Trouble Chocolate

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Trouble Chocolate

トラブルチョコレート
Genre	Comedy
TV anime
Director	Tsuneo Tominaga
Studio	AIC
Network	TV Asahi
Original run	9 October 1999 – 25 March 2000
Episodes	20

Trouble Chocolate (トラブルチョコレート, Toraburu Chokorēto^?) is a comedy 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.

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 Ōtani	Saffron Henderson
Ghana (Ganache)	Tomohiro Tsuboi	Michael Dobson
Big Bang	Hidenari Ugaki	Brian Dobson
Papaya	Shigeru Nakahara	Ron Halder
Master	Hiroshi Ōtake	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