That's a great essay, thanks for linking! I like Chobits, but it sure does have its fair share of sleaze and moe grossness. Actually the thing that always sleazed me out the most, aside from the LOL HER ON-SWITCH IS IN HER COOCH LOL aspect, was how Chi was always drawn to look like an underage girl but still aggressively sexualized and fanservice-ified, and Hideki is constantly having accidental boners over her even though she looks like she's all of 14. And no one in-universe finds this creepy.
And the "can't have anything stuck up your vagina = can't have sex EVER" trope has shown up in multiple works including Chobits (I can't remember other examples at the moment, but I know they exist) and it never fails to make me bang my head against the nearest solid object. It just serves to make the characters look incredibly stupid and have them angsting over something that has an absurdly simple solution.
You know, the ones who run around the internet posting "FLUTTERSHY IS MY WAIFU" everywhere yet act horribly offended at the very idea that ponies might have sex or that people actually post pony-porn on the internet.
LOLOLOLOL oh fandom. And I think it's hilarious that that male reviewer thought Chobits was girl-aimed because of the moe aspects.
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And the "can't have anything stuck up your vagina = can't have sex EVER" trope has shown up in multiple works including Chobits (I can't remember other examples at the moment, but I know they exist) and it never fails to make me bang my head against the nearest solid object. It just serves to make the characters look incredibly stupid and have them angsting over something that has an absurdly simple solution.
You know, the ones who run around the internet posting "FLUTTERSHY IS MY WAIFU" everywhere yet act horribly offended at the very idea that ponies might have sex or that people actually post pony-porn on the internet.
LOLOLOLOL oh fandom. And I think it's hilarious that that male reviewer thought Chobits was girl-aimed because of the moe aspects.