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Trouble Chocolate
The front cover of the first VHS.
トラブルチョコレート
(Toraburu Chokorēto)
GenreFantasy, Romantic Comedy
Anime television series
Directed byTsuneo Tominaga
Produced byHikaru Kondo
Masakazu Kumabe
Masatoshi Kotaka
Shunsuke Harada
Taro Iwamoto
Written byTsunefumi Harada
Music byMoka
Hiromi Kikuta
Takayuki Nagasawa
Avex
StudioAIC
ROBOT
Hakusensha
Step Visual Corporation
Licensed by
Original networkTV Asahi (1999-2000)
Original run October 8, 1999 – March 24, 2000
Episodes20 (List of episodes)

Trouble Chocolate (トラブルチョコレート, Toraburu Chokorēto) is a romantic comedy fantasy anime produced by AIC in 1999 and is licensed in the United States by Viz Media. The series features Cacao, a student at Micro-Grand Academy studying magic. One day, while his magic class teacher, Ghana, is performing a spell to summon a tree spirit, Cacao finds and eats some chocolate, which turns out to be 200-year-old magical chocolate. After eating the chocolate he becomes drunk and causes a wreck. During this, he interferes with Ghana's spell, letting the spirit, Hinano, escape. She inhabits the body of a marionette, who then moves in with Cacao.

Subsequent episodes of Trouble Chocolate have little connected storyline. Rather, the show is a parody of other anime. For example, two other characters, Murakata and Deborah, are constantly shown professing their love to each other, set to absurdly explosive special effects and backdrops, as is common (to a lesser extent) in many anime.

The dubbed dialogue in Trouble Chocolate (written by professional comedy writer Pamela Ribon and recorded by The Ocean Group) often bears little or no resemblance to the original script (as heard in Japanese and seen in the subtitles), as opposed to the normal convention of translating the words as directly as the change in lip-sync will allow.

Plot

"Cacao woke up to find a girl sleeping next to him. Unable to remember what had happened on his own and didn't get enough needed answers from Hinano, he went to school to ask his friends what had happened. He finally got the explanation of events from Prof. Ghana in term Cacao joined his wizardry class."

Characters

Cacao (カカオ, Kakao)
Voiced by: Tomoki Yanagi (Japanese); Richard Ian Cox (English)
The main male character of the series.
Hinano (ヒナノ, Hinano)
Voiced by: Sakura Tange (Japanese); Nicole Oliver (English)
The main female character of the series. She often says "It's Enough" (じゅうぶんです, Jūbun Desu) and "Wahoo" (わっちゃ, Watcha). She will do anything she can to protect Cacao and make him happy.
Deborah (デボラ, Debora)
Voiced by: Kyoko Hikami (Japanese); Venus Terzo (English)
Hinano's rival and lover of Murakata.
Murakata (ムラカタ, Murakata)
Voiced by: Hiromichi Kogami (Japanese); Ted Cole (English)
Truffle (トリュフ, Toryufu)
Voiced by: Yasuyuki Kase (Japanese); Michael Adamthwaite (English)
Almond (アーモンド, Āmondo)
Voiced by: Ikue Ōtani (Japanese); Saffron Henderson (English)
Ghana (ガーナ, Gāna) / Ganache
Voiced by: Tomohiro Tsuboi (Japanese); Michael Dobson (English)
A teacher at MG Academy. He constantly attempts to teach Cacao magic.
Big Bang (ビッグバーン, Biggu Bān)
Voiced by: Hidenari Ugaki (Japanese); Brian Dobson (English)
A teacher at MG Academy. He is shown to have feelings for Papaya.
Papaya (パパイヤ, Papaiya)
Voiced by: Shigeru Nakahara (Japanese); Ron Halder (English)
A teacher at MG Academy. He dislikes Sunlight.
Matcha (抹茶, Matcha) / Green Tea
Voiced by: Yuko Sasamoto (Japanese); Saffron Henderson (English)
Azuki (小豆, Azuki) / Red Bean
Voiced by: Yumi Amikake (Japanese); Kelly Sheridan (English)
Wheat (コムギ, Komugi)
Voiced by: Yumiko Watanabe (Japanese); Jocelyne Loewen (English)
Sardine (イワシ, Iwashi)
Voiced by: Takako Honda (Japanese); Andrew Francis (English)
Mint (ミント, Minto)
Voiced by: Yui Horie (Japanese); Janyse Jaud (English)
A girl who has desires to conquer the world. She however is mostly a joke when it comes to evil. She has a sidekick named Crunchy Bug.

Theme Songs

  • Openings
  • Endings
  1. "Hey Why..." (ねぇ 何で…, Nē Nande…)
    • October 8, 1999 - January 14, 2000, March 24, 2000
    • Lyricist: Atsushi Iwamizu / Composer: Hitoshi Harukawa, Shifo / Arranger: Hitoshi Harukawa / Singers: Rie Yoshizawa
    • Episodes: 1-12, 20
  2. "I Want to See You: Missing You - Millenium Dance version" (あなたに逢いたくて〜Missing You〜 Millenium Dance Version, Anata ni Aitakute: Missing You - Millennium Dance version)

Episode list

No. Title Original airdate

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Reception

THEM Anime Reviews gave Trouble Chocolate two stars, saying that it's "At best, worth a rental, but only if you've seen everything else at Blockbuster".[1]

Mania.com gave the first North American Trouble Chocolate DVD a B+ for audio, a B for video, a B+ for packaging, a C for its menu and a B for its extras.[2]

digitallyOBSESSED! gave the first North American Trouble Chocolate DVD a B for style, a B- for substance, a B+ for image transfer, a B+ for audio transfer and a D for extras.[3]

References

  1. ^ "THEM Anime reviews 4.0 - Trouble Chocolate". THEM Anime. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
  2. ^ "Mania.com Reviews Trouble Chocolate". Mania.com. 2002-11-11. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
  3. ^ "digitallyOBSESSED! reviews - Trouble Chocolate #1". digitallyOBSESSED!. 2002-11-18. Retrieved 2014-07-23.
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