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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Tsubasa Chronicles OVA

Hmm..Makes you wonder if the mangas will lead into more Seasons or not.

It is the groups longest running manga series, but it’s OVA’s seem more like stop-gaps as they try and decide what to do. I know their first production studio didn’t work out as well as they had hoped, but I’m sure another season would sell well.

Here’s what the story is about for anyone who doesn’t know a bit about it:

Sakura is the princess of Clow kingdom, which is ruled by her older brother, King Tōya. Her childhood friend Syaoran is a young archaeologist. Sakura is revealed to have strange powers when she has a vision of a mysterious symbol and places she has never seen. Meanwhile, Syaoran discovers the same symbol at the ruins he is excavating. He sees Sakura standing on the symbol on the ground. Ghostly wings appear on her back and a mysterious force begins to pull her into the walls of the ruins. Syaoran rescues her in time, but her wings are scattered across dimensions. The High Priest of Clow Kingdom, Yukito, immediately realizes that Sakura’s “wings” were the manifestation of her soul and memories; without them, she will die. In order to save Sakura, Syaoran must journey to retrieve her wing’s feathers, the fragments of her memories.

Yukito sends Syaoran and the unconscious Sakura to the Dimensional Witch, Yūko, who is one of the main characters in xxxHolic. There he meets Kurogane, a rough-mannered ninja banished from his world by Princess Tomoyo, and Fai D. Flourite, a magician who fled his world to avoid King Ashura. Each of them must pay with what he values most in order to gain the power to cross dimensions. For Kurogane, it is his sword Ginryū, and for Fay, it is the tattoo on his back which regulates his control of his magic. Syaoran, on the other hand, must pay with his relationship with Sakura: even if he is able to retrieve all of her memories, she will never remember anything about him or their relationship. (This sacrifice also pays Sakura’s “toll” to Yūko, because what Sakura values most are her memories of and with Syaoran.) Only when the three agree to her terms does Yūko present them with the power to cross dimensions; a white creature named Mokona Modoki.

While traversing through worlds to find Sakura’s feathers, the four travellers and Mokona are forced to overcome many dangers and opponents, some of whom are figures from Syaoran’s past who wish to collect Sakura’s feathers for their own reasons as they are seen to be objects that hold great power.

The manga adopts darker and more complex tones in the latter half of the story.

Because of the crossover characters with xxxHolic, the two manga occasionally intertwine with each other.

Anyhow, I’m a CLAMP fan, I like their style (Magic Knight RayEarth, CCS) and just haven’t seen as much of this, it’s one of those series that you don’t even realize how much is out there, then you check it out and see…wow…it’s a pretty well developed universe.

Anyhow, expect more. =D

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