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scream scream I DID NOT WRITE THIS! WIKIPEDIA DOES! SPOILER!!!! gonk scream _________________________________
Japanese Seiyū
Rie Tanaka
English Voice Actor
Michelle Ruff
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Chi (ちぃ, Chii?) is a Chobit (an extremely advanced persocom that possesses a very powerful processor and highly developed programming) that Hideki found in a pile of trash on his way home one night. When she was first activated, Chi was unable to communicate properly, only being able to say "Chi", which causes Hideki to name her that. Chi remembers nothing of her past life or how to do the simplest of things, so Hideki takes it upon himself to teach her and take care of her.
Before she was found by Hideki and named Chi, her name was Elda. She was the second Chobit produced by Ichiro Mihara. Elda was created after Hibiya noticed that Freya, the first Chobit, was becoming increasingly depressed as time went by. Elda was created to be Freya's little sister, in an effort to make her happy. In the anime, it is explained that Hibiya reset Elda's memories after her husband's death. However, in the manga, Elda lost her memories as a consequence of taking in her ailing sister's heart. Some time after, Hideki found her and brought her home. Elda's memories were on the disc which was accidentally left in the garbage when Hideki salvaged her.
After she is activated, Chi proceeds to start learning about the environment around her, and makes some hilarious mistakes in the process, such as imitating a pornographic pose from one of Hideki's magazines. Eventually, when Chi starts communicating properly and learns enough about her environment to be able to function in it, she gets a job at Hiroyasu Ueda's bakery.
Chi also houses the resident consciousness of her fellow Chobit, Freya, who is Chi's Sister (there are not two Chi's just two Chobits). Freya occasionally contacts Chi to inform her of something important, or to intervene in a time of need. Both Chobits possess many remarkable abilities, including the ability to release an extremely powerful concussive blast from their bodies should the need arise for them to defend themselves, levitation, and some telekenetic ability.
In the manga, after Elda took on Freya's heart, her last request before losing consciousness was to be left alone outside, away from her family, so that there would be no possibility the same fate that befell her sister could befall her. Before doing this, however, her father gave her a "gift"; this gift was a program, designed to do one thing: If, in her new life, Chi failed to find the Person Just for Her, she would connect to every persocom on the planet, and execute a program that would delete the individual-recognition abilities of every single persocom, so that they would never be able to distinguish one person from another, ever again. If Chi failed to find the Person just for Her, it stood to reason that other persocoms would suffer the same fate as well. The purpose of this program was to spare the persocoms of the world the pain of unrequited love. In the anime, this program appears to have an alternate effect: If Chi found the Person just for her, all persocoms would be granted the ability to either love or feel emotion. The reason for this is since Ichiro Mihara, Chitose Hibiya late husband, helped create the persocoms, he viewed them as his children. His dying wish was that if Chi were to find some who loved her in return, all his children would be able to share in this happiness by being able to feel emotions the way humans do.
It should be noted that in the manga the Chobits series persocoms do not possess emotions, at least in the human sense. This issue is touched upon in the final pages of the manga series during a conversation Hideki has with Freya, where she specifically states "We do not have emotions.", and again where Zima states "In my mind, my adorable Dita comes first. Even if this isn't the same love that a human feels, so what!" This statement appears to be an assertion that even though a persocom's subjective experience of love may not be the same as a human's, that does not make the love they do feel any less real or legitimate. Something within Chi's programming chose Hideki as being special, marked him as being different from others, and worthy of her greatest affections. To her, this is love; even if it is not the same love that a human feels.
Despite this, there are still things that Chi cannot do. Depending on the source (manga or anime), these range from simple set backs like the inability to produce offspring (which all persocoms are subject to) to the inability to have intercourse. Most regular persocoms have their power switch in or behind their ears, but Chi's is located in a most unusual place, her crotch. Due to this fact, in the manga, even if Chi is in love with Hideki, she cannot have a sexual relationship with him because that will cause her to restart, reformat, and lose all of her memories with him. However, Hideki says that this will not stop him from loving Chi. In the anime this is does not appear to be the case. In episode seven, during Chi's time at the peep show, it is stated by her sister that "regardless of what happens, until someone who truly loves you appears, never let anyone touch you here." This warning is repeated in episode twenty when Yoshiyuki tries to take advantage of Chi. Just as before, a defense mechanism is activated, and Yoshiyuki is subdued. Chi then states that since he isn't the one for her, he isn't allowed to come inside. Finally when Hideki does arrives on the scene, Chi explains that only the one for her is ever allowed to come inside, which she demonstrates by taking him by the hand. It is possible that Chi's virginity alone is protected by a series of programs and protocols which prevent anyone, but the one she loves, from having intercourse with her.
The name "Chobits" comes from the fact that their father, Ichiro Mihara, used the word "Chobi" to describe anything he thought was "small and hopelessly adorable". Two Chobi become "Chobits".
(Note about the spelling "Elda": "Elda" is the official English spelling. "Erda" would have made more sense in this situation. The name is written in Japanese as "エルダ" which is also used to write the name of the Norse earth goddess Erda (or Jord), the mother of the Valkyries, also means Earth in Norwegian, Danish and Swedish)
[b:c1c7a693a0]The more things change, the more they remain the same.[/b:c1c7a693a0][/color:c1c7a693a0][/align:c1c7a693a0]
 Tenshi-Eclipse · Thu Feb 22, 2007 @ 02:49am · 0 Comments |
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