Chobits: The Facts!

 

Persocom: Personal Computer

Why not Robots? In the final chapter of the manga, Chitose Hibiya explains that humanoid computers are not named “robots” because Ichiro Mihara did not include the Three Laws of Robotics in them.

I Hate Recap episodes.

Episodes 9, 18, and an extra 27th OVA episode are used as “recap” episodes, looking back on the events that happened previously.

Plum is not the only adorable “laptop” persocom

There is a 6-minute special episode: “Sumomo and Kotoko on a Quest”, or “Chibits”, concerning Sumomo and Kotoko.

Chobits is one of Clamp’s first attempts at the seinen (Older Male) genre.

It seems more like adolescents with a heart, but whatever you wanna call it.

This show had some crazy undertones.

The series deals with issues and ideals of virginity, and sexual intercourse in that Chi is effectively incapable of sexual intercourse (in the manga) and must therefore only entrust her body to someone who cares for her well-being. The series also hints that Chi’s particular placement of her “on switch” is added after Freya’s death, since her father gave her “special abilities”. Along with his goal to ensure all persocoms found happiness, the placement of Chi’s on switch ensures that her personality will thrive only in a relationship in which she is loved without the pressure of sex. Persocoms, like women before the women’s liberation, are viewed as objects that meet needs rather than to be loved. This is shown in the series, particularly when several males attempt to “interfere” with Chi. The idea of “love”, as a concept is addressed for the denominator of the series, in several installments of “A City with No People”; this deals with issues particularly relating to searching, and subsequently waiting for someone who is what would be referred to as a “soul mate”. This is in parallel to the story of Freya, who fell in love with her father and creator, and ultimately wished death due to heartache, and is used as a means of “aiding” Chi in her quest for “A Person Just For Me”, or “My One and Only”. Both Chi and her sister, Freya; Atashi being linked to Chi, and the companion, linked to Freya.

I want a robot.

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Similar? I think so.

Now, which one gets my buster rifle?

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