Trouble Chocolate

Trouble Chocolate (トラブルチョコレート) 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.

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.

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

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

Episode list

 * 1) First Trouble
 * 2) Science Club Depart!
 * 3) Transfer Student is Mega-Rich
 * 4) MG School's Hungry Panic
 * 5) The Ultimate Love Love Couple
 * 6) Would you like Maccha & Azuki?
 * 7) The 34th School Contest
 * 8) The Sorcerer is the Target
 * 9) 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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