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[Hide] (616.6KB, 1448x2048) Mango: Chobits
Favorite: Chii Motosuwa (nee Elda Hibiya)
Rating: 16+ (mildly ecchi)
I've watched the animu series probably 100+ times now. I've read the entire mango collection exactly once (but dabbled in it dozens of times for reference, etc. >tl;dr I consider the mango the definitive reference, but there's plenty of nice stuff in the animu as well).
No point in me going into any significant depth about the work in general. True fanboys (and even fangirls, given the genre) have done a far-better job than I reasonably could. [1]
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Personally this was the inspiration for me concerning the possible, utopic, future world we could all conceivably share with humanoid robot companions (ie, Persocoms). As I began to explore the character development of Chii in particular, I came to the conclusion that this can actually happen (and should)!! Naturally, once Anonymous in general began moving toward this same mindset (but for at least slightly-different reasons than my own), Chobits became my own personal story to use in advocacy regarding the many great possibilities involved. [2]
I regret that the CLAMP group didn't expand on this universe further (It also includes Angelic Layer [+ 1 odd, irrelevant crossover]). And in-particular of the brainiac husband/father Professor Ichiro Mihara [3] (whom the story killed off mysteriously); who single-handedly literally invented the entire field of Persocoms, alongside his confidant and lab-assistant (who then became his 'realworld' waifu) -- the based Chitose. What was he actually thinking as a scientist & (clearly) a top-flight engineer? What did he do? How did he do it? Why did the Globohomo murder him? What is this sooper-sekrit mystery program Chii was designed by the Professor to run? Did 'that girl' ever find happiness? Why did Miss Hibiya-san dump her own daughteru onto a trash pile (& mostly-nekkid at that)? Did she ever fix Chii's vagoo properly for Hideki-kun's sake? ENQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW, DANGIT!111 :DD
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Anyway, IMO this is the primary robowaifu media goto (either mango, animu, or preferably -- both) for the uninitiate newfag trying to understand just what these le heckin' robowaifu thingys actually are. It establishes many different paradigms & (hoped-for, future) societal norms, along with many common concepts & references used on /robowaifu/ .
Do it today, Anon! Cheers. :^)
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https://chobits.fandom.com/wiki/Chobits_Wiki
2. Eventually (with the demise of 4cuck as a legitimate freespeech platform [so, around 2013/14-ish; YMMV]), and after our two yuge migrations over to Freddit's Fullchan, it was time to set up shop and step out on this realworld journey! But no one did anything...so I waited. And waited. And...
In the ensuing battle of the mind over:
a) on the one hand to continue being a lazy-a*rse, comfy spectator, or
b) on the other hand grabbing the bull by the horns & doing the hard tasks at hand;
finally, I chose "bull-wrestling" as an important personal life-endeavor. "Be the future you want to see", and all that. :^)
3. Why did CLAMP change last names lol? :D
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