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I thought the deepest thing about Chobits was the fact that at it's core, it was an allegory of human social life. In Japan, since women lose all of their rights the second they get married, most of them don't want to even date, which leads to a lot of the male youths spending all of their time cooped up in their rooms with their computers. The story took it one step forward, with those computers having the shapes and actions of humans.
It's not just Japan either, although it's most serious there. All over the world, there are people who would rather be on a computer than in social situations, myself included. And the overall theme of Chobits was the pain that this can cause to society if it happens on a general scale. There are probably some people reading this right now who use Gaia as their social life, so to those people I ask, how removed from society would you be if your computer was humanoid, and could be programmed to have any personality you wanted? To be subservient, to never judge you, or even to imitate the notion that they love you?
Hell, since numerous human female characters in the show have to live with the fact that their lovers left them for these dream computers, with pristine good looks and the subservient qualities that many men long for, you could almost say that this show is a thickly veiled feminist piece- If men can't get their ideal woman in real life, they'll buy a fake one instead.
Basically, what this discussion boils down to is, if there were persocoms available in the real world, and you had enough money, would you buy one? If so, how would you treat it? What would you program for it's personality? How would it change the way you interacted with actual people?
Do you think fanboys and fangirls would live out their fantasies with custom made character persocoms? Like, for example, Every single Twilight fangirl ordering their own Edward persocom?
Or, if you'd like, just tell me your general thoughts about the show.
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