Trouble Chocolate

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Trouble Chocolate
トラブルチョコレート
(Trouble Chocolate)
Genre Comedy
TV anime
Directed by Tsuneo Tominaga
Studio AIC
Network TV Asahi
Original run 9 October 199925 March 2000
No. of episodes 20

Trouble Chocolate (トラブルチョコレート?) is a comedy anime produced by AIC in 1999 and is licenced 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.

It should be noted that 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.

[edit] Music

  • Opening theme: C.H.O.C.O. - Sakura Tange and Kyoko Hikami
  • Ending theme (episodes 1-12): Ne, Nande... - Yoshizawa Rie
  • Ending theme (episodes 13-20): Anata ni Aitakute ~Missing You~ (Millennium Dance version) - Sakura Tange and Kyoko Hikami

[edit] Cast

Some names (in parenthesis) were changed in the English version.

Character Japanese English
Hinano Sakura Tange Nicole Oliver
Cacao Tomoki Yanagi Richard Ian Cox
Deborah Kyoko Hikami Venus Terzo
Murakata Hiromichi Kogami Ted Cole
Truffle Yasuyuki Kase Michael Adamthwaite
Almond Ikue Ohtani Saffron Henderson
Ghana (Ganache) Tomohiro Tsuboi Michael Dobson
Big Bang Hidenari Ugaki Brian Dobson
Papaya Shigeru Nakahara Ron Halder
Master Hiroshi Otake Don Brown
Matcha (Green Tea) Yuko Sasamoto Saffron Henderson
Azuki (Red Bean) Yumi Amikake Kelly Sheridan
Wheat Yumiko Watanabe Jocelyne Loewen
Sardine Takako Honda
Jun Fukushima
Hiroyuki Yoko'o
Andrew Francis
Mint Yui Horie Janyse Jaud


[edit] Episode List

01. First Trouble
02. Science Club Depart!
03. Transfer Student is Mega-Rich
04. MG School`s Hungry Panic
05. The Ultimate Love Love Couple
06. Would you like Maccha & Azuki?
07. The 34th School Contest
08. The Sorcerer is the Target
09. Horror of the Bath Steam Doll Case
10. Run, Hikyaku-kun!
11. Magical Love Love War
12. Dictator Girl Mint
13. Debora vs. Mecha-Debora
14. Encounter with the Monster Fish
15. The Mysterious Pencil-kun
16. Explosion! Bomb Baa-san of Love
17. Mini Mini Adventure
18. Hinano, Obsessed with the Club!
19. Hinano Gets Confessed To!
20. Hinano, That`s All I Need

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