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Chime

The cute, female grandfather clock Furniliar of Hidro Kobayashi in the fan manga Megawangokyo. Released from a spellbook by Ooesuke Minigawa. Chime is sweet, cheerful, and far more powerful than she looks.

Later in the series, it was revealed that Chime is a special type of Furniliar created without the use of a rubian gem. Instead, she was given life through an extremely complicated set of spells. As a result, the very essense of her being can be altered with a few simple incantations, recorded in the spellbook from which Chime was released. These changes can give her new powers, a new appearance, or even a new personallity.

Who created Chime, why, and how she ended up locked in the spellbook are still mysteries, although episode 9 (just underway at the time of this writing) seems to be centered around revealing Chime's origin.

Fan Reactions

It seems most fan criticism of Megawangokyo has to do with the Chime character for several reasons. First off, although she's supposedly a Furniliar, she's drawn in a way that takes a lot of liberties with the idea. She actually looks pretty much like a human female with little clock-like embellishments here and there (such as a pair of clock hands protruding from her forehead and a set of clock weights hanging down her back). ELotH purists have criticized this move as being seriously out of joint with canon (and, surprisingly, not all these people are Furnies), but her design has remained unchanged throughout the course of the series save for the fact that her skin tone has slowly become more and more textured so as to resemble wood grain.

Also, many people have noticed some similarities between Chime and Shi, a female clock furniliar in the canonical Ultrawang series. The creators insist that this is unintentional, and that they hadn't even read Ultrawang until the similarities were brought to their attention. This isn't the only instance in which Megawangokyo has been accused of cribbing from Ultrawang, but MW fans generally believe the two are different enough that the similarities are just coincidence.

Notes

• Chime suffered a "mental breakdown" in episode six of Megawangokyo as part of the comic's new, darker tone. This caused her to see things and hear voices which weren't there, and she spent most of this episode huddled in a corner shaking and crying. Fans were very distressed by seeing the normally happy Chime acting like this, so near the end of the episode it was revealed that all Chime needed was to be wound back up by Hidro (being a clock and all).

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