History YMMV / Chobits

* CultClassic: Was once one of Clamps most popular works that eventually fell into obscurity over the years. There's still a nostalgic fanbase that remembers its unusual charm.

* Expy: Many to [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]]

* Expy: Many to [[TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]]

* Expy: Many to [[Film/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]]

CultClassic: Was once one of Clamps most popular works that eventually fell into obscurity over the years. There's still a nostalgic fanbase that remembers its unusual charm.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The ED sounds like {{Queen}} led by a small Japanese girl.

** [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/6a/a5/c7/6aa5c77d278d87631694d25f4db51142.jpg The shot of Chi playing with a pair of panties]], which has been parodied many times in GIFs in the mid-to-late 2000s.

* DeaderThanDisco: This used to be one of CLAMP's most popular manga, to the point that you couldn't go to any anime-related website without seeing either official or fanmade art of Chii. Now it's mostly remembered for its writing problems.

* FreudWasRight: [[spoiler:Freya has an Electra Complex. She fell in love with her father/creator, choosing him as "the someone just for her," and felt very sad seeing him spending time with her mother.]]

** The Dark Chi Theme. It makes you feel not just the suspense of action sequences, but truly the emotion behind them too. Not only is it beautifully composed, but the musical flow typically goes PERFECTLY with whatever scene it's set against. Be it Chii's defending herself against Dragonfly or [[MundaneMadeAwesome Hideaki rushing into a]] HopelessBossfight [[MundaneMadeAwesome in order to play an RPG together with her]]. It's never inappropriate when used and it's always the perfect choice for the scene.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: One of the biggest bones of contention with this series is that it has no idea what it wants to ''be''. The story ricochets from funny to serious to romantic so many times that the story eventually collapses under its own weight. And don't get started on the ''ending''.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The anime to the manga. The anime adds a lot of lightweight filler subplots and messes up the original chronology. Also, the mystery of Chi's reset button, or the program she had that was such a threat to Persocoms is never properly explained, and she has a cheesy fake death sequence that makes no sense.
* UnfortunateImplications: Chi has AI that could pass a Turing test. She is, at best, at the emotional and mental maturity of a small child who doesn't even know how to bathe herself. She grows to want to have sex with Hideki. There is also the fact that Hideki found her in the neighbor's trash. This means that Chi is effectively an abandoned child that wants to thank the person who took her in with sex. The worst part is that Chi truly doesn't understand why Hideki turns her down.

** The Dark Chi Theme. It that makes you feel not just the suspense of action sequences, but truly the emotion behind them too. Not only is it beautifully composed, but the musical flow typically goes PERFECTLY with whatever scene it's set against. Be it Chii's defending herself against Dragonfly or [[MundaneMadeAwesome Hedeki rushing into a]] HopelessBossfight [[MundaneMadeAwesome in order to play an RPG together with her]]. It's never inappropriate when used and it's always the perfect choice for the scene.
** Yasashisa no Shouzou; a soft, slow piano and violin tune that manages to be sad, happy and sentimental all at the same time. Ususally popping up in soft, emotional or sentimental scenes, the song is a TearJerker on it's own.

** Minoru is 12, may not have parents, and is such a genius he knows how to build persocoms. [[ReplacementGoldfish Yuzuki]] is in a super modest maid's costume but his other four persocoms...are all busty women dressed in maid outfits so fetish they're essentially in bras or corsets with garter belts and a frilly apron. Minoru tells Hidelki they're "only computers" and not to get so aroused, nor that they put out. [[note]] He probably does it for the reaction he gets out of guys like Hideki. He may have considered the whole thing an elaborate prank.[[/note]]

* UnfortunateImplications: Chi has AI that could pass a Turing test. She is, at best, at the emotional and mental maturity of a small child who doesn't even know how to bathe herself. She grows to want to have sex with Hideki. The worst part, Hideki found her in the neighbor's trash. This means that Chi is effectively an abandoned child that wants to thank the person who took her in with sex. The worst part is that Chi truly doesn't understand why Hideki turns her down.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The anime to the manga. The anime adds a lot of lightweight filler subplots and messes up the original chronology. Also, the mystery of Chi's reset button, or the program she had that was such a threat to Persocoms is never properly explained, and she has a cheesy fake death sequence that makes no sense.

* TheyChangedIt,NowItSucks: The anime to the manga. The anime adds a lot of lightweight filler subplots and messes up the original chronology. Also, the mystery of Chi's reset button, or the program she had that was such a threat to Persocoms is never properly explained, and she has a cheesy fake death sequence that makes no sense.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: One of the biggest bones of contention with this series is that it has no idea what it wants to ''be''. The story ricochets from funny to serious to romantic so many times that the story eventually collapses under its own weight. And don't get started on the ''ending''.

%%* TastesLikeDiabetes: Just try to watch the opening sequence twice in the same day.

* {{Squick}}: Your tolerance for this series depends on how seriously you think about the UnfortunateImplications discussed below. Some would call the premise 'disturbing'.

* DeaderThanDisco: This used to be one of CLAMP's most popular manga, to the point that you couldn't go to any anime-related website without seeing either official or fanmade art of Chii. Now it's mostly remembered for its writing problems and UnfortunateImplications.

%%* TastesLikeDiabetes: Just try to watch the opening sequence twice in the same day.
* UnfortunateImplications:
** [[strike:All]] Most Persocoms are attractive women [[note]] (male models can be seen here and there, and are mentioned more than once with one even being a plot critical character.)[[/note]] designed to be all-purpose servants. The pronounced gender-line probably has to do with the fact that, in Japan, robots are seen as inherently feminine, unless noted otherwise - because they're created to serve.
** [[StealthPun Chii's "on" switch is located in her vaginal region.]]
** Although Hideki is clueless, and his landlady is not, nobody offers to help get Chii's programming sorted out so she doesn't ever progress beyond talking/reasoning like a little girl. Yet she falls in love and Hideki reciprocates.
** There's a lot of subtext that amounts to "If you can't have children, you're inherently less of a person for it".

* DeaderThanDisco: This used to be one of CLAMP's most popular manga. Now it's mostly remembered for its writing problems and UnfortunateImplications.

** Chi's relationship with Hideki is played up as being "pure" and "innocent", but Chi is still heavily dependent on Hideki for many things and is as naive as a child. More often than not, they're more like [[IncestIsRelative Father]][[WifeHusbandry and Daughter]] than anything else.

* [[spoiler:FreudWasRight: Freya has an Electra Complex. She fell in love with her father/creator, choosing him as "the someone just for her," and felt very sad seeing him spending time with her mother.]]

%%* TheWoobie: [[strike:Chi and Sumomo]]