6.8 /10 1 Votes
6.9/10 IMDb Directed by Tsuneo Tominaga First episode date October 1999 Genres Anime, Animation | 6.7/10 MyAnimeList 7/10 TV Written by Tsunefumi Harada Number of episodes 20 Director Tsuneo Tominaga | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Produced by Hikaru KondoMasakazu KumabeMasatoshi KotakaShunsuke HaradaTaro Iwamoto Music by MokaHiromi KikutaTakayuki NagasawaAvex Studio AICROBOTHakusenshaStep Visual Corporation Cast Similar Dragon Century, Genesis Survivor Gaiarth, Sol Bianca: The Legacy, Virgin Fleet, Great Dangaioh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trouble chocolate episode 1 english dubbed
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.
Contents
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
Theme Songs
- "C.H.O.C.O."
- Lyricist: Akio Togashi / Composer: Akio Togashi / Arranger: Akio Togashi / Singers: Sakura Tange&Kyoko Hikami
- "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
- "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)
- January 21, 2000 - March 17, 2000
- Lyricist: Seiko Matsuda / Composer: Seiko Matsuda, Ryo Ogura / Arranger: Ando Takahiro / Singers: Sakura Tange&Kyoko Hikami
- Episodes: 13-19
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".
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.
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.