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A.I. Love You: v. 2 (A.I. Love You)
by Ken Akamatsu
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Tokyopop Press Inc (2004-04)
ISBN: 1591826160
EAN: 9781591826163
Dewy Decimal #: 741.5952
Paperback: 216 pages
Condition: New
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Customer Reviews
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Love Hina Fans Alert
Rating  (4)
Date: 2005-05-14
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Hitoshi is an average boy. Except he cant do sports, school , girls or.. anything really. His favourite and seemingly only thing is computer programs and creating his perfect girl. His favourite being number 30. One day a freak lightening storm happens and brings 30 to life. Hitoshi is overjoyed though doesnt consider the consequences a real life computer program might bring!Quite a good punctual storyline and will especially appeal to Love Hina fans as the same artist and storyliner. Has extra pieces of info within book in connection to early drawings and a little bit with Love Hina. I didn't find it as good as Love Hina, but still just as enjoyable. Funny and heart touching bits included.
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This was written before Love Hina
Rating  (3)
Date: 2004-09-12
2 out of 14 customers found this reveiw helpful
hello, i recently got A.I Love You last week, and it is good but it no Love Hina cos Love Hina is jus plain funny and the character are all witty and I love the way that no matter what the main character does, he's always in the wrong! But don't get me wrong, A.I Love You is always good but i jus wanted to point out that this was written b4 Love Hina so of course Love Hina was better..
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god, some people...
Rating (3)
Date: 2004-07-31
7 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
To Alex Churchill complaining about Akamatsu 'recycling old ideas' it may be worth noting that he wrote this series BEFORE love hina. A fact you may had noticed if you read any of the side notes in the book, here was an artist finding his feet.I admit I have not read any Love Hina but A.I Love you is light hearted and fun given a groovy sci fi twist. If it wasn't from hearing Love Hina was so much beter I'd give this title 4 stars.
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Stereotypical Romance-by-Numbers
Rating  (2)
Date: 2004-07-21
5 out of 29 customers found this reveiw helpful
Ken Akamatsu became famous for his massively popular series Love Hina, which I really liked. Unfortunately, it seems the success has gone to his head... or perhaps he didn't have any more original ideas. Either way, the A.I. Love You series is painfully cliched. The main male protagonist is bad at school yet really brainy, socially inept yet sweet and naive - just like we've seen a hundred times before; and the girl is similarly stereotyped: a sweet klutz who's beautiful yet shy and insecure, who only has eyes for the socially inept male main character. And somehow ends up living with him. Goodness me, where have we seen that before?The plot occurrences are just as bad. She misinterprets a comment of his to mean he doesn't like her! Ah, but at least it all gets sorted out. She's really bad at cooking! But manages to eventually cook something he likes! Yawn. A rival turns up who's busty and ruthless - and has also inexplicably set her sights on the Socially Inept Male Main Character! Shock, horror. Everything from the origins of the girls (stepped out of a computer during an electrical storm) to the embarrassed looks on their faces as the main guy stutteringly proclaims his affection has been done several times before, and usually better. It's a real pity to see Akamatsu recycling old hackneyed elements like this, because Love Hina shows he is capable of so much more. I give the book two stars because there's a reason why cliches become cliches: it is still passable fun to read the predictable romantic mishaps of the forgettable characters, even though they've been better done elsewhere. But I'd recommend you seek out a more innovative romance manga series unless you're a *really* dedicated Akamatsu collector.
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Computer dating with a twist!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-02-27
13 out of 13 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you could design your own girlfriend, how would you make her? From the creator of the hugely popular manga series Love Hina comes this sci-fi classic. Hitoshi Kobe is a 16 year old high school student. Bad at lessons, worse at sports and an outcast from the rest and ridiculed by his romantic interest, he uses his parents' computer programming equipment to create an A.I. (artificial intelligence) in the form of the girl of his dreams. A freak power surge during a storm brings his latest and favourite A.I. - Thirty - to life. Thirty must adapt to life outside the computer and learn to act human to avoid being found out by Hitoshi's classmates. But there are advantages to having a girlfriend who can speak to computers... ATM machines included! But I won't give away much more of the story. It makes more sense if you read it yourself. If you are into sci-fi manga with a bit of romance thrown in for good measure, give this a try. Several fairly individual stories merge into one developing romance, and I can't wait to see how this turns out. I'm a big fan of Ken Akamatsu, and this book is a welcome addition to my collection.
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