Line #24 YMMV/Chobits


1	* {{Adorkable}}: Hideki's awkwardness and silly shenanigans when dealing with Chii makes him all the more endearing.
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
3	** The ED sounds like Music/{{Queen\|Band}} led by a small Japanese girl.
4	** The opening theme "Let Me Be With You", from the same group (Round Table ft. Nino) that did the ''Literature/WelcomeToTheNHK'' OP, is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXNJ-6qpU6c one hell of a banger]].
5	** 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 Hideki 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.
6	** "Yasashisa no Shouzou", a soft, slow piano and violin tune that manages to be sad, happy and sentimental all at the same time. Usually popping up in soft, emotional or sentimental scenes, the song is a TearJerker on its own.
7	* CultClassic: It has fallen into obscurity over the years despite being once one of Clamp's most popular works, but there's still a nostalgic fanbase that remembers its unusual charm.
8	* EsotericHappyEnding: The manga ending. [[spoiler:We're supposed to be happy that Hideki and Chii can be together, but society is still implied to be falling apart from humanity's obsession with Persocoms, Chii is explicitly not sapient which makes the entire relationship feel awkward, and the idea that Hideki and Chii can be happy despite not being able to make their relationship physical (aside from some easy-to-miss implications that might not be the case) is ruined by all the virgin-shaming the story has piled on Hideki up to this point.]]
9	* FanNickname: "Dark Chii" for Freya, as she looks almost exactly like Chii save for her darker clothing and more serious personality.
10	* FandomEnragingMisconception: Referring to Freya as "Dark Chi(i)" (though she was called that a lot before her actual name was revealed) gets some fans riled up.
11	* HilariousInHindsight: The view that the reader may have to empathise with a Japanese-centric worldview in order to enjoy the series becomes this when CLAMP released Manga/Gate7 a decade later. That series requires readers to know their history on the Japanese Sengoku era.
12	* JustHereForGodzilla: During the series' heyday in the 2000s, most people were invested in the series because of Chii and the [[CostumePorn pretty outfits]] she wears in official art, with rarely any discussion about the plot or any of the other characters. She was a very popular subject for fanart and cosplay as a result.
13	* LesYay: With Chi's ''other self'', [[spoiler:her twin sister Freya]].
14	* MemeticMutation:
15	-->[[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce "Gentlemen! I have made love to this machine! And now, upon retrospect, I ask, WHY?!"]]
16	-->"Um, because she's hot?"
17	-->"Oh, right."
18	** [[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.
19	* {{Moe}}: Oh, Chi...So sweet and innocent and adorable.
20	* {{Squick}}: Your tolerance for this series depends on how disturbing you find the premise.
21	** Chi looks sixteen, acts like she's eight years old, and is an InnocentFanserviceGirl. It makes every moment of her nudity that much more awkward.
22	** Chi's relationship with Hideki is played up as a "pure" and "innocent" romance, but even after Chi learns more about the world around her and comes to terms with her past, she's still heavily dependent on Hideki for many things and is as naive as a child. Their relationship tends to read more like [[WifeHusbandry father and daughter]] than anything else, which can make the romance between them hard to swallow for some people.
23	** A lot of Chi's clothes come from Ms. Hibiya [[spoiler:because Chi/Elda and Freya were built by her husband to be their surrogate daughters since she was infertile]]. While that sounds heartwrenching on paper, the fact that most of those outfits are obviously for cosplay (including a SchoolSportUniform) can be a little suspect if you think about it for too long.
24	** 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 {{Meido}} outfit, but his other four persocoms are all busty women dressed in maid outfits so {{Stripperiffic}} that they're essentially in bras or corsets with garter belts and a frilly apron. Minoru tells Hideki 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 Hideaki. He may have considered the whole thing an elaborate prank.[[/note]]
25	** If you're disturbed by incest, then pretty much everything to do with [[spoiler:Freya's backstory, namely her almost breaking down due to her unrequited romantic feelings for her own creator/father figure]] ends up being incredibly unsettling. While the series does play up how tragic her circumstances are, it's still a touch disturbing to hear a young girl talk seriously about [[spoiler: falling in love romantically with her "daddy", especially since she seems to think that he might have loved her back if only he wasn't in love with her "mummy".]]
26	** For that matter, [[spoiler:why did Mr. Hibiya build robots that were supposed to be his children ''that'' anatomically correct? And put the reset switch ''there''?]]
27	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The idea of a society where personal computers take the form of humanoid, often sexualized, androids is rife with potential for social commentary and exploration of our relationship to technology and how it affects relationships between people. The story does explore this somewhat early on, particularly with the subplots surrounding Takako and Yumi (Takako is ignored by her husband because he's attracted to their persocom, and Yumi has anxiety about having to compete with the "perfection" that persocoms have compared to flesh and blood humans), but the story ultimately puts more focus on the romantic relationship between Hideki and Chi and [[WhatMeasureIsAHumanoid whether or not Chi is capable of sentience]] without further exploring the implications that come from humanity's relationship with Persocoms.
28	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Many people feel this way about the anime compared 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.

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