A Chobits Catastrophe
Emma T Capps on Nov. 21, 2011
This strip is taken a bit from real life or The Further Misadventures of my Father! After I had my wisdom teeth removed, my dad bought me some anime DVDs to distract me from my pain and swollen face. He knows Im a huge fan of the manga group CLAMP (see my Halloween strip where Chapel dresses as Cardcaptor Sakura), and he knew Id never seen Chobits, so he bought the DVDs. And my mom and I settled down for some Wholesome Family Anime Time.
Within five minutes of the first episode, the male protagonist, Hideki, talked a lot about porn. Then he discovered the female protagonist, a robot girl called a Chobit, naked and wrapped in weird bandages in the trash. That screenshot in the 3rd panel? Yeah, I had to edit that severely to make this comic G-rated. The Chobit robot came with no operating manual (how convenient. . .) so Hideki couldnt figure out where the on switch was. He tried pushing various places. On her. Ewww! Yuck! I shielded my vision while my mom tried to skip over the inappropriate bits, but they made up most of the show, so we took out the DVD in disgust. My mom told me where her on switch was. Ack! Gag! We now have a household rule that my dad needs to check out the Amazon reviews or read the ratings before he blindly buys some borderline-pornography anime DVD.
We went back to watching the BBCs Lark Rise to Candleford which is set in the early 1900s and is sweet and funny. Most of the houses have no electricity so theres no worry about a switch anywhere.
Cath at 11:11AM, Nov. 23, 2011
I read from your bio that you like Terry Pratchett and for a few moments I wondered "She's so young! She must be guite an exeptional girl..." and then I realised that when I was 14 I was already reading his books in English, having read all the one that had been translated to Finnish ^^' I guess I'm getting old since I'm starting to forget what it was like being young... You should definately slip some Discworld jokes into this comic! Your shading has improved a lot in here in the second chapter, but in a way I miss the old style... The way you used to colour in the background would look good as a texture for the couch, for example :) just a though.