A.I. Love You (A.I.が止まらない) 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.

Warning: Spoilers follow

Table of contents
1 Story
2 Characters
3 Media Information
4 Manga (Books)

Story

The story centres 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 onii-san - big sister).

Media Information

Manga (Books)

NamePublisherISBN
English A.I. Love You Volume 1
(due out 03-Feb-2004)		TokyopopISBN 1-59182-615-2
Japanese A.I.が止まらない Volume 3講談社 (Kōdansha)ISBN 4-06-334274-3