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CREATOR

Name: Tokyopop (American comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in the USA in 1997 by Stuart 'Stu' J. Levy (1967-). Stopped in 2011.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Tokyopop in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation partly focussed on Japanese Manga comic books, and it still has several active, overseas subsidiaries.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 2004. Stopped in 2005 after 8 issues.

The main character is Hitoshi Kōbe, a student at Menjō High School and an underachiever in all fields except one; he is a genius as a computer programmer. So far he has created multiple intelligent programs, but number 30 beats them all, as he has created a cute girl-like robot with artificial intelligence. Kōbe calls her Saati, which is the typical Japanese way of pronouncing the English number Thirty. And if this is not enough, a freak lightning strike materializes her into the real world, where she becomes an important part of Kōbe's daily life.

The title's abbreviation A.I. is a play on words, as it can both mean Love (Ai) in Japanese as well as Artificial Intelligence.