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* Why is Chii's reset-button placed in her private parts? Wouldn't it have been more practical to have it placed elsewhere, if at all? Also, couldn't it be moved afterward by a technician?

** For that matter, why even have a button at all? Why couldn't she be voice activated?

****** Yeah, but the point was if ''Chii'' was picked up by a woman who wouldn't dream of using her for anything but the usual computer stuff.

******* Someone who picked up Chii to do regular computer stuff would probably discard her once they found out that she had no built-in data/OS/normal Persocom abilities and that she actively resisted any attempt to find out why or change the situation.

** What I wonder is, if her creator didn't want her to be used sexually, why did he program her to WANT to "become one" with the special someone. Chii keeps going on about that if she gets what she wants she will lose it (i.e. get reset)...

** Freya explained, I thought, it WAS a test of character for the owner. Chii/Freya were designed to be attracted to that special someone, to fall in love if not come as close as possible for a computer. Chii's creator saw Chii as a daughter, and just too extreme measures to prevent his "daughter" to be in a relationship only for sex.

**** Well, that's the manga - I prefer to just think about the anime story (where they can have sex) and leave it at that, because to design Chi to have sexual needs but make fulfilling them tantamount to suicide isn't just a moral "test" for Hideki, it's a horribly sadistic form of lifelong emotional abuse towards Chi, somewhat analogous to the effects of female circumcision (except even moreso, in the "touch yourself the wrong way and you lose all your memories" way - at least FC victims don't have the ongoing threat of mental dissolution hanging over them). The manga is more obtuse on whether the persocoms are sentient, but it concedes that they're potentially no less so than humans, and the fact that her creator was thinking of Chi pursuing her "own happiness" means there's little moral justification for forcing a lifelong chastity vow, and a death penalty for breaking it, on her.

** Her creator was a [[Mad Scientist]] AND borderline ''insane''. Just look at his antics in ''[[Angelic Layer]]''.

** From above : Chii's creator built her and her sister, originally, as Replacement Goldfish for kids they couldn't naturally have. One of those kids ended up falling in love with her creator ''until it killed her'' because she couldn't imagine that sort of love not having a sexual component that her creator (thankfully) would never go to. In the manga, that was a risk for ''every'' Persocom, and in the anime, any persocom her emotional programming was loaded onto. If she developed a less healthy relationship, ''not'' having that part would be just as deadly as having it. Once the reset button was added, it also made the underlying test an actual test; there's no reason for temptation without having something to tempt with.

*** Again wrong yes Chii and Freya were originally built as replacement goldfish however Freya didn't want to have sex which professor Ichihara. She was emotionally torn between wanting her love returned and not because Ichiara was her father and happily married to the woman she considered her mother.

* Anyone else weirded out by the fact that the only difference between our modern world and Chobits' world is that they have perfected various forms of AI or "VI", and an obvious superiority in advanced robotics. One would think that in a world with such technological advancements, they would have other, transitional technology, and it wouldn't have gone straight from normal PCs to advanced completely autonomous entities capable of emulated human thought.

* In the Anime (haven't finished just yet) the books Chi reads about the pink bunny looking for love. They're wonderfully appropriate at eerily mirroring Chi's own life and troubles... so who wrote it? And just how did they get that acid trip of [[Cryptic Conversation]]-laden children's book published not just once, but with a sequel?

** ''Have you seen'' the current market for children's books? For all we know, the [[Cryptic Conversation]] made sense before the editors got to it!

* So... what the hell HAPPENED to {{spoiler|Freya}} at the end? Did she peacefully shut herself down or what?

* Aren't Yumi's parents going to have a problem with her being in a relationship with 1) a man over twice her age and 2) "that weird guy who married a persocom"?

* At the end of the manga, Freya tells Hideki "There's something Chi can't do...and it's not what you're thinking." Except it's EXACTLY what EVERYONE was thinking (because we're all perverts). So what did Freya think Hideki would think it was?

** He was referring to how Chi couldn't really function as a home computer (she had an unknown OS and was incompatible with most software, couldn't network with other persocoms without crashing them, etc.). Hideki was just saying how he didn't care if Chi wasn't useful in that regard.

* The idea of the reset button strikes me as ridiculously dangerous, not just for Chi, but for all persocoms. With the push of a single button, the entirety of a persocom's data gets blanked out and reverts to its factory settings. And in about 99.9% of persocom models, that button is located within the ear unit, near the data ports. Imagine trying to hook your iPod up to your laptop and accidentally poking a little button next to the USB port. Poof, there go all of your files without so much as a warning asking you if you're sure you want to do this. Whose bright idea was it to make something like that standard issue?

 

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