History Manga / Chobits

* ChosenOne: ''The One Just For Me'' who can bring a new age to the Persocoms, either happiness or something dreadful.

* ChivalrousPervert: Again, Hideki ''is'' a pervert but doesn't really want to be one.

* BerserkButton: If you harm Chi, Hideki [[spoiler:and Freya (while possessing Chi)]] will kick your ass. Badmouth Chi and Hideki will be very angry.

* BeachEpisode

** Hideki and Chi is one of the worst love relationships in all of anime history, and this anime is also one of the worst in anime history.

* ContinuityNod: Some background persocoms are modeled after characters from CLAMP's other works, especially ''CardcaptorSakura''. (For an example, look in the back of volume 1 of the manga. There's a persocom being advertised that looks like the Fiery card.)

* CuteMute: Chi, who initially can't talk.

* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: ("Didn't your parents object [to marrying a persocom]?" "Both of my parents had passed away.")

* DistressedDamsel / BigDamnHeroes (Subverted: Every time Chi is kidnapped or [[NearRapeExperience whatever]], by the time Hideki is close to finding her, [[strike:Chi]] [[spoiler:Freya]] would have [[CurbStompBattle stomped their asses]], but when Hideki shows up at the scene, Chi would [[FallingIntoHisArms fall into his arms]], thank him for rescuing her, and ''[[{{Fainting}} FAINTS]]''.

** The manager of Tirol refused to replace his persom's harddrive when her memory was slowly shorting out and when it was gone completely refused to find a replacement persom because he believed no replacement could be found.

* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Debated: one robot explicitly states in the manga that [[spoiler:even the Chobits of legend do not "feel" because they are only machines, after all.]] But she [[WildMassGuessing could be lying...]]
* RieTanaka

* TheOneWith: other than the last, each episode of the anime is titled Chi ___ or, for the recaps, {Character} and {Character} chat.

* VerbalTicName: Chi
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Chi has to figure out what love means before she can choose 'the one for me and only me'.

* WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid: "WILL YOU STOP TALKING ABOUT HER LIKE SHE'S A MACHINE?! CHI HAS A NAME![[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming DON'T LUMP HER IN WITH ALL THE REST!!]]"
** [[spoiler:Originally said by Ueda, when asked about his deceased wife. Hideki did not mean to quote Ueda's words on purpose and only realized it after he said them and also [[IronicEcho understood the implications of these words]].]]

** Hideki finds Chi in the trash
** Chi was created by [[spoiler: Chitose's husband. Chitose is also Hideki's landlady]] who is monitoring movement in the area
** Zima and Dita are watching out for a possible EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, which can be caused by [[spoiler: Chi]]
** Who works for Ueda at Tirol, replacing a persocom he was married to, and another girl who [[spoiler: now works with Hideki]]
** And Hideki is doing cram school with Takako and Shinbo, and learning about Persocom obbession on the side
** Finally Minoru is searching for Chi's background.

* TheBeautifulPeople: The persocoms.

* LesYay: With Chi's ''other self'', [[spoiler:her twin sister Freya]].

** [[spoiler:This is especially true with Hideki in the manga. In the final chapter, Freya informs him that if he and Chi ever became one, all of Chi's memories of him will be erased completely.]]

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Hideki's a guy with a part time job, cram school classes, and a MagicalGirlFriend robot who designated him her ChoosenOne.

** Chi was created by [[spoiler: Chitose, Hideki's landlady]] who is monitoring movement in the area
** Zima and Ditta are watching out for a possible EndofTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, which can be caused by [[spoiler: Chi]]

** [[spoiler: Freya and Egalba too in a pic, possibly just to extend the color scheme and/or add {{Moe}}.]]

* FreudWasRight: [[spoiler:Freya has an Electra Complex, and felt very sad seeing her father spending time with her mother.]]

* CuteMute

* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger

* GoodOldRobot: Hiroyasu Ueda's persocom.

* {{Kawaiiko}}

* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent

** ''The Town Without People'''s premise is humans replacing the other humans in their lives with Persocoms. That's why its called' the town with no people'.

* {{Robosexual}}
* RobotGirl
* RobotMaid

* YouALLShareMyStory

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: And how!

* NiceGuy: Hideki, sort of. He's only overtly bothered by his girlfriend-less virgin status when other characters talk about how tragic it is that "such a good guy can't find himself a girlfriend".

* PlayingAgainstType: CrispinFreeman, who is best known for voicing of some of the most composed, {{Badass}} AntiHero characters in Anime, played the sincere, goofy, mild-mannered nice guy (and AccidentalPervert) Hideki. This ''was'' one of his earlier roles though, and actually foreshadowed one of his [[HaruhiSuzumiya later ones]] (both Hideki and Kyon have a ''bad'' case of DidIJustSayThatOutLoud).

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove

** [[spoiler:Originally said by Ueda, when asked about his deceased wife. Hideki did not mean to quote Ueda's words on purpose and only realized it, after he said them and also understood the implications of these words.]]

* ReplacementGoldfish: A big part of the series: 'since It is not a person, It can be a person's dream.' Persocoms can be molded to whatever a human wants, up to and including dead relatives. The drama of the later half of the series is a debate on whether or not persocoms can truly replace others.

* ReplacementGoldfish: Yuzuki, Minoru's persocom, was based on his dead sister.

* {{Elopement}}: Shinra and his cram school teacher elope because her husband has rejected her for a computer android they purchased.

* DoggedNiceGuy: Hideki, sort of. He's only overtly bothered by his girlfriend-less virgin status when other characters talk about how tragic it is that "such a good guy can't find himself a girlfriend".

* AccidentalPervert: Hideki. Very, very much (In the animé much more than in the manga).

* PlayingAgainstType: CrispinFreeman, who is best known for voicing of some of the most composed, {{Badass}} AntiHero characters in Anime, blindsided this Troper with his portrayal of the sincere, goofy, mild-mannered nice guy (and AccidentalPervert) Hideki.
** This ''was'' one of his earlier roles though, and actually foreshadowed one of his [[HaruhiSuzumiya later ones]] (both Hideki and Kyon have a ''bad'' case of DidIJustSayThatOutLoud).

* TwistEnding: The last anime episode uses a viewer's knowledge of the manga ending to create shocking, then moving twists.
** YourMileageMayVary: Some readers find the changes made to the anime to be less than believable, to put it kindly.
*** Unlike the filler, the last episode ''was'' written by [[{{CLAMP}} Ohkawa]] herself however.
*** The Anime provides much more "Insider Jokes" for those familiar with computer science, like Dita explicitly using an USB-Cable (you can see the symbol for a moment) when [[spoiler:trying to shut down Chi]] or that "Red Hot Linux" book in Kokubunji's apartment.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The storybooks Chi reads are incredibly profound for something seemingly aimed at children!