I really love chobits. (Chobits is a Japanese Anime and Manga. Made by CLAMP who also did Angelic Layer and Cradcaptor Sakura.)
I don't imagine it'll ever get on TV, so you'll have to buy it on DVD if you want to see it.
Reasons it'll never get on TV: Nakedness; main character (Hideki) obsessed with sex, buys porn magazines, has sexy dreams about female characters; Hideki first finds Chii naked and pseudo-tied up in the rubbish, she's a computer and he has to find the button to 'turn her on'. Guess where the button is?
It's all very Japanese anyway, but it is immensely appealing. Chii is absolutely adorable. She's not only cute, she is given cute things to wear and is immensely naive. At the beginning all she can say is "chii". Later she learns more words, but she still behaves in a very childlike way.
So she's very attractive, cute and sexy, but she's also immensely innocent and childlike. I guess that's another reason that it won't get on TV around here. She's not a lolita, because they never have sex, and she isn't a temptress. That he has to look after her is a huge theme because she can't do it herself. Case in point: she goes to find a job, gets one in a peep show. Hideki had told her to get a good job and of course the man whose club it was told her it was a good job....
Of course it isn't just boys who like Chobits. On cosplaylab I'd wager that apart from Sailor Moon and the scouts, Chii is the most cosplayed character for girls. This is partly because the Manga of Chobits has Chii in lots of different frilly, lacy cutesy outfits that certain girls (like me) go "ooooohhh" over and want to make them. It makes them feel pretty you see, but it's also a personality thing, taking back your innocence I guess.
I wish New Zealand had more adult animation. I just love the things coming out of Japan. Cowboy Bebop is much more high brow than Chobits of course.
Chobits is a naughty indulgence, and I love it, I want to know what happens.
Posted by jenni at December 16, 2003 08:46 AM