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- Contemplate Our Navels: Can persocoms feel, even though they only act out of human programming? Can a human and persocom love each other? Does such love mean anything if it's just programming? And whether they can love or not, what do such relationships mean for society as a whole?
- Crowning Music of Awesome: The ED sounds like Queen led by a small Japanese girl.
- Ear Worm: Doo doo do doo yeah. Doo doo do doo yeah. Doo doo do doo Let me be with you.
- Freud Was Right: Freya has an Electra Complex. She fell in love with her own father/creator, choosing him as "the someone just for her," and felt very sad seeing him spending time with her mother.
- Les Yay: With Chi's other self, her twin sister Freya.
- Memetic Mutation:
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"Gentlemen! I have made love to this machine! And now, upon retrospect, I ask, WHY?!" |
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- Moe: Oh, Chi...
- Squick: Your tolerance for this series probably depends on how seriously you think about the Unfortunate Implications discussed below. Some would call the entire premise of the series quite disturbing.
- Tastes Like Diabetes: Just try to watch the opening sequence twice in the same day.
- The first ending theme also can have shades of this.
- Unfortunate Implications: Even those who adore the manga can't deny that it has...quite a few of these.
- Most persocoms are attractive women (male models can be seen here and there, and are mentioned more than once) and created to be obedient servants. Some are even created to be fetish bait, given the amount of persocom porn sites and peep shows available.
- Moreover, the majority of persocom owners are male. Not once do we see an attractive male persocom with a female owner.
- There's also the fact that Chii's "on" switch is located in her vaginal region. It takes the "Overprotective Dad doesn't want his daughter having sex" trope to a new extreme.
- The fact that nobody offers to help get Chii's programming sorted out, so she can talk and behave more like the teenager she's supposed to be. Her childlike nature coupled with her many Innocent Fanservice Girl moments can be uncomfortable.
- Chi's relationship with Hideki is played up as being "pure" and "innocent", but Chi is still heavily dependent on Hideki for many things, not to mention as naive as a child. Hideki's own naivete and cluelessness just barely prevent the pair from coming off as a father-daughter relationship.
- A lot of Chi's clothes come from Ms. Hibiya because Chi/Elda and Freya were built by her husband to be their surrogate daughters since she was infertile. It begs the question of why she and her husband had Chi and Freya to wear some blatantly sexual clothes that show off their breasts and panties so much.
- Some of these may double as Values Dissonance. Japanese culture during the 2000s heavily prized the docile Yamato Nadeshiko and Moe archetypes, Chobits being just one of many anime or manga to feature those types as the Love Interest. The gothic lolita style is also a popular Japanese aesthetic, tying into the culture's fetishization of innocence.
- Most persocoms are attractive women (male models can be seen here and there, and are mentioned more than once) and created to be obedient servants. Some are even created to be fetish bait, given the amount of persocom porn sites and peep shows available.
- The Woobie: Minoru and pretty much every female character.