Trouble Chocolate (1999)
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Cast & Crew.
Naoki Yanagi
Cacao
Michael Adamthwaite
Truffle
Tomohiro Tsuboi
Ghana
Richard Ian Cox
Cacao
Yasuyuki Kase
Truffle
Nicole Oliver
Hinano / Reporter
Venus Terzo
Deborah / Mecha-Deborah
Ikue Otani
Almond
Michael Dobson
Ganache / Ham-Ham
Hidenari Ugaki
Big Bang
Ted Cole
Jin Murakata
Hiroshi Ôtake
Master
Sakura Tange
Hinano
Yuuko Sasamoto
Matcha
Kyoko Hikami
Deborah
Hiromichi Kogami
Murakata
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Details.
Release DateOctober 9, 1999
Original Nameトラブルチョコレート
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes20
Running Time25m
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Trouble Chocolate (トラブルチョコレート, Toraburu Chokorēto) is a comedy fantasy science fiction 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.