I have no idea why I started collecting these. I think I bought a few and couldn't stop? My little brother did enjoy them and although I liked these more than Love Hina... I can't remember what it was about. Weird because I can remember what Love Hina was about.
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A.I. Love You #1-8 the whole series. By the guy who went on to do Love Hina. This series was just this side of pornographic. It was also a blatant ripoff of Oh My Goddess in the first book or two."

The best review / description of this manga is actually contained in the introduction by Adam Arnold in Volume 1, so I suppose I should just copy that.
But that would be boring so I'll summarise, paraphrase, and suchlike instead.
Take the basic premise behind "Weird Science" combine it with a "Hackers" like impression of the internet, throw in seriously out of date computer technology as well as moderately sexist and outmoded views of what typifies the perfect woman; take all this and imagine it as the ancestor of Akamatsu's later work "Love Hina" and you basically get the idea.
If you haven't read "Love Hina" read that instead of this. It's better. It's art is better, it's writing is better, it's characters are more engaging, so on and so forth. It is the more mature (well not so much mature, let us say better developed) work of the older man that as a younger man wrote "A.I. Love You". So of course it's better! The guy had years to refine his drawing techniques and writing style between the first chapters of this and that masterpiece of horny loser geekdom known as "Love Hina".
You've probably figured this out, but I really love "Love Hina". I've been reading more of Ken Akamatsu's work lately simply because I couldn't get enough of it. I started with "Negima" which did not disappoint me. It does after all come post Hina. But unfortunately it has been so successful that there are about twenty volumes and counting and no end in sight so I've decided not to get too into it till Akamatsu has come up with some sort of conclusion to the story.
Then I read "Mao-Chan". Somewhat disappointed there I have to say. I gave it two stars but I wasn't really feeling even that much. At most 1 star, and that's being generous. I only gave it two because of all the joy that Akamatsu has brought me with other works. Okay so that doesn't smack of critical integrity but who cares. Who's paying attention to what rating I gave Mao-Chan? Who's even reading this review?
Let's face it, I'm essentially shouting into the void here!
Kind of cathartic really.
But to get back to the point, I do genuinely feel the three stars I gave volume 1 of A.I. Love You, and I genuinely suspect that by the time I get to the later volumes I may be rating them with four. I heartily encourage anyone who has enjoyed Love Hina as much as I to read A.I. Love You as an act of love, to see where it all began. ( )