hideki gives name to her “chi”.

ちぃ 目覚める Chii Mezameru Chi Awakens

Hideki Motosuwa is an 18-year-old student living with the short end of the stick. He’s short of money, has to go to prep school, and is still a virgin. Hideki dreams of getting into college and having a cute Persocom to surf the internet for pornography. While he’s out one night, he finds a Persocom in the garbage, activates her, and names her Chi, after her first word, which appears to be the only thing she can say. After trying to hide her from Hiromu Shinbo, his neighbor (and his mini-Persocom Sumomo), and trying and failing to hide her from his landlady, Ms. Hibiya, he decides to keep her, much to her joy.

“Naru” “Naru” (なる)

Things are a little strange after Kanako, Keitaro, and Naru were in the annex. Both seem to have dreams with Moe as guide showing there true feelings and past promises. Naru still can’t show her feelings for Keitaro, causing Shinobu, Matoko, and Kanako in particular much frustration. Kanako tries to find both of there feelings using her usual method of disguise. To her disappointment, Naru seems too confused. Both of them are in love of course, however Naru’s too afraid to face Shinobu and Motoko. Kanako tries to lure Keitaro again as Naru. Knowing its really her Keitaro goes after her to explain how he loved her as a kid sister. Keitaro’s feelings goes against the abandoned annex’s spell. He and his sister are brought to its top floor. Naru in an effort to find Keitaro’s ring to confess and prove her love tries to go to the top floor clock. But she must go through her own friends, the residents of Hinata. As Naru makes her way up, Keitaro apologizes for forgetting his annex promise to Kanako, but explains how he’ll love her as a sister. Naru retrieves the ring and finally confesses her love to Keitaro Urishima. Being one of his promise girls Moe helped Naru and Keitaro.

“Keitaro” “Keitarō” (景太郎)

After returning from overseas with Seta,Keitaro brings gifts for all the Hinata residents. After seeing Kanako,Keitaro thinks she’s a new resident, but then recognizes her as the little girl who followed him. Kanako plans to get her and Keitaro alone, sending the dorm residents on “errands” that turn out to be fake. Tension rises a lot between Kanako and Naru. Keitaro asks Naru to meet him at the abandoned annex. Since the legend of the annex says if a couple stays there over night, they’ll live happily ever after. Naru, once again trying to help Kanako and Keitaro sends Kanako to the annex, but regrets it after Haruka explained the legend, and how powerful its magic was. Of course Keitaro still doesn’t remember he promised Kanako they’d go to the annex as children! In the dark he grabbed Kanako thinking she was Naru,and Kanako thinking he really loved her. When Keitaro realizes its Kanako, Naru arrives. It was too late!The magic forms a field around Kanako and Keitaro. Kanako still thinking Keitaro loves her says the ring he dropped was proof. Keitaro then says his gift for Naru. Naru tries to put the ring on,but it flies out of her hands.

“Kanako” “Kanako” (可奈子)

After deciding to take the semester off from Tokyo U,Keitaro goes to America with Seta to explore different archaeology sites. Kanako, Keitaro’s step sister, comes to the Hinata apartments and appoints herself as the new landlord in Keitaro’s absence, much to the annoyance of all the residents. Kanako makes many new rules,one which the residents try to break in order to find her weakness. What they didn’t know was that it had to do with a certain promise Keitaro made with his “little sister.” Although,Naru remembering her sister tries to help and defend Kanako,not knowing she plans to drive her out. At the end of the episode, Keitaro returns with Seta.

“Motoko’s Choice, Love or the Sword: Don’t Cry” “Motoko no Sentaku, Koi ka Ken… Naku na” (素子のセンタク、恋か剣… 泣くな)

Out of nowhere, Motoko’s sister appears and is ready to pass on the dojo. However, Motoko is still not quite as strong as her sister and when her sister finds out about this, she gives Motoko an ultimatum: Motoko must beat her sister or marry Keitaro!

“Celebrate! Are the Blooming Flowers Tokyo U? Love? Everybody” “Shuku! Sakura saku no wa Tōdai? Koi? Minna” (祝!サクラサクのは東大?恋? みんな)

Everyone has to leave Hinata House for a day because the inn is undergoing repairs and renovations. It also becomes apparent that Keitaro won’t be coming back to Hinata Inn and Naru has completely given up on Keitaro. Who will Keitaro decide to be his soulmate, Naru or Mutsumi?