A City With No People
is an
allegorical fictional book mentioned in the of the
anime and
manga series
Chobits.
A City With No People is a
picture book authored by
Chitose Hibiya, a fictional character in
Chobits. The story in the picture book closely parallel that of the main characters in
Chobits. It tells the story of a city where all of the lights are on, but no one is in the streets: The people are all inside with their loved ones. Over the course of several internal books spanning the entire
Chobits story, the narrator reveals the nature of
persocoms, and their relationship with people. It then goes on about the "someone just for me" whom the narrator is looking for, while a darkened mirror image provides the voice of doubt.
The narrator (called Atashi, which is Japanese for "I") represents
Chii, her mirror image (called Anata, which is Japanese for "you") represents
Freya, and the star represents the Atashi's "someone just for me" (Chii's
Hideki).
A City With No People is available online
here.
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