/lit/ - Literature

>>5386790
Chobits had some surprisingly interesting insights into the trend of emotional bonding with machines or illusions of life and rejection of real human interaction (which is a massive issue in Asia today--the marriage rate has plummeted). Of course it had the usual endless embarrassment/fanservice/nosebleed/ junk, but the fact that it was all about the allure of sculpted toys rather than humans gave it a twist. The children's book subplot/reveals were fascinatingly weird, even when the art got too sparse for me. When we talk about posthumanism and AI in my SF class, I mention it. It's a weirdly philosophical manga.