That Yumi chick is acting like a persocom in terms of dependency and lack of self-love. She also never talks about her life as an independent person—it’s all focused on a man and her attractiveness to men.

Plus, waiting outside for four hours because you like a guy?

I hope it comes up that being human, she can’t BE that in the end.

XDDD I WILL BE STRONG.

Oh! I know Cardcaptors from 90’s cartoons haha. Heard of xxxHolic but never really checked it out. Huh! Do they have an established, consistent universe like Marvel/DC? I think I got implications of that but not sure.

VERY GOOD POINT ON HUMANS. I think mentor mechanic might have met robot wife by taking her in after her owner was planning to scrap her because of some kind of technical problem. And if robot wife had to struggle to get past dependency/subservience issues it would make sense for there to be questions of how she looked at him.

SURELY THERE MUST BE SOME QUALITY FANS OUT THERE WHO WANT TO EXPLORE THE CONCEPTS. SURELY.

robert-downey-jesus:

I SERVED A KID DRESSED AS IRON MAN TODAY AND I ASKED HIM WHAT HIS NAME WAS AND HE SAID IT WAS TONY AND HIS MUM SHOOK HER HEAD AND WAS LIKE NO HIS NAME IS JESSE AND I LOOKED BACK AT THE KID TO GIVE HIM HIS CHANGE AND SAID ‘HAVE A NICE DAY MR STARK’  AND HE GOT SO EXCITED AND RAN OFF WITH HIS SISTER IT WAS GREAT

XDDD ANSWERING PUBLICLY BECAUSE YOUR CONVERSATIONS ARE INTERESTING. IT’S OKAY YOU DID GOOD RECOMMENDING IT BECAUSE IT IS MAKING ME THINK. PURPOSE SERVED.

I’m not entirely sure I’ve read/seen clamp before. I might have without realizing it, but IDK lol. Anyhow, the robot sentience/romance issues are interesting to think about! XD You know that one of the ways I’m trying to distinguish myself a bit with robots is by showing them become a successful, independent culture at relative peace with humanity. Still problems, but generally speaking there is neither enslavement or total war and destruction going on. They had to reach that point though, because initially the robots were created to be dependent, servants, and property. And robot wife is coming from the period where that change really came to the surface. So issues of dependence and equality need to be addressed, and either Chobits is gonna be an example of how to mishandle that or it’ll be a brilliant satire. Either way, worth keeping in-mind.

IT SHOULD BE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR. :< Do you know if anyone has made fanfic where it is? Because that would be fucking awesome.

Alright. When I hit Baker dude’s story I may take your word and cut out and see about more robot stories or something.

AND NO WORRIES! The thinking is worth the “but y tho” haha.

I’m getting that vibe too. Mostly I’ve been pushing through for other concepts and questions that are being brought up (not sure I agree with the conclusions reached or not—I’m not even sure conclusions have been reached yet) but if it’s supposed to be revealing the creepy in things commonly regarded as cute or acceptable that’s great by me. I’m just not sure they’re doing that—it might be just icky trying to be cute, or it might be  that there was an aim for satire that wasn’t successful because this is such a real issue that the things that would otherwise seem like clear alarm bells go over people’s heads. Also they haven’t shown the icky behaviors as explicitly problematic yet, or shown any women/robots as fully developed, independent people. Or even explored how horrible and unhealthy it is to be that dependent.

So IDK. Maybe it’ll change as it goes?

I’m not totally sure how I feel about the book series, but then again I’m also not sure I totally understand the stories yet. I just want Chi’s revelation to be that she doesn’t need a soul mate, she needs to love herself first.

The fanservice is really, really creepy for me. I started just ignoring it because it’s helping me think about writing robots and concepts involved in writing robots, but if it’s deliberately creepy then that’s another story IMO.

I like the idea of it being satire a lot! My main thing is, if that’s the point I think there might need to be more exploration of women/persocoms as detrimentally affected by their dependence (not to mention just independent women/persocoms) and I think… all of the objectifying, behavioral-grooming, taking-advantage, and entitlement behavior shown through the story needs to be called out somehow. If that happens I’ll flip a shit.

I also feel like there’s room to explore male persocoms as objects of desire for human women, which might be more even-handed where gender representation and the presence/absence of agency is concerned, but then again it might really be focused on the problematic behavior of men if it’s a satire so IDK.

The teacher/student thing made me lose some confidence in the narrative intelligence though. :< I started thinking that either the teacher wanted or was being treated as a persocom, which is an interesting concept that I like, but I’m not sure how to solidify the idea and the adultery thing makes me think that might not be a thing.

I’m sort of confused by the all-lady creative team too considering how the lady characters are treated vs. the male characters. It reminds me a little bit of some fanfiction but I’ll need to think about that more to decide what’s probably going on.

But seriously, that story about how the kid built a robotic copy of his dead sister is all about how sad it makes him that she’s not real. If there’s nothing about her perspective on this entire situation I just don’t know.